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1UP:
All I can say is that there *could* be a problem with not having the ground wires separated.  The pots on the DS are wired separately, so that seems the easiest answer.
Silver:
Hi, I yes I think you need to keep the grounds seperte - the problems you describe (haywire readings with no stability) are symptomatic of trying for force two "grounds" together when they are not common...
mac622:
Thanks again for everyones input.  The problem is now 90% resolved. 

The ground wires definitely have to be separated for it to work properly.  Once I did that all the erratic, jumping around behavior stopped and the vertical movement of the controller worked fine.  However, I still had the scrolling to the right issue but at least I knew I was on the right track.  Thinking I might have a bad horizontal pot after all I decided to connect one of the DS pots to see if that fixed the problem.   At first it didn't but once I centered the pot it was fine.  Decided to try centering the pot on the controller and BAM...it works like a dream!!  Full vertical and horizontal movement in the DS set-up screen. 

I decided to give it a quick test in MAME/Star Wars (as I only had a few more minutes before heading out the door ) and the controller worked okay.  I'm sure I'll have to spend a little time tweaking the settings but overall I quite happy with it.  My only issue was that the thumb and trigger buttons didn't respond in MAME.  They worked fine in the DS set-up screen and I have both the Mouse Input and Joystick Input enabled in MAME but still no go.  If someone knows what the quick solution to that problem is I would greatly appreciate it.  I'm sure I'm probably overlooking something fairly obvious but I haven't had the time to really look into it yet so any advice would be helpful.

Thanks again for you good folks who spend the time sharing your knowledge and experiences with the rest of us.  What a huge, huge help you all are!

Cheers!
1UP:

--- Quote from: mac622 on February 28, 2005, 10:25:10 am ---My only issue was that the thumb and trigger buttons didn't respond in MAME.
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