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Xbox 360 Controller Hack Tutorial -- Wireless Hack Now Available!!!
wessagussett:
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--- Quote from: wessagussett on February 09, 2014, 06:36:32 pm ---HaRuMaN, please let me know if you still do the wired xbox 360 hacks, Thanks!
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Still do, send me a PM
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Thanks, I got your email today and responded to your gmail account. (Dan P, controller for my disabled brother) :)
gcb:
HaRuMaN, thank you very much for the best tutorial on doing that mod!
i'm doing an 8 button one with wireless. If all goes well, i plan to release the SCAD files for a cool 3d printed case that even has a battery bay :)
but meanwhile, i'm thinking of something more practical than the wire terminal rail... i mean, it is easy to use, but painful if you want to disconnect everything on and off (and i do plan to switch the brains with a wii or even a next gen controller later on)
the ideal solution would be something like a 20+pin with 2+ position rotary wheel, but since i'm sure i won't find that, i'm thinking of using a male/female header
my first option is a harddrive ATA cable. it will look neat but sourcing the female side is a pain.
my 2nd option is a bunch of jumper cables male/female cables attached with tape to make a big block.... since they are square they form into a block pretty easy with some tape. i did that a while ago for a easy connector for a JTAG header. but that was 6 pins only...
anyone ever done something similar? is there a better choice of connector?
PS: what sick mind coded the captcha on this site?!?!?
rmwilson:
Okay ... well here goes>>>>
I just bought a MANXT tt bike arcade machine... and my dream/ goal is to hack an xbox and xbox controller into it .. so I can play a more modern motorcycle game. Quite frankly - I don't even know where to start... the idea is to use a new LCD so that solves the monitor issue and the xbox can plug right into that ...
The thinking is that Moto GP is a game made for xbox and I would use the bike to control left and right and the throttle and brake (wire it / some how hook them into the xbox controller... ) as far as i know ( based on what i was told) they use 5k pots on the sega arcade machine...
Any thoughts how's I' start engineering this?
Can I still buy a pre modded xbox 360 controler and just seeing if i can wire it into the bike?????????
chinapaulo:
Resurrecting this thread to share my experience, having started down the path of modding an official Microsoft 360 controller over a week ago, using various online tutorials.
I'm completely new to soldering, and wow -- what a first project to choose. Soldering wires to the official MS controller was a huge headache, especially given the D-Pad's tiny contacts. I destroyed the first controller I tried to hack, but I kept it around for testing/practice.
It wasn't until I had successfully finished one MS controller that I came across this thread where Haruman and others eventually discuss using the Mad Catz Fight Pad (or BrawlPad) instead. I can confirm that this is the way to go. It's probably an order of magnitude easier than the MS controllers: I picked up two of the brawl pads from Amazon because they offered same-day delivery, and it only took me a couple of hours to wire up *both* of them. I couldn't find an exact diagram for the PCB, but the layout similar to the regular mad catz controllers in most respects. As discussed here, the benefits include: No analog controls; the contacts were exposed and labeled; no dealing with potentiometers or resistors or scraping off any rubber junk.
The brawl pad (and I'm assuming the fight pad, too) has a feature where you can hold down the 'back' button and the d-pad will temporarily emulate the right joystick, which is apparently necessary to select your opponent in a particular WWE game, but I imagine it might be useful in some other circumstances. I haven't hooked it up to the full array of physical buttons or joystick yet, but finding the note about these particular gamepads really made my weekend a lot easier. Cheers.
Now it's onto picking up one of Haruman's widescreen bartops to actually hook up and use these things.
HaRuMaN:
Nice work! The fight is the same PCB basically, just a couple of the buttons are in different places. Just as easy to hack. :cheers:
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