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I picked up Borderlands 2 for OS X in the recent Steam sale because friends of mine would NOT shut up about the game. So I fired it up only to find out that I needed to use a keyboard (lots of keys) + a mouse (carpal tunnel = no) to play. I was hoping that I could use a borrowed Xbox 360 controller to play through, but Aspyr doesn't support that. So after some research I found a way to use both a wireless Xbox 360 controller as well as a wired third-party Xbox 360 controller. This worked for Borderlands 2 and other games I've tried so far. The cost for this is $5 for the wired controller and $20 for the wireless.

Here are the two setups that worked for me. To connect the wireless 360 Controller to my Macbook Pro I got for $15 (incl.

Tax) on Amazon. The computer still wasn't recognizing it, so I installed Tattiebogle 0.11 which you can download. Follow the instructions for installing and then open up the 'Xbox 360 Controllers' icon in your System Preferences. Link up your controller to the receiver and you should now be able to see reactions to you messing around with buttons and analogs on the 360 controller. This is great, but many games will still not recognize your controller.

So now you need to map your buttons to keyboard commands. To do that you will need to get in the App Store.

Once you're in Joystick Mapper you can assign all of the buttons and analogs to keyboard and mouse controls. This will take some trial and error to find out what works best for you, but it does work. There are many many different 360 controllers out there. Fortunately, there are people out there who can help you out. Once you have Tattiebogle installed you can add support for more controllers. After installing Tattiebogle like described in the last step for the wireless controller, download and run the command script to update Tattiebogle.

This comes from Shoryuken forum member EddDeDuck. The forum post I found this is. (Note: found out the link for the command script is now broken. File attached to this step) You will also need the Joystick Mapper app from the App Store to make this work. OK, that's it.

Attachments •. Why play games on a Mac? It's what I have. For my work, the Mac works really well. If I was gonna be serious about games, I'd build a desktop machine.

Fortunately, the Mac gets a few games thrown its way as well. Why are you playing on windowed mode?

I play on full-screen. It's windowed here to emphasize that it's OS X and not Boot Camp or Parallels. Why not use keyboard + mouse? I've had lots of problems with mice in the past with some carpal tunnel issues. They hurt my wrists after using them intensely for 10+ years. Hi, I did this and I got the following error, does anyone know what I can do? Hard drive format for mac and windows. Untrusted kexts are not allowed WirelessGamingReceiver.kext has invalid signature; omitting.

Untrusted kexts are not allowed Wireless360Controller.kext has invalid signature; omitting. Kext file:///System/Library/Extensions/SiLabsUSBDriver64.kext/ is in hash exception list, allowing to load kext file:///System/Library/Extensions/JMicronATA.kext/ is in hash exception list, allowing to load Untrusted kexts are not allowed 360Controller.kext has invalid signature; omitting. More info: I used parallels and created a virtual machine. When I plugged in my xbox 360 receiver, it asked me if I wanted to map it to my Parallels virtual machine or my computer (my Mac).

I mapped it to parallels. But now I am trying to map it back to my Mac and I have no idea how to because the 360 receiver hardware isn't registering in the driver configuration settings for the 360 wireless receiver. However, the controller has been registered by my system profile. Tldr; my mac recognizes my controller, but the drivers don't, and I think the cause of the problem is because somehow my controller is tied to my parallels virtual machine desktop. Additionally I fear somehow some of my system memory is somehow tied up in parallels and not accessible from my mac desktop. Not sure if that's even possible but it appeared my video card RAM was lower than the specs should be in my system profile. But I'm a noob so i could be wrong.