Dcp buttons

Raab · Post by **Raab** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:58 pm

I have a question for all the dcp creators. i was just wondering wat buttons you all used and where i can get them im expecting to not cut the pcb board and just solder wires to the button slots. But i also want them to look and feel like the original dreamcast buttons. Thanks Raab

Dilberitio · Post by **Dilberitio** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 7:30 pm

couldn't you just use the dreamcast buttons and not replace them.

Raab · Post by **Raab** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:47 pm

no i cant because i dont want to break apart the pcb. I just want to solder to it and keep the hole thing intack

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:50 pm

The buttons aren't part of the PCB, they're little plastic peices. In place of the PCB contact and rubber thingies, you can use microswitches mounted on your own board.

Raab · Post by **Raab** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:54 pm

well i know that the buttons are like that but where can i get buttons that will allow me to have the original controller feel and use the oringinal little plastic pieces that come wit the controller or i would just like to no what they are called. Thanks

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:38 pm

Contacts. You'll have to either hack up a simular pad (any digital pad should work, i.e. a NES pad), or etch your own PCB with contact traces. Basically the little black dot on the bottom of the rubber thing completes the circuit between the two contacts.

The triggers are a bit harder, as they use hall effect sensors. Your best bet would be to desolder the sensors on the pad and mount them where the triggers will go. Getting them placed correctly will be a challenge.

Have you considered getting a more hacking friendly pad? There are pads that you'd only need to extend some wiring to split the controller, and the triggers use POTs and are easily relocatable as well. I can only remember the Quantum Fighter pad, but there is another more hackable.

Raab · Post by **Raab** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:50 pm

Does anyone else know of another controller that is more hackable if not will this "Quantum Fighter pad" be good and will i be able to use the official dreamcast controller buttons and rubbers (haha rubbers) and the official joystick

PeglegJimmy · Post by **PeglegJimmy** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:04 pm

Ya, the fighter pad works good usually, And the fighterpad's buttons aren't to bad looking, you could use those instead of breaking apart 2 controllers.

Raab · Post by **Raab** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:54 am

thanks for the first answer but i got 2 official dreamcast controllers at a store call gamecrazy for 2.99 a piece so i wouldnt mind wrecking 2 controllers. So can anyone confirm that the official buttons will work with the fighter pad Thanks

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:44 am

What, do you mean the actual physical plastic buttons? Yeah, they'll work fine; technically, they'll work fine with any controller, provided they push down that silicon pad beneath them to complete the circuit.

CTFan