Now we simply want a Steam port of GoldenEye 007

Yesterday, the Steam platform launched its latest consumer replace, which provides a compatibility perform for the Nintendo Swap On-line vary of traditional controllers. The brand new-school/old-school gamepads can now be used for a plethora of Steam video games, bringing additional choices to the huge library of PC titles.

The Nintendo Swap NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis controllers will perform with basically all Steam releases, although one will clearly must adapt to sure titles, given the required variety of buttons or the button format required for every recreation. Button customization will, clearly, be your good friend right here, however whereas it will likely be neat to play Streets of Rage 4 with an genuine Sega Mega Drive controller… God of Struggle? Maybe not a lot.

It also needs to be famous that these controllers aren’t all the time the best to come back by. Whereas the NES and SNES controllers are actually way more out there than they had been at launch, the Nintendo 64 controller stays one thing of a tricky cookie to trace down. Little question a restock might be forthcoming, however Nintendo has all the time been a little bit on the lax facet in the case of available {hardware}.

Different controllers added within the new replace embody the HORI Preventing Stick Mini 4, the Qanbi Obsidian, and Dragon Arcade sticks. For full particulars on the brand new replace, go to the official Steam boards proper right here.

Chris Moyse

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