{"id":124038,"date":"2022-04-19T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-130358"},"modified":"2022-04-19T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T20:30:00","slug":"random-this-tool-lets-you-play-just-dance-with-your-joy-cons-on-any-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/04\/19\/random-this-tool-lets-you-play-just-dance-with-your-joy-cons-on-any-console\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: This Tool Lets You Play &#8216;Just Dance&#8217; With Your Joy-Cons On Any Console"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a81aa3177069d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a81aa3177069d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Joycon Multi Falling\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a81aa3177069d\/joycon-multi-falling.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a81aa3177069d\/joycon-multi-falling.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Joycon Multi Falling\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em>Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;re the lucky ones on the Switch. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/just_dance_2022\">Just Dance<\/a> allows us to get straight into the groove of things by letting us use our Joy-Cons. To play the 2022 version on either <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/just_dance_2022\" class=\"external\">Xbox Series X, Series S<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/just_dance_2022\" class=\"external\">PlayStation 5<\/a>, however, you need to download an app on your phone.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, that&#8217;s not really a lot of extra hassle, is it? But there&#8217;s something about motion controls and the Joy-Cons that make it way more fun to play with compared to just downloading an app. You can&#8217;t even use the Kinect sensor or anything to play it on your shiny new Xbox (you can on the Xbox One, though).<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Reddit used redphx has created a tool that lets dancers use their Joy-Cons on whatever console they want. Thanks to our sister site Pure Xbox for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2022\/04\/unofficial-xbox-tool-lets-you-play-just-dance-with-nintendo-joy-cons\" class=\"external\">discovering this<\/a>!<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-oembed\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/XboxSeriesX\/comments\/u4ldwd\/introducing_joydance_a_tool_for_playing_just\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3 @ 2022-04-19T16:05:43+01:00 --> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-card\"><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/XboxSeriesX\/comments\/u4ldwd\/introducing_joydance_a_tool_for_playing_just\/?ref_source=embed&amp;ref=share\">Introducing JoyDance: a tool for playing Just Dance with Joy-Cons on Xbox\/Stadia\/PS\/NSW. Github link in comment.<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/XboxSeriesX\/\">XboxSeriesX<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Called JoyDance, this is a pretty technical piece of kit that takes a bit of reading to get set up. Essentially, the tool pretends to be the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.ubisoft.dance.justdance2015companion\">Just Dance Controller app<\/a> and it senses your Joy-Cons movements and sends them to the game console.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure it works perfectly, redphx&#8217;s code requires:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PC\/Mac\/Linux with bluetooth support.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.python.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Python 3.7+<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pip.pypa.io\/en\/stable\/installation\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">pip<\/a> installed.<\/li>\n<li>1 to 6 Joy-Cons.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s <strong>RECOMMENDED<\/strong> to:\n<ul>\n<li>Use a Bluetooth dongle, because built-in Bluetooth sucks (or you will get disconnected constantly while playing). Make sure you buy a dongle with game controller support, not just for audio devices. Not all dongles support Mac\/Linux, so remember to check compatibility before buying.<\/li>\n<li>Use a Nintendo Switch to update Joy-Con to the latest firmware &amp; calibrate its motion sensors. Ask your friends or bring it to the game shop if you don&#8217;t have one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The tool has only been tested on an Xbox Series S and Switch (just in case you want to have fun) in the last few years, but users have reported that it&#8217;s extremely accurate with no latency issues.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the detailed code and instructions, and download the tool yourself on <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/redphx\/joydance\">GitHub<\/a>. And even if you don&#8217;t have Just Dance, it&#8217;s just amazing to see the amount of time and effort fans make in order to create interesting gimmicks for the games they play. Perhaps someone could get a camera to work with the Switch, now?<\/p>\n<p><em>Let us know what you think of this in the comments<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Life We&#8217;re the lucky ones on the Switch. Just Dance allows us to get straight into the groove of things by letting us use our Joy-Cons. To play the 2022 version on either Xbox Series X, Series S, or PlayStation 5, however, you need to download an app on your phone. Alright, that&#8217;s [&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-124038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124038","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=124038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}