Thread: ps 3 SIXAXIS JOYSTICK MOD

Originally Posted by Taiki

you know with a multimeter and a little bit of time you could've probalby figured this out yourself.

lay off him man.

Sorry, I don't take orders from you.....and I have a multimeter, it's just bugged out on me and gives me non-stop continuous copper trace beeps. And again, I don't take orders from you or anyone else, which makes me your equal and nothing less. Don't be foolish and kiss everyone's ass. I did not disrespect Mr. Wiz but just stated the simple fact that "changing his mind," to give further details and info and not posting back for more than a month and leaving not just myself, but others too, in the hang, just isn't that cool. Trust me, his help is basically the groundwork and foundation for what many of us will accomplish. Like Paik said, knowing which grounds are seperated with what buttons is a blessing for knowledge's sake. I just don't suck up, that's all. I'm sure Mr. Wiz might blink twice when he sees my post, but it's not disrespectful, it's just the TRUTH, and nothing but the TRUTH, so god help what flames you might want to start with me. Later, and I WILL BE BACK!

Originally Posted by Button_m4sh

a diagram would have been swell

but i hope someone else can man up and deliver

I will do my best. I might open one of my two controllers tonight. Got to order some 26 awg wire like Mr. Wiz said as I only have 22, and perhaps replace that battery on the multimeter, if not use the one from my work. I forgot if it was mentioned already, where is the ground for the ps button? Actually if anyone could point out the specific places for all 4 grounds, I should be able to do the rest, as Mr. Wiz has already pointed out which buttons need their seperate ground. Is this too much to ask? Testing which buttons are what will be easy as I just will tap the ground on the wire trace to see what buttons are what. I think where all the grounds are located is the only thing that's keeping us back so far.

Originally Posted by yoooooon

so does this work with p360s? or non 5v laser sticks like sanwa/competition?

Sticker on the internal battery says 2.7 V, seems a bit low for optical joysticks but might work with a step-up circuit. Of course you could just plug the cable in and tap 5 V directly from USB (assuming they follow spec and don't alter the voltage when a SixAxis is detected).

ok i have a multimeter but i have no idea how to use it a friend gave it to me, what settings and reading am i suposed to get to know if i have a good spot for a button?

and what reading do i need to get for a good ground spot??? i am totally clueless

Originally Posted by Toodles

You're a far better man than I am; there is no way I could cram a dildo that far up my ass. I salute you, sir!

The flex ribbon stuff that makes the contacts with the button is very easy to trace just with your eyeballs. Lemme find a good picture of it and I'll write up a damn mapping.

Awesome!! Thank you, dildos and all. Just don't nut in my face since I already have bad vision and the jizz would make my eyeballs that much foggier while doing this sort of thing. BTW, I might not get a chance to open the controller tonight (like that really matters), as I need some smoke to chill me out before my nightly ass pounding. LOL. All this BS ps2/hrap/ps3 converter shit out on the market, when Mr. Wiz said it was a fairly easy hack to mod the sixaxis. We really have no excuse not to make this shit happen. I'm feeling really kinki now since you mentioned the dildo. I need to get ready!!! Wait, I am ready!!! No really, thanks for possibly mapping the ribbon. Oh, one more thing! When you say the ground on the usb, do you mean solder anywhere on the outside of the usb metal plating casing that surrounds the actual usb connection?

Originally Posted by Toodles

Just from eyeballin the pics at http://gear.ign.com/articles/748/748732p1.html

PS3 pinout of the ribbon connections, 1-20 as printed on the pcb itself.
1 L2
2 L1
3 Up
4 Left
5 Down
6 Right
7 Common for pins 1-6 (Black strip connecting to 8. WTF?)
8 Common for pin 9
9 PSX button
10 Common for 11 & 12
11 Select
12 Start
13 Common for 14-20
14 ??? (Goes nowhere, has a black strip connecting to 13, but no button. WTF? Does some part of the housing press down on those two black strip points?)
15 []
16 X
17 O
18 /\
19 R1
20 R2


You'll find that one of the four wires the USB connection is connected to that metal shielding. You can tap there for true ground, but I have no idea what affect that will have shorting a button to true ground.

Yeah this is the mapping I found today when I opened my PS3 controller. My power was out all day so I had nothing else to do. Got bored. I also have no clue what pin 14 is...I also can't say with certainty if 8 and 9 are actually the reverse of what it written above, not that it really matters for Japanese buttons anyway.

I will look into it more later. I don't see why one can't do a spiffyshoes method of hacking. I tried it with just the PS button and it registered just fine. I will probably try it out later today.

~Paik

21mm x 3mm

I've been looking for a mini b extension cable (female to male) for a while but none seem to exist. It would make my life a lot easier if I could find some...

~Paik

I've had a real real bad cold for the last couple days so sorry I didn't post earlier. I destroyed my extra sixaxis. I went ahead w/ the hack and started soldering 30 awg isdn (hd, drive pc cable) onto the connector that connect the ribbon. I was successful for about the first three and should have stopped while I was ahead. My iron's tip became useless pretty quick even with tip tinner solution and I had to desolder quite a bit since those hinge things are like less than a mm long. In desoldering w/ a metal brush, one of the hinges parted and I was afraid that the connection to the pcb copper point was lost. So I ripped off the whole ribbon connector and thought that I would just solder through the board since the pin point copper traced wholes go through the board. I was not going to solder on the opposing side of the board, but just hot glue the other side so that connections would be secure. A couple of the wholes, I was able to string the 30 awg wire through, but the others required a hand drill. The handdrill I used that was successful for hacking a much simpler sfac pad for xbox, the drillbits that is, were too wide in diameter, which I realize now. I have severely compromised this pcb. I thought I would post a pic anyways, so that others could see the pinpoints which were apparently hidden before with the ribbon connector attached. I obviously need a better soldering iron with better pin point precision tips. Any recommendations? Also, with the multimeter I tested the supposable psx ground button with the psx button through strung isdn wire through the supposable pinpoints and nothing registered while the controller was plugged in the usb of the ps3. I feel really bad for this controller....... I am sad.......

Okay I was testing this out just a little while ago and though the PS button worked fine, the pad would just randomly input stuff (directions and buttons) even though no other connections were being made. I'm really confused. Sometimes it would sit just fine and other times freak out. I guess I will try out some more stuff later but for now I'm just frustrated.

~Paik

I got rid of everything aside from the PCB and the little ribbon connector part. I only kept that to take measurements for you. The rest is trashed : )

I'll have to take a closer look at what Wiz did in his pictures.

~Paik

I had though that it might be the problem, so I tried it with the remainder of the ribbon that I had and it still went crazy. Hrm...that's annoying. I still have the ribbon connector but not the whole thing. I cut it. La sigh...

~Paik

Thanks, Toodles. I have some 10k resistors but I will have to go out to get the 7.5k ones. Those are the only 2 places that you think I'll need the resistors?

~Paik

I couldn't find any 7.5K Ohm resisters at 2 Radio Shacks. I will have to look elsewhere. 1/4 W should be fine right?

~Paik

[QUOTE=Hejdlond;3858488]I've had my PS3 for a week and a half now and today I couldn't keep my hands off one of my SixAxis controllers. It had to be sacrificed for a better cause. I tried using the spiffyshoes method with my 0,22 mm2 wire (which is about 24 AWG). But the terminal was too narrow, after getting 6 or 7 cables into the terminal it became troublesome adding more cables. So I resorted to combining soldering and the spiffy shoes method. Soldered the first cable, put the 2nd in the terminal and so on. This solution made it easy and the installation wasn't that hard, though time consuming getting the cables into place. After having all cables in place I checked that everything worked one last time and then drowned the terminal in glue from a glue gun so that the cables wouldn't come loose.

Since I don't have a camera at home right now I made a preeetty picture, might come in handy for those who want to hack their own SixAxis


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How did you do it with partially the spiffyshoes method if the ribbon must stay inserted? I've just ordered two more ps3 USED controller for 60 bucks, to try this again.