Post: Playstation 3 controller made fully remappable
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10-11-2011, 08:03 PM
#1
-Daemon-
HELL IS HERE
Hazer has managed to take a PS3 controller and add 'button mapping'
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A lot of hard-core gamers hate the fact alot of games and the PS3 itself does not allow you to change the function of certain buttons, you stuck with FIRE being the trigger or X!
We all see the various rapid-fire hardware mods, but that only allows you to cheat in game (make it easier), and there is custom software out there to do simple button-swapping like 'X' for the 'O', but that only works on Jailbroken PS3 Console. -- Well luckly, thanks to the hard-efforts of Hazer, we now have a possible hardware-mod that does complete button-mapping on the SixAxis PS3 Controller:
Hazer managed to take a PlayStation 3 SixAxis controller and modify it so that all of the buttons can be remapped in hardware. Aside from this being really cool, he had a good reason for doing it. As the industry still hasn’t taken up the idea of 'button mapping as a feature' in all games, Hazer developed this mod and has released it for anyone out there who wishs to give it a try.
The hardware alterations are pretty hardcore. On the left of the image, just below the rumble motor, a DIP microcontroller is nestled dead-bug style. This is a PIC 18F14K50. It’s running a bootloader, and has its own USB port on the opposite side of the controller. By cutting traces and soldering to vias, this chip intercepts button presses and shoots them off to the controller’s processor based on alternative mapping stored in EEPROM. There’s a helper app that lets you plug the controller into a computer to specify what each button does, including features like toggle for the buttons.
This is cool, great idea, a little hard to do, but I see in the near future the commerical 'rapid-mod' people taking this idea and building it into their products!
We all see the various rapid-fire hardware mods, but that only allows you to cheat in game (make it easier), and there is custom software out there to do simple button-swapping like 'X' for the 'O', but that only works on Jailbroken PS3 Console. -- Well luckly, thanks to the hard-efforts of Hazer, we now have a possible hardware-mod that does complete button-mapping on the SixAxis PS3 Controller:
Hazer managed to take a PlayStation 3 SixAxis controller and modify it so that all of the buttons can be remapped in hardware. Aside from this being really cool, he had a good reason for doing it. As the industry still hasn’t taken up the idea of 'button mapping as a feature' in all games, Hazer developed this mod and has released it for anyone out there who wishs to give it a try.
The hardware alterations are pretty hardcore. On the left of the image, just below the rumble motor, a DIP microcontroller is nestled dead-bug style. This is a PIC 18F14K50. It’s running a bootloader, and has its own USB port on the opposite side of the controller. By cutting traces and soldering to vias, this chip intercepts button presses and shoots them off to the controller’s processor based on alternative mapping stored in EEPROM. There’s a helper app that lets you plug the controller into a computer to specify what each button does, including features like toggle for the buttons.
This is cool, great idea, a little hard to do, but I see in the near future the commerical 'rapid-mod' people taking this idea and building it into their products!
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10-12-2011, 01:08 AM
#3
stinkeyfeet678
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well if you think about it, there have been products(mostly XCM) that have done this
the cross battle adapter does the same thing, and it allows xbox controllers on ps3(cool i guess)
but other than that, pretty cool
I believe that this controller can definatly help people
well if you think about it, there have been products(mostly XCM) that have done this
the cross battle adapter does the same thing, and it allows xbox controllers on ps3(cool i guess)
but other than that, pretty cool
I believe that this controller can definatly help people
10-12-2011, 03:05 AM
#4
partypoker15
Call me G
Never was a "hard-core" gamer but I do see where this would help someone in a game. For example, get the patriot(smg with infinite rounds and no reloading) on metal gear solid 4, put auto aim on, go to the final playable part of the game where you use guns. The little bot things just keep spawning. Toggle L1 and R1 and watch them drop. Go to bed. Wake up with like 14,000,000 points. :carling:
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