#joycons

[retrogamingblog2]

Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Cabinets made by Alex Morales

[kfcdoubledown]

Comparing two sets of third-party joycons

I bought two sets of Switch controllers recently and here are my thoughts on both of them! They are the Mobapad M6 HD and the NYXI Hyperion Pro.

Mobapad M6 HD

These guys retail at $80 (as much as OEM joycons!) and feature a whole suite of features that make them an extremely competitive option to actual joycons. Linear motors for HD rumble support, hall effect analogs, NFC reader for amiibo support, swappable Xbox Elite style d-pad and Nintendo cross d-pad, ergonomic shape, latch so securely to the Switch that there's no wobble on the joycons at all even compared to OEM, swappable faceplates and octagonal or circular stick-gates, swappable stick toppers, this one has it all.

Except the buttons are fucking awful! All of them! Not a single microswitch button feels good to press on these devices. The face buttons and d-pad both have absolutely insane travel distance on each switch, making the cross d-pad piece unusable and the Elite d-pad your only real option. The face buttons feel actively bad to press down. The shoulders are the only microswitches on these things that feel good to press at all. I actually regret purchasing these!

Which brings me over to,

NYXI Hyperion Pro

At barely $14 less than the Mobapads ($65.99) these have fewer features and lower build quality than the Mobapad M6 HD. They do not boast HD rumble or an NFC reader, they use rubber connections on the ZL/ZR buttons and ABXY face buttons. They do have hall effect sticks and back buttons, and the perk of a connective bridge piece to use it as a controller. They do not latch as firmly to the Switch as the Mobapads do, and the right joycon seems to latch slightly less firmly than the left. The ergonomics are still good and they have their own replaceable stick toppers. The RGB effects on it are kind of annoying and obtrusive, and I turned them off in a hurry.

But the buttons don't feel like absolute garbage. Which is absolutely the important part, you push buttons on these things. The d-pad and face buttons do not have insanely high travel, in fact their travel is rather short. The d-pad and L/R shoulder buttons seem to use the same microswitches, which are short travel, snappy, and not loud. The d-pad has a good pivot point and doesn't press down in any direction when I push right on its middle. The shoulders have a firmer rubber membrane than the face buttons do.

Unfortunately I think the Hyperion Pros win this one even though they're the cheaper product and NYXI is not a terribly high-quality manufacturer. For $14 less and several fewer features, you get a significantly better controller experience that's still comfortable, comes with a bridge to connect them to as a wireless full controller, and optionally has some Gamecube nostalgia pandering. It's actually kind of flooring how bad the Mobapad's controls feel in comparison. Why? Why would anybody want a half an inch of travel distance on a face button for a game controller????

[pretendpopstar]

My controller collection currently 😈

[tasteofcaviar]

rose wrap blunt + switch = 💘

[splatoon-confession-box]

Yay I got my cute Octo/Squid Grips :3

[the-blunt-diaries]

bubblegum papers with stardawggg

[teatimewithroirdan]

I decided to buy new joycons cuz the drift in the old ones was making games unplayable, and they have pastel coloured ones now! I picked up some cute stick caps to go with. (They came as a set of 4 with two froggies and 2 axolotl)

[bbeanspr0ut]

My Floral-Cons Enamel Pins are fully funded!

Thank you so much for all of the love on these. We are now trying to get the other two colour ways funded! Please take a look and consider backing <3

[iriscanfloat]

literally want the new red and yellow pastel joycons

[retrogamingblog2]

Nintendo Switch Accessories made by inceptualize3D

[snufthebest]

Happy Metroid Prime Remastered Physical EU release day! 💜 . Today I picked up the Physical version of Metroid Prime Remastered! 💜 I played this game a lot back on the gamecube! 💜 With all the rumors I was always hoping for a remaster, and here it finaly is! 💜 I still hope 3 & 4 is getting a remaster too, but those changes are high luckely! 💜 Anyway, I needed to go physical, so I had to wait a bit, since the EU release dat of the physical is today! 💜 I hope you all enjoy! 💜 . . . ✎﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏ Tags: #metroidprime #metroidprimeremastered #metroid #metroiddread #metroidvania #metroidprime #metroidfusion #nintendoSwitch #nintendo #switch #specialedition #joycons #customcontroller #games #gamer #gaming #gba #gamecube #platformer #collection #collector #collectorsedition #amiibo (at Rijssen-Holten) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpUxOMIIJ53/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kfcdoubledown]

About three weeks late I now have Doyoky Gamecube joycons and can compare them directly against the NYXI Wizard! I've also disassembled them to attempt to modify them and failed, and can complain about its internals.

Doyoky Retro uses rubber membrane connections on ALL game buttons except for the paddles and context buttons; +, -, Home, Capture, macro/paddle assign, and L4/R4 paddles are the only buttons that use micro-switches. Improvement over NYXI Wizard which uses micro-switches on the d-pad and shoulder buttons.

Macro and Paddle Assign buttons are the only buttons on the entire controller that rattle when shaken.

Doyoky Retro has that kind of cheap-feeling lightness to it that third-party controllers usually do. It doesn't have the weight of traditional rumble motors, so it doesn't feel as premium as NYXI Wizard does.

All the face buttons and sticks feel almost spot-on compared to a Gamecube OEM! Insane upgrade from NYXI Wizard which feels more like a third-party controller.

The joycon rail piece attached to it out of the box is also a USB-C charging station for joycons and works with pretty much anything that can be put on a joycon rail!

Like the NYXI Wizard, the stick caps are again completely custom. This time, sadly, they're pretty purpose-built for the Doyoky Retro, and OEM Gamecube stick caps (as well as the Gamecube-themed Retroflag drop-in controller) do not fit the Doyoky Retro without severe modification. I'm still working on some way of mounting an OEM's C-stick nub to one of the replacement caps.

The Doyoky Retro has replacement caps! The stick caps' actual thumbsticks are mounted on a hexagonal friction-fit bracket and can be removed. You get a gray C-stick style nub, replacements for both to feel more like a Dualshock 4 or Dualsense controllers' sticks, or a ringed rubber C-stick like the analog.

The interior of the Doyoky Retro is pretty convoluted and stupid on a couple of its controls. A plunger on a spring is mounted to the PCB in a well to hit the micro-switch that controls the paddles, and the plunger itself hits a long post attached to the paddle button. This also makes it a total bitch to close the controller back up without anything falling out.

The joycon rail is custom, and none of its functions are actually on the rail itself, they're on micro-switches on the PCB. This includes the SL and SR buttons. The only piece of electronics on the rail itself is the charge/hard connection rail to a Switch or other charger, and the Bluetooth antenna.

The battery is a small (~1 inch long and wide?) pouch battery that is only held in place by the friction of a foam cushion glued to it, and resting on the interior of the controller and occupying some of the space in the handles. Like the paddle mechanisms, this also has a bad tendency to just flop around and fall out; they should have used double-sided tape to secure it inside the well it occupies on the plastic mold.

Doyoky Retro uses a little button motor for vibration instead of fuller sized motors as in a typical controller. Downgrade from NYXI Wizard.

The controller only tries to connect to Switch when pressing Home on the right joycon and Capture on the left. This is really annoying when every other controller on the market, even other third-parties, will try to connect on any button press!

In summation these are worth the money if you want a Gamecube controller, especially one with accurate buttons and sticks. I think, though, that the perfect Gamecube joycon lies somewhere between here and the NYXI Wizard. Either the Doyoky one needs to be heavier and needs more OEM-accurate sticks (the C-stick nub likely doesn't have a C embossed because they're using the same mold for the optional left-stick nub), or the NYXI Wizard needs to drop the button backlight in favor of OEM-style buttons and adopt the rubber membrane button improvements. The Wizard has better paddles, weight and rumble, the Retro has better buttons, bundle-ins, and d-pad. I can't really recommend one over the other, since in direct comparison both have their caveats that make the other more desirable. Maybe a third company will try their hand at a Gamecube joycon, or one of the two will make improvements?

Additionally, Doyoky made me wait an extra three weeks on my order because they ran into quality-control problems that required an entire batch be taken back to the factory. The order almost made it to fulfillment, and was hurriedly taken back; it required asking customer-support what was going on to actually get any reason on why my order stopped moving, and even then they weren't entirely sure why themselves until some days after I first sent an email. The whole while, it was still listed as an in-stock product. Not a good move.

[hamenthotep]

I just replaced the analogue sticks on my joycons 😁

They had so much drift they were unusable. And I didn't want to send them away for weeks.

They're much better now 😎 ready for Metroid Prime

[marridia]

new joycons! yippee! I love these colors they're so pretty.

[ninekat]

So, I've recently tried the whole VR full-body setup that is just 4 joycons and then your phone at your hip using the SlimeVR software (cause I'm too poor right now to get SlimeVR or HaritoraX). It is so much effort and messes up so easily. It's great for like very subtle movements and if you like hitting yaw reset every 5 seconds, but yeaaah. Ugh, just going to have to save up to drop the 400 on HaritoraX someday (cause good luck getting SlimeVR this year). When I eventually do get FBT working I'll be working on some video content with it in my journey to learning how to VR dance in VRChat. However, if anyone knows how to make joycons + phone at least a /little/ more useable and not having to yaw reset literally at the slightest movement, feel free to lemme know. Using standable with it makes it only a tiny bit more stable, but not really useable for dancing.

[wolfleblack]

Mobapad M6 HD Joy-Cons make the Nintendo Switch even better - Review

Like many people, I find the standard Joy-Cons difficult to use as their small size cramps my hands. I’ve tried a few alternatives but most of them always came with major downsides, such as weak rumble or no gyro controls, and eventually settled on some Skull & Co grips that make playing in handheld far better, but doesn’t solve the issues I had with the cramped face buttons buttons. That’s…