DsHidMini

Virtual HID Mini-user-mode driver for Sony DualShock 3 Controllers

🚨 What to expect with Version 3 🚨

Next major version is in progress! Here's an overview of what you'll get:

New driver installer
New configuration app
ARM64 support
Full Windows 11 compatibility
Complete LED customization
Customize dead-zone thresholds
Customize HAT/POV behaviour
Adjust rumble strengths
Switch DPad to individual buttons
Customize the Quick-Disconnect button combination
Configure flipping/inverting axes
...and maybe more?

Stay tuned!

Summary

DsHidMini is a self-contained, low footprint and feature-rich user-mode driver for Microsoft Windows 10/11. It presents the controller as a configurable variety of fully standard-compliant HID devices to the system and all games built on common APIs like DirectInput, Raw Input and the low-level HID API. XInput-emulation further increases the support in modern games built with only Xbox controllers in mind. The driver supports both wired connections by handling USB communication and wireless connections by building upon the BthPS3 driver suite. An optional .NET configuration tool is provided to alter driver behavior to fine-tune it to specific games or other use-cases.

Features

Bluetooth support if used in conjunction with BthPS3 (requires at least v2.0.144 or newer)
Automatically pairs the controller to Windows Bluetooth (if Bluetooth host radio is present)
Multiple configurable HID Report Descriptors for wide range of compatibility
- Single Gamepad device exposing all controls including pressure sensitive buttons
- Split/multi device emulation to overcome DirectInput axis limits
- Sony sixaxis.sys emulation (both wired and wireless)
- DualShock 4 emulation for compatibility with DS4Windows
- Xbox Controller emulation (XInput) for best compatibility with most modern games
Quick disconnect (on Bluetooth) by pressing L1 + R1 + PS together for over one second
Automatic disconnect (on Bluetooth) after idle timeout (5 minutes) expired to conserve battery
Custom LED states indicate battery charge level
- Wired: Charging will cycle through 1 to 4, if fully charged will stay on 4
- Wireless: 4 = Full, 3 = High, 2 = Medium/low, 1 = Low/dying
Rumble exposure via Force Feedback
- The rumble motors are exposed as Force Feedback effects, allowing for great game compatibility
Supports the PCSX2 PlayStation 2 Emulator
- Controller gets picked up by LilyPad plugin with all device features
Supports the RPCS3 PlayStation 3 Emulator
- Controller gets picked up by DualShock 3 handler with all device features
Supports DS4Windows (requires at least Version 2.2.10 or newer)
- Controller gets presented as a DualShock 4 compatible variant
- Read #40 for details about XInput and DS4 emulation
Supports RetroArch emulation platform
Supports x360ce for XInput emulation
Supports Dolphin Emulator
Supports DuckStation - PlayStation 1, aka. PSX Emulator

What's missing

Check the ⚡ issue tracker ⚡ for work-in-progress or known bugs!

The following features are not available (and most probably won't in the near future until more contributors join the party):

Motion controls a.k.a. SIXAXIS (Gyroscope, Accelerometer)
- Contributions welcome!
- See #217
Navigation Controller
- Majority is done
Motion Controller
- Not considered in design at all

For in-progress features and bug-fixes please consult the issue tracker.

How it works

DsHidMini is a filter driver sitting below mshidumdf.sys and acts as a function driver for USB and Bluetooth through the User-mode Driver Framework Reflector, handling translation of incoming HID I/O traffic to underlying USB/Bluetooth I/O and vice versa. On USB it replaces the Windows stock drivers for the Sony hardware and presents the device as a variety of user-configurable HID devices (see documentation). On Bluetooth in conjunction with BthPS3 it replaces the need for Shibari as the driver directly communicates over wireless channels and takes care of the necessary translation logic. As a user-mode driver it has limited access to the registry, therefore device-specific settings are stored and retrieved using the Unified Device Property Model API. Most of the core HID heavy lifting is done by the amazing DMF_VirtualHidMini module which greatly reduced the need for boilerplate code and sped up development tremendously.

Licensing

This solution contains BSD-3-Clause and other licensed components. For details, please consult the individual LICENSE files.

This is a community project and not affiliated with Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. in any way.

"PlayStation", "PSP", "PS2", "PS one", "DUALSHOCK" and "SIXAXIS" are registered trademarks of Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Environment

DsHidMini components (drivers, utilities) are designed for Windows 10, version 1809 or newer (x86, x64).

The dependencies used in DsHidMini don't exist in Windows 7/8/8.1 so they can't be supported.

How to build

Prerequisites

Step 1: Install Visual Studio 2019
Step 2: Install WDK for Windows 10, version 2004
Step 3: Clone the Driver Module Framework (DMF) into the same parent directory.
- Important: requires at least v1.1.83 or newer
- Build the DmfU project with Release and Debug configurations for all architectures (x64 and Win32).

You can build individual projects of the solution within Visual Studio.

Documentation

Take a look at the project page for more information.

Installation

Pre-built binaries and instructions are provided on the releases page.

Support

To get support please follow these guidlines.

Sources & 3rd party credits

The following awesome resources have made this project possible.

nefarius/DsHidMini

nefarius

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