Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Darco Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english,scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Analog Pad w/Dual Shock Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 16:45:50 -0400 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 37 Message-ID: <35521D7E.D42C3393@mail.datasys.net> Reply-To: darco@bigfoot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 384.dialup.datasys.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scee.yaroze.freetalk.english:868 scea.yaroze.freetalk:623 I just thought I would list some of my finding about programing with the Analog Pad. The L3 and the R3 buttons (The joysticks themselves are buttons) can be read from the 9th and 10th bits respectively. (Remember those conveniently not used bits on the standard controller? It's those.) The Controller ID of the PAD is 7 rather than 5 like I thought it would be. I still think it should be 5 instead of 7 to give computability with older analog games and just have a certain bit set to differentiate it from the older controller for the newer games, BUT enough of my gripes. :) Just remember the ID is 7. I'm not sure why Sony decided to do this. I took apart the controller to examine the feedback mechanism, and I noticed that, to my suprise, the left side's (Side with the D-PAD) motor and lop-sided weight is ALOT bigger than the right's. This is interesting, I'm not sure why Sony decided to do this either. I haven't tried to get the feedback system to work because I'm not sure even where to start. Does anyone know (A Sony employee maybe?) how to access the feedback (Dual Shock) function of the new Analog Control Pads? -- 'Darco darco@NOSPAM@bigfoot.com Please replace "@NOSPAM@" with an "@" to email me. UIN: 1454810 (You can page me at http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1454810) WWW: (sorry, page is down) Voria: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/voria PGPKey: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/pgpkey.txt "Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean that they are not out to get me."