How to use a GameCube controller with your Nintendo Switch

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(Pocket-lint) — The Nintendo Switch is great fun, but it's also expensive once you calculate the cost of the system, games, accessories, and extra controllers.

For instance, the Nintendo Switch Pro controller costs a bit of a bundle. If you want to play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with, say, three other players, you do have a few different options, like buying additional Pro controllers for all the other players, but that isn't exactly cheap. However, if you owned a GameCube back in the day and still have its controllers laying around, you are lucky, because you have a cheap workaround.

When Nintendo released the 4.0 software update for the Switch, it quietly included a new feature: the ability to use old GameCube controllers with the Switch, as long as you pair them through a Wii U GameCube adapter. You can use the original adapter or a generic one available from places like Amazon. Anyway, once you have one of these adapters, you can use a GameCube controller with your Switch.

Here's what you need to know.

You need a Switch or Switch OLED, obviously, as well as a GameCube controller and a Wii U adapter. Note that this requires a docked Switch, so it won't work with a Switch Lite.

First, you have to connect the adapter to your Switch; there are two USB ports on the side of the Switch dock. Then, it's as easy as plugging your GameCube controllers into the Wii U adapter.

On your Switch, go to the controller Settings menu on the home screen (the icon a Joy-Con controller). Then, simply press the L and R buttons on the GameCube controller as you would when pairing your Joy-Cons or Pro controller, and it’ll be detected as a USB gamepad.

After that, you should be ready to go.

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