Hey guys. I went and did a mod similar to this to add a USB port to the front of my Xbox so I can expand it's capabilities without sacrificing controller breakaway cables or having to do the mod where you hack up a controller. I am wanting to know if anybody knows of a list somewhere, or if we can have one made up that will tell people at a glance what titles actually support it. I doubt many, if any retail games supported it. Although it is possible some did, especially developer betas of retail games for debugging purposes. I have only successfully tested it out with Quake 3 Arena homebrew port, and I can't really get the keyboard working in game for movement even after trying to map the keys, but mouse works fine. However the keyboard works in the menus.
Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II When the game came out, MS provided a USB adapter for FREE + $6.95 S&H to use a Keyboard with this game.
I played with the Atari ST emulator WinstonX, and it seemed to work for the most part, although still sometimes some stuff wasn't working fully with my keyboard. But on the desktop the mouse worked well too. If I find out any others I will try and report back here. I know I must not be alone in my love for mouse and keyboard controls on consoles. I loved messing with mine on my Dreamcast, although it had better support in retail games since it was official.
Oh, if we count homebrew I bet there's a bunch. Iirc Quake2x works too, and probably most emulators for systems that had keyboards (e.g. Amiga, Atari ST, Speccy) do. But retail titles would probably be of more interest. Come to think of it, I never even tried wether the msdash works; at the very least there's a couple text input fields (e.g. song names when ripping cds) that could've benefitted. And now I see there even was an official adapter...
Yeah, it would have been nice if MS officially sanctioned it back in the day as a selling point to get more PC gamers interested in the system. It is so crazy to think it has even taken them THIS long to say they are 100% on board with the idea to bring official mouse and keyboard support in games to Xbox One family of consoles. That was one aspect I wish Microsoft had brought over to the Xbox after working so closely with Sega on the Dreamcast and their Windows CE project for it. I still love playing my Dreamcast FPS games with mouse and keyboard. Sure, I could always play it on my modern gaming PC, but there is just something cool about using a consoles full capabilities. But yeah, I am including homebrew and emulators in my list of games/emulators and apps. Heck even XBMC supports mouse and keyboard to an extent on the system, so might as well list that as well. Linux too and other OS ports should also. I should probably also post a link to the mod instruction page that gave me the idea. It is not a new mod and almost everybody knows about it, but I thought it was a much better method to mod a female port into the front bottom of the console for easy access without butchering the controller, or ports itself, or hacking up a controller breakaway cable. I did however use both solder and hot glue, and did not remove the actual controller ports from the case. I worked on it inside the console but I was very careful not to drop hot solder on any components and careful to not touch the exposed PSU. https://web.archive.org/web/20160203011515/http://www.xboxscene.com/articles/usb-port.php
Yeah, I already have one of those. I just like the idea of an easily accessible port on the console. That was how I actually softmodded the system with the premade adapter I got on eBay. Also, in my experience, my USB hubs will not work with both a mouse and a keyboard plugged into the same port. So it has to be one or the other plugged into separate ports.
I heard somewhere - but don't quote me on this - that if you want to use a hub (and have it work properly), it absolutely, positively has to be a USB1.0/.1 one, not 2.0 or beyond. Kinda hard to find these days.
Ah! I guess yeah that would make sense. I didn't even think about that. Thanks for the tip. I should also mention, when plugging my Logitech G9X gaming mouse, and my Jelly Comb mechanical keyboard into the 4th port that also has the usb port wired into, it won't detect both devices at the same time. I am not sure if this is due to power draw or what, but I might try and pull out some old usb mice and keyboards to check and see if these devices are just too much for a single port.
