Final 12 months, Nintendo introduced an N64 controller to be used with the Nintendo Change, and I introduced my intention to apply it to PC. Narrator’s voice: he did not.
I’ve much less of an excuse to not do it now nonetheless, as a result of a Steam consumer replace launched yesterday added Steam Enter assist for “Nintendo On-line traditional controllers.”
Steam Enter is Valve’s platform for enabling gamers to make use of roughly any controller with roughly any recreation. It allows you to do issues like map the PlayStation controller’s trackpad click on to a button in a recreation designed for an Xbox controller, and even map the Change’s gyro movement controllers to mouse motion.
Now it allows you to do the identical for the Nintendo On-line traditional controllers, which incorporates Nintendo’s trendy re-releases of controllers for the NES, SNES, N64 and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. All 4 of those had been initially launched to be used with their respective platform’s assortment of video games accessible by way of Nintendo Change’s on-line subscription service. I may need beforehand been capable of get the N64 controller working with PC video games, however now it will be simpler to, say, map the N64 pad’s C-buttons to one of many two analogue sticks a contemporary recreation calls for.
I’m unironic fan of the N64 controller, each for its groundbreaking implementation of an analogue stick and since it was extra snug to carry than any gamepad I might used aged 12. You’ll be able to’t inform me that apparent GoldenEye homage Agent 64: Spies By no means Die would not really feel higher when performed with an actual N64 pad.
The identical Steam replace additionally added assist for different area of interest controllers, the Qanba Obsidian, Qanba Dragon Arcade, and HORI Preventing Stick mini 4, all of that are struggle sticks. You’ll be able to learn particulars of a handful of different bug fixes within the patch notes on Steam.
Nintendo’s new N64 controllers had been launched final 12 months, and you’ll watch the Nintendo Direct that introduced them under: