So, it came time to capture some 2-player footage from one of my trusty emulators–which I’d done before in Tetris Attacked, but not in real-time, and certainly not on the same machine.
Playing games with a keyboard is never my cup of tea, but some are worse than others. My keyboard is one of those whiny types that has a low IRQ, or DMA, or … you know, the thing that makes it so you can’t hit more than 3 keys at once. If you persist anyway, the PC speaker will give a scolding beep and ignore your commands. This is not what you want when you need to jump and fire diagonally at the same time.
Why can't we be friends?
Thankfully, there’s a great solution for anyone with a PS3 controller, a lack of a real PC joystick, and not a whole lot of money: a Windows driver for the Shock3 that works through the USB Charge Cable.
To save you some time, please take this link to a direct download–there has been plenty of forum bedlam and inadequate blog posts on the topic, which you’ll want to avoid.
The instructions: With your controller plugged into that charge cable and your PC on the other end, run the lib32usb executable, THEN the ps3sixaxis_en.exe, in that order. Lastly, give that PS button a push (or a bit of a squeeze, if necessary), and your controller should be detected.
You have NO IDEA how many people can’t get this to work, which I’m convinced is all because they didn’t bother to run the first executable (they had the same read-out in their DOS window as I had before I ran it). It’s all the more confused by the people who say they did get it to work, but don’t indicate how. And 56 forum pages later, you tend to forget the instructions on the first page.
Anyway, I wanted to vent that little bit about wasting another hour of my life on one of these trivial pursuits–and maybe save someone else from the same thing. Enjoy~!
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