{"id":3499,"date":"2016-04-25T14:39:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T18:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2016-04-25T14:39:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T18:39:47","slug":"news-8bitdo-wireless-adapter-now-available-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/2016\/04\/25\/news-8bitdo-wireless-adapter-now-available-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"News: 8Bitdo Wireless Adapter is Now Available for Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.play-asia.com\/retro-receiver-for-nes\/13\/70a2f7?affiliate_id=214762\" target=\"_blank\">8BitDo wireless adapter<\/a> is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.play-asia.com\/retro-receiver-for-nes\/13\/70a2f7?affiliate_id=214762\" target=\"_blank\">available\u00a0for purchase from <strong>Play-Asia<\/strong><\/a>, but right now it&#8217;s only for NES controller ports, so it only supports two main action buttons despite working with all 8BitDo wireless controllers (this is according to the source, <strong>Analogue<\/strong>; you can get more details\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.analogue.co\/pages\/8bitdo-x-analogue?mc_cid=842d13ecca&amp;mc_eid=dbacbe5c25\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). I guess we&#8217;ll have to wait for a Super NES\u00a0version for it work with more systems on platforms that desperately need it like the <a href=\"https:\/\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/2015\/12\/30\/review-cyber-gadget-retro-freak-plays-games-from-16-different-videogame-systems-includes-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Retro Freak<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3502\" style=\"width: 980px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3502\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3502\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Sec2-ps31.jpg?resize=970%2C800\" alt=\"One usage scenario.\" width=\"970\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Sec2-ps31.jpg?w=970&amp;ssl=1 970w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Sec2-ps31.jpg?resize=150%2C124&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Sec2-ps31.jpg?resize=300%2C247&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Sec2-ps31.jpg?resize=768%2C633&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One usage scenario.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 8BitDo wireless adapter is now available\u00a0for purchase from Play-Asia, but right now it&#8217;s only for NES controller ports, so it only supports two main action buttons despite working with all 8BitDo wireless controllers (this is according to the source, Analogue; you can get more details\u00a0here). I guess we&#8217;ll have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"News: 8Bitdo Wireless Adapter is Now Available for Purchase #nes #snes #8bitdo #play-asia #analogue #retrofreak","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,25],"tags":[916,917,684,915,704,317,918],"class_list":["post-3499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-preview","tag-8bitdo","tag-analogue","tag-nes","tag-play-asia","tag-retro-freak","tag-snes","tag-super-nes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>News: 8Bitdo Wireless Adapter is Now Available for Purchase - Armchair Arcade<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/2016\/04\/25\/news-8bitdo-wireless-adapter-now-available-purchase\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"News: 8Bitdo Wireless Adapter is Now Available for Purchase - Armchair Arcade\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 8BitDo wireless adapter is now available\u00a0for purchase from Play-Asia, but right now it&#8217;s only for NES controller ports, so it only supports two main action buttons despite working with all 8BitDo wireless controllers (this is according to the source, Analogue; you can get more details\u00a0here). 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