Nintendo Switch Catch-All 2.0

gamerparent wrote:

I recently (yesterday) picked up the Pokken Tournament controller. It’s wired, only has a D pad (no joysticks). Should be good for not only Pokken Tournament but stuff like Puyo Puyo Tetris and other retro game releases.

Yes! I'm using a Pokken Tourmament controller with the Switch, and I'm increasingly convinced it's the best D-pad implementation since the SNES. (Including the Switch Pro Controller.)

I like the Pokken controller so much that I bought a second one for use with my PC. I'm playing through Hollow Knight again, and a boss (the Soul Master) that I remember giving me all kinds of problems during my original playthrough, on which I think I was using an XBox 360 controller, I just earlier today beat easily on my first try using the Pokken controller.

As I mentioned in another post recently, the Joy-Con is fine for games that entirely or mostly use 4-way movement (Puyo Puyo Tetris, Super Mario Bros.), but the Pokken controller is so much better for games that require precise 8-way movement (Celeste, Street Fighter).

It's quite a good value at US $25.

WolverineJon wrote:

I like the Pokken controller so much that I bought a second one for use with my PC.

How easy is to to set up? I've only used a 360 controller on my PC which has been almost entirely plug'n'play with every game. But it's getting a little long in the tooth, and I was just thinking about getting a new one.

Jonman wrote:
WolverineJon wrote:

I like the Pokken controller so much that I bought a second one for use with my PC.

How easy is to to set up? I've only used a 360 controller on my PC which has been almost entirely plug'n'play with every game. But it's getting a little long in the tooth, and I was just thinking about getting a new one.

Anything going wrong with the 360 pad? Just worn analog sticks?

mrtomaytohead wrote:
Jonman wrote:
WolverineJon wrote:

I like the Pokken controller so much that I bought a second one for use with my PC.

How easy is to to set up? I've only used a 360 controller on my PC which has been almost entirely plug'n'play with every game. But it's getting a little long in the tooth, and I was just thinking about getting a new one.

Anything going wrong with the 360 pad? Just worn analog sticks?

Sticks are going a bit baggy.

And more importantly, it's not shiny, exciting and new.

gamerparent wrote:

None of Nintendo’s recent console controllers (neither first party or third party) have analog trigger buttons. They are just switches, on or off, pressed or not pressed.

The GameCube controller was a mistake

A glorious mistake.

I really don’t know why they didn’t keep analog triggers in subsequent controllers.

Also GameCube was like 17 years ago. I feel old now.

Jonman wrote:
WolverineJon wrote:

I like the Pokken controller so much that I bought a second one for use with my PC.

How easy is to to set up? I've only used a 360 controller on my PC which has been almost entirely plug'n'play with every game. But it's getting a little long in the tooth, and I was just thinking about getting a new one.

In my experience, you just plug it in (it's a standard USB-A connection) and Windows will recognize it immediately.

"Out of the box" specific game support for it seems to vary. For some games, it Just Works™. For others, I've needed to go to the extra step of using JoyToKey to map the controller inputs to keyboard keys, which takes a few minutes to set up but then works just fine.

It works on my Mac, too, although it didn't Just Work on any of the games that I tried; I needed to do the map-gamepad-to-keyboard thing using USB Overdrive (basically JoyToKey but for MacOS), which then worked fine.

mrtomaytohead wrote:

Anything going wrong with the 360 pad? Just worn analog sticks?

I know you directed that question at Jonman, but at least for me personally, I find the 360 controller's D-pad to be a lot less precise than the Pokken controller's -- see my earlier comment in this thread about dying a lot against a particular Hollow Knight boss with the 360 controller, then switching to the Pokken and acing it.

Again a heavy YMMV on this, but I also have found that the 360's D-pad hurts my thumb after an hour or so of use. During my playthrough of Axiom Verge, I actually was having to occasionally switch my left thumb from the D-pad to the (less precise for an 8-way-move game) analog stick because my thumb was so sore. I haven't run into that problem with the Pokken controller.

(I do find the 360 to be an excellent controller for games that call for the analog stick for movement!)

gamerparent wrote:

I really don’t know why they didn’t keep analog triggers in subsequent controllers.

I'm guessing it's a feature that's not used a whole lot and probably costs more to manufacture. Or at least, I can't think of a game I've played recently that used analog triggers.

Has anyone tried using a bluetooth headphone transmitter with the Switch and can recommend one?

Guys.. is it perfectly safe to leave the Switch wit the joycons attached on the dock? it wont overcharge or anything right?

Darkhaund wrote:

Guys.. is it perfectly safe to leave the Switch wit the joycons attached on the dock? it wont overcharge or anything right?

It's fine. That's how mine is almost all the time.

Fedaykin98 wrote:
Darkhaund wrote:

Guys.. is it perfectly safe to leave the Switch wit the joycons attached on the dock? it wont overcharge or anything right?

It's fine. That's how mine is almost all the time.

Same, ours is always like that but we switch out the joycons to charge since we have two sets.

Darkhaund wrote:

Guys.. is it perfectly safe to leave the Switch wit the joycons attached on the dock? it wont overcharge or anything right?

No, it's very dangerous. The Joycons will become sentient and mobile at night, and will roam your house hunting for blood to drink.

Jonman wrote:
Darkhaund wrote:

Guys.. is it perfectly safe to leave the Switch wit the joycons attached on the dock? it wont overcharge or anything right?

No, it's very dangerous. The Joycons will become sentient and mobile at night, and will roam your house hunting for blood to drink.

What if they get wet or if we feed them at night?

whoa... if i get them wet they will MULTIPLY... MUST DO IT lol

Darkhaund wrote:

whoa... if i get them wet they will MULTIPLY... MUST DO IT lol

Then cover them with food after midnight to turn them into Pros. All problems solved.

No, they turn into Gamecube controllers :p

Yonder wrote:

No, they turn into Gamecube controllers :p

Not possible, gremlins were a better version of mogwai not a frankenstein-ed one

Thank you guys for the info!

So I'm about to pick up a Switch, and we do plan to do some traveling with it.
What kind of accessories should be a high priority?

lunchbox12682 wrote:

So I'm about to pick up a Switch, and we do plan to do some traveling with it.
What kind of accessories should be a high priority?

NECESSARY:
Case
Screen Protector
Standalone charger

OPTIONAL:
Second set of Joycons
Travel dock (only if you're planning on hooking it up to a TV)
Bigger case to hold the optional stuff

Jonman wrote:
lunchbox12682 wrote:

So I'm about to pick up a Switch, and we do plan to do some traveling with it.
What kind of accessories should be a high priority?

NECESSARY:
Case
Screen Protector
Standalone charger

OPTIONAL:
Second set of Joycons
Travel dock (only if you're planning on hooking it up to a TV)
Bigger case to hold the optional stuff

I like to add the thumb stick covers personally in the optional category. Pro Controller with case if you are crazy like me.

yeah, the pro controller will have to wait a bit as those are stupidly (imo) expensive, but I know I'll get one eventually.

It is VERY VERY expensive.. yes.. but I had to get one in order to play Zelda and XC2.

Do I need to BUY the official charger or can a buy any compatible cable and just connect it to a USB charging hub ?

Still trucking along with no screen protector and no scratches, for the record.

Also no screen protector here. A basic carrying case has been great.

You can use any USB-C cable to charge it, but if it's just a phone charger you may get a slower charge. I have not tried playing it while it was charging so I'm not sure how well it kept up to drain, but used both my phone and laptop chargers for it while traveling in December.

If we’re saying that controllers aren’t cheap in general, I can see that, but relatively the pro controller is only $10 more than PS4 or Xbox One controller. The battery lasting 5 or 6x longer than the PS4 controller is worth the extra $10 buck IMHO. And while the PS4 is comfortable I like the Pro Controller even more.

Darkhaund wrote:

It is VERY VERY expensive.. yes.. but I had to get one in order to play Zelda and XC2.

Do I need to BUY the official charger or can a buy any compatible cable and just connect it to a USB charging hub ?

You don't need the official one. IMAGE(https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*6EdQxZAhe-ELoaqo80wyyw.png)

Darkhaund wrote:

It is VERY VERY expensive.. yes.. but I had to get one in order to play Zelda and XC2.

Do I need to BUY the official charger or can a buy any compatible cable and just connect it to a USB charging hub ?

You don't need any charger at all. You just need an external battery if you want that capability.

When I travel, I unplug the charger from my dock and use that directly with the Switch.

Darkhaund wrote:

It is VERY VERY expensive.. yes.. but I had to get one in order to play Zelda and XC2.

Do I need to BUY the official charger or can a buy any compatible cable and just connect it to a USB charging hub ?

I lost mine somewhere in Peru so I bought this and it has worked just fine docked or undocked:

http://a.co/bKWDr13

But yeah, you can use the chart above to see if your current travel charger will cut it. Most new tablet and phone chargers will work but won't charge it while playing. Old ones, probably not.