Heres how to use a PS3 controller on Madden 08 PC

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Re: Heres how to use a PS3 controller on Madden 08 PC

Postby truetothegame13 » Thu Jan 17, 2013 5:57 pm

quade1337 wrote:u must have done something else. That is not possible. Are u using any type of addon for madden or anything.


id make sure you;

plug ps3 controller in. then run the ds3 tool. go to profile: install all (wait for it to finish loading). load driver (wait for it to finish loading). click on xbox controller on ds3 main menu. click on options. select xbox 360 controller. enable.

and for future use, make sure ps3 controller plugged in before u run ds3 tool. then just click on xbox controller. enable.

make sure madden isnt running until after you've hit enable. and dont start ds3 tool unless your ps3 controller is already plugged in.
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Re: Heres how to use a PS3 controller on Madden 08 PC

Postby botfly10 » Fri Feb 01, 2013 2:20 pm

Hi Folks. I just got a PS3 sixaxis controller and have it running fine with motionjoy.

Has anyone figured out how to change the button icons so they show up correctly as PS3 rather than xbox in-game? I have been looking around and cannot find a solution.

Thanks

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Re: Heres how to use a PS3 controller on Madden 08 PC

Postby truetothegame13 » Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:53 pm

botfly10 wrote:Hi Folks. I just got a PS3 sixaxis controller and have it running fine with motionjoy.

Has anyone figured out how to change the button icons so they show up correctly as PS3 rather than xbox in-game? I have been looking around and cannot find a solution.

Thanks


best thing to use is TexMod. its easy to learn. check out tutorial link in my signature
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Re: Heres how to use a PS3 controller on Madden 08 PC

Postby Gridiron » Sun Feb 10, 2013 3:55 am

Good news!
I was finally able to get that MotioninJoy driver working with my Snakebyte PS3 controller I posted about a few messages back.
At $25 it would be a nice gamepad, but at $12 it is truly outstanding!
I really like the way that the analog sticks feel when playing MADDEN PC and MADDEN 13 on the PS3..

Only the online version of the MotioninJoy software works for me so far, I'm still trying to get the local version working.
It only runs on my 64 bit Vista computer, as my trusty XP computer throws errors during any attempted upgrade to the dot net 3.5 needed by the cantankerous MotioninJoy.

Now that I have used this PS3 controller emulating a XBOX gamepad with MADDEN PC I see that the simulator displays the XBOX icons which causes me to have to perform extra mental mapping while playing, as I think in Logitech symbols.

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XBOX icon to Logitech icon mapping
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botfly10 wrote:Hi Folks. I just got a PS3 sixaxis controller and have it running fine with motionjoy.

Has anyone figured out how to change the button icons so they show up correctly as PS3 rather than xbox in-game? I have been looking around and cannot find a solution.

Thanks

Welcome to the forum botfly10.
I just saw your post and the timing is pretty good,
as it so happens that I am working on a little project to address this very point
of reducing our mental burden of translating these pesky XBOX symbols.
(the last two are not so bad for you)

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XBOX icon to PS3 icon mapping
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The solution will allow you to replace all of those XBOX button icons with your favorite controller button icons.
The receiver icons also change.
However you might still need to memorize that XBOX to PS3 icon mapping graphic above....
depending whether or not I figure out how to change the offensive playbook graphs. :?:

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PS3 icons w XBOX play graphs
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Fortunately our symbol translation capabilities are not as split second critical when selecting your offensive play as it is when looking for the open receiver.
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Re: Heres how to use a PS3 controller on Madden 08 PC

Postby Gridiron » Tue Feb 12, 2013 3:53 pm

OK botfly10, my solution for removing those confusing icons has been completed, and it can be downloaded here:
http://www.footballidiot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=14605&p=37726#p37724
You'll need to run TexMod and load one of the three XBOX_to_* TexMod package files before starting MADDEN..

And I finally got the MotioninJoy local mode running on my Vista laptop. :D
Now it's time for some serious portable MADDEN play.
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Re: Heres how to use a PS3 controller on Madden 08 PC

Postby Gridiron » Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:49 pm

I just learned this the hard way, off line while in local mode.
If you set up only one USB port, then MIJ will only recognize PS3 controllers connected to that specific USB port.
MiJ needs to configure EACH USB port on your system.
My Vista laptop has 3 USB ports and I needed to initialize each one.
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Re: Heres how to use a PS3 controller on Madden 08 PC

Postby Gridiron » Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:11 am

Been doing a lot of research trying to make MiJ work on my desktop XP.
I've seen a lot of stuff about Windows and how MiJ goes into the OS and reconfigures it.

After I installed dotnet 4 then MiJ Version 0.6.0005 runs perfectly.
Unfortunately that Snakebyte PS3 controller was not supported until version 0.7.0001 which blows up.
So does version 0.7.1001.

I had the bright idea of using the MiJ rev 7 drivers with the rev 6.5 app to get my pad working in XP.
Well I finally got my controller drivers repaired and I won't be going there again.
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Re: Heres how to use a PS3 controller on Madden 08 PC

Postby Gridiron » Thu Feb 28, 2013 9:02 am

Good news!
It seems that M$ dotnet 4 was not good enough to run the latest 0.7 versions of MiJ.
I had to install M$ dotnet 3.5 to get MiJ to run in Windows XP!

Now I can use that Snakebyte clone with FULL MADDEN PC compatibility.

This is way important because I just learned that the latest Logitech F models have a huge 'deal breaking' defect! :oops:
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Re: Heres how to use a PS3 controller on Madden 08 PC

Postby allanlima » Mon Aug 05, 2013 3:39 pm

thanks it worked here, very good


but i'd like to know how to put ps3 button imges instead of xbox 360

like in ps3 is square, in game is showing X
instead of L2 it shows LT


so how do i fix this? i've read the link but i could not understand how to change it


thanks

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Re: Heres how to use a PS3 controller on Madden 08 PC

Postby Gridiron » Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:56 pm

allanlima wrote:thanks it worked here, very good
but i'd like to know how to put ps3 button imges instead of xbox 360
like in ps3 is square, in game is showing X
instead of L2 it shows LT
so how do i fix this? i've read the link but i could not understand how to change it
thanks

Doing this mental mapping can be quite a chore, and is not very fun for me.

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Making the fix is easy.

Download the zip (PS3onPC.zip) attached to this post: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=14605&p=37726#p37725
Contained in the zip file you will find a file named XBOX_to_PS3_Icons.tpf.
That file is used in conjunction with the TexMod frontend utility to replace the XBOX controller button icons with PS3 icons on the various screens when playing MADDEN.

Basic primer on using TexMod, courtesy of user LOBBS: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1031

I hope this helps.
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