Play games with your Xbox 360 or Xbox one controller on your Macbook / Mac. Follow my step by step guide and you will learn how to connect your Xbox 360 controller to your Mac.
In this tutorial i will demonstrate which software drivers to download and how to connect the controller wirelessly to your laptop. You will learn how to simply connect an Xbox 360 controller with a Mac to play some games! New Driver: Older Driver: Xbox 360 Wireless Adapter: UK USA Amazon Prime 30 days free trial UK Music: Dylla - Only Bass Rebels.
Many users have been having issues using the Tattiebogle Xbox 360 controller driver on OS X 10.10 Yosemite. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the project, you can cheek it out here: If you have been having issues with the driver, here is how to get the driver working on Yosemite:. Install the driver from the link above as normal.
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Of the game controllers available for home computers, only a few are officially supported on the Mac, but you can often get others, like those for the PS3, Wii, or Xbox, working just fine.
Open Terminal and type the following command: sudo nvram boot-args='kext-dev-mode=1'. Reboot your computer. When it's back up, open terminal again and type the following command all at once: sudo kextcache -m /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/Extensions.mkext /System/Library/Extensions Reboot again and your Xbox controller should be working! Keep in mind that by enabling kext-dev-mode, you're turning off quite an important security feature of 10.10. By default Mavericks requires kernel extensions to be signed now which IMHO is a good thing. As they run inside kernel space, there's nothing a malicious kernel extension can't do to your system and additionally, they get to completely hide themselves from user space applications (that includes the Apple malware removal tool) and other kernel extensions.
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Once you load a malicious extension made by a sufficiently capable programmer, you might as well just reinstall your box and hope for the best (who knows where it could hide some magic to ensure it survives a full new install). While, yes, being able to use an Xbox controller is nice, me personally, I prefer the security benefits of only running signed kexts, especially as I can use a PS3 controller without any additional drivers and with the additional benefit of having a way better digital pad for running old emulated games - no mushy diagonal heavy crap.