Fix Your Xbox 360 D-Pad

 

 

The Problem

 

The Xbox 360 d-pad is identical to the Xbox d-pad apart from two modifications that they did to it

 

Quite why they messed with a working d-pad I don’t know

 

I suspect they made the changes without fully verifying it worked well

And then just couldn’t be bothered changing it

 

This took me 10mins to fix and would take Microsoft even less

 

 

Modification 1

 

The circle size that the d-pad sits in

 

Controller-S 27mm

Xbox 360 25mm

 

Now you have to remember that the actual dimensions of both d-pad's are identical

And are actually interchangeable so that 2mm less space is what causes the knocking

 

 

The best way to fix this is to follow this guide

 

http://www.ufighterx.com/guides/videogame/360dpadfix/360dpadfix.htm

 

I did this myself and it made a great difference.

 

Modification 2

 

I was still getting problems with pressing left on my d-pad

 

It just felt wrong and didn’t make contact allot of the time

So I decided to look into this tonight

 

On the Xbox 360 they have added an extra key tab to the d-pad

Right where the left button membrane is

I presume to stop the d-pad drifting off centre in the circle

But they have badly designed this and it interferes with the left d-pad button

It makes the rubber membrane jam slightly making you have to push hard on the d-pad left

 

That’s what that funny noise is when you press hard on d-pad left the rubber membrane jamming

When you push hard and it makes that noise that’s how it should contact btw

You’re not breaking it. Just forcing the membrane to unjam to contact fully

 

Anyway to test this

I removed the back part of the d-pad from my controller-s

And fitted it into the 360 pad

 

 

Guess what it’s totally fixed no funny noise no funny feel on the left button

 

Just a great d-pad

 

Now you don’t have to fit one from an Xbox joystick

Just trim your 360 one to suit

 

I recommend trimming it to half its original size and seeing if that fixes it

If it doesn’t just fully trim it

 

Make Sure You Don’t Trim The Wrong Key Tab

 

I have made this quick guide to try and help

If you break your joystick don’t come crying to me.