Is PS2 Dodonpachi Daioujou support keyboard?

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irakatz
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Is PS2 Dodonpachi Daioujou support keyboard?

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Hi all,

I am a PS2 novice, and I only use keyboard to play shumps. Now I want to play Dodonpachi Daioujou PS2 version, and specifically, its DEATHLABEL.
I think this version only exists in PS2, instead of MAME. Although I can play it on some emulators (e.g., PCSX2), I still want to play on a real device (if supported).

But now I worry that PS2 (or just this game) may not support keyboard input, and I have no knowledge of how emulators did it.
Can someone help me?
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Re: Is PS2 Dodonpachi Daioujou support keyboard?

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I believe the back cover tells you what peripherals are supported (I've seen "USB keyboard support" on a few), but I don't know japanese so I can't translate the back of DOJ. Doesn't seem like it though!

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Yeah, all that talks about there is basically how much memory card data it uses up and the number of players. Nothing about peripherals.
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Yeah, I suspected that from the context, which doesn't bode well since if no special peripherals are supported they leave it out. :(
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Re: Is PS2 Dodonpachi Daioujou support keyboard?

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There's a very small selection of games that support keyboard, and it's used primarily for text input. I think it's very unlikely you'd be able to use the keyboard for game control inputs.
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You might have to look into something like a "Hitbox" style arcade stick where instead of an actual stick you have four buttons for the movement.

Finding a way to convert a keyboard's inputs to be read as a Playstation 2 controller will be especially difficult if such a thing exists since there used to be a pre-USB input standard for PCs called "PS/2" which is pretty much what floods search results.
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Spinning off of that idea, wouldn't it be possible to mod a DualShock 2 controller to have the d-pad respond to any four buttons? Hm... Anyway, the ins and outs of a DualShock 2 is looked at in this thread!
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Dunno if something like this exists for PS2 without some custom work being done, but you can get these pretty easily for modern consoles.

https://www.amazon.com/Joystick-Keyboar ... NG81&psc=1
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