ShockSlayer's quest for a better joypad

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:15 pm

Ok. Lets begin. I will be Referring to a sharkpad pro n64 controller 1st. I opened up the joystick, only to find plastic. So I looked at the 2 metal things on the sides. I opened one up. All I found past the circuit board was a little bit of metal, and on the circuit board was contacts. By moving the plastic stick, it turns the plastic wheel, which touches more contacts the further it is pushed. The contacts are the three metal parts on the outside of the whole thing. There are six in all. Connected from each of the three sets, for me was 2 wires. Tracing these wires back to the source I found letters.
XX YY YY2 XX2.

I am determined to find out which wire does what. My plans are to connect the right things together. To do that, I must start with the right connections to the original joystick. Once I find these, I will create a diagram.

To Be Continued...

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:42 pm

Oh... well I wish you would have told me that before... yeah... I don't think that one uses pots then. Which means you can't use a Gamecube joystick. I've never seen a joypad with that kind of joystick encoder though. Can you get me pictures of the inside of the joystick so I can confirm? Huh... I guess that explains the DIP chip on the board too. It's the encoder for the joystick, which connects to the CoB. It's all coming together now!

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:46 pm

Electric Rain wrote:Oh... well I wish you would have told me that before... yeah... I don't think that one uses pots then. Which means you can't use a Gamecube joystick. I've never seen a joypad with that kind of joystick encoder though. Can you get me pictures of the inside of the joystick so I can confirm? Huh... I guess that explains the DIP chip on the board too. It's the encoder for the joystick, which connects to the CoB. It's all coming together now!

This is the best I have, it's the same controller. They sure look like pots to me.

Click for high-res.

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:08 pm

vb_thats the controller you sent me.

I'm working with my dad to get the power working. electric rain, I will get the pic as soon as I can. Which is later

doctorjames · Post by **doctorjames** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:05 pm

Thats the same controller I did the mod with, and those are pots.

The mod isn't that difficult, you just have to desolder the wires from the old joystick and solder them on to the new joystick. Like so:

I don't think the colors are right, but the idea is that the same wires go to the same places.

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 3:41 pm

That diagram might help. I'll see

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 3:42 pm

Here's a diagram of what i think is right. electric rain does this help?