hooking 2 playstation controllers together

Thank God I've never even been even slightly interested in such a futile endeavour. Tell me, just how important is a Sony Play Station in seeking your life's fulfilment ?

Have you ever considered taking a walk (or bicycle ride) in the countryside or even attempting to 'expand' your mind by reading 'literature' for example ?

Graham

How is it any worse than your lifetime fulfilment of writing useless comments in sci.electronics.*?

OUCH! I haven't seen a beating like that since Rodney King.

Bob

I guess I better be careful then or he might sue me for defamation of character...

Oh nevermind!!! I just found a nickle on the floor. I'm sure that will cover any damage I could do.

Wouldn't that be "Delamination of a donkey"?

you can't just hook 2 together like that

As far as I am aware, there are clock and data lines. The pad is intelligent. It decodes which button is pressed and sends a signal back.

That's right on. The fact that there are so many buttons on the controller yet so few pins on its connector should be some indication that data is being serialized instead of read directly. As far as I'm aware, the last time potentiometers in controllers were read directly over the line was in pre-NES times (think PONG paddles).

M2C PSM

Lol, I read about a novel a week. I read Jane Eyre Last week,. I am reading a scifi novel this week. I will start on war and peace in about a week. The reason I wan't to hook the two playstions together is because I have an idea for a new piece of exercise equipment. I don't actually play with a playstaion very often. It is my nephews.

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So on the pad the buttons are not simple switch closures? The next thing I was going to try is splicing the pad button output to the hand controller connections. I know that the hand controller buttons are simple switch closures because a ling time ago I created my own pad controller before they became commercially availble.

Yes, the controller uses digital signaling, the easiest way to do what you want would be to disconnect analogue joystick parts of one controller and run wires to the same parts in the other controller.

The hard way would be to build a device that can interpret and combine the digital signals in such a way that the console sees only a single controller.

Bye. Jasen

We are here to *HELP* people, not dissuade them into doing thisese projects. And most people who do electronics do already have expanded minds in order to do this stuff, thanks. And BTW, i also ride my bicycle.