Game Launching

[DemonSeed]

Totally off topic, Can I use my wireless xbox 360 controller with my PC somehow?

Yes you can, a simple Google search "wireless xbox 360 controller pc adapter" brought up some adapters to choose from. Look like its going to cost you about 20 clams
Here is some,
http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-Wireless-Gam ... B000HZFCT2
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x/xb ... greceiver/

On that note, you can also use it for MC with a plugin called MCE-Joy.

[Dudley]

Soultaker, yep, like the above poster said, you just need to get a 'crossfire' wireless adapter and it's good to go, i don't think i even needed drives with vista for it.

Seem to remember when i bought mine it was only like $10 more to get one with a pad as well.

Had no problems with mcejoy and 'games for windows' games always play nice with the 2 pads I have.

[soultaker]

Cool thanks, I've already placed a bid on ebay :).

[dean_wales]

Hmm may have accidentally started a thread elsewhere that wasnt needed!

I use a wireless xbox 360 joypad for playing HD pc games like dirt and fallout 3. I use the mce remote for mc.

Amongst the shennanigans of this thread do we have a way launching standard pc games in MB or is best left to the Media Center Launch / Config utils discussed over on hack7mc?

I would love/pay for/die for coverflow pc game launching in Win7MC/MB, roms less so as likely more complex but would still be good!

I would settle for game shortcuts that enter (mini MC) and exit (maxi MC) the game but damn you guys! All I dream of now is glossy games covers flowing rhythmically through my mind!

MB rules, I tell everyone about the project!

Dean.

[swears]

So does this work yet? I'm confused.

[DemonSeed]

So does this work yet? I'm confused.

No not yet... But people are working on it!.. .. .. I hope!

On that topic... george28,
Any kind of update on where you are with the xbox controller?

[jcalton88]

If it weren't for the fact most of us live half the way around the world from each other, I'd say we would have to get together for a cookout sometime, lol. For as little as I know people here, only knowing them by their screennames, I prefer communicating with those on here than most people I come in contact with day to day, lol.

That being said, please, take as long as you want to get the game launching working, god knows as soon as it works I'll be buying games to make use of the feature.

[dakn]

Hi,
I would also love to see this feature, but thought would share how to have your 360 controller working in MC.
I use http://www.pinnaclegameprofiler.com/ Pinnacle Game Profiler. by default it makes your controller work like a mouse and you can config it to however you prefer, a really great app.

hope this helps!

[tigg]

Hi dakn

a question about pinnacle game profiler:

is it possible for it to detect what program is running? so for example, it would be active whilst media center was active, but when you launched a game it could deactivate? otherwise, when launching a game that supports the xbox 360 controller natively, it wouldn't be able to take advantage of this.


atm im looking into writing an addin to add support specifically for the xbox 360 controller, using C++, as that's what all the XINPUT_blah stuff is for. Unfortunately, im new to C++ so it could take a while! However I have found a lot of useful resources (e.g http://www.kmcgrail.com/XInputTut.htm) as well as an example program that makes the controller work as a mouse (although I can't find where I got that from), so the first step will be working out how to get input from the controller, then how to send input to media center, and finally how to wrap it all up as an easily installable addin thingummy.

[soultaker]

Ok so I bought the xbox-PC gaming receiver to work with my xbox. Installed the drivers and whatnot it seems to be working.

How can I use the xbox controller within Media Center as it doesn't seem to respond at all? Is mcejoy really required? I like running a lean system with no unneccessary applications.