it's finally here nintendo switch online plus expansion pack however the controller isn't so
today we're gonna be going through a whole bunch of alternative controller options for you to play
nintendo switch online plus expansion packs specifically the nintendo 64 games
i made this video last week and it didn't go well it did not go well because i tested it with super
mario 3d all-stars and the problem with super mario 3d all-stars is that the game remaps a b
a buttons and b buttons the b button causes mario to jump and the y button causes him to attack as
opposed to on a traditional n64 controller where the b button is to attack and the a button is to
jump on this game they've remapped both a and b to be the jump buttons many of the controllers that i
reviewed i was just unable to do i've also reached out to a couple of manufacturers and
developers for products that they offer and what their workarounds for this was and it seemed like
way too much for perspective stuff so i'm just gonna go ahead and buy the nsl plus expansion pack
okay so because my thing just renewed uh i'm now saving two dollars and seven cents i'm not going
to show my sensitive information but a neat thing is i had enough gold points for a 10 discount
that's cool oh it's a separate download okay let's also go ahead and download the sega
genesis collection because why not i kind of like that it's a full icon and not that
you know i need to go over here and click this but it wouldn't make sense that it does the whole
you know checking online to see if this software could be played sort of thing oh yep there it is
checking if software could be played nintendo 64 nintendo switch online and i could also
move things around yes so let's go ahead and make a tier list there we go my tier list
is complete and it's perfect grid love it let's hop into super mario 64. mario
hello plus is the start button got it minus to suspend the game i could create suspension
points or save states whatever they call them i don't know what's with that little black border
at the top okay so just starting off y seems to be c left x seems to be c down yeah b is b
a is a oh user guide there we go the r plus the four faces are the c buttons this isn't a very
good layout go into the button mapping and we have the option to change things around all right so i
made a preset so my right joy con acts a little bit more like super mario 3d all-stars which is
basically the mapping that you see on screen here fortunately i don't have you know the two
buttons that would be on the top right of x and a which would then be the c right and c up this game
doesn't really use all of the buttons so let's go ahead and find something that's going to be
a little bit more you know intuitive like zelda oh man those wall textures look as bad as ever it's
like you have a 3d character model just on top of a background like it's just placed there know what
i mean okay so everyone's polygons are updated uh kinda yeah the polygons of the actual sword itself
look great the sprite image not as much okay so i wanted to progress far enough in the game that
way i had three items and one of them being the slingshot and checking out the user guide we could
now see the controls is the exact same control scheme that was present in super mario 64. the
right stick doesn't feel bad and that might just come from the fact of i've played a lot
of uh ocarina time on the gamecube okay so i've messed around with this for a while and couple of
things one it's an absolute must to remap and this is what i'm gonna recommend that a and b
are in the same muscle memory and then you're gonna have x and a act like c left and c down
again the muscle memory and the button mapping is very difficult when you go to the home screen
thank god for suspend points i made one literally before i started recording okay
so i'm gonna have access to two of my c buttons on the face right so i would want to make those
the two that i'm going to use all the time and it would use the right stick as an option to access
all of them all right so good news and bad news i recorded probably another hour hour 10 minutes
of footage uh but because of an audio issue the audio gate was clipping in way too early because
the volume wasn't put up but now you should be able to hear me okay let's sum up everything
that i recorded i went through every one of the controllers i already own and ordered several
additional controllers including n64 controllers that go into an n64 port with a dongle that goes
into usb different dongles that go into usb n64 controllers that go into usb directly alternative
n64 controllers that go into usb directly wireless alternative n64 controllers that go n64 and then
the dongle gamecube controllers first party and third party with gamecube to switch dongles
first party and third party and i have some bad news some really really bad news
there is one inherent problem to the mapping on nintendo switch online expansion pack and 64 games
and that problem comes down to the fact of there is no way to map a physical button
to see up and see right so therefore every single controller that has a c up and c right
will not be able to act like c up and c right unless and i did reach out to mayflash because
you know i've been in cahoots with them for a while and they've sent me over some stuff and
i've also just reached out whenever i had issues and they're very responsive like really top-notch
company i also reached out to hyperkin and i just haven't heard back from them at all so when it
comes to dongles they have the ability to take the inputs from the n64 and then remap them it could
be between this between the bluetooth adapter that we've covered so many times that allows you
to remap and play like an xbox controller on your nintendo switch and things like that unless one of
them comes out with a way to map c up to act like c stick going up and to map c right to act like
c stick going right it seems like the nintendo 64 controller is going to be the only controller that
has that built-in functionality so boom paywall start ranting about it on the internet at the
same time do you really need all that like with the button mapping i'm able to use b as b a as a
z as z targeting right l to show and hide the map r shoulder r as the shield
the right z will act like my face modifier and out of all the controllers that i've reviewed this
one the retro fighters brawler 64. i think it's like 30 bucks on their website and 37 on amazon
fantastic controller can't say enough good things about this shout out to them and it maps as a pro
controller so something that i ended up doing with the joy con and also with this controller
is inverting z and zr's mapping zr is going to properly act like the shield that just comes from
how i'm used to playing with the gamecube versions of these games because that i've just been playing
those for the last i don't know however many years and also if we're going to be honest here
if you're playing this game you're not constantly using all three of your c items for me i always
made c right act like the ocarina and i used c left and c down as whatever specific dungeon thing
i needed and c down was typically my long range thing my shoulder r is going to be acting like my
front face modifier which is just going to be a and i kind of like it being r a because you know
if i need to pull out my aquarium real fast boom there i go c up being minus actually kind of a
little handy to you know make my suspend points and c right being start is a little off-putting
i don't know how i feel about that or if i would want to remap that to something else
the power a nintendo switch gamecube controller worked really really nicely as far as my ability
to use my shoulder buttons and l and r buttons also still with home screenshot plus minus this is
a really quality bluetooth controller i like it i think it was 50 bucks though and at that point now
we're at the same price tag if you're just playing mario kart and you just want that feel of original
mario kart you can get these cheapo controllers at plugin usb a two pack on amazon right now is 19
so for 40 bucks you can have four of these controllers but at the same time i think
for maybe five bucks more you get a switch one i don't remember how much this one was this was a
hoary one this is the hori pad that allows you to take the d-pad off i reviewed it many moons ago it
really comes down to you know do you want to drop 40 on that authentic on the authentic bad analog
stick but then there was a weird thing that i experienced that i wasn't expecting to experience
which is the different feel of handheld mode and different joy-cons have different
feels and also different switches have different feels camera two's been getting a lot of use
recently people may hold their switch in handheld mode like this with the side buttons in which case
you'd probably want to do that remapping and in case you just wanted to see my full remap
but i'm basically doing this i'm making y equals b b equals a a equals x x equals y
and swapping the z buttons and that's what i've found to be comfortable for ocarina of time
that way you know i have this as my shield this is my z targeting and i can do this because these are
sort of the two buttons that are gonna hold down as i call it like you know modifiers not everyone
holds their switch this way some people tend to hold it more downward especially if you're holding
it directly upright and you're trying to support that weight you may hold it like this and in which
case you may not want to remap because then having the a button there and the b button because you
want you know your sword button to be the most accessible and then a there and then these two
are out of the way and then your shoulder buttons are going to act like you want them to and you
may want to swap zl l also if you were to use a switchgrip pro which i currently don't own a
switchgrip pro for the oled or massive joycons like these bad boys i'm sure you've seen these
these are by hori these are non-powered joy-cons with turbo functionality and everything you could
possibly need this makes it feel more like a pro controller but it does not support remapping
so because of that now if i'm using b b is always my b i can't remap it to y i do like being able to
use that as shield though so i'm probably just going to wait till the switch grip comes out
for the oled which it's just off by ever so slightly i'm sure if you had you know some
sandpaper you can make it work don't tell phil from switchgrip i said that but yeah if i'm just
playing in handheld mode i'm probably gonna want that remap and out of all the controllers that
i've tested the only ones that support remapping are the joy cons the actual pro controller
and the brawler 64. so if you want a slightly more n64 feel go with this bad boy which is 30 bucks if
you just want some cheap dirty easy controllers for mario kart pick four of these pos is up for
under forty dollars prime eligible right now and i'm waiting to hear back from hyperkin
and mayflash on their adapters i don't know if anyone else makes one in which i'd be able to
remap things more effectively i basically made this video to be the idea of hey you want to go
and you want to buy some usb controllers to work with your nintendo switch you're going
to have limited functionality unfortunately and honestly you're better off just remapping your
pro controller or joy cons really are i wish i wish that wasn't the outcome i wish i could tell
you you know you could plug this in and remap it and have all the face buttons work just fine but
unfortunately that's not the case well my dudes if you came into this video thinking
that you wanted to buy a nintendo 64 usb controller for your nintendo switch and
now knowing the limited functionality made that purchase completely pointless and you're gonna
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