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Jul 22, 2004, 06:42 AM
 
Ok, I've seen one of the USB adaptors and have heard that there's a hack to let one use an XBox controller with Halo.
Is it possible to use a controller with other games? I would love to use it with UT2004. Thanks

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Jul 22, 2004, 07:56 AM
 
Originally posted by Randman:
Ok, I've seen one of the USB adaptors and have heard that there's a hack to let one use an XBox controller with Halo.
Is it possible to use a controller with other games? I would love to use it with UT2004. Thanks
http://homepage.mac.com/walisser/xboxhiddriver/ might help
     
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Jul 22, 2004, 08:27 AM
 
Thanks. He's the guy behind the Halo hack haxie but the link to his page (and from Google) was giving me a 404. Thanks, will give it a go.

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Jul 22, 2004, 01:28 PM
 
Update: My XboX controllers are wireless so I borrowed one from a friend for testing purposes. That was a 'S" controller and it took a little research to find that the regular download won't work. Luckily, the beta does seem to work.
I got it to read the controller, which is good and got some response in UT2004, though I still have to go back and adjust all of the settings (the d-pad was the fire and I couldn't rotate the view).
So, progress made but still some work to do.
Also, Classic games (such as Quake 3 and Alien vs Pedator) are not supported.

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Jul 22, 2004, 05:43 PM
 
I have a controller S, a regular controller, and two third party pelican controllers. All work perfectly with the driver. Using the xbox controller makes a lot of arcade style games a lot more fun than using the keyboard.
     
   
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