Thinking ahead with controllers?

[Moonkern]

To clarify, I'm on a laptop, and there are only two USB sockets . I actually don't have any console controllers outside of a couple Gamecube ones.

Yeah, that's a USB hub. You can get one if your PC doesn't have enough USB sockets. (But most PCs do, 2 in the front, many more on the back) And I thought you want a controller for the PC? That one seems to be only for PS3. (In case you want to plug it into computer and use Dual Shock 3 drivers on it, they won't work. Only official SONY Dual Shock 3 controllers work with the custom drivers.

it worked simply plugging it in; no additional drivers required.

Wait whaaaaat? What you said is the opposite of what Maslow said. I was going to buy the one that Maslow said because he said that I could plug it in and play, nothing extra. Is that not true? Can controllers even work on laptops? I'm so confused

[Sheik]

To clarify, I'm on a laptop, and there are only two USB sockets . I actually don't have any console controllers outside of a couple Gamecube ones.

Wait whaaaaat? What you said is the opposite of what Maslow said. I was going to buy the one that Maslow said because he said that I could plug it in and play, nothing extra. Is that not true? Can controllers even work on laptops? I'm so confused

It's fine if your control has a USB port, it will connect.
360 controls can plug and play, why?
Microsoft made a driver specifically for a wired 360 control. Cause Microsoft thinks ahead like that
PS3 will require MotionJoy or else it won't read.
Hope this can help clear something up.

[Alfred Reinold Baudisch]

I play most emulators in Mac and Windows (notebook) with a PS2 controller with a Twin USB Controller adapter. The controller cost me US$14 and the adapter US$7.

Plug the adapter and open the emulator, and you can setup the controller in the menus.

PS: I play mostly Game Cube and N64 with the PS2 controller and everything works great! But I also tested NES, SNES, Genesis, Master System and NDS and no issues.

[gezegond]

Wait whaaaaat? What you said is the opposite of what Maslow said. I was going to buy the one that Maslow said because he said that I could plug it in and play, nothing extra. Is that not true? Can controllers even work on laptops? I'm so confused

Sorry I didn't read his post thoroughly and just clicked on the link. On the website it doesn't say anything about it being compatible with PC (They usually don't forget to mention this sort of thing) so I just assumed that it won't work for PC. My mistake.

Edit: And yes, all PC USB controllers (including the ones I mentioned in my previous post) work just by pluggin them into the USB socket.
Only console controllers need separate driver installation as they're not meant to work with windows.

[Moonkern]

Sweet, then I'm going to buy four of those bad boys. Thanks to everyone who helped me with this.

[LSA]

while any controller works fine for systems with 6-8 buttons... i feel using an actual n64 controller is best for n64 games...

does anyone know a way to hook a real n63 controller to a computer?

I have a hub that lets me plug gamecube ps2 and xbox controllers into my computer... is there such a thing for older systems? like n64 or a REAL super nintendo controller...

[Zorlon]

There are N64 to USB converters around as there are for just about any other console controller

The only things you tend to need extra drivers for (USB controllers/converters) is stuff like rumble that no controller can have on a PC without a driver, this includes PC controllers

The first PSX to USB converter I had also had support for N64 aswell as PSX, (not at the same time it was PSX or N64)

Wired 360 Controllers are also Windows Controllers anyway, but also need a driver for rumble features, but everything else will automaticly work with no external drivers

Basicly all the above will just use the default HID Device drivers that is part of windows, infact most USB controllers do, aka most almost all (Not every single one does, just the majority) are plug and play, just features like rumble are not plug and play [still best to install any external drivers though if they are provided as they will be specialised for that controller and may add extra features, like setting buttons to keyboard presses, Macro commands ect or rumble features that I have mentioned too many times]

[Olde skool comps aka win98 to 2K machines I remember seeing a home made serial converter for N64 and PSX controllers, personly I actually made the PSX one it even supported my multitap and memcards slots, if you also added power to it (I did) it adds rumble support also, if you are lucky there may even be a USB version around that you could make yourself]

Note: wireless console controllers do need drivers as they tend not to run from USB but only charge via USB

Personly I feel an actual console controller will always feel best, specially one you are used to the feel of, never did get the feel for the N64 pad personly, but I not saying just because I couldn't get used to it you shouldn't (that would just be silly ) I do enjoy N64 games via a GameCube controller though via my Wii

There is one PSX to USB converter I will warn anyone about and thats a one that looks like a miniture Xbox and can be connected to Xbox, GameCube/Wii or USB although works great on the Wii/GameCube/Xbox, the USB support does not work with Windows 7 or Vista, admittedly not tested this with XP or lower though

[Moonkern]

I've bought a couple wired Xbox 360 controllers (even though I don't actually own an Xbox...), and multiplayer is working fine, but where can I find drivers for the Rumble Feature for an Xbox 360 controller?

[localmachine]

I think your comp should already have drivers for that, it should depend more on what you're using it with.

[Zorlon]

I think your comp should already have drivers for that, it should depend more on what you're using it with.

You think wrong, you require drivers and it has nothing to do with what you use the controller with, though the software you use the controller with does need to support rumble aswell

the first post at http://www.epforums.org/showthread.p...iles-amp-links has the wired 360 pad rumble driver

EDIT.. Megaupload was banned... my files are no longer there... I will try and recover that though and upload it directly if I can

http://www.matt-land.com/xbcd/ also has rumble support included aswell as a whole host of other handy features
http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-...0-gamepad.html another one
http://redcl0ud.1.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=1535 more, P.S. looks more promising this one, still can't find the ones I was using that just added rumble on it's own

Gunna give in looking my olde drivers are no longer online, can't seem to find them, try the last link I gave and read through what they did

EDIT http://code.google.com/p/x360ce/downloads/list may also help but not got the time to test myself at this very moment