Certain Games Not Accepting Controller Input?

[wonderboy]

I tried to post this in Game Support but the button for new thread does not appear so I posted here because it's for multiple games anyway and might be more of an overall issue I suppose.

I am using Dolphin 5.0 and I'm running several games without any problem (Mario Kart, Wind Waker, F-Zero etc) and when the intro screen appears I hit a button on the controller and it lets me enter the game and play. I'm using a PS3 controller via blutooth dongle btw.

But When I try to play Super Mario Galaxy it loads up fine but it doesnt recognise my controller (asks me to press A+B buttons together) but nothing happens and it just sits there on the into screen. It has happened with a couple of other games, from memory one of them was Rampage and the one thing these non working games seem to have in common is that they don't have a thumbnail picture in the games list, just a grey square with a cross.

Anyone know what this is?

PC:

i5 2500
8Gb DDR3
Nvidia GT 710 2Gb DDR5

[JosJuice]

You most likely only configured an emulated GameCube controller, not an emulated Wii Remote. Many Wii games don't support GameCube controllers.

[wonderboy]

(11-04-2018, 06:23 PM)JosJuice Wrote: You most likely only configured an emulated GameCube controller, not an emulated Wii Remote. Many Wii games don't support GameCube controllers.

Excellent, this was the problem! I still haven't quite worked out which buttons I need to emulate to actually controll the character properly because there are so many different ones and I'm trying to map the relevant ones to the PS3 controller.

But this has me headed in the right direction and I can finally get into the game, thanks very much JosJuice