Posted by TaskMaster on January 14, 2002 at 11:49:29:
In Reply to: ms sidewinder hack posted by twault on January 12, 2002 at 17:41:43:
: I recently hacked a sidewinder control pad to an arcade panel. I tested everything and everything looked a-ok. When I plugged it in to play, the joystick seemed to pull to the left on some games and was nonfunctioning in other games. I scraped around the solder points, to see if solder had spread beyond the circle and now it works, but when I press down, it does the same thing, and it seems my "y" button isn't working...any advice.
Go into the control panel/Game controllers and push all of the buttons and directions on the joystick and see if you get any erroneous results. If so, then you have something that needs to be fixed. Maybe the problem is not your soldering, but your wiring to the joystick/buttons like a crossed ground or something.