Posted Jan 07, 2007 at 10:17PM by Chris L. Listed in: Controller Tags: Microsoft, Wiimote, Mac OS X, Windows XP, SIXAXIS
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Achtung! SIXAXIS!


Here's another one. After one bashed PC driver for a SIXAXIS to talk to, this is PS3-connect.de's zoople with his own version of Windows XP driver für den SIXAXIS controller. It's the same deal when it comes to results: the motion sensors won't work with this yet, and the drivers themselves aren't from Sony. Installation is almost straightforward - drivers to install, something to unpack, plug, and play the PS3 controller. Here are the instructions, crudely interpreted from the Google translation:
  • Install libusb-win32-filter-bin-0.1.10.1.exe, which comes in the zip file below.
  • Unpack ps3sixaxis_en.exe
  • Plug the SIXAXIS to the PC (via the USB cable), which should have come with your purchased PS3. If you don't have a PS3, what did you do, buy the SIXAXIS stand-alone?
  • Run ps3sixaxis_en.exe once. (Nothing said about the boo-boos that would result if you run it twice)
  • Push the PS button if the program doesn't "handshake" with the SIXAXIS (we think, based on our research, that's what it meant).
Finally, an indicator that this thing might work out in Mac OS X, too - if you execute under Boot Camp. Here's the download link for the drivers. No one tell Microsoft we're running their competitor's controller on the PC (eh, not that we don't do the same thing with the Wiimote, anyway).

Download: [WinXP PC drivers fur den SIXAXIS]


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   by bigg3g (Unregistered) - 2007-01-07
 » fef

but wat can u control?

   by JoRaPi - 2007-01-07
 » This seems as if...

...it's the exact same thing that was previously released. It uses the same process and produces the same result. Is there any difference at all?

   by lansingone - 2007-01-08
 » i think it is

from the sound of it, its the same thing that was released before. but still is cool to have somone else working on it, cuase that meens we have double the chance of somone getting tilt working. i like it cuase i used to look for a PC controler that was the same form as a PS controler, and now i have one

   by lawl (Unregistered) - 2007-01-08
 » yep, this is good

this + zsnes = nice.

   by GeKKo (Unregistered) - 2007-01-08
 » :D

Ok here the tutorial translated for you :P.
Start the ps3sixaxis_en.exe. It seems like nothing happens but the MS-DOS Command Prompt starts up for about a second. Then you plug in the PS3 Controller via the USB Cable. Then you execute the ps3sixaxis_en.exe again and push the PS Button on your Controller. Then the Controller should be connected.
Sometimes this also works on Macs via Boot Camp but this doesn't work always.

   by sausehuhn (Unregistered) - 2007-01-08
 » I like...

...the "fur den" xD
Actually "für den" doesn't mean anything different then "for the". So "Another SIXAXIS driver für den PC" doesn't mean anything different than "Another SIXAXIS driver for the PC".

Sounds a bit funny with language mixing

never mind ;)

   by Thaiger (Unregistered) - 2007-01-08
 » Charging

Can this be used to charge the controller with out using the ps3?


   Re: Vincent (Unregistered) - 2007-01-08
 » ype

the ps3 controller can be charged with any usb port.
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   by Rebelios (Unregistered) - 2007-01-08
 » Yep

You can charge the controller with any device that has a usb port


   Re: floxnard (Unregistered) - 2007-01-08
 » playing with this

Can I assign the buttons to do stuff, so I could use it to play for example an emulator? Just asking, cause I don't have a PS3, but I'd get the controller if I could use it with my PC in any functional way.


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