Ok ChaosDragon I got the wire, solder,soldering iron,stick and now all I gotta do is take out the ps2 pcb. Once I got all the stuff in order I will post pics and will u help me. I do know I have to unsolder the HFS but what is that?
well 2 people from our community do work for pelican, and were the reason why the ps2>ps3 converter was so good with even the ghetto pcbās.
good stuff indeed.
no one answered my question earlier, so ill ask again. how do you remove the analog nubs from a 360 pad? i cant remove em from the joytech 360 pcb. i figured they would come right off by pulling. i put a lot of force on it and it doesnt slide off. its taking a considerable amount of room inside the case plus i dont want it hitting anything, activating the analogs.
any suggestions? could i desolder and remove the entire analog portion from the pcb?
Okay, thanks to Toodles showing me where my flaw was in my first programmable PCB, I now have a new fully programmable PCB finished.
The wiring sure was tricky, but because I planned it out before I started soldering wires everywhere, it wasnt too hard. It just took a few hours to get everything where it was supposed to go.
Its larger than the first one since the 48 diodes need to some place to fit.
http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x277/Chaosdragon13/th_customPCB2003.jpg
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http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x277/Chaosdragon13/th_customPCB2005.jpg
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has anyone ever seen this dreamcast pad before?
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g163/potu_photos/46D20FE60001B09A00004A0122155670740.jpg
on the PsOne PCB, do I need to keep the little extra piece where L1,L2,R1,R2 are, like the little ribon thing. Also on the PsOne PCB, those 3 little dots on the bottom corners, do I solder on them or underneath
You do not need the extra PCBs for the L and R buttons. You can either desolder the points where the wires are connected to the main PCB and just solder onto the pads that are left there, or you can clip those wires real close and again solder onto the three spaces on the bottom.
Just a not about those three spaces, the one marked with a 1 is R1/L1, the one marked with a 3 is R2/L2, and the one in the middle is the ground, which is the same ground as the other buttons use.
ok so if i clip off both those extra pcbs can i still solder to those 3 little dots left over on the bottom corners. cause i dont know if i wanna daisy chain I am afraid I will mess it up so do I have to daisy chain or can I just solder 2 wires to each button on the pcb(pad and ground) and then solder each end of those wires to each terminal for my desired button. longer but for me safer
Also see how each button on the stick has 2 terminals but on the bottom corner there is only one contact thingy for r1 and r2? o_)
Thatās fine.
So solder two wires to the common pad. viola! two wires to R1, two wires to R2
cool, ima finish off the pcb tomorrow
Also can I do the same for the stick? Like solder 2 wires to up direction on the PCB, then solder them 2 wire ends to the wires which come from the stick?
Honestly, daisy chaining is a lot easier than the method youāre using. Soldering multiple ground points to a PCB seems like more margin for error to me. Itās a lot easier to daisy chain wires in a quick disconnect than it is to scrape up a PCB and solder to it.
I used to think that, but after building sticks both ways, not anymore. Frankly, Iāll use the two wire per button every time from here on out. The chain of QDās always seemed more difficult to create, rework, and troubleshoot. Two wires per takes more wire, but is easier and cleaner to route inside the stick.
I saw a post about it early in the thread, but I just wanted to make sure the Mad Catz Wireless Microcon for PS2 will work. I recall seeing that it was super simple (no resistors or anything), and if anyone knows how to get the analog nubs off, thatād be awesome.
ive never tried hacking a ps2 or ps1 pad beforeā¦ i only hacked DC pads
do PSone(white) controllers work on ps2? im planning on buying a HORI Fighting stick 3 and modding it so i can use it on the ps2, and i heard PSone(white) pads should work on the ps2 but im not so sure. and im not sure where the ground wire is suppose to go, unless if its like the pics posted up on the first page.
do the grey dualshocks work too? or just the whites?
a little help here?
i just looked @ my psone DS controller, and it was like the ps2 ds, its one of those piece of paper things with the copper, and i read that it wud melt so not a good ideaā¦ perhaps i got the A instead of H? is there a difference in the pcb?
if not the dualshock brands, what brand can i use so hack so i can use the stick on my ps2? i was thinking of a madcatz.
You can hack any PS1 pad and it will work on PS2 games provided the game does not require a PS2 pad. Though fighting games dont require that. Even if you use one of the origional PS pads that doesnt have the analog sticks it will still work, you just wont have an analog buttons so if the game requires you to hit that for the d-pad to work, you are out of luck. But again, fighters dont really require that.
The controller you have, the A series, can be hacked, but not in the normal method. There is a solderless hack that you can use where you shove some solid core wire into the connector where the plastic piece is connected to the PCB to make the connections for each button. Personally I havent done this so I dont know much about this method, and unfortunatly the link to it guide from the essential joystick thread is broken:
http://shoryuken.voiea.net/uploads/u...ShoesAHack.rar
But I am sure there are other people who can give you more details on how to do this.
wow thanx a bunchā¦
i guess i shud go get my stick now.
im not sure where to wire the ground one tho
hey, a quick question about soldering a 360 controller.
I heard that unlike the ps1/ps2 there is no universal ground for each button.
also I need to know if the ground for the D pad is a universal ground or not.
thanx
Sorry to ask about something youāve already answered, but will any PS1 pad I pick up work for Street Fighter Anniversary Collection, GG Accent Core, and Capcom vs SNK 2? I donāt want to have to go to the trouble of hacking a pad just to find out it wonāt work.
Is the rule of thumb just whether or not it requires analog sticks?
Yup, thats the rule. If you need the analog stick then it wont work. But all main stream fighters, as in everything but some of the ones they make off of animes, can use either the d-pad or analog sticks.
As for games that require a PS2 pad, the only one I know of is one of the newer final fantasy games. There are probably a few more but I dont play all that much other than fighters.
sweetā¦ i just picked up a PSone dualshock series H pad today @ my local gamequest storeā¦ it was the last oneā¦ and i also picked up the Hori Fighting Stick 3 =] so im ready to roll
but i still have a question on where to ground the main wire or do i just follow the 1st page diagram? and it shud work fine?
also when i finishā¦will it work on Street Fighter anniversary for ps2? and im planning on getting a converter so i can play MvC2 on my dreamcastā¦i shud have no problem with both right?