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The Switch N64 Controller Doesn’t Play Nice With Everything, For Now

Mac, PC and Pi inputs appear hit-and-miss at the moment.

There was a lot of chatter around the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack yesterday, plenty of it quite heated on social media. Well, it’s social media, so that’s no surprise. 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.

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. 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.

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