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Title: Remapping The Dual Shock 2?
Post by: williamT on January 28, 2006, 01:05:29 pm
Hi. I have a quick, and probably noobish question, but I haven
Title: Re: Remapping The Dual Shock 2?
Post by: Dave_K. on January 28, 2006, 01:33:45 pm
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.
Title: Re: Remapping The Dual Shock 2?
Post by: versapak on January 28, 2006, 01:41:12 pm
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. :P


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.


Title: Re: Remapping The Dual Shock 2?
Post by: spiffyshoes on January 28, 2006, 05:01:27 pm
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.
Title: Re: Remapping The Dual Shock 2?
Post by: ofb on January 28, 2006, 05:47:09 pm
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.