How would I make a arcade stick with a ps2 cord

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Just curious if it's difficult to make a ps2 arcade stick with 8 buttons. Is it as simple a opening up a dual shock and soldering the wires to the arcade stick? Or is it more difficult then that? I am kinda confused cause the whole dual shock analog thing. Is there a website that explains how to do this?
 
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greedostick said:
Just curious if it's difficult to make a ps2 arcade stick with 8 buttons. Is it as simple a opening up a dual shock and soldering the wires to the arcade stick? Or is it more difficult then that? I am kinda confused cause the whole dual shock analog thing. Is there a website that explains how to do this?
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That's about all to it, really. I converted a stick originally for a DC, to a PS2, and I just used the board from a dual shock with the wires soldered right to the "legs" of the chip on the board. ;)
 
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But you can only do the digital part, the D-pad and buttons. You can't wire the analog stick(s) to joysticks, as far as I know.
 
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greedostick said:
Just curious if it's difficult to make a ps2 arcade stick with 8 buttons. Is it as simple a opening up a dual shock and soldering the wires to the arcade stick? Or is it more difficult then that? I am kinda confused cause the whole dual shock analog thing. Is there a website that explains how to do this?
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I would recomend using a $1 PSX pad

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But you can only do the digital part, the D-pad and buttons. You can't wire the analog stick(s) to joysticks, as far as I know.
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If it uses Hal Effect sensors, you probably can (see dreamcast)
 
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i second the idea of using a $1 PSX controller. most of the cheapy ones have much easier access points to solder to.

What are hal effect sensors? special kind of joystick? something used in the dual shock? or are you saying you could essentially wire it to a joystick, but you'd get 100% left or 100% right etc. anyway?
 
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Ok, so basically I just open this thing up, and remove the board from the controller, remove the vibration function, then I wire some of my own wires from the buttons on the stick I am making directly to the ps1 controller chipboard.

Is there somewhere that can show me what buttons the solder points on the psx controller are? I want to make sure I get this right the first time and dont have to remove any wires. A website with a walkthrough would still be nice. Especially with pics.

So what do you do with this psx chip once it's on your arcade stick? It seems like it would just be hanging there. Do you tape it down with electric tape or something?
 
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Well I think most people would keep the chip on the PCB and solder the wires to the copper pads of the pcb, and so it's pretty obvious what buttons are what, since its the same layout as the front of the actual controller.

If you have reallllly good soldering skills and think you can solder directly to the mini chip you can do that, but then I would say its rather fragile. I'll put up a pic of how I soldered my PSX pad for an arcade stick. It'll be on my site (in my sig) in a few hours.
 
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I just did some reading up...

Apearantly, the DSII has ALL analog buttons... making it a bad candidate for hacking.

The DS2 also has a potentiometer based stick... So hacking it is more difficult.
 
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Ok go to my site in my sig and go to the Bartop page, there's an up close example of what I soldered to.

Note for the "up" button, there are two wires coming from it. The left side is the "up", and the right side is where I chose to take the common from. That could actually come from any right common. For any given button, it should be easy to figure out which one is the button and which one is the common, because all the commons are connected together.
 
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sigs (signatures) are only shown once, in the first post that person makes in the thread, but its callan.batcave.net anyway.
 
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Well I think most people would keep the chip on the PCB and solder the wires to the copper pads of the pcb, and so it's pretty obvious what buttons are what, since its the same layout as the front of the actual controller.

If you have reallllly good soldering skills and think you can solder directly to the mini chip you can do that, but then I would say its rather fragile. I'll put up a pic of how I soldered my PSX pad for an arcade stick. It'll be on my site (in my sig) in a few hours.
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I've always just soldered to the chip, keeps the wires bunched together neatly. :) But yes it's harder to solder on the chip...
 
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