- #Ps1 controller raspberry pi serial#
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- #Ps1 controller raspberry pi software#
I found this PS1 to USB adapter for cheap online and some quick testing showed that it worked perfectly. This thing above was my ticket to getting the controllers working. The memory card slots I wanted to convert to USB ports, which would be hiding behind the labeled hatches. I would like to note how incredibly easy it was to take things apart in this case, everything was modular and separated easily.įollowing my goal of keeping things as similar as possible to the original I had planned on making the controller ports work with the PS1 controllers. I will use the controller ports and memory slots in the front though. Here the case has been stripped of all parts I won’t have any use for. It seems that the copper-colored plastic shields the circuits from the plate above. Note that there is no active cooling in the case! It’s completely passively cooled. Removing the drive and metal plate you can see the motherboard. I was a bit surprised how much unused space the case has. In the image above you can see the power supply and disc drive, with the motherboard hiding out underneath. It felt a bit sad to discard the functional hardware but luckily I might have someone who wants to make something out of it. I designed all parts in this project with this goal in mind.Īs this was a functional PS1 I had to first gut all the hardware from its inside.
My absolute main goal during this project was to keep it as close visually as possible to an unmodified case. So instead I found one used in good shape for 20 euro. Initially I planned on 3D printing a case but I scrapped that idea as I felt it would take too much time and never live up to the original anyway. Prepare for a long post with a lot of images! And even today both of us still love the low-fi style of the early 3D games released at that time.įor the past year I’ve had an idea of giving him a Playstation 1 as a birthday gift but I wanted to take it a step further, make it a bit more modern internally by converting it to a Raspberry Pi computer with a Playstation emulator. We’ve never had one in our family but we both grew up playing on our friends consoles.
#Ps1 controller raspberry pi software#
Alternately, if you have extra unused GPIO pins and just need a couple extra ground connections, we’ll show a software work-around for this.My brother has always been a fan of the first Playstation. There are several scattered around…if you need more, one of our small Perma-Proto boards can be used to provide a single large “ground rail” where one side of all the buttons can be connected. The other leg of each button (and the “common” pin from a joystick) will need to connect to one of these.