PS2-Button-Butler is an FBD / Fat Bald Dad project focused on a PlayStation 2 power/reset button interposer, internal mod-management, and optional control-hub concept for cleaner custom console builds.
The project is aimed at exploring better ways to manage internal PS2 modifications while reducing extra switches, buttons, holes, and external controls.
Important
PS2-Button-Butler is currently in private development.
This public repository exists to document the project name, ownership, development status, and public-facing goals of the FBD PS2-Button-Butler project.
This is not an open-source hardware, firmware, touchscreen UI, or manufacturing release at this time.
Production hardware files, PCB files, Gerber files, KiCad design files, firmware source, UI source, manufacturing files, detailed installation methods, test data, and internal development notes are intentionally not included.
No permission is granted to manufacture, clone, sell, rehost, redistribute, or create derivative hardware, firmware, software, UI, or products based on this project without written permission from Fat Bald Dad / FBD Retro Game.
PS2-Button-Butler exists as a long-term FBD project exploring cleaner internal control options for PlayStation 2 systems. The goal is to centralize core console-control ideas in a way that supports tidy builds and reduces the need for additional external controls.
At a high level, the project is intended to explore how the original PS2 front-button experience can be extended into a smarter internal control point for advanced console modifications. That includes the broader idea of managing internal mods from a cleaner, more integrated platform while keeping the public-facing project description free from implementation details.
PS2-Button-Butler is currently in private development. Active design work, prototypes, internal documentation, and development history are maintained outside this public repository.
This repository is not currently an open-source hardware, firmware, touchscreen UI, or manufacturing release.
This public repository exists for project identification, ownership record, brand awareness, community visibility, and high-level documentation. It serves as the public claim and announcement space for the PS2-Button-Butler name and project direction while private development continues elsewhere.
Production hardware files, PCB files, Gerbers, KiCad files, firmware, touchscreen UI source, manufacturing files, detailed installation methods, test data, and internal development notes are intentionally not included here.
No permission is granted to manufacture, clone, sell, rehost, redistribute, or create derivative hardware, firmware, software, UI, or products from this project without written permission from Fat Bald Dad / FBD Retro Game.
The folders in this repository are public placeholders only. They are present to reserve structure for future high-level documentation without exposing private development materials.
Documents/— public placeholder onlyFirmware/— public placeholder onlyHardware/— public placeholder onlyImages/— safe public branding onlyManufacturing/— public placeholder onlyReferences/— public placeholder onlyTest-Data/— public placeholder only
Public feedback is welcome in the form of high-level discussion, compatibility observations, documentation corrections, and references to already-public information that may help shape future public documentation.
This repository is not currently accepting hardware design submissions, firmware contributions, touchscreen UI contributions, PCB layout work, manufacturing files, installation methods, clone hardware designs, productized derivatives, or alternate implementations derived from private FBD work.
PS2-Button-Butler is part of the broader family of FBD / Fat Bald Dad PlayStation 2 project work. Like other FBD project-claim repositories, this public repo is intended to preserve project identity and public visibility without publishing protected development materials before an intentional release decision is made.
This repository is distributed under the proprietary notice in LICENSE.
It is provided for limited public reference, project identification, documentation tracking, community awareness, and discussion only. It is not a public grant of rights to manufacture, clone, redistribute, rehost, or derive products or development work from PS2-Button-Butler.
Project owner: Burch Goldner / Fat Bald Dad
Brand: FBD Retro Game / Fat Bald Dad
Public documentation may expand over time as the project matures. Any future public release scope, if announced, will be defined intentionally and on FBD terms.