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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