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DaOld Man:

If you arent very keen on soldering, order the eco that has the IDE cable header.
Then you just take an old hard drive cable, cut one end off, the other end plugs into your eco.
The end you cut off is 40 wires that will wire to your buttons and joysticks.
Someone drew up the wiring drawing for this on here.
If you need it, I will see if I can find it.
I too have hacked a keyboard, and trust us, go with the encoder, your life will be better.

endrien:

I'm fine with soldering. How do I wire the common ground on a gamepad?(Using an old gamepad as a temp controller)

Beretta:

need to find it on the pad, each one is different, and not all use a common ground for every thing..

game pads are all hacked in a similar fasion but they are not all the same so a little bit of work on your part is needed.. a multimeter is very useful for this.. you should also study the circuits and follow them..

if the pad uses a common ground you'll usually beable to spot it pretty quickly because it will be connecting most if not all buttons together on 1 circuit.. it's usually the outside circuit on the board and much wider/larger then others.

you can post pictures for help but you gotta use your noodle (brain) a bit to figure one out unless it's a common pad people have hacked here already.

endrien:

There appears to be a common ground of sorts, though it won't work past the fuses. The controller works if I use its ground but I'd rather not have to use a separate ground for every button. Could I jump the fuses?(Would like to know for sure before I do anything that could ruin the pad.


Beretta:

hmm not what im use to seeing.

do you have any more pix? preferably one of the entire board including shoulder buttons circuts facing up?

there is a lot of glare from teh flash on the right hand side.

if i had to guess i'd say that this is ground but that does'nt mean it's common to all buttons.. it's hard to follow the circuits from that picture, you should check with a multi meter.

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