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title: "Playing with an NES Controller attached works"
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description: "A video showing it’s actually possible to play your Nintendo Switch in Handheld Mode with two NES controllers attached to the system popped up recently."
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2019-01-08 16:22:50"
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Playing with an NES Controller attached works | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters

 [![Playing with an NES Controller attached works](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/playing-with-an-nes-controller-attached-works.jpeg "Playing with an NES Controller attached works")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/playing-with-an-nes-controller-attached-works.jpeg)A video showing it’s actually possible to play your Nintendo Switch in Handheld Mode with two NES controllers attached to the system popped up recently.

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[Link](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/nintendo-switch/playing-with-an-nes-controller-attached-works/)

Video credits; **NintendoLife**

## [](#but-wait-more-is-possible)But wait … more is possible

Another shocking discovery was made – it’s possible to play with the Nintendo Switch with an NES controller attached on the left and a Joy-Con attached on the right. Yeah that’s FrankenSwitch … now isn’t it.

The setup looks awkward and incredibly uncomfortable but Nintendo somehow allowed players to play in this setup according to the findings of **Alex Olney** (**NintendoLife**)

> I'm absolutely furious that this works. [pic.twitter.com/FjF3NawmaF](https://t.co/FjF3NawmaF)
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> — Alex Olney (@Alex\_Olney) [January 4, 2019](https://twitter.com/Alex_Olney/status/1081189223917633536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

AND I really have to agree with him. This is just utterly mad … it just looks so wrong and plays so wrong. But well let’s not forget … we are dealing with Nintendo … aka the Japanese. They are the inventors of weird.

Well are you going to go give FrankenSwitch sorta like this a try? (If so, why in the world would you?)

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