{"id":38569,"date":"2018-08-07T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/video_modding_old_retro_controllers_to_work_on_switch_with_8bitdo_diy"},"modified":"2018-08-07T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T16:15:00","slug":"video-modding-old-retro-controllers-to-work-on-switch-with-8bitdo-diy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/07\/video-modding-old-retro-controllers-to-work-on-switch-with-8bitdo-diy\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Modding Old Retro Controllers to Work on Switch with 8Bitdo DIY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e8d53ac87d853\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e8d53ac87d853\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/video_modding_old_retro_controllers_to_work_on_switch_with_8bitdo_diy\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If there&#8217;s one thing 8Bitdo knows, it&#8217;s retro controllers. Yes, as a company they&#8217;ve dabbled in a few other areas, but on the whole for our money their best stuff is definitely controller-related. They&#8217;ve released countless iterations for countless systems over the years, and now there new DIY range allows you to mod your own controllers for the NES, SNES, and Mega Drive\/Genesis to have all the mod-cons you could want, as long as those mod-cons are bluetooth-based wireless communication and Switch compatibility.<\/p>\n<p>We were really impressed with what these kits can do, and even the most inexperienced tinkerer shouldn&#8217;t have any problems installing the new circuit boards. What&#8217;s even better is that the entire process is completely reversible, so if you want to go back to playing on your original system with a wire, you can do just that. Check out the video above to see the installation happen in mostly real-time and by an idiot who keeps getting basic things embarrassingly wrong.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn more about 8Bitdo DIY, you can do so by ferrying your input device pointer to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.8bitdo.com\/mod-kit-for-nes-controller\/\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] If there&#8217;s one thing 8Bitdo knows, it&#8217;s retro controllers. Yes, as a company they&#8217;ve dabbled in a few other areas, but on the whole for our money their best stuff is definitely controller-related. They&#8217;ve released countless iterations for countless systems over the years, and now there new DIY range allows you to mod [&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-38569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38569","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=38569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}