 I really like buying weird terrible things from the internet, says nobody ever other than me. I made a lot of videos like this, Kim and I buy weird accessories for our switches sometimes, and I buy third-party Nintendo Switch joy-cons and controllers sometimes, and this video is kind of a mesh of both minus Kim. She is like two walls over if it makes you feel any better, she's kind of here. I have bought and spent way too much money on weird and wacky joy-cons and pro controller type of things. You'll have to just get into it because these are all very very, some of them are very ugly, some of them I'm very hopeful for, and then some of them are just why why why why. So if you're new around here, hi, hello, please subscribe, and if you're already subscribed, hi, you've been good to see you again. You see what you get when you subscribe to my channel, you get a second greeting. Before we get started, you might be asking how do I afford to buy stupid things like this? 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So far probably my favorite third-party joycons I have found are these, the Hori Splitpad Pro, big bulky, cheap feeling but actually really nice to hold, which simulate the feeling of holding an actual official pro controller. But these I've been really excited for. They essentially are GameCube controller joycons. So I really like that they didn't need to be charged up. They actually registered when I clicked them in. You can charge these by just putting them on the switch and docking it. There's a lot of things running through my brain right now. One, this feels nothing like a GameCube controller. I'm sorry, the actual mode is obviously nothing like a GameCube controller. But the layout of these joycons obviously replicate a GameCube controller. The first thing is this toggle. It has that same weird ring ribbon. That feels a lot like the GameCube controller. And obviously the C-Stick while it is a lot bigger, it actually has the same snap as the C-Stick on a GameCube controller. So that is bringing back nostalgia right now. But it's not the nicest feeling stick to have as the camera stick. And then obviously we have this weird button layout of YAV and X. What, what does this correlate to? So we'll press X, which should bring up the menu. Okay, the button mapping is the same. It might take a little bit to wrap my head around trying to figure out what button I'm trying to press, but I don't think it would take too much brain power, especially because the button letters match up. The toggles feel great. They don't feel like a GameCube controller. I mean the GameCube controller has that big squish down. If anything, I actually think these feel nicer than regular joycons. Yeah, I actually like the click to these a lot more. The D-pad sounds nice. It feels great. And also I'm now realizing, you don't have black joycons. So this actually looks really cool as a complete unit. I love the way that it dips in. It gives the switch a whole new look and a nostalgic look at the same time. And if I saw someone on the bus with these, I'd definitely be asking where they got them from. All right, I want to jump straight in. I want to jump straight in. By the way, if you saw this on the table, I already talked about this in my Dragon Quest video. I just thought that because it is such a weird and wacky controller that it had a place on the table today. So if you want to see me fumble around on this thing, I'll leave that review down below. All right, I have been really excited for this. You can probably already tell that I was so excited I couldn't even wait. And I dug it out and I threw the GameCube layout on it already. But I waited to throw on any other layouts. And I was really curious as to how some of these work. Like the NES one only has two buttons. And then the N64 one has like six buttons. How is that going to work? Okay, so here's the controller. Again, I already pulled this out early. Again, I already fitted around with this. So it feels really good. I like these plastic grips. These triggers, they actually, they feel quality. They feel like metal and like weighted, but there's something about them that I don't, I can't really explain it. They just, they don't feel good. They feel like they're trying to replicate the Xbox one triggers, but it just doesn't feel the same. These top buttons, I hate. If you actually just press it, it's fine. Like if you give it a good hard press, but you get so used to the Joy-Cons being so light and dainty, like you really don't have to put that much pressure on them. And if you try that with these, I actually found myself going, they like click it and not putting enough pressure on it and not clicking it and nothing happening and me having to like double down and do it again. And that was really annoying. Everything else about this is perfectly fine controller. It doesn't feel first party quality. You can tell it's third party, but it feels good. But the main attraction here is to shove your fingers into these little gaps and you got to really, Oh, I'm going to break my fingernails. This is a complaint. It doesn't need to be this hard to get the fricking thing off. It's almost, all right. As we saw the GameCube one was on there, we also have the NES layout and then we have the N64 layout. So let's go ahead and throw on the NES one. I think it's probably the coolest one. Now this is really clever. So each one of these have like a little pattern thing that presses into these connectors here. And that's how it knows which one you're using. Also, I completely forgot there was a super, wow, that is the coolest one. I lied. All right, we'll put this in. And there you go. Now you have a two button layout. Now they tell you what to use all these for. When I read it, it says it's for the switch, but it also said to use this for the NES games, this for the GameCube games and then this for the N64 games. That's what it says in there. The last time I looked, I don't think I'm going to be actually needing either of these. So in this mode, you're not going to be able to play most games, but it's going to be perfect for playing Nintendo Online. Because you only need the two buttons. It doesn't register the others anyway. What I'm curious about is what these individual C buttons do. So as soon as you put this in, it registers which type you're switching over to. I'm going to press the top C stick. Nothing. So the top two right buttons on the C stick don't do anything. If you pretend these two buttons aren't here, you essentially have A, B, Y and X. So it's flipped everything backwards. Oh, okay. I would be more impressed if there were 64 games on the switch and this actually you know what I mean? But there's not. So I mean, I can't really fault them. It's just weird that they made those two buttons like dead buttons. Really the only reason to get this is for the NES style. I think that's a really cool idea. You get like a full controller, kind of feels like a pro controller, but you, you know, you just have these two buttons and it's stylized. I'm just kind of disappointed with the lack of effort in the designs. But I mean, so this is the 8 bit do light game pad 8 bit do. By the way, if you don't know, 8 bit do does have really good quality. All this other stuff on the table is made by who knows what who knows who who knows where who knows who knows probably all going to break in a week. But 8 bit do is going to last you. So as I said, we should unless I ran the battery dry. Nope. Okay. So this is designed for the switch light. I don't really know why because the switch light doesn't have a kickstand. But if you don't want to use it on the light, it just works perfectly. Now why it has two D pads? I don't know. I mean, okay, so I do know why you don't really want to stick poking its way out of here. I mean, you kind of want to keep this thing compact and little. You don't want the controller being bigger than the actual console. So they just threw on two D pads left and right. And I mean, it doesn't make a lot of sense. And other than that, it works like just a little tiny controller. Your bumper buttons are just these tiny little squares. I love this little thing. It is adorable with the switch light. I don't understand its practical use. But as far as taking an extra controller around, if you really hate taking off the joy cons, or maybe you're going somewhere where you want to play two player, now I figured out the purpose. It took me a second, but I got there. If you're taking your switch light to a friend's house or your switch to a friend's house, and you want to just slam a controller in your pocket to hand to your friend. And then obviously, if you're taking your switch light around, you want to be compact as possible to players, you know, I love this little thing. It just feels quality. It feels like a Nintendo product like eight bit do does things right. What the heck? I kind of get maybe what they were going for. I mean, it kind of adds that level of comfort that the split pro pad pro honestly does feel the same. And I mean, this part feels sturdy enough, but just wait because it gets pretty bad. So you put it in like this, it kind of slots down and clicks in with the USB C right in the bottom, at least it automatically connects. Like it's all just going to work right away. This thing was off before. My biggest issue is the fact that of this thing, it'll fall out. I'm kind of scared to really give it a shot, but it doesn't it doesn't fit in nicely. I think the use of like rubber inserts like the satisfied grip utilizes would have gone a long way to just secure this thing and make you feel a lot safer about having your switch in there. But I guess it's not a big deal at the end of the day. There were as bigger issues at work here. I kind of like how massive these analog sticks are. They feel like they have so much room to spin around. They also kind of feel like I could easily break them, but I don't think they will break. They're just they're just really big. The D pad is trash. This is the worst D pad I think I've ever felt. It's spongy down and right feel like they just sink into the controller. The top and the left feel like they have give and a click behind them and they don't go all the way in, but the bottom right feels spongy. The buttons also feel a little like, well, B and Y feel good. X just feels loose and A feels good too. So I guess just X feels loose. It's just really rattly and cheap feeling and I don't understand the purpose. It's kind of like getting third party joy cons, but you're afraid of losing one of them. So you kind of want this big bar that goes across it. It kind of makes it look like a tablet gaming system from about 10 years ago. The leap pad. That's what it's reminding me of. It's like they've taken a leap pad and they've sprayed it black to kind of make it look cooler. I will say it's comfortable. There's something about this freaking thing that can't be beat though. I know what it is. It's more comfortable than this and you get to use the actual Nintendo hardware. I do love all of this. I love all these different things all that different looks, aesthetics. That's the thing I really like about this switch and the Nintendo. You get all these cool accessories you just don't get on other systems. What makes these videos so fun? I have been waiting so long to put these on my switch. They are hideous. I don't understand. So usually with these third party things there's a reason, there's a purpose, there's a method, there's a something behind why they were made. But these, the purpose of these honestly seems like we want to make the ugliest, disgustingest, most uncomfortable designed Joy-Cons. That seems like the purpose here. Oh no. I like it. It actually looks really good. Am I crazy? It looks actually a lot more retro and nostalgic than I thought it would. It actually kind of reminds me of like the Atari like really old Pong clone systems. Like nothing official but just that era. Do you know what I'm trying to say? The neon colors too. I thought I hated it. I thought I hated this yellow and green but again it feels like something that would have come straight out the 80s like a Tron look. I was really ready to trash. Oh wow. These are horrible. These are sharp and disgusting. These are so kind of, you kind of got to wrap your hand up to hit these in the right spot. D-pad's not great. The buttons are squishy. Sticks are fine. I actually think these are just regular Joy-Con sticks. You know I'm actually kind of annoyed that these buttons don't feel good. Oh I'm just realizing now that it's not actually doing anything. They don't automatically sync. I mean I've been filming for like, you still on? Oh my gosh. Connecting has like seven steps. Okay here we go. There we go. All right that one wasn't too bad. So here's the thing with these ones and another reason why I like these GameCube ones so much is some third party controllers when you click them in the Switch will register them and sync them automatically. These fly completely solo. Again you have to charge them separately so even though that I've synced to them and they are technically synced up and I could back out of here and do whatever I want over here even once I click these in the Switch won't acknowledge the fact they're clicked in. The Switch doesn't know they're clicked in. It thinks it's just using these third party controllers that are acting like Joy-Cons. Yeah no I actually really like these. I don't even have anything else bad to say about them. I mean they're cheap. I don't recommend getting them but something about the way they look. I kind of feel like handing the other side to a friend and playing pong on these like an old school little handheld game system that you would get. All right that's my video. I love doing these because I just get to sit here and have fun trying out some toys essentially. I hope you guys learned something. I hope you had fun. If you did smash that like button and subscribe. Thanks to the sponsor once again ExpressVPN for helping me fund this nonsense. Guys that's all from me. Oh there's something really important I needed to tell you.