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Originally Posted by Mike Copioli
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Originally Posted by Mike Mahar View Post
Also, you state the manufacturer for all of the other controllers but you just state Xbox and Xbox360 for the Microsoft controllers.
Uhhhhh? hu? I want you to think about that last statement. The key word is MICROSOFT. You do realize that Microsoft is a manufacturer? I dont mean to sound sarcastic. But I find it funny that you mention the manufacturer in a sentence questioning why we don't state the manufacturer.
Anyway I got a good laugh. You are right we do need to emphasize that it has to be the exact manufacturer. We will update this.
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Well, by the time I wrote that sentence, I did know that it had to be the exact manufacturer. Perhaps I should have said: " Also, you state the manufacturer for all of the other controllers but you just state Xbox and Xbox360 for those controllers and assume that everyone would know that they must come from Microsoft." That was the sense of what I was trying to say.
PC controllers seem to come with their own drivers so it is logical to assume that each manufacturer is going to be different in some way. The makers of 3rd party Xbox360 controllers would be motivated to make their controllers behave exactly like the Microsoft versions. Or, at least I assumed that they would. But, being USB devices they would have different vender IDs and product IDs. So, in retrospect, it is not surprising that your device would rely on this, or other, informaiton to configure itself and not support 3rd party controllers.