The Nintendo Switch is undoubtedly a phenomenal product, and the detachable Joy-Con handle can be said to be the biggest difference between the Switch and traditional game consoles.
But the design of Joy-Con handle itself can be said to be mixed. The biggest reason is naturally that joystick drift is a serious and unavoidable problem. Even in the United States, a group appeal incident has occurred. In the process, Derived folk methods such as repair with WD40.
The Bank of China ’s Switch, which was released recently, also specifically mentioned that the accessories of the Bank of China can be guaranteed for one year, so many parallel players are considering buying a handle of the Bank of China to enjoy an after-sales bonus.
Of course, the advantage of disassembly is that Joy-Con can be replaced. Many third-party accessory factories such as HORI have launched their own Joy-Con handles. And many design details may be different from the original, such as replacing the separate keys with classic cross keys and so on.
▲ Modified shell Picture from: Hong Kong Silicon Valley
Switch’s shell replacement is also a pleasure. Searching our great Taobao can see a lot of strange third-party shells. I myself once changed hands with friends to a transparent shell. In short, this removable design allows Joy -Con or a third-party controller can be regarded as an independent individual, which gives it more possibilities for transformation.
There is a hard-core hardware modder, ShankMods on Youtube, this time it made a very emotional handle: a pair of Nintendo Game Cube-style Joy-Cons, more precisely, it puts Joy-Cons The internal parts are installed in the handle of the NGC and modified to fit on the Switch.
The basic idea is simple, a bit similar to the feeling of “borrowing the soul from the body”. The first is to transform the original NGC WaveBird handle, split it from the middle and split it into left and right parts. Then use custom 3D printed parts to add the original Joy-Con slide parts to the WaveBird handle, and make some modifications to the interior to enable it to complete some of Joy-Con’s unique operation methods.
For buttons that are not on the WaveBird handle, ShankMods uses drilling to add the “Plus”, “Minus”, “Screenshot”, “Home” buttons, and some other buttons on Joy-Con.
Since it is still difficult to complete the handle modification alone, ShankMods also turned to many other modification experts during the modification process, such as BassLin, who has a good understanding of the handle.e, and custom resin buttons and NGC’s classic purple lacquer from two other yotubers.
Finally, ShankMods has created an amazing finished product. The Joy-Con transformed from this NGC handle has almost all the original functions except infrared, such as HD vibration, Amiibo reading and gyroscope. ShankMods even made a combination device that can reassemble the two parts of the handle together, just like the palm rest provided with the Switch to connect the two Joy-Cons into one handle.
Of course, ShankMods is not planning to sell or mass produce this handle, because the transformation is very difficult, and its next goal has already been set-the Joy-Con is installed in the N64 handle.
Inside the text and the picture source: @ShankMods