Universal PS2 to PS3 Controller Adaptor

by TAC

Product Features

• Enable the use of PS2 Wired / Wireless Guitar Hero controller on PS3 Rock Band or Guitar Hero 3
• Enable the use of PS2 controller on PS3
• Controller assignment number LED for easy identification
• Support multiple PS2 to PS3 Converter on one PS3 allowing you to use multiple PS2 controllers on PS3
• Simple, low cost solution lets you re-use the old PS2 controller.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00162IF76
• Item Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Media: Accessory
• Release Date: April 29, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,477 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #22 in Video Games > PlayStation 3 > Hardware > Cables & Adapters > Adapters
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Would you like to be able to use your Rock Band or Guitar Hero Guitar for a PS2 on your PS3? Now you can with the only PS2 to PS3 guitar adaptor on the market. No need to invest in another guitar!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not only works for GH/RB, but for other PS2 controllers as well., June 5, 2008

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J. W. (CA USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Universal PS2 to PS3 Controller Adaptor (Accessory)

I bought this adapter because I own a pretty big collection of PS2 games, and I already put away my PS2 for extra space. What am I going to use it for? Very niche titles that few of you will care.

First, obvious compatibility that most will care about is the Guitar Hero guitars for GH3 and RB. They work. Not 100%, but work. However don't expect it to work again on future GH titles since Activion is a money hungry-portholic-jackass and probably will change their game codes so this adapter won't work. Who knows?

Second, dual shock 2 also works well for PS2 and PS3 games. No tilting for sixaxis-supported PS3 titles, obviously.

Ok so the first and second part of my review are obvious ones that everyone else already talked about. My main test subjects for this review are
Taiko Drummaster, Beatmania, Pump it up, DDR, Tekken arcade stick, Street Fighter 15th anniversary controller by Nubytech, and Saturn PS2 controller.

Taiko Drummaster-Game only recognizes the drum as the dualshock2 controller. What this means is that you can't use the drum to navigate the menu, but WILL work once the song starts. All I could do was to use the controller, pick a song, pause, and then switch back to drum in order to play the game.

Beatmania-Game has an option to choose either controller or turntable controller. I pick turntable, and the controller works perfectly fine.

Pump it up-It works well

DDR-DOES NOT WORK. If it works, there might be lags. Sorry for the confusion.

Tekken arcade stick-It works, but I read somewhere that there are few millisecond lags for joystick inputs. Doesn't affect average Tekken/VF player like me, but experts might.

SF 15th anniversary edition controller pad by Nubytech-Tested with SF Anniversary Collection, and it works fine.

Saturn PS2 controller-My main reason for buying the converter was to use this controller for my fighting games like KoF and SF on my PS3. It was bit of a gamble since this controller is an import, but to my surprise it WORKS!!!

In conclusion, this converter does a pretty good job of letting you use most of the PS2 controllers for PS2/PS3 games on PS3.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars BEWARE: WILL NOT WORK AFTER 2.7 UPDATE, April 3, 2009

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Samuel Gao - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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This converter worked fine until I've updated my system to 2.7. Now it's nothing more than paper weight. Good thing I didn't update my system while this thing was plugged in! I hear a lot of people bricked their PS3's and had to FORMAT all their saved games...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not close enough..., April 4, 2009

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G. Wolfe "avidgamefan" (FL USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Universal PS2 to PS3 Controller Adaptor (Accessory)

As another poster has mentioned, a newer PS2 controller revision H does not appear to work at all. I found an older controller, and that worked, except that R2 didn't work for a driving game, so that is limiting. I also have a Logitech wireless controller, and that seemed to work perfectly! This was all with system version 2.60.

Note that I'm not using it for one of it's biggest features, using the PS2 guitar controllers.

I upgraded the PS3 system software to version 2.70, and now the TAC adapter locks up my PS3 when I plug it in, as a previous reviewer mentioned. (Also, as that previous poster mentioned, do not have this adapter plugged in while updating the system software!) So, it looks like it won't work at all, now. Until updating the system software, it looked like it was going to be good enough, as I'd just use it with the Logitech controller, but this seems like a real problem.