Nintendo Switch 2 hides cool GameCube Easter Eggs, you can unlock it with just a few buttons
Blog Andrew Joseph 09 Jun , 2025 0

Nintendo hides some cool Easter eggs for GameCube Switch 2fans discovered it.
With Nintendo's new console launching, fans can finally play GameCube games online using the Nintendo Switch – but with the title loaded in Nintendo's beloved purple bricks, you'll notice something missing: the console's iconic boot animation.
Anyone with GameCube will pop up the logo image of the console around the screen as its hoarse soundtrack plays their memories. Well, with a simple button press, Nintendo actually allows you to restore this sequence – not to say the console once told you how.
Then, the credits are gone Generate wave To point out that you can hold the Switch 2's control stick when loading the Nintendo Switch online GameCube app to prompt GameCube to start the animation. Then, as you remember, this will play the boot sequence of the retro console.
Except that's not like you remember – it's actually polished in 4K. Yes, this is the new version of the logo that debuted directly in Nintendo's Switch 2 earlier this year, when GameCube Games was first confirmed as a console.
“It’s cool, you get it every time when the stick drift starts.” A fan quipped when he learned the secret.
As IGN tested, a further version of this Easter egg allows you to copy the secondary GameCube startup sound on the original console by holding down its Z button. On switch 2, you have to tilt the control rod and hold the R button (just like the “2” pops up on the Switch 2 App logo, try to do this).
Now, fans want to know that it might also include a third GameCube launch sound, hidden behind a more secretive button combo. This can initially be prompted down via the Z button on the four GameCube controllers.
On weekends, Fans plugged in a new wireless GameCube controller for use with the Nintendo Switch 2 and found that the shims now integrate gyro controls Many possibilities have been opened up for the first time for various retro games.
Currently, the Nintendo Gamecube -Nintendo Classics Collection for Switch Online looks thin, just the original version of Zelda legend: Wind Waker, and the F-Zero GX and Soulcalibur 2 are available.
Nintendo has confirmed that it will continue many Gamecube classics (including Super Mario Sunshine, Fire Emblem: The Road to Radiance, Pokémon XD: Darkness of Darkness, Mario Smash Football, Luigi's Mansion and Chibi-Robo!)
Tom Phillips is the news editor for IGN. You can reach Tom at [email protected] or find him on the Blues @tomphillipseg.bsky.social