XBCD - Turn your dusty Xbox controller into something useful. - Hardware & Software

[img]http://filesmelt.com/downloader/xbcdlogo.png[/img] [b]Xbox Control Driver [/b][img]http://filesmelt.com/downloader/xbcdlogo.png[/img] [b]THIS WORKS ON 64 BIT OS'S[/b] These things rock. Basically you take an old [B] ORIGINAL[/B] Xbox controller, slice the wire, and splice it with a USB wire. Now you have a new PC game pad with: Rumble Dual Analog Sticks 8 Pressure sensitive buttons 4 buttons D-Pad I'm fairly sure you can do this for any Xbox accessory. I have a remote control, myself. This is a pretty simple thing to do, and is slightly more difficult if you're on Vista, or Windows 7. Let's get started. [b]Hardware[/b] Materials: Xbox controller, Electrical tape, Wire stripper (Or scissors and teeth :D) Steps: 1. Cut the wire on the Xbox controller, and on the USB cable. [i](Cut the Breakaway cable if you'd like to continue using the controller on your Xbox.)[/i] 2. Strip the main wire, and strip each individual wire. The yellow wire on the Xbox controller isn't used, so go ahead and cut it down. 3. Splice, [i](or solder, preferably)[/i] each wire, matching the colours from the USB and the Xbox cables [i](Should be Black, Red, Green and White)[/i]. 4. Tape each spiced wire individually, so they do not contact eachother. Then tape the two solid wires together so that if the wire is pulled, it isn't straining each individual splice. 5. [i](Optional)[/i] Take a PS1/2 controller and remove the plastic bit at the end of the wire. You can remove it by shoving a knife in between it and twisting it gently. Put this over your spliced wire for a clean look. Here's mine. Super pro. [img]http://filesmelt.com/downloader/08130915441.jpg[/img] [b]Software[/b] 1. Download [url=http://filesmelt.com/downloader/XBCD_Installer_0.2_.6_.exe]this[/url]. [B]XP[/B]: Start on step 5 [B]Vista and Windows 7[/B] [i](NOTE: UAC needs to be OFF. This will also make it so test mode is always enabled. All this does is allow unsigned drivers to be installed.)[/i] 2. Download [url=http://filesmelt.com/downloader/dseo13b.exe]this[/url], and [url=http://filesmelt.com/downloader/RemoveWatermark_20090509.zip]this[/url] file. 3. Run the first downloaded file (dseo13b). Enable test mode. Restart. 4. Run the second downloaded file (RemoveWatermark). Choose the one for your OS, x86 or x64, and press Y in the command prompt. This will remove the "Test Mode" watermark in the corners. Restart. 5. Install the XBCD Installer. 6. Insert your newly made Xbox controller's USB port into computer. 7. Start XBCD Setup Utility. 8. Done! Now the XBCD Setup Utility is open, and customize everything about your controller. All of the buttons are pressure sensitive [i](except back, start, and the sticks)[/i], but they won't be detected as pressure sensitive unless you change the button to be an axis. I suggest using the Z, Z Rotation, or Slider axis because the others are being used by the two control sticks. Choose the button and click it. You can change which button windows recognizes it as, or choose an axis. By default, each axis it at the middle point and when you change the button to an axis it either increases the axis or decreases it. You can change this by calibrating the controller through windows. If you select a button to be on the Z axis, lets say Z+, and you calibrate your controller through windows, the axis will be empty until you press the button and as you press the button harder the axis will fill. The opposite is true with Z-. In most cases you will want to leave it as-is.

I did this a while ago, with great results. I found another program I use alongside XBCD that allows me to browse the web with the controller, among many other uses. I'll dig it up this weekend and edit this post (unless someone guesses and posts it first-- it's some sort of key-switching program)

This is pretty good. Now all I have to do is find my xbox controller.

I did this a couple of years ago when I didn't have a 360 pad. The only problem with it is that if you don't secure the cut wire properly, it comes undone and shorts out and stops working. [editline]11:09AM[/editline] (You can fix it, but it's just a pain in the arse)

Bought [url=http://www.mayflash.com/psps2/DDR01/DDR01.htm]this[/url] ages ago. It has a nice cable that goes straight to the xbox controller's cable and ends in an USB. So no cutting wires for me :keke:

[QUOTE=Bengley;16665402]I did this a couple of years ago when I didn't have a 360 pad. The only problem with it is that if you don't secure the cut wire properly, it comes undone and shorts out and stops working. [editline]11:09AM[/editline] (You can fix it, but it's just a pain in the arse)[/QUOTE] Or you can just cover the bare tip with electrical tape

I did this a while back and only recently started using it again. Took me ages to figure out how to get the drivers working on 7 x64

snip because I'm a retard

Ive done the old xbox controller so the old one defiantly works

I don't really feel like slicing a perfectly good Xbox controller but i may try it if i buy a new one.

[QUOTE=MachiniOs;16666110]I don't really feel like slicing a perfectly good Xbox controller but i may try it if i buy a new one.[/QUOTE] You can do it to the breakaway cable, and get a new breakaway. I thought I posted that in the OP... oh well, I'll be improving the OP over time, with pictures and stuff.

I did this a long time ago...although I just use my wired 360 controller now.

I've been doing this for about 2 years, I got a USB Adapter, It's really easy!

I did this a few years ago, and after a few uses fried some of the inputs. The sticks stopped working. I guess this isn't common though, so I probably just f'd something up. But I also hooked up the spliced section to serial adapters so I could switch between usb and xbox connectors. It was sweet as hell while it lasted.

I did this about two years ago, one day it stopped working and i smelt burning plastic. I looked down to see the wire on fire. I was dissapoint at my electronic skills.

Did this roughly a year ago, and it's fantastic.

I have a wireless 360 controller. :suicide:

XBCD Drivers don't work on 64 bit OS's (or atleast 64 bit vista) but they work fine on 32 bit.

tbh i'll just stick with my wired 360 pad

I used an old USB cable and made a breakaway cable like some other people on here Worked perfectly with the drivers, played Richard Burns Rally like a pro :v:

[QUOTE=Shadaez;16666180]You can do it to the breakaway cable, and get a new breakaway. I thought I posted that in the OP... oh well, I'll be improving the OP over time, with pictures and stuff.[/QUOTE] Cool, thanks.

Is there a tf2 config for this controller? Like the 360 config in valve games.

I used one of the ends of a dead controller for this, pretty useful. Though I still use my Xbox for gaming and XBMC.

[QUOTE=Itszutak;16665288]I did this a while ago, with great results. I found another program I use alongside XBCD that allows me to browse the web with the controller, among many other uses. I'll dig it up this weekend and edit this post (unless someone guesses and posts it first-- it's some sort of key-switching program)[/QUOTE] That would be Joy2Key

I would love to do this, I'm in need of a real gamepad. But I really need a spare breakaway cable :frown:

its much easier to use a wired 360 controller.

Why not just use a 360 controller? It's way nicer and works straight away without any of this...

Because a 360 controller costs 3 times more and not everyone has a 360. And if you have a 360, that doesn't mean you have a wired 360 controller. [editline]06:20PM[/editline] [QUOTE=loony383;16669077]XBCD Drivers don't work on 64 bit OS's (or atleast 64 bit vista) but they work fine on 32 bit.[/QUOTE] WRONG! I'm on W7 64, and I was on Vista 64 just yesterday. It works on both, follow my directions.

[QUOTE=Shadaez;16681506]Because a 360 controller costs 3 times more and not everyone has a 360. And if you have a 360, that doesn't mean you have a wired 360 controller. [editline]06:20PM[/editline] WRONG! I'm on W7 64, and I was on Vista 64 just yesterday. It works on both, follow my directions.[/QUOTE] Because i have a wired 360 controller and not a 360. i bought it specifically for my pc

FFFUUUUUUU- I sold my controllers :(