Wii U owners were overjoyed when Nintendo announced the USB GameCube controller adapter for Super Smash Bros. Wii U. After using the GameCube controller for Smash Bros. for 13 years, it just feels right, you know? Great as that adapter is for Wii U owners, it’s even more significant for PC gamers who play Nintendo games on their gaming rigs using the Dolphin GameCube and Wii emulator.

Nov 21, 2015  I'm trying to use my Adapter on Dolphin to play Melee. I go to configure my controls and it doesn't detect the inputs. Even with the thing set to PC and the MayFlash download, it still doesn't work. Can someone help me? I hae the 4.0 version BTW. Jul 14, 2016 - If you have the official Nintendo Wii U adapter or the 4 port Mayflash adapter, then you can utilize Dolphin's native support for these adapters.

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A few days after the adapter was released, programmers managed to reverse-engineer it to work on PC. But now the latest builds of Dolphin have native support for the adapter, making GameCube controllers plug-and-play easy. Thanks to Nintendo’s adapter, Dolphin now has perfect 1:1 GameCube controller mapping. To my knowledge, that’s a first for a PC emulator.

The Dolphin progress report for December goes into a bit of detail about the native support for the adapter, crediting Dolphin programmer skidau with the contribution.

It also provides a link to the setup page, which explains how to get the adapter working with Dolphin. Once you go through the setup process, plug in a controller and it’ll be automatically calibrated correctly, with working rumble and hot-plugging (plugging and unplugging the controller while playing). And yes, the wireless Wavebird controller works. So do the bongos used for DK Jungle Beat and Donkey Konga.

My favorite bit of the progress report uses F-Zero GX’s controller calibration tool to compare the accuracy and dead zones of various GameCube controller implementations. No surprise--it’s the best option, beating out a calibrated Xbox 360 controller and the Mayflash GameCube to USB adapter, which predated Nintendo’s official adapter.

If you've never tried Dolphin before, now's a great time. The emulator has gotten much, much faster in the past year; I wrote about why a few months ago.

I have the same one. Make sure you install the drivers from the Mayflash site: You may have to uninstall the generic Windows drivers first, then install the drivers from the site before plugging the device in again. You'll want to select 'DINPUT/0/MAYFLASH Gamecube Controller Adapter' for the input device when you map the buttons. Also don't worry if you don't see the sticks registering when you go to map the controls. You have to manually set the sticks up before they show movement in the GCpad settings.