Holy fucking Jesus that was some serious thyme wasting shit...so just as I was about to start hitting up contacts to c if anybody had a ps3 controller I could borrow, the solution hit me...plug in a ps2 controller using the adaptor I use for my arcade stick. And sure enough there was absolutely nothing to it. So it looks like I'm up for a new ps3 controller, but more importantly I just wasted a good portion of one of my much anticipated gaming nights, lolololol.