Comments on: Playstation controller interfacing

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:56:38 +0000

Great …
Yours
Ahmed

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:47:13 +0000

is there a wave to hack at the plug so you can plug this into a computer?

By: omar

omar — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:29:11 +0000

i want to ask a question:
what is the difference between analog red mode & analog green mode??????

By: Chafman

Chafman — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:51:15 +0000

Hey there. I want to do that ps2 wireless controller for controlling a robot. Interface is working with a psx controller but not with the ps2 one. Any ideas?

By: Starfish

Starfish — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:25:10 +0000

I know this may be a little off topic but this hack is kinda hitting where I need to go. I have with me here 4 concept A3 keyboards and have managed to hook one up with power and a parallel cable (These things used to run on BBC micro’s) but I need some help making my computer take the info it outputs to the LPT port and do something with it. If anyone know what i’m on about then get in touch … anyone who has hacked one of these before would be very helpful indeed … Mail me Lexian_phoenix@hotmail.com

By: andrewm

andrewm — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 06:35:25 +0000

When I originaly reversed and wrote the info on the PSX joysticks I assumed the byte-out I called ID was just an ID. It is in fact a bit feild that defines what info the game pad will be handing back.

Some old PSX games also must have treated it as an ID byte and would not opperate unless same “ID” it was expecting was given back. If you had an analog joystick and the game did not see ID=0×41 the game would think you did not have a controller at all and not work. That is why the game pads had a button to select digital/red-analog/green-analog mode.

By: Abbott

Abbott — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:31:35 +0000

@ basic.a:
generally the analog button is used to enable or disable the analog sticks (if my memory serves me correctly)

By: Alexander

Alexander — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:29:43 +0000

Basic: Not all games on the PS1 liked the analog buttons, so you had to turn off the analog during those games.

I never liked the 'soft button' and preferred my Pelican which had a hard switch.

By: Yuri Jaeger

Yuri Jaeger — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:46:57 +0000

I have been trying this for a while but I’m having some problems with the signals, my controller simply doesn’t respond =(

By: Jeroen Domburg

Jeroen Domburg — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:28:36 +0000

The Linux kernel has support for ps(2) gamepads too, in gamecon.c. If you want to use a controller for your Linux-pc, you can use that, but it may be useful to get protocol info from too.

By: andrewm

andrewm — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:53:31 +0000

Kupo,

There is code for doing it with an Atmel AVR here

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7088434&highlight=psx+twist#post7088434

By: Kupo

Kupo — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:18:25 +0000

I'm actually working on interfacing an Atmel AVR with a playstation controller right now. These sites have been very useful:

http://www.webx.dk/robot-crawler/ps-joy.htm
http://pinouts.ru/Game/playstation_9_pinout.shtml

I still haven't managed to get analogue working nicely though :/

By: Basic A.

Basic A. — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:34:26 +0000

Now, the only question left is, WTF is up with the analog button?

By: theblunderbuss

theblunderbuss — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:34:07 +0000

Excellent! I can use that controller i found on my lawn, one morning.