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Contrary to what some people might tell you, you can definitely have a good gaming experience on your Mac. However, if you want to use a controller to game your options might be limited, as the market isn’t exactly flooding with decent, Mac-compatible controllers. But you’re in luck, because your tried-and-true Playstation 3 controller can be connected to your Mac via Bluetooth.
What You’ll Need
Mac with OS X Snow Leopard or newer
PS3 Controller
USB cable
Paper clip
Before You Start
Please note that the connection method described in this article is for OS X Snow Leopard, Lion, and Mountain Lion. From Mavericks and onwards the process is different and significantly easier, with fewer steps.
If your machine runs OS X Snow Leopard or newer, the drivers that support the PS3 controller are already included. Once you’ve connected your controller you’ll be able to play any games that support the use of a Bluetooth gamepad. Let’s get to it!
Disable Bluetooth & Reset Controller
The first thing you need to do is make sure Bluetooth is disabled on any Macs or other devices nearby, as well as the one you’re connecting to. Otherwise, they’ll all try to connect to the controller at once.
Turn off Bluetooth by going into the Apple menu, select ‘System Preferences’, then ‘Bluetooth’, and finally ‘Disable Bluetooth’.
You should also reset your PS3 controller by putting the end of a paperclip into the small hole near the L2 button. You’ll especially want to do this if you’ve used it with your actual PS3 as the controller can only be connected to one device at a time and if it’s not ‘disconnected’ from the PS3 before you try to connect it to the Mac, you might run into problems.
Connect Controller to Mac
Plug your controller into the Mac via the USB cable. Once connected, turn Bluetooth back on and press and hold the ‘PS’ button on your controller. After a few seconds, red lights should flash, and you can let go of the button and unplug the USB cable from both controller and computer.
Navigate into System Preferences -> Bluetooth again and click the little ‘+’ icon, which will open the Bluetooth Setup Assistant. In the window that appears, enter the numbers ‘0000’ as the access code requested. Then hit ‘Accept’ and exit the Bluetooth Setup Assistant.
Your regular Bluetooth window should now show ‘PLAYSTATION3 Controller’ as an item in the left-hand column. Select it, and then click ‘Add to Favourites’. After this you need to click the little gear icon at the bottom of the column and select ‘Update Services’.
As a final step, disable Bluetooth and enable it again after about five seconds. Check that your controller shows up as connected in your Bluetooth preferences and if it does, you’re good to go!
What if it Doesn’t Work?
There could be a few reasons why it’s not working for you. The first thing to do is to turn Bluetooth off and on again a few times, with the controller still plugged into the Mac, as it can sometimes take a moment for them to play nice.
You could also be having issues because you’re using a counterfeit or 3rd-party controller, as the USB chips in them have been known to not always be up to par. That is not to say they’ll never work, but they’re definitely less reliable.
It could also be because a nearby device still has Bluetooth enabled and is confusing your poor controller, not letting it connect to the Mac properly. Double-check everything! And if you run into any other problems, let us know in the comments.
You’re Done!
You might need to boot up a gamepad-compatible game to confirm that it works, but after following these steps it should. If you launch Steam and hit the ‘PS’ button, it should pop into Big Picture straight away.
As a final note, as mentioned above this process is much smoother in OS X Mavericks and later, as you do not need to enter an access code or add the controller as a favourite. Mavericks and later also seems to be better in general at consistently and reliably accepting the controller’s connection. Happy gaming!
Welcome abroad players! This is official website of PS3Mobi - No.1 emulator for Sony PlayStation 3 console built primarily for Android and iOS mobile operating systems, and later we decided to make it supported for desktop computers as well (with Windows and Mac OS).
Linux users can check out the RPCS3
About
The application is coded in C & C++ languages with caching/recompilation method which achieves effect of emulating CPU of device you use and make it function like PS3's one does. In other words, this makes your device (smartphone/PC) to act like a real PS3 console while running its games.
F.A.Q.
Do I need BIOS file to run games?
Shortly, BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) is a log file (manual) of codes which tells your device how to run certain console games correctly. And good news for you is that BIOS file is already built inside PS3Mobi so you don't have to download it separately from web.
Where to download games?
You don't have to! Because PS3Mobi has its own server connected to it with all of top PlayStation 3 games uploaded inside so you just need a strong internet connection (WiFi preferred) to download games to your device or even play them online from our server!
But in case some less known game is not included at the server, you can always download it from the web and run it from your hard drive too. Make sure it's in format of image file ('.ISO' file) If you don't know what's an ISO, you can learn it at Wikipedia or do a Google search.
After this feature has been implemented, we decided to cancel our plan to make PSN supported with the emulator. Because it would be very hard job to patch it with the PS network as it's not their official product. This way there is no need for PSN feature anyway once all games are available to play from inside the app.
- Versions 1.0 & 1.1 are not supported anymore
Have more questions or need to report some glitch you've detected? Feel free to email us at any time!
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* We've played these titles as well which worked successfully without any problems:
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time, Resistance: Fall of Man, Metal Gear Solid 4 (MGS4), Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Beyond: Two Souls, Heavy Rain, Gran Turismo 5, Journey, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Little Big Planet, Killzone 2, Dead Nation, The Shadow of The Colossus, God of War III, Sly Cooper, Infamous 2, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, Okami, Soul Calibur IV & Demon’s Souls, Batman: Arkham City, Resident Evil 5, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Fallout 3.
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