Anyone ever hacked a X360 Horipad EX turbo?

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Anyone ever hacked a X360 Horipad EX turbo?

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I have an extra horipad lying around and the need for a arcade stick for SF4. how hard or easy will it be to hack the pad to connect to some controls and does anyone know a guide of some sort?
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If it's common ground, then should be a piece of the proverbial.

If it's not, then it's still a reasonably easy job, just means twice as many wires
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i tried soldering a wire to the pcb and totally failed the solder isnt taking. whats the most common reason for this?
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Well you need to scrape the plastic coat on it and the green liner,
then the solder will take use a small flat head screwdriver
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i took the green crap off with a scape thingy. now i'm stupid i must of scraped too far cause the buttons cant short anymore. :oops: i'm a tiring mofo
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maxio098ui wrote:i took the green crap off with a scape thingy. now i'm stupid i must of scraped too far cause the buttons cant short anymore. :oops: i'm a tiring mofo
What I do is scrape away until you see the copper track underneath, then heat up the pad & add some solder to "tin" it.

Then tin your wire.

Then put the tinned wire on the tinned pad & apply heat.

Bingo!
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