How well has this video aged? Has this permanently fixed your joycons?
How well has this video aged? Has this permanently fixed your joycons?
by corneliusduff
6 Comments
Fritzschmied
I haven’t tried that but I just bought the gullykit Hall effect sticks and they are great and don’t have drift and from what I know it’s also not really possible that they even get drift due to how it works. They also feel better in my experience because they have a little more resistance.
MaCsPatatin
I tried some months after the video came out. Tl;DR did not work for me.
My switch is from launch date. From when i buy it to when i decided to repair the joycons, maybe 6+ years had already pass; that plus the amount of hour I played made that the fix temporally, one month at best.
Later i even decide to replace the joystick but the drift persisted. The joycon is a controller full of flaws.
don_sley
just buy 3rd party joycons, their joysticks and buttons feel way better than joy-con, oh and better lifespan too
BCProgramming
It “fixes” the drift by basically smushing the metal contacts down even harder into the carbon pad.
Drift occurs in the joy cons largely due to the horizontal swipe design. the metal contacts erode the carbon pad and the debris usually sticks around. This causes weird resistance values that result in drift; because say a little flake of carbon pad gets stuck to the swipe or whatever.
Adding the piece of cardboard causes the bottom of the joy con to have pressure applied upwards from the bottom, causing the metal contacts to press harder.
This mgiht prevent even the debris from getting in the way, but it will cause the contact pads to be worn away faster, if nothing else.
Anyways, when my joy con drifted, I replaced it- not the controller, just the joystick. Then I “refurbished” the original. Basically I used a fiberglass pen to strip off *all* of the remaining carbon pad, then painted new ones on (with conductive carbon paint).
I’ve also got a set of Gullykit Joy-con sticks waiting, I’ll probably put those both in once I get drift again. I don’t actually use my switch in handheld mode much though.
cheesus_christ42069
Still have my original ones. Y’all be crankin that joystick too hard
miimeverse
It fixed it temporarily. It gets to the point where you have to put so much cardstock/cardboard in there that it puts pressure on and cracks the joycon casing.
Just open a repair ticket and send it to Nintendo and have them fix it.
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I haven’t tried that but I just bought the gullykit Hall effect sticks and they are great and don’t have drift and from what I know it’s also not really possible that they even get drift due to how it works. They also feel better in my experience because they have a little more resistance.
I tried some months after the video came out. Tl;DR did not work for me.
My switch is from launch date. From when i buy it to when i decided to repair the joycons, maybe 6+ years had already pass; that plus the amount of hour I played made that the fix temporally, one month at best.
Later i even decide to replace the joystick but the drift persisted. The joycon is a controller full of flaws.
just buy 3rd party joycons, their joysticks and buttons feel way better than joy-con, oh and better lifespan too
It “fixes” the drift by basically smushing the metal contacts down even harder into the carbon pad.
Drift occurs in the joy cons largely due to the horizontal swipe design. the metal contacts erode the carbon pad and the debris usually sticks around. This causes weird resistance values that result in drift; because say a little flake of carbon pad gets stuck to the swipe or whatever.
Adding the piece of cardboard causes the bottom of the joy con to have pressure applied upwards from the bottom, causing the metal contacts to press harder.
This mgiht prevent even the debris from getting in the way, but it will cause the contact pads to be worn away faster, if nothing else.
Anyways, when my joy con drifted, I replaced it- not the controller, just the joystick. Then I “refurbished” the original. Basically I used a fiberglass pen to strip off *all* of the remaining carbon pad, then painted new ones on (with conductive carbon paint).
I’ve also got a set of Gullykit Joy-con sticks waiting, I’ll probably put those both in once I get drift again. I don’t actually use my switch in handheld mode much though.
Still have my original ones. Y’all be crankin that joystick too hard
It fixed it temporarily. It gets to the point where you have to put so much cardstock/cardboard in there that it puts pressure on and cracks the joycon casing.
Just open a repair ticket and send it to Nintendo and have them fix it.