How to use Afterglow AP.2 Wireless PS3 Controller for Gaming

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How to use Afterglow AP.2 Wireless PS3 Controller for Gaming

I naively bought this 3rd party controller thinking it would be Bluetooth like an offical Sony PS3 controller only to learn that due to licencing restrictions, only Sony is allowed to make Bluetooth controllers for Playstation. However, this is a very nice controller and great value at £18 delivered from Amazon. It also has a pseudo XBox 360 controller layout for the left joystick / joypad which have been swapped over.

Anyhow, if anyone does purchase one of these to use for gaming on OSX, rest assured you have not wasted your money. I could not find a single article on how to get this to work with OSX so wanted to post this to help out anyone else in the same position. I set this up very quickly without any problems to play Borderlands 2 (Steam edition) using a great shareware application called USB Overdrive. Mavericks is fully supported in the latest release. It works very easily by allowing you to bind key strokes to any of the buttons or joysticks in the controller - not a single problem.

I'm running the controller on a 2012 MBPr 13".

Any questions or probelms, please shout.

Thanks

Taz

Posted on Nov 12, 2013 7:51 AM

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Dec 30, 2013 5:48 PM in response to tazsingh96

Ok - so how do you get the controller paired?

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Dec 31, 2013 5:11 AM in response to TroyGespegewagi

Troy

The following part of the original post should help:

"I set this up very quickly without any problems to play Borderlands 2 (Steam edition) using a greatshareware application called USB Overdrive. Mavericks is fully supported in the latest release. It works very easily by allowing you to bind key strokes to any of the buttons or joysticks in the controller"

Have you downloaded USB Overdrive? It works by allowing you to assign key strokes to the controller buttons and joystick. Therefore, any application (or game) that accepts the keyboard or mouse as an input devcice will work with the Afterglow AP.2 in conjunction with USB Overdrive.

You cannot ditrectly pair the controller with a Mac since it is not a Bluetooth device. The Sony PS3 controller will pair with a Mac directly as it uses Bluetooth protocol.

Thanks

Taz

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Dec 31, 2013 7:46 AM in response to tazsingh96

Ok- I think I am missing even the first steps

I cannot see the controller anywhere on the mac

Do I use the dongle, of just usb cord? Where would the controller show on the mac screen.

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tazsingh96 Author

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Dec 31, 2013 1:13 PM in response to TroyGespegewagi

Make sure that the controller is charged and then connect it to your Mac via the supplied wireless USB dongle. It won't appear on your desktop as an icon - just go ahead and download USB Overdrive and take it from there. The application is pretty easy to use (just takes a few minutes to set up but then you're ready to go).

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Jul 10, 2014 2:37 PM in response to tazsingh96

how do i set up the vision in the right joystick otherwise the Z and Rz so that i can look around without the trackpad

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Jul 10, 2014 2:48 PM in response to 2annoying

More importantly how do i look up and down so i can aim when playing borderlands2

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