Hacking [Tool] Joy-Con Toolkit

[Moquedami]

Would it be possible to use this tool to revive a Joycon that wont charge?
I have a dead joycon that works just fine when connected to the console or to a charger, but it wont charge its battery so it remains at 0% at soon it is disconnected and cants be used remotely

 

[cualquiercosa327]

Hello.First i want give the thanks to CTCaer for all his work (reverse enginering and coding) and make it open source his great tool.
I have read some people asking about the converter :if you wanna some file of the SDK you need to install it as it happen with all the SDK.

anyway i doubt it was so powerfull as this:

https://www.roadtovr.com/touchsense-force-plugin-aims-help-vr-game-devs-make-better-haptics-faster/

which should be included on newer switch sdk as you can read here :

http://www.nintendo-insider.com/immersion-touchsense-technology-used-in-nintendo-switch/

 

[ruyor]

Would it be possible to use this tool to revive a Joycon that wont charge?
I have a dead joycon that works just fine when connected to the console or to a charger, but it wont charge its battery so it remains at 0% at soon it is disconnected and cants be used remotely

This tool won't help with hardware issues like that. Try taking a fresh toothbrush (or similar brush, NOT metal bristled) with rubbing alcohol to the pins on the Joy-con and in the rails of your Switch (with the power fully off, of course). If that doesn't fix your problem, you'll need to send your Joy-con to Nintendo for a replacement battery or rail pins.

 

[CTCaer]

Would it be possible to use this tool to revive a Joycon that wont charge?
I have a dead joycon that works just fine when connected to the console or to a charger, but it wont charge its battery so it remains at 0% at soon it is disconnected and cants be used remotely

Probably not, as this looks like a dying battery which happens in a small percent of all electronics.
In Europe, normally you have 6 months to repair a battery in-warranty and 24 months for all the other hardware parts. But many times they just repair it inside the 24month period.
I don't know how many months is for a battery in Argentina though.

So even if you use the factory reset command, the battery will still fail to charge.

EDIT:
Don't forget to restore any changes you did to the SPI, before sending it.

 

[TheCyberQuake]

In case anyone already has the switch SDK the file to convert wav to bnvib is called VibrationConverterConsole (I'm pretty sure just listing the name is fine as long as I don't actually link to any files, but let me know if I can't). Though getting any decent sound with that is difficult if not impossible. So really I would just recommend waiting until we get something like a tool to convert midi to jcvib (unless I missed something and that was already done)

 

[Deleted User]

How can you tell which joycon was in which silver? Is there a left/right difference in their serial numbers?

 

[TCinderD]

How Do you create a HD rumble binary or raw file? How can I edit one that is previously made? This is ridiculously cool btw! I always confuse ppl showing up with purple joycons and such.

 

[Deleted User]

In case anyone already has the switch SDK the file to convert wav to bnvib is called VibrationConverterConsole (I'm pretty sure just listing the name is fine as long as I don't actually link to any files, but let me know if I can't). Though getting any decent sound with that is difficult if not impossible. So really I would just recommend waiting until we get something like a tool to convert midi to jcvib (unless I missed something and that was already done)

In which file is it? (Maybe if I feel like doing so, I can do requests for converting wav files to bnvib for lazy people.)

 

[CTCaer]

How can you tell which joycon was in which silver? Is there a left/right difference in their serial numbers?

XB and XC.

X: NX.
A or B or C or D or F: Switch or JC Left or JC Right or Pro or Dock.

 

[Deleted User]

nvm, I found out the vibration converter, and my serial number (I even backed up within the controller) and how to convert to vibration (drag and drop on the program) [If someone tells me I am not allowed to show the location of the converter I will edit the message.] {The Path is: switch-sdk\NintendoSDK_16.7.megazarf\content\NintendoSDK-20161020_1410-en.zarf\deploy-bin\NintendoSDK.zip\NintendoSDK\Tools\Hid\VibrationConverterConsole
} And of course no links, find your own.

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@CTCaer We should also have a feature where we connect both joycons and we can switch between them so we don't have to restart the app everytime. So we can dump both/change colors without ever closing the app.

 

[CTCaer]

@CTCaer We should also have a feature where we connect both joycons and we can switch between them so we don't have to restart the app everytime. So we can dump both/change colors without ever closing the app.

Actually you can. You just need to turn off the controller.
Everytime the app reads or writes something to the controller, checks if anything is connected with this order: JC L -> JC R -> Pro.
For example:
You have both of them connected. You do your job once and JC L is ready. You turn it off and everything else is directed to the right one, even if the window shows old details.
You press a button on JC L and connects. Everything now is directed to JC L again.

I was thinking of having a select option or at least a refresh button. We'll see..

 

[Deleted User]

Actually you can. You just need to turn off the controller.
Everytime the app reads or writes something to the controller, checks if anything is connected with this order: JC L -> JC R -> Pro.
For example:
You have both of them connected. You do your job once and JC L is ready. You turn it off and everything else is directed to the right one, even if the window shows old details.
You press a button on JC L and connects. Everything now is directed to JC L again.

I was thinking of having a select option or at least a refresh button. We'll see..

Oh cool! I guess I meant a refresh button then lol. Keep it up!

 

[BvanBart]

Would it be possible to use this tool to revive a Joycon that wont charge?
I have a dead joycon that works just fine when connected to the console or to a charger, but it wont charge its battery so it remains at 0% at soon it is disconnected and cants be used remotely

Just open your Joy-Con and see if the connector is not broken.

 

[CTCaer]

It doesn't work at all if it's not connected.

I would suggest to skip opening it, to make sure you are gonna fix it in-warranty through the repair center.
Only open your controller if you plan to hardware mod it/paint it/etc or if you already done these.

Even though they can't prove if you opened it, better be safe than sorry.

 

[Agrav]

Can you somehow use IR camera from joycon on PC ?

 

[MK73DS]

Can you somehow use IR camera from joycon on PC ?

I'd love to use that too !

 

[Hario337]

Can you somehow use IR camera from joycon on PC ?

Well I don't see why, what would you be able to get from it? it's not a normal camera so you wouldn't get images from it.

 

[SomeGamer]

Well I don't see why, what would you be able to get from it? it's not a normal camera so you wouldn't get images from it.

Windows Hello anyone?

 

[Hario337]

Windows Hello anyone?

I'm confused, what dost thou mean? I have windows and still cant see the point

 

[TheCyberQuake]

I'm confused, what dost thou mean? I have windows and still cant see the point

Windows Hello uses infrared camera to sign in using facial recognition iirc