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It would work the Big Picture menus, but refused to start the game, or work with the game at all.

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The GitHub driver got it working, but annoyingly not for the game I wanted to play Steam could use it, but not Dirt3. The first controller I tried was a вЂњPowerAвЂќ вЂњProEXвЂќ wired Xbox 360 controller from the local Mall_Wart. Thanks for the good info! Controller hardware was my problemвЂ¦ Hope I can save somebody a head-banging sessionвЂ¦ Just open Joystick Mapper and click вЂњ Add New PresetвЂњ, and a new window opens. We will need to create a preset for our game preferences, which is easy. Keep in mind that you have to connect your joystick beforeВ starting Joystick Mapper, orВ go to вЂњ Quick OptionsвЂќ and click вЂњ Refresh JoysticksвЂќ (or press RВ ), so your connected Joystick will be seen. Of all the tools that can map joystick actions to key strokes or mouse moves, IвЂ™ve picked вЂњJoystick MapperвЂќ as my test candidate вЂ“ honestly, $5 is a steal considering the amount of work that actually goes into developing a tool like this.ДЇirst off all youвЂ™ll need to get Joystick Mapper of course, itвЂ™s available for $4.99 at the Apple App Store. This application no longer seems to work with Catalina.ДЄ better, and FREE alternative is Enjoyable вЂ“ which allows you to make your controller to keystrokes. 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.

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Download the latest version from this GitHub page (360 Controller Releases).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.

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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¦