Come to find out, I don’t have an appropriate corded 360 controller to use on my PC, nor do I have the wireless receiver that Microsoft mentions on their website to use my wireless controller.
#USE PS4 CONTROLLER ON MAC EMULATOR PC#
You can go out and buy a special PC controller, or you can use an existing Xbox 360 controller, as Variand brought to my attention one day. Turns out that plugging a controller into your computer isn’t that hard. Directions are on the right, action buttons are on the left, and to top it off I can’t use my thumbs.
On the whole I prefer to use “the real thing” whenever possible, but there are some instances where emulation is unavoidable, yet I have long been deterred because of the unorthodox controls that a standard keyboard provides. For those of us without any extra computer peripherals, for all that emulation allows, it also forces us to use the existing QWERTY keyboard layout in cumbersome fashion. Emulation offers a way around all of this (most of the time) and provides advantages of its own: it’s free, requires very little physical space, and circumvents annoyances that old console users are all too used to by now like dust, incompatible A/V outputs, and woesome controller layouts. When one really starts digging deep into the plethora of gaming subsets, invariably one reaches “that one game” that never saw an American release, or perhaps a notable version only ever saw the inside of an arcade cabinet, or maybe obtaining the original hardware just isn’t feasible. Getting your PC to recognize the DS4 as a 360 controller is the first step so that key mapping is then possible.ĭespite the borderline obscene mounds of console gaming hardware I have, sometimes emulation is the only way to experience certain games. In order to ensure that you can use your DS4 in all or most circumstances, please see the section about key mapping near the end. It will not increase functionality for programs that do not support the 360 controller.
#USE PS4 CONTROLLER ON MAC EMULATOR HOW TO#
Please note that this procedure only describes how to make your PC think that a 360 controller is being used when in actuality a PlayStation 4 DualShock 4 is being used.
Read on to learn how to use a DualShock 4 controller on your PC. Besides strict emulation, you can use this to play with your DualShock 4 in any game that supports the Xbox 360 controller. Using the PS4 controller with my laptop is just one of several steps I’ve taken to make the experience of playing games on my computer more comfortable for myself.
At some point in the near future, I’d like to chronicle my emulation exploits for now it entails a couple of Castlevania releases, but this is potentially useful information for anyone into emulation.
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