{"id":107141,"date":"2020-01-12T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/the_flip_grip_creator_was_working_on_gamecube_joy-con_but_someone_else_beat_him_to_it"},"modified":"2020-01-12T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T04:30:00","slug":"the-flip-grip-creator-was-working-on-gamecube-joy-con-but-someone-else-beat-him-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/12\/the-flip-grip-creator-was-working-on-gamecube-joy-con-but-someone-else-beat-him-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flip Grip Creator Was Working On GameCube Joy-Con, But Someone Else Beat Him To It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/53fd66aa8736a\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/53fd66aa8736a\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/53fd66aa8736a\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sb0-I8FkUWU?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>We&#8217;ve previously seen Switch Joy-Con <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/you_can_now_get_switch_joy-con_inspired_by_the_gamecube_controller\">inspired<\/a> by the design of the GameCube controller, but now one talented modder, who runs the YouTube Channel <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Sb0-I8FkUWU\">Shank Mods<\/a>, has taken things to the next level by creating a fully-functioning set of GameCube Joy-Con, which you can learn all about in the video above.<\/p>\n<p>While this should be the main focus here, we couldn&#8217;t help but notice <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mechachoi\">Mike Choi<\/a> \u2013 the inventor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/hardware_review_flip_grip_the_dream_peripheral_for_shmup_addicts\">Switch Flip Grip<\/a> \u2013 had also been working on his own GameCube Switch controller mod for most of 2019. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s still work-in-progress:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Well, someone beat me to the punch but here\u2019s a look at the current state of my Joy-Cube Switch dock\/controller. Obviously an unfinished WIP! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LLl9F4ve7M\">pic.twitter.com\/LLl9F4ve7M<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Mike Choi (@mechachoi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mechachoi\/status\/1216053171425955841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Mike went onto state how he was &#8220;crying inside&#8221; after he had found out someone else had beat him to the punch and questioned if it was even worth finishing his own project that was &#8220;just like&#8221; this one. Many followers of his have passed on messages of encouragement saying how it would be great to see him finish his own design.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in his above tweet, it&#8217;s a pretty different build to the one in the video at the top of the page \u2013 with the Switch instead slotting into a shell (or &#8220;dock\/controller&#8221; as Mike describes it) connecting both sides of a single GameCube controller.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think about GameCube controllers being transformed into Joy-Con? Would you like to see Mike complete his design? Share your thoughts below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sb0-I8FkUWU?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] We&#8217;ve previously seen Switch Joy-Con inspired by the design of the GameCube controller, but now one talented modder, who runs the YouTube Channel Shank Mods, has taken things to the next level by creating a fully-functioning set of GameCube Joy-Con, which you can learn all about in the video above. While this should [&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-107141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107141","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=107141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}