Re: Questions about hacking Sidewinder USB...


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Posted by Nick Chambers on 28, 2001 at 12:34 PM:

In Reply to: Questions about hacking Sidewinder USB... posted by Tom on 27, 2001 at 12:46 PM:

If you take apart gamepad or keyboard and wire it to arcade controls, you are "hacking" it. On your microswitch, there are two contacts that look the same and one that is bent 90 degrees. put one wire on the bent one and put the other wire on the one closest to it. It doesn't matter which is ground.

There are usually 2 ways to hack a gamepad, but with the sidewinder, there are 3 ways. Under each button, on the circuit board, there are 2 pads (they look different on different controllers) One is ground and one is the button contact thingy :) When a circuit is completed between the two, the button is pressed. So, for each button, you could run a wire from each pad to the contacts on the arcade button. OR, you could just wire the button contact thingy to each button and then "daisy chain" the ground. You daisy chain by taking a wire soldered to any ground on the control pad and connect it to your first button, then from the 1st button to the 2nd button and so on. You will end up with a chain that connects to the ground of each button.

Now, on the sidewinder, there is an easier way to go about this whole process. I am talking about the midi/game port gamepad, but I think that the USB on is the same way. If you look on the circuit board, there are little holes that are marked for each button and direction. You just drop a wire in and solder on the other side, real cool like. There are some close up pictures on the website that I linked to at the bottom. Good luck, and have fun

Nick



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