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Title: my joystick is moving left on its own anyone ever had this problem?
Post by: tyweed on April 26, 2003, 12:50:03 pm: Every few days or so i run in to this very frustrating problem. My joystick seems to moving left and down on its own at random times. I open up the winipacsoftware s that it shows player one and two joysticks. and as i watch them priodicly the first player controler will hold left then release then sometimes it will fix and then two player will go to down poosition and hold? i'm clueless has anyone run into a similiar problem?its not everday too like yesterday it seemed to work fine now today its screwed..HELP!

is it my p360 joystick , my ipac, or maybe wiring what you think?
Title: Re:my joystick is moving left on its own anyone ever had this problem?
Post by: nullb0y on April 26, 2003, 12:52:47 pm: check and re check your wiring m havinm the proble with a psx pad i hacked... i thinks the l1 button is down whick make people do weird stuff re check your wiring if theres a short that probally the proble and clean the sopaces between the connections

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Title: Re:my joystick is moving left on its own anyone ever had this problem?
Post by: Auntie MAME on April 26, 2003, 01:01:39 pm: Could it be the switch on the joy stick? If it is a Happ joystick, swap the cherry switches (left to right or top to bottom). If the direction of the phantom movement changes, that is your problem.
Title: Re:my joystick is moving left on its own anyone ever had this problem?
Post by: tyweed on April 26, 2003, 01:02:54 pm: i'll try that.. now if i hitr the z or x button it flashes on when i hit it off when i release on winipac softwaree., but when i hold z down move joystick while button is held then release the z button stays lighted(held down)? just z and x do this wow my cab is $#%@
Title: Re:my joystick is moving left on its own anyone ever had this problem?
Post by: AX on April 26, 2003, 02:18:49 pm: p 360's have cherry switch's?
Title: Re:my joystick is moving left on its own anyone ever had this problem?
Post by: Wienerdog on April 26, 2003, 04:15:48 pm: Quote from: AX on April 26, 2003, 02:18:49 pm
p 360's have cherry switch's?
No.
Title: Re:my joystick is moving left on its own anyone ever had this problem?
Post by: CthulhuLuke on April 26, 2003, 07:00:57 pm: I'm like 95% sure that this is a wiring problem. I've had the same types of problems, and more often than not its because some wire is just barely crossing over and touching another wire. Look through all your wires CAREFULLY, try putting on some kind of game that uses all the joysticks and you can have it set still for a while, *Xmen vs Street Fighter with codes for infinite life on, and in 2 player mode, basically its training mode* then go through all your wires, and jiggle them to see if anything happens. I'll bet you you'll start to see some attacks happening that you didn't actually press. Once you figure out exactly where the problem lies, then its MUCH easier to trouble shoot the wiring, and you can unscrew and rescrew in wires to the I-pac, double check to make sure none of the wires are crossing, etc.
Also, do you have any other interfaces plugged into the controls? Like did you parallel a psx joystick or something with the I-pac?
-Luke
Title: Re:my joystick is moving left on its own anyone ever had this problem?
Post by: tyweed on April 26, 2003, 08:19:46 pm: hi luke thanks for the tips i'll give it a shot tomorow. no i dont have anything else plugged into ipac just enough room for 2 joysticks and 2 sets of 6 buttons. i do have opti pac too though .... i think i have found part of problem though a washer was in upside down
Title: Re:my joystick is moving left on its own anyone ever had this problem?
Post by: grounded on April 28, 2003, 12:39:21 pm: I had a similar problem... do you have a USB contoller/joypad connected to your computer? I did, and after I unplugged it everything worked fine.
Title: Re:my joystick is moving left on its own anyone ever had this problem?
Post by: tyweed on April 28, 2003, 12:47:27 pm: fixed it i flipped washer on p360 and everytyhing is working great!
Title: Re:my joystick is moving left on its own anyone ever had this problem?
Post by: SirPoonga on April 28, 2003, 02:04:06 pm: Firsdt, for those who have problems with psx pad, is the pad hooked to parallel port? I've had this proglem with that. Get a USB convertor.