Nintendo Switch 2 Hides Cool GameCube Easter Eggs You Can Unlock With Just a Few Button Presses

Nintendo has hidden a fewer chill Easter eggs for the GameCube wrong Switch 2, fans person discovered.

With the motorboat of Nintendo's caller console, fans tin yet play GameCube games utilizing Nintendo Switch Online — but load up a rubric from the epoch of Nintendo's beloved purple brick, and you'll enactment that thing is missing: the console's iconic startup animation.

Anyone who owned a GameCube volition person the representation of the console's logo unfurling astir the surface burned into their memories, arsenic its chirpy soundtrack played. Well, with a elemental fastener press, Nintendo really allows you to reconstruct this series — not that the console ever specifically tells you how.

Credit, then, goes to Spawn Wave for noting that you tin punctual the GameCube startup animation by holding the Switch 2's power instrumentality successful immoderate absorption portion loading the Nintendo Switch Online GameCube app. This volition past play the retro console's startup sequence, conscionable arsenic you remembered it.

Except this isn't rather arsenic you remembered it — it's really polished up successful 4K. Yes, this is the shiny caller mentation of the logo that debuted during Nintendo's Switch 2 Direct earlier this year, erstwhile GameCube games were archetypal confirmed for the console.

"Cool, erstwhile the instrumentality drift starts you tin get it each time," 1 instrumentality quipped erstwhile learning of the secret.

As tested by IGN, a further mentation of this Easter ovum allows you to replicate the secondary GameCube startup sound, prompted connected the archetypal console by holding down its Z button. On Switch 2, you indispensable tilt the power instrumentality and clasp down the R fastener (try doing it conscionable arsenic the '2' connected the Switch 2 app logo pops up).

Now, fans are wondering the 3rd GameCube startup dependable mightiness besides beryllium included, hidden down an adjacent much concealed fastener combination. This could primitively beryllium prompted by the Z fastener down connected 4 GameCube controllers astatine once.

Over the weekend, fans plugging successful their caller wireless GameCube controllers made for usage with Nintendo Switch 2 discovered the pads present incorporated gyro controls for the archetypal time, opening up galore possibilities for usage successful assorted retro games.

Right now, the Switch Online's Nintendo GameCube - Nintendo Classics postulation is looking beauteous thin, with conscionable the archetypal mentation of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, positive F-Zero GX and SoulCalibur 2 available.

Still, Nintendo has confirmed a fig of different GameCube classics volition travel (including Super Mario Sunshine, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, Mario Smash Football, Luigi's Mansion and Chibi-Robo!), though there's nary connection yet connected erstwhile they mightiness materialise.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social