HORI Nintendo Switch Battle Pad (Zelda) GameCube Style Controller - Nintendo Switch

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This controller feels lighter than a regular gamecube controller but otherwise feels great to play. However, be aware that the ZL/L and ZR/R are swapped from how a regular switch pro controller is. So the triggers are the bumpers, and vice versa. But if you hold down ZR and ZL as you plug it into the switch a red light will turn on and the bumpers and triggers will be switch back as long as that light stays on. I didn't know this when I bought it and had to google it.

Works great. buttons all do what there saposed to do and well

It's been a little bit over year since I've purchased this controller, and now is the time that I feel confident to tell the experience I had this controller.As the headline says, it's a decent controller -- it truly is. I had a friend recommend it to me to buy so I did because I was getting into Smash and I felt that using joycons weren't going to cut it if I wanted to up my game as a Link main (LINKS RISE UP).When I first got this controller, it was pretty amazing. The controller was pretty responsive and I liked the feel of of it. The body of the controller is fully made of plastic. The back of the controller has grip, which I liked, but that too was also plastic. The controller had good snapback and most of all buttons were functional. The controller actually kind of simulated a gamecube styled controller very well regardless. The durability of the controller, however, is a different story.This is where I feel that I need to let you future purchasers know before making this purchase.Over the span of a few month with rigorous use of the controller for Smash, the direction stick began to drift. At first, I didn't mind it since I was used to drifting joycons. Overtime, that got worse. The drift on this controller could put Tokyo Drift to shame. I couldn't do diagonal inputs anymore and I would do misinputs frankly because of the direction stick not inputting what I want it to do. This made doing tech kind of hard to do and it would frustrate me because what I expect to happen just did not happen at all.I don't know if it was just my controller, but the c-stick is kind of dysfunctional. I use my c-stick for tilts in Smash and frankly, I would run up to someone and flick my c-stick and NO INPUT WOULD REGISTER. No matter how hard I flicked or multiple times I flicked the c-stick, the tilt attack would not come out. The times when it does, it'll be very late like two to three seconds afterwards. I felt it was kind of unreliable to use the c-stick.Fast forward to 9 months in where the drifting got so bad that I had no control over it and it took banging my controller on a surface to get it to stop, the impossible happen. I MANAGED TO FRY MY ZR BUTTON. It was due to a little static I had on my finger, and when I picked up my controller, my ZR button got the brunt of it. It was that day forth that I knew the buttons were DIGITAL inputs instead of ANALOG inputs. My ZR button was my grabbing button and I had reprogram myself to use the grab button with ZL.This was also the time I've learned about the turbo feature.Not only did I play Smash, but I also play Asphalt 9, a racing game that uses ZR to accelerate. I was very conflicted when I found out that my ZR button just gave out due to a little static, but it was enough to fry the input of it. I used the turbo button for it until I learned that Asphalt had an auto-accelerate feature. Turbo mode had like three modes before toggling off, so I would adjust accordingly.There's also some red/orange turbo mode feature as well? The manual tells us about it, but I really never cared for turbo that much. I saw it as a useless option unless this whole ordeal kind of went down.Now since I had the turbo feature set to my ZR button (which somehow worked just for the turbo feature), sometimes in Smash, mashing out of grabs could enable the turbo feature if you're not careful. This lead to me grabbing, spotdodging, AND rolling repeatedly in battle (honestly I had one fight with a quickplay Luigi and that Luigi player waited so patiently for me to stop rolling and grabbing. I wish they knew what was happening. I have a video of it as well I believe.). Whenever I start doing that, I have to look at my controller to see if I accidentally triggered turbo mode somehow and have to stop it as quickly as possible. To me, the turbo feature was both a blessing and a curse. You could do without it, to be quite honest.ON THE PCThe controller works very well for PC. You might have to remap your buttons, but it works nicely! It kind of registers as an XBOX controller for some reason. If your controller drifts, then expect to see some drifting on your PC as well. The control pad ( the + looking pad with the arrows) was something I used for TEKKEN 7. I honestly did not have much of a problem with it. I did not reliably trust using the direction stick; I felt more control in the control pad. Sometimes if I mash too much to tech off the ground in TEKKEN, the turbo button might trigger and release my rage art (because of course, it's tied to my ZR button), so I have to look down at my controller and stop turbo mode from turboing it up.Oh, and the rubber on my controller is wearing out immensely. You might want to invest in getting rubber caps and good maintenance of the controller itself if you plan to have it for more than a year. I kind of rode this controller until the brakes fell off.I feel that I covered everything I wanted, but I'll edit this if I forgot something vital to tell. I've debated giving this controller a 3 star due to some of the complications I have, but HORI is a pretty nice company and this is also my first controller for the Switch/PC. I'm currently using a new controller by PDP, which has analog inputs and generally more smooth and snappier, but I'll miss the feel that was my first controller.TL;DR: Controller is nice, but the lifespan could be short depending how you use it. Plastic feel. It has digital inputs -- beware of static. Drifting may occur after heavy use. It's compatible with PC usage and games. It has a turbo feature, but very niche applications. Link is pretty cool. :)

Noticed stuttering when pressing the left analog stick up, looked at the calibration tool by plugging it into my PC, sure enough it doesn't recognize when I push it up, it'll cut in and out. Used for about 10 hours of gameplay.If I find a solution to this, I'll update the review.UPDATE (September 1st, 2020) - Got in touch with customer service via their HORI USA site. Will add to this review what they do with my situation and update the rating according to what solution they offer.UPDATE (September 22nd, 2020) - HORI customer service takes a little bit of time to respond, but they stand by their product and are willing to help out with any issues with the controller. They sent me an RMA and are going to either replace or repair the controller. You won't get service like this with the no-name brands, looks like Nintendo knows how to pick their first-third party manufacturers.I'll also add that I tried my friend's controller (no-name brand), and this one just flat out feels better. The surface of the analog stick has the right amount of rubberization, while the NNB is ... sticky for some reason. Only complaint is that HORI's controller is very lightweight, but definitely not worth reducing the rating over that.

This is the second time I bought this controller and the right button keeps getting stuck on both controllers. I haven’t had them for more than a month.

Very hard to find this controller these days. Feels great!

I bought this without realizing it doesnt use the typical gamecube connection. Keep in mind that this obviously wont work with a gamecube adapter with your Nintendo SwitchWith that being said, its still a pretty good controller. Excellent for smash.Speaking of, when trying to configure this controller with your copy of smash bros,the game will treat this as a "pro controller" since it has an additional button.Edit: A couple more things to note is that the R/ZR buttons are swapped, which creates some confusion when playing. To fix this you simply hold the 4 shoulder buttons and it should swap them back to normal.Also this does work for PC, I recently played DragonBall FighterZ using this controller. Its no too bad once you map the controls to your liking.In regards to usage, its managed to hold up even with rigorous smash bros play.