bummer my camera is out of batterys 
. Whats strange is that when it was first wired it worked fine. But after testing in in training it start firing off by it self now it showing as being constanly pushed down. Im goin to try my best to scrap any of the solder on there now.
Is the pad youāre hacking USB? If so hook it up to your PC and open the Control Panel/Game controllers. See if the buttons are always activated there.
Try taking the terminal strip out of the picture and see if it still activates. The goal should be to get it to where itās not always activating. You can then work on narrowing down if itās an issue with your soldering, terminal strip, etc.
Yea its USB iāve been connecting it to the PC and looking at the functionality of my controller from there. Right now i have the A button completly removed both ground and signal and after a while of it being plugged in it will show it held down(right now it is fluctuating). After an hour of testing this A button i think its just shorted. A few times it worked for a very short time then goes back to this behavior.
Yeah, somethingās definitely not kosher if itās randomly activating without anything attached. Hopefully someone else can chime in but you may need a new PCB.
Yea i ended up doing a zangief piledriver on that pcb. Good thing i bought 2 of these pads, hopefully i will have better luck with the second.
edit My father convinced me to use flux while wiring this board. Is it smart to use flux on circuit boards??
Your solder should have flux in it already. I havenāt had to use it separately but itās supposedly useful if youāre having trouble getting a point to take solder. Iām definitely not trying to contradict your dad. 
When youāre first starting out, it can make the process a little less frustrating. Once you get some practice soldering, the flux thatās already inside the solder will be plenty for most jobs; youāll only need it for desoldering or reworking old boards.
I got a strange problem with my second pcb a 2008 Mad cats gamepad. After wiring all 8 buttons the Rt/Lt Triggers using this method.
http://picasaweb.google.com/wliu0912/PrehackedPads#5275066502389173362
Testing my stick on my PC control panel shows that its working perfectly. When i use it in my xbox 360 when navagating the dashboard and Street fighter 4 menus everything works perfectly. But for some very strange reason during matches/training my player doesnt do anything when i press A, B or RT. Lt works but i believe does a attack that its not suppose to do. Iāve checked button config and thats not it. Im very confused as to why during a match i can press start and use A, and B in the menu but as soon as i use it while controlling my char it doesnt register. Could it be my 10k ohm resistor method is just throwing off something? Iām a little frustrated with this strange problem.
After removing the Rt/Lt the A and B buttons worked normally during fights so that was the problem.
may i get some help with Gamestop 360 pad BB-070, http://www.joystickvault.com/showphoto.php?photo=451&cat=507
testing stick out today, :d: or :r: work fine, but when i hit :df:-- :d: + RB comes out.
wired ground from dpad :d: to :d: switch, then chained to :r: switch. RB has ground/signal wires coming from two points on back of pcb.
traced all wires, and everything looks correct.
Iām sorry about all my bs post but after about a half an hour of playing fine with the 6 buttons wired up no RT or LT. I left it on training and started messing around on my computer then all of a sudden my character started to continusily use medium kick. Now just as it did with my other pcb its showing the b button as being held down!?! Im to my wits end and about to call it quits for good i think all my troubles are caused from these RT/LT triggers which I dont have wired any more.
I just checked again if my b button was still showing as being held down and its working fine again but i know it will happen again sooner or later.
Yeah the diagram on joystick vault for the gamestop 0070 is next to useless because it has multiple errors on it, I wish someone would re-make it entirely. I would as soon as I knew how to do the trigger buttons on itā¦
i think the diagram is correct other than the problem iām running into lol.
the post below mentions a signal matrix being used. this might explain why my combination of wires is resulting in RB. iāll do some more testing tomorrow.
http://forums.shoryuken.com/showpost.php?p=6539615&postcount=5
i will play around with the triggers and try to find out for you.
Anybody happen to know where the Vcc is on the HRAP1.0 PCB is?
Hereās some not too helpful pictures I took, mostly so it can be pointed out easily.
Arenāt signal matrixes use in all non-common ground pads? So that they can save on wiresā¦
Good looking out, I have my Gamestop pad almost complete but need a little bit of helpā¦
Does anybody know how to hack this PS2 controller:
And yes, I know a DS1 is easier but I canāt find them anywhere and I am way too cheap.
Iāve got a nice problemā¦
I have wired up ten 10k resistors to my x360 pad and now it wonāt power on when I connect it to my PC USB port.
Previously I only had 2 resistors in place of the triggers which worked fine but then I decided to remove the analogue sticks and put in resistors but now the pad wonāt power upā¦
So do I have too many resistors or is it something else causing the problem?
this is the resistor config I have:
http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/1334/stickresistors002.jpg
http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/5183/triggerresistors.jpg
Can someone point out where would be a good point to solder my Square siginal? The little copper pad fell off!
I told you not to use those copper pads. Theyāre evil. :looney:
Is there a trace leading up the the square pad like there is above the X in the diagram? If not youāll probably need to sort out if one of those pins on the IC chip above ST will work. Strip a wire at both ends, connect one side to the ground and start poking around until the button activates. Thatās where youāll want to solder to.
Xbox 360 pad
With MVC2 going to come out on the 360 Iāve decided to try to mod my stick to use a 360 PCB. My stick uses a 25 pin plug, but when I made it I didnāt plan enough ahead and I assumed that pads would always have a common ground for the directions, so it is hard wired using that assumption.
A few questions.
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From what I can tell the Madcatz and the Microsoft both have two versions on one where it uses a common ground and one that doesnāt. Is this correct?
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There doesnāt seem to be an easy way to tell which is which without opening it up. Is this correct?
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What is the best pad to use that has a common ground.
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Any thoughts as to where I can buy it and be sure that it is the common ground version?