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[CrispyBoar]

Hi, I am thinking about buying myself some parts in order to make the perfect Dualshock 4 controller.

I've already bought this battery in order to extend the battery life for longer wireless play (for some reason, Sony decided to put in a internal battery inside of the Dualshock 4 that's worse than the internal battery inside of the Dualshock 3), followed by a pair of Xbox One analog sticks.

I've heard that the PlayStation Vita's D-Pad is the one of the most superior D-Pad's out there (especially for genres like fighting games). Of course, the D-Pad from the Dualshock 4 is good, too, but I'm curious about it. I have a few questions:

1.) Is it worth switching the D-Pad from the Dualshock 4 for it,

2.) Will any D-Pad from the Vita will work, as there's D-Pad's from the 1000, 2000, & the slim models, &

3.) Where can I obtain these from?

 

[alr1ght]

Nope.

 

[Rich!]

No.

Totally different design both in design/size and mechanically.

 

[mlclmtckr]

How are you going to actually build this? Just using the DS4 shell?

Anyway, seems cool, looking forward to seeing it.

 

[nadozza]

No. As stated above they're very different in size and shape. Even if you did get it to fit somehow it's more about the actual mechanism that produces a clickier (totally a word?) feeling on the Vita than the DualShock 4's design.

 

[TimPV3]

It'll work about as well as replacing the touchpad with the Vita's touchscreen

 

[Elitist1945]

This made me think. Can you use the Vita a PS4 controller? I'd totally do that.

 

[CambriaRising]

Not natively. You would have to customize a piece to let it hit the plungers accurately. And even then the tactile feedback that you like about the vita d pad would be lost at that point.

 

[Killthee]

This made me think. Can you use the Vita a PS4 controller? I'd totally do that.

Should be possible via remote play.

 

[I am Christina Aguilera]

What I want to know is if it's even remotely possible to swap/mod out the DualShock-style D-pad on a PSP-3000 and put in basically any kind of Nintendo-style connected cross pad comfortably.

 

[Englebert3rd]

To be honest the Vita D-Pad should be put everywhere. It's just too good for me...