@Felthry @Nine Oh that's good to know! Since we'll have an /actual/ Wii, probably won't need Dolphin. :P

Does the official one work with Steam and the like as well? We're thinking of using it with totally non-Nintendo games, like say Soulcalibur.

@frostclaws @Nine not out of the box, there may be custom drivers or something

the mayflash adapter has a switch to change it between xinput and switch/wiiu mode though so you get the best of both worlds

also the official one is excessively expensive last we checked
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@Felthry @Nine *grins* Definitely have to look into the Mayflash one then. :3

We're tempted to see if we can find one of those wireless WaveBird thingies (that's what we used to have back in the day with the family Wii) and plug the receiver into the adapter.

@frostclaws @Nine probably, but wavebird receivers are also *extremely* expensive due to rarity
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@frostclaws @Nine actually they've gotten cheaper since we last looked, i'm seeing about $60 for the controller + receiver

last we checked they were about twice that
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@Felthry [untagging @Nine since we're getting into a big conversation]

@Felthry This here looks almost too good to be true, $20 for a controller + receiver. And it says /new/.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Wireless-Gamecube-Controller-Wavebird-Style-w-Adapter-for-Nintendo-NGC-GC-Black/143585248179

@Felthry Heh, there's a controller without receiver in auction mode currently at $1 (and free shipping), we are /seriously/ tempted to put in a $2 bid. :3

@frostclaws it probably will shoot past $2 very quickly
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@frostclaws note that nowhere does it say it's a nintendo product, and the nintendo logo is missing from the controllers themselves

this is a clone and as such the quality is probably dubious at best
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@frostclaws well that's probably underselling it a bit, they're probably fine, but i expect the analog sticks and shoulder buttons are probably not up to nintendo quality
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@Felthry @Nine ...oooh, this is neat for Wii with homebrew installed. Sling input from the Wii to the PC without a physical adapter. :3 Possibly awful latency, but still!

https://wiibrew.org/wiki/ButtonCast

@frostclaws @Nine i feel like the mayflash adapter is probably easier and more versatile (especially if you later get a switch; you can then use the gamecube controller as a switch pro controller though it's missing the second Z button)

you can hook up wii remotes with plain old bluetooth too
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@frostclaws @Nine (incidentally, this is the one you'll want: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mayflash-4-Port-Adapter-for-GameCube-Controller-to-WiiU-PC-Smash-Brothers/251790398554)
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@frostclaws @Nine if you're wondering why it has two USB plugs by the way it's because running the rumble motors on gamecube controllers requires more current than one USB 2.0 port is allowed to supply, so the grey one is used only for powering the motors and the black one is used for powering other stuff and for communication

iwrc you can use it with just the black one plugged in but you won't get rumble out of it. note that you should *absolutely not* plug the two leads into different devices, even if you're low on usb ports. I don't know if they're linked together anywhere inside the device but if they are doing that can fry your USB ports because the two things are not going to have exactly the same +5V rail

(if you're low on usb ports and want to use rumble, look into getting a powered usb hub--that's a usb hub that, instead of passing the power straight from the computer, has its own external power supply for the outputs. They're really handy to have)
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@frostclaws @Nine though all of this is hypotheticals because you should probably wait a bit before buying any more stuff!
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@Felthry @Nine *grins* yeah, definitely. (:

@Felthry @Nine Oh that is /really good to know/, thanks! We have a powered hub, have never used the power function before though.