This repo contains firmware to produce a hardware converter which allows an original xbox controller to present itself as an xbox 360 controller for use with pc games.
Case is 3d printed, cad file is case.FCStd (freecad format). Glue the front on with epoxy to stop it sliding.
The cable is a cut open xbox controller cable, soldered to the USB host pins on a teensy 4.1, and held down with a cable tie. You can get a sacrificial cable on ebay! Don't destroy an original. You might be able to get this working on some other hardware, but I haven't tried. There's a writeup about this project at http://wheybags.com/blog/xbox.html
This is kind of an awful procedure, but in my defence, it's not really my fault. Most of it is just the Arduino ecosystem being a bit unsatisfactory. I used specific versions of Arduino and teensyduino here, it's patches on patches. If you want to use a newer version of anything you're on your own. Installers for the specific versions we need are available in the dependencies/ folder
- Install Arduino 1.8.19
- Install teensyduino 1.56
- Now we need to install the patches to teensyduino that let us emulate a 360 controller. Copy the
dependencies/ArduinoXInput_Teensy/teensyfolder on top of theteensyfolder in your Arduino IDE install directory (egC:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\teensy) - Next copy the
dependencies/ArduinoXInputfolder into your Arduino libraries folder (egC:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\libraries\ArduinoXInput) - Now open the
xbox.inofile in the Arduino IDE - Select the Teensy 4.1 board from the Tools menu
- Set the USB type to XInput
- Build the project in arduino IDE. Hopefully it works.
