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1.0 out of 5 stars!PC USERS BEWARE! Imagine buying a $160 gaming mouse that says it works on PC/Mac....except on Mac one button works.
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2018
!!If you intend to use this for PC BUYER BEWARE!!!I
PC USE WARNING!!
RARELY do I ever leave a review. But I REALLY wish I had known about this in advance with all the other positive reviews (xBox users only, my guess)
Usually I review if something was way ABOVE my expectations, but this is an exception. It's advertised as being for the xBox and PC. !ABSOLUTELY NOT! It is ONLY for the xBox and the PC can read the xbox specific buttons (like it can any xBox controller). There is absolutely no support whatsoever for button customization other than the standard a,b,x,y,b1,b2,t1,t3 buttons (and I was on line with razer for a while trying to find a workaround because this seemed incredulous to me). Want macros?, custom key presses?, long hold/short hold/rapid fire/or anything else for that matter? Forget about it. For a $160 premium Razer "Ultimate" product this thing is the worst kind of rip off. I can't even use joytokey, controller companion, xpadder or anything else with it, since the additional buttons only register as copies of a,b,x,y and not as unique buttons.
Not a stranger to and knowing the flexibility of PC, I attempted a number of workarounds. Try installing as a different device type (DInput instead of XInput)?.....nope. Find custom drivers to take advantage of the hardware?.......nada...... FORCE it to recognise as a keyboard at least? I would loose analog functions, but at least keep the unique keystrokes?....absolute bupkus. Thinking I downloaded the wrong version of Synapse?....wrong again they actually released a specific version of their Synapse software to work for the thing since their OWN Synapse won't even talk to it as a PC controller. Ditto if you think this might work with your other Razer products for lighting and the like...they will NOT communicate with each other....since...since....this controller wasn't made to work on PC!
How about those 4 media looking keys between the hand grips. Surely I can do something with those.....nope. Two of them are for profiles (and WHAT are profiles for if you can't actually customize anything?!?), and the other two are for mic/volume that.....u guessed it...will not do ANYTHING on a PC and can't be mapped. My only conclusion is that the controller can ONLY output the standard xInput controls and the rest of it is stored/controlled on the controller itself. You can get one button to act like another button, but can't actually change any of them beyond standard xBox config.
I got this thing after needing a control pad that had additional buttons so I could use it for mainly the emulation scene. Wanted the extra buttons to map some quick keys too like emulator menu, return to front end, quick access to shaders, volume control...etc. I can do this with as far as I can tell, ANY CONTROLLER BUT THIS ONE! I don't know WHAT Razer was thinking since they were at one time supposedly the premier, game centric, peripheral maker for the PC crowd but they have either lost there way, or are giving the big one fingered salute to there original core audience. After having a number of Razer products over the years and seen the support drop off lately and even riding thru the synapse overhead issue, I will be VERY hesitant to try their products again.
Oh.....Razer did mention that the controller was designed for tournament use so macros/customization would be "unfair".....ok.... 1)Isn't that what your cheaper "Wolverine Tournament Edition" is for? and this expensive Ultimate is for the rest of us? AND 2)PC use makes the tournament part mute. Want to nerf it for xBox... fine....but why nerf it for PC?...WHY??
TLDR> Review for Wolverine Ultimate is SPECIFICALLY for PC. Might be fantastic for xBox, feels nice and what not, but will NOT work on a PC as a PC controller. Will only recognise and work as a standard xBox controller with unmappable duplicate buttons. In my book that is NOT PC compatible. It's like advertising a $160 gaming mouse as Windows and Mac compatible, but when u plug it into a mac only one button can or will ever work. !!RIPOFF!!