Hori SS Fighting Stick wiring help for a newbie modder

handsome_rakshas · Post by **handsome_rakshas** » Sat May 24, 2008 11:49 pm

Hey there, I finished putting in the Sanwa buttons but I'm having a hard time with the stick. I'm putting in a Sanwa JLF which has 5 wires into the old joystick pcb which has 8 wires. I soldered the 4 ground wires from the old one onto the black wire on the Sanwa. I've tried various combinations from the 4 wires on the old pcb to the 4 wires left over on the sanwa and I'm getting no directional reaction whatsoever. What should I try next? Help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

ReKleSS · Post by **ReKleSS** » Sun May 25, 2008 1:06 am

Try wiring only one direction at a time and see if you get any response. If it does work the joystick doesn't use a common ground, which is a bitch. You'd have to cut the traces on the PCB and wire each switch seperately.

overkill55 · Post by **overkill55** » Sun May 25, 2008 1:11 am

Pretty sure kingbuzzo has done at least one Hori SS mod. Try PMing him

handsome_rakshas · Post by **handsome_rakshas** » Sun May 25, 2008 2:54 am

Thanks for the responses! Well, after rewiring the grounds to the black sanwa wire(I didn't feel i did it properly), I finally got some strange reactions.

Green Sanwa wire+any wire+up on stick=pause
Yellow Sanwa wire+any wire+down on stick =pause
Orange Sanwa wire+any wire+left on stick=pause
Red Sanwa wire+any wire+right on stick=pause

I tried hooking them up in order to the other wires and then reversed the order and got any direction on stick=pause. Weird, because the pause and turbo buttons wires are on a different bundle altogether! I'm going to keep fritzing with this thing and see what happens, heck of a way to spend a saturday night huh?

handsome_rakshas · Post by **handsome_rakshas** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 7:52 am

Still having no luck, I'm pretty sure I didn't mix up the grounds or anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

kemical · Post by **kemical** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:06 pm

check to make sure there isn't any solder blobs dripped onto the pcb or wiring bridging connections that it shouldn't.
How did you go about removing the old buttons?

The old joystick had 8 wires? Did 4 of those wires run to the same common ground on the pcb?

Try taking a peice of wire and bridging different combinations between 2 of the 8 solder points on the pcb (that the 8 wires go to), see if you can get the directions to work that way.
You might also want to visually follow the traces from those 8 solder points back down to where ever they lead to see if anything looks odd.

handsome_rakshas · Post by **handsome_rakshas** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:30 am

I just used a screwdriver and popped the buttons out easily. You just have to hit the two tabs on the side, pull em out and the Sanwa buttons pop right in! Thanks for these tips, I will try them this weekend when I'm off of work. Thanks Kemical!