Does it look like the solderless A-series?
http://home.comcast.net/~spiffyshoes/DualShockHack/
Because I have a few that are like solderless A series buy are the PSOne kind and labeled H.
~Paik
yeah, thats what I meant by the solderless hack, I guess what I meant to ask, is can I solder to that thin sheet? Seems like it would melt or something.
I assume it would melt : ) Just solderless hack it. I love them. White cord, but solderless. Theyāre my fav. Probably the most rare, too!
~Paik
I have a question about voltage for dreamcast. can you hack an official pad and get voltage for a perfect 360? I can find everything else in the map per provided, but I donāt know where to get the +5. Thanks
I believe the +5V is the red wire on the DC pads.
~Paik
would anyone know where the voltage point on the psx digital pad would be? thanks.
That would also be the red wire.
~Paik
can anyone help me with this???
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v676/MagnetGenocide/MYFUP.jpg
Itās a SFAC Pad for Ps2, itās done but It just dosenāt workā¦did I even do it right?
That link seems to be broken, can you repost? Iām pretty familiar with that hack.
Thanks, Paik, youāre a prince.
I canāt tell, but it looks like you soldered to the signal and to the ground on all the contact points. You can get the ground signal from one side of almost all of the signal contact points. For example- look at where the triangle button would be. looks like you have a green or a black wire soldered. You can solder to the left side of that point, or you can solder to that tiny little circle just to the left of it. this is what I do, just in case. you can solder to those little circles, It keeps the solder from connecting to the ground and the signal at the same time- it looks like that is what you have done. the ground and the signal are right next to eachother, so you have to be careful not to connect them.
do you see how on the pad, there are two sides of copper contacts under the buttons? the one that runs to all the other ones is the ground. like for the triangle button, the right half is for the ground, the left is the signal that goes to the button. Seems like you soldered them together, which grounds out your signal.
Icā¦so do I have to remove all the soldering or am i fucked???
you can probably remove it all, just remember to scrape all the solder off between the two points so they arenāt connected. might be little tough on the smaller points, but its worth a shot. Iād use a scraping tool or a small screwdriver.
Thx alot!!! So iāll remove it and solder on those tiny circles insted. 
Iāve searched, but found little on this subject. Whatās the trick for doing multible pads to a single stick? Iāve seen references to wiring to a barrier strip, and there are complications to be watched for as far as grounds/power is concerned?
Iāve searched the forum a couple times, and what little Iāve found has been confusing. Anyone able to help out here?
Specifically, I want to wire up a stick for both Xbox 360 and PS1/2. So weāre talking a 360 wired pad and a PS1 pad here most likely. Iād like to do it this way if possible because I find project boxes and pin outs to be a somewhat inelegant solution. (If simple)
Sorry if I sound like a total noob, but I really donāt know the first thing about electronicsā¦ When performing spiffyshoesā solderless hack, is there anyway of testing the connections before connecting them to your buttons and stick, like starting a game with the pcb plugged in, and connecting the ground wire to one of the buttonwires, would that close the curcuit and activate the corresponding input so that you could see it on your tv?
And do you need to connect a cable in every slot, or would not doing so result in some kind of problem?
I would also like to know how to use the grounds on the dc pcb. Is the ground supposed to be where the black ā+ā is (at the left over the dpad)? Do you just solder the ground to one button and ādaisy-chainā it to the rest? Do the buttons and stick share the same ground?
Any info would be appreciated.:china:
Yenian, althought I havenāt had a chance to try the multi-pcb, I have researched it and there are a few different ways. The way that Iām most familiar with is intercepting the power wires from BOTH PCBs. Then you splice them together and then have them both go back to the PCBs. This way when you plug in a controller both PCBs power up. For the buttons and the grounds you can just have wires from the PCB meet together in a barrier strip and have the other side go to the respective buttons. However, since I have not done this in practice, use the info at your own risk.
elektrofil, you can just touch a ground wire to a live/signal wire while the PCB is plugged in. It will act like you pushing a direction or button. You can electrocute yourself in theory if you complete a circuit. You do not need to wire all the inputs for the solderless hack. It is fine.
celcius, the grounds are the similar areas next to each +. You can see that there are like two āCā or āUā depending on how you look at it that interlock with each other. One side is scratched and has the +, the other āCā or āUā can be scratched to wire the ground. It does use a common ground so you can daisy chain everything.
~Paik
Thanks paik! I tried to do as you said, putting the pcb in while running SC2 and crossing the ground wire with the other wires one after another. It seems however, that the only button thatās working is the start button, and the analog button, wich pauses the game, just like the start button when I connect it to the ground. 
Like I said, crossing the ground with any of the other wires seems to have no effect. When I plug the pcb in, my character firs charges up, and then begins to continously jump up and down on the spot, not responding to any inputs.
I have also noticed that the ribbon terminal has 18 slots, unlike the one in spiffyshoesā tutorial witch has only 16 I am certain that my controller is labelled as an A-serie ps2 controller.
I have no clue what is wrong and what to do, somebody, please help me!
Thanks in advance!