easiest psx pad to hack?

[jakejake28]

hi. i am about to start a 2 player psx, dc, ps2, pc pad and will be hacking a psx pad and using adaptors. what is the easiest pad to hack and what is the best pad to hack?

[Dave_K.]

I guess you haven't been reading the forum.  As discussed, the PSOne H-Series pad is the best candidate.  The original PSX (old digital only) pads are the easist.  The Only problem with the original PSX pads is some newer PS2 games won't even start because it doesn't see an analog controller (regardless if the game can also use the dpad).  

Dem's your choices.  Search the main board for psone and h-series to read the posts.

[jakejake28]

I guess you haven't been reading the forum.  As discussed, the PSOne H-Series pad is the best candidate.  The original PSX (old digital only) pads are the easist.  The Only problem with the original PSX pads is some newer PS2 games won't even start because it doesn't see an analog controller (regardless if the game can also use the dpad).  
Dem's your choices.  Search the main board for psone and h-series to read the posts.

nah, i saw that post but i did not see anything in there that referred to quality or ease of any alternate pads. thanks. i don't have an h-series, and it looks pretty hard to hack, but i do have a regular dualshock. is the dualshock any easier to hack then the h-series. thanks for the help for the earlier questions, and thanks in advance for the next series.

[Dave_K.]

The h-series PSOne is infact a regular dual shock.  The "h-series" type of dual shock uses a ribbon cable which you can hack for access to all the digital controls (rather than soldering to the button contacts).  That was the point of that thread.  

If you don't have a h-series dual shock, then I guess you are stuck soldering to the button contacts.

[jakejake28]

ok. i guess i am stuck, but it should only take a tad extra time. thanks for the help. i will just use my reg. dualshocks.

[armad1ll0]

the PSOne series H is the best in my mind cause I've made joysticks that adapt well for Xbox and Gcube.

DC & USB work on any Sony Pad. PS2 is a given.

If you want to just use  a digital pad, I've found that the sony digital series H actually have exposed copper points/contacts on the PCB to solder into. (even thought they are small)

Don't forget that DC adaptors don't see the Select, R2 and L2....

I have a toggle switch that swaps positions of my L1 R2 buttons so that i have a capcom 6 for DC gaming on one of my creations. (capcom frame perfect stick)

It's the best one to hack because the main chips are on there with the analog sticks. There was another board (dualshock) that I was playing around with where I desoldered the analog stick board because they were on a daughter board and the encoder was screwed after that. It kept detecting that one of the sticks was on, one way over... USELESS now...

Moral of this story, you can ditch the digital daughter board cause of the ribbon cable that goes to it can be hacked into, but you can't ditch the analog sticks... if your controller has the sticks on a daughter board.

This all makes sense if you understand that the dualshocks had two styles. One that had the encoder chips on the digital side and one that had the encoder on the analog sticks, side. The later is the prefered. (PSOne Series H... the white one)