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Old January 20th, 2007   #11 (permalink)
Gamesoul Master
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Right. Just like on a real Playstation, many older games do not respond to an Analog controller signal. In those games, you had to keep that red light on the controller off to play. In pSX, having the controller set to Dualshock or Analog+Rumble is basically telling the game that red light is always on, so you must use the Normal Pad setting for the game to respond.

One thing I should mention... I use an adapter with an actual PS1 controller, and in Valkyrie Profile (which supports Dualshock), if I start the game with the Dualshock setting, the controller works fine until I actually load my game. After loading, the controller stops responding, and I have to change the mode of the controller to Normal Pad (which makes it work), then back to Dualshock, if I want to use Analog controls. Loading the game with Normal Pad set works perfectly fine, and switching to Dualshock works fine too. The reason I mention this is because I have no idea if it's only Valkyrie Profile that does that, since nobody has ever reported this issue. So you might want to keep that in mind if you're playing a game that you *KNOW* supports Dualshock, but isn't responding when you start the game with Dualshock set.
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