Disabling switch online rewind function

Question

I'm having a personal problem when playing NES and SNES games on the Nintendo Switch Online.

I want to be able to say I have beaten Super Mario Bros, the Legend of Zelda, Super Metroid and all the other classics. Yet doing so with all these modern conveniences doesn't feel right. And I know with myself, from years of gaming, that I do not have the mental fortitude to not use them. They are too tempting. Especially the rewind function. (Using save states takes a bit more premeditation as I would have to save before I fail at something for it to be useful. So I'm not as worried about that, although that is a problem too. Looking at you, Phantoon. One day I will kill you without a save state in the ship.)

So, is there a way to simply hide away the rewind functionality so that it's not available at a single button press?

Answer 1

Now you can, with the inclusion of Button Remapping in Switch's system update 10.0.

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Instructions:

1. Go to System Settings -> scroll down to Controllers and Sensors
2. Select Change Button Mapping (second option)
3. Click on "Joy-Con (R)" if you're using Joy-Cons, or a controller of choice
4. Press Change
5. Select ZR (top-right)
6. Scroll down and remap it to ZL Button
7. Click Done and OK on popup message

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This will effectively change ZR to function as ZL, giving you two buttons (ZL and ZR) that both generate the same input (ZL), rendering the rewind shortcut ZL + ZR unusable!

You can save this as a Preset in the Button Mapping settings, and turn it on and off as desired -- e.g. turning it on when playing NES/SNES Online, and turning it off when playing other games.

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Side-Effects:

• You will NOT be able to use the Suspend Menu at all, which means:
• You will NOT be able to save/load Suspend Points (aka saves)
• You will NOT be able to exit out of the game to select another NES/SNES game (you'll have to either turn off the button remapping OR restart the software)