Thats really cool. Glad to hear a DS4 works.

I use the fan made drivers for the X360 controller and it works great. You can change any of the input settings and all. Amazing drivers.

Neat! I wonder if it will work with a DualShock3...?

Now I wish my XBOX One controller worked with Windows 98 or even XP at the very least 🙁.

It's also possible to get cheap USB adapters for controllers of older consoles such as the Sega Saturn, Nintendo N64, and Sony Playstation 1. The controllers can then be set up like any game pad. It works flawlessly in Windows XP.

RJDog wrote:

Neat! I wonder if it will work with a DualShock3...?

I tried both a PS3 Sixaxis controller and a Dualshock 3. They do not work. See my original post for some details. There might be a way to get them to function but there's no "out of the box" compatibility like the DS4 apparently has.

F2bnp wrote:

Now I wish my XBOX One controller worked with Windows 98 or even XP at the very least 🙁.

While I personally prefer the Dualshock 4 over the Xbox One controller I always welcome more choice.
If a friend comes over and wants to use his favourite controller then by all means he should be able to dammit! 🤣
Someone needs to make a driver for that thing!

yawetaG wrote:

It's also possible to get cheap USB adapters for controllers of older consoles such as the Sega Saturn, Nintendo N64, and Sony Playstation 1. The controllers can then be set up like any game pad. It works flawlessly in Windows XP.

As a child I got a cheap steering wheel for my Playstation 2 and PC. It used the PS2 controller plug as default and came with an adapter to use on PC via USB. The thing was, it also worked for normal PS1 and PS2 controllers. I think I still have it somewhere, I need to dig that thing out.

Hellistor wrote:

I tried both a PS3 Sixaxis controller and a Dualshock 3. They do not work. See my original post for some details.

Ah, sorry, guess I missed where you said that. I see it now.

That's too bad... Not sure if this is a good enough reason to convince my wife I need to buy a PS4...

Just buy a DS4 controller.

Trank wrote:

Thats really cool. Glad to hear a DS4 works.

I use the fan made drivers for the X360 controller and it works great. You can change any of the input settings and all. Amazing drivers.

Can You give any links please?

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/119841-xbox36 … iver-for-win98/

I think i got it from here. Not sure if the links are working though. So i just uploaded it here.

This is very good news. I can confirm it works here.

Did anybody try to get it working over bluetooth?

Anyone knows wireless pads which work with W98?

Speedlink Xeox maybe?

Whoops the driver links no longer work! Someone miscalculated somewhere on the grid: http://www.zshare.net/download/143540581df9be2a/

So i tried connecting the controller to a pentium 3 933 system but the controller calibration software inside winME seems to be overwhelmed, like the button presses seems stuck or frozen even though the software works perfectly, is there anything i have to do to make the controller behave correctly ?

Wow, very good find!
Thanks for the info with DirectInput vs. XInput.

I think I will give both controllers (DS4 and X360) a try on my Windows 98 + XP machine.
Can someone recommend good wired DS4 and X360 controllers with link?
Unfortunalety market is flooded with crappy third party asia models of all kinds.

Can a DS4 wireless controller be used as a wired one via micro-USB port of the controller or is this only used for charging the controller?

crusher wrote on 2024-06-18, 06:58:

Can a DS4 wireless controller be used as a wired one via micro-USB port of the controller or is this only used for charging the controller?

Only the second version of the Dualshock 4 has usb connection (v1 has charge over usb only).
Look for CECH-ZCT2U or E (in Europe)

W00fer wrote on 2024-08-04, 23:16:

Only the second version of the Dualshock 4 has usb connection (v1 has charge over usb only).
Look for CECH-ZCT2U or E (in Europe)

Thanks alot, Woofer!
That's a useful info.

I will look for the model you gave me and buy one 😀

So weirdness today. I've been using PS4 controllers for my Win98 computers for a year or two now because they blow everything else out of the water, but on a new Win98 install on an IBM t40 when I plugged the controller in I got two hardware notifications- an audio one and a human interface one. I ignored the audio one thinking it was something else (I was still in the process of setting up the computer after all) but the next time I plugged in the controller I got the audio pop up again. So I went ahead and installed those drivers, no issue, and nothing really happens but I am able to set the controller as both audio out and mic in.

I mean, it doesn't seem to work, yet. I've set the audio out back to SoundMax, BUT the PS4 controller DOES have a microphone in it. Has anyone gotten this working? Anyone else gotten the prompt to install usb audio devices when they plug in their dual shock 4?

The DS4 has a speaker, not a microphone, built in, so try playing, not recording something. https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps4/DualShock_4#Specifications Sony probably saw the Wiimote playing bow and arrow sounds in Zelda and wanted some of that too.

The USB audio endpoints might also represent the headset connector (stereo out + mic), which you would obviously need to plug something into to get a signal. Whatever they are, nice of Sony to expose them - wouldn't have been necessary for basic controller functionality, which 99% of people would probably have been content with. Maybe them showing up depends on the controller's firmware version? Is that one new-to-you? Or do you have other controllers to try on the system that showed that prompt, ones you know didn't do that on a different system?