• jay2@beehaw.org
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    21 days ago

    There was a company that offered them for $12.00 back in the late 90’s. Sony shut them down before anyone I knew could even get one.

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      21 days ago

      I had a Playstation 1 dongle. It was my first PC gamepad that I used (mainly for emulation) and it served me good for years. It was the only controller I could accept for playing games, because PC Gamepads at that time were terrible. Didn’t know Sony shut them down. Always wondered why not more people used it.

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        20 days ago

        Yeah, that was the one, and I couldn’t agree more about it being the best joypad. Logitech was the best for PC, but fell far short of a PS joystick quality.

        The company did have to stop selling them at the request of Sony. A friend, the one who told us all about it, tried to order one too late. The order stalled for a week before getting cancelled if I remember right.

        You were probably one of a lucky few that got theirs in that slim window of availability. Congrats.

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          20 days ago

          It was cheap too, less than 10 Euros or the like and it didn’t have any input latency (at least none I could feel). I remember friends ordering other adapters and some had builtin latency.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 days ago

    What does it do?

    Steam games tell me they’re compatible with my Xbox controller, and also PlayStation controllers.

    I have a Mac, and whenever Apple talks gaming, they always show PlayStation controllers (but they silently note that Xbox controllers do, too).

    What does the dongle do? Or are you saying Macs are the only computers that are compatible with PlayStation controllers? Make that make sense.