what's going on everyone austin john plays here and today we're gonna be
taking a look at the nintendo 64 nintendo switch online plus expansion pack controller
that was a nice one if you saw my previous video discussing the nintendo 64 controllers for
nintendo switch online you'll know that there's several button mapping issues but hopefully that
will all be resolved with this bad boy here is the nintendo 64 switch controller this went on sell
sale at a random time that i just happened to follow a page that uh saw it or listed it that
was live and then i believe it went online earlier this week when the service went live as well and
here it is uh first of all love the packaging there's a weird pull-up thing over here and
there's just a usb cable and nintendo 64 controller that's it bunch of recycling
let's recycle kobe all right so right here we have the classic gray controller that you're
probably familiar with this portion of the video i wanted to re-record for two reasons
one i uh did a lot of food prep yesterday and i cut my hands and my nails were stained so i just
cleaned them all up because i absolutely think it's disgusting when youtubers are like hey check
out this unboxing and they got dirty nails uh the other thing is i you're gonna see shortly in the
video me discovering this but there is something that needs to be talked about with this bad boy
so the weight distribution the original n64 controller is notoriously very light there's
nothing in it just small motherboard and then the ability to adapt things on the back
this has essentially the same size of what would be the memory card back here but it's much heavier
in fact the weight distribution they probably have the batteries inside of the three pieces
down here there's no vibration in the bottom at all there's no vibration here
the vibration only comes from here and while i don't own one i'm pretty sure if i were to
have an original n64 controller with a rumble pack on the back it would have that same weight so this
feels heavy over here and one of the problems with the original n64 controller when you had
the rumble pack on it would feel so heavy at the top it would want to lean forward but
with the batteries in the bottom i'm assuming either batteries or weights one of the two
it feels very well balanced and that wasn't expected this thing is significantly heavier
than the joy cons i would put this pretty much on par with the weight of the pro controller pretty
much the exact same weight i wouldn't say any lighter or any less weight but yeah this thing
has some beef to it and the fact that they were able to emulate the feel of having the
rumble pack on the back of this and having that weight there and having the vibration
come from the top it feels so good but you also have the weight at the bottom so you're now not
leaning forward with the controller as much and i really do like that i remember when i was a kid
eight years old playing the n64 i often didn't use the rumble pack just because it added so
much weight to the controller but i really like this honestly nintendo's marketing department
really dropped the ball if they had a treehouse event where they discussed this sort of thing
then i think that would have been cool like they would have definitely talked about that but the
simple fact that it was just an image and a price they didn't really talk about it at all but that
is a huge feature that feels so nice i mean listen they're charging to 50 bucks for a controller you
think they're not gonna make it really nice i don't know what they're doing with the
sega controller to make that worth fifty dollars i'm not buying that okay let's let's see austin
discovering the thing i just talked about greatly okay so now let's go ahead go into controllers
change grip and order i assume that this is going to pair instantly and have no issues whatsoever
oh that vibration though okay so the vibration is definitely coming from here and only here
because when i was holding it like this and it paired the top of it like jiggled
back and forth can we can we get that again all right so i'm just gonna hold it from the bottom
somewhat weakly right we're gonna hit the sync button we're gonna hold it down for a second there
yeah that's a lot of rumble that's a lot of rumble okay i like that on the screen it shows
up as an n64 controller and you're gonna notice that there's a n64 controller next
to my character icon at the top i'm just gonna move this over a little bit so i can see what's
going on a little bit cleaner yep we have those eight directional points there a works like a
the a button feels really nice it does have a little bit of travel before the actuation
point we still have like that that snap off feel b feels good c left c down c right c up
r z okay this is by far the definitive way to play these games l will show and hide the map
zr is our suspension point and everything and you're never gonna really hit that during the
game we have the screenshot okay this is this is a nice controller hang on i want to jump off
of a surface and i want to feel that vibration is that some strong rumble the guy just shows
me an n64 controller and i kind of love that actually real quick is there anything
in the system settings under controllers for this test input devices controller buttons a b oh
it shows that it's being mapped to a d-pad direction so both d down and c down
both show up as d-pads okay and this does show up as zl all right i was wondering how they were
going to do that so i guess it just shows up as like a secondary d-pad which makes me think
that third-party manufacturers would be able to maybe there's like a secret hidden metric of that
second d-pad that they can then program buttons to know what i mean so let's go and get that
oh it rumbles so much okay i can't wait to go get the stone of agony now i forgot how much
travel was on this joystick to actually like be able to like reach around fully wait how's the
yep the top is still as plasticky as ever there's no like rubber coating on it or anything so
be careful when when mario party one comes out that's for sure yeah if you were a big fan of
the n64 games this is definitely the premium way to experience it currently unfortunately as soon
as it went live it was sold out so i don't know when they're gonna be restocking it on nintendo's
website like i bought the super nintendo one like a month ago so this may be something they plan to
offer for quite a while they especially didn't say it was a limited time thing or anything so if this
is something you want to get eventually you can it might be a while like a playstation 5 but you can
also now knowing that it maps to a d-pad i would be really interested if a manufacturer was able
to get their hands on one of these open it up with a whole bunch of tri-wing screws back there
find out how it's exactly mapped and be able to map their own one
probably come in under 50 but that rumble that's a quality rumble man it feels like there's an
appropriate amount of weight that would have the rumble pack sticking out of the back rumbling the
fact that they emulated that with essentially what would just be the memory card size
that's impressive that's impressive guys if you were lucky enough to get your hands on one
of these do me a favor leave a comment down below and uh if this is something you would
ever pick up or you're just happy playing in handheld because i mean let's be honest
part of the real joy and wonder of this isn't so much being able to play ocarina time which we
always could have at home but playing in handheld mode that's that's the premium experience man
this is good this makes me happy this brings me joy i'm wrapping up this video and honestly this
is pretty much near the uh the end of the nso 64 coverage i don't know if i'm gonna be covering
the new games that come out or anything else like that if there's any big developments as far as the
controllers i might cover that but yeah pretty much done if there's anything else you want to
see as far as uh n64 expansion pass online leave a comment down below i'm not planning
on covering the sega stuff or buying the sega controller great until next time austin john out