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.
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.
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.
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.
What does it do?
Steam games tell me they’re compatible with my Xbox controller, and also PlayStation controllers.
I have a Mac, and whenever Apple talks gaming, they always show PlayStation controllers (but they silently note that Xbox controllers do, too).
What does the dongle do? Or are you saying Macs are the only computers that are compatible with PlayStation controllers? Make that make sense.
What does it do?
Seriously? That’s what the article is about. You just have to click the link and skim it.
I fail to see why one is needed. They work via Bluetooth. They also work via a regular USB-C cable if the features you want are not supported wirelessly. There is no reason for it to need a special dongle.
What is needed more than hardware is the developers of games to utilize whatever tools Sony has provided to add the support for things like haptics and triggers to their game. It’s not impossible to have adaptive triggers with the wireless connection; almost every major game releaeed in 2025 and 2026 has native support for it. Many games released prior have also updated to include native DualSense support over BT.
Steam could also help here, adding in a new translation layer thing so Steam Input can provide the same functionality as a wired connection and not report it as an Xbox controller. You can already do this with DS4Windows.
The article mentions windows… Can we do this on Linux without the dongle?
Just tested in CP2077, yeah, it works just fine over bluetooth as well as USB.
Yes I think.
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If someone could focus on making BT controllers not be unusable trash on Linux, that would probably be a more useful start.
