wire R1 R2 to R1 R2
Wire L1 L2 to LA LB
Use R1/2 on the back
Use nippers to cut off the JST headers for directions/triggers/USB and solder everything on the back
Use glue on the wire, not on the joint unless you know you’re good
Don’t use glue til you’ve tested at all
1=low means if that spot is grounded, it will work on PS4, high=not grounded=ps3
Since you’re not connecting another switch for ps3/4, don’t worry about it
I have a friend that’s going to do two padhacks for me. This is for my arcade panel. What parts do I need to buy so he can complete the wiring job?
I have the buttons and sticks, the pcbs, but stuff like quick disconnects and the like…I’m not sure what all I need. Halp?
Okay cool thanks. I’m sure I’ll have some other questions as I do the actual job lol.
I was wondering about what to do with the wire coming out of the pad and the connected stuff, glad to hear i can just cut it all off.
take a button to home depot and find a qd that fits
So I just ripped open the hori FC4. Think I’m gonna solder the directions on the front then the rest on the back. The direction points on the back are tiny so I think it will be easier for me to do it on the front for those 4.
@Vicko any specific reason you recommend the back? Is it just because you don’t have to scrape the pads off? Just curious because the front definitely has easier solder points IMO.
In general this PCB is pretty tiny.
Saves time/energy from scraping the contact pads. I would recommend going through the hassle of scrapping them and soldering to the top spots first because if you mess up you’d still have the option of soldering to the back Test Pads. If you mess up on the back spots then life gets more difficult as you will have to solder to the traces.
Damn USPS slower than expected, won’t have crossbone till monday now 
Had time this weekend to do this too. WOMP WOMP.
Lol well turns out USPS tracking was wrong. Was weird I got my mail like 11am and had to go out at 1:30pm and didn’t have my stuff then, then I get home from a baby shower and I randomly checked the mailbox and bam, it’s in there lol.
So I’m going to ask this here since this thread is active, although a bit off topic…
Does flux/solder ever go “bad” or anything? Sorry if a dumb question, but I have some OLD stuff, like stuff I bought when SF4 came out that I still have enough of, wire too. I’m assuming it will be fine cause metal is metal, but figure I’d ask here.
My soldering iron needs a new tip. It is the kind that screws on. Is this pretty standard like if I run into Radio Shack tomorrow I will find another tip easily?
Use a solder cleaner, no such thing as a bad tip unless it’s broken off and unusable
Solder doesn’t go bad afaik
So I’m going to do the mod at some point today and had question…
What on the PS4/PS3 controllers typically corespond to each button?
Like on the TE2 Crossbone, it has 1K, 2K, 3K, 4K, and 1P, 2P, 3P, 4P.
Which PS4 buttons (Square, Triangle, X, Circle, etc) maps to each of those by default? I guess I could just do whatever I wanted, but I want it to be mapped as if I bought a PS4 joystick and it’s set to defaults.
And for the “Switch” on the TE2 Crossbone, do I just run a wire from whatever button I want to use as the switch, to the SWITCH in the corner on the TE2 Crossbone?
square triangle r1 l1
circle cross r2 l2
YTMND @Vicko
You have a pager or something when someone replies to this thread lol? 
Thanks for all the help too btw, pretty sure this is going to be a very straight forward mod after looking at the Crossbone.
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I’d suggest not using home,start, or select for the switch. Seems like a lot of these next gen controllers are using some of those buttons to go into a bootloader mode.
For the switch, I simply run a wire from the switch to that button on the Crossbone? Kinda like a bridge on the Crossbone between the 2 points?
And one more question…
Do I only have to wire up the D+/D- from the USB stuff on the FC4? I can skip the VCC, Shield, and GROUND on there?
Look up the golden rule of padhacking and report back.
Alright I saw some post by Darksakul that says all boards need ground and all boards need power, but it didn’t say anything about shield.
Help a fellow modder out (more than you already have, which I’m appreciative of!)
Shield is ground
And we’ve been helping you out for a week lol