Saturday, October 20, 2007

Gamer's Guide: Getting The Xbox 360 Controller S To Work On Your PC!

Do you have the wired version of the 360 controller s, but you have kept it in the depths of your closet since you have a new wireless controller for your 360? Well, you can now put it to good use! Use it as your game controller for your PC!

What you need:
A Wired Controller S for Xbox 360
A Windows XP PC
Games! (For what purpose will you use it with no games?)

Setup:
1. Download the installer software HERE.
2. Install the newly downloaded software. Installation may take up to 5 minutes.
3. Plug your Controller S in the USB slot.
4. Ta-da!! It's now ready to use!

Testing:
Now that my Controller S is functional in the PC, let's test it and see if it really works.
MUGEN
I have tried it and it works fine. But, I could not get the arrow keys to work, so yes, you are stuck with the analog stick. Also, I could not find a way on how to make the "Back" button work, so you are still gonna' use the Esc button on your keyboard. But everything is fine on the main gameplay.
Quake III: Arena
BS. It works but in a real crappy way. You see, the game does not detect the right and left movements of the right analog stick. So aiming for the enemy might give you major headaches. What I did for the config was the left stick was used for walking PLUS aiming left and right as the right stick was only used to aim up and down. Could you imagine how hard that is?! If you want an alternative solution, you could set the ABXY buttons for aiming, but it just doesn't feel right. Then, I used the left trigger to shoot, just the way how shooting games on the xbox work.

I wanna try other shooting games like CS or Red Faction to see if it has the same Quake problem, but that has to go later.

Conclusion:
The controller S works fine for games like MUGEN and probably other games like Prince of Persia, Need For Speed or GTA.. I'll update the guide later on and see if it the right stick really works or not on shooting games.

Note: The rumble feature does not seem to work.

Thanks to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIuvh-pL-do
http://techgage.com/article/xbox_360_controller_for_windows/1

To anybody who owns a 360/controller s, please try and test it!

1 people I thank:

Anonymous said...

Yea, i bought a wireless gaming adaptor for my wireless controller, works ok, BUT on CS:S the right analogue stick cant look up or down..... also its rediculously fast to aim with, but you can edit that using 'joy_' commands.

 

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