Yep. The whole thing. Joy-cons inserted into the shell. It worked for me, overall. What did you use?
Guess I missed another wave of the GC Loader PNP. What I get for not following the guy on twitter, was just refreshing the page once a day to see if it would go up and didn’t even realize they had gone up till the site went down because he moved to a new one. Oh well.
Dan is good about keeping this kind of stuff coming until demand slows down. I would imagine he’ll do another order in a few months. I really would just follow him on Twitter.
Yeah, I did now. Page itself was saying end of July for last order so I just kept refreshing though July and yesterday is when he changed websites. Well I got a security warning on last refresh and that’s why I checked his twitter to see that he changed sites and that orders had opened 2 days ago.
Says that next order is planed for September so not like I have to wait for long, and I’m not sweating it. Just know not to trust the “notify when product is in stock” thing now.
In other related news, that is probably better for the WII thread, I may have been able to get a WIIDual preoder in elsewhere. Got to find somewhere that can do the install work on it, but figured I’d wait to see if I actually get the unit first.
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I used the wireless Super Nintendo controller I got from the Nintendo Online promotion.
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Ah, that sounds lovely. I should really get the NES and SNES controllers for Switch. I have an SF30 Pro but that controller tends to fudge diagonals and cardinal directions. It’s OK for something like NSMBU and many of the classics on NSO. But Celeste demands strings of precise motions and it just doesn’t cut it for that.
Do I need to get those Nintendo made controllers second hand now? I’ve been an NSO subscriber from the beginning but failed to jump on those…
Haven’t heard of this. Looks like it allows you to use GBI, too? I could never get the SD Loader software to work in my GC. It would not read the Action Replay disc even though it reads games and the GB Player disc just fine.
They are still available last I checked. They are periodically out of stock, but you definitely did not permanently miss your window.
They’re actually pretty great controllers that feel “correct” compared to the originals. There is also the Pokken controller which has a decent D-Pad, but I haven’t tested it nearly as much as the other official controllers for the system.
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Yeah it works with GBI. Can boot it using various methods, easiest being setting swiss to be the “boot” game and just run it/whatever other game you want from that.
If you have a SNES Classic console you can pick up the 8bitdo DIY board and convert one of the controllers to BT.
They’re the same controllers as the NSO ones without the ugly joycon rail on top.
Ah, good call. I have both of the classic Nintendo consoles, both sitting in a box unused. Those work with OEM controllers, too, right?
Yup! - but it’s a different board for original controllers.
I originally bought mine to use with my SFC and AV Famicom but ended up mostly using them on my Switch.
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I just wanted to add this to the octo-gate discussion.
I’m not exactly sure when the Hori Pad mini was released, but it must have been close to the Gamcube’s release, or at least privy to the GC’s controller development.
Feels pretty good to play with.
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I too love the octo-gate!
@Eccles - agreed about the Hori mini, feels great to me.
I use one of the PowerA wireless Gamecube controllers bluetoothed up to my PC as my main controller!
Anyone use the serial port SD card adapter?
https://www.retrorgb.com/gamecube-serial-port-sd-adapter-swiss-updates.html
Yup! It’s pretty slick and a cheap way to get stuff running. I’d love a GC Loader at some point but it does ok!!
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Felt compelled to try and find the date lol. Yodobashi has a date for Red/Blue/Black of April 22 1999.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Nintendo did give out the controller manufacturing specs to select 3rd party accessory makers back in the day. Not so much on N64, but on SNES, the Hori Commander, Fighting Commander… Hudson Super Joycard, Asciipad, Konami command controller…and more all look directly based off of the original. I guess they could have been reverse engineered too, but Nintendo at least had to have been ok with the designs being so similar. The plans being out in the wild would explain why there are so many fakes nowadays!
There is also the chance that Hori’s N64 pad informed the GC pads development!
I would except it being locked behind a game boy player makes it extremely difficult to access the SD card.
It’s a shame too, as there’s a hole on Serial Port 2 that would fit a microSD slot.
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Cool will give it a go anyway, appears to make ODE’s mostly redundant.
Eh, I’m not going to change the SD card often. I have SD cards in everdrives locked inside original shells with no slot, I just load up the card and leave it for months/years on end.
