Review on 🎮 PC USB Adapter for Wireless Wii U Pro Controller by Eliot Wahl

Works exactly as advertised here, this is a serious PC adapter for your Wii U Pro controllers. There are some oddities with its direct input mode that make it incompatible with Steam - it recognizes that you have a controller plugged in, and you can even navigate menus with dpad/analog sticks, but you can't change the configuration. at all, and it doesn't accept any other controller input. I suspect it has something to do with how the adapter presents itself in direct input mode and how Steam expects to receive input from the controller. Steam also doesn't automatically load the user profile for this controller, so I suspect no one has figured this out yet and that I'm not the only one having the issue. If you were planning to use this device in Steam Big Picture mode (e.g. for home streaming and multiple Wii U Pro controllers) this won't work for you. Steam only recognizes it and accepts input from it in Xinput mode, so only one controller per adapter is allowed. It works 100% as xinput device, all xinput compatible software sees it and accepts it as xinput controller in this mode. . Out of the box, the button mapping is 1:1 (ie: A=A, B=B, X=X, Y=Y), although Microsoft and Nintendo place these buttons in different locations on the controller. A firmware update released in February this year allows you to press a button combination on a controller to change mappings, returning the buttons to where you expect them to be. The software could have been a bit more intuitive though - I couldn't get it to work on my main computer and its instructions made me wonder if I was doing something wrong. So here's what you need to do: Download the firmware updater from Maysoft's website and run it as administrator. You will see a single gray button that says "Update Firmware". Disconnect the device and put it in xinput mode. Hold the sync button down until you connect. If you did everything correctly, Windows will detect a non-normal device and the red light on your adapter will NOT light up. At this point the "Update Firmware" button will become active in the software and you can proceed with the firmware update. Leave it plugged in until the software tells you the update is complete. This shouldn't take long. If this process doesn't work for you exactly as I've described, then something has gone wrong and your only real choice is to try on a different computer, which may be impractical or downright impossible for some. Since this is a firmware change on the device and not a software update in your operating system, once updated, the key combination to change the key layout will work no matter what computer it's connected to, which is nice. With this update, the controller can be considered fully interchangeable with any other Xinput device on the market and no longer requires its own dedicated button mappings. I used to give this adapter 4 stars but now that they have updated it I think it's worth 5 stars.