Xbox 360 Controller For Mac
By • 6:00 am, October 29, 2012 • After we reported on coming to the Mac, we got a reader question that I figured it’d be good to write a tip on. Advertisement Playing games on your Mac is great fun of course, and all of them use the keyboard and/or mouse to control the games being played.
However, with AirPlay mirroring, HDMI cable support, and a bunch of new games showing up for the Mac platform along their Windows brethren, there are times when a console style controller is a better alternative. Being able to sit on the couch and play our favorite Mac games has a lot to recommend it, and using an Xbox controller is fairly easy to set up. First of all, you’ll need an Xbox controller, wired or wireless with the Microsoft wireless adapter.
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I used a wired controller, but you should be able to get a wireless controller (with the wireless receiver you can get on ) to work just as well. Secondly, head over to TattieBogle, and there. This driver will let your Mac talk to the Xbox 360 controller, and vice versa. Once downloaded, mount the disk image with a double click on the.dmg file and then double click on the.pkg file that’s on it.
Follow the prompts, just like any other OS X installer, to install the driver software. You won’t need to restart. Now, plug in the Xbox 360 wired controller.
The green lights around the middle Xbox button will light up, but then will go dark. Unlike when connected to an actual Xbox 360, the controller will not light up when connected to your Mac. Now, pull up System Preferences, either from the Apple Menu or from within your Applications folder.
There should be an Xbox 360 Controllers preference icon in the lower right, now. Click on that, and you’ll see a control panel like the screenshot above. Pressing the buttons will darken them on the control panel, so you can see that the controller is working.
Now, launch Steam, or other controller-enabled game, on your Mac, and get to gaming! You can send your Mac screen to your Apple TV or use an HDMI cable to get it up on your HDTV. I recommend the cable, as Airplay can have a little bit of lag between a button press and the effect, depending on your router’s wi-fi signal.
I honestly had zero use for a XBox 360 Controller on my Mac, since I’m a keyboard/mouse gamer but I was toying with another article () and was looking for a Game Controller for the Amazon Fire TV. Looking around I noticed that the should work with the Amazon Fire TV and with MacOS X. Since I do play the occasional game on my Mac (yes: that is possible!) with Steam, I figured why not give it a try. The controller, with receiver, isn’t all that expensive. So in this article: How to connect and use an Xbox 360 Controller on MacOS X.
About the hardware • The USB receiver can handle up to 4 XBox 360 controllers. • Any XBox 360 controller will work. • The USB receiver works fine even when connected to a USB hub.
• The software used will also work with a wired controller. • The USB cable of the Wireless Play and Charge kit is just a charger cable! . A USB receiver is still needed!
Note that this is not the only Game Controller option out there for your Mac. Other Joysticks/Game Controllers, even the ones from a PlayStation or Wii will work with your Mac as well. Some wired, some wireless (proprietary or Bluetooth). We’re just focussing on the XBox 360 controller in this article. XBox One Controller and Alternative Drivers For those who have an XBox One controller: good news. Well, partially anyway. There are good drivers for the XBox One Controller, but not for operating it wireless. The XBox One Controller needs to remain connected with an USB cable.
The advantage would be that your rechargeable battery pack remains charged (obviously not you regular AA batteries!). Drivers, which work with the XBox 360 controller as well, can be found for free on Github:. There is an alternative driver:, little less of a nice GUI and a little less frequent maintained though. Free Driver MacOS X does not natively come with drivers for the XBox 360 controller, which makes sense, it’s not their responsibility to provide hardware drivers for 3rd party hardware manufacturers, especially when they choose to swerve away from standards Unfortunately, Microsoft, doesn’t feel the need to supply drivers for Mac users for their hardware, which is unfortunate and leaves the user with the mess to solve by themselves. So we require a driver created by another party. .
And there is such a think in this case. Colin Munro, at, released a driver as early as 2006, which appears not to have been since 2012. For this, seemingly abandoned driver, you’d need some tricks to get it to work under Yosemite – which is related to new “rules” concerning the use of Kext’s (Kernel Extensions). Not something I’d like to do UPDATE: There is a 360 Controller driver that is being actively maintained, a fork of the original project, you can get it from GitHub as well: • Download the latest version from (360 Controller Releases) • This is the.
