what's going on everyone austin john place here and today we're going to be talking
about some new photos that came out for the super nintendo 64 controller for nintendo
switch online plus expansion pack as well as the sega genesis controller for nintendo
switch online plus expansion pack i should really find a faster way to say these things
yesterday i put out a video sharing pretty much recapping everything and sharing my views
and opinions on this new service and most notably from that video i did not discuss
pricing whatsoever i have a lot of to say about pricing and honestly it's all arbitrary until we
actually know the pricing whether they're going to be doing a monthly thing or an annual thing
or something else we don't know yet information is coming out within a month or so and by then once
we have more information then i'm going to make a video discussing these things i might make one
beforehand depending if content's slow you know how youtubers are anyways let's hop into this
the twitter page nintendo which they normally do deals on specific things actually has these photos
that i've never seen before granted i think the nintendo press site is down or there's something
weird going on with it so i haven't been able to get the official press kit for this nintendo
direct but we finally have high resolution photos of the n64 and sega genesis controllers including
the top buttons which this is something that we previously only saw a little nub at the top
and now we can see that yes in fact there is usbc we have what appears to be either a reset button
or an indicator light we have zr which makes sense because the under the analog stick is going to be
z and probably now mapped to zl we have the home button and the screenshot button
we have the pairing button and four indicator lights in addition to that at the top here it
says it has the nintendo 64 logo and it says nintendo 64 controller and that's exactly what
it says on a nintendo 64 controller i'm not going to zoom in my controller is filthy just
take my word for it including these two little divots right here that seem to still be apparent
on this new revision and honestly i've tried looking it up and i cannot find what these two
indents were for i don't remember anything using them if you know what these two indents were for
uh leave a comment down below i would love to actually know there is also something to mention
here is that the back still has the cutout and this cutout here has a plug on the back
and this plug was actually used for many many things first was the controller pack
since there was no way to transfer information from one n64 cartridge to another n64 cartridge
they created the controller pack which is just a memory card this memory card was 32 kilobytes
i'm pretty sure it's kilobytes and not kilobits 32 kilobytes of information that would go there
uh for reference a modern mp3 is about 3 000 so it could hold what two seconds of an mp3 but it was
mostly used for say for example in mario kart 64. if you had a ghost of a track you could save that
to the controller pack go over your friend's house plug your controller pack in load up the ghost
and then they could try to race it and you could actually just share the one controller pack going
back and forth with ghosts on specific tracks i did do that as a kid here is the rumble pack
this is what allowed the nintendo 64 controller to have rumble and i think pretty sure it was the
first gaming controller to have rumble with this accessory i think it was first used in star fox
64. it used two batteries and i think star fox was actually bundled with this yeah and then oh wasn't
there uh in ocarina of time i think it was called the stone of agony so your controller would rumble
when you were close to something ah what i have so fond memories of and i have handy somewhere
somewhere somewhere the transfer pack here is the nintendo 64 transfer pack this is great that
i actually have one of these handy the transfer pack would go into the back of an n64 controller
snap in and then you would take your pokemon game red blue yellow gold silver crystal for pokemon
stadium one and two respectively and it would just slide into the back and that would you allow
to transfer data from the game boy game boy color games into the n64 it was used in pokemon stadium
which allowed you to unlock the doduo gameboy which was just an emulator that allowed you to
play your actual gameboy game at double speed and then later once you progressed you unlocked the
dodrio gameboy and using the c right button you're able to toggle between double triple and single
speed so you could essentially just play through the game at triple speed uh however it makes the
controller so heavy because like right now if i were to balance it on my finger it like kind
of remains balanced it doesn't really teeter but once i throw this bad boy on it becomes very heavy
it does not have a good center of balance anymore and it was a common practice to actually plug
this into an additional controller plugged into the second or fourth slot and then you were able
to use that game in order to play through and you could also transfer your pokemon from the game
into pokemon stadium and battle with your pokemon and even organize them in professor oak's lab
reading up here now there was also the japanese version of the gameboy camera was able to be
plugged into that for the mario artist series mario golf and mario tennis allowed players to
transfer their created characters from the game boy color versions to the n64 versions huh oh and
it seems that rare's perfect dark was initially going to be compatible with the transfer pack
in order to use pictures taken with the game boy camera to create characters with real life faces
uh but they chose not to do that after columbine okay and i do believe that's the end of the list
here and of course now raises the question of is that going to have any functionality
is there going to be the port inside of there that's going to allow you to use your transfer
pack memory card and rumble pack on your n64 controller and i'm gonna go out on a leg here
and say that's a resounding no i see zero chance of them actually being able to integrate this
because if they were they would have probably announced a whole series of these accessories
why would we do the memory packs because that doesn't really serve a purpose anymore we already
know that mario kart 64 is gonna have online functionality what are they doing with the ghosts
sharing goes back and forth if there are going to be even doing that there's no reason to have
32 kilobytes of memory going back and forth between controllers they're probably going to
have rumble installed it's a 50 controller after all and most of these don't work anymore there's
an internal battery in the gen 1 and gen 2 games that have almost all completely dried out so the
game can no longer hold save data so you either need to replace the battery or you might be lucky
enough to find one that still works but most of them do not work anymore and like i mentioned the
they probably aren't gonna be doing that i mean you know of course there's the long shot dream of
having the game boy and game boy color emulators as part of the expansion pack service for nintendo
switch online and being able to also have pokemon home compatible with it just like we had on the
3ds titles that then went to pokemon bank via the transfer app inside of or in association
with pokemon bank did you need the transfer app or was that only for ds games i don't remember and
then there's also the sega genesis controller sega genesis controller at the top we have screenshot
and home button usbc we already saw at the bottom is where we have the indicator lights and there's
also the mode button on the top right i don't know if i remember a mode button i do remember
there was a button that i think yeah when i was i mean i was very very young when i had the
sega genesis and i kind of remember a button here that i would press it and it wouldn't do anything
what was the mode button for let's research that genove channel with 13k subs put out a
video in 2017 trying to explain it i don't think i'm understanding it then again i kind of fast
forwarded through the video has to do with how the controller communicates pulsing and everything
that i've seen talks about the six button with the mode not many things talk about the three button
so i don't know what's going on with that i really have no idea go ask wolfden bob about what that mo
bunny is for i'm sure he'd be happy to enlighten you but now i want to bring up the fun idea of
controllers like this this is a third-party nintendo 64 controller that's usb and as you
can see there's there's no nothing in there for transfer pack or anything it's by retro link i
think i got it for like 10 or 15 bucks at my local vintage video game store digital press the one in
springfield there's also the one in clifton that i used to live next to and i live near the one in
springfield and controllers like this working with the nintendo switch upon plugging this controller
into my nintendo switch dock it does not register as a usb controller whatsoever it just doesn't
work i don't know if that's specifically about this controller or it's just not made to work with
this kind of controller or exactly what's up it has to be this specific controller maybe because
it's this cheap and garbagey in fact if you guys are interested and leave some comment down below
if there is some interest in this i may do a video getting my hands on every single cheap chinese usb
controller slash bluetooth controller alternative for the nintendo 64. nintendo switch online this
does work i have i've used it on my pc a whole bunch adapters and everything else to try to find
cheaper and possibly better alternatives than the n64 controller that they are trying to sell us
so leave a comment down below if that's something that you guys would be interested in me reviewing
i'm now covering my face but yeah a lot of people are talking about oh the functionality of the
the transfer pack area i don't see us having anything having any functionality of that
which now only remains one question is the analog stick still hot garbage
because the analog stick is hot garbage you could probably see this is a real original one
just see how loose that is that was a very common thing on n64 controllers that this became loose
and you're talking about joy con drift being a new thing nah man
joystick dead area on the n64 granted you weren't really ever slightly pushing it unless you were
walking very very slowly in banjo-kazooie or super mario 64. it's the only reason i
could think of that they're just like creeping around a corner you never really creep around the
corner and goldeneye perfect dark you mostly use the sea left and right straight buttons
actually once we come to like the shooters and everything i forgot about strafe left and
strafe right yeah i mean there were some first person shooter games that you would actually do
the left holding so you would use the analog stick and the d-pad and you have the trigger down here
and you would basically only have these two buttons but then you had the d-pad and you
had this to go around and do stuff and that was that was nintendo's interpretation of the dual
analog stick some games offered that i think it was perfect dark that allowed you to use two n64
controllers so you had dual analog sticks in order to play the game it was either that or goldeneye
it was one of the two and i remember once as a kid when i was bored i saw it in the options and i did
it and it was so weird and i wanted nothing to do with that ever again so yeah leave a comment
down below on your thoughts and opinions on this controller if you think that this should have some
horrible redundant functionality for no reason whatsoever or if you understand because you're
a mature adult that this is completely pointless these controllers better have rumble straight up
straight up better at rumble i want stone of agony in ocarina of time well guys i'm wrapping up this
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