{"id":111554,"date":"2020-04-14T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/random_finally_you_can_play_dark_souls_on_switch_the_way_nature_intended"},"modified":"2020-04-14T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:30:00","slug":"random-finally-you-can-play-dark-souls-on-switch-the-way-nature-intended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/14\/random-finally-you-can-play-dark-souls-on-switch-the-way-nature-intended\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Finally, You Can Play Dark Souls On Switch The Way Nature Intended"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you cast your mind back to 2018<\/a> and the release of the excellent Dark Souls: Remastered<\/a><\/strong> for Switch, you might remember a tiny<\/em> issue we (and many other players) had with the game. Oh, for the most part the Switch port of FromSoftware’s inscrutable masterpiece was just fine and dandy, but beyond any frame rate hiccups or minor visual disappointments, one issue blighted the game’s good name and has continued to do so to this very day.<\/p>\n

We’re talking, of course<\/em>, about the use of ‘B’ to confirm and ‘A’ to cancel in menu screens<\/a>. The issue stems from the fact that on PlayStation and Xbox the ‘confirm’ button (‘X’ or ‘A’ on those consoles’ respective pads – in the West, at least) sits where Nintendo’s ‘B’ resides at the bottom of the diamond button formation. This has caused headaches in a few games, but none where quite so vexing as the Dark Souls example. The fact that the option to change the confirm and cancel buttons was visible in the menu<\/em> but inexplicably greyed out made the issue all the worse!<\/p>\n

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Fortunately, the latest firmware update for your Nintendo Switch<\/a> has introduced the option to remap any button on your pad and finally gives us the option to play Dark Souls, or more precisely, navigate the game’s menus, the way they were meant<\/em> to be navigated on a Nintendo console, with the ‘A’ button confirming and the ‘B’ button cancelling.<\/p>\n

If like us you fancy swapping ‘A’ and ‘B’, all you have to do is head into the console’s settings, scroll down to Controllers and Sensors and select the minty fresh ‘Change Button Mapping’ option. Here you can remap any of the buttons on your controllers on a per-controller basis. This is particularly<\/em> handy, as if you have more than one right Joy-Con you’ll be able to designate it your Dark Souls Joy-Con and crack it out when you’re heading back to Lordran. You’re also able to save up to 5 presets, so it’s as simple a process as you could reasonably expect.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that there are some issues to think about when doing this, though. Firstly, once you’ve changed the buttons, you’ll have reversed their functions for the console’s<\/em> menus, too. This you’ll have to navigate back to the game with care or (and we recommend this in handheld mode) simply use the touchscreen. When returning to your Switch’s system menu a prompt informs you that user-defined button mapping is in use and gives you the option to disable it without going through menus again. Handy!<\/em><\/p>\n