Nintendo 64 - Nintendo Switch Online (Switch eShop).If you have an N64 pad and have been trying it on other hardware, by all means share your results in the comments! Related Games The crux for most of us, though, is that right now it's not a simple connect and play proposition outside of the Switch Online N64 games. Ultimately, though, our money would be on enthusiast coders and modders getting it working on various systems and emulators down the line. It does seem evident that this N64 controller's connectivity isn't standardised whether this is because Nintendo had to do some bespoke setup to connect to its Switch emulator or if it was an effort to lock out those connecting it to other devices, that's only known within Nintendo's walls.

This Reddit thread also shares varied experiences, as some players have had limited success while others struggle to get much usable input out of the controller. Our own Jon Cartwright could get the controller recognised by his PC, but then had trouble getting button inputs to register. The N64 NSO controller doesn't seem to respond correctly in OpenEmu at the moment but it does work on other Mac emulators like sixtyforce so hopefully it's something that can be fixed /5D4J2odVz6- Akfamilyhome October 27, 2021 Some others have been digging around emulators and have discovered that it works with some, but not others. Has anyone gotten the n64 switch controller to work on devices outside of switch? Its detectable by my mac and pc but no inputs are being received- Lolon 🐈🏳️‍⚧️✨ October 26, 2021 The initial reaction popping up was that the controller just wouldn't connect to PC, for example. While the Switch Pro Controller and indeed the previous wireless NES and SNES pads are pretty easy to connect to other devices, the N64 controller is putting up a bit of a fight. Of course, enthusiasts that are knee-deep in emulation technology were immediately trying to use the controller on everything but a Switch, and have discovered it's trickier than with Nintendo's past controllers. Another topic that had less air but is potentially quite interesting is related to the NSO Nintendo 64 controller, which started to drop through lucky gamers' mailboxes this scribe's didn't, resulting in long despairing stares out of the window. Well, it's social media, so that's no surprise. There was a lot of chatter around the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack yesterday, plenty of it quite heated on social media.

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