Hopefully someone with more experience on Dolphin can help you out, but that's just my two cents. Bottom line, from my experience, save states work fine if you're just sticking with one emulator. (nunchuck left joy-con - wiimote right) Read more good. Has someone figured out a good Dolphin controller config and would share it Then, select load. One of which is a ps4 controller profile inspired by Super Mario Odyssey which is intended for Super Mario Galaxy. Moving between emulators requires you to have saved your games in the game, since then it's saved to a file format that should be native to the Gamecube file format and therefore accessible via all Gamecube emulators. Dolphin Wii Emulator Controller Config for Super Mario Galaxy. However, the save state of one emulator can only be opened in that emulator (at least that's the case with my N64 emulators). Save states are great for saving progress at any time, and are a whole lot better than the regular saves inherent in the old games. Third question: There might be ways to change the memory card saving function in the emulator menu to make it work better, but save states (the saving any time function) works just fine unless, of course, you choose to switch emulators. This repository contains a series of configured profiles for Xbox controllers for Dolphin Emulator for both Windows One of which is a ps4 controller profile.

Just the other day Perfect Dark 64 had a loading issue and I'm still trying to figure out how to fix that problem, but that's how emulators are - a bit buggy. If there are other Gamecube emulators you may want to test those out to see how well they run. If not then your Control Panel calibration should be good enough.Īs to your other questions, I really don't know what to say about the freezing problem besides the fact that emulators can be really really buggy. If your PS 1/2 controller came with software for installing it on your computer, use that to calibrate it. Of course, I have no experience with Dolphin, but I've mapped controls to my controllers for both N64 emulators and SNES emulators, so I don't see why you wouldn't be able to in Dolphin. As long as Windows recognizes your controller (you calibrated it in the Control Panel) and it has full functionality, then you should be able to map the Gamecube controller buttons to your PS 1/2 controller. All I had to do was calibrate the controller by going to 'Game Controllers' in Start > Control Panel (this makes sure your computer recognizes the controller), then in my emulator I found the options where I could map my controller to certain buttons.

I recently bought an N64 Controller USB Adapter so I could play N64 games on the original controllers. Having no experience with using a PS 1/2 controller, I would venture to guess that it should work just fine as long as your computer recognizes it.

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