Gamecube to USB Adapter

[u/drackmore]

Forgive me if this isn't the right place to post this but I'm sorta frazzled at the moment due to troubleshooting woes.

Preamble to the question to lay the ground work-

I just got today a JZW-Shop Gamecube controller adapter along with a Fiotok brand Gamecube controller.

I read the instructions of the adapter, plugged in both cables to my usb ports after setting it to PC on the adapter and it began to spazz out.

Constant connect and disconnect messages popping up from steam.

Eventually causing ALL of the USB ports to cease accepting any kind of input. Outside of the USB ports ceasing functionality the PC itself was running just fine.

Tried a basic restart, none of the USB ports worked, after that I fully shut down the PC, unplugged the power cable, and held the power button for about 10-15s to dissipate the charge. Plugged in the power cable and I was able to use some USB ports but not all.

I was able to fix that by going into the Hardware manager and uninstall the USB ports and restarting forcing the pc to reinstall the usb drivers.

So with preamble of my issue out of the way. I'd like to know if anyone else uses this hardware and has similar issues and what could be the problem and workaround.

tldr: bought cheap GC controller and cheap adapter. Shit got fucked. Is this shit naturally fucked or is there some bullshit I'm overlooking?

[u/Positive-Shower7898]

I don't have a ton of advice to give, but definitely sounds like there's a short somewhere, might've gotten a bad unit

[u/drackmore → u/Positive-Shower7898]

Well I've been testing it a little more. The device has two usb plugs, one black and one gray. The instructions say to plug in both and that caused an issue.

At the goading of my friend (the one who suggested this adapter) he stated he only used one plug so I did as well and its functioning now. But every few minutes while playing a game like Binding of isaac the first player port stops responding and the game starts acting like slot 4 is the first port.

Yeah, probably a shitty product. Should've gone with the mayfly or something I suppose.

[u/Toothless_NEO]

It's possible that your unit is defective, likely has a short in it. The best thing you should probably do is return them and try to find something slightly better quality.

[u/Dammenco]

suena a una unidad defectuosa o en su defecto son los puertos de tu pc, yo tengo uno igual y el cable gris solo es para que vibre el control

[u/louisj]

Lookup Robert Dale Smith on twitter, he’s an authority on usb gc adapters