DIY Joypad using Arduino or some other MCU

Post by **danhans42** » February 27th, 2018, 12:29 am

Hi All,

I know there are quite a few projects around that use PS1/PS2 joypads for control, probably due to the protocol being reversed and the quality of the joypads.

My question is, has anyone ever achieved this the other way around? Does anyone know of any examples of someone actually making a PS1 pad from scratch?

I have a couple of those old Infoteam adapters that were used in the Kiosks... but they use an old PIC based MCU.

Thanks

Post by **LameGuy64** » March 6th, 2018, 2:32 pm

From what I can tell, the difficulty of using an Arduino to mimic PlayStation peripherals such as a controller is that the console communicates with such peripherals in a SPI like protocol and it generates its own sync pulses at 7KHz which might be real tricky to work with on a Arduino if it is not fast enough to keep up with the pulse rate.