Now that Dolpihn has Native support for the GC adapter...

[donpedrox]

How/When will this affect netplay? I for one am kinda tired of having to boot up without enforcing driver signatures to use my GC adapter, but now that the latest version of Dolphin has it baked in will we ever see that functionality in the netplay version of dolphin?

here is a link to the Dolphin FAQ showing how to get it up and running

 

[Massive]

There really isn't a latency difference between the dolphin implementation and the generic implementation, so aside from not having to set up your joysticks in dolphin (and losing support for your joysticks on anything except dolphin-playable games that support gamecube controllers) I don't think it really changes much.

 

[Y-L]

The support for the GC adapter will have only marginally better latency if any but will 100% accurately represent gc inputs (namely analog stick) although the difference between that and say a mayflash isn't really noticeable at all.

It wont be added to the netplay build because it's old an outdated but when UDP netplay is merged to the master branch (allowing the 8 digit codes to be used, not sure if anyone at all is working on this anymore) we will be switching off of 4.0-652 completely. Dual core Netplay is already in the master branch so you could play melee perfectly fine on the newest builds with native GC adapter support if you use the port forwarding method and your opponent has the same Dolphin revision. My friends and I exclusively use the newer builds.

Most exciting about using the new builds is much better performance, exclusive fullscreen (reduces input lag much more than an adapter will), FOD lag fix, removed 200 ms audio delay, and stuff like that. UDP Netplay is literally the only thing holding back a huge switch to the new builds. Although I think there are some Wii Netplay issues but I'm not sure about that. We'd have to bug comex to add it.

 

[xTeru]

The support for the GC adapter will have only marginally better latency if any but will 100% accurately represent gc inputs (namely analog stick) although the difference between that and say a mayflash isn't really noticeable at all.

It wont be added to the netplay build because it's old an outdated but when UDP netplay is merged to the master branch (allowing the 8 digit codes to be used, not sure if anyone at all is working on this anymore) we will be switching off of 4.0-652 completely. Dual core Netplay is already in the master branch so you could play melee perfectly fine on the newest builds with native GC adapter support if you use the port forwarding method and your opponent has the same Dolphin revision. My friends and I exclusively use the newer builds.

Most exciting about using the new builds is much better performance, exclusive fullscreen (reduces input lag much more than an adapter will), FOD lag fix, removed 200 ms audio delay, and stuff like that. UDP Netplay is literally the only thing holding back a huge switch to the new builds. Although I think there are some Wii Netplay issues but I'm not sure about that. We'd have to bug comex to add it.

I have no idea why but I tried the native support and it just feels much better so I hope we can use a newer build soon

 

[Y-L]

I have no idea why but I tried the native support and it just feels much better so I hope we can use a newer build soon

Well again if you're playing with friends you can just use the port forward method (from experience many of my friends didn't even have to port forward, just find out your ip and use any port). We've been waiting for udp to be merged for a long time but sadly there hasn't been much done.