playstation one dual shock H controller question

[artek]

Hi, I recently found this website and was hooked instantly,lol, now I want to build a playstation 2 arcade of my own.I read that the ps one controller is one of the best controllers to use in a arcade. I ve seen pictures of other ps 1 controllers opened but the one I have didn't look like any I've seen opened before.Is the white wire strip linked to the bottons?If it is, can I use it as a short cut to solder to it,is there a pattern with the wires, R1, L1, ect ?What is the appropriate wire gage when soldering to arcade bottons,can it be a little smaller or bigger or dose it have to be an exact size wire?My other question is about the L & R bottons could i solder for the board circled with a question mark in the pic? Or do I have to solder to the dark stuff were the bottons rest?Thanks in advance.

[TalkingOctopus]

18-22 guage wire is fine.

You can solder to the circled regions for L1/R1.

You can trace the ribbon to see if it connects to the buttons.  From the picture, you can see it connects to a few of them.  However, I'd just solder to the directly to large black regions for each button.  Scrape off the black and then solder to the copper underneath.  I always try to use a non-dualshock ps1 controllers for my hacks because it avoids have 2 connected boards for the hack.  You also may want to check out the solderless hack that some people have had sucess with: http://home.comcast.net/~spiffyshoes/DualShockHack/

[Zapatistab]

PS1 dual shocks are good if you plan on using controller converters for other systems.
But if you only plan on using it with your PS2 only, then hacking PS1 non-dualshock controllers would be easier. They even have solder points, so you don't have to scrape off any of the black stuff.

[TalkingOctopus]

PS1 dual shocks are good if you plan on using controller converters for other systems.
But if you only plan on using it with your PS2 only, then hacking PS1 non-dualshock controllers would be easier. They even have solder points, so you don't have to scrape off any of the black stuff.

The ps1 non-dualshocks work fine with my converters for other systems.  Specifically, PC and DC adaptors.

[sju4sju]

I chose to solder to the pins, as I wanted to put the pcb in a little box:


I hacked a PSOne DualShock pad, like you've got there, as it was the only pad that my ps2->xbox adapter would recognize..

If you flip your first posted picture, the pins are, top to bottom (no.16 is closest to the vibrators):

16: ground
15: square
14: X
13: O
12: triangle
11: r1
10: l1
09: r2
08: l2
07: select
06: start
05: up
04: right
03: down
02: left
01: analog - don't need it

I found it best to strip the flat white wire into 15 x 1cm pieces, then solder my colour coded wires to that, and then solder those to the pins.

Btw - see those connectors? Neogeo joypad extension cable. They are excellent, not much fatter than a PS controller cable, but contain 15 wires, so I can connect Snes & Segamega pads