This confused me deeply, because I had no memory of ever owning a PS3. Not until I had finished hooking it up and discovering that it didn't work did I have a surge of déjà vu and realize that I had done exactly that same thing some time before. A search of my shelf of game discs turned up one, and only one, PS3 game, Hatsune Miku Project DIVA F... which I still have no memory of ever actually playing.

So, yeah! Discovered I had a PS3 long enough ago that I completely forgot I ever had it, and a memory fragment suggesting that I already knew it didn't work when I put it in that shoebox and let it get buried in other junk. Why did I keep it? Did I think I might be able to fix it at some point, improbable as that seems? Was I hoping the Electronics Fairy would just drop by it would work again the next time I unearthed it?

Whichever. I'm in the midst of a fit of trying to unhoard stuff right now, so I threw it out--but I kept the controller, because said fit is imperfect. Can you even use a PS3 controller with a PC? It looks like it just has a standard USB Mini-A port on it. I could look this up online, of course, and I presumably will one of these days, but, you know, rhetorical musings and all that.

(I don't even need it, I have a perfectly good Xbone controller that works for stuff like No Man's Sky. But, you know, can't throw something out if it might conceivably be any good! Send help.)

--G.
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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

Oh, there's a copy of GTA5 for PS3 here, too, which is weird. A, it was with the Xbox games, and B, I know I've never played that game on anything but PC. Did I buy it for a pack-in code or something? Actually, do any of these games work if you resell the discs, or do they have unique identifiers in them these days that lock to an account or something? I'm old, I don't know how this stuff works any more...

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

Yes, entirely possible, you just need to download drivers from independent projects to get it to work.

You'll want some combination of either Scp Toolkit or DsHidMini and DS4Windows. There's a number of guides you can search if you actually want to bother with doing this.

(These days, a PS4 controller or newer interfaces nicely with just keeping Steam open.)

And then the voice in the back of my head that likes to spoil my dreams spoke up: "What free time?"

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject