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Hi, 3 years ago I started with repairing broken consoles out of anger over a reseller that sold me a gamecube controller in less than miserable condition. I fixed the controllers joysticks and refurbished it like it should be sold in first place. I got hooked badly and now 3 years later of buying broken consoles/games non stop and fixing them. Maybe I can help others, as this site helped me a lot aswell.
 
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By fixing Joystick you mean the controller as a whole? Or just the Analog Stick?
And, would you advice to add epoxy to the Stick to add chipped material in order to revover Stick rigidness?

My Gamecube Controller Stick has it's Analog Stick quite floppy/flimsy, been thinking on doing that above.
 
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JuanMena said:
By fixing Joystick you mean the controller as a whole? Or just the Analog Stick?
And, would you advice to add epoxy to the Stick to add chipped material in order to revover Stick rigidness?

My Gamecube Controller Stick has it's Analog Stick quite floppy/flimsy, been thinking on doing that above.
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I replace the whole part with desoldering the old one. I fully embraced the solder work from the beginning. My advice would be look for a gamecube controller of the third Generation. There are markers on the underside with whom you can identify which version you are looking at. My personal collection of gamecube controllers are beside the wavebird all of the third generation. Those sticks are very sturdy!
 
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Ryis said:
I replace the whole part with desoldering the old one. I fully embraced the solder work from the beginning. My advice would be look for a gamecube controller of the third Generation. There are markers on the underside with whom you can identify which version you are looking at. My personal collection of gamecube controllers are beside the wavebird all of the third generation. Those sticks are very sturdy!
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Third Gen? I'd like to get lectured on that. Can't find info on it.

I personally thought the white Japanese ones to be the sturdiest ones, my GCN Controller was from launch year... gave the console, kept the controller. Stick it's all plastic.
 
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JuanMena said:
Third Gen? I'd like to get lectured on that. Can't find info on it.

I personally thought the white Japanese ones to be the sturdiest ones, my GCN Controller was from launch year... gave the console, kept the controller. Stick it's all plastic.
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Sure I help you out. Best site for Information in that case is the GCC Library in specific the „GameCube Controller Stamps Guide“ :) What you want is the ones with the T3 stick/internals
 
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Ryis said:
Hi, 3 years ago I started with repairing broken consoles out of anger over a reseller that sold me a gamecube controller in less than miserable condition. I fixed the controllers joysticks and refurbished it like it should be sold in first place. I got hooked badly and now 3 years later of buying broken consoles/games non stop and fixing them. Maybe I can help others, as this site helped me a lot aswell.
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oh my god, awesome. youre even from germany, too!!!!
i cant believe my luck.
yeah, when i have some cash... i would definitely have things i could use some help with!
for sure
 
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Nakamichi said:
oh my god, awesome. youre even from germany, too!!!!
i cant believe my luck.
yeah, when i have some cash... i would definitely have things i could use some help with!
for sure
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Haha what gave it away? ^^
Sure, just tell me in case you need help!
 
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Ryis said:
Haha what gave it away? ^^
Sure, just tell me in case you need help!
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i bought a brandnew, sealed TOTK switch oled, sent it with a modchip, hall-effect sticks to a modder.
he fucked it, the hall effect sticks arent centered, cant be calibrated, the modchip doesnt work.
he said the chip is defective, so i ordered 4 more.
two months go by, he still hasnt done a thing.
i message him, asking if he could please just finish it.
he got extremely defensive, said he will not have any time for it in the future either.
he kept all the money, sent me a back a non-functional switch.

completely malevolent and incompetent guy. at least the unit isnt broken, but he did a very poor job.
if i get some money together id love to have it fixed someday.

EDIT: Oh, also, notice on the left where your name and displaypicture is? at the bottom theres a little country-flag, thats how i could tell ; 3
 
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Nakamichi said:
i bought a brandnew, sealed TOTK switch oled, sent it with a modchip, hall-effect sticks to a modder.
he fucked it, the hall effect sticks arent centered, cant be calibrated, the modchip doesnt work.
he said the chip is defective, so i ordered 4 more.
two months go by, he still hasnt done a thing.
i message him, asking if he could please just finish it.
he got extremely defensive, said he will not have any time for it in the future either.
he kept all the money, sent me a back a non-functional switch.

completely malevolent and incompetent guy. at least the unit isnt broken, but he did a very poor job.
if i get some money together id love to have it fixed someday.

EDIT: Oh, also, notice on the left where your name and displaypicture is? at the bottom theres a little country-flag, thats how i could tell ; 3
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What a sad story, all you wanted was having a nice switch to play on :/
Atleast he didn‘t broke it!
Here are some pictures of my first Oled I freed from chains ofc just for research.
 

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Ryis said:
What a sad story, all you wanted was having a nice switch to play on :/
Atleast he didn‘t broke it!
Here are some pictures of my first Oled I freed from chains ofc just for research.
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Does itwork well? are you enjoying it?
i have a normal modded oled and a normal modded lite, so i CAN play switch games, but id be lying if it said that didnt hurt.
Hurt my wallet, too.
 
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Does itwork well? are you enjoying it?
i have a normal modded oled and a normal modded lite, so i CAN play switch games, but id be lying if it said that didnt hurt.
Hurt my wallet, too.
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Take the modded pcb from the normal oled and put it into the zelda shell. Then sell the unmodded normal oled and keep the modded lite and modded Zelda Edition?

You mean enjoying playing or the solder work?
 
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Take the modded pcb from the normal oled and put it into the zelda shell. Then sell the unmodded normal oled and keep the modded lite and modded Zelda Edition?

You mean enjoying playing or the solder work?
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playing.
ideally id want both to work.
 
JuanMena said:
By fixing Joystick you mean the controller as a whole? Or just the Analog Stick?
And, would you advice to add epoxy to the Stick to add chipped material in order to revover Stick rigidness?

My Gamecube Controller Stick has it's Analog Stick quite floppy/flimsy, been thinking on doing that above.
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Correct me if I am wrong but I think that trick only works on the N64 stick due to its design. On "modern" sticks it's not the plastic that wears out but the springs.
8bitdo hall effect sticks are a 1:1 replacement for the original NGC sticks, I think these are the highest quality replacements you can get. I modded my GC with the internal blueretro adapter (it's plug & play) and my original GC controllers with the 8bitdo NGC modkits (which includes both hall effect sticks, for ~$25), couldn't be happier.
 
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Correct me if I am wrong but I think that trick only works on the N64 stick due to its design. On "modern" sticks it's not the plastic that wears out but the springs.
8bitdo hall effect sticks are a 1:1 replacement for the original NGC sticks, I think these are the highest quality replacements you can get. I modded my GC with the internal blueretro adapter (it's plug & play) and my original GC controllers with the 8bitdo NGC modkits (which includes both hall effect sticks, for ~$25), couldn't be happier.
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Ah, no idea. About three years ago my GCN cobtroller burned, it, literally smoked... after taking it apart, I got curious and disasembled everything including the Analog Stick and it had a plastic ball chipped away on the sides, don't know if by design or just natural tear as I had that controller since 2001.
 
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