PlayStation 2 Dual Analog Controller (rumbleless non-DualShock version)

Who remembers these? I don't own it or heard of anybody recently coming across one. I know details are/were out there, but this controller seems to have vanished off the Web (only a handful of vague forum comments of little info remain)! Also just about positive I'd seen detailed pics online a year or two ago...

As far as I recall:
It was a barely even mentioned release by Sony at a budget price late in PS2's lifespan.
Had blue packaging with some message along the lines of "does not support vibration function".
Disappeared from store shelves just as quiet.

 

The only official SONY dual analogue pad I remember seeing was the precursor to the Dual Shock itself that was released for the PSX around '97 or so. Slightly bigger than the later rumble version it had longer 'handles' and the thumbsticks were concave as opposed to the later mushroom shape we've all gotten used to.

Maybe SONY were sitting on an absolute crapload of unsold stock, because there wasn't much of a time window between the release of the Dual Analogue pad and the Dual Shock itself so someone may have thought that repackaging them at a lower price point would be a way to shift units.

 

That's weird. I've never seen or heard of such a thing before. Did it look just like a DualShock 2? Why would they remove a feature like that? Well, it is Sony we're talking about after all.

 

I've never seen the controller but would this have anything to do with the lawsuit with Immersion?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_v._Sony

 

Yeah, this is the one I remember too. I always found it quite strange that it was even released considering the Dual Shock seemed to be on the shelves literally a month or so later.

 

Possibly. Assuming these exist that places it late 2007. And there's no mistaking the box color. What tiny few info scraps I've been able to dig up, fit together.

http://community.us.playstation.com/thread/166584
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=165918

So the controller itself should look based on Dual Shock 2 (not the nearly 10-year-older original Dual Shock). Except without rumble motors inside or likely the "Dual Shock 2" name printed on top.

 

Whoa never heard about these...

Any hint on the SCPH # code ?

 

No, at least not anymore. Like I said it's pretty much disappeared from the internet. I don't see any sign of them being included with new PS2s, nor mention of which countries or colors they were available in.

Well either way it's not really worth going through much hassle to debunk if nothing else comes up. Lack of rumble isn't all that useful IMO.

 

They sound like quite a nifty collectable, I wonder if they were only sold in the states...

Shame there's no more info on them...

 

DUAL ANALOG SCPH-1180

I have two of them along with the two PSX SCPH-1110 Flight sticks. I consider the DUAL ANALOG more rare, a great collectable. There is a third mode with a green light for the old PSX Flight Stick games. A really great feature is using the sticks on older digital pad only PS1 games. The 3rd party Interact Barracuda is the only other stick that does this, funny it also has concave plastic analog sticks.

I posted more info here: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=217621#p217621

 

Thanks man. Your effort is appreciated.

Except that's not the controller this topic is about. That shown dual analog pad was created 10 years before the rumored rumble-less PS2 pad I'm referring to.

 

Hi Lum, as a PS2 collector I read this thread with great interest. I have not once ever heard of an official PS2 controller that lacked rumble.

Both the PS1 and PS3 had analog controllers released that lacked the rumble. Both are far rarer than the dualshock versions. Are you positive this was PS2 and not PS1 or PS3? Is there a chance that this controller was a third party clone?

I don't mean to insult your memory but have you thought of these possibilities?

But I can say if these do exist, I certainly want one!

 

Could be. Third party clone makes sense. I doubt mainstream US big box stores would carry any PS1 controllers in 07/08. Yet weirder things have happened. We can't rule out a ludicrously late repackage either, the dualshock 1 was available in black after all.

 

Oops, I homed in on DUAL ANALOG didn't realize there was a PS2 version without the motors. Is there anything unique about the PS2 version besides no motors?

 

Only that we're not certain of its existence. I'm not sure there's much else worth saying in the topic without further info or evidence. Hmm... Oh well.

 

I'll have to go back through my storage unit but, I have allot of ps1/ps2 controllers somewhere; but these sound familiar, I'll have to dig through and see what I have.

 

My best guess is a mixup that was meant to reference the PS1 controller previously mentioned.


I simply don't see the reason that Sony would release a non-rumble controller at the time. I seem to remember with the SIXAXIS they had some lame excuse not to have rumble.

 

The Sixaxis was only released without rumble because of the lawsuit with Immersion, but what's-his-face from Sony said it was because rumble was "a last generation feature".
It was a pretty obvious attempt at spin, because the Dual Shock 3 came out - with rumble - after the lawsuit was settled.

 

This would be the only reason http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_v._Sony IIRC at it's height it prevented Sony selling dual shock and bundles containing dual shock in US for a short period.

But as the bishop said to the actress.... PICS OR GTFO:flamethrower:

 

That only makes sense if dishonesty or a collective memory void is involved. Otherwise something unexplained no doubt occurred. Question is finding out what. It'd be too much of a stretch to accept the idea more than one user merely mixed up their own witnessing white PS1 controllers on store shelves in 1997, and black PS2 controllers on store shelves in 2007.