Making a arcade stick for the dreamcast

[djexotic]

i am new here so bare with me.

i am trying to make a dreamcast arcade pad by useding a controller and just hard wire it from the board to the terminal out to the buttons and joystick. also i am going to house the set up in a wooden box with both side of acrylic sheet and polycarbonate sheet glass so i can put my art in between.

so can anybody give me some ideas and what i need to do like the wiring of the board. because i know i gotta make a ground loop to the buttons and then to the board so the sign will be up. also i am going to used a sanwa joystick that i took off my arcade brawl stick that i am not using anymore.

also i am going to do the same with a snes controller too in the late fall.

[djexotic]

anybody?

[johnm]

Why not just mod the dreamcast arcade stick?

[sharpfork]

Is this what you are looking for?


from:
http://slagcoin.com/joystick/pcb_wiring.html#PCB_MAPPING_AND_SOLDERING
NOTEs:

• slagcoin says the padhack lags but I'm not sure how that can be...
• Some general inter webs reading said that the triggers are the issues and the way to fix it is to look for 6 button 3rd party controllers that move the triggers to the face of the controller.

[HaRuMaN]

I hack controllers, DC, SNES, you name it...

The official Sega Dreamcast controller has a slight lag when you hack the triggers...  like a frame or two.

The MadCatz Dreamcast controller has digital triggers, no lag.

[djexotic]

i would like to mod the dreamcast stick but the problem is the stick i am looking at at most sites are around $50 to $90. this is why i am going this route. also the triggers are going to be lagging. because their not analog or its just digital inputs? and what about a yobo controller if i can't find a madcatz controller for the dreamcast.

[HaRuMaN]

You can find Madcatz DC controllers on eBay all day for pretty cheap.

[djexotic]

have anybody try out a cthulhu pcb set up before?

[northerngames]

do not wire the player 1 and 2 together on the same ground and do not ground the controllers with anything else but each side seperatly or your going to blow the DC's controller pcb.

when their both grounded together weird things happen.

think it is a 4 pole dual throw your after if your going to have a toggle to swap between the thumbstick and D-pad on your joystick.

I think that is the name of the switch I can do a pic of my switch if needed though.