There are many people who had or still have a PS2 console , and it is not for nothing that it has been the best-selling console in history with more than 155 million units sold. If you still have it and you don’t know what to do with its peripherals, next we are going to tell you how to use the PS2 peripherals on a PC with the simple help of an adapter that costs just 3 euros.
Of course, since in the days of PS2 (remember that it was launched in 2000) the use of USB was not so widespread, the bad part is that its peripherals have a proprietary connector. Fortunately the adapters are very cheap , and will allow us to use most of your peripherals on PC by connecting them to a USB port
How to use PS2 peripherals on your PC
There are many peripherals that SONY created for this console: from the controls to the EyeToy camera, through the remote control to control multimedia playback or Guitar Hero guitars. Understandably, you no longer use the PS2 today, but having a PC, you can still breathe new life into its peripherals .
Controllers for PS2 on PC
The process is very simple: just connect the adapter to the PC and let Windows detect it and install the drivers automatically. Once done, disconnect it, connect the PS2 controller to the adapter and reconnect it to a USB port on your PC. The controller may not work at first, but luckily there is a page on Github with the PS2 controller drivers for Windows 10 that work perfectly (we have tested them ourselves).
It is true that this controller will not work on PC as well as one on Xbox or PS4, but if you had it in a drawer without using it, now you could give it a new life without having to buy a new controller and for very little. money.
EyeToy, the PS2 webcam works too
In this case, the PS2 EyeToy camera already had a USB connection and was connected to the back of the console, so it will be much easier if you want to use it on your PC. Of course, as soon as you connect it to your PC you will see that the operating system surely does not detect it (curiously, most Linux distributions and even MacOS do, but Windows does not), so you will have to look for the drivers. Well, we make things easier for you, here are some drivers for EyeToy that work with Windows 10 and 8.1.
The multimedia remote
One of the reasons the PS2 sold so well was because it could also double as a DVD player (and they were very expensive at the time). SONY capitalized on this functionality by separately selling the PS2 DVD remote control that allowed you to use the console to watch DVD movies from the comfort of your living room sofa.
For this controller to work on PC you will need the same adapter that we use for the PS2 controller; Just control the dongle that comes with the remote on the adapter and you’re done. In this case, for some reason it works without problems in Windows without even having to install a specific driver.
Guitar Hero / Rock Band guitars
Few PS2 users there will be who have not played Guitar Hero (or one of its many variants) with the famous guitars. If you want to use them on PC you can also and in the simplest way, since technically for the PS2 (and for the PC) they are like a normal PS2 controller. In other words, you will need exactly the same things as to operate the normal console controller: the USB adapter and the controller for the controller itself.
The Hard Drive with PlayStation 2 network adapter
Sony launched a peripheral in the form of HDD and network adapter for PlayStation 2 that among other things allows you to make “backups” of games on the hard disk, it was not very popular but if you are one of those people who had one of those peripherals to the first design of the PlayStation 2 and you have your games in there and you want to keep them, you can do it since it is possible to connect the hard drive to a PC, that is, we are talking about a unit from the early 2000s so you go to need some help.
This hard drive was connected to the console through the network connector, but you can disconnect it to place it in a box for internal hard drives. The problem? It is an IDE type HDD so you will need an IDE to SATA or IDE to USB converter.
