Nicolas Hillegeer aktau

How to connect a PS3 controller to a different machine (PS3, Mac, PC)

You will need a Mini USB cable. Overcome your laziness and go get one!

A big misconception is that keep holding PS button will reset the controller's pairing. It doesn't! From my testing, the controller pairs with the last machine it was CONNECTED VIA A USB CABLE.

Here are the real Steps:

Turn OFF your PS3 controller by either...

	; also see an alternative: http://lpaste.net/111802

	; rdi = the number (integer) to print
	; prints a number as hex (basically the easy way out)
	printnum:
	push r13
	push r14
	push r15

	; save the argument because we're going to use it to pass an argument to

	// @aktau: this is not my file, I tried to find the original article this was from but couldn't, I'm pasting it here for posterity
	#include <fcntl.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <errno.h>
	#include <string.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <sys/resource.h>
	#include <sys/types.h>
	#include <sys/time.h>
	#include <sys/uio.h>

	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <string.h>
	#include <stdio.h>

	size_t cntchr(const char *str, char value) {
	size_t count = 0;
	while ((str = strchr(str, value)) != NULL) {
	++str;
	++count;
	}

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <string.h>
	#include <stdbool.h>
	#include <stdarg.h>

	#define MAXPATHL 128

	/// like `strcat`, but returns a pointer to the '\0' terminator of rht
	/// resulting string.

	; /usr/local/bin/nasm -f macho 32.asm && ld -macosx_version_min 10.7.0 -o 32 32.o && ./32

	;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
	; The .data section is for storing and naming constants.
	;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
	section .data

	msg: db "Hello world!", 10
	.len: equ $ - msg

	# seems to delegate to the Nehalem variant, but with some different
	# constants to jump directly to relevant parts inside of the function
	0000000000003fa0 <__platform_memmove$VARIANT$Ivybridge>:
	3fa0: 55 push %rbp
	3fa1: 48 89 e5 mov %rsp,%rbp
	3fa4: 49 89 fb mov %rdi,%r11
	3fa7: 49 29 f3 sub %rsi,%r11
	3faa: 48 89 f8 mov %rdi,%rax
	3fad: 49 39 d3 cmp %rdx,%r11
	3fb0: 0f 82 44 00 00 00 jb 3ffa <__platform_memmove$VARIANT$Nehalem+0x1a>

	#define _GNU_SOURCE

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdint.h>
	#include <fcntl.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <errno.h>
	#include <limits.h>
	#include <stdbool.h>

	#if defined(__GNUC__)
	#include <stdint.h>
	#include <cpuid.h>
	#elif defined(_WIN32)
	#include <intrin.h>
	typedef unsigned __int32 uint32_t;
	#endif
	#include <stdio.h>

	/**

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <string.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>

	#include <x86intrin.h>

	/* void palignr(const __m128i a, const __m128i b, const int offset) { */
	#define palignr(a, b, offset) { \
	char *buf = calloc(sizeof(__m128i) + 1, 1); \
	__m128i res = _mm_alignr_epi8(a, b, offset); \