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Note: If you came to this blog first and have a windows 10 operating system please click here to read the original blog article which will give you fresh screen shots and video tutorials on how to install the Chinese receiver onto your Windows 10 device. For those who are running Windows 7 and earlier operating systems continue reading!

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In case you have no-script enabled or for some reason cannot see the title video on this website. I have provided direct links for these videos.

WebM – Link – This is the newest video standard, works great on Opera, Firefox, Chrome, and newer android phones, not good for Safari, IE, Apple.
MP4 – Link – The most compatible codec but also rather large in file size. Make take a while to download.
OGV – Link – the fallback codec for older PC’s and Linux USB stick OS’s. 1st generation web video streaming based on Ogg-Vorbis encoding.

PDF file available:

When I still had an analytic installed I noticed a lot of people where saving my tutorials onto the hard-drive. I understand that you may not trust this site being around in the next few months. Or perhaps you are going into a part of the world where internet isn’t fantastic. Or perhaps you are a seller of these receivers and are looking for a document that you can print up and attach to your product. You can now download a PDF of this article for you to have , print, and read on your hard drive.

Introduction:

Now for those who don’t know what this little guy does; It allows you to hook up ANY wireless Xbox 360 Controller which operates on a wireless 2.4ghz range to your PC (Up to four devices just like the original Xbox 360) which is useful for playing a lot of Steam games which are coming out which are all about Couch-Action multiplayer action. This wireless receiver is actually a really nice device to have considering Xbox One is released making the hardware of the 360 obsolete. And when hardware becomes obsolete it gets very cheap! I personally paid for 4 Xbox 360 controllers on eBay for around $55 with shipping included. Which isn’t bad at all! Read on if you would like to know more about this little $8 unit!

Original wireless receiver versus the Chinese version.

This is a brief summary and differences between the two Xbox 360 receivers that you will find out on the internet.

This is the official Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver. Note the Microsoft Logo on the casing and the tab on Cable.

I should note it is next to impossible to find an OEM Microsoft 360 Wireless Receiver unless you are willing to fork out $50-60 for a controller and receiver pack. Used game stores such as GameStop will not keep these around and often will not even have a receiver. GameStop treats odd-ball hardware devices by only offering a few pennies to buy it off of someone. When you do official receivers show up on eBay. they are typically going anywhere from $15-20 dollars because they are no longer in production thanks to the Xbox One. This can also be verified by checking the hardware ID in device manager. USB hardware ID for the official receiver is: USBVID_045E&PID_0719

This is the Chinese Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver with has no indication it came from Microsoft.

Chinese receivers will come in cheaper packing (if any at all) and will not say the word “Microsoft” anywhere on the unit or package. This allows them to sell this units in this country without them getting pulled for various intellectual property related laws (And don’t think Microsoft won’t go after people for this! They still throw cease and desist letters to people giving out MS-DOS disks for gods sake!) You’ll also get a CD and that’s about it! No real instructions in the packaging itself. This can be verified by checking the hardware ID in device manager. USB hardware ID for the official receiver is: USBVID_045E&Pid_0291 for windows 7 or USBVID_05C6&PID_9244 for windows 10.

Where to purchase the China Wireless Xbox Receiver.

Ebay – Ignore the Malaysian listings as it generally takes three times longer then China and the sellers use dirty tactics to get the lowest price. Generally 8 to 10 dollars USD with shipping from China.
NewEgg – More for North American buyers who don’t want to mess with Ebay. Prices are 9 to 13 USD plus possible shipping.
DX – A little more expensive then Ebay in the 12 to 14 USD range. DX however may be more suitable for international buyers.
Alibaba – This auction site initially was not friendly to US buyers with Paypal. But they are about as good as Ebay. I would only suggest this site for people that are looking for bulk purchases of the third party receiver.

Note: Zero commission is made from these links. These are posted as a service to those reading this blog.

Wireless receiver woes:

Lets go through some of the issues encountered with the Chinese Wireless receiver.

Toss this CD, it’s pointless!

An issue with the Chinese receiver is that although it gives you a driver-CD. That CD is absolutely useless unless you have windows XP 32-bit you minus well just throw the thing away! So if you have a Windows 7 or Windows 8 box. The Screen Below is the typical screen you will get! I have uploaded an archive of my disc which can be downloaded. Click here to access this file. This was only uploaded for archival purposes and will not be used in any way during this tutorial.10/5/2017 note: File has been re-compressed to .7z A.K.A 7-zip for better compression. WinRAR can extract 7z files as well.

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No driver update, can’t point to the CD because the OS supported is Windows XP. Crap!

This is because the China Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver is emitting a different hardware ID then the Microsoft one. USBVID_045E&PID_0291 for windows 7 to be exact. Because of this Windows has no clue on what to do about this and Unlike a wired 360 controller or dance pad where it will simply pull its drivers off of Windows Update. It cannot do anything with our Chinese receiver.

So how do we work around this problem?

Simple, we force the Microsoft driver down its throat!!!

Acquire the software.

You are first going to want to download the driver from Microsoft’s site dealing with Xbox Controllers – http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/d/xbox-360-wireless-controller-for-windows – Choose your operating system, download, and install this driver. I highly recommend installing this driver as it will load all of the default Microsoft interfaces for this tutorial and also it will give you a battery utility so when you press your center button for Xbox control it will tell you how much battery is left in your controller.

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