How To Connect Gamecube Controllers To Switch

(Pocket-lint) - The Nintendo Switch is great fun, just it's also expensive once you calculate the price of the system, games, accessories, and extra controllers.

For instance, the Nintendo Switch Pro controller costs a chip of a parcel. If you want to play Mario Kart eight Palatial with, say, three other players, y'all do have a few different options, like buying additional Pro controllers for all the other players, but that isn't exactly cheap. However, if y'all owned a GameCube back in the 24-hour interval and however accept its controllers laying around, you lot are lucky, because yous accept a cheap workaround.

When Nintendo released the iv.0 software update for the Switch, it quietly included a new characteristic: the ability to employ 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. Anyhow, once yous accept ane of these adapters, yous tin apply a GameCube controller with your Switch.

Here's what yous need to know.

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How to use a GameCube controller with your Nintendo Switch

Hardware requirements

You need a Switch or Switch OLED, obviously, too as a GameCube controller and a Wii U adapter. Note that this requires a docked Switch, so it won't work with a Switch Lite.

Connect the adapter and controllers

First, you have to connect the adapter to your Switch; in that location are two USB ports on the side of the Switch dock. Then, it's as easy equally plugging your GameCube controllers into the Wii U adapter.

Pair your controllers

On your Switch, go to the controller Settings card on the home screen (the icon a Joy-Con controller). Then, only press the L and R buttons on the GameCube controller as you would when pairing your Joy-Cons or Pro controller, and it'll exist detected as a USB gamepad.

Later that, yous should be ready to go.

Are there whatever limitations?

Users of the former GameCube controllers know that they won't friction match upward exactly to the configuration of the Nintendo Switch. There'south no left Z push button (only a right 1), so if you're trying to a play a game like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, for instance, you'll accept to play without the ability to use your shield. There's likewise no domicile button. Just other than that, everything else should work perfectly.

Note: Old GameCube controllers don't support motion or rumble on Switch.

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What near Super Smash Bros Ultimate?

Super Smash Bros Ultimate supports several different controller options, including existing GameCube controllers via an adapter. At that place'south even a Smash-branded GameCube controller available to club from both GameStop and Amazon. If you need the adapter, you lot tin order those via Amazon for $20. Sadly, high need and depression supply has driven these components upwardly in price by quite a large margin.

Want to know more than?

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