Remapping The Dual Shock 2?

[williamT]

Hi. I have a quick, and probably noobish question, but I haven

[Dave_K.]

Dual Shock 2 does not use wires, but plastic ribbon cable that is pretty much impossible to hack.  But if you were to hack say the PSOne Dual Shock , you could get access to the wires for R1, but since the Triangle is a button is just two contacts on the main PCB (no wires) most you could do is wire up R1 to also function as Triangle (no way to change triangle to anything else). Sorry.

[versapak]

Dual Shock 2 does not use wires, but plastic ribbon cable that is pretty much impossible to hack.  But if you were to hack say the PSOne Dual Shock , you could get access to the wires for R1, but since the Triangle is a button is just two contacts on the main PCB (no wires) most you could do is wire up R1 to also function as Triangle (no way to change triangle to anything else). Sorry.

Of course there is a way.


You would just need to break the traces on the PCB, and then redirect em with some wires to the location that you want them.

[spiffyshoes]

versapak is correct.  Even though it uses the plastic ribbon cable for the buttons the ribbon cable still conects to the recular PCB.  You can break the traces and then redirect them to where you want them.  I'd suggest haveing a very fine tip for your soldering iron though as the traces are very tiny and it would be easy to screw things up.

[ofb]

If you haven't found it already, spiffyshoe's great solderless hack page shows where things are.
http://home.comcast.net/~spiffyshoes/DualShockHack/

Note it's for the A-series. I don't know that anyone has mapped the others yet.