360 pad haked for cabinet

[Masamune69500]

I am trying to do it but it's not so easy Any pics to help?

[charlie chong]

http://slagcoin.com/joystick/pcb_wiring ... B_DIAGRAMS

[Masamune69500]

I made a mistake
I was trying my connection to the down connector but I was dumn
first I touch the ground with it but nothing happened
then I touch the 5v from the jamma and got a spark and now the controller is dead

shouldn't the ground be the one to touch to activate the button?

[ASK]

I made a mistake
I was trying my connection to the down connector but I was dumn
first I touch the ground with it but nothing happened
then I touch the 5v from the jamma and got a spark and now the controller is dead

shouldn't the ground be the one to touch to activate the button?

Sorry, you touched 5v to what? The PCB?

[Masamune69500]

I touhed the +5 from the jamma with the wire conneted to the UP of the 360 controller

[brokenhalo]

what is it that you are trying to do exactly? are you trying to hack a 360 controller so that you could plug it into a arcade system instead of using a joystick and buttons? it's doable, but it's not even slightly worth the effort. i've seen people do what you're trying to do with a saturn pad, but it involved desoldering the controller chips off the saturn pcb and a lot of very fine soldering to the pcb traces.

any button or directional will need to contact ground to close the circuit. you probably fried a chip touching 5v to the up lead.

edit: or are you wiring a 360 into a cabinet?

[antron]

shouldn't the ground be the one to touch to activate the button?

only if the controller uses common ground. what brand controller did you try to use?

@brokenhalo
he's hacking a controller to jamma, to play 360 games on his cab.

[brokenhalo]

It would probably be easier to go with a project box setup and just make a new harness for your console setup instead of going through the jamma harness. The jamma harness wouldn't give you access to all the buttons you would want anyway.

And try to get a common ground 360 pad. It'll save you alot of work

[Masamune69500]

Finaly I just took a Hori controller and connected it directly to the panel of my Egret II.
I wanted to connect the controller to the JAMMA to make a 360 to Jamma but it's really hard to solder on the Xbox 360 controller.

I would like to do it for a PS2 controller because there is good adapter for Wii and 360 to the PS2 so I could use it for everything.

I am working on a saturn JAMMA project too but I don't really know how to do for the controller, what is hard to hack is the directional cross part, those are kind of interlaced contact and you need to solder on something very small.
If anybody have a Saturn to Jamma, PS to Jamma (with hacked controller not the Ipac) and/or PC-engine to JAMMA (compatible with super CD-rom), I would be interested.

[emphatic]

Finaly I just took a Hori controller and connected it directly to the panel of my Egret II.
I wanted to connect the controller to the JAMMA to make a 360 to Jamma but it's really hard to solder on the Xbox 360 controller.

I would like to do it for a PS2 controller because there is good adapter for Wii and 360 to the PS2 so I could use it for everything.

I am working on a saturn JAMMA project too but I don't really know how to do for the controller, what is hard to hack is the directional cross part, those are kind of interlaced contact and you need to solder on something very small.
If anybody have a Saturn to Jamma, PS to Jamma (with hacked controller not the Ipac) and/or PC-engine to JAMMA (compatible with super CD-rom), I would be interested.

You can get pre-hacked 360 controllers online. http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=172793
There are other alternatives, but I can't seem to find them now with a quick Google. I think I've seen as low price as $35 though. I bought one presoldered with wires, and just did the soldering to my JAMMA fingerboard myself. The best thing about these are that you have a computer controller interface as well, as they are USB.

[ASK]

PS to Jamma (with hacked controller not the Ipac)

PS2 to JAMMA shouldn't be difficult if you can find the right model pad. I'm working on one right now and don't foresee any difficulties. Take a look at the slagcoin site (http://slagcoin.com/joystick/pcb_wiring ... B_DIAGRAMS) for diagrams. I have one of the PS2 Dual Shock A Late Version (recommended) pads. All you need to do is take off the plastic trace piece, insert a 1k-10k resistor between pins 7 and 8 (or solder it to the topside pins), and then you can insert your wires directly into the connector (I'd recommend using solidcore wire for this because it's rigid and will give you less hassles). I've also heard recommendations that you snip off the harder plastic part that originally goes into the connector, and leave it inserted to give you a tighter fit for your wires. It can essentially be a solderless padhack. The pads are common ground as well, so it should be a breeze to hookup to JAMMA. I ordered some fingerboards from jammaboards.com for this purpose