How to use a PS3 controller on PC without motion joy

My PC pad broke today so I decided that I’d try to use my PS3 one instead. After doing a bit of googling I came across a program called motion joy. Not only did this program look horrendous but it also didn’t work on my PC. Then I came across something called LibUSB which works perfectly. Here’s a quick guide on how to use it.

First thing you want to do is plug your PS3 controller into your PC via the USB cable. At this point windows will then install some drivers that don’t work.

Then download LibUSB from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/libusb-win32/files/

Extract the program wherever you like and go into the bin folder and run inf-wizard.exe.

Select the PS3 game pad from the device list and make a note of the vendor identification and the product identification numbers.

Once installed go to control panel, devices and printers, and right click the PS3 pad.

Click properties and go to the hardware tab. Click properties again and select the driver tab.

Then select uninstall drivers. This will remove the drivers that windows automatically installs that don’t work.

Unplug your controller and replug it in.

Then go to the amd64 folder (if you have a 64bit system) or the x86 (If you have a 32bit system) in LibUSB and run the install-filter-win.exe

Select to install a filter and select your device using the vid (vendor identification) and pid (product identification) to identify your device.

Congratulations your device is now ready to use.

If you want to use your pad in PCSX2 then in the controller plugin settings select DualShock 3 native mode. Then run a game or homebrew and hold the PS button until the red light at number 1 on the pad remains constant. You can then map all the buttons as normal.

How to Cirno Icicle Fall (Normal Mode)

Allot of people who are new to playing Touhou seem to struggle when doing EoSD Cirnos Icicle Fall on Normal mode. Well here’s a quick and really simple guide on how to do it.

I’ve run the hit box patch just to show how much room you actually have with this spell card.

First of all you want to position yourself about here

Then when the yellow bullets start to fall you want to dodge either left or right of the centre one. Then as soon as the icicles begin to fall you want to dodge through the first wave like so.

Then run up between the two waves of icicles

Dodge through the yellow bullets and pull yourself back into the centre

Cirno should then die, unless you haven’t reached full power mode in which cas rinse and repeat the above.

Here’s a quick video I made as well