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I have a cheap USB to playstation 1 / 2 adapter that I was trying to get working using some drivers.

They initially appeared as a HID Compliant Game Controller, and using the windows 10 setup usb game controllers they were visible as a Twin USB Joystick,

Input on my dance pad worked, and was showing as button and axis presses. (However I was hoping it would show the arrow buttons as buttons, the original drivers were able to do this back on windows xp, but alas, I no longer know the location of that disk.)

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After installation of a driver (based on visual recognition of the adapter) I made the error of installing the wrong driver, in an attempt to get the axis to show up as button presses allowing simultaneous left/right presses.

They then showed up as TWIN PS TO PC CONVERTER

But the new control panel configurator showed absolutely no inputs.

I then uninstalled the drivers using the installer.

They returned to looking like the generic Twin USB Joystick, however they were still no longer reading inputs.

Now, if I view Hidden Devices in Device Manager, I can see the 'old' devices from earlier,

greyed out and disabled.

This is what one of the currently enabled devices looks like.

Device HIDVID_0810&PID_0001&Col026&56885ae&0&0001 was configured.

How can I force the devices to be recognized as their old versions?

Could the driver have updated something other then these devices in device manager?

What other things can I look for.

Ideally I would create my own driver after sniffing with WireShark, but at the moment I'm unable to sniff, as I can't easily see the data coming in.

If I were able to confirm the pad / adapter worked using the old drivers, I could probably start Reverse Engineering one again.

1 Answer

This may not include a solution but it is a little too long for a comment.

You seem pretty adept, especially if you want to write your own HID driver. But here are some thoughts.

• If you find the correct drivers for your controller to USB device, anything else you do may not matter. That would be the first thing I'd try.
• If the device is 'hidden' that means Windows thinks it is not connected. Either unplug and replug the device, reboot, or forget about it because it probably isn't the same device. The device strings are different and that comes directly from the device and isn't likely to change.
• Sometimes the USB hub just stops working. Reboot is usually the best solution. They can shut off if something attempts to draw too much power. Since a playstation 2 controller expects a 7V input for the rumbler and USB output 5V, I wonder if the converter just disables the rumbler or if it has a voltage converter. The total draw may still exceed the amperage your USB port can put out (supposed to be 1A but most PC USB2.0 ports can only do about 1/2 of that).
• You can try Windows Driver Update to restore any windows driver. On Device Manager, go to View-Devices By Connection. Find your device, then work your way up. Right click on the USB Hub device and choose 'Update Driver'. Do the same for the devices themselves. There will probably be multiple USB hub devices in different places. One for USB 3.0, maybe a couple for 2.0. They can show up under ACPI, Composite Bus, UMBus, etc.
• The Controller to USB may try to connect as a Serial port and work as an emulated serial port. The driver you installed may have uninstalled the microsoft usbserial driver. This is the usbser.sys driver. It should reinstall itself with a reboot. This would be the case if the device class looks like Class_02&SubClass_02
• Selective Suspend. This Windows 10 feature can cause issues when working on things like this. Turn it off in Advanced Power Settings. Full Instructions: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-prevent-windows-10-turning-usb-devices

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Hi banekrayt,

a) Which Operating System do you have?

By default the drivers will be placed and software

in C:Program Files

Restart Windows – when it starts to boot up again, hit F8 just after the BIOS does its POST. Select “Disable driver signature enforcement” - this is very important!

Update: You can permanently disable driver signature enforcement from within Windows. Run a Command window (cmd.exe) as administrator, and enter the following:

• bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
• bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON

Doing this prevents you from having to reboot when installing and using these drivers. It will add a “Test Mode” logo on the bottom right of desktop, to remind you that driver signature enforcement is permanently disabled.

Plug in your Playstation 3 controller. If you haven’t done this before, you will see that some basic Windows drivers are installed. This might lead you to believe that the controller will work right away, but unfortunately it won’t.

From the Start button, run the “Install USB driver” under the “MotioninJoy” folder for the appropriate connection method you’ll be using. Make sure to right click and “Run as administrator” or the driver will not install properly.

(Right click, then click “Run as Administrator)

After the driver installs, a Notepad window will pop up, showing you the driver install log. This is what a successful install looks like, on Windows 7 x64:

Restart Windows again.

At this point, the center light on your controller should not be blinking. This is a good indication that it is working.

Now run the “DS3 Tool” program from the Start button. If you followed the directions properly, the main screen should look like this

Note that the controller is listed at the top. If it doesn’t show up, then you did something wrong. The first thing you should probably do is re-run the “Install USB Drivers” as admin, making sure no error messages pop up.

You can now run the controller with whatever features you wish. I’m not sure if there is a reason not to enable all functionality. Perhaps Performance could be an issue, so only enable the features you need.

If you followed the guide correctly, you should see your controller listed, and have full control of all the inputs. On my first attempt, I neglected to “Run as administrator” so I only saw the controller listed, but had no contol over it.

If you see that dialog, you did it wrong, and the driver did not install . Make sure to hit F8 when you boot Windows, or set it to Test Mode using the commands listed above, and make sure you Run the USB Driver Install as Administrator!

Finally, we have a decent gamepad to use in Windows, including 64-bit. Enjoy! Thanks to the folks at MotionInJoy for creating this driver.

*Note* Keep in mind that installing unsigned drivers is considered by Microsoft

to be a major security issue (or a major source of income, depending on who you listen to), so to use these drivers on a 64-bit OS, you will need to use F8 to boot every time. There are ways to permanently disable signed drivers in 64-bit Windows, but it is considered a major security flaw to do so, and is a major hassle to set up (and is constantly being patched by Microsoft). This will be the case with any unofficial driver release, not just these ones.

Usb Controller Driver For Vista

*Another Note* If you are having troubles getting the drivers to work after rebooting, even after using “F8″, try running the driver install script again . These drivers aren’t perfect, and can be a bit finicky, but they do work. And I think they are the only ones that work in 64-bit. 32-bit users might prefer to use the old drivers we talked about, if you do not need to use bluetooth .

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