A Nintendo fan who we're guessing is eagerly anticipating the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in December has 3D printed their very own custom GameCube controller adapter. It's been designed for the eight-player mode which first appeared in the Wii U and 3DS entries. If you thought it was just two separate adapters inside the case of a bigger one, think again.
Over on Imgur, the creator known as 10000ukuleles explains how they took the components from two official Nintendo Wii U-GameCube controller adapters and a powered USB hub, and then secured it all inside the interior of the 3D printed case. The end product is a device that only requires a single USB port but also takes up a spot on your power board. It's also got Nintendo's trademark logo on the top of it. The creator went to the extent of documenting each step and has also uploaded the schematics and files, so others can recreate this unique accessory. Take a look below:
Would an eight-port GameCube controller adapter be of interest to you, or are you satisfied with the official four-port version?
[source gonintendo.com]
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An eight player GameCube adapter would be very convenient, I would buy one for sure. Please make this happen Nintendo!
@PurinPuff Or just get yourself a 3D printer
Awesome but whouldnt but it.
Give it to me. I demand it. (But in all seriousness this is pretty awesome)
That turquoise controller looks cool
Neat but I hardly use more than 2 controllers. I like how they got it to work with only one USB port though.
8 Players in one screen are Too Many.
It hurts seeing those cables so tightly wrapped around the controllers.
I couldn't name 7 people that would come to my house and play Smash if my life depended on it. Even if I counted my parents and my dog.
I doubt that I would ever need it. Shoving 8 people into my apartment to play Smash doesn't sound comfortable.
The power of science is amazing!
Nobody has eight real friends.
I think this is cool as in "we did it because we could" not because it's necessary. If you can use two 4-players adapter, what is the big deal?
@Octane I was thinking the same thing, ugh >_<
I’m perfectly satisfied with the 4 player adapter releasing Friday, though this is amazing. 😃
I still can't see the appeal of this many players.
I don’t ever recall there being a clear GameCube controller. That’s super cool-looking...
That said, I have had eight people together to play, but not everybody prefers to use a GameCube controller, so it wasn’t a problem. This is a neat idea, though, and does have a practical use, since the Switch dock only has two USB ports. Without some kind of splitter, using more than one standard adapter isn’t possible.
@Heavyarms55 Aw man, those are the best times =) When Smash for Wii U came out, we did a release day Smash session with 8 of us in a space much too small for 8 guys... but it was a blast. Wish I could do that sort of thing more often.
@Anti-Matter Not sure when it happened, but I'm so glad there is a thumbs down button now =) While 4 is my preferred Smash count, having the ability to occasionally have ridiculous 8 player matches is great.
@PurinPuff As a fellow DIYer, I love this. I'm not sure I would ever want one though. For as infrequently as it would get used, I'd rather just have 2 of the official adapters. That, and they're pretty expensive, so it would hurt my soul a little bit to chop them up.
@roadrunner343 Oh I know it can be fun, but I'd still have to go somewhere else. I'm too protective of my apartment and all my nerdy otaku anime junk. Cramming 8 people in here just wouldn't work. More likely I'd bring my Switch and my excessive amount of controllers to someone else's place, with a nice 24 pack of beer and we'd play there.
@Heavyarms55 Sorry, but that's an unacceptable answer. A 24 pack for 8 people? Unless of course, you all bring 24 packs. Then maybe a bit excessive
@roadrunner343 Of course everyone brings chips in. I am not bringing everything! lol
@Fofa lol same 😂
If it’s Mario Kart they’ll flock to my place in no time, but everyone I tried to teach Smash simply doesn’t get it or like it.
Not to mention I could count maybe 5 people I know who could recognize a GC controller lol
Other than Mario Kart, ii can't see a functional benefit for an 8 player controller setup, playing Mario Kart with 4 small screens on the one screen is bad enough, but 8 screens ??? and 8 players on Smash wouldn't be any less confusing, I like the ambitious idea, but the practicality is just not there
Truly work of art.
The more the merrier.
now for Nintendo to fix the Nintendo switch so that we can sync 8+ controllers to it at a time...
8 player super smash brothers seems fun but what about 12 players... (or more)
of course if Nintendo released a 12 player version of super smash brothers we may need to connect multiple systems together so that not everyone is glued to the same TV screen.
now imagine having 5 Nintendo switch units in your house, connected to each other via LAN or Wi-Fi, each having four to six players each, all battling it out in super smash brothers... and each unit only focusing in on the players for that system that way we don't have to zoom out as much like in the Wii U version.
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