bobrocks95 wrote:
I haven't looked into how people hook this up, but if you just wire an LED to a power point on the board it's just going to be continuously on whenever the controller is right? You need some sort of circuit that's only completed when a button is pressed.
Ack, I think you're right.
But I do have another arcade stick to put that LED into, so I didn't just flush down $20. And anyway, I think buttons really are the way to go for light-on-press; I did have such a lighted button setup in another stick (Toodles Remora) which replaced the original Mad Catz daughterboard PCB, and that worked because those Mad Catz sticks all had a common ground, which isn't the case for the SixAxis. This is all just outside of my knowledge of arcade sticks but perhaps I don't actually need custom PCBs for this if I'm just lighting up one button and can make do with off-the-shelf parts.
bobrocks95 wrote:
What controller did you use out of curiosity, DS3 or DS4?
Pretty sure I used a DS3 with my PSTV.
You know what, I'm reminded that I can use my LED stick on my PSTV with
this MayFlash adapter. I only bought it
because one reviewer said it worked with the PSTV, and it does. I did feel lag (maybe because I was really looking for it), but I only ever used it on the PSTV, and when I wasn't using that adapter, all I played on the PSTV back then was probably Persona 4 Golden... not exactly a twitchy game. I put the adapter away when movement in Neo Geo Heroes (PSP) felt laggy and decided to just stick to other non-twitchy games, but now that I know it's the PSTV itself that's laggy, I'm willing to revisit the adapter.
bobrocks95 wrote:Wacky but it looks like it fits inside okay if you fold the ribbon cable. Unfortunately that seller is in Ukraine, so that might not be available for a while...
Oh, I didn't check the seller's location.
There were other sellers offering pretty much the same thing, but I liked the one I linked to the best.
Before they were on Etsy it was just one guy in Japan making two small production runs and that was it. My slow experience with the Photofast adapter on regular-sized PSPs kinda soured me to extra-large storage solutions on PSP, but I think the Game Categories plugin (which you can find in
here along with other must-haves) can probably cut out a lot of long loading times in the XMB.