# Need help recognizing a 360 wireless controller
**URL:** https://discussions.unity.com/t/need-help-recognizing-a-360-wireless-controller/501869
**Category:** Scripting
**Tags:** Scripting
**Created:** [April 8, 2013, 8:07pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/need-help-recognizing-a-360-wireless-controller/501869 "2013-04-08T20:07:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@RayDawg](https://discussions.unity.com/u/RayDawg)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2013, 8:07pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/need-help-recognizing-a-360-wireless-controller/501869/1 "2013-04-08T20:07:11Z")
I tried searching google and looking at past posts but they don’t seem to address my problem. I can’t seem to get unity to recognize a wireless xbox 360 controller which means whenever I try to go into the input settings, I don’t have any sort of recognition of the controller at all. Does anyone have any idea what to do?
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### Author:  [@imnickb](https://discussions.unity.com/u/imnickb)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/need-help-recognizing-a-360-wireless-controller/501869/2 "2013-04-08T20:23:45Z")
I haven’t looked into using 360 controllers with Unity in a while but last time I did I thought you had to use a wired controller. And it has to be a regular wired controller, not one with the wired pack that clips onto a wireless controller. Maybe something has changed since then, but I’m pretty sure it has to be a wired controller.
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### Author:  [@RayDawg](https://discussions.unity.com/u/RayDawg)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/need-help-recognizing-a-360-wireless-controller/501869/3 "2013-04-10T17:21:08Z")
Well, I was able to get the buttons to sort of work. The problem is that the object I’m controlling freaks out and either skyrockets or plummets depending on what direction I control on the analog sticks. Still having troubles and being a slow programmer, this is probably going to take a while.