Controller question!!

littlemal · Post by **littlemal** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:25 pm

Ok i have the regualr PSone controller and i think it has that rubbery membrane to push the buttons on the PC board. So can i solder a wire directly on to the metal plates where the rubbery stuff presses and then connect the other end of the wire to a tact button?

toby dawg · Post by **toby dawg** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:17 pm

yes you can..........well im pretty sure

or you can take that whole board off and solder to the ribbon cable pins. (one end of the tact swich to the corresponding button function and the other to ground)

littlemal · Post by **littlemal** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:32 pm

So you mean take the whole board off and solder a tact switch to the cable that plugs into the Psone?

toby dawg · Post by **toby dawg** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:54 pm

no NO o god no...

that would not be good

.... do you have bens book? that would make this easier for you! see. the rubber membrane board can be taken off of the the main board ( with the anolauge sticks) the membrane board is conected to the anolauge stick board with a ribbon cable) some one else could explain this better i think!

PS: i cant spell anolauge!

Kyosho · Post by **Kyosho** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:41 pm

I think you guys are talking about two entirely different controllers here. littlemal is talking about one of the older dual shocks, where there is no "rubber membrane board" and instead just one solid board. Er..no, two seperate boards.. the analog sticks are on a smaller one.

The one you're talking about, toby dawg, is a slightly newer dual shock, which has that "rubber membrane board", as you said, which is the same sort of board that's in just about every modern computer keyboard. It was a way to cheapify production costs.

toby dawg · Post by **toby dawg** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:04 pm

yeah, you onlu need the one with the analog sticks. you can ditch the second board!

littlemal · Post by **littlemal** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:53 am

I'm talking about the normal psone controller that comes with the psone system. What do you guys mean when you say "rubber membrane board"??
I mean when you press the buttons on the controller it pushes a grey rubber thing inside the controller, and under the rubber things are metalic circles that are directly on the PCB.

toby dawg · Post by **toby dawg** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:40 pm

Yep im using this one too>>.....

HA ha onlu 2 posts ago!

blackbox_dev · Post by **blackbox_dev** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:56 am

how many boards are inside your controller?

toby dawg · Post by **toby dawg** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:22 pm

mine has 2 ...you only need ONE (the one with the anologe sticks)

littlemal · Post by **littlemal** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:45 pm

don't you need the board that has the X, square, triangle, circle, start and select buttons too.

toby dawg · Post by **toby dawg** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:05 pm

well....you can chop it up and use it or you can replace that board with tact switches.