I’ve got one called a “mayflash adapter” that I’ve had for the better part of a decade. I think it was originally a 3rd party wii peripheral, but it has slots for 4 GC controllers and dual USB with a switch for “PC/WII”. It still works perfectly on dolphin and even steam across the various distros I’ve used over the years.
There are a few good answers here already, so instead I’ll go ahead and ask: Why a GC controller in the first place?
This is just my opinion, but unless you’re going for absolute authenticity over any kind of comfort, I’d just use any modern controller instead. Unlike the Wii Nunchuks, the layout maps to modern controllers pretty well, particularly to Xbox-style controllers. The GC doesn’t have that many exclusives either that would make a purchase worthwhile, since many of them got ports/remasters/remakes over the years.
So my advice would be to start emulating using a regular controller first, and only grab a GC controller after a while, if you still feel the need to get one at that point.
But I don’t know about Linux capabilities unless you use the GameCube dongle with a GC to USB adapter in which case it should be fine because these are meant to work on real hardware.
I moved from Kubuntu to Endeavor (Arch-based) and was also afraid of bleeding edge stuff breaking all the time. I gotta say I was pleasantly surprised by how stable it is. The only couple issues I had was 1 bad kernel version and vmware update. I learned how to roll back and avoid upgrading these 2 packages for a couple weeks until the new versions of both fixed everything. I was also reluctant to learn a new package manager since I already know apt, but yay is arguably easier to use than apt. My gaming has been great, no issues.
First step there would be to get some logs. Launch steam from a terminal and output to a file:
<span style="color:#323232;">steam 2>&1 | tee steam.log
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Launch a game and watch the terminal to see what happens.
If you moved games after launching them, clearing their Proton containers can help. I had some games set to extremely old Proton versions that couldn’t launch because the version jump was too big. I’ve also seen vanilla wine prefixes break when moved due to some symlinks.
But those are guesses, the logs will tell you. Sometimes it even actually tells you how to fix it!
Thank you, actually having a log to go through was very useful! Kinda. I managed to suss out that vkBasalt was having a config issue, which I eventually fixed. Now all my OS drive games seem to launch fine, except SteamVR (still).
I was able to do a little more research with info from the log and I found out running SteamVR the usual way was broken. Launching Steam from /usr/lib/steam/ makes it…sorta work.
Yeah, turns out it happened to be a separate issue from my initial problem, but with the same symptoms.
If you are using a packaged version, try compiling it from source. On Arch the package from the repo would just not output and video, but after building from source it worked fine … some of the time.
It is still very hit and miss for me. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I’m really hoping that the new Steam Link VR works on Linux.
Just a thought, does the path to the games on your OS drive have a space anywhere in it? I remember a lot of old Windows games would throw a shit fit if they had a space anywhere
If something doesn’t work on one drive and then magically works when you install it on another drive…
How is your drive formatted? Is it NTFS and not keeping the right Linux file permissions or something like that? It’s been a decade since I had a Windows formatted drive, but I seem to remember there were issues using NTFS in Linux.
I don’t think you actually could put the OS on NTFS, it literally cannot store Linux file permissions and I have no idea how badly that’s going to break the system.
You certainly can use an NTFS drive for data storage in Linux but Windows has some default behaviors that make it hard to share that drive.
Since that 545 drivers, I cannot play with Proton 8 at all. Open source drivers don’t have this problem (their problem is performance), so it seems Nvidia f*cked up as usual. However first time hearing this. Can you play native games at least?
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