{"id":100729,"date":"2019-09-24T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/random_you_cant_dock_a_switch_lite_but_you_can_play_it_on_a_1984_panasonic_boombox"},"modified":"2019-09-24T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T11:30:00","slug":"random-you-cant-dock-a-switch-lite-but-you-can-play-it-on-a-1984-panasonic-boombox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/24\/random-you-cant-dock-a-switch-lite-but-you-can-play-it-on-a-1984-panasonic-boombox\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: You Can&#8217;t Dock A Switch Lite, But You Can Play It On A 1984 Panasonic Boombox"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4f47dd42c420a\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4f47dd42c420a\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"How the Switch Lite is 'supposed' to be enjoyed\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/460520893ba0d\/how-the-switch-lite-is-supposed-to-be-enjoyed.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/460520893ba0d\/how-the-switch-lite-is-supposed-to-be-enjoyed.900x.jpg\" alt=\"How the Switch Lite is 'supposed' to be enjoyed\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\">How the Switch Lite is &#8216;supposed&#8217; to be enjoyed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As you&#8217;ll no doubt be aware, the Switch Lite cannot be docked, so there&#8217;s no official way to play your new console on the TV in the same way as the original Switch model. A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/sorry_but_theres_no_hidden_workaround_to_connect_your_switch_lite_to_a_tv\">teardown of the console<\/a> revealed that there&#8217;s no hidden workaround possible either as the necessary hardware doesn&#8217;t exist within the machine itself, but that doesn&#8217;t mean our docking dreams have to end there.<\/p>\n<p>The mastermind behind My Mate VINCE, a YouTube channel which specialises in &#8216;how to&#8217; videos and crazy tech setups, has gone above and beyond in his attempt to have the Switch Lite working on a TV-like display. Why settle for a regular TV when you can play the likes of Mario Kart on an old 1984 Panasonic boombox?<\/p>\n<p>You can check it out for yourself below; it&#8217;s not what you&#8217;d exactly call a practical setup, and we doubt there are many of you out there who just so happen to have all the necessary cables and equipment, but we can&#8217;t help but admire the dedication. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/cuphead\"><strong>Cuphead<\/strong><\/a> played on the boombox looks fantastic, too.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fOSA6I6vVdg?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Have you picked up a Switch Lite? How have you been finding it?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the Switch Lite is &#8216;supposed&#8217; to be enjoyed As you&#8217;ll no doubt be aware, the Switch Lite cannot be docked, so there&#8217;s no official way to play your new console on the TV in the same way as the original Switch model. A recent teardown of the console revealed that there&#8217;s no hidden workaround [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}