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| Thread ID: 45021 | 2004-05-06 12:37:00 | Playstation Controller on my Computer | willie_M (5608) | Press F1 |
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| 234782 | 2004-05-06 12:37:00 | Hi there, I recently aquired one of those parallel port adaptor that let you plug in your playstation controller. I have downloaded every PSX controller driver there is and finally rested with NT PAD XP and PPjoy, using the DirectPad Pro driver(i think) Now I am this close to getting it working, but I'm using a Playstation 2 controller, and when I hit the anolouge button, the light comes on for a split second and then turns off again. Usually all the buttons (except for start and select) are like automatically depressed in the test window and the analogue stick are pressing left and down. Now when I hit the analogue button, everything works, for a split second. I cannot get it to stay on. The NTPAD XP has a tick option to use analogue sticks all the time, but it doesn't work. Also, it has a dualshock2 emulation mode. Thanks in advance... hope you can help. Willie |
willie_M (5608) | ||
| 234783 | 2004-05-06 12:41:00 | Did it not come with a driver? I have installed maybe 6 or 7 psx-to-usb adaptors and they all came with a driver and installed with no problem. I would suggest looking closley at your adaptor and getting the specif driver for it,slim chance of getting a driver for another device to work. |
metla (154) | ||
| 234784 | 2004-05-06 13:00:00 | The adaptor is just a playstation female on one end, a bit of cord then a male parallel plug which goes straight into LPT1. And from what I've read on StylesPC its got a couple of 1N913 resistors in there somewhere.... So isn't it the controller I'll need drivers for? It did come with a driver disk, however it was quite old and I guessed after trying it and not succeeding, I would need a new one. I downloaded a new version of the driver that came with it called "DirectPad Pro" but to no avail. Then on the same site (www.aldostools.com I think) I found NTPAD XP and PPjoy. PPJoy being the most relevant I thought (Stands for Parallel Port Joystick). But now I'm stuck. Do you think its the fact that its a PS2 controller and not a PSX one? |
willie_M (5608) | ||
| 234785 | 2004-05-06 13:12:00 | Bugger. My mistake and i apologise,I presumed it was a psx-to-usb,i have no experience with the type that go to other ports. |
metla (154) | ||
| 234786 | 2004-05-06 13:20:00 | Sorry, should have said it was parallel in the first place. Oh an I'm using Windows 2000. | willie_M (5608) | ||
| 234787 | 2004-05-06 13:40:00 | > Sorry, should have said it was parallel in the first > place . Oh an I'm using Windows 2000 . You did,near on the first line in the first post . My mistake entirely . All i can suggest if nobody here has an answer is to maybe ask in the forum at trade me,these adaptors are constatly for sale there so you may stike it lucky . |
metla (154) | ||
| 234788 | 2004-05-07 01:29:00 | So no-one knows anything about this then? C'mon gamers. Someone must have done this before? | willie_M (5608) | ||
| 234789 | 2004-05-07 02:34:00 | Some random thoughts: Part of the problem might be w2k restrictions on "user" access to ports. I'm not sure about that, but I have a strong idea that NT descended OSs don't like (as in "allow") access except through the OS. W2k experts will know. ;-) It will pay to try the different modes of the printer port ... you might need one of the bi-directional modes. The 1N914 diodes may be providing power to the controller from the data lines ... printer port lines can't supply many mA, and some (laptops mainly) don't give a full 5V so this might be a problem. (I'm speaking from ignorance of PS hardware, but I'm assuming the controller doen't have a power supply attached. ;-)) I've often supplied a couple of mA to A-D converters built into a DB25 connector ... but I wouldn't hope for much more than about 10 mA. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 234790 | 2004-05-07 03:11:00 | >It will pay to try the different modes of the printer port ... you might need one of the bi-directional modes. Do you mean changing the modes in the BIOS? Right now its on ECP+EPP and I've tried it on both separately, but i think for epp it had some kind of setting 1 or 3, but i haven't tried changing that. Oh, and my PC's a fully fledged ATX box, with a Asus a7v600. ;) |
willie_M (5608) | ||
| 234791 | 2004-05-07 03:24:00 | sounds like your problem is the windows 2k part of the setup. windows 2000 and XP restrict the direct access to hardware ports. can you try it under win9x ?? |
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