Anyone know the answer to this?

[mikieson]

Im looking for a place to purchase the circuit boards that are inside the cheap soft ddr pads. Is there any place that sells them?

[Stadsport]

You might as well buy some crappy $10 pad and rip it apart. Assuming you can find the board alone it would probably cost that anyway.

[Evank]

[Edible Bondage Tape]

if you wanthe PCB then buy a 2 dollar uses PSX controller

if you want hte celephane then buya cheap 10 buck soft pad
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[mikieson]

I would love to get used controllers but I just dont understand the wirring of them. The soft pads have circuit board that has nice big contacts and are easy to drill and solder. I have seen some tips online on how to do controllers but not very good ones. Anyone know how with many types of controllers? They are all different. Is there anyway to just splice into the wires and pass the soldering?

[Desoulman]

The circuit on a regular controller isn't that bad to understand. For each button, you have power, and ground. When the button is pressed, it connects power to ground and a complete circuit is made. All you need to do is find out which side of each button is ground (all the buttons will share a common ground, so that will make it easy to spot). Then, solder wires to the power side of all the buttons, and then solder the ground wire anywhere on the ground part of the controller.
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[mikieson]

So I only need one ground for all buttons or 4 ground?....Thanks for your help on such an old thread

[Plautus]

One ground for all buttons. When I was fooling around with controllers for Dreamcast, I found some 3rd party controllers that had more than one ground, which made them unsuitable for dance pads (even had a couple of dance pads wired like this, they couldn't handle left-right or up-down jumps!).

I've taken apart a good number of playstation controllers, though, and all of them had one common ground for all the buttons.