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Super Smash Brothers is one of the most anticipated games for the switch to this year if not the most anticipated game to come out in 2018 but with its release comes the same question we get every time a new Smash Brothers is on the way can I use a GameCube controller with it this video war video game war is heating up tonight Nintendo's GameCube system is about to hit the store Super Smash Brothers now thankfully we already know the answer to this which is yes because the Wii U adaptors that they made for the Wii U version of smash now works on the switch which is great if you already have one but they are very very hard to track down and very expensive so you don't have one already it's a bit of a problem but good news we did find a third party option with this little guy right here now if you're wondering what exactly this is this is basically the same thing as the official Wii U GameCube adapter that Nintendo made except it's well obviously a third party and looks like a Gamecube so all it really does is you can plug these two USBs into your switch talk plug in GameCube controller right there and you should be able to play with it no problem now if you're wondering why someone would want to use a controller that came out back in 2001 on a modern game well what is it that separates GameCube from its competitors like Sony Playstation 2 video game experts tell me it's all in the control it's cuz it's a really good controller and there's not really a modern-day equivalent for this because the design logic for the gaming controller is a bit different from most other controllers we have now with most controllers today the logic is usually how do we make the most comfortable controller how does it work across a very large number of games whereas nintendo during the time of the n64 and the Gamecube we're much more experimental we're focusing more on well we already know the kind of games we make and will release how to make a controller that fits that specific experience now their first attempt of this back in the n64 wasn't quite as successful and that's this guy right here now the idea behind the n64 controller was that it gave you multiple ways to handle a controller to fit different kinds of games whether you want to hold it this way this way or this way and it had its fans at the time but it's not a controller that I think is really aged very well I mean you don't have access to all the buttons depending on how you're gripping it some of it is just not very comfortable to begin with and a lot of it just didn't into being being used the way Nintendo thought it would like for instance the C buttons here were designed to be camera controls thus the C but very few games actually did that with that instead made use of it for extra button functions so it was a cool idea but didn't really pan out entirely just right but it did serve as a base inspiration for what they needed we're doing with the Gamecube now the GameCube controller kind of took some the idea is going on with the n64 controller but then also rolled in things from their successful competitors PlayStation with their Dual Shock design which is where you have this more familiar grip going on and a lot of this is pretty familiar at first glance I mean you've got a dual stick setup going on we've got shoulder buttons where things get weird though and confuse a lot of people who haven't really used one before is what exactly is happening in this area right here now normally we see a lot of controllers where we have just four buttons that are all the same size and they all have their a little placement but the logic going on the Nintendo head is well most of our games you really just need to use a you maybe need to use B and some games will use Y in X and different arresting ways but a comes up the most by far so instead of having the same real estate as all the other buttons let's put it right in the and make it the biggest and then everything else is kind of remembered based on where it is relative to the a button and it just so happens that one of the most successful games on the Gamecube really helped popularize this as a go-to option because it is perfect for smash I mean the main two things you're gonna rely on are a button for your main attacks and smash attacks of course B for specials but you can just roll right into right here and then X or Y for jumping so it just all comes out really comfortably does it work across every single game that comes out no weights whatsoever but when a game is designed with this controller in mind it's awesome so awesome in fact that I'm really surprised Nintendo didn't really hold on to this design longer I mean they basically abandon right into the Wii where they started doing the classic controller the Wii U pro controller and now even the switch pro controller which are much more conventional designs and this guy has seen some use since I mean the major that it was supported on Wiis the way you had an adapter they did do a reissue specifically for Smash Brothers on Wii U which was cool but even then it was a limited run kind of thing so hopefully they do that again but it's not that's where the adapter comes in handy so let's try this thing out now from the looks of it I think it should just be as simple as using the Wii U game controller adapter so let's try this thing out now looking at it should be just as simple as using the Wii U game controller adapter all I got to do is take the two USBs plug them into the switch dock which I've already done and then just take our gift coop controller and plug it into here and it should just read it as a wired controller and it does awesome so obviously there is no smash to play on the switch just yet and that's really kind of the main thing we're interested doing so I downloaded one of the few smash clones that's actually made its way to the switch which I've never played before so there's gonna be experience let's find out let's check this out know that oh the start button reads is the home button I guess it does okay good to know then what reads is plus because there's not as many buttons here as there are unlike the actual switch controllers so we're gonna be missing some and I'm really hoping none of those are important there are some buttons missing which it seems like for this game is fine and presumably whenever smash comes out that's not going to be an issue either because it should be using hopefully the same control scheme as the past games so yeah this is gonna work once match comes out that's really exciting it doesn't have a plus button though so I don't think I can pause so we figured it out I was able to get to get me to pause as you can see and that wasn't using joy Kahn's actually did use the GameCube controller so I looked it up on their website and there actually are ways to make use of the buttons that are on a switch controller that aren't on the GameCube controller it's just not exactly the most intuitive thing and do you think it would be in the direction manual for this adapter it's not from this out by going to the website and reading about the product and finding some additional very useful info there so to make up for the lack of buttons what this does is it has the GameCubes z button basically act as a hotkey for using all the missing buttons so if you want to do Z L it's not Z its Z and L at the same time if you want to do the plus button it's not well not existent plus button here it's doing Z and the right d-pad at the same time so not the most intuitive thing right out of the box but if you take the time to actually look at the instructions it's makes it much more usable so this is cool girl guys I know the whole point is to showcase this controller but this is just make me want to play like actual smash