How To Get The New Gamecube Controller Adapter To Register

How to Use a GameCube Controller With Nintendo Switch

Whether you're nostalgic for the early on 2000's (someone is, right?), or, more than importantly, deep into the Super Smash Bros. scene, the news that y'all tin now use a GameCube controller with a Nintendo Switch will bring a smile to your face.

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Support for GameCube controllers is in Switch Organisation Update 4.0, though y'all won't see it in the changelog. A number of enterprising gamers on social media, though, figured out that it works.

To use a GameCube controller on Switch, y'all'll need a special adapter that Nintendo initially made to connect GameCube controllers to the Wii U. Once you connect your GameCube controller via the adapter, the system will recognize it as a USB controller.

It'southward about impossible to detect new GameCube pads in stores, though, and if y'all discover the adapter online, it will be for a steep markup.

Videos going effectually show that GameCube support isn't fully baked. The layout is different from the Pro Controller, only it takes inputs literally. Y is however the Y button, even if it'south in the wrong identify, and there's no domicile push button or ZL shoulder button. You lot can play whatsoever Switch game with it, but you lot'll have to give upwardly some controls (ZL is the shield in Zelda, for example), keep another controller on for the dwelling house push and get used to awkward mapping.

The big question that this brings is whether or not we'll see a new Super Boom Bros. game sooner rather than afterwards. It's the franchise that has near single-handedly kept the Gamecube controller alive, every bit that'due south the preferred controller for the title in the fighting game community. Additionally, this update brings upward questions as to whether nosotros might see a virtual console full of GameCube games.

Amid the Switch System Update iv.0'southward other changes are the ability to transfer saves, utilise USB headphones, capture local video and pre-order in the eShop.

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Andrew East. Freedman is an editor at Tom's Hardware focusing on laptops, desktops and gaming likewise as keeping up with the latest news. He holds a M.S. in Journalism (Digital Media) from Columbia University. A lover of all things gaming and tech, his previous work has shown up in Kotaku, PCMag, Complex, Tom's Guide and Laptop Mag among others.