Here’s how to get Wii U’s GameCube Controller Adapter working on Windows

Nintendo did something neat as a favor to old Super Smash Bros. fans. Now, fans are doing something even neater.

Gamers have found a way to make the Wii U GameCube Controller adapter work on PCs. When Nintendo released Super Smash Bros. for Wii U last month, the publisher also released a special USB dongle for its home console that connects four GameCube controllers to the new system. So you can play just released version of Smash Bros. with a gamepad that is more than a decade old. But fans have immediately seized on the adapter for its potential to have GameCube controllers work with PCs, and one group of coders has already succeeded.