Anyone remember the pressure-sensitive buttons on the PS2 Controller?

[camjocotem]

Thought it was a pretty cool feature to have in games like Ace Combat, pressing the button hard meant using your boost.

Press button hard, plane goes faster!

 

Was a bit clunky in Metal Gear Solid 2 though where it made the difference between crouching and crawling, that was pretty rubbish.

[Levent]

Pretty sure that was not the case with PS2 controller. I even tore couple down over the years and none of them had hardware for that type of feature.

[camjocotem]

Maybe it was PS3

[Levent]

I also took apart couple of PS3 controllers and those didnt have it either. I am also certain that PS4 controllers dont have that.

[camjocotem]

Looked again, yeah it was PS2.

Some videos showing it working here:

 

 

[porina]

I vaguely remember trying to use it in Gran Turismo, but practically speaking the amount of range between not pressing at all and all the way down was so small it didn't give me any more control. 

[Levent]

26 minutes ago, camjocotem said:

Looked again, yeah it was PS2.

Some videos showing it working here:

 

 

TIL, never even played a game that had that as a feature. Interesting.

[minibois]

I thought it was a pretty cool feature and was kind of bummed they changed the design on the PS3 (with the R2/K2 becoming analog).

 

In the end, it was a worthwhile change which made more sense.

[Colty]

PS2 and PS3 both had it. The only reason I'm trying to hunt down an official PS3 controller is because it's the only proper way to play MGS2/MGS3. The PC and Xbox version can't use pressure sensitive buttons so you can't cancel a shot. You're supposed to be able to press square, hold an enemy up, slowly release, and put your gun down to do whatever else you need to do. If you release quickly, you fire off a shot. On PC/Xbox, you have to waste a shot (and possibly get detected) each time you want to hold someone up. There might be an alternative way, and you may be able to map a PS4/PS5/Xbox controller with pressure sensitive triggers to do this correctly, but it's a hassle when I already have the HD collection on PS3 and I'm already used to the controls as they were. 

[Solidnightmare]

You can un equip your gun to cancel a shot, learned that when playing the vita version

[Zodiark1593]

On 3/9/2021 at 1:25 AM, Levent said:

Pretty sure that was not the case with PS2 controller. I even tore couple down over the years and none of them had hardware for that type of feature.

The Dualshock 2 definitely had that feature, but outside MGS and maybe racing games, not a lot of games really made a lot of use of it. It was difficult to get precise input, and many third party controllers straight up didn’t support the feature.

 

 In Gran Turismo 4, I prefer using the analog stick for brake/accelerator as it’s much easier to get precise inputs than with the pressure sensitive buttons. 

[Mark Kaine]

On 3/9/2021 at 10:26 AM, camjocotem said:

Maybe it was PS3

No it was PS2 of course! 

 

Btw i absolutely loved it in Metal Gear and racing games... 

 

 

On 3/20/2021 at 7:10 AM, Zodiark1593 said:

In Gran Turismo 4, I prefer using the analog stick for brake/accelerator

That's true!  I still liked the analogs for other racing games. 

[flibberdipper]

It really was a weird feature that both the PS2 and OG Xbox had, and I'm kinda sad that we didn't really see it past them (though it was honestly pretty janky). The only games I've played on the PS2 that I recall supporting them are GTA 3 and Vice City (San Andreas might've too, I don't remember). It's a little insane how many pressure-sensitive inputs the OG Xbox had: The triggers, the normal face buttons, and white/black.

[Ithanul]

I sure remember. 

 

Because of that little baby dragon and flute for the doors in Star Ocean: Till the End of Time.

 

....why

I really dislike that puzzle because you had to time the pressure on the buttons.