Analog Help

[bradleyshorwith]

I need help with analog. I don't know how to configure it.

[Gamesoul Master]

What do you mean? You have to set the controller mode to DualShock (or Analog + Rumble, though better to stick with DualShock), and you have to actually have something with axes (basically, you'll need a controller that has a joy/analog stick on it). Besides that, is there something else that you need to know?

[patrickp]

'SCPH-1150: Analog+rumble' almost never works for controllers, GM; I think it was only meant for the first Playstation analog controllers. For almost all analog controllers, PC USB or Playstation via an adapter, 'SCPH-1200: Dualshock' is the appropriate setting.

There is one other possibility, though, bradleyshorwith: quite a few Playstation games don't support analog controllers. If they don't (it'll say on the back of the case if they do, and often there'll be an analog controller configuration option ingame) you have to use the 'SCPH-1010: Normal pad' setting: analog control won't work. You'll also need to do this to access the memory card editor and CD player on the BIOS screen. This isn't a bug: it's correct emulation of the Playstation.

However, you've given us no idea what the problem actually is; all we can do is guess. If you want to ask for help, that's fine, but really, you're wasting people's time if you don't try to explain your problem properly.

[bradleyshorwith]

I meant each joystick shows two directions but I can only press one button. Can I use analog with a keyboard?

[Gamesoul Master]

Nope, as I pretty much stated, you'll need something with axes, and a keyboard doesn't have anything like that.

As for the problem... to be honest, I don't get what you mean any better than before. Could you just step-by-step tell us what happens when you try doing whatever is causing the problem?

[patrickp]

And what controller are you actually using, bradleyshorwith?

If you're referring to the fact that, in Controllers configuration, each analog stick only shows two axes to configure, while the digital pad has all four directions to configure, that's as it should be. As GM has pointed out, analog controls are axes, not buttons, and what you're configuring for each analog control is not four directions, but two axes, each of which comprises two opposite directions.

[bradleyshorwith]

So I need a controller with axes. Do I tilt the axes either direction?

[patrickp]

Any analog controller shows its analog controls as two axes rather than four directions, bradleyshorwith. In fact, when you look at how pSX has configured the directional pad, you should see each direction configured as the same axis as its opposite, but one is expressed as '+' and the other as '-'

Since the point of analog controls is that that they are not on/off buttons, but (theoretically) continuously variable controls, to express each control direction as '+' or '-' would limit them to being on/off controls; i.e. digital.

So you only need to push the analog stick in one or the opposite direction to configure it. Look at the animation for each axis to see which two directions you should select one of (doesn't matter which) to set that axis.

[bradleyshorwith]

Okay, I understand now. Thank you.