[Suggestion] Update game controller support for Windows

[FrankReynolds]

@Eric
There aren't many solutions if you're on Windows 7 x64.
You have XBCD 0.2.7 which work fantastic but only for the wired version.
Then you have Masahiko Morii's custom drivers, which are incredible and work for both the Wireless and Wired controller.

Those are the drivers that I use too, but I have never been able to get the wireless ones to work on Windows 7 and it seems that he is no longer hosting them, or he has blocked public access.

I really wish SE would just add support for the 360 controller on PC. Logitech controllers are complete crap. I've replaced so many buttons on those things that it's not even funny.

[Zhronne]

Those are the drivers that I use too, but I have never been able to get the wireless ones to work on Windows 7 and it seems that he is no longer hosting them, or he has blocked public access.

He stopped hosting them and he "disappeared" from the web.
Another japanese website is hosting them though.
I can give you the url if you want.


For some reason they worked fantastically on my old PC on both wired and wireless controllers (they are 2 different sets of drivers) but on my newly bought PC they do not work.
To be more accurate they DO work, triggers are considered as digital, but I cannot seem to make the right analogue stick be recognized by the game. Works fine from the drivers configurator, but FFXI's configurator doesn't "feel" the right stick.

I really have no clue why. After a few attempts and a few formats I gave up and atm I'm just using the default windows drivers, which means no triggers for me.
I wish I knew why they do not work on the new system... the old one has the same exact SO, only difference is of course a different motherboard, different chipset, different USB controller etc.

I have no clue what's creating this difference betweeen my two systems. Wish I knew

[FrankReynolds]

He stopped hosting them and he "disappeared" from the web.
Another japanese website is hosting them though.
I can give you the url if you want.


For some reason they worked fantastically on my old PC on both wired and wireless controllers (they are 2 different sets of drivers) but on my newly bought PC they do not work.
To be more accurate they DO work, triggers are considered as digital, but I cannot seem to make the right analogue stick be recognized by the game. Works fine from the drivers configurator, but FFXI's configurator doesn't "feel" the right stick.

I really have no clue why. After a few attempts and a few formats I gave up and atm I'm just using the default windows drivers, which means no triggers for me.
I wish I knew why they do not work on the new system... the old one has the same exact SO, only difference is of course a different motherboard, different chipset, different USB controller etc.

I have no clue what's creating this difference betweeen my two systems. Wish I knew

I really hope they consider adding support for those controllers and others as well. I would love to have that link if possible. I don't think it's against the TOS (unless it's hosted on a bot site or something?) to post links for controller drivers. Maybe a forum mod could let us know?

[wildsprite]

Those are the drivers that I use too, but I have never been able to get the wireless ones to work on Windows 7 and it seems that he is no longer hosting them, or he has blocked public access.

I really wish SE would just add support for the 360 controller on PC. Logitech controllers are complete crap. I've replaced so many buttons on those things that it's not even funny.

I have the Masahiko Morii custom drivers for both wired and wireless, I can verify the 64 bit wireless and wired versions are seen as signed(which you will need unless you want to go through the pain of disabling driver signing), I cannot verify the 32 bit wired versions if you want I can try to find a place to share them....

This is the link. It's exactely the same page of the original Masahiko Morii's website (which went down like 1 year ago or some time ago), completley re-hosted by the guys of Lavendy.
http://lavendy.net/special/driver/

Page is in japanese but don't get scared, look at the link. The first two basically

http://lavendy.net/special/driver/x360wc/index.html
WC ==> Wireless Controller

http://lavendy.net/special/driver/x360c/index.html
C => Controller, this is for the wired version

They're identical, a few options are different on the last page but it's exactely the same drivers. On my old PC I used these and they are so much more awesome than XBCD imho.
Too bad that something doesn't work on my new PC... I dunno why. Triggers work but the right stick doesn't ;_;

Oh and it's not against the TOS, drivers are signed by Microsoft, it's good stuff (Masahiko Morii used to be a recognized official Microsoft developer in Japan)

the versions on that site are older and not seen as signed by windows 7 64 bit, I tested them.....unless they updated it in the last month or so