Hori Fighting Stick SS button/joystick mod tutorial

[vlame]

got a continuity tester?

(In a pinch, I use a battery, and LED, and some wire. Touch the free ends of the wire and the LED lights up) Use that to determine what pins go to what wires on your PS2 cord.

you got a link or a tut to do this?

[Hobie-wan]

got a continuity tester?

(In a pinch, I use a battery, and LED, and some wire. Touch the free ends of the wire and the LED lights up) Use that to determine what pins go to what wires on your PS2 cord.

you got a link or a tut to do this?

If I'm just testing a wire or ground path, I usually just use my multimeter set to a low resistance range, say 2000. If I touch the 2 ends of the wire or whatnot and the reading jumps from infinity to some random numbers and settles near zero, I know its connected.

[studentzki]

It worked! I connected all the cables the way skate's scheme shows, and I've got 2 working PSX/PS2/PS3 (with adapter)/Saturn fighting sticks!!

Works flawless, and it's very easy. I fixed the second stick within 30 minutes now the scheme is correct!

thnx man

[skate323k137]

Thats huge, I'm very happy it worked for you. If you want to make a simple tutorial for it that would be sweet, or I could even help you write something up. If you make a new tutorial, throw me some love

ENJOY!

[vlame]

cs yellow
clk blue
do orange
di brown
ack green
bu grey
3.5 red
gnd black
d+ white
d- sky blu
5v pink

my controller's pinout is like this on the pcb...O_o

EDIT:
6*|cs|yellow
7*|clock |blue
2*|do|orange
1*|di|brown
9*|know|green
#|bu|grey
5*|3.5|red
4*|gnd|black
#|d+|white
#|d-|sky
#|5v|pink

i used this: http://blog.makezine.com/ps2_controller_pinout.jpg

Yellow is the only one im unsure of...lol

[skate323k137]

Like hobie-wan said, you can use a volt meter to see what pins go to what wires. Get the volt meter on a setting that changes something obvious on the display when the two probes are touched. If you're really at a loss, wire in a AA battery or something. Now, tie the question wire to one probe, and touch pins on the PSX with the other probe. when the voltmeter's screen changes like the two probes are touching each other, you've found the right pin. I go ghetto style and take a circuit that has an LED that lights up; cut in to that circuit, and use the free ends like described to see what pins "light up" what wires. I seriously used 3AA's, an LED, and some wire to make the pinout diagram for studentzki.

[vlame]

so i finally am getting around to do this, it seems i lost the wire lead to the saturn...and the 8 way gate haha, there is no way i can do it.

[vlame]

what size buttons did you use?

also since i want to use another pcb from a dual shock 2 I was thinking of using one of these barrier strips


I was thinking of linking the push buttons and ps2 pcb to one side and the Hori's mainboard harness to the other side. or am i going about this all wrong?

i know there are a few quirks, like the start button and common ground.

[skate323k137]

personally, if I were going to dual PCB it, I'd put in a PCB from one of the old fat saturn pads (blasphemy, I know) because it's common ground, and you can cut off the "wings", resulting in a tiny pcb for the saturn side. it's getting hard to find playstation controllers that are common ground. you pretty much have to use an after-market one, since the official ones are fucking impossible to solder to.

With enough work you can just do what studentzki did and tap the fighting stick SS's built in playstation circuitry. That would probably be much easier than a dual-pad-hack.

buttons are the standard snap in sanwas, 30mm