0738:beef — Joytech Neo SE Advanced Gamepad (Mad Catz, Inc.)

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a Joytech Neo SE Advanced Gamepad manufactured by Mad Catz, Inc.. The vendor ID 0738 is registered to Mad Catz, Inc. with the USB Implementers Forum, and beef is the product ID that Mad Catz, Inc. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0738:beef Mad Catz, Inc. Joytech Neo SE Advanced Gamepad.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0738:beef Mad Catz, Inc. Joytech Neo SE Advanced Gamepad

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0738:beef, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0738:beef. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0738, idProduct=beef.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_0738&PID_BEEF
USB\VID_0738&PID_BEEF&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0738&PID_BEEF"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Joytech Neo SE Advanced Gamepad:
      Product ID: 0xbeef
      Vendor ID: 0x0738  (Mad Catz, Inc.)

Driver help

Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.

Raw usb.ids entry

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

0738  Mad Catz, Inc.
	beef  Joytech Neo SE Advanced Gamepad

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