Reflex hack custom stick woes :(

[CptMunta]

I’ve made my first custom stick using this Tut:

http://nuclearplayground.com/joysticks/

Things were going okay once I restarted and Just wired the stick as close to the orginal wiring as possible. But now I have these issues:

Start won’t work. Only Start and Back pressed at the same time work for startish. In Third strike this of course soft resets the game.

Also the The green “B” works as if “A” and “B” are being pressed at the same time. Which means consant EX moves when you hit ROundhouse.

The only thing I had to change was use barrier Strips to make the wires longer for the Start and Back Buttons. I used no soldering for the whole thing. All done with disconnects and some extra wire. Is this the cause of the problem?

And will I have to bite the bullet and use a soldering iron?

Any help in smoothing out the bugs in my stick would be fantastic. It’s driving me potty! :looney: :annoy:

[Lv.32_Z-Ism_Rose]

First, go thru all the wires you used and make sure none of the exposed ends are in contact with each other. AT least from the A and B buttons thing, it sounds like it is making contact somewhere, giving you a short and making it like the 2 buttons are being pressed.

[chippermonky]

A and B are shorted somewhere and I dunno, but I guess your ground wire from start button is shorted to the signal of back.

[masterofking]

dude I’ve hack 4 of them with 2 giving me the same problem as you nothing was touching I check everything with a multi meter I had to toss the other 2 good luck

[System_1]

From the website you posted above:

Troubleshooting
Several people have e-mailed me about problems with buttons activating the wrong or multiple buttons at the same time.
I personally have had no such problems. However, I got an e-mail from a Mark Cook with a possible solution for those who are. The following is his conclusion. Any additional info or comments/additions are surely welcome.

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1 - Keep the wires as short as you can - the original setup has relatively short wires.

2 - And avoid using a 2 stage wiring setup whereby you go through a connector. I positioned my reflex circuit board between the joystick and the buttons. And using only the amount of wire needed to reach, soldered the wires DIRECTLY FROM THE CIRCUIT BOARD TO THE SWITCH.

3 - DO NOT USE COMMON GROUNDS - use individual grounds directly from the PCB to the switches. In the exact order they were on the original reflex joystick setup.

I tried each of these things individually and it didn’t fix the problem so I can only assume you need to do all of them - IE re-create the Reflex joystick as close as possible to the way it was originally.

As to why this would fix it - I HAVE NO IDEA. It just does.

[CptMunta]

From the website you posted above:*snip

Yeah, that’s what I tried.
I didn’t use common grounds for any of the buttons, I used the black ground wires that were orginally used. EXCEPT for the Start and Back buttons. The Wires were far too short so I had to use connecters and extra wire. Also Start and Back share the same single ground on the orginal controller, which is what I imagine to be causing my woes.

Is there a way to bypass the back button altogether and still keep Start?

Also cheers for the tips so far guys. The B button isn’t touching A and is still acting up. At least my C groove team of Sim, Bison, Ryu without any trouble.