http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/pcb_wiring.html
PCB Diagrams section.
Quick question for those with more experience than I: For this PCB where would be the best place to connect the other end of the resistor?
Would it be the pink Common on the left side of the PCB?
I want to thank you all for all your great help! I need a how to, or diagram for wiring an xbox 360 wired controller to a USB female jack to be able to just unplug my arcade stick. Hope Im explaining it right . Thanks
Has anyone ever had an issue where the fierce kick button also sends a downforward direction with their padhacked dreamcast? Itās the right trigger i believe. I had set the potentialmeter to neutral, the left trigger works fine, but whenever i press the right trigger it does a crouch kick for some reasonā¦Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
hi,
iāve a problem with a 360 cg wifi padā¦ im following a correct cg scheme, but i donāt understand the 3.3v pointā¦where should it must be soldered?
I cannot power on the padā¦
thanks
Fabio
I ordered 2 of these nubytech street fighter 15th anniversary controllers to make a ps2 stick and even though I hear itās a really straight forward pad Iāve never done anything like this before and I want to make sure I have it right so if someone could give it a look Iād appreciate it.
I didnāt get my controllers in the mail yet so Iām looking at and trying to label this picture: http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k348/ParagonGFX/Fight%20Stick/P1040836.jpg
(which was posted here: http://shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=113675&p=7592804&viewfull=1#post7592804)
In this post: http://shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=113675&p=7593153&viewfull=1#post7593153
LuckyDay labeled half of the buttons but they donāt seem right when I look at even the layout of the buttons (Triangle to the left of X?)
So I went ahead and followed the traces in one of Cobras pictures and labeled them how I think they are:
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/4605/labeled.th.jpg
Are these correct? Do I need any resistors or anything? Also whatās the difference between a flat solder point and one with a hole in it? Do they have to be soldered a different way or does it not really matter?
Hey Iām really sorry if this is somewhere else in this thread but I couldnāt find it. How do I tell if a pad is common ground? I was planning on using an old interact piranhapad for ps1 and the pcb works but I have no idea how to tell if itās common ground.
Donāt worry, the nubytech pad is the easiest pad to hack of all! I did one 2 days ago. The difference between the points with a hole and ones without are none, I just surface soldered all points and applied liberal amounts of hot glue to make sure they donāt come undone later. If you have a button mapping problem, just be sure to use long runs of wire so that you can move the signal to another switch. Hereās a couple of pics of what I did.
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/2990/img0341qh.jpg
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/7979/img0342y.jpg
http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/1303/img0343rp.jpg
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/2329/img0344tp.jpg
http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/4010/img0345k.jpg
http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/5673/img0346o.jpg
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/1746/img0347i.jpg
http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/9484/img0348tng.jpg
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/699/img0349v.jpg
I love the nubytech, much easier than factory ps2 or ps1!
I donāt know about this pad specifically, but the official DC pad is common ground and very easy to hack, all except the triggers. I would plug in the controller and test each of the four points on the trigger chip to determine which one needs a signal wire. In the case of the factory DC pad it was the bottom right point. Make sure an use hot glue to secure the surface mount on the trigger, its a tiny point you have to work with.
Check out these pics of my box:
http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/1063/img0334m.jpg
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/1821/img0335a.jpg
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/6712/img0336h.jpg
Look at the nubytech pad here: Imageshack - labeled.jpg See how each button is connected to the big fat trace that goes all around the PCB, that trace is the ground. If I didnāt see some indication like this big trace, I would solder two wires, one to each side of the same button and test each wire with the other buttons. If one of the wires produces results with each other button when the controller is plugged in, then it is common ground. If it is not common ground, no worries, just do a pair of wires for each button. I had to do wire pairs for my wireless 360 stick, it was a pain, but worth it.
Iām in the process of padhacking my old Nubytech SF2 anniversary pad to duel-mod my 360 SE fightstick.
Most of the actual padhacking was pretty straightforward, but Iāve just realised I donāt have a multimeter with me here so Iāve got a little stuck. Does anyone whoās hacked one of these recently knows which of coloured wires that connect the PCB to the ps2 lead is the voltage and which is the ground?
Hello all if I were to hack a Madcatz SF4 fight pad would I have to invert the triggers?
Need not.
Anyone tried these for a padhack? Gamestop.com - Buy Xbox 360 Afterglow Controller - Xbox 360
Any good? Any lagging on the triggers/need for inversion?
I have a really obscure pad hacking question. Two actually.
Iām having a hard time finding used ps1/one pads in this part of the world. A friend wants to dual mod his qanba sticks. Iām looking for some single ground pads. The best Iāve been able to find is these two, but Iām not positive they are single ground:
There is a post on this page with an example of a single ground nubytech pad. This one is similar. Itās a good bet it is single ground, but does anyone have any experience with it?
I know Iām not much help here, but I canāt seem to find a picture of this pad anywhere. It looks very similar to a stock Sony PS1 (grey) digital pad, just a bit different.
Does anyone have any experience with either pad? Thanks in advance for any help.
Has anyone come across an issue where after you have pad hacked a 360 pad it shows 4 flashing lights?
I recently pad hacked a madcatz fightpad and whenever I plug it into PC (I donāt own a 360) it will initially flash to player 1 then after a few seconds it will start flashing all 4 or none at all. Regardless it doesnāt work once this starts. Occasionally it will work fine. I modded this with a MC Cthulhu and the Cthulhu functions 100% of the time on every system I have tried (Wii, PS3 and PS2) so I know itās nothing in the connection there. Iāve run through all the points with a multi-meter and nothing that shouldnāt be grounded is grounded and nothing is overlapping that shouldnāt be. My thoughts are somehow I accidentally fried the pad, but then why does it work sometimes. I know the pad functioned fine prior to hacking, as I use to use it for playing emulations on the PC.
Can anyone confirm my suspicions that 4 bars = fried pad?
Thanks for all the info in here
Iād just like to thank everyone whoās contributed to this uber thread. I recently got fed up with my Nubytech SF 15th anniversary Joystick not playing nice with adaptors on my PC, and now on my new PS3.
This thread and other on SRK explained exactly why, let me know which PCB I had (the worst sort) and gave me hints to fix it.
Iāve since hacked it with an old PSOne DS.
In case anyone else needs the info, I have the two comments to make:
The PSOne Dual Shock was the type āAā (SPH-1200) Grey sort.
I used the diagram here: http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/pcb_diagrams/ps1_diagram8.jpg
I soldered wires from those connection points and then linked them into the nice large plug inside the Nubytech for a nice clean connection.
If you have trouble souldering the ground on the PSOne Board (like I did) drill a hole through using a small drill bit (I used a hand drill just to be extra careful) then you can easily put a blob of solder and the ground wire into the hole.
Just check that both sides of the PCB/PSOne Board are empty in the ground spot before you drill 
The other info I couldnāt find anywhere is what resistors would be needed for the Analogue sticks. However, I just ripped off the white connection bands from the PCB completely and didnāt need any resistors at all. Perhaps an advantage of the type A PSOne DS? Or maybe just the converter I used with my PS3.
Good luck to all the rest of you.
PS. I still use the nubytech as my 2nd joystick - still prefer my old grey Namco Joystick more - $100 (Aust) very well spent all those years ago when playing Darkstalkers on my PS.
Does the Madcatz Arcade GameStick PCB require inversion of the triggers for them to work?
Do not need Trigger Inverting.
But you will need to use Resistors.
Do not need Trigger Inverting.
But you will need to use Resistors.
Thanks again JDM!
