PS2 Controller not working

[Azorian]

I dont get my PS2 controller with USB port to work with this game.

Is it possible at all, or do i have to refund right away?

[Ernsteen]

The game does not recognise generic gamepads and this is not going to change as the technology itself does not allow for any controller APIs other Xinput, which is to say xbox controllers or those that use its API.

This is a problem I've encountered with many, many modern games so I'd recmmend checking out one of the plenty emulation programs that basically turn your controller into an Xbox controller. It's not a big hassle once you have set it up. You could also just play the game with mouse and keyboard, which works perfectly fine for me and many others, but I guess that's a matter of taste.

In short, if you want your gamepad to work out of the box, you might as well refund. But sooner or later you'll be running into the same problem with another game, I'm pretty sure, so I would rather recommend just using one of those programs.

[Azorian]

Ive tried couple of those programs, but none of them found my controller...

[muxmeister]

there is now far more updated support for ps3 and ps4 controllers , and if money is an issue you can always find a super cheap third party brand or refurbished for DS3 in particular at some smaller stores or online. from there it's a matter of choosing the right program like DS4Windows or InputMapper or even Steam's Big Picture Mode which will translate your controller into Xinput that the game recognizes

[Azorian]

Thanks, but im not going to buy another controller just to be able to play this game.
All games i ever played worked fine with my PS2 controller.

A refund it is, then...

[Zef]

Originally posted by Rainbow Lotus:

Thanks, but im not going to buy another controller just to be able to play this game.
All games i ever played worked fine with my PS2 controller.

A refund it is, then...

Dramatic much?

It plays even better with mouse + kb (more accurate) and you can get a second hand xbox 360 controller for 10$ online.

[Thots And Prayers]

Originally posted by Rainbow Lotus:

Thanks, but im not going to buy another controller just to be able to play this game.
All games i ever played worked fine with my PS2 controller.

A refund it is, then...

I think you're making a mistake by snubbing your nose at this game because it doesn't support a controller from a game console that was 2 generations ago.

A new controller is cheap enough. I know you like your controller but sometimes you have to let go of old tech to experience something new. You can't expect developers to code new games to support extremely old peripherals!

[Thots And Prayers]

Originally posted by Rainbow Lotus:

Thanks, but im not going to buy another controller just to be able to play this game.
All games i ever played worked fine with my PS2 controller.

A refund it is, then...

Additionally you're going to have the same problem with other games in the future. You're going to miss out on a lot of great titles if you're that stubborn about your old controller.

[Evu]

apparently you haven't refunded it yet, so here it goes by a guy who was also always way too cheap to get a xinput controller and relied on his old ps2 pads: You can use "x360ce", which integrates into the games folder itself and does the translation from dinput to xinput through a dll which normally works whenever you start up the game, but it's a hassle to get to work if you aren't very tech-savy and has a lot of option for finetuning and troubleshooting, so hopefully it will not be too frustrating for you, but it worked wonders back in the day for me, when games like rogue galaxy or super meat boy didn't use to support dinput

The other possibility is to use a programm called "Xoutput" from github, which is basically a package of inputtranslators. it's a lot simpler i would say, but the programm has to be opened first in the background manually whenever you play a game and the first keymapping to boot isn't quite as comfortable.

Another last effort would be using "joy2key" to bind the controller to keyboard inputs, but that's even more hacky, i haven't much experience with it in crosscode, which sounds quite tricky for it's kinda twin-shooter-esque gameplay style, might have to set up some script-like macros to the sticks then...

And after all that: please don't forget that it also kinda depends on what kind of usb adapter you got, since that is the one thing that makes all the magic work. Some might work better, others not so. Best would probably have been to directly buy a ps2toXinput adapter, even tho that still can't fix some of the shortcomings of a PS2 controller like no analogue triggers (which comes as a disadvantage for games like Rocket League) and no guide-button for comfort~