Sony Dualshock 3 - Layout Swapping and Feature Glossary; Southpaw Layout Swapping

To swap the left buttons to match so that
L
aims and
l
throws grenades do the following.
Remember if you have already enabled Trigger Swapping for R buttons like above, then you
need to hold
R+a
instead of
r+a
to activate.
Activate the chip (
r+a
) then hold
l+L
and tap
2
until the light flashes 3 times
then release
l+L
.
Now when you press
L
you will aim and when you press
l
you will throw a grenade.
Modes Explained
Mode 1
r
is used to activate the chip and select modes, and when
r
is pressed
r
is
rapid fired. This is the default behaviour.
Mode 2
R
is used to activate the chip and select modes, and when
R
is pressed
R
is
rapid fired.
Mode 3
R
is used to activate the chip and select modes, and when
R
is pressed
r
is
rapid fired because pressing
R
tells the PS3 console that
r
was pressed, and pressing
r
tells the PS3 console
R
was pressed.
Mode 4
r
is used to activate the chip and select modes, and when
r
is pressed
R
is
rapid fired because pressing
r
tells the PS3 console that
R
was pressed, and pressing
R
tells the PS3 console
r
was pressed.
All of the above applies for the L buttons just where L is in place or R.
Southpaw
Let’s say you setup a game so that the L buttons are firing and the R buttons are aiming.
Obviously the Arbiter is setup to rapid fire R and aim on L so you want to tell it to swap these
around.
To flip all R functions (including activating the chip) with L functions activate the chip
(
r+a
) then hold
r+R+l
and tap
2
until the light flashes 2 times then release
all buttons. To disable flipping simply repeat the above.
Remember if you have flipped L to R then to activate the chip you will have to hold
l+a
instead of
r+a
(or
L+a
if you have Mode 2 or Mode 3 Trigger Swapping
turned on as well!), and any mention of
r
for selecting modes would be
l
instead.