A GameCube controller... on a Super Famicom? No, your eyes do not deceive you.
The Hori GameCube Controller Test cartridge is a very strange piece of history. The Nintendo Gateway System was a service where Nintendo and LodgeNet teamed up to put Nintendo consoles in certain hotel rooms and on certain planes so consumers could rent them out for one hour at a time. The service required a controller with extra buttons to do things like go back to the service's main menu, so custom controllers were made for this service by Hori. This cartridge was used by Hori to develop and test the GameCube LodgeNet controllers for this service. Why they used a Super Famicom cartridge is anyone's guess, but it makes for a strange image.
The Nintendo Gateway System was formally discontinued in 2008, though some airlines kept it running until 2013. The cartridge was found by Rogue Orange and dumped by Hard4Games to the Internet Archive on March 18, 2026.
Unused Graphics#
Graphics of a Nintendo 64 controller are loaded into VRAM. Above is the VRAM itself...
...and here is a mockup of the controller. There doesn't appear to be a way to display it in the software, but it suggests that this cartridge was previously used (or based on one that was used) to test N64 LodgeNet controllers.
(Source: Original TCRF research)
Version Number Text#
Present at 0x18C3A in the ROM is a piece of text which shows the version number of the software:
*Ver S1.20*(Source: Original TCRF research)
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NES |
Controller Test Program • Port Test Cartridge • HVC Controller Test • NTF2 Test Cartridge |
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Game Boy |
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SNES |
Burn-in - Test Cartridge • Controller Test Cartridge • NTF 2.5 Test Cartridge • SNSP Aging Cassette • SFX Test • Hori GameCube Controller Test |
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Game Boy Advance |
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GameCube |
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Nintendo DS |
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Wii |
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Nintendo 3DS |
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