which controller registers freezes?

spiike32 · Basic Member Joined: 28 Nov 2004

First off I have to thank ddrfreak.com for the excellent resource. Without you guys I would never have been able to fix my hard pads.

Over winter break, I fixed a pair of mymybox hard pads by stripping out the circuit board and replacing it with a ps1 controller circuitboard made by Interact. I followed the tutorials posted here, and everything works fine and registers fine except for freezes (when you need to step on two arrows simultaneously and hold).

Are there certain controllers that wont register freezes? and are there controllers out there that are known to work the best?

Spiike

Cutriss · Staff Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

Freezes not being held could either be just *really* cheap controllers, or it could be an artifact of using the D-pad sensors for wiring freezes instead of the face buttons.

Question - You only mention double freezes having problems. What about single freezes? Do you have problems with jumps?
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spiike32 · Basic Member Joined: 28 Nov 2004

single freeze and jumps are ok. It's the double freezes that are causing problems. What do you mean by wiring to dpad and face buttons? On the ps1 controller, it is only analog so i'm assuming I wired to the face buttons. Also would the guage of the wire (24) have anything to do with this?

Cutriss · Staff Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

What I mean is - which controller sensors did you use? Did you use the sensors for the directional pad, or did you use the sensors for the O/X/Triangle/Square buttons? If you used the sensors for the directional pad, that may be your problem.
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SuRfReAk · Trick Member Joined: 19 Dec 2004

I may be wrong, but are you sure you are staying on the arrows/putting enough weight on them? On single freezes, you can put much more weight onto one foot than on doube freezes. Try holding yourself down with something (maybe holding something heavy), or putting weights on your shoes. It seems like that could be the problem, because it works on jumps, and that one moment when you land, you have acceleration from gravity, causing more pressure to be exerted on the pad, which could make it register then, and not on extended freezes.

EDIT: The purpose of that is to test to see if that's the problem, then fix it, not to play with added weight forever.
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