I don’t know who still checks this thread, but I figured I’d chime in and report on a converter I bought for PS2 to Wii/Wii U. I bought a Mayflash PS2 to Wii Classic Controller converter to get my HRAP2SA working on my Wii U, but that didn’t work. It actually doesn’t work for any controllers that don’t have analog sticks on them, so PS1 digital pads or any HRAP won’t work with it (yet for some reason Mayflash’s own stick works :-/ ).
I picked up off of eBay the converter pictured here:
The converter I got in the mail has that exact packaging. It’s advertised to work with standard PS2 controllers, Guitar Hero guitars, and most importantly, arcade sticks. Aside from this tiny sheet of paper that calls it the “HHC-3001 PS/PS2 to Wii Converter”, there’s no sign anywhere of a name. The packaging just calls it a “PS/PS2 to wii converter manual”, whatever that means. You can actually see in the picture if you look close that the arcade stick they use for the image looks like the HRAP1. Well, long story short, it works and it works pretty well! I can’t feel any lag at all and it’s got an incredibly nifty function where no matter what controller you have plugged in, it has a built-in macro to activate the Home button by pressing Start+Select. GREAT for arcade sticks! The button mapping for arcade sticks is a little bit weird though, and I’ll cover that in a bit.
First, the mapping for standard PS2 controllers with analog sticks:
PS2 Button = Wii Classic Controller Button
Left Analog Stick = Left Analog Stick
Right Analog Stick = Right Analog Stick
D-Pad = D-Pad
Select = -/Minus/Select
Start = +/Plus/Start
Analog = Home
X = B
Circle = A
Square = Y
Triangle = X
R1 = R
R2 = zR
L1 = L
L2 = zL
Next up is the Guitar Hero mapping for anyone who cares:
PS2 Guitar Button = Wii Guitar Button
Blue = Blue
Green = Green
Red = Red
Yellow = Yellow
Orange = Orange
Start = +/Plus/Start
Select/L2 = -/Minus/Select
Start+Select = Home
Strum Bar Up = Strum Bar Up
Strum Bar Down = Strum Bar Down
Whammy Bar = Whammy Bar
Then there’s three mappings which I have NO idea how to interpret.
Start+Orange = LX-Right
Start+Green = LX-Left
None = LY-Up/Down (I guess this means it can’t be accessed?)
Finally, is the mapping for completely digital input controllers like the PS1 pads or most arcade sticks. This one I’ll have to arrange a different way since it’s hard to visualize it otherwise.
So the D-Pad is D-Pad. Nothing more to say there; it works exactly like it should. Where it gets tricky is the layout. So let’s use traditional Street Fighter layout as the base point:
LP MP HP 3P
LK MK HK 3K
On my HRAP2SA, the buttons are laid out as:
[] /\ R1 L1
X O R2 L2
This translates to this converter as:
X L zL Y
A R zR B
This looks REALLY weird, but it actually makes quite a bit of sense if you look at the Hori arcade sticks this was probably made for. The HRAP1 that’s pictured in the packaging has this button layout:
L1 [] /\ R1
L2 X O R2
Which, if you translate through the converter, maps out as:
Y X L zL
B A R zR
It actually maps out very methodically if you use the old Hori button layout, but it definitely doesn’t translate to the HRAP2 onwards where Hori moved the L1/L2 buttons to the right side of the stick and shifted everything over.
Anyways, that’s just my quick overview of this converter. I hope this helps anyone trying to find a way to get their stick working on a Wii U or the Wii. :-bd
