If anyone is interested, I can post a tutorial on the PS2 SF Anniversary controller hack, though you may just want to do an H series instead. Either way, if you want it, I’ll make one.
final_cut.
i posted the SF:AC pad hacks a few months back in this very thread. the pads are for the XBOX version though. super easy soldering.
sidenote: does anyone have any shots of any xbox360 thirdparty pad hacks? i’m looking to build a new stick for my 360 but don’t want to do all the soldering that the oem pads require.
Hah, I missed this. Good job. Thanks. Is there any reason you left the hologram thing on there? can I just cut the wire/desolder the rumble spinner?
yes, you can just desolder/clip off the rumble motors.
also, i left the hologram on because it makes an AWESOME mount point. just slather some hotglue on there and mount it in your box :wonder:
are there any differences in the pcb between the psx dualshock pad(grey) and psone dualshock pad(white)?
also, can someone explain what the 3.3volt thing is all about? what is it used for and what do i solder on to it? thanks.
Cynnik
I do not think it is much difference between those two pads, just solder and your good to go :).
3.3Volt is used when you have a joystick installed that has to have it, for example the Happ P360 or the Sanwa Flash1 (optical joysticks).
Can someone hack a 360 pad for me? I’d like to install it in my MAS or SlikStik. I’ll pay $75+shipping or trade for whatever I might have. Post here or PM. I’m desperate. 
My DOA4 stick is shot and I can’t fix it because I don’t know anything about soldering.
HELP!
~Decoy
Hey, Per, this is off topic, but did you get my last PM on the 360 thing?
Hi guys just finish up making my own custom and ran into a slight problem, 1 with the joystick (sanwa) the qcf motions are a pain to pull out? is my joystick alignment wrong or do i just need to break it in ? and pressing two buttons at the same time dont register , for eg to dash in mvc2 is PP but pressing two punches on the joystick dont come out,another eg in 3rd strike my joystick cannot do EX moves QCF PP
please help :sad:
I’m trying to hack a Dual Shock Series H pad, like the one pictured in original post, and i’m having a very difficult time having the solder flux stick to the copper, it just slides right off. I made sure the solder tip and everything was clean, but still it won’t stick. This brings me to my question, is there anything else i can use stick the wires to the copper points instead of solder?
Any help would be appreciated…
Per, I sent you a PM on the 360 pad hack, but I just went ahead and bought one from the store and started working on it. Sorry, I just didn’t hear back from you so I didn’t know if you still had it. Thanks for the tutorial though, saves a bunch of trouble. I tried to rep you for it again.
bump anyone ???:sad:
what kind of pad are you using? sounds like your signals may be mixed up. do you have pictures of the wiring?
How’d you make out man?
~Decoy
Is there more detailed information about the dc pcb wiring?
I dont know exactly how to use the grounds, and there are some scraps in some areas on that picture that i don’t know what they do.
OK I have managed to get myself into a spot of bother.
I am in the process of building a stick using an A series PCB, I was trying to do a solder-less hack but 2 of the buttons won’t trigger correctly unless held in position and whenever anything moves I loose more buttons.
I want to solder instead but as far as I can tell the only possible solder points are directly behind where the ribbon used to plug in.
Is there any chance there are any other points I can solder to on the A series PCB?
I can’t help you with the soldering point question because I’ve never investigated it. When I do the solderless hack, it works out fine. The one question I have is what gauge wire are you using? If you follow the tutorial strictly, it says 26 and use the ribbon connector piece to secure it. I don’t do that. I use 22 gauge because it fits in very snugly and you don’t need the ribbon connector piece. You may or may not have problems fitting all the wires in if you’re trying to wire every single input on the pad (all direction, all 8 action buttons, start, select, and analog). I only use 6 action buttons, start, select, and the directions and it fits well. I hold them in place with some hot glue for safe measures.
~Paik
Thanks for the advice, I finally managed it by getting it in a working position, then I poured copious amounts of hot glue on.
I’ll post some pics soon. (It’s all shiny)
Ok, so I got a bunch of h-series dual shock pads, and I opened one of them to find that instead of a normal looking PCB, I get this paper thin plastic looking PCB. The solder points can be scraped to reveal copper, but has anyone here soldered to one of these? Is this the pad mentioned in the solderless hack, that just got labelled as “H” somehow?