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Gamecube stick project
Babs:
Hi, I am new to making my own stuff, but I've been thinking and planning in my head for months now. I want to build a stick for my gamecube, mainly just for soul calibur 2 and ikaruga.
I've got a rough idea of what I'm going to do, and I'm soon to order my stick(s) and buttons. I just have a bit of a query for anyone who's had a go at doing anything with a gc pad.
With the L & R buttons, is there a solid point I can solder a wire to to add those buttons to my stick? I know they're analog and I don't have any cheap pads to take to pieces right now, so I'm wondering if it's possible to make a digital connection to the 'click' at the end of a full push of those buttons?
Any help or advice or even links to cube stick projects would be gratefully received.
(p.s. I did do a search before posting, so don't be too harsh if I'm covering old ground :) )
hyiu:
I would say take a closer look at your analog buttons...
they should have 3 connections....
(let me call them as +, -, and the variable...)
I think if you connect a microswitch to the variable and 1 of the other.... you should be able to hack the button digitally... (which means you press the microswitch, you press that analog button all the way down... - no analog...)
but I don't know which one is which.... so, you'll need to try it.... (or maybe measure voltage / resistance when you press the button....)
also, those 3 might have different ground from the rest of the digital buttons/directions of the pad... so, you might not want to chain the grounds for those analog buttons...
well.... I'm looking at a madcatz xbox pad myself... that's how it looks like.... but no guarantee....
hope it helps...
Babs:
Thanks, I'm hoping to pick up a couple of cheap pads and gut them this weeked, so I'll haev a good look then.
Molloy:
If your going to go out of your way to build a good stick you may as well try ot make it compatable with multiple machines.
You can buy connectors for PS to GC and DC to GC as far as I know.
What I'm intending to do with my control panel (when I get enough money together to build it) is use and x-arcade pcb. That way i'll have PS2, DC, GC, Xbox, PC compatability as well as any of the next gen machines.
Babs:
Well, as it stands I have no games that I want to play with a stick other than SC2 and Ikaruga.
My first sticks will be more of a prototype than anything, so I can always do a second set. The X-arcade idea sounds a bit too pricey for me. The stick and board alone are way too pricey, and for the price of the adapters needed to work with each system I can quite easily buy a cheap pad for each system and gut & solder them.