wraggster
August 21st, 2013, 23:45
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[Kevin] just finished a project for someone who lives in his apartment complex. This resident loves the game Pop ‘n Music – a Guitar Hero sort of game for the original Playstation and PS2 that uses nine colored buttons instead of five buttons along a fingerboard. His original idea was to wire up a few arcade buttons to a Playstation controller but this plan fell through, forcing [Kevin] to figure out the PSX bus all by his lonesome (http://kevincuzner.com/2013/08/17/pop-n-music-controller-avr-style/).
The initial code began with simply bit-banging the PSX controller interface with an AVR. This had a few problems, namely speed, forcing [Kevin] to move onto assembly programming to squeeze every last bit of performance out of a microcontroller.
The assembly route failed as well, dropping some transactions Looking at the problem again, [Kevin] realized the PSX controller bus looked a little like an SPI bus. There were a few changes required – reversing the order of the bits, and using the MISO line to drive a transistor – but this method worked almost perfectly on the first try.
Now, [Kevin]‘s building mate has a custom Playstation controller for his favorite game. Of course all the code is up on github (https://github.com/kcuzner/pop-n-music-controller) for all your PSX controller emulation needs, but be sure to check out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY21hkUef6E from someone who desperately needs a piano.
http://hackaday.com/2013/08/21/an-arcade-controller-for-the-original-playstation/
[Kevin] just finished a project for someone who lives in his apartment complex. This resident loves the game Pop ‘n Music – a Guitar Hero sort of game for the original Playstation and PS2 that uses nine colored buttons instead of five buttons along a fingerboard. His original idea was to wire up a few arcade buttons to a Playstation controller but this plan fell through, forcing [Kevin] to figure out the PSX bus all by his lonesome (http://kevincuzner.com/2013/08/17/pop-n-music-controller-avr-style/).
The initial code began with simply bit-banging the PSX controller interface with an AVR. This had a few problems, namely speed, forcing [Kevin] to move onto assembly programming to squeeze every last bit of performance out of a microcontroller.
The assembly route failed as well, dropping some transactions Looking at the problem again, [Kevin] realized the PSX controller bus looked a little like an SPI bus. There were a few changes required – reversing the order of the bits, and using the MISO line to drive a transistor – but this method worked almost perfectly on the first try.
Now, [Kevin]‘s building mate has a custom Playstation controller for his favorite game. Of course all the code is up on github (https://github.com/kcuzner/pop-n-music-controller) for all your PSX controller emulation needs, but be sure to check out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY21hkUef6E from someone who desperately needs a piano.
http://hackaday.com/2013/08/21/an-arcade-controller-for-the-original-playstation/