How To Use Gamecube Controllers On Switch

(Pocket-lint) - The Nintendo Switch is great fun, only it's likewise expensive once y'all calculate the cost of the system, games, accessories, and actress controllers.

For instance, the Nintendo Switch Pro controller costs a bit of a packet. If you want to play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with, say, 3 other players, you exercise accept a few unlike options, like buying boosted Pro controllers for all the other players, but that isn't exactly cheap. Nevertheless, if yous owned a GameCube back in the solar day and still have its controllers laying around, you are lucky, considering you take a cheap workaround.

When Nintendo released the 4.0 software update for the Switch, it quietly included a new feature: the power to utilize old GameCube controllers with the Switch, as long as you pair them through a Wii U GameCube adapter. You can use the original adapter or a generic one bachelor from places like Amazon. Anyway, once you lot have one of these adapters, you can utilise a GameCube controller with your Switch.

Here'southward what yous demand to know.

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How to use a GameCube controller with your Nintendo Switch

Hardware requirements

You need a Switch, plainly, as well as a GameCube controller and a Wii U adapter. Notation that this requires a docked Switch, so information technology won't work with a Switch Lite.

Connect the adapter and controllers

Offset, you have to connect the adapter to your Switch; there are 2 USB ports on the side of the Switch dock. Then, information technology's as easy every bit plugging your GameCube controllers into the Wii U adapter.

Pair your controllers

On your Switch, go to the controller Settings bill of fare on the abode screen (the icon a Joy-Con controller). Then, but printing the L and R buttons on the GameCube controller as you would when pairing your Joy-Cons or Pro controller, and information technology'll exist detected every bit a USB gamepad.

After that, yous should be ready to go.

Are there any limitations?

Users of the erstwhile GameCube controllers know that they won't lucifer up exactly to the configuration of the Nintendo Switch. At that place'south no left Z push button (only a right one), and so if you're trying to a play a game like The Fable of Zelda: Jiff of the Wild, for instance, you'll take to play without the power to use your shield. There'southward too no habitation push. Just other than that, everything else should piece of work perfectly.

Note: Old GameCube controllers don't back up movement or rumble on Switch.

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What about Super Blast Bros Ultimate?

Super Boom Bros Ultimate supports several different controller options, including existing GameCube controllers via an adapter. There's fifty-fifty a Smash-branded GameCube controller available to order from both GameStop and Amazon. If you need the adapter, you can order those via Amazon for $xx. Sadly, high need and low supply has driven these components up in price by quite a big margin.

Want to know more?

If you need to update your Nintendo Switch, you can acquire how from here. For more Switch games that nosotros recommend checking out, run across Pocket-lint's round-up hither.

We also have a listing of the best upcoming games here.

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