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  The Xbox controller connector is very similar to a USB connector. The standard Xbox controller has two memory unit slots. The memory unit slots and the controller are recognized as three separate devices connected through a standard USB hub. Most people do not use memory units, myself included, so they won't be discussed thoroughly here. However, there are some links that provide information about working with memory units. The controller has 6 buttons on the right, Back and Start, two triggers on top, a D-pad, and two analog sticks with clicks. All of the buttons except the D-pad, analog stick clicks, and Back and Start are pressure-sensitive and will register that way in any game that implements it. There are two versions, the standard Xbox Controller and the Xbox Controller S, a smaller, immensely more comfortable controller that was released with the Xbox launch in Japan. It eventually came to America when Microsoft found out people were importing the Xbox Controller S through import stores like Lik-Sang. New Xbox systems include the Controller S and it has actually become very difficult to find the unpopular standard controller (outside of, say, eBay). If you dissect the wiring for a controller, you will see that it has the four standard wires for USB: White, black, red, and green. The extra yellow wire does absolutely nothing and is presumably tied to ground for EFI purposes.  The Steel Battalion controller. The mech simulation game Steel Battalion is an unusual game
for the Xbox because it comes with a very large, 40-button (approx. depending on how you define a button)
controller sometimes referred to as the VTC (Vertical Tank Controller). It still uses USB, and yes, it can be used
on the PC using this driver! Despite the massive possibilities
this controller seems to leave open, it presently is only recognized in Steel Battalion and Steel Battalion Line of
Contact.
 The SmartJoy X.  The Super Joybox 10 and 11. The Super Joybox 10 and 11 have two and four ports, respectively. How does it work? They are simply USB hubs inside, with each port being an Xbox-shaped connector. Mayflash, the manufacturer of these two adapters, provides their own driver for the Xbox controller, and it works with any adapter, not just Super Joybox adapters. This driver is quick and easy to set up, and if you don't need a fancy configuration program it will probably be the best for you. However, the open-source XBCD driver is much more powerful than
the Mayflash driver, and although the default settings are not ideal, you can change the settings to an almost
infinite number of combinations. One particularly interesting capability of XBCD is that it is able to map two buttons
as sliders with their level based on pressure. This would be useful for a racing game where you would want
pressure-sensitive gas and brake control. There are a few other Xbox controller drivers, most of them discontinued,
on the links page.
Linux can also be installed on the Xbox. Windows has been installed successfully but because the processor is
so slow, it does not perform as well as the PC you probably used to burn the software to format the Xbox. Linux,
however, has proven easy to install, and Xbox-Linux.org has a step-by-step
guide to doing just that.
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Sections Microsoft Xbox PC Adapters Neat Tricks Emulation on Xbox See also Xbox Links SmartJoy X Super Joybox 10 Super Joybox 11 |
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