Utilizing pressure sensitive buttons of the DualShock 3 in PCSX2

Some games like Mad Maestro! or the Metal Gear Solid 3 titles utilize the PlayStation 2's pressure sensitive buttons missing on many 3rd party gamepads. To play them with your DualShock 3 appropriately the ScpToolkit includes a modified LilyPad plugin and a custom XInput proxy DLL, allowing the analog values of the button states to be reflected within the emulator.

Installation

The installation of the modification is pretty straight forward, you can either chose the automated or the manual approach (where the automated one is in fact identical to the manual steps).

Automated process

Launch the ScpToolkit Settings Manager and switch to the PCSX2 settings section:

Here you have to specify the PCSX2 installation path and hit Enable afterwards. That's it!

Manual steps

1. Browse to your ScpToolkit installation folder, then to the sub-folder XInput\x86
2. Copy all files in this directory to the root of your PCSX2 installation folder (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSX2 1.2.1)
3. In the PCSX2 sub-folder Plugins delete the file lilypad-rXXXX.dll or rename its extension to something else but .dll!
4. Copy LilyPad-Scp-r5875.dll from the LilyPad sub-folder (ScpToolkit) to the Plugins directory of PCSX2
5. Open ScpXInput.ini with a text editor and set the BinPath property to your installation folder, like:

[ScpControl]
BinPath=C:\Program Files\Nefarius Software Solutions\ScpToolkit
BinName=ScpControl.dll

Configuration

Launch PCSX2. You should be greeted by the initial configuration wizard:

Make sure the LilyPad SCP plugin is selected under PAD and hit Configure...:

Under Game Device APIs untick XInput and tick DualShock 3, then only the Keyboard and the DualShock 3 should be visible in the device list:

You can now start mapping the buttons on your DualShock 3 to the desired Pad:

Demo Video

Have a laugh at the author playing Mad Maestro! and failing at the very last second...