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Guywiththegun:
Great tutorial. Those spots for the button connections look much easier to understand though. My gamepad contacts (if thats what they're called) look much more like the ones boardjunkie posted:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/181/dsc00032ux3.jpg/

Where would I put each wire on those contacts? Looks like a maze or something. And does it matter which wire goes to which spot?
HaRuMaN:
Each of the the squares where the button was has 2 traces in.  You could do it there, or you could follow each line to a solder point.  As long as you have the two for each button, it'll work.  Doesn't matter which wire goes where, you're just completing a circuit.
Guywiththegun:
Awesome, thanks! I hooked up a button and held the wires to the spots you outlined with some tape, just to test it . . sure enough, the button worked. Does that pretty much mean I'm on the right track now? I mean, if I didn't have both wires touching the right spots, the button wouldn't work, right?
HaRuMaN:
Correct
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