#Controllermate comments for mac#
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NOTE: Mapping Joystick Actions to Keystrokes вЂ¦ДЇor a while Joystick Mapper was the go-to tool to map Joystick actions to keystrokes вЂ“ useful for games that do not natively support a controller. To mimic the вЂњundo360controllerвЂќ as described for вЂњHalf-Life 2: Epsiode 2вЂќ and others, create a file called вЂњ undo360controller.cfgвЂќ with the following content: ~ /Library /Application Support /Steam /SteamApps /common /Half-Life 2 /hl2 /cfg / ~ /Library /Application Support /Steam /steamapps /common ///cfg /ДЇor example, for Half-Life 2, this would be: Save the file as вЂњ 360controller.cfgвЂќ in the following location:

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With the code below we will mimic the behavior seen with вЂњHalf-Life 2: Episode 2вЂќ so we can use exec 360controller and exec undo360controller. Creating such a configuration file is easy, simply use a text editor like TextWrangler to create a plain text file with theВ (example) content below. Tip: First try exec 360controllerВ in the developer console before proceeding with these steps вЂ“ it might already work!ДЇor these two, we will need to define a configuration file (which can also be used with the other games to customize the controls).

To disable the controller, type: exec undo360controller Half-Life 2 andВ Half-Life 2: Episode One To enable the controller, type in the developers console (~): exec 360controller These Valve games come with XBox 360 controller support build in. Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Portal, Team Fortress 2, and Left 4 Dead Once enabled (your game will remember next time you start the game), use the вЂњ ~вЂќ key (tilde) during game play, or in the main screen, to get to the console.

Check the option вЂњ Enable developer console (~)вЂќ and click вЂњ ApplyвЂњ.

From the main menu select вЂњ OptionsвЂќ вЂњ KeyboardвЂќ and click the вЂњ AdvancedвЂќ button.

It didnвЂ™t take much effort to find this Knowledge Base Article at Steam, concerning the use of a XBox 360 Controller on Mac with Source games (Half-Life is a so called вЂњSourceвЂќ game by Valve).ДЇirst we need to get into the so called вЂњDeveloper ConsoleвЂќ, which is relatively easy forВ most Valve games.

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Well, IвЂ™m a Steam user, so the first thing IвЂ™d like to test are some of my favorite games like the вЂњHalf-Life 2вЂќ series вЂ“ yes, I know itвЂ™s OLD, but I just love the Half-Life games and Half-Life 3 is still not available (I honestly doubt it will ever see the day of light, but IвЂ™m still hoping) вЂ¦ Step 4 вЂ“ Playing Source (Valve) games on your Mac

MacOS X вЂ“ Xbox 360 Controller Preferences This is the main GitHub page of this project.Download the latest version from this GitHub page (360 Controller Releases).

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UPDATE: There is a 360 Controller driver that is being actively maintained, a fork of the original project, you can get it from GitHub as well: For this, seemingly abandoned driver, youвЂ™d need some tricks to get it to work under Yosemite вЂ“ which is related to new вЂњrulesвЂќ concerning the use of KextвЂ™s (Kernel Extensions). And there is such a think in this case.Д¬olin Munro, at TattieBogle,В released a driver as early as 2006, which appears not to have been updated since 2012. So we require a driver created by another party.

#Controllermate comments for mac#

Unfortunately, Microsoft, doesnвЂ™t feel the need to supply drivers for Mac users for their hardware, which is unfortunate and leaves the user with the mess to solve by themselves. MacOS X does not natively come with drivers for the XBox 360 controller, which makes sense, itвЂ™s not their responsibility to provide hardware drivers for 3rd party hardware manufacturers, especially when they choose to swerve away from standards вЂ¦