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Title: Hacking a XBOX360 Mad Catz arcade stick for Ms.Pac Man
Post by: RickA4 on May 13, 2008, 03:19:34 pm

Hi ALL,

              This is my first post and looking for some help.  I found a mad catz arcade stick for $20.  and I'm trying to put together the following

-Ms pac man analog controller  / HAPP

-3 push buttons  / 1 - start   1- A   1- B

Mad Catz Internals  USB to the 360.

just need to know where are the grounds,  up, down, left, right  solder points and I'm good to go. 

any help is appreciated.

Peace

Rick

Title: Re: Hacking a XBOX360 Mad Catz arcade stick for Ms.Pac Man
Post by: shredso on May 13, 2008, 09:00:11 pm

I hacked one of these, it was pretty easy.  I posted some pics here
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=79245.0
I'm not sure if there is a common ground, I ran a seperate ground for each contact.  If you open it up, you will see two contacts for each button.  It's fairly obvious once you open it up.  You can see where the buttons or D Pad push down on 2 contacts, I don't think it matters which one you send to ground.  I hope that helps.

Ed.

Title: Re: Hacking a XBOX360 Mad Catz arcade stick for Ms.Pac Man
Post by: RickA4 on May 15, 2008, 08:25:50 am

Thanks for the link,  it gave some great ideas.

I also found a link where It had some really good photos,  will post when i take some pics of my controller.

Thanks!

Peace   Rick