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Having problems connecting both my Xbox 360 and ipac to arcade controls

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Doom bucket:

 
--- Quote from: EwJ on July 31, 2008, 05:47:23 am ---The U360 I/O port is seeing it as Output mode instead of input (button) mode?

From Ultimarc website: 'This 10-pin header can be used in two modes. The post auto-detects which mode you are using.'
'Note that when using in Output Mode, if you go into Control Panel, Gamepad Devices, the 8 buttons will still be shown there, but they are inoperative.'

Is that how it's showing up in windows control panel?


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Hmm, I think that might be it. Because I had been looking at the Gamepad Devices screen to test the buttons, and instead of blinking when I press a button, they just stay red. And if I disconnect the iPac wiring and leave only the 360 wiring the buttons are green and operate perfectly. I suppose the answer to this might be on the website, then.

I have a few questions about 360 controller hacks. The 360 controller I am using has already been hacked, not by me, so I don't totally understand the wiring on it... Is there a diagram somewhere that shows which points are ground and which aren't? And I have two wires going from each direction on the joystick points on the Xbox 360 PCB. Which ones should I use, seeing how my perfect 360 only needs one for each direction?

Doom bucket:

oh I just read your  message again and no I don't have U360 sticks but it's a similar problem

damn this topic must have been so confusing, so I went and edited all my references to 360 to clarify

Ginsu Victim:

Thanks for the edits, because I thought you meant a U360 this whole time.

Doom bucket:

so yeah the solution proposed wouldn't work in my case then

AndyWarne:

Console controllers generally use all kinds of matrix or scanning methods for the controls. They are not usually simply tied to ground on one side and an input port similar to an I-PAC on the other. So this could be loaded with problems which might be difficult or impossible to resolve without reverse-engineering the XBox controller.
Andy

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