XBox Wireless Adapter

[Accessless]

Does anyone know if I need to buy one of these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Xbox-Wireless-Gaming-Receiver-Windows/dp/B000MGVAAQ/ref=pd_sim_vg_h__2 to use a wireless Xbox 360 controller on a PC or can I just use any old bluetooth adapter? They work on the same frequency band.

[UNSCSpartan3]

Yes you have to buy one

[Accessless]

Thought so, I assume that the adapters work off blue tooth but the adapter also converts the output of the receiver to that of a wired Xbox controller. So that if the commands were to be received by a normal blue tooth device, it would be gibberish.

Why can't MS just build the converter into the controller in the first place? Because that would be to easy... and raise the cost of the controller by ~$15.

As a PC user I demand that Xbox users have to be put of pocket for the benefit of PC people! j/k

[BC_Programmer]

An Xbox controller is a standard USB device. it just has a funky plug.

[Accessless]

Erm we were talking about wireless controllers.

[BC_Programmer]

Erm we were talking about wireless controllers.

Yes. I know.

I assume that the adapters work off blue tooth but the adapter also converts the output of the receiver to that of a wired Xbox controller.

The "format" of a wired XBox controller is the same as a standard USB controller.

But, I don't think you are talking about XBox controllers at all, actually- from the colour scheme of the link, I imagine you are actually talking about Xbox 360 controllers. No idea what MS might have changed with that.

[Accessless]

Yes I mean 360 controllers. Sorry, the original Xbox was so laughable that I don't recognise it as a major console and as such refer to the 360 as just "Xbox". Anyway I digress, I'm making wild and unfounded speculations on how a wireless Xbox 360 controller communicates with a USB receiver for the PC.

I think that the wireless controllers use blue tooth in some way and that the USB wireless adapters convert the input to the PC into that of a conventional wired 360 controller. (So that the PC thinks that it has a wired contoller pluged into it)