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Use Xbox Controller on Mac OS X
JoeXboxer writes "I'm not sure why anyone would want to, but there's an open source driver to allow you to use your Xbox game controller on Mac OS X. In related news, McDonald's announced new Xbox-sized combos that will
stretch America's bladders to the limit. One of these stories is a joke. It's hard to guess which one."
I wish he'd tell us how to get the damned controller actually PLUGGED INTO the Mac...no hardware to my knowledge exists! Gold Brick for OS X, perhaps?
I'd say that the bbspot.com URL on one of them is a clue!
I like the line about "Quantity over Quality" that both McDonalds and Microsoft tend to live by.
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Think about it. The success of a console relies /completely/ on people sitting and playing their games for hours. If you ship a console with a shitty controller, no one will buy it. A lot of money, research, and development goes into making a product people feel comfortable holding for hours on end.
/almost always/ more comfortable, more intuitive, and has more buttons that are easily accessible from the "standard" playing position.
Compare it to, say, a Logitech gamepad. They sell keyboards, mice, trackballs. Hey, if they can make a few bucks off a game pad, it is worth it to them. Their entire operation is not based around people holding their control for hours at a time.
Next time you see a made-for-PC gamepad, look at it, think of usability, and compare it to your favorite console controller. The console controller is
A lot of effort goes into making a good console controller. How is it bad, or surprising for that matter, that people want to apply it elsewhere?
There's controller drivers for NES,SNES,PSX and much more in some branches of the development linux kernel. Offtopic - yes. Interesting - sort of.
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so who of you fell for that ridiculous Mac OS X oss drivers story?
Anyways, I'm off carryin' some burgers.
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Don't use M$ products. Away with the kludgy Xbox controller.
Cool that this guy hacked up some drivers for it though. Although... isn't the XBox the worst controller? PS2 is obviously the favorite, but I like my GameCube controller a lot too. I touched an xbox in a store once. No way it is getting in my car or house without a fight and bill paying me for it.
Gimmicks like this Xbox hack won't affect Apple market share one way or the other. When Apple understands most people won't buy outdated hardware at a premium price, they'll have a chance to reach maybe 5% again. If Apple splits and the software division competes with Windows on x86 hardware or, even better, outsmarts everyone and releases a 64-bit OS to run AMD's new CPU's.. they could make a splash in the market and become more than a niche player. Until then, they're 2% from having a yard sale.
- Microsoft reference: xbox--check
- Food reference: McDonald's--check
- Overweight American reference: pudge--check
- Obligatory OSS reference--check
- Urination reference--check
- OS X reference--check
- /. readers eat it up as a great topic--check
Business as usual...It's really hard to tell which one is the Joke. /.ers, but it doesn't help you that much unless you desperately need to play ogg files.)
I'd say the McDonalds one is, but they've gone for much more obscene things.
I'd say the XBox controller thing because there's no way to connect the propreitary port to the mac, but people have done more useless things, such as put Linux on an iPod. (Sorry
In the end, I think I'll go with the XBox Controller thing. MacAlley makes this great USB gamepad that looks exactly like a PS2 DualShock controller, rumble, analog sticks, X, O, Square, and Triangle. Useful thing for a PS emulator. XBox controller, because it sucks and if you're going to do that, do it with a GC or PS2 controller, not that terrible piece of molded plastic.
- Sherman
This is good news for me, but not because I like the XBox controllers. I actually can't stand them, they're way too big and clunky for me. As a big fan of the PS2 controllers though, this is great because you can buy adapters that let you use the PS2 controllers on the XBox. I don't use a single regular XBox controller, just PS2 ones now. These are the ones I have, and I've never had any problems with them. I'd test them out with this driver, but I'm currently out of the country on business. Anyone have an adapter and interested in checking out if they work?
There's a driver for the dang XBox controler yet there's still no OS X driver for my Kennsington USB webcam. Go figure.
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buy an usb adapter for the game cube controller from lik-sang [they need money for the lawsuit vs microsoft, so its the slashdot-correct option, too]. the gc pad is recognized as a HID device, and it works with mame right out of the box.
--strangeloop
Hi,
I just got the idea in my head that it would be very interesting to obtain data from a gamepad via an OS X terminal. Does anyone know where I could get started trying to figure out how to do this?
Anyone want to play UT1999 GotY GOLD edition with me until then?
blarg.
good to see you're playing by the rules, particularly point number 5 :-)
With a PSX > USB adapter and this free driver I can use my PSX controller with any game. Gamepad Companion also will let you use a PSX controller, though it's not free.
there was a thing called the Joyport by kernel (www.kernel.com doens't work anymore, it's FS) that i actually bought, that changes playstation 1/2 n64 (yeah that's a great controller) and a bunch of other controllers into usb, doesn't come with any software, so i think the only thing that made it OS specific is that it worked with apples input spacley sprokets. (grrrr... hate os9)
can't get the fucker to work in x tho.... any suggestions?
learn how to mod.
If you are looking for an adapter to connect the Xbox controller to your Mac, goto http://www.lik-sang.com and click on the Developer Tools, and they have the hardware necessary.
lik-sang appears to have a connector for sale. Here you go!
u cts_id=2701&
http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=83&prod
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Interesting I should see this post today...
I was at a friend's house last night and he was making a converter to use his Xbox controller on his Dual G4. He couldn't get it to work correctly so he had me test it on my laptop. His pins were in the reverse order, but after he fixed it I was playing GTA Vice City with a Xbox controller! Neat! Perhaps he'll be able to play some Oni on his Mac with that controller now...I think I want to make a converter myself, too.
I've said it once I'll say it again. If someone could please write some drivers so that I can hook up my X-Box Controller to a McChickenHead Nugget so I can manipulate like a frankenstein-ish marionette I would appreciate it.
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The fries included with McDonald's combos are quite a bit smaller in Canada than in the US. Canadian also has a significantly healthier menu. Or, at least, it has more low-fat options (such as my favorite sandwhich, a grilled chicken on whole wheat with light BBQ sauce instead of mayo, or a veggie burger which I'm afraid to try but I'm told by a vegetarian friend is very good).
(This might be considered mildly OT, but I iamgine a few people would be somewhat interested in it and there aren't many stories relating to McDonald's combos on slashdot!)
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