Help! Need @Play controller driver

[Mori]

Hey guys, recently bought an @Play controller from EB Games, but I don't have a cd drive and I can't find the drivers online. Does anyone have this controller and are able to send it to me? Much appreciated!

[SalsaShark]

I just had this same issue. Turns out you can force it to use the standard Microsoft 360 Driver. Worked for me.

https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/282826/how-can-i-get-a-wired-afterglow-xbox-360-controller-to-work-on-pc

[Scary Terry]

i have a disc drive but its a laptop drive and i can't insert that stupid miniature disc. why do these things even exist!

[Jaspervdv]

I dont now this is the right service but can you be banned on your intire steam account? And if your steam account is suspended for how long then?

[Soon]

Please what did you do? Same problem for me ! This stupid CD was hidden in the box.

[Scary Terry]

I returned it, no drivers onine anywhere, only option for me.

[troubled-pasta]

Ok, so. Technically You can get this thing working. Technically.

Assuming this is for the PC Game Controller (131362) or similar from that 2013-2015 era - I don't know if the newer models are any better - one thing you can do is download an emulator like x360ce (https://www.x360ce.com/), which will let you map each button individually. Initially it's fine until you realise that the thumbsticks and the D-Pad/colour buttons are, by default, all mapped to be either thumbsticks OR buttons. Not both. i.e. Press the Y button and you're pressing Stick Up at the same time. That's just how the controller is by default, and it's not a wiring or soldering issue because I opened it and checked (There's nothing visibly wrong with the soldering or the board itself. It's just cheap). Not a good start.

Stubborn as I am though, I kept trying and messed around with the settings and toggled some things, and eventually figured out a button mapping that seems to separate everything and work for the most part.

It revolved around me clicking the 'Remap All' button, going through them until I got to the Guide button - because for some reason that one just doesn't register like, at all - and then just individually right clicking on the Stick Axis inputs, D-Pad inputs, etc, hitting record and then woosh, controller works... Kind of.

Problem is, it resets itself to that default, unplayable state if you so much as even look at the input options in a game (Want to adjust the camera sensitivity? Good luck to you). Probably for other reasons I haven't encountered yet too. A stiff breeze would probably make it reset itself. Requiring you to go back and re-map everything all over again. Quitting and re-entering the game will do nothing, you HAVE to re-map it. Every. Single. Time. And that's not x360ce's fault because I used that thing to map a PS4 controller for years without issue.

I did email @Play to see if I could just ask them to give me a copy of the drivers because I also lost my disc years ago (or threw it out bc i thought the controller was junk, either or), and I'll update with news on that if I get a reply, but given the sorry state of the default button mapping, I'm not optimistic about it.

This thing is just a headache soldered to a board. Take the L and get something nicer, save yourself the grief of trying to make some third party knockoff function when it was probably never designed to in the first place.