Play Station 2 Gamepad

[CGRemakes]

I was wondering if there are any USB gamepads that work with Playstation 2 games.  Someday (when I have more room), I plan on building another full-sized cabinet for my T.V.  I would like to be able to use it to play both computer games as well as Playstation games, and as far as I know the only way to maybe do this (with the exception of doing 2 seperate control panels or a switch or something) is through the USB port.  Any info would be great!  Thanks!

[Dave_K.]

Hmm, its my guess you live in an alternate/bozro BYOAC universe where people hack PC game pads to play PS2 games (inside their cabinets).  If you lived in this universe, you would simply hack a PS2 gamepad, and use a PS2 to PC/USB converter and have the best of both worlds.

[CGRemakes]

I appreciate the info.  That makes sense, and would definately be a simpler method.  I haven't done much with Playstation hacks and haven't looked into how it's done, I've only done PC gamepad hacks.

[SNAAAKE]

Hmm, its my guess you live in an alternate/bozro BYOAC universe where people hack PC game pads to play PS2 games (inside their cabinets).  If you lived in this universe, you would simply hack a PS2 gamepad, and use a PS2 to PC/USB converter and have the best of both worlds.

LOL !
all the way....
I was gonna say the exact same thing but he got it !  

[armad1ll0]

TAKE NOTE DUDES W/ PLAYSTATION HACKS. This is very good 411!!!!!

Playstation gamepad hacks are pretty easy since they have a common ground.
I suggest the latest Dualshock 1 by Sony (the white one, series H) You can desolder the digital boards ribbon cable and then solder your 16 wires (very tight solder job, for advanced dudes only!) to where the ribbon cable was. You must wire up a mode button and then you have a stick that can even work for USB, Dreamcast, Gamecube & Xbox with the appropriate adaptors. Email me for where to buy those adaptors.

This is a very straight forward  hack, if you have soldering skillz...

Wiring code (top of ribbon, away from the LED)

1    mode change
2    Joy left
3    Joy down
4    Joy right
5    Joy up
6    Start
7    Select
8    L2
9    R2
10  L1
11  R1
12  Tri button
13  O button
14  X button
15  Sqr button
16  Ground

Can't hang? Paypal me $40 and I'll ship you one all wired up and ready to go. Info here is free, labor costs...

[Tiger-Heli]

You can desolder the digital boards ribbon cable and then solder your 16 wires (very tight solder job, for advanced dudes only!) to where the ribbon cable was.

This may not be logical if I had actually seen the inside of the pad, but . . .

Could someone just cut the ribbon cable as far away from the board as possible, split the individual lead and run these to terminal blocks.  This would avoid all soldering . . .

[armad1ll0]

Yes but I just think that terminal blocks are kind of not needed unless you keep on getting the buttons mixed up. I have a spool of 15 pin cable and I solder his to my PSX controllers with a color code. I then work off of the color code for the others side.

That ribbon cable has very thin wires. It's a hard thing to splice into. I solder to the board where that ribbon cable was. It's very tight and tricky but I can do it since I have a fine tipped iron.

Here's a trick when hacking a pad. I zip tie the cable right to the PCB board with the wires stripped and ready to go. I then cut them to length and solder them to the board so that there's no stress from pulling on the wires and yanking them off of the PCB board, once i've soldered them down.