I'd like to be able to use my wireless Xbox 360 controllers to play games on the PC, but there is a problem that prevents me from doing so.
Unlike the Xbox One and Xbox Series X, the Xbox 360 wireless controller cannot be connected to a PC through something convenient like Bluetooth. With Microsoft being Microsoft, you instead need to get a special adapter to be able to do that shit. If we were in the year 2010/2011, this would be no big deal. The problem is, it's been nearly a decade since the Xbox 360 was considered mainstream, and as a result the official adapter is no longer being manufactured.
These days, you need to rely on getting either a used adapter from god knows where or a sketchy third party adapter from a place like Amazon (where the build quality is questionable at best). I do not trust these third party manufacturers, and I'd love to avoid getting scammed by some shithead from a place like eBay just for some used adapter.
So, I would like to know the following:
- Has anybody figured out how this thing works and built a reliable replica with it?
- Is there a cheap way to build one yourself (even if nobody has reverse engineered the actual receiver)?
- In general, what is the best option?