Monday, February 8, 2010

How to hook my ps2 controller to my pc without using an adapter ?

for example like cuting a usb wire and the ps2 wire and connect them together is that possible?How to hook my ps2 controller to my pc without using an adapter ?
I am fairly sure that that is not possible, I believe that you can only connect the xbox 360 controller and certain gamepads. Sorry...How to hook my ps2 controller to my pc without using an adapter ?
Do not believe that last answer. Converting a ps2 controller to usb is a bit more complicated than that. For one thing usb is 5v and the dualshock uses at least 9v. The impulses sent through the dualshock's wires are also meant to be run through the interface that plugs into the console, if those go into a usb connection instead, it will be all garbled. It has to get to the interface first, before being converted to usb. A dualshock to usb converter costs about $15.





Dualshock to usb-converters, or usb-to-dualshock converters, have nothing to do with linux being installable on ps2, either. Sony made the ps2 version of linux themselves, and sold it along with a usb keyboard-and-mouse setup. There is no linux distro that can be installed without first using Sony's install, which creates a ';run time environment'; without which nothing can be installed. The ps2 isn't much use as a computer besides being a game machine, Sony was basically allowing people to make their own games.





The ps2 being a ';computer'; has no bearing on the controller being compatible with another computer. The data from the dualshock is in a proprietary format and must be received and interpreted by the controller port in the ps2 to make any sense to the hardware. You would have to take out the controller ports, and try to make an adapter out of them. I doubt you would want to do that, if it would even work.
Cut the ends off of both and match the wires. They're color-coded. It's the same for Xbox. This is how people have installed Linux on them and hooked up USB mice and keyboards. They are just small formfactor, crippled computers.
i dunno srry

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