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PS3 Wireless Guitar Hero Controller

Step 2Solder, Solder and Solder

Solder, Solder and Solder
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Now comes the fun stuff. A little reverse engineering tells all but I'll save you guys the fun.
First of all the controller contacts have to stay plugged in since there are some resistors on the plastic.
Now the pinout for the connector is:
Tie 4 - 7 Which is the left d-pad to tell the game it's the guitar controller
3 - Up Strum
5 - Down Strum
7 - Gnd for Up and Down
8 - PS Button
9 - PS Button
10 - Start/Select Gnd
11 - Select (Also Star power so if you have a mercury switch or a gravity switch for the tilt sensor)
12 - Start
13 - Fret Gnd - 6
15 - Square - Orange - 5
16 - Cross - Blue - 4
17 - Circle - Red - 2
18 - Triangle - Yellow - 3
20 - R2 - Green - 1

13 to 20 are the fret buttons. 1 - 6 is from left to right on the guitar controller board looking from the back with the neck up.

Lastly the whammy bar goes to the left analog and the reset button goes to the red button.
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2 comments
May 23, 2008. 1:39 PMmatt360 says:
(the red ones)
May 22, 2008. 3:47 PMmatt360 says:
what sort of wire's did you use right here?

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