This Stealth GameCube Mod Allows You To Play With Any Bluetooth Controller

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Playing Gamecube games with PS5 controller?

Why, when the greatest wireless controller of all time is native to the system?

It's cool, but I prefer the wired old classic any day. Also, Norway's import taxes are ridiculous, so I tend to avoid things like this as much as I can anyway lately, except for the odd Japanese retro stuff.

I could only ever imagine playing with a GameCube pad:

Ridiculous pricing.

I rather just used one of them 8BitDo wireless receiver. The Super NES one works great on it. Just buy a cheap SNES to GameCube controller adapter from Raphnet, plug the SN30 8BitDo receiver to it and pair it with any supported wireless Bluetooth controller.

I'll stick with my WaveBird wireless controllers. I have 3, I just need to get one more. Besides, I usually play Gamecube games on my Wii, so I can use hdmi (Wii to hdmi adapter) on my LG C1 OLED.

Oh I might have to check this out. I like using my Gameboy Player with my Gamecube, but admittedly I can't stand the D-Pad of the Gamecube controller to play the games. It will be really nice to be able to use an 8Bit Do for these situations.

@Serpenterror Oh wait!? That's possible!

@DTfeartheBEARD Wait, you have an LG OLED C1 too? Maybe you can figure out what happened when I tried my elgato with it then: https://www.reddit.com/r/elgato/comments/s20t4k/does_anyone_know_why_this_is_happening_and_any/

The only reason I still use my porrta upscaler is cuz on my old tv it could upscale the footage to 1080, which is great for twitch.

Why would one play on a GameCube and use anything other than a GameCube controller?

@SilverdudeOmni Sorry, I wish I could help. I don't use an Elgato and I never have. Mabey someone else on here can help you out. Hopefully you get it figured out soon.

Good for people who want to give it a go, but not for me. The Gamecube controller is as perfect as perfect can be except for the small D-Pad.

Speaking as someone who has limited experience with a GameCube, I'm of two minds about this.

On the one hand, for the most part, I find after years of gaming that for the most part, mixing controller form factors does not severely impact the overall gaming experience if you can remap the controller. With remapping, you're able to find the button layout that fits you best.

On the other hand, the GameCube's ABXY is definitely unique. It's designed to seemingly have your thumb rest on the A, and then move out from there. I don't know - are there games in the GameCube's library that make you press AB, AX, or AY simultaneously?

And looking through the material, I don't think I've seen any mention of how the analog triggers will be handled?

Why on earth would anyone want to play gamecube with anything other than a gamecube controller?

@Corvus96 because not everyone likes the Gamecube controller?

Hmm, I had been thinking of picking up a few extra Wavebirds to play with friends, but given that the official ones are now selling for ~$75 (with receiver), this mod is looking pretty enticing.

@DTfeartheBEARD I've heard about those converters, but from my experience, the Digital->Analogue->Digital signal you get going out to the TV is not as clean as using a DOL 001 GameCube with a digital HDMI adapter.

@farrgazer It looks like this is mostly a re-packaging of the open-source Blue Retro project which supports analogue triggers, rumble, and even pressure-sensitive A & B button support (for Nintendo's prototype GC controllers). Also, it looks like you can assemble your own external version of this and create adapters to use it with quite a variety of retro consoles and do other crazy things like connect at least 10 controllers simultaneously.

@shinesprite That mabey true, but I don't have an hdmi converter for Gamecube to compare. The Wii to hdmi adapter looks good to me, plus I can use progressive scan for games that support it (Luigi's Mansion, Mario Kart Double Dash, Mario Sunshine, ect) I wanted to get component cables for my Gamecube, but those are really expensive nowadays...

@Arpie ...because complete Wavebird controllers in good condition can get somewhat rather expensive. Especially if you want them for more than one or two players. This mod means that you can use basically whatever Bluetooth compatible controller you like. I'd love to see if these work with some of the Bluetooth arcade sticks out out by 8bitdo and the like, there are some great multiplayer games on the system where I could see it being really fun to pull a couple of those out and play with a buddy.

Kinda cool from a technical perspective, but I'd never use it. The gamecube controller is perfect, so why would I ever want to use anything else, especially on a gamecube?

Grabbed this sucker as soon as it was shown on Macho Nacho Productions. Now we just need Bluetooth GameCube Controllers.

I like to play all versions of smash bros. on an N64 controller. If this would work with the NSO N64 pad, I think this would be a really handy mod for me. Currently I use a wired N64 controller with a cable converter. It works fine, but it’s not wireless.

@DTfeartheBEARD I get it. I was using a Wii + Component cables approach up until I got a Gamecube HDMI adapter last year. Now, it's actually the Wii which gets used the least (since the WiiU also has HDMI and plays Wii games).

@Radioactivesuit It looks like there are already a few guides on using the standard hardware to pair NSO N64 controllers.

Me breaking my Gcn in the process of trying to do this lol… sarcasm but still isn’t just easy to just play it on a GCN Controller?