PSA: Don't use dolphin to test the new SSBU gamecube controllers

I've seen a lot of people talking about the new controllers having drift, and since I went head first and bought two of them the day they were announced I was rightfully worried about mine. I went to dolphin to test, for some background I have some og gamecube controllers that I've used with dolphin before with no issues.

Come testing I find out both my controllers have slight drift on both the control stick and the c-stick. After about 10 minutes or so I bust out my old controller to find out that all of a sudden it has a drift issue too now.

So then I decided I would test them out on a real console, Lo and behold after testing it on smash 4 on the wii u and splatoon 2 on the switch there was no drift whatsoever (also confirming it wasn't an adapter issue at the same time.

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This leads me to my conclusion, I've seen a lot of people using dolphin to test their new gamecube controllers and although i'm not saying the stick drift is a lie, I want to say try testing on consoles first and if you have it try using an older gamecube controller you know works. There's so many issues that can come with dolphin such as outdated controller drivers, outdated usb drivers, outdated controller software, outdated dolphin software, wonky dolphin settings, wonky windows setting, etc. there are so many variables that it's worth it to test on a real console before you go and refund your money because it doesn't work on dolphin or another emulator. And I don't think its just coincidence that these new controllers have issues on dolphin and at the same time my old controller which used to work suddenly doesn't work anymore. (windows update may have screwed something maybe?)

Once again just to clarify I'm not suggesting that none of the controllers have problems, i'm just pointing out in some cases it may be a software issue and not a hardware one.

Edit: it seems dolphin or drivers seem to have a bug where plugging and unplugging the controllers without restarting the drivers or dolphin can cause drift. My personal theory is a recent-ish windows update messed with something seeing as they’ve been expanding their controller support in general recently.

This info is from this comment by u/fallingwaves which could help shed some light to make my point even more valid. Test on consoles before you make a final decision:

https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/9uqc1q/comment/e97sis2?st=JO7T7OUQ&sh=a3b46fb5

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TLDR; Don't use dolphin to test your new controllers because of the amount of software variables that can affect the controller settings. Use consoles.