Plug-in your videogame pad into the PC.

On PC, mouse and keyboard are used for almost everything, and even to play videogames. But there are many games that its control is not completely satisfying with these devices and the use of a gamepad is imperative.

This thing about pads is something personal, like the car, everyone has his own preferences, mine are: the DualShock PlayStation (PSX) gamepad. Since I used them I have wanted to plug one to my PC. It was long ago. PC gamepads were expensive and the one for PSX were much cheaper, better and with more buttons. Outstanding. I always thought that there should be a way to plug one of those to my PC, and, in fact, there was a way.

In emulatronia, a Spanish web about emulators, I found an article that explains how to build an adaptor. I was excited. With the help of Maese, we built our own homemade PSX to PC adaptor. It was a great labour, simple on paper, but for an awkward on soldering like me, quite complicated. It was entertaining funny and the invention worked.

Luckily, now we can purchase these adaptors in specialized shops and at good prices. The one we built started to fail a couple of years later (problems powering the pad) so I bought one. It’s not the best but works well. It’s plugged to the USB port and there’s no need to install any special drivers on Windows XP.