What's the sound of a xbox controller rumble? (1 Viewer)

[BrianB]

Playing Halo, it's rumbling only from the righthand side & seems to be "whiny" & ineffective. It's nothing like the rumble I remember. Sound like a damaged controller?

 

[Masood Ali]

Are you using a controller extension?

 

[BrianB]

Nope.

Brought the joypad & Halo into work today, so I'll compare/contrast between it & a spare joypad. Playing Aggressive Inline this morning, it really didn't feel "correct" - the rumble was definitely all from one side, and I'm pretty sure the XBox controllers have two motors in them for rumble.

 

[Dave Falasco]

Sounds like a defective controller, Brian. The Xbox controller does indeed have two rumble motors, and the rumble is well-balanced across the controller. I have the originals, the S-controllers, and some Japanese controllers and I am using controller extensions, and all of them rumble just fine...sounds like you've got a bad egg there...

 

[BrianB]

Bah.

I wonder if GameStop will exchange it for a S-controller. It's the pack-in regular one :-/

 

[Dan B]

The Xbox controller also has a high frequency mildly noisy sound/vibration that it can make at times (especially noticeable in Halo when you are on the ship at the beginning). This might be normal.

//back to lurking mode//

 

[BrianB]

That's /exactly/ what I'm talking about Dan!
Problem solved I just tried it out on a devkit with T1 and its rumble performed exactly the same as the worn-in controller.
Seems I'm worrying about nothing.

 

[Dave F]

A little late, but I just thought I'd throw in that the two rumble motors are of different size, so there is also a difference in feel between the two.

-Dave

 

[Daren Welsh]

heh, when I saw the subject to this thread, I thought someone might be trying to get the frequency range for the rumble signal transmitted. It'd be sweet if someone took the time to figure out a way to tap the rumble signal and route it to bass shakers (in the couch)

 

[Calvin Watts III]

Does the controller extension hinder the rumble?
Also, has anyone heard if that the extensions could damage the Xbox controllers in any way??

Thanks,
Calvin

 

[BrianB]

Does the controller extension hinder the rumble?
Also, has anyone heard if that the extensions could damage the Xbox controllers in any way??

Nope & nope.

 

[Calvin Watts III]

Thanks, Brian!

Calvin

 

[Lee L]

My in the box controller seems to not rumble as much as my S controller. For a rumble that starts low and gets more aggressive, the S always starts rumbling first, way before the regular. At peak rumble they seem to be roughly equal. Is this normal?

 

[Dave Falasco]

Daren, that's a million-dollar idea if I've ever heard one! Any electrical engineers out there?

 

[Jason Seaver]

Just out of curiosity, can you turn the rumble off? I've never liked this "feature", and my hands are twitchy enough when I'm playing a game.

 

[BrianB]

I believe the TRCs for both platforms insist each game has the option to disable rumble.