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On Amazon there are always various 6-button Megadrive & Saturn style controllers available for the Switch. Has anyone tried these out & know if they work properly? I woudl be keen to use them on things like Streetfighter Collection or the Capcom Arcade Cabinets, but I'm not sure the Switch will pick up all the buttons. Similarly would they work with the NSO classic games?

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47 minutes ago, Sexton Hardcastle said:

On Amazon there are always various 6-button Megadrive & Saturn style controllers available for the Switch. Has anyone tried these out & know if they work properly? I woudl be keen to use them on things like Streetfighter Collection or the Capcom Arcade Cabinets, but I'm not sure the Switch will pick up all the buttons. Similarly would they work with the NSO classic games?

 

I've got both the official Retrobit bluetooth Saturn pad and the 'Sega inspired' 8bitdo M30 - both work fabulously and are ideal for playing any 2D fighter you'd care to mention, including Street Fighter, the Megadrive games and stuff like Streets of Rage 4 and Sonic Mania. 

 

The buttons labelled A, B, X and Y map to the equivalent buttons on the Switch, and because Sega and Nintendo have the inverse layouts of each other you have to remember to swap them around in the game - if you don't, A will do a medium kick and B will do a light kick, for example. Z maps to L and C maps to R, so these are generally fine in my experience, and don't need re-mapping. 

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Not sure if there are any keen F-Zero X fans on rllmuk, but I loved it and have played it a lot, on original hardware and emulated over the years.

 

I can’t be the only one who thinks the Switch N64 version is a total mess? Frame drops all over the place inc.  where you get sudden slowdown followed by speed up, and horribly overly sensitive handling (we only have joycons at present so may be related). 
 

I’ve had no issue with Wave Race, Goldeneye etc but F-Zero is broken.

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@ZOK I’ll be interested to hear what you think. I’m playing it right now and while I can play it, it feels wrong - like when you’d play an old DOS game on a much newer system and it’d make it run too fast, or something. It just feels wrong to me, like the timing is out making it unstable. 
 

FWIW running on a Sony A80K OLED with all the motion stuff etc off, game mode. 

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2 hours ago, pastry said:

Not sure if there are any keen F-Zero X fans on rllmuk, but I loved it and have played it a lot, on original hardware and emulated over the years.

 

I can’t be the only one who thinks the Switch N64 version is a total mess? Frame drops all over the place inc.  where you get sudden slowdown followed by speed up, and horribly overly sensitive handling (we only have joycons at present so may be related). 
 

I’ve had no issue with Wave Race, Goldeneye etc but F-Zero is broken.

 

Yeah, it's wildly choppy. And not just when there's a lot going on, it drops frames even when racing solo in time trials. A real shame because it was mostly solid on original hardware.

 

The over-senditive JoyCon issue is present across all of the N64 games but it's more noticible in some games than others; F-Zero when trying to take gentle curves without losing grip, Goldeneye's aiming reticle and subtle adjustments in Pilotwings too.

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The weirdest thing about the speculation concerning this week's rumoured Direct is the notion that something is happening with F-Zero with a modern release of GX being the story that's gaining most traction. Story just seems to have came out of nowhere and got people talking. I find it hard to believe. Mario Baseball seems more credible. 

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I'm off work this week so I picked an Oled Switch and a copy of BOTW, all this TOTK talk has made me want to give the game another shot. Plus I saw this video and it got me thinking that so many people adore BOTW I must be missing something?

 

I picked the Oled Switch because I plan to play 95% undocked and use it mainly as a JRPG machine and after buying an Oled TV last year I can no longer put up with the backlight bleed on IPS displays. The game looks really good on the small Oled screen, I'm just sitting here waiting for Amazon to deliver my Skull and Co grip so I can get really stuck in.

 

 

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On 06/02/2023 at 14:08, Mallet said:

I'm off work this week so I picked an Oled Switch and a copy of BOTW, all this TOTK talk has made me want to give the game another shot. Plus I saw this video and it got me thinking that so many people adore BOTW I must be missing something?

 

I picked the Oled Switch because I plan to play 95% undocked and use it mainly as a JRPG machine and after buying an Oled TV last year I can no longer put up with the backlight bleed on IPS displays. The game looks really good on the small Oled screen, I'm just sitting here waiting for Amazon to deliver my Skull and Co grip so I can get really stuck in.

 

 

I upgraded to the OLED a while back and play it so much more in handheld, it's a massive difference. Anything with vibrant colours really pops, Fire Emblem Engage looks great in handheld mode.

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Just got a Pro Controller... It's wonderful.  Lovely chunky flat buttons, great dpad, and the shoulder switches are delightful to press.   The analogue sticks being just a tad bigger helps with the degrees of control.  The only downside is the size & placement of the + and - buttons, they're a bit of a stretch to press.

 

 

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12 hours ago, meatbin said:

Just got a Pro Controller... It's wonderful.  Lovely chunky flat buttons, great dpad, and the shoulder switches are delightful to press.   The analogue sticks being just a tad bigger helps with the degrees of control.  The only downside is the size & placement of the + and - buttons, they're a bit of a stretch to press.

 

 

Completely agree, I got one a few weeks ago and it's a really nice pad. I have an 8bitdo pro2 and it just beats that out. The ability to be able to use amiibo and switch on the console remotely is great too.

 

The official pro controller just feels great, the majority of the buttons are great, but the 8bitdo wins on the d-pad, no question. 

 

So now me and by boys can play Mario Kart properly, 2 of us with decent pads and the eldest seems to like the joy con grip the deviant.

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I like the Pro Controller a lot. The analogue sticks felt slightly too tall at first, but I don't notice that anymore.

 

I loved the Wii Classic Controller Pro, but didn't get on with the Wii U Pro Controller at all, so I avoided picking up the Switch one for ages. My mistake, it's great.

 

I think me and the Wii U were just fundamentally incompatible in every way, for whatever reason.

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3 hours ago, Alexlotl said:

I like the Pro Controller a lot. The analogue sticks felt slightly too tall at first, but I don't notice that anymore.

 

I loved the Wii Classic Controller Pro, but didn't get on with the Wii U Pro Controller at all, so I avoided picking up the Switch one for ages. My mistake, it's great.

 

I think me and the Wii U were just fundamentally incompatible in every way, for whatever reason.

 

the switch pro controller was my favourite regular controller since the wavebird... until the Series X|S controller... both of them absolutely batter the dual shock.  I wish Sony would move away from that awful stick position and stop prioritising the d-pad!

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6 minutes ago, Alex W. said:

 

It saddens me that not one VR hardware announcement had the wit and cultural memory to riff on this.


Obviously ‘the brain’ is where JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean got the Disc idea from though!

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