PHREAK MODS Cerberus User manual

Before You Begin:
Verify that you have the following. There is really only a single required tool to do this install.
However, having other tools at your disposal is always a good thing.
Required:
1. Something to cut the USB cable and remove the black sheath. I recommend a pair of wire
strippers since they have a nice blade to cut larger cables built in.
2. Tools to open your arcade stick, be it a 3mm hex key or screw driver.
Recommended:
1. Sharpie Marker. Used to mark the ribbon cable connectors.
2. A pair of wire cutters/diagonal cutters. These come in handy when snipping away zip ties.
3. Ruler. To mark out how long to cut things.
4. Zip ties. This will allow you to put the cable securely back into place.
Installation:
*Note that this first build lacks some markings on the silk screen, please use the below image as a
reference for the 1-6 cable marking and the labels for the X360 IN terminals (the cable that comes
from the 360 PCB) and the USB OUT terminals (the cable that goes OUT of the arcade stick).
Step 1. Open your arcade stick up, and remove the ribbon cables from their original spots. Mark the
cables 1 – 6 starting with the bottom left cable and going clockwise. You will see matching markings
on the Cerberus board.

Cerberus board with markings shown.
Step 2. Take a second to verify that the pins inside of the shrouded headers for the ribbon cables you
just removed are fairly straight and even. Also, remove any remaining glue/goop that they were
covered in. If you find one is bent to the side, just take a small screwdriver and bend it back.

Example of straightened pins

Step 3. Measure out about 6″of cable from the 360 PCB and mark it, this is where you will cut the
cable. It sometimes makes it easier if you pull more cable through the cable compartment and
shimmy the ferrite choke up so that you have a straight length of cable to measure.

The below picture shows why you are measuring out the cable this way, the portion of the
cable still attached to the 360 board will run to the X360 IN terminals on the Cerberus.
Example of how we are running the cable and why we cut it this way.

Alternatively, you can opt to run it a shorter length up the front of the PCB, but this gives less
room for error. The above described method allows you plenty of cable to make things easy
on you.
Example of secondary way to run the cable, not recommended but possible.

Step 4. Cut the USB cable where you marked it, and cut away 3/4″– 1″of the sheath on both of the
ends you cut. This will give you ample room to get the USB wires all the way into the terminals. You
want them as far back as possible.

Step 5. Open up the black terminals by putting your thumb on the back of them and lifting with your
forefinger.
Terminals opened
If you open them too much, don’t worry about it. They can actually retract farther, which is useful if
you mis-punch and need to remove the USB wires and try again.

Example of them over-opened, just press them back down to put them into normal range
again.
Step 6. Put the USB cables into the terminals following the B, G, W, R markings for the wire color.
Verify that you can see the wires in the tiny windows (at least as best you can to verify they’re far
enough back) and then use your thumb and forefinger to close the terminals. Make SURE they are all
the way down, below includes an example of “looks like it’s closed all the way, but it’s not.”

The little windows, you can see the green and white wires clearly all the way back.

All are completely punched down except the terminal with the white and red wire on the
outbound cable. Make sure ALL are completely closed.
Step 7. Move the cable going to the Xbox 360 PCB and then align the Cerberus PCB, pressing it
down with even pressure until you feel it stop and bottom out.

Cerberus in place
Step 8. Put the ribbon cables back into place, following your markings to make it easy. Optionally,
you can zip tie the USB cable down to ensure no movement during play/transport and to make it look
nice.

Fightstick PRO Install:
For the Mad Catz Fightstick PRO style of arcade stick, a few extra steps must be taken. Overall the
install is identical; the mounting is just slightly different since there’s very little room.
Step 1. Open the stick and remove the original PCB from its mounting (still marking the cables and
such while doing so as described in the normal install).
Step 2. Break/cut/dremel the 4 plastic standoffs that the board was originally mounted to. Simply
breaking them is just fine, it doesn’t take much effort but a pair of diagonal cutters to cut the 4 spokes,
then wiggling the standoff to break it off is the easiest method.

Showing where the board was originally placed, but now sits without the standoffs.

Step 3. Mount the original board to the case with adhesive anchors and zip ties. Then proceed to
continue with the install as normal. You may wish to put the USB cables in place before mounting the
board to make it easier on you.
Forgive the blurry picture, but this is everything mounted together. The original 360 PCB is
mounted via standard adhesive anchors and zip ties.

Soul Calibur V Stick Install:
The Soul Calibur V stick can be installed to in the identical way as the normal install. There is only
one slight difference, and that’s because of the adjusted placement of the joystick on this model.
Step 1. Before closing your stick up for good/testing, you MUST remove the bottom right corner
screw of the JLF mounting plate. If you don’t it hits the cabling and makes it hard to close the stick
back up.
Photos courtesy of TRiXWoN
The screw you should remove to make the install fit nicely.
A picture of why you should do this. The screw hits the JLF wiring harness if you do not.

Install Verification:
You will want to close up your arcade stick temporarily until you complete this so you know everything
is good to go. Do this verification with a PC for best results.
Step 1. Plug your stick into your PC, give it a few seconds to verify the device/install drivers. It should
pop up in the windows “Game Controller” applet as “Cerberus vX.XX” Click on “properties” to bring up
the window and verify that all your buttons light up on screen. Switching between LS and RS on the
control panel of your arcade stick will show it reporting differently in the modes.