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During a Black Friday sale, I bought a blue DualShock 4 for the rather low price of $40 even though I don’t (yet) have a PlayStation 4. This is because I’d played with it extensively at a friend’s house and really liked it. For the best compatibility with games, the better choice might’ve been the Xbox 360 controller, but that’s less compatible with the Macintosh architecture itself, and comes with it’s own set of problems. I knew it’d be a hassle now and then, but I was willing to give the DualShock 4 a shot because of how great it is as a controller (but more of that in a future article). With the right tools, you can even get the DualShock 4 to work with games that don’t natively support it. Let’s get the easy stuff out of the way first though:
Out of the box:
The DualShock 4 doesn’t actually come with a cord in the box. It simply uses a Micro USB cable though, so you may not need to buy one if you already have a phone that uses one to charge. This cord will charge the controller as well as provide connectivity if you opt not to use Bluetooth. Simply plug the controller into your Mac and you’re set. To my knowledge, you won’t need any drivers or setup.
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Connect wirelessly:
Connecting your DualShock 4 wirelessly is almost as simple. Just turn on your DualShock 4 in the presence of your Mac (hit the PlayStation button between the two sticks). In a moment your Mac will prompt you to accept the pairing. Your controller should now be connected. To disconnect the controller without losing your settings, simply click on the Bluetooth icon in your Mac’s menu bar, find ‘Wireless Controller’ or ‘DualShock 4’ under the list of devices, and choose to disconnect it. This will also turn off the controller automatically. If you want to turn off the controller otherwise, you’d have to hold the PlayStation button until the lightbar turns off (around 5-10 seconds).
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Some games work straightaway:
Here are some games and apps I know from personal experience to support the DualShock 4 natively:
- BioShock (our review)
- BioShock Infinite (our review)
- Valkyria Chronicles (how to get it to work on a Mac)
- Shovel Knight (our review)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (our review)
- OpenEmu — for use with emulated games
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As a general rule, games that were ported to Mac by Feral or Aspyr and are/were at some point on console are compatible with the DualShock 4. In the case of Feral, you can even email them if you want and they’ll give you a .plist file you can insert into their games to add DualShock 4 compatibility if it doesn’t fully work straightaway. You can find a list of some more Mac games at this link, but it isn’t comprehensive and I come across more and more fully-compatible games on a consistent basis. Note that most games, even if they work perfectly fine with DualShock, still show Xbox 360 button prompts on screen. It may be annoying at first, especially if you aren’t familiar with the Xbox controller, but you’ll get used to them eventually. I made a little PDF chart showing the corresponding inputs, but it’s pretty self-explanatory anyway.
If the Mac keeps going to sleep while in gameplay:
With certain games (Half Life 2 and BioShock Infinite, among others) the Mac doesn’t recognise the DualShock 4 as a valid input method, so it will fall asleep after a few minutes, thus interrupting your gaming session. To circumvent this, installing a free little app called Caffeine comes in handy. Basically, while it’s running, the Mac can’t go to sleep. Just make sure the little coffee cup icon in your menu bar is actually filled with coffee, or the app isn’t actually running.
If a game doesn’t work:
Hope is not lost! If the game doesn’t actually use the mouse cursor (i.e. camera control and weapon aiming is fine), you can still control it with the DualShock 4 using a little app called Joystick Mapper ($5 on the Mac App Store). I’d also recommend using Joystick Show ($1 on the Mac App Store) to figure out what buttons correspond to what number as well as to ensure your controller is connected and working. Here’s what it looks like in action: Megaseg pro manual.
Basically, you can map buttons and axis changes to specific keyboard keys, mouse buttons, and mouse motions. It all works really well, and sometimes when I’m lazy, I actually use it to be able to lean back and surf the web! I used this setup to finish the last few hours of Skyrim, and also played the entirety of Spec Ops: The Line this way, so it’s certainly effective, if a little bit cumbersome to set up. I encountered some issues using it with Fallout 3, which is a PC game I set up to work using Wineskin. Maybe the combination of emulated Windows as well as emulated keyboard and mouse simply confused the computer!
Sometimes, you’re just out of luck:
Like I said above with Fallout 3, sometimes a game simply won’t support your DualShock 4. Sometimes it has to do with glitchyness (Fallout 3 + Wineskin) or sometimes a game just relies on the mouse too much. For example, there’s no reason why you can’t use the DualShock 4 and Joystick Mapper to play Civilization V, but you’re really just better off using the mouse to click around.
That’s it! A general guide to get your DualShock 4 working with your favourite Mac games! What do you think? Do you have a DualShock 4? Have you had any luck gaming with it on a Mac/PC? Tell us in the comments!
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I regret a lot of things in my life but one huge thing that resonates with me is my failure to switch to PC. I actually think about this everyday.
I decided to come up with this post after looking at my copy of Skyrim on PS3. Literally a brain aneurism. I love Bethesda to pieces, but this port is fucking awful I want to die. If you’re not familiar, “porting” is lingo for transferring software from one system to another. Like, porting a Zelda Nintendo game to the PC.
So Skyrim for PS3 is a train wreck. A train wreck with casualties – everyone dies, and also goes to hell too. It’s a game that was meant to be played on the computer with a keyboard and mouse. But because I’m inept, I have a Mac, … period. Yeah, there are some alternatives to make it work on Steam, but I’m too afraid to purchase it and have it not work. Like, that whole Wineskin deal? How come Steam doesn’t have a Skyrim Mac edition with Wineskin applied FOR me? They did that for System Shock 2. Except that was just Wine I think. …It’s complicated.
Here are some reasons why Skyrim for PS3 gives me hives.
– The game freezes and crashes all the time. Every hour, at least. And sometimes it’ll freeze for a moment and go back to normal and I swear that single moment makes me feel like I’m in danger.
– To play off of that, you’ve got to safe often. And saving takes so very long. This is true with every PS3 game, though. You gotta go into a menu, select save, select the save file, and wait 5 seconds. Yeah it doesn’t sound like much, but with PC games you mother fuckin’ slap a button and it saves instantly.
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– For me, there are few games that I’d prefer to play with a handheld controller. The preciseness of a mouse is unprecedented. And I just feel like it takes more physical effort to do things with a controller. There’s more steering with the joystick, when instead it can be done quicker with a mouse’s flick of the wrist. I’m not coming for console gamers, honestly! It’s my inpatient preference.
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– Load times. Other than saving, there are times where the game needs to load. Like when you’re entering a house, or establishment. On PC it happens with a snap of the finger. On PS3 you’ve gotta wait. And this time I mean really wait. There are short paragraphs of information on each loading screen and you can read ’em a couple times on PS3.
– The accessibility is not as fluent on PS3, in terms of selecting weapons, magic, and potions. It just ain’t instantaneous!
* Some other somewhat irrelevant tidbits
– DLC, yeah I can get downloadable content on the PS3 but why would I choose to suffer more?
– I’m not a modding kind of gal but a bitch can’t modify on a console. Honestly the only modding I have ever done with any videogame is changing the textures in Minecraft. And that’s pretty great I will admit.
Hope that makes sense because it’s coming from a place of genuine honesty. That’s all I gotta say. Icloud photo library not uploading mac sierra.