• jay2@beehaw.org
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    2 days ago

    There was a company that offered them for $12.00 back in the late 90’s. Sony shut them down before anyone I knew could even get one.

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      I had a Playstation 1 dongle. It was my first PC gamepad that I used (mainly for emulation) and it served me good for years. It was the only controller I could accept for playing games, because PC Gamepads at that time were terrible. Didn’t know Sony shut them down. Always wondered why not more people used it.

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        Yeah, that was the one, and I couldn’t agree more about it being the best joypad. Logitech was the best for PC, but fell far short of a PS joystick quality.

        The company did have to stop selling them at the request of Sony. A friend, the one who told us all about it, tried to order one too late. The order stalled for a week before getting cancelled if I remember right.

        You were probably one of a lucky few that got theirs in that slim window of availability. Congrats.

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          It was cheap too, less than 10 Euros or the like and it didn’t have any input latency (at least none I could feel). I remember friends ordering other adapters and some had builtin latency.