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Main => Consoles => Topic started by: Zathras on July 16, 2004, 10:34:58 am

Title: PS2 Analog stick "hacking"
Post by: Zathras on July 16, 2004, 10:34:58 am

I would like to make a custom amplitude/frequency controller.

The trick is you have to have an analog stick (or some modification to have one accessable).

Has anyone made a PS2 arcade joystick with analog capability?

Title: Re:PS2 Analog stick "hacking"
Post by: Dave_K. on July 17, 2004, 03:29:57 pm

You have a couple options, but the outlook is still not good.

You can hack a digital 8-way to the potentiometers of an PS2 analog stick, but then it won't really be analog (would similate full pressure in any of 8 directions).  If the game requires precise movement (half way pressure for example) then this won't work.

You can try to hack a happ 49-way stick (found on ebay for cheap at times) using the circuit described in the Game Consoles section of this site.  As far as I know nobody has attempted or gotten it to work yet.  I tried to wire it up on a breadboard but used a ps2 3rd party stick that wasn't 5v (was 3.3v at the analog sticks)...need to try again one of these days...

You could buy a happ arcade analog stick and hack to the ps2 analog, but the happs analog stick is $180.

Thats pretty much all your options.

Title: Re:PS2 Analog stick "hacking"
Post by: Floyd10 on July 23, 2004, 02:35:30 pm

Thats if its for a cab. He didnt mention that it was for one