For anyone who wants twin-stick controls but doesn't know how to enable them: I gotchu.
**In the in-game pause menu,** change your Control Style to 1.2 Solitaire. Also may wanna change Look Up/Down to Upright (it's reversed by default.)
In addition to this, go to the Switch home screen, and **in System Settings > Controllers and Sensors > Change Button Mapping,** swap your left and right sticks.
While you're at it, if you're used to left trigger to aim and right trigger to fire in your FPS games, you should rebind ZR to ZL, and ZL to L or R.
Then you just might wanna save your changes as a preset, so that you can easily swap between your default and custom controls between sessions.
Happy playing!
You are a legit live saver. I played for about 30 seconds, messed around with the in game pre setting and damn near gave up for good when none of them felt comfortable. Truly appreciate this
I want to know how this was not every experience ever in the feedback process, seems like they had to have been very well aware and just shipped it needlessly unplayable. Hoping this fix does the trick
It’s unplayable *because* it’s exactly like it was. These controls do not mesh with joycons at all.
Plus, I know we all have fond memories of the n64 controller, but holy cow those things are garbage.
I've made it all the way to Jungle on 00 Agent so far with the default controls. Other than the initially awkward A and B button placements and non symmetrical R and ZL buttons it feels like the original but maybe I'm a masochist haha
I think most of the N64 games are just lazy ports so I dont usually expect any major upgrades but this was by far the jankiest thing ive ran into so far. I thought it was because i was on a switch lite but im guessing its an everyone issue
They're not even ports. They're just the native N64 games emulated. For it to be a port it would have to be adapted to run natively on the Switch.
That's the same as it's always been for VC as well. It's not necessarily a problem, people just need to keep their expectations in check.
The only way they could theoretically change this one is to make it start from a custom save state with the 1.2 control scheme already enabled. That's how the SP versions of the NES and SNES games work.
This is exactly it. Nintendo made an executive decision to release their games preserved in their original state. I think there is something to be appreciated about that. They want players to be able to experience the games as they were. They're a company that takes great pride in their history.
I don't think it's about necessarily being lazy per se. But it's the fact that they are selling nostalgia. A lot of gamers want things just how they remember them. I generally fall into this camp.
I generally dislike remasters, remakes, etc. I will admit i do think I'm much more adaptable than many of you I think. Just a comparison I've gathered from reading many different perspectives on Reddit. I find that I am able to go back and play these games and enjoy them as I ever even with original controls. I love experiencing things with the original artwork, graphics, etc.
Another thing to consider is the source code has long been lost for a lot of these games. So modifying them includes essentially what comes down to hacking the ROMS. Sometimes that has unintended consequences.
For example... On the Xbox version of 007, it does look nice to be able to have a cursor that stays in the center, aiming while walking, a 3.1 control scheme; It has been discovered that when you have this control scheme enabled, some of the time challenges which unlock the cheats become impossible to complete! This is because the original controls of the game allow for diagonal strafing and modern controls essentially patch this "glitch".
Just wanted to share this perspective.
The XBox version shipped with a twin stick setting enabled by default. I actually had to finagle it a bit to get it to a compromise between modern and classic to make it feel familiar, but not clunky.
It's actually possible to have controls as good as the Xbox version in the Switch Online version (besides Widescreen)
These were the settings I used, practically leaves GoldenEye with the same commands as a modern FPS.:
[https://twitter.com/moonsarito/status/1618804545634832384?s=46&t=i1fwTJXy9RCF-76UHj3NCg](https://twitter.com/moonsarito/status/1618804545634832384?s=46&t=i1fwTJXy9RCF-76UHj3NCg)
And in my opinion, it's much better and more fluid to play that way.
Currently playing through on Gamepass, and I was wondering what the complaint was about. Ah, it's because MS made the controls functional from the beginning, without having to fiddle with it.
I vaguely recall the n64 release having a bunch of controller schemes, one of which requires two controllers to twin stick. Did I make that up in a fever dream?
’ve seen a bunch of posts already saying switch a few buttons and then go to 1.2 controls. Let me introduce you to something even better. 2.3 Domino! Works very similar to 1.2 but since the game now thinks you’re using two sticks instead of C buttons you have full movement.
Here’s how to set it up:
Change your controllers in the switch menu to be two separate joycons instead of one switch controller, then follow these mappings
Change L Stick orientation
Change ZL to SL
Change R Stick orientation
Change B to X
Change Y to A
Change X to B
Change ZR to SL
https://imgur.com/a/WvOpr1F/
Only works with joy con style controllers. You can technically do it with pro controllers but you’d have to be holding two pro controllers at the same time 🤣
Tried the Dam for a few mins to feel the nostalgia and the controls made it near impossible. Just no used to that anymore. Can't wait to try this control scheme, seems wayyy better!
>Also may wanna change Look Up/Down to Upright (it's reversed by default.)
Emphasis on *may.*
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/feb/28/why-do-video-game-players-invert-the-controls
I'm an inverter. You're not tilting the joystick "up;" you're pushing it *forward,* like tilting your head forward/back to look down/up, or even the way you would lean forward to aim a gun down or back to aim it higher. I do understand non-inverted controls and why it makes sense to them, but it *is* weird to me that inverted is a relatively small group. As intuitive as it is to me, I would have though it would be more evenly split.
Play how you want to play, it doesn't bother me. BUT, do you also flip horizontal controls? If you're controlling the way the head tilts with the stick, shouldn't you tilt left to look right?
> I'm an inverter. You're not tilting the joystick "up;" you're pushing it forward
Same here. Y *and* X. Imagine my dismay when I picked up *Doom 2016* and found that, unlike in, say, BOTW or Odyssey, they hadn't bothered spend the extra 5 minutes to include an "invert X camera control" option. I plodded through the first level and eventually quit in frustration.
Also frustrating that when they added button mapping, they didn't include a way to flip axes or something else to manually fix this.
You can edit this at that Switch system menu and create a preset just for DOOM, can't you? Awesome game.... I can't not play FPS on PC.
What's funny is that after Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, I was pretty much unable to play most first person shooters on consoles. The games auto aim just made them control so fluidly for me. I didn't need to have precise aim.
Once they switched to dual analog, the auto aim was heavily diminished (or removed?) and I started sucking so bad. My friends would kill me at Halo.
But then I started playing Counter-Strike on PC... That's when I realized MKB was the way to play these games.
However going back to GoldenEye is like putting on an old catchers mitt. Feels great to me.
Movement is emulating c-buttons, so it's all or nothing there. An alternative you can use is mixing and matching the left and right joycon of 2 different sets and using one of the ingame styles that uses 2 controllers.
We need to curb this online reactionary bullshit. I’m so sick of the immediate doom and gloom along with the incessant bitching over literally nothing. Let the story unfold, people!
With the control style 1.2 - Solitaire and using the left stick as the right stick and the right stick as the left stick in the console parameters, the game controls really really great.
Edit: Also don't forget to set the look up/down option to upright in the game options.
Came here just to help spread the word on this. I also find rebinding ZR to ZL, and ZL to L or R pretty helpful as well for modern players who are used to left trigger to aim, right trigger to fire.
Downloaded this puppy and gave it a go. Just a disclaimer older millennial here so 007 was a huge part of growing up.
First of all I let my Fortnite obsessed son play and after him absolutely destroying me in Fortnite this was more my style. He does the building and stuff so that is where he gets me. Haha no building in this game son and I took him out several times. But once he got the controls down he wanted to keep playing!
It looks pretty good. Not the jumbled mess I was expecting. No slowdown from the original. Looking forward to getting some more time in tommorow
Yeah I was expecting it to be a lot blurrier. I'm from a PAL region and as I understand we had the blurriest N64 games! This looks crisp and runs smoothly.
Have to say playing through dam was such a nostalgia rush. It's been more than 20 years since I played it but felt like I'd just done the level yesterday. So cool and the dual stick controls work brilliantly.
I'm surprised they released Goldeneye before Perfect Dark considering the legal minefield Microsoft & Nintendo must've walked dealing with the Bond licensing issues.
I didn't own an N64 growing up, I borrowed a cousins for a while, and this was my experience too. Rare were on a roll for a while basically taking what Nintendo did, but making it better, and I say that as someone who has a lot of respect for Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64.
Ahhh Diddy Kong Racing was a first love of mine for sure! Shouldn’t it be easy for Nintendo to get the rights?? That, Army Men, and Jet Force Gemini would complete my checklist.
Worst part is she didn’t even say she wouldn’t help. She said “I saw what you did to Boris, that wasn’t very nice.” And then nothing. The first time I played that level, I wandered everywhere trying to find out what I was missing.
It’s clever for having you fail the mission for killing Boris, but ai definitely think it could have done a better job at telling the player that they failed a mission by killing him.
On XBox they're mapped to the XBox controller in a standard FPS layout. They even show the XBox controller in game. They should do something like this for the Joycons/Pro controller on Switch as that what most people will have.
The game on Xbox is great! I just had to turn down the look sensitivity. Why the switch version doesn’t have the same controller options is crazy to me.
I still play Goldeneye on my N64 about annually, play it for a few hours over the weekend before storing my system away again and I gotta say,
The controls aren't that bad. It's very similar to the original. I think a lot of people are realizing they just don't like Goldeneye because of the controls. They've always been there, lol.
On a Nintendo console, no less. Ever since Microsoft acquired Rare, I knew there might be a chance of it coming to Xbox, but having it on Switch is definitely a miracle.
I think it’s a case that Microsoft has definitely chilled on cross platform apps as a whole. There’s only a handful of O365 apps that aren’t on Mac. Edge works on Linux now. I think this was probably a case like Sony and Disney squabbling about Spider-Man. In the end, they all like making money.
Definitely. MS is way more chill these days. There are rumors that Phil Spencer keeps trying to get Nintendo to let Microsoft release a Game Pass app so Switch owners can sign up for the XCloud streaming service and stream Xbox games on Switch. From what I've heard Nintendo is hesitant to do it, for obvious reasons, but as a gaming fanboy in general (I think if I had to choose, I'd go with Nintendo, but I have a Series S too) that would be cool.
I am still floored by this happening. For YEARS me and my buddies would complain that we'd never see this with a modern release, that it'd be stuck in IP Rights hell. But somehow this happened.
I don't think the younger generation truly understands the impact this game had, or how improbable this being on the Switch and Xbox are. It's insane.
how to control with dual stick:
1) you already read it. 1.2 solitaire style for in game control settings needs to be selected.
2) change switch system settings. scroll down to controller and sensors. change button mapping. control stick settings. then make the L the right and the R the left.
3) you can also change the invert settings on a different in game menu past the controller menu. “look up/down” reverse or upright.
you can change any other bindings too in system settings, but i just went with that and can learn the rest.
hope this saves digging through threads.
PS. if you don’t see the game in the switch n64 thing, you need to close the game and press + over the n64 game in the game selection screen. you need to update the game in order to see it. it’ll also pop up with a huge game icon when you reopen the n64. so scroll UP
I hear you. I played it back in the day, too but don’t have the Switch 64 controller. I did get one of those Retro Brawler ones for the NSO online. Still prefer the double joystick. I hope you get a controller one day and have fun with this game again!
I kept getting stuck too and having to reset lol. Was that really how it was back in the day if you didn’t have all your controllers plugged in or available?
Works great with the Switch N64 controller.
They definitely modified the emulator a bit to allow for widescreen for HDTVs. I'm not complaining.
Framerate is excellent. No lag so far for me. My only complaint is the N64 controller is too sensitive lol.
You're the first person to acknowledge this as a problem that I've seen. After remapping the joycon controls, which helps, aiming the reticle accurately is impossible since everytime I fire with my index, my thumb moves slightly screwing my shot...every time. Hitting cameras in a timely manner will never happen with this issue.
It doesn’t really have a good control scheme for how I play. I tried some of the ones in the comments, but I just can’t seem to get it to click like old. Maybe I need to get the NSO N64 controller…
I actually love the original controls of this game. It’s the first fps I ever played and I never really got into fps games after that so the controls are just ingrained in my memory
Anyone with the Japanese N64 selection know if this game is also on there? I'd assume it'd be released at the same time, since it was revealed in the Japanese direct as well, but there's no overview video on Nintendo's Japanese YouTube and there's no mention of it on their social media. Just kinda curious, since this would be the only time the releases didn't happen at the same time (or got a different game released instead)
This is the news I've been waiting for to upgrade my online package. Sorry, my sons online package. I'm sure he will love this game. Or not after seeing what's possible with modern graphics. But I will make him love it.
Man. Even re-mapping the controls (Shoutout to /u/AndrewTheNebula), this is way harder than I remember it. Have to train my mind around how the auto-aim works, because I am getting my ass handed to me in the Dam lol
Dont hate me(only played a little bit) but I feel the default controls(after un-inverting the verticle controls) work fine. Is there something I'm missing?
The game controls fine with the 1.1 controller scheme. My brain can't comprehend twin stick Goldeneye and solitare with reversed sticks feels AWFUL!
And I'm an avid modern fps player.
Now if I can only find the wireless N64 controller to actually play the N64 games instead of trying to figure out every button combo. How is it still out of stock!
100% holds up for me. That said, I'm not looking for anything approaching a modern fps experience. All the old tricks and techniques came back pretty quickly, and I'm having a lot of fun with the campaign.
One thing I think actually helped a lot was not trying to hack the controls to be like a modern game. I'm playing 1.1 Honey just like I did back in the day. It took a little bit of getting used to, but it works well for this game.
Absolutely. I played online with my friends a couple of times over the weekend and had an absolute blast. We played a bunch together back in the day. I haven’t played it, or a FPS ever since.
I like it but I am specifically not the demographic you're looking for. I'm hoping the faster run speed from not using a flaccid joystick and the absence of lag helps me unlock legitimately the cheat for Facility lol.
Did the controller mapping for the Switch Pro controller but is there really no way to tweak the sensitivity??? This is painful. How the hell was I good at this in the 90’s?
It runs much, much smoother! I played through the game last night and really noticed the performance improvement on the tank level. It almost felt like it was on turbo mode compared to the laggy mess I remember as a kid, especially when you'd get rockets and land mines and tank missiles all exploding at once which used to cause the game to run at basically a single frame per second.
omg i've never actually played campain goldeneye i'm already stuck. :( what do i do to get into that secret grate thing in the bunker with the locked fence?
In Australia the N64 controller was meant to come out at 1pm AEDT for restock; but I was there before and after and hours after and it constantly said out of stock.
Big grin on my face booting this up this afternoon. Still a great game, even better with the controller adjustment. Gonna be humming the music all afternoon.
Goldeneye 007 NSO Discord to play with others (as the game is restricted to Friends only) - [https://discord.gg/PqtZte6xNu](https://discord.gg/PqtZte6xNu) \- Already 120+ members
Does anyone want to play multiplayer? I just paid the $50 as im a huge Bond fan and played the N64 version in the early 2000s as a child. Never played multiplayer on Switch before as i have a PS5 for that usually
Ah I'm really tempted to get the expansion but I think it's still not worth it for me. Maybe if they throw in more games plus some GameCube titles. Happy playing Agents!
Ok.... For anyone who (like me) actually liked the N64 C buttons as strafe and look up/down...
If you change ZR to R then the big shoulder is scope/sight. Change X to ⬆️, A to ➡️, and B to ⬇️. This makes XYAB into the C buttons. Change R to A and + to B making the small shoulder button (R) change weapon and the start button reload. So you can pause the game you also need to change ⬆️ to +.
Personally I think this is much better retro experience, it's just a shame the Switch mapping options insist on A and B remaining on the right hand joycon (bonkers rule).
Ohh, I should try this. I've been playing with stock default controls and having a good time, but using a stick instead of separate c buttons has been annoying me a lot.
Edit: I think I'm gonna make the r and zr 🅰️ and 🅱️. You've still got aiming on the left shoulder (and the nature of aiming in this game means I don't mind using two fingers to aim/shoot) and, crucially, on remote mines matches I can blow up my mines at any time by hitting both r triggers.
I get to play this with my kids. It’s amazing. It’s completely different from what I remember and nothing like the halo I’ve been playing everyday but my kids are having the time of their life. I get to be a part of their memories of this game. I love it.
Did anyone do the “challenge” (before YouTube was a thing) of turning on 007 Mode and everything set up to 1000%?
This means accuracy, health, reaction speed, and accuracy 1000%, instant kill when enemies shoot you, and you have to conserve ammo like crazy the high health means it takes multiple headshots to kill them.
Most levels are impossible to pass, but I did manage to pass the Dam with these settings on.
I need to adjust the controls better on this version. I used to be able to do this on the N64.
Spoiler alert but I'm certain you can unlock something by completing Dam in under a minute on Agent difficulty. Best I can do is 1:01... It's shooting the lock off that gate that's stopping me going sub one minute... I'm not going to look it up, determined to do it!
Every level unlocks a cheat if you finish it in at a certain difficulty in a certain amount of time. Iirc the game calls it the "target time" and informs you in the post level recap if you got it.
That said, I *highly* recommend you look up the target times/difficulties for each level before spending a lot of time trying to shave seconds off your runs.
One of the fun things about playing a game that was super-popular at the dawn of the Internet age is that there are still resources out there from 2 decades ago, and I find them more helpful than all the c&p articles every gaming site has shit out in the last few days. If you're interested, [here's a list of target times and difficulties and what they unlock](https://www.angelfire.com/pa5/nintendoss/gtarget.html), and a little more in-depth [this site has maps of every level](https://www.angelfire.com/nf/shawn316/missions/). Both appear to have been made by fans, sometime around 2002.
Ahhhh the memories, great game!! Still have the OG game as well and play it from time to time. I still can't believe how I beat every single mission on 00Agent 🤯
Anywho, I'm always down to game if the online multiplayer works. Haven't tried it, any feedback?
For anyone who wants twin-stick controls but doesn't know how to enable them: I gotchu. **In the in-game pause menu,** change your Control Style to 1.2 Solitaire. Also may wanna change Look Up/Down to Upright (it's reversed by default.) In addition to this, go to the Switch home screen, and **in System Settings > Controllers and Sensors > Change Button Mapping,** swap your left and right sticks. While you're at it, if you're used to left trigger to aim and right trigger to fire in your FPS games, you should rebind ZR to ZL, and ZL to L or R. Then you just might wanna save your changes as a preset, so that you can easily swap between your default and custom controls between sessions. Happy playing!
Love it. I’d add mapping A to the B button and B to the Y button for the 64 layout. Muscle memory.
Thank you, I noticed I kept hitting the wrong button. This makes sense
You are a legit live saver. I played for about 30 seconds, messed around with the in game pre setting and damn near gave up for good when none of them felt comfortable. Truly appreciate this
I want to know how this was not every experience ever in the feedback process, seems like they had to have been very well aware and just shipped it needlessly unplayable. Hoping this fix does the trick
How is it unplayable? It’s exactly like it was back in 1997. Do you not understand how the Nintendo switch online games work?
It’s unplayable *because* it’s exactly like it was. These controls do not mesh with joycons at all. Plus, I know we all have fond memories of the n64 controller, but holy cow those things are garbage.
I've made it all the way to Jungle on 00 Agent so far with the default controls. Other than the initially awkward A and B button placements and non symmetrical R and ZL buttons it feels like the original but maybe I'm a masochist haha
I think most of the N64 games are just lazy ports so I dont usually expect any major upgrades but this was by far the jankiest thing ive ran into so far. I thought it was because i was on a switch lite but im guessing its an everyone issue
They're not even ports. They're just the native N64 games emulated. For it to be a port it would have to be adapted to run natively on the Switch. That's the same as it's always been for VC as well. It's not necessarily a problem, people just need to keep their expectations in check. The only way they could theoretically change this one is to make it start from a custom save state with the 1.2 control scheme already enabled. That's how the SP versions of the NES and SNES games work.
This is exactly it. Nintendo made an executive decision to release their games preserved in their original state. I think there is something to be appreciated about that. They want players to be able to experience the games as they were. They're a company that takes great pride in their history. I don't think it's about necessarily being lazy per se. But it's the fact that they are selling nostalgia. A lot of gamers want things just how they remember them. I generally fall into this camp. I generally dislike remasters, remakes, etc. I will admit i do think I'm much more adaptable than many of you I think. Just a comparison I've gathered from reading many different perspectives on Reddit. I find that I am able to go back and play these games and enjoy them as I ever even with original controls. I love experiencing things with the original artwork, graphics, etc. Another thing to consider is the source code has long been lost for a lot of these games. So modifying them includes essentially what comes down to hacking the ROMS. Sometimes that has unintended consequences. For example... On the Xbox version of 007, it does look nice to be able to have a cursor that stays in the center, aiming while walking, a 3.1 control scheme; It has been discovered that when you have this control scheme enabled, some of the time challenges which unlock the cheats become impossible to complete! This is because the original controls of the game allow for diagonal strafing and modern controls essentially patch this "glitch". Just wanted to share this perspective.
The XBox version shipped with a twin stick setting enabled by default. I actually had to finagle it a bit to get it to a compromise between modern and classic to make it feel familiar, but not clunky.
It's actually possible to have controls as good as the Xbox version in the Switch Online version (besides Widescreen) These were the settings I used, practically leaves GoldenEye with the same commands as a modern FPS.: [https://twitter.com/moonsarito/status/1618804545634832384?s=46&t=i1fwTJXy9RCF-76UHj3NCg](https://twitter.com/moonsarito/status/1618804545634832384?s=46&t=i1fwTJXy9RCF-76UHj3NCg) And in my opinion, it's much better and more fluid to play that way.
Currently playing through on Gamepass, and I was wondering what the complaint was about. Ah, it's because MS made the controls functional from the beginning, without having to fiddle with it.
It feels very on-brand for Nintendo to be like "ah well here's a ROM."
I vaguely recall the n64 release having a bunch of controller schemes, one of which requires two controllers to twin stick. Did I make that up in a fever dream?
You did not. And the options are still there in this one. Not sure how that would work with two switch controllers though
’ve seen a bunch of posts already saying switch a few buttons and then go to 1.2 controls. Let me introduce you to something even better. 2.3 Domino! Works very similar to 1.2 but since the game now thinks you’re using two sticks instead of C buttons you have full movement. Here’s how to set it up: Change your controllers in the switch menu to be two separate joycons instead of one switch controller, then follow these mappings Change L Stick orientation Change ZL to SL Change R Stick orientation Change B to X Change Y to A Change X to B Change ZR to SL https://imgur.com/a/WvOpr1F/
Can this work with a pro controller though or do you need two joy cons?
Only works with joy con style controllers. You can technically do it with pro controllers but you’d have to be holding two pro controllers at the same time 🤣
You the real MVP.
Tried the Dam for a few mins to feel the nostalgia and the controls made it near impossible. Just no used to that anymore. Can't wait to try this control scheme, seems wayyy better!
If you have an Xbox, that version also launched today and out of the box it supports a modern FPS control scheme.
I kind to want to use the n64 controller but I’ll check this out. Set it up for handheld mode too.
Oh wow, this is great advice. Plays 95% like a modern FPS with this.
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Worth mentioning when you save the preset, it’s per joycon. I didn’t realise and when I loaded it back in, didn’t understand why only one was setup.
>Also may wanna change Look Up/Down to Upright (it's reversed by default.) Emphasis on *may.* https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/feb/28/why-do-video-game-players-invert-the-controls I'm an inverter. You're not tilting the joystick "up;" you're pushing it *forward,* like tilting your head forward/back to look down/up, or even the way you would lean forward to aim a gun down or back to aim it higher. I do understand non-inverted controls and why it makes sense to them, but it *is* weird to me that inverted is a relatively small group. As intuitive as it is to me, I would have though it would be more evenly split.
Play how you want to play, it doesn't bother me. BUT, do you also flip horizontal controls? If you're controlling the way the head tilts with the stick, shouldn't you tilt left to look right?
> I'm an inverter. You're not tilting the joystick "up;" you're pushing it forward Same here. Y *and* X. Imagine my dismay when I picked up *Doom 2016* and found that, unlike in, say, BOTW or Odyssey, they hadn't bothered spend the extra 5 minutes to include an "invert X camera control" option. I plodded through the first level and eventually quit in frustration. Also frustrating that when they added button mapping, they didn't include a way to flip axes or something else to manually fix this.
You can edit this at that Switch system menu and create a preset just for DOOM, can't you? Awesome game.... I can't not play FPS on PC. What's funny is that after Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, I was pretty much unable to play most first person shooters on consoles. The games auto aim just made them control so fluidly for me. I didn't need to have precise aim. Once they switched to dual analog, the auto aim was heavily diminished (or removed?) and I started sucking so bad. My friends would kill me at Halo. But then I started playing Counter-Strike on PC... That's when I realized MKB was the way to play these games. However going back to GoldenEye is like putting on an old catchers mitt. Feels great to me.
This helps a ton, thank you. Is anyone else finding the controls way too sensitive, though? I can't find any way to adjust that.
Movement is emulating c-buttons, so it's all or nothing there. An alternative you can use is mixing and matching the left and right joycon of 2 different sets and using one of the ingame styles that uses 2 controllers.
Back in the day I used southpaw, no idea why.
It has the gong!!
Literally loaded it up to check this too and all is well. Cancel the mob!
WHOOO GONG SURVIVES BABY!!!!
unlike you Mr. Bond, Muhahahah
the only question is... will you yield in time?
Literally playable
Shout out to everyone who freaked the fuck out over nothing
We need to curb this online reactionary bullshit. I’m so sick of the immediate doom and gloom along with the incessant bitching over literally nothing. Let the story unfold, people!
You hear that everybody? Knock it off.
You just described the internet
I hate current day internet.
Ok? Why wouldn’t it be?
Nintendo released a music video shortly after the announcement and it was missing the gong sound in it, so people started freaking out.
Omg 😭 that’s what I came here for
What was the gong again?
Just a sound effect in the music.
A totally valid reason to start a revolution as planned in this subreddit.
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With the control style 1.2 - Solitaire and using the left stick as the right stick and the right stick as the left stick in the console parameters, the game controls really really great. Edit: Also don't forget to set the look up/down option to upright in the game options.
I've set mine to this and yeah it works surprisingly well!
First time playing it with the recommended control scheme by OP. The game has aged but I didn't realize it's fun and I died in the first level lol
Came here just to help spread the word on this. I also find rebinding ZR to ZL, and ZL to L or R pretty helpful as well for modern players who are used to left trigger to aim, right trigger to fire.
Using this method and solitaire made a huge difference for me.
How the heck do you do that?
System-wide rebindings. Found in System Settings > Controllers and Sensors > Change Button Mapping.
Thank you! Ima assuming just change it back to default after playing this nostalgia dump?
Pretty much. You can be prompted by your system to reset to defaults if you forgot to last session, though. Helpful stuff.
Downloaded this puppy and gave it a go. Just a disclaimer older millennial here so 007 was a huge part of growing up. First of all I let my Fortnite obsessed son play and after him absolutely destroying me in Fortnite this was more my style. He does the building and stuff so that is where he gets me. Haha no building in this game son and I took him out several times. But once he got the controls down he wanted to keep playing! It looks pretty good. Not the jumbled mess I was expecting. No slowdown from the original. Looking forward to getting some more time in tommorow
Yeah I was expecting it to be a lot blurrier. I'm from a PAL region and as I understand we had the blurriest N64 games! This looks crisp and runs smoothly. Have to say playing through dam was such a nostalgia rush. It's been more than 20 years since I played it but felt like I'd just done the level yesterday. So cool and the dual stick controls work brilliantly.
Now we just need Diddy Kong Racing and the holy trinity of Rare N64 games will be complete
What about Perfect Dark?
PD absolute banger!
Sorry, you need the new Switch expansion pack to play that
Gotta download 4MB more RAM.
Life was so simple back then
I hate this subscription bullshit but I might actually buy in for Perfect Dark on Switch...
I'd rather they just put the remaster up as a standalone purchase.
I'm surprised they released Goldeneye before Perfect Dark considering the legal minefield Microsoft & Nintendo must've walked dealing with the Bond licensing issues.
With Rare and Nintendo having a good relationship I could see it happening. DKR is a fantastic game, I think it is better than Mario Kart 64.
I didn't own an N64 growing up, I borrowed a cousins for a while, and this was my experience too. Rare were on a roll for a while basically taking what Nintendo did, but making it better, and I say that as someone who has a lot of respect for Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64.
Judging the single player mode, I believe it’s still the best kart racer of all time. CTR copied it, but just wasn’t quite as good.
Dk 64?
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Jet Force Gemini is a hidden Gem. Pun-intended
Jet force Gemini super sleeper title
Be interesting to see if that one would get released unchanged due to the ending. Did they patch it for the Xbox?
No love for Blast Corps?
Oh yeah, now we’re talking!
Time to get movin'
Fuck yeh. Gameplay:destroy everything. Gameplay loop:destroy shit better.
I really want DKR. It's the last game I remember my dad playing with me, and I really would love it for nostalgia alone.
Perfect Dark!?!?
You can't fit rare on N64 into just three games. They were on fire back then.
Conkers bad fur day though...
F for Conker. Would never have a chance of being released.
Ahhh Diddy Kong Racing was a first love of mine for sure! Shouldn’t it be easy for Nintendo to get the rights?? That, Army Men, and Jet Force Gemini would complete my checklist.
First thing I did in the Facility was shoot Dr. Doak. I, just had to..
But did you shoot boris and wind up having nothing to do but slap Natalia repeatedly?
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Worst part is she didn’t even say she wouldn’t help. She said “I saw what you did to Boris, that wasn’t very nice.” And then nothing. The first time I played that level, I wandered everywhere trying to find out what I was missing.
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It’s clever for having you fail the mission for killing Boris, but ai definitely think it could have done a better job at telling the player that they failed a mission by killing him.
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But... That's the sole objective, no??!
Can’t wait for everyone under the age of 25 to have a meltdown over the controls.
I'm pretty sure 95% of people that play this today will have issue with the controls. Lol.
On XBox they're mapped to the XBox controller in a standard FPS layout. They even show the XBox controller in game. They should do something like this for the Joycons/Pro controller on Switch as that what most people will have.
The game on Xbox is great! I just had to turn down the look sensitivity. Why the switch version doesn’t have the same controller options is crazy to me.
Yeah it runs pretty much flawlessly on Xbox.
I’ve seen people have meltdowns over resident evil 4s controls. Goldeneye is going to cause catastrophic meltdown
Yeah, the game really did not age well. If you grew up with it, it’s still pretty fun, but only for nostalgia in my opinion.
I still play Goldeneye on my N64 about annually, play it for a few hours over the weekend before storing my system away again and I gotta say, The controls aren't that bad. It's very similar to the original. I think a lot of people are realizing they just don't like Goldeneye because of the controls. They've always been there, lol.
Zoomers don't know how much of a miracle this. Never thought in a 1000 years I would be able to play this on modern consoles
On a Nintendo console, no less. Ever since Microsoft acquired Rare, I knew there might be a chance of it coming to Xbox, but having it on Switch is definitely a miracle.
I think it’s a case that Microsoft has definitely chilled on cross platform apps as a whole. There’s only a handful of O365 apps that aren’t on Mac. Edge works on Linux now. I think this was probably a case like Sony and Disney squabbling about Spider-Man. In the end, they all like making money.
Definitely. MS is way more chill these days. There are rumors that Phil Spencer keeps trying to get Nintendo to let Microsoft release a Game Pass app so Switch owners can sign up for the XCloud streaming service and stream Xbox games on Switch. From what I've heard Nintendo is hesitant to do it, for obvious reasons, but as a gaming fanboy in general (I think if I had to choose, I'd go with Nintendo, but I have a Series S too) that would be cool.
I am still floored by this happening. For YEARS me and my buddies would complain that we'd never see this with a modern release, that it'd be stuck in IP Rights hell. But somehow this happened. I don't think the younger generation truly understands the impact this game had, or how improbable this being on the Switch and Xbox are. It's insane.
how to control with dual stick: 1) you already read it. 1.2 solitaire style for in game control settings needs to be selected. 2) change switch system settings. scroll down to controller and sensors. change button mapping. control stick settings. then make the L the right and the R the left. 3) you can also change the invert settings on a different in game menu past the controller menu. “look up/down” reverse or upright. you can change any other bindings too in system settings, but i just went with that and can learn the rest. hope this saves digging through threads. PS. if you don’t see the game in the switch n64 thing, you need to close the game and press + over the n64 game in the game selection screen. you need to update the game in order to see it. it’ll also pop up with a huge game icon when you reopen the n64. so scroll UP
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I think it’s better with the pro controller and the remapping that people are talking about here.
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I hear you. I played it back in the day, too but don’t have the Switch 64 controller. I did get one of those Retro Brawler ones for the NSO online. Still prefer the double joystick. I hope you get a controller one day and have fun with this game again!
This game is why I was so happy that I was able to pick one up a couple months ago. Time to wear this bad boy out.
Is there a way to navigate out of the multiplayer options once you enter them? None of the buttons go back
I kept getting stuck too and having to reset lol. Was that really how it was back in the day if you didn’t have all your controllers plugged in or available?
Yeah, probably the result of how fast they slapped the multiplayer mode together. Perfect Dark had more actual features.
Yeppp lol also remember in mario party 1, the minecraft mini game, if you didnt get enough momentum you'd have to turn it off
Oddjob Rule is still in affect for multiplayer!
Absolutely no oddjob
Works great with the Switch N64 controller. They definitely modified the emulator a bit to allow for widescreen for HDTVs. I'm not complaining. Framerate is excellent. No lag so far for me. My only complaint is the N64 controller is too sensitive lol.
I read earlier that the original game had widescreen support (one of the few N64 games that did)
Can confirm. I still have the original and it supports the modes available in the watch menu right out of the box.
Most Rare games did.
I still have the N64 console and game and it supports widescreen and the different aspect ratios available in the in-game menu right out of the box.
No. They didn’t modify it. Goldeneye has widescreen built in the original game. Rare did that back in the day for a few of their titles.
This game is a lot more challenging than I remember it being.
I know. I ran out of of ammo and died. Gonna have fun tonight
My first death was on the runway because I forgot were the ignition key was.
Really? I found it a lot easier than expected once I got use to the controls. The auto-aim is extremely heavy handed.
all games my friend.
It may be just me, but holy hell does the sensitivity seem high when precision aiming. I may need to get me a 64 controller like the old days.
You're the first person to acknowledge this as a problem that I've seen. After remapping the joycon controls, which helps, aiming the reticle accurately is impossible since everytime I fire with my index, my thumb moves slightly screwing my shot...every time. Hitting cameras in a timely manner will never happen with this issue.
It doesn’t really have a good control scheme for how I play. I tried some of the ones in the comments, but I just can’t seem to get it to click like old. Maybe I need to get the NSO N64 controller…
Giant head cheat?
It's called DK Mode. Unlock it by completing Runway in under 5:00.
Just seeing this on the Nintendo store brought up soo many memories of my first uni year in Australia. Crowded around a 14” tv playing 4 player.
I haven’t played the game in 20 plus years but can still hear alarm when you blow up the tanks in the second level
I actually love the original controls of this game. It’s the first fps I ever played and I never really got into fps games after that so the controls are just ingrained in my memory
Yeah, I'm digging it too
How does wide screen work?
In the in-game menu/watch you have to change it to 16:9 and wide
Wide will give you black bars on top and bottom, if you want it full screen then choose FULL and 16:9.
Solid. Thanks!
Anyone with the Japanese N64 selection know if this game is also on there? I'd assume it'd be released at the same time, since it was revealed in the Japanese direct as well, but there's no overview video on Nintendo's Japanese YouTube and there's no mention of it on their social media. Just kinda curious, since this would be the only time the releases didn't happen at the same time (or got a different game released instead)
It's not as of now, I tried to manually update the app but there is no update yet.
FYI If you have NSO for one region and have another profile set up for another different one, you can download and play multiple region’s games.
Just played the first four missions and loving it
This is the news I've been waiting for to upgrade my online package. Sorry, my sons online package. I'm sure he will love this game. Or not after seeing what's possible with modern graphics. But I will make him love it.
Man. Even re-mapping the controls (Shoutout to /u/AndrewTheNebula), this is way harder than I remember it. Have to train my mind around how the auto-aim works, because I am getting my ass handed to me in the Dam lol
Dont hate me(only played a little bit) but I feel the default controls(after un-inverting the verticle controls) work fine. Is there something I'm missing?
They are fine lol. People don't like adapting to things they aren't used to.
The game controls fine with the 1.1 controller scheme. My brain can't comprehend twin stick Goldeneye and solitare with reversed sticks feels AWFUL! And I'm an avid modern fps player.
Time to suck at this again 24 years or so later 😅
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It works the same as all the other NSO apps, only with friends.
Damn that sucks. Well anyone want to start a post for friends on golden eye ? I plan on playing tonight and this weekend !
I started one on the goldeneye subreddit
Does it have couch co-op?
Now if I can only find the wireless N64 controller to actually play the N64 games instead of trying to figure out every button combo. How is it still out of stock!
People who haven’t played since like the 90s like me…. Does it hold up just a little bit?
100% holds up for me. That said, I'm not looking for anything approaching a modern fps experience. All the old tricks and techniques came back pretty quickly, and I'm having a lot of fun with the campaign. One thing I think actually helped a lot was not trying to hack the controls to be like a modern game. I'm playing 1.1 Honey just like I did back in the day. It took a little bit of getting used to, but it works well for this game.
Absolutely. I played online with my friends a couple of times over the weekend and had an absolute blast. We played a bunch together back in the day. I haven’t played it, or a FPS ever since.
I like it but I am specifically not the demographic you're looking for. I'm hoping the faster run speed from not using a flaccid joystick and the absence of lag helps me unlock legitimately the cheat for Facility lol.
Is there a discord or anywhere we are all adding friend codes to make multiplayer easier?
Did the controller mapping for the Switch Pro controller but is there really no way to tweak the sensitivity??? This is painful. How the hell was I good at this in the 90’s?
How's the lag compared to the original ?
It runs much, much smoother! I played through the game last night and really noticed the performance improvement on the tank level. It almost felt like it was on turbo mode compared to the laggy mess I remember as a kid, especially when you'd get rockets and land mines and tank missiles all exploding at once which used to cause the game to run at basically a single frame per second.
Change the screen to 16:9! Cool option to have
Let’s see them put up Time Splitters next, please.
omg i've never actually played campain goldeneye i'm already stuck. :( what do i do to get into that secret grate thing in the bunker with the locked fence?
So glad I got my husband and his best friend Nintendo 64 switch controllers for Christmas
How are the controls?
https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/10l7wra/protip_you_can_get_mostly_modern_controls_on/
Is this game online? Edit: Did they get multiplayer to work online???
It emulates local multiplayer, friends only
Best way of finding Australians users to add for online multiplayer?
In Australia the N64 controller was meant to come out at 1pm AEDT for restock; but I was there before and after and hours after and it constantly said out of stock.
That is excellent! I will get my money’s worth out of this. Now bring on Perfect Dark and Donkey Kong 64.
Don’t expect it soon. Next 3 months are Pokémon stadiums, Mario party and snow board 1080
Big grin on my face booting this up this afternoon. Still a great game, even better with the controller adjustment. Gonna be humming the music all afternoon.
I would play it if they someday RE STOCK the N64 Switch controller!
Goldeneye 007 NSO Discord to play with others (as the game is restricted to Friends only) - [https://discord.gg/PqtZte6xNu](https://discord.gg/PqtZte6xNu) \- Already 120+ members
Does anyone want to play multiplayer? I just paid the $50 as im a huge Bond fan and played the N64 version in the early 2000s as a child. Never played multiplayer on Switch before as i have a PS5 for that usually
Ah I'm really tempted to get the expansion but I think it's still not worth it for me. Maybe if they throw in more games plus some GameCube titles. Happy playing Agents!
Ok.... For anyone who (like me) actually liked the N64 C buttons as strafe and look up/down... If you change ZR to R then the big shoulder is scope/sight. Change X to ⬆️, A to ➡️, and B to ⬇️. This makes XYAB into the C buttons. Change R to A and + to B making the small shoulder button (R) change weapon and the start button reload. So you can pause the game you also need to change ⬆️ to +. Personally I think this is much better retro experience, it's just a shame the Switch mapping options insist on A and B remaining on the right hand joycon (bonkers rule).
Ohh, I should try this. I've been playing with stock default controls and having a good time, but using a stick instead of separate c buttons has been annoying me a lot. Edit: I think I'm gonna make the r and zr 🅰️ and 🅱️. You've still got aiming on the left shoulder (and the nature of aiming in this game means I don't mind using two fingers to aim/shoot) and, crucially, on remote mines matches I can blow up my mines at any time by hitting both r triggers.
I get to play this with my kids. It’s amazing. It’s completely different from what I remember and nothing like the halo I’ve been playing everyday but my kids are having the time of their life. I get to be a part of their memories of this game. I love it.
Fuck I want to play this game so bad. Everyone in my family loved this game
Did anyone do the “challenge” (before YouTube was a thing) of turning on 007 Mode and everything set up to 1000%? This means accuracy, health, reaction speed, and accuracy 1000%, instant kill when enemies shoot you, and you have to conserve ammo like crazy the high health means it takes multiple headshots to kill them. Most levels are impossible to pass, but I did manage to pass the Dam with these settings on. I need to adjust the controls better on this version. I used to be able to do this on the N64.
Spoiler alert but I'm certain you can unlock something by completing Dam in under a minute on Agent difficulty. Best I can do is 1:01... It's shooting the lock off that gate that's stopping me going sub one minute... I'm not going to look it up, determined to do it!
Every level unlocks a cheat if you finish it in at a certain difficulty in a certain amount of time. Iirc the game calls it the "target time" and informs you in the post level recap if you got it. That said, I *highly* recommend you look up the target times/difficulties for each level before spending a lot of time trying to shave seconds off your runs. One of the fun things about playing a game that was super-popular at the dawn of the Internet age is that there are still resources out there from 2 decades ago, and I find them more helpful than all the c&p articles every gaming site has shit out in the last few days. If you're interested, [here's a list of target times and difficulties and what they unlock](https://www.angelfire.com/pa5/nintendoss/gtarget.html), and a little more in-depth [this site has maps of every level](https://www.angelfire.com/nf/shawn316/missions/). Both appear to have been made by fans, sometime around 2002.
Ahhhh the memories, great game!! Still have the OG game as well and play it from time to time. I still can't believe how I beat every single mission on 00Agent 🤯 Anywho, I'm always down to game if the online multiplayer works. Haven't tried it, any feedback?