How to install your Hori Xbox 360 Fighting Stick EX2 control to your PC
In this post, I will give you instructions on how to install a Hori Xbox 360 Fighting Stick EX2 to your PC. Follow the instructions and you’ll do fine.
If you use XP, click here http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=141775, and follow the instructions. I had an XP operating system, and that’s how I installed my fighting/arcade stick on it.
This steps are for Vista users. Starting from R-Jive post, we’ll work our way through, don’t intimidated, they are all short steps
- Plug in the Hori Fighting Stick USB into your computer.
- Let the computer install the new device it detects. After that it should say “You’re device is ready.”
- Click here, and download Windows XP Xbox 360 Driver(latest). (Yep, download the XP kind)
- After you downloaded the driver, install it.
- Go to Computer, from the start menu.
- Go to OS (C:), Windows, and inf
- Copy all of Step 8.
- %XBCD_360.DeviceDesc% =Install, USB\VID_0F0D&PID_000D ; HORI FighterStickEX2
- Scroll all the way down the /inf folder(you can do this easily by pressing the END key), find the file called “XBCD” and open it.
- You’ll be given a Notepad, with all a bunch of stuff on it. Find Driver Information, then find [DeviceList]. Now at the end of the [DeviceList] add Step 8. on the list. Should look like this.
- Now save it, and in response, it will only allow you to Save as…
- For the File Name, call it “XBCD.inf”, and save it anywhere you can fetch it; like your desktop.
- Close the notepad, drag the XBCD.inf you just created, and drag it into the /inf folder. Select move and replace, keep pressing continue if prompted.After that, you can close all window that could get in your way. As R-Jive would say, you’ve have just made Window chose a different driver than what is was using before. At this point, I didn’t know what to do, but after playing around with the device manager, I was able to make the Hori Fighting Stick work(Luckily). Okay, let’s resume.
- Go to Start, and open the Control Panel
- On the top right search bar, type in “Device Manager”, and wait for it to find it.
- Make sure You re-plugged in your Hori USB. Click on Device Manager, continue if prompted.
- Find an icon of a small computer monitor/screen with a magnifier, it will scan for hardware changes; click on it.
- After it scans, find a path called Microsoft Common Controller(Or Human Interface Devices), and open it.
- You’ll find a path called “Xbox 360 controller for Windows”, right click it, and update driver software.
- Choose “Browse my computer for driver software”
- Choose “Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer”
- Choose “XBCD Xbox 360 Gamepad”(it’s not signed, but that’s ok),and press Next
- A Windows security pops up; Install this driver software anyway
- Wait for it to install, it may take a minute or less
- And there you go, Windows has successfully updated your software; XBCD XBox 360 Gamepad. Press close.
- Go to start, All programs, XBCD, and Setup Utility. There you can test your fighting stick, and know which button to press.
And, you’re finished making the Hori stick to work on your computer. However, the Xbox button doesn’t work, but that’s alright; you might not need it. I’m not sure if it can work.
Now you can use the arcade/fighting stick to play MAME, games, and emulators. You can also play games that doesn’t support game controls inputs(such as, .swf, flash games; and mugen) by reading on my Joy2Key post.
Let’s talk about how to setup your fighting stick on MAME.
Open Mame, choose any game you want to setup, right click on it, click on properties, click on the controllers tab, click Enable joystick input(if you chose a game that uses a gun, check on Enable mouse input), and click ok. That game is now set up to play with the controller. (I played The King of fighter 2002, and to my surprise, it was already Enabled for the joystick). Next, load up the ROM, and one it’s done loading, press the TAB button on your keyboard, go to Input(this game). There you can configure with your fighting stick. From P1 Button 1-6(or any) start from top to left and bottom to left(I think it’s the default setting) For more info on MAME, check out my post about it.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask me through comment, or ask at the Shoryuken forum.
Source:
http://www.productwiki.com/hori-fighting-stick-ex2-for-xbox-360/ for the pic
Amazon for the pic
R-Jive and those who helped him (Zerodotjander, and Kesh)
The Shoryuken post
