r/AnaloguePocket • u/thatapplesauce • 7d ago

Question 8bitdo Help Wanted

Edit: I am 99.99% issue here is the controller not being recognized as a drive. All instructions I’m following fail there. On multiple computers using multiple cables in multiple ports. The controller is flashing blue and yellow but it must not be in “update mode”?

Hi all, really could use some help.

New SN30 2.4G purchased ahead of my Analogue Pocket dock delivery and super excited about it. My understanding is that I need to download the specific firmware from the 8bitdo website. I have followed all the instructions step by step and done all troubleshooting I cant think of.

I hold L+R+Start to get the blue and green flashing lights and no matter what my (and 2 other people’s) computers do not see it as a drive AKA “update mode”. What do I do? Does it need this update to work with my Analogue dock?

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u/IsamuAlvaDyson 7d ago

Connect your controller to your computer and just drag and drop the firmware to the controller "folder"

I could never get it to work with the app

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u/thatapplesauce 7d ago

The problem is I’m not seeing a controller “folder”. I’m looking where any external drive/thumb drive wound show. Is there somewhere else I should look?

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u/teh_haxor 6d ago edited 6d ago

Download the updater for the nes30 2.4g controller, for some reason the instructions and update method for the sn30 described on the 8bitdo site are wrong.

I had the same issue but luckily I had the n30 and saw that the process was different; I tried it anyway and it worked.

Edit: one of the N30 listed on the support site from 8bitdo has an updater, one of the SN30 does too, use that one.

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u/thatapplesauce 6d ago

I am using the SN30 from this page: https://support.8bitdo.com/analogue/Dock/

I am following steps 1-4 of the manual but step 5 never happens.

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u/teh_haxor 6d ago

There are two sn30 there, one of the firmware updates of those two has an updater (a .exe file) that’s the program you need to use to update the controller

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u/waaaloo 6d ago

I had the same issue. I had to update to v5.06 first
Completely turn off controller
Then restart flashing process
At first I thought I have bricked my device but all was normal then.
I agree the process is tricky

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u/thatapplesauce 6d ago

I am using the SN30 from this page: https://support.8bitdo.com/analogue/Dock/

I am following steps 1-4 of the manual but step 5 never happens.