Dual/Twin stick options for XBOX 360

[Reuben]

ok so for your info What is a Twin Stick Shooter? Twin stick shooters are a genre of game which use two controller sticks. One control dictates the character's movement, the other the direction of shooting.

So I want to play some twinstick games such as assault and Virtual ON, and that is a easy hack as the the right stick is mapped to the face buttons on a gamepad.

 

the problem is I also want to play other games like alien breed and many many others that use the left and right analogue sticks.

note: I am not needing or wanting analogue sticks they are expensive and not really needed. a standard 8 way stick will work fine.

What I do need it a way to have the xbox see the movement as using the analogue sticks even though it is either 0 or 100%. Just like some arcade sticks have the switch that allows the arcade stick to act as leftstick, dpad or Right stick. but i need to output Left stick and right stick to two separate arcade sticks.

 

I cant find an easy way to do this Ie a custom PCB that has this feature.

anyone done this before or know how to do it ?

Thanks

Reuben

[Autosteve]

Pretty sure the analogue inputs require some resistance to work correctly when replaced with switches if I rememeber correctly. The triggers on the controller are variable resistance but so are the A, B, X and Y buttons. This may help you.

[Reuben]

Thanks Autosteve, Yes from what I have found I think my only option is to do an analogue conversion with a common ground PCB, I have an old madcatz controller that should be common ground, so might give that a shot after some soldering practice. and yes as far as my research goes it has confirmed that i will need to remove the analogue sticks and wire up resisters to make it work right as a button input.

[Reuben]

So found this post where someone hacked together a analogue stick from ADAfruit and a standard sanwa arcade stick, I'm planning on doing similar but with those import flight sticks, (has top buttons and triggers) https://amp.reddit.com/r/cade/comments/ds3dxr/analogue_joystick_using_10k_potentiometers/

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0399/1689/6418/products/import-flight-stick_1024x.jpg?v=1592079995​

[Reuben]

Found these analogue arcade sticks on aliexpress they are most commonly called 3D joysticks

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002797741274.html?spm=a2g0s.8937460.0.0.71a32e0ep56pRp

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32842563300.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.15264be7zGUPWJ&algo_pvid=318608ba-f759-4b93-963d-ba01c5cb2c07&algo_exp_id=318608ba-f759-4b93-963d-ba01c5cb2c07-3

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32899841408.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.15264be7zGUPWJ&algo_pvid=318608ba-f759-4b93-963d-ba01c5cb2c07&algo_exp_id=318608ba-f759-4b93-963d-ba01c5cb2c07-0

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32900328403.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.15264be7zGUPWJ&algo_pvid=318608ba-f759-4b93-963d-ba01c5cb2c07&algo_exp_id=318608ba-f759-4b93-963d-ba01c5cb2c07-1

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32919265657.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.15264be7zGUPWJ&algo_pvid=318608ba-f759-4b93-963d-ba01c5cb2c07&algo_exp_id=318608ba-f759-4b93-963d-ba01c5cb2c07-2

 

could just remove thumbsticks from a 360 padhack and wire up to the potentiometers on these analogue sticks.

[Reuben]

ok changed direction again,  just bought one of the first ps1 analoge controllers, the scph-1110 also called a ps1 flightstick. if all works as planned it should work with ps2 convertors for the 360 and the wii (gamecube)

 

 

 

Edited September 7, 2021 by Reuben