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Uncategorized Thursday, June 7th 2012 at 3:36 pm

Cronus USB Adapter Lets You Mix And Match Controllers and Consoles

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Want to play some PS3 but you just need to have offset sticks? Want to play some XBLA games but you just can’t deal with the Xbox 360′s controller’s garbage D-pad? The new Cronus adapter might provide a solution; it will let you mix and match controllers and consoles as you see fit.

Currently being shown off at E3, the Cronus adaptor is a small USB stick with a male port on one end and a female port on the other. The adapter is plugged into the console, with the controller’s USB plugged into it from behind. From this position, Cronus emulates the system’s native controller based on input from the one plugged into it.

It may seem a little frivolous, but it could certainly be helpful for gamers who want to be able to play local multiplayer on several different consoles. This way you can have one PS3 controller and one Xbox 360 controller instead of two of each. The emulation solution also means that Cronus should be able to allow users to remap buttons, giving extra customization for games that have limited control schemes, or just one.

So far, the Cronus is focused on PS3 and Xbox 360 switcheroos, but they’ve got eyes on the Wiimote as well and there’s no reason to think that keyboards and mice can’t get roped in as well (although you might be limited to just one or the other). The Cronus several months from market, and the makers haven’t settled on a price, but they estimate somewhere in the $50-$60 area. A bit much to pay for a little extra flexibility, but if it can save you from purchasing an extra pair of controllers, it could pay for itself pretty fast.

(via Engadget, image via Modded Controllers)

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  • Anthony Neves

    I would purchase this just because I have a ps3, and the majority of my friends have x-box. With this I could just bring my controller over to play, or have them bring an x-box controller so we can do 4-player (I only have two controllers …)

  • Anonymous

    Cronus is the only one with works with PS3 controllers in wireless mode

    - The only with works with Wiimote.

    - Cronus is the only one with have a PC interface which can:

         * Allow use the Keyboard and Mouse of a PC (laptop) to play on consoles.

         * And able us to make other applications like:

            – to play with aid of command voice for deficient people (one handled, etc…)

            – to use any kind of input device on PC to play on consoles (wheel, flight joysticks, etc ..)

            – computer vision applications to play with movements (like kinect).

            – and we can think and more applications, there is no limit in what we can do.

    - Multi-plataform, so it can be used with PS3, XBox360 and PC.

    - Compatible with multiple controllers (any controller that uses the same protocol used on XBox360, PS3 and Wii); this includes almost all licensed controllers for XBox, some licensed PS3 controllers and most all third-party PS3 controllers.

    - Unfortunately we took out our biggest differential, that was the programing feature; but we can still offer:

        * Button remapping

        * Sensitivity adjustments (acceleration, deadzone, etc..)

        * Use the PS3 and Wiimote accelerometer to play on games (or consoles) that do not support this feature.

    - The controllers that longer work on PS3 (after the PS3 update 3.XX) can work again with Cronus (Eg: FragFX v1)

    For sure there are more we can include in this list. 

  • Anonymous

    That’s pretty cool. I can’t stand Playstation controllers.