Use ps2 controllers on laptop/PC

Dr.Pain

Hi people I cam across this handy yoke on play.com, has anyone used it/ one like it, would you reccommend it?#
http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=PC&title=114167
It looks brilliant
can you see any negatives

LegacyUser

It is absolutely amazing.

Negatives - Depends what you call negatives. It does not work on EA games like Rugby 2005 because these ridiculous games only have a set amount of controllers to work with them and while this does work with them, they are not configurable...

But that is EA's fault.

This product itself is amazing...

themole

i got sometihng similar for the ps1, i presume they are the same.

works pretty well.

Vikings

Supports Psone and PlayStation 2 game pad

You presume correct.

abccormac

It's the business.

Explosive_Cornflake

I had huge problems getting this to work.Had a whole thread about it on here. Never got it fully working, but it's nice to see a lot have it working. I got fed up with mine, so i got a controller in game for 15 euro. Same layout as a ps2 pad, but with a turbo button.

Willymuncher

cheesedude wrote:

It is absolutely amazing.

Negatives - Depends what you call negatives. It does not work on EA games like Rugby 2005 because these ridiculous games only have a set amount of controllers to work with them and while this does work with them, they are not configurable...

But that is EA's fault.

Yes, bleedin EA....they have set buttons and you can't configure them at all, i was really annoyed with that with rugby 2005, soon got used to the pad though

LegacyUser

Are you used to it with Rugby 2005 now? I kinda gave up before I had the chance...think I might try get back and play it if you have it working...?

Stephen

I have one of those - when I used Windows 2000 it was crappy - always worked fine in the game controllers control panel applet, but whenever you used it in an actual game it just went insane (spinning around, etc). It works flawlessly on XP though

Explosive_Cornflake

Stephen wrote:

I have one of those - when I used Windows 2000 it was crappy - always worked fine in the game controllers control panel applet, but whenever you used it in an actual game it just went insane (spinning around, etc). It works flawlessly on XP though

Thats the problem i had, even happnened when they're was no controller pplugged into it. Still happened to me on XP though. Got it kind of working on a inbtel chipset, but on my other box, with a nforce2 chipset no such joy. Am happy to hear it works for others though.

Diabolus

Explosive_Cornflake wrote:

Thats the problem i had, even happnened when they're was no controller pplugged into it. Still happened to me on XP though. Got it kind of working on a inbtel chipset, but on my other box, with a nforce2 chipset no such joy. Am happy to hear it works for others though.

Its sad to see you all suffered this. I had the same problem but figured it out after a week on trying to get NSFU 1 to work.
For one DO NOT GET THAT PS2 CONVERTOR.
Its a Dual one and as described it goes crazy in game....
You may have noticed thats because there are 2 buttons held down (but theres nothing plugged in ... i know)

The solution is simple.

In device manager you will see the same usb ps2 device installed twice.
disable the second one to disable the second port. this stops the 2 buttons from being pressed down and allows you to use it correctly.

I presume the reason is that when its not connected to a ps2 controller the 2 buttons (L1 and R1) are looking for a connection.

So there you have it.... disable the second port through device mahager
or plug in a second controller!

P.S the Rockfire one is far superior and utilises Rumble feature.

Explosive_Cornflake

Diabolus wrote:

Its sad to see you all suffered this. I had the same problem but figured it out after a week on trying to get NSFU 1 to work.
For one DO NOT GET THAT PS2 CONVERTOR.
Its a Dual one and as described it goes crazy in game....
You may have noticed thats because there are 2 buttons held down (but theres nothing plugged in ... i know)

The solution is simple.

In device manager you will see the same usb ps2 device installed twice.
disable the second one to disable the second port. this stops the 2 buttons from being pressed down and allows you to use it correctly.

I presume the reason is that when its not connected to a ps2 controller the 2 buttons (L1 and R1) are looking for a connection.

So there you have it.... disable the second port through device mahager
or plug in a second controller!

P.S the Rockfire one is far superior and utilises Rumble feature.

Ah, cool, I'll give that a try alright. I ended buying a dedicated PC USB pad, same sahpe as a PS2 one, for €15. Works nicely.
I will try your suggestion though if i can find it now.

Keyzer

I have one, no negatives at all....

dceire

Explosive_Cornflake wrote:

I ended buying a dedicated PC USB pad, same sahpe as a PS2 one, for €15. Works nicely.

Where did you get that PC USB pad for €15 I only recently started looking for one and ps2 shaped one with all the buttons was about €30

Explosive_Cornflake

Game had them reduced to 15 in their post christmas sale, 20 normally, works like a charm.