Official GameCube controller works perfectly, but for one glitch...

[dh2005]

Hello all,

This is nothing urgent, but if anyone can help I'd appreciate it.

Whenever I'm using the left stick of my GameCube controller to select anything (for instance, whether to load Save 1, 2 or 3 of a Zelda title), I find that I can go down, but I can't go back up. So, if I overshoot the option that I want to select, I either have to use the D-pad to go back up (if supported by that game), or go back one level of menus, then forward again.

It's not a deal-breaker. Just a bit of a pain. The left stick functions perfectly in-game.

Any thoughts?




DH.

[ulao]

So the controller left stick works in the game but not the game menus? Make sure the controller is fully calibrated (in windows) so that pushing it left is going all the way to its limit.

[dh2005]

(10-17-2013, 09:39 PM)ulao Wrote: So the controller left stick works in the game but not the game menus? Make sure the controller is fully calibrated (in windows) so that pushing it left is going all the way to its limit.

D'you know what? I think that's it...

... I booted Twighlight Princess last night (my God it looks beautiful with +IR and AA...), and found that I was only able to make Link run if I pushed the stick up really, really hard. That would make sense too, if it were a calibration issue.

I'll try it tonight. Cheers.

[dh2005]

Hm. I can't seem to crack this, still.

When you say to calibrate it in Windows, how exactly do you mean? I've tried adjusting the controller settings in Dolphin, but that doesn't do anything. Is there another calibration setting that I'm missing, somewhere...?

[Billiard26]

Show a screenshot of your controller configuration in Dolphin.

[dh2005]

I'm gonna have to describe it, I'm afraid, because I've not been home in three days.

On the controller config screen, the dot (I think it's orange...?) in the middle of the left stick is not truly in the middle - it's ever so slightly below it. Also, when I push down on the stick within the controller config, the blue dot moves further away from the orange dot than it does when I push up. Clearly, the signal for 'up' is not as strong as the signal for 'down'. But why...?

The radius, I remember, is set to 70. The other two values are 0.


I'm using an official GameCube controller. I've installed no formal driver for it, merely let Windows find one. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Billiard26]

You've described mostly nothing I was interested in seeing.

I assume you've mapped your stick incorrectly. E.g. Axis Y-+ (minus plus) rather than just Axis Y+.

Ensure your stick is in its most center position before clicking the button to map the stick direction.
Click the button.
Move your stick.

In that order.