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Some progress here. I have both axes. Only one of the yoke 'hot' wires is needed to power them. (I'm not surprised, actually.)

Comparison: the rototron and urbaninteractive examples have the y axis 'hot' at the bottom; mine is at the top. Urbaninteractive has the x axis 'hot' at the bottom, which is the same as mine; rototron has it at the bottom.

Point being, check your own DS before you hook anything up. I just stripped the ends of the pcb wires, checked voltages, then stuck the ends into the yoke plug. Bingo.

Now to the buttons. In the rototron example says

I could only use 1 of the hat buttons, because they do not function like normal buttons. The hat buttons report a degrees to the computer in 45 degree increments. This works well for a regular joystick, because the stick operates the same as a hat. This will not work for buttons because you can press button combinations that do not translate to a degrees.

So no wonder those didn't work right before. Fortunately, I have another use for the hat buttons. Stay tuned.....

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Really strange behavior here. I connected the 'down' of a stick to the 'right thumb' and main ground of the DS (as shown in figure 1), and in any game other than Star Wars it registers as "button 6 and 7, Hat L1". In Star Wars, it doesn't register at all - not as a button, nor as dec/inc for the analog directions.


Edit: gosh I feel foolish. Somehow, joystick was *not* enabled in only Star Wars. Looks like that was half my issue....Jeez.

First, though, the above-mentioned discrepancy between ground and hot was still getting in the way of axis input registering. And pulling the connections apart, I think my crimping wasn't very good, which is why buttons weren't registering. Ah well. Makes life interesting, doesn't it?

D_Harris:

Good grief! Did you work through the night on this?

The existence of this thread obviously means that the documentation on this specific hack is poor.

I never understood why there is not one good documented hack for these conntrollers that visually show every connection you need to make.

I have one I want to hack also, so I hope you post your own image laden instructions once you are done for us newbies.  ;D

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

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--- Quote from: D_Harris on July 01, 2011, 11:36:27 am ---Good grief! Did you work through the night on this?

The existence of this thread obviously means that the documentation on this specific hack is poor.

I never understood why there is not one good documented hack for these conntrollers that visually show every connection you need to make.

I have one I want to hack also, so I hope you post your own image laden instructions once you are done for us newbies.  ;D

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

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Yeah, I did.

There would seem to be slightly different designs between models - or somebody(s) didn't get their documentation right. Compositing the two images above, and making some adjustments, I made my own documentation.




Aside from the triggers/thumbs, I'm a little iffy on the connection of more buttons. I may explore this more...

alfonzotan:

That's very helpful; I'll be hooking up one of these this weekend.  Thanks for the extra research and update.

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