360 Controller on the PC

[Spicyryan]

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[Greggles]

Is it an actual wired controller or a plug-in-and-play charge pack thing? Because for some reason, the plug-in-and-play stuff won't work for the PC, you have to use the real wired controller.

[Tizoc]

It's in japanese (so use google translate to read it) but these are the drivers I use. (Note there are english version downloads on this page)
http://www.katch.ne.jp/~morii/index.html

[cdgreg]

You could have saved the hours googling, youtubing, and reinstalling by simply asking in the random question thread stickied at the top!

[Leva]

Or using the technical help forum

[Spicyryan]

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[bungiefan]

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-...en-70-qc4.html

Since they already play on PS2, have them get that. There's a Win7 driver on the MayFlash web site. I use that for nearly everything, and the triggers work as buttons. That will let them use the PS2 controllers they have, and paired with JoyToKey, will work with all PC software.

[geno3302]

If the computer has bluetooth it's quite easy to hook up a PS3 controller to a PC.

[6souls]

or get a logitech controller, that is what i use. long as they are ps2 player, they can configure the controller pretty easily if they still have the game manual sitting around.

[Kohan]

Others have already mentioned what I planned to—specifically, to guide them toward a PS2 adapter instead. One of my roommates who was successfully weaned off the PS2 uses one, and loves it. If they're already accustomed to playing FFXI with a DualShock, letting them keep that familiarity will only make the transition all the smoother.

[idklol]

I can't offer you any advice other than try an alternative. I did this when i first started playing on my laptop and it seriously took me about 8 hours one Saturday. Dunno how i did it but it was one gigantic pain in the ass. If there's another way i'd try it first.

[Raytheon]

Save yourself the heartache dude, just buy the regular old-school wired XBOX controller from GameStop for 20 bucks, works like a charm. And I coulda swore because Windows and XBOX are both Microsoft products, I already had the drivers installed, but been so long, don't remember :/

AFAIK, the trigger buttons are non-mappable.

[Esvedium]

AFAIK, the trigger buttons are non-mappable.

Which makes it, imo, a horrible controller to use. Get a PS2 controller and an that to usb adapter. Done.

[Raytheon]

Which makes it, imo, a horrible controller to use. Get a PS2 controller and an that to usb adapter. Done.

Meh, all I had to do was make the left toggle auto-run and the right toggle auto-target, then used the bumpers for macros. On ps2, from what I remember, L1 was autorun, and R1 brought up the chat log, which you don't even really need.

So you're really not -out- anything. Just down to preference I guess.


Plus, concave toggles > convex any day. I

[Atomic Skull]

Fuck the 360 controller as it is an annoying piece of shit.

I am trying to set it up for someone to use for FFXI on the PC as a way to get them off the PS2 (this is why I deserve a minute of your time..).

I am doing everything correctly and the drivers are installed (either XBCD or the microsoft, it does not really matter, but while I am at it the XBCD drivers are not cooperating either) yet the computer refuses to recognize the controller anywhere. If I uninstall the drivers, and plug it back in then auto install kicks in (fail official drivers) and drivers are reinstalled. I have done this before on a different computer as well as helped someone else do it and made it work rather easily so I am at a loss after hours of Googling, Youtubing, and reinstalling.

Are you using 64-bit Windows?

If you are, you have to disable driver signature enforcement for the OS to recognize an unsigned driver. To get a driver signed the author has to pay Microsoft. Part of this fee actually goes to Verisign because MS choose to hire an outside cryptography company (i.e. Verisign) to do their driver signature encryption rather than try to make their own.

Easiest way to do this is to just hit F8 on the bootup screen and select "disable driver signature enforcement" Note that when you do this you can't play Blu-Ray movies. The reason for all this encrypted driver bullshit is because the MPAA threatened Microsoft to either lock down video decoding on Windows or they would get legislation passed that would force them to lock down Windows on their terms rather than Microsoft's.

But at least it's better than what Apple does, you have the option to bypass driver signing enforcement. On a Mac you don't.

[evilpaul]

Others have already mentioned what I planned to—specifically, to guide them toward a PS2 adapter instead. One of my roommates who was successfully weaned off the PS2 uses one, and loves it. If they're already accustomed to playing FFXI with a DualShock, letting them keep that familiarity will only make the transition all the smoother.

Aside from raping children being less bad than the Xbox 360 controller's Dpad, as a former PS2 player who uses a wired 360 controller it's not hard to adjust at all. It's pretty large by comparison, but a decent controller nonetheless. If you have big hands you'd probably prefer it actually.

[bungiefan]

Are you using 64-bit Windows?

If you are, you have to disable driver signature enforcement for the OS to recognize an unsigned driver. To get a driver signed the author has to pay Microsoft. Part of this fee actually goes to Verisign because MS choose to hire an outside cryptography company (i.e. Verisign) to do their driver signature encryption rather than try to make their own.

Easiest way to do this is to just hit F8 on the bootup screen and select "disable driver signature enforcement" Note that when you do this you can't play Blu-Ray movies. The reason for all this encrypted driver bullshit is because the MPAA threatened Microsoft to either lock down video decoding on Windows or they would get legislation passed that would force them to lock down Windows on their terms rather than Microsoft's.

But at least it's better than what Apple does, you have the option to bypass driver signing enforcement. On a Mac you don't.

Which just results in people ripping the BluRay discs to their hard drive and removing the encryption so they can play them off the hard drive regardless of what boot mode they use.

IIRC, Macs don't have the ability to play BluRay discs yet. Last I checked on some Macintosh forums, a BluRay drive could only be used for data, not video playback in Mac OS. Did Lion finally change that?

[J of JAX]

The wire you connect to the controller/computer does not send any information to the computer. It is used only as a means to charge the controller, nothing more. I have yet to find a reliable way to make the triggers work with FFXI.

If you want to use the wireless controller on the PC you need a 360 wireless receiver:
http://www.microsoft.com/games/en-US...rWindows.aspx/

Your computer is installing the drivers for the wire, not the controller. wired controllers do not need the receiver and will work hassle free.

I use my wireless controller now after buying the receiver and it works just fine sans the triggers technically the triggers aren't buttons, they are actually more like analog sticks.

[Xantavia]

When I moved away from PS2, I did initially use a ps2 adapter to play on PC. The problem is that the ones I bough only lasted a month or so and kept crapping out. It was getting harder and harder to find them too, and the price to buy online didn't seem worth it. I swapped to the madcatz corded 360 controller, and have had any complaints. Sure, the triggers don't work but I don't remember what I used to use the extra buttons for anyway.

[bungiefan]

The adapter I linked is one I have had for about 5 years now, and I have yet to break it. I've worn out controllers playing fighting games, at a rate of about one every 12-18 months, but the adapter works just fine. Super Joy Box 5 Pro is a very durable one, and there are Win7/Vista drivers for it on MayFlash's web site. $15-20 with free or $3 shipping is very reasonable, for 4 controller ports. I liked it so much, I bought 5 more to pass on to friends, and only one broke theirs because they carried it with their laptop in a tow truck for 2 years and managed to bounce it apart.