how to wiring joystick and buttons

[Givre]

Hello, sorry my english is bad but you are my only hope.
To make my arcade stick, I choose the sidewinder gamepad.
No problems to hack him but I don't know wiring joystick and buttons. Can you explain me with a diagram ?
thank you very much.

[hyiu]

for sidewinder hack, each button will need 2 connections:  1 is a shared common ground, and the other one is the button wire itself...

on the left side, you should see examples, go there, search for "sidewinder", and you should be able to see other people's web sites.... about hacking sidewinders and they have detailed pics and docs explaining the whole thing...

if you still have problems after checking thru the pages, come back and ask and I or someone else will be able to help....

[Givre]

yes I visited other sidewinder hack website
http://mason.gmu.edu/~ggillett/joystick/sidewinder.html
http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade_staticx.shtml
http://home.cfl.rr.com/expression/joystick.html
for hack sidewinder, no problem but the problem is for connected the clues sidewinder to arcade stick and buttons.
this is why I need a a diagram or a good photo with the sidewinder to controls connections.
thankk you.

[hyiu]

I see... so, you have already hacked a sidewinder circuit board... and your question is on from the circuit board to the buttons itself....

ok... let me try to put it in words briefly....

now... your sidewinder should have a bunch of wires hanging out..... from the direction holes (U, D, L, R) and from the buttons (A, B, C, X, Y, Z, L, R, S, M) and also a ground wire....

now..... on your control panel (bottom view)
http://www.geocities.com/hyiu/Arcade/pics/wires_done_stick.jpg

you might not be able to go there directly... (sometimes, its strange for geocities....)
then go here...
http://www.geocities.com/hyiu/Arcade/pics
and click on wires_done_stick.jpg

you'll see the bottons.... and each button has a microswitch... and each microswitch has 3 connections...

now... if you look closely to your microswitch, you'll see them labelled "GROUND", NORMALLY OPEN", "NORMALLY CLOSED" (or GND, NO, NC... etc)

you can ignore the NC connection.... (if your microswitch only has 2 connections, then its by default NO and Gnd.... I think....)

ok.... for sidewinder game port pad, you can connect ALL Grounds together..... and then connect the ground to the gamepad circuit board's GROUND wire..... (so, when this is done, EVERY switch will already have 1 wire connected, and they're ALL connected to the gamepad's GND.... ok ??)

now.... the NO connection.....
you can arrange your control panel buttons any way you want.... so... the NO connection of a particular button will be connected to the appropriate wire from the gamepad...

in my picture, all the wires are connected to a connector, because I'm planning to modulate this process.... (so my joysticks can hook up to a sidewinder hack, or a psx hack... etc)....

also.... from what I read from other posts... you don't need to solder the wire to the controls.... you can buy those female clip-on thing... (sorry... don't know what they're called...) then, if you make a mistake or want to re-arrange, you can just unplug and re-plug it back it correctly....

then you can test it on control panel... (if you're suing Windows....)

hope this helps....

- Henry.

[mumpsman]

For the grounds, I found it very simple to chain wire from the GND on the sidewinder to, say, button X gnd terminal, and from there another wire to another buttons gnd terminal and so on until to have hit the gnd of each control.  

It seemed a little neater that binding all the ground wires together.

[Givre]

thank you very much ! I now understand :)
I come back when my arcade stick will be finished.

[Sasquatch!]

thank you very much ! I now understand
I come back when my arcade stick will be finished.

We look forward to it!