A guy by the name [Hazer] has released his method that makes the ps3 controller fully remapable.
[Hazer] managed to take a PlayStation 3 SixAxis controller and modify it so that all of the buttons can be remapped in hardware. Aside from this being really cool, he had a good reason for doing it. Regular readers should remember the feature regarding [Chuck Bittner's] internet petition calling for button mapping as a feature in all games. As the industry still hasn’t taken up the torch in this area, [Hazer] developed this mod for [Chuck] to use and has released it for any others out there who wish to give it a try.
The hardware alterations are pretty hardcore. On the left of the image, just below the rumble motor, a DIP microcontroller is nestled dead-bug style. This is a PIC 18F14K50. It’s running a bootloader, and has its own USB port on the opposite side of the controller. By cutting traces and soldering to vias, this chip intercepts button presses and shoots them off to the controller’s processor based on alternative mapping stored in EEPROM. There’s a helper app that lets you plug the controller into a computer to specify what each button does, including features like toggle for the buttons. Check out [Chuck's] thoughts on the hardware in the video after the break.
[Download Schematics + PC Tools]
[VIA AcidMods via HackADay]
10-11-2011
03:08 PM
That's really great.
Hopefully future versions will offer some kind of stick support.
10-12-2011
12:46 AM
oh yea. thumbs up
10-12-2011
04:47 AM
How hard is this to do in a CFW?
We have the jap/us O/X button switcher app, could it be changed to support any button remapping?
Since the game companies aren't willing to do this, we need to do it ourselves to remind them.
10-12-2011
05:14 AM
I know it might be hard to believe, but not everyone has CFW. Swapping buttons actually isn't terribly hard...but it is nice to see it done so cleanly, and with a GUI for configuration. I just hope they do some work with the sticks...not so much because I want the controller or because I care about disabled people, but because I would read the source code like it was a comic book.
10-12-2011
05:26 AM
Very nice work
I like all the hardware hacks, software hacks are great but hardware hacks have some magic
10-14-2011
06:37 AM
My question was genuine.. anyone done any work in this area?
it would be nice to fix the stupidity of different games having different button mappings once and for all. (by having a database of games and automatically re-mapping accordingly, maybe multiman could activate it or something)