Playstation2 USB devices

[Glaine]

Will Playstation2 USB devices work plug-n-play on a windows PC? I ask cuz I might get a keyboardmania controller or lightgun down the road and was wondering if they are compatible. Thanks for any help.

[crashwg]

I got my karaoke revolution microphone to work on XP...  I had to search for drivers for it.  I'm assuming you'll have to do the same.

[Silver]

Definately not plug and play no....

To work any ps2 device would require for someone to have written a driver specifically for it - maybe some manufacturors do, I do not know.

In the case of lightguns, then someone has written there own driver (reverse engineered the signal basically) to allow guncon2 guns to work on a pc. There are a couple of long threads on the development of these.

[spiffyshoes]

Yeah like previously said there has to be a driver written for it to get it to work.

They have a driver for the Eye Toy so you can use it as a WebCam.  And Logitec has written drivers for both the Driving Force and Driving Force Pro streering wheels.  And there have been drivers written for the light guns to work to.  Other than that I don't know what all else has XP drivers.

[Glaine]

O yeah, I remember hearing about the guncon drivers now that you mention. Too PS2 isn't win compatible. *Sob* I wonder how hard driver writing is (sounds very hard indeed). Thanks for suck quick responses. I don't like PS2s that much, but they put so many decent controllers out there for it. At least Beatmania, Guitar Freaks, DDR, Drummania, etc are all standard PS plugs which we can convert.

[Smog]

USB HID devices may no need driver to work. They should be universally compatible with all systems. Those devices should carry with them (in firmware) all the info the generic USBHID driver needs to make them work. Unfortunately the GunCon2 Lightgun I tested did not have those kind of informations.

For those <poor> devices you need to write a kernel minidriver that filters the OS requests for the info above and repond in the appropriate way to windows without forwarding the request to the USB device.

Exactly what kind of peripherals are you talking about ? Is there anything that is worth the effort of writing a driver for ?