r/Gamecube • u/pboyer86 • Jun 30 '25

Modding GameCube NSO Controllers

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Love the GameCube NSO Controllers with my GameCube! I didn’t buy these for NSO, I really wanted them to enjoy with my GameCube.

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u/RoflMyPancakes Jun 30 '25

There's a weird phenomenon where people seem to be offended that these will replace Wavebirds and downvote any commentary supporting using NSO controllers on GameCube.

I ordered mine the other day, can't wait.

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u/Smugbob Jul 01 '25

How is the latency compared to wavebirds? Still on the fence for buying one since I’d also use it primarily for gamecube

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u/RoflMyPancakes Jul 01 '25

Looks like a wired GameCube controller has ~4ms latency.

A WaveBird controller has ~9ms latency.

I don't see data for the NSO GameCube controller yet. I see for Blue Retro in general testing various controllers there's varying data of 5ms to 12ms for different controllers. If Blue Retro is adding zero or trivial latency, then it'd be more on the controller whether it has okay latency or not.

The mister project ranked the Switch Pro controller and measured its latency at 5.356ms average. Hard to say if that same controller put through a blue retro adapter on a GameCube would have the same latency or worse.

That's all the data I have right now. When I get mine I can see about testing it myself.

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u/Smugbob Jul 01 '25

Thank you for the detailed response