I'v been thinking about do this mod for awhile. What I want to do is take 4 xbox controller dongles, and wire them together so they all lead to one controller simply in theory but I fear there may be some problems. Since I would kinda be shorting the controller ports to on another would this cause any errors?
Control 4 players with one controller
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i woudnt of thought that would work, it would be like the usb ports on the cp, only one working at a time.
Matt
Matt
Forgive me lack of vision... but what purpose does it serve? I understand the joy in making something work... but once it's done what are you gonna do? You can't play a game like it.
I think you could use something from a USB hub and maybe modify it to have the USB ports from the XBOX to be used, if USB hubs for PC can be made without shorting each other out, I would think this is possible.
Good idea Kimosabe that may actually work. And to Rookio, my reasons are as follows. I am a big fan of Halo2 and mainly it on xbox live. I am also into tricking halo2. Now being able to throw 4 granades at once or shoot 4 rockets at once has great uses in tricking. Plus it would be useful if I wanted to make a dance video, or freak a bunch of people out in matchmaking, with a row of 4 people walking in unison.
Well I was talking to some people I know on Xbox Live, and they were saying that each controller has a unique ID and the xbox code would pretty much prohibit me from doing this. Can anyone with alot of knowledge in this subject confirm this?
Well, as far as I know, just like on a PC USB hub, each USB port is assigned to their own coding so that when it's plugged in, it will recognize four [or more] different USB ports, and not the same thing with the end of result of only recognizing one port. I don't know too much about the USB sets the XBOX uses, but it seems pretty logical that coding is different for each port and the motherboard will send different signals to each USB port, just like a PC USB hub. I'm sure that this can be mimiced somehow by using the hardware of a Generic USB PC hub. If maybe each port simulated the coding of all four in one, that may work...but hell...good luck with that man. Nothing's Impossible in the XBOX world.
Just my two cents.
Just my two cents.
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Halomaster, that's a cool idea I see the point now, but i can't help thinking of the problems.
Each of your characters will spawn in a different location, so they'll be all over the map and probably be walking into walls and stuff. Then, i don't play halo much, maybe you can preset where your characters start.
Yeah let us know if it works
Each of your characters will spawn in a different location, so they'll be all over the map and probably be walking into walls and stuff. Then, i don't play halo much, maybe you can preset where your characters start.
Yeah let us know if it works
There are bigger problems. Unfortunatly this will not work since well I combine them all together all of the USB ports are getting the same ID form the one controller. So I will probaly have to map out what buttons use what wires. then I will need to solder those wires onto the controller PCB board. So that the correspond with the button being pressed. Alot of work and I'm not really sure about how to do it so any help would be appciated
I was under the impression that 2 wires were power and ground, 1 wire was rumble and the other 2 were the data for your button pushes.