The very short story/idea before i get into all the small details: I am hoping if you guys could help me figure out if it would be possible to make some kind of PS2 controller to USB interface, and so it would be made recognizable by windows as a gamepad/controller? If it is, would you guys help a stranger, completely new to Arduino, build it and set it up?
The long story:
Not very long ago, i started looking through some of the old stuff i had laying about, and in the stuff was an old PS1, that unfortunatly has ceased to function entirely. Which is a damn shame. But i am also aware of the good PSX emulators thats around today. And those work just perfectly. So what about gaming gaming peripherals? Well, unfortunatly, the only decent PSX controllers i had, have mysteriously gone missing. As in completely. So i started looking for some new, or at least some in a decent condition, which is either downright impossible, costs a fortune, and/or doesn't ship from overseas! A nightmare, really. And in the mean time, i had invested in some PS1 to USB adapters (pictures below), and glanced through the comments of those products, to find some people have had success, by using PS2 controllers on the PSX Controller adapters! So i thought, "Why not buy a brand new PS2 controller instead? It's the closest thing i will ever get to the real thing!". I even found a place where they still sell genuine PS2 controllers.
But here's the thing. When i got the adapters, i ordered three different ones but which the same function really. They don't cost anything. I had borrowed some old, but really shitty, controllers from a friend, both PSX and PS2 to see if it would even work before i'd go buy two new PS2 controllers. But i ran into problems. Using the adapters with the PSX controller, i had no problems! Windows recognized them entirely, all buttons and functions worked fully, even the emulators had no problems with them. But the PS2 controller did NOT work as planned.
Whenever it would be hooked up to windows through USB, this is the input i would get no matter what i tried. None of the buttons worked, EXCEPT the joysticks when analog was turned on! It was the only proper signals i could receive.
I also read in some few comments that they expirenced the same as i did when trying to use PS2 controllers instead of PSX controllers.
I tried to figure out if the controller was broken, taking it apart to measure with a multimeter, not really sure or what i should measure, but i did figure out that the connection from plug to pins on the motherboard was in fact all still working. But i really gave up trying to figure out what to measure looking at the diagrams and so on and so on and errghh- ...
So i really ditched the idea of trying to find out if it was broken. Then i started to think if you could make an interface using Arduino??? Or am in fact wrong, was it never meant to work like that, or am i perhaps doing something wrong? etc. etc.!
So this is why i am here now posting this idea. Trying to ask you guys, is this even remotely possible for a guy who does a good solder if he knows where things are to be put and placed? What would it take, what would i need? And so forth!
