Switch owners can now remap controller buttons at the system level.
Nintendo has deployed a new system firmware update for the Switch and it’s quite hefty. System update 10.0.0 brings a bookmarking feature for News, allowing up to 300 news to be bookmarked. It also allows for transferring software data from the system to an SD card. This includes DLC, updates and digital titles.
But perhaps the biggest new feature is the ability to remap controller buttons. Players can customize analog stick and button combos for each par controller and save different custom configurations as “favourites” in the settings. Along with the Joy-Cons and Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, buttons can also configured on the Switch Lite.
Each different controller option can have five different config options saved (with each Joy-Con getting five each). Overall, it’s a pretty good quality of life change if you want to, say, switch the B and A buttons around for all of your games. Check out the full patch notes here for more details.
Ver. 10.0.0 (Released April 13, 2020)
Added a bookmark feature to News.
This feature allows you to bookmark your favorite news items.
- A maximum of 300 news items can be bookmarked.
- An internet connection is required to view bookmarked News items.
- News items that are no longer available cannot be viewed, even if they were bookmarked.
Added an option to transfer software data between the system memory and an SD card.
- Users can now transfer downloadable software, update data, and downloadable content from the system memory to an SD card (and vice versa).
- Note that save data and some update data cannot be transferred to an SD card.
Added an option to remap the controller buttons.
- Analog stick and button configurations can now be changed for each paired controller.
- Custom configurations can be saved as favorites in System Settings > Controllers and Sensors.
- Custom configurations are stored on the Nintendo Switch system.
Configurations can be customized for the following controllers: Joy-Con (L), Joy-Con (R), Nintendo Switch Pro Controller. Button configurations can also be customized on the Nintendo Switch Lite system. - This feature is not available for other controllers.
- On each system, up to five favorite custom configurations can be saved for Joy-Con (L), five for Joy-Con (R), five for Nintendo Switch Pro Controller. Five configurations can also be saved as favorites for Nintendo Switch Lite.
