XBOX joystick analog->digital workaround?

[PlaneGuy]

Has anyone experience in hacking the analog joystick so that it works as a digital? What I mean is you've got your standard arcade stick, and you make it so that when you activate a switch, you send the xbox a "full on" signal in that direction.

Potentiometers are new to me so I'm not totally sure how they send a signal back to the controller board. If I knew that, I could probably figure something out from there.

[Flinkly]

a pot is an analog resistor, just measure your resistance and work around it that way.

[o-o]

How exactly?  Im wondering the same or similar thing.. (actually connecting analog thumbstick to the digital pads contacts.. and possibly being able to adjust the sensitivity/range of the on/off with another pot]

Sofar it seems a "voltage controlled gate" or "comparator" is needed (opens/closes a circuit based on a voltage setting/range?)?
   

[PlaneGuy]

How exactly?  Im wondering the same or similar thing.. (actually connecting analog thumbstick to the digital pads contacts.. and possibly being able to adjust the sensitivity/range of the on/off with another pot]

Sofar it seems a "voltage controlled gate" or "comparator" is needed (opens/closes a circuit based on a voltage setting/range?)?
   

Actually, I'd think you need to opposite (correct me if I'm wrong, my electronics is fairly rusty). You need to set a specific voltage based on if a circuit is open or closed. I haven't broken open a controller yet, but there is already 3 states you'd have to do, I think: full left, full right, zeroed. What voltage corresponds to which is the trick. if zeroed is actually zero, then it should be easy, otherwise I'm not quite sure what to do. Not without a more research anyway.

[o-o]

Are you wanting to use the/a digital pad to send as if it were full-on analog thumbstick?

What Im wanting is to be able to use an analog thumbstick (or joystick) and have it send as a digital pad (on/off contacts) at an adjustable point of its movement range

Im wondering what the actual parts are that would be needed for that

[PlaneGuy]

Are you wanting to use the/a digital pad to send as if it were full-on analog thumbstick?

What Im wanting is to be able to use an analog thumbstick (or joystick) and have it send as a digital pad (on/off contacts) at an adjustable point of its movement range

Im wondering what the actual parts are that would be needed for that

Yah that's completely different than what I'm looking at. I just want to hook up an 8-way to the analog since some games require it. The way I'm doing it now is hijacking those crappy-assed old "Nuby Soul Calibur 2 'arcade' sticks " and hacking onto that board, which does the work for me.

By the way, if you find one it's very easy to hack, does xbox, gc, and ps2, and was cheap as dirt since the stick, the buttons, and the case sucked hard.

I'd track down more of those Nubys, but I want to be 360 ready!

[o-o]

Thanks,

The plastic vesion Pelican Real Arcade sticks might be good for that purpose also, I think they have a 'mode' switch for just that purpose, at least the wooden version Universal Real Arcade Sticks do.. (the mode button/switch lets the digital stick send as if it were full-on analog)


Do you happen to know of any PS2 or PS2+Xbox compatible dual analog controllers (no matter how un-ergonomic) with rapidfire that functions like this?:

press the "rapid-fire assign" button once, then press any buttons you want to have rapidfire, then press the "rapid-fire assign" button again to confirm it.
Then all those buttons you chose have rapid fire, while rest of the buttons _remain normal_.
(so you can have some be rapidfire and some not)

[PlaneGuy]

Do you happen to know of any PS2 or PS2+Xbox compatible dual analog controllers (no matter how un-ergonomic) with rapidfire that functions like this?:
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No, I dont. Sorry.