Fast comment to tell you that I'm really happy that KZfaq works well for you, used to watch you a lot and talked with you a bit back then on Discord for some devices, you had a small community, now seeing that you surpassed 250k is impressive. I'll def buy your book about these chinese devices once you will release it (yes you will!).

Picked up a transparent Odin lite when you made your post about ayn shipping sooner. Received today. Took about 8 days, including a weekend, to make it to South FL. Super fast. Thanks man.

I always love it that you show how to open and mod the devices. I've never had a problem working with PCs, but when it comes to my retro handhelds, I still don't want to mess with them in fear of destroying anything D:

Great video as usual! So glad to see the channel growing too. I'm really looking forward to the Gulikit review/guide on the RP3+!

I did those hall sticks, PSX buttons, and beefy grip! All of which are game changers!

The rubber membrane is responsible for all the button travel. What I did to my rubber membrane, is not for everyone. I made tiny little sewing needle sized holes in the parts of the membrane that changes shape/deforms when a button is pressed on them. This makes them less stiff, and a little more mushy depending on how many holes you make (air pressure is also a factor). It doesn't change travel but for me does make them feel better and more importantly especially for platformers and fighters: more responsive. Hope this helps anyone!

Be careful when opening your device. When I slid my pick along the shell to open my Odin Pro, it caused minor abrasions to the shell giving it a slightly uneven looking seal when putting it back together. Take your time and be gentle. 👌

Love your content and in-depth review. Very well covered

Excellent! I will invest in the analog sticks for sure! Thanks for always giving us such awesome content! 👊😎

Just bought a pair should be here for the 24th . Thanks for the review. Currently using switch sticks

i had no idea that other calibrater even existed lol, thanks! did the stick mod almost immediately after getting mine in October-ish, did the buttons mod (coloured ps) in January.

An absolute fantastic guide as usual Russ...Giveaway!!! YAY!!! I'll take the PS theme ones please!

Thanks for the helpful guide. Just installed the sticks in my white odin pro. Looks really like the original sticks but feels really better, more solid resistance. Still on the stock face buttons which i like a lot actually. 😊

It's great that there are better options for stick drift, and if any of my devices ever have issues, I'll know were to turn. Over the years, I've only had one controller show any signs of drifting, and that is my 360 controller. When it starts to drift, if I move it around a few times it actually stops, and that rarely happens, so never got that bad were I needed other options. Now my sons Switch, I've lost track of how many times we've sent those in, but Nintendo covers the cost, so all good there as well. But if they ever stop that support, we'll for sure switch over to sticks like these.

I got the sticks in the video for my oled switch and really like them and so cool I can put them in my Odin pro so thanks for that bro 👍🏼

Oh man those PSX black buttons (gold symbols) look amazing.

beast videos bro, i watch daily and look forward too seeing all these sweet devices n stuff

Thanks for this, my left joystick had drift after letting my 5 year old use it and calibration wouldn't work. So I used your guide to replace the sticks.

thanks for the help this video help a lot i have just got my gulikit analog sticks and replacing my old ones in my odin pro. i am thing about geting a another set of gulikit sticks for my retroid pocket 3+ aswell

great video as always Russ

the calibration method you showing wont save, it will back to original after u restarted the odin, to save your calibration, you will still need to go into the calibration app, do all the calibration, i repeat: ALL include L2 R2 left analog stick right analog stick, after finish, it will pop out a finish button(which equal to save button), once u press that, only the calibrated will be save, and the setting wont revert back to original after u restarted the odin

You should check to make sure the Gulikit sticks don't have a "jump". The first shipment, including mine, would, if pressed in one direction, make a small click and jump from about 25% tilted to suddenly 100% tilted. The seller has promised to replace them, so kudos to them. But you should check.

Word is the GBC dpad membrane fits perfectly under the buttons and fixes the "thunky" buttons issue.

Nice video. I hope you do a video for the new hall sticks and grip for the RP3+

I did the gulikit mod, I enjoy them so far. What I did different from Russ, was I removed the rubber off the thumb caps of the gulikit sticks, because I honestly hate the feel. It took some work, but I used PSVita cap covers and it works awesomely.

Recieved my Gulikit magnetic Hall-sensor analog sticks today from Ali Express. Only took 1½ week to Sweden without any custom fee! And, yeah, they're an upgrade for sure for my AYN Odin Base! I immediately felt that the new sticks were larger, much less flimsy, stuck out a bit more which gave more control. And as Russ said, the sticks are a bit slick as they're new, but I expect them to get more grippy soon. Very happy!

The Gold PS buttons look really good.

I bought some hal sticks, grip and SNES click buttons for my RP3+ should look cool with the trans purple

I like how easy it is to replace parts on the Odin. I don't mind the original Odin joysticks but then again I never tried Hall joysticks. I would be tempted to do the upgrade if I was not already upgrading to a GPD Win 4. On that one I may do the upgrade but from what I have seen it is definitely not as easy as with the Odin. The only modification I did on my Odin is removing the Odin logo on the bottom left. I used paint thinner and it removed the white ink without melting the plastic. It looks so much better.

Thanks for the review and guide Russ. What worries me slightly is I don't suffer from drift, rather the joysticks wear, become loose and lose precision. My original left stick lasted 6 months or so and after going through 3 cheap replacements to find a good one this is starting to get a bit loose after 4 months. I'm not sure the Gulikit ones will actually last much longer and the cost for regular replacement could get silly. That said I'm sure I'll give them a go when I next need some. Be nice if someone offered some options for the removeable caps, probably only a matter of time.

Great Video like Always Russ. I'll be doing this Hall Sensor Mod because I've had the SakuraRetroMod Buttons since day one on my Odin.

was about to sell my odin since i mostly just play on my rg35xx now but this has me interested in it again

I think I might be your biggest fan in China. Every time I watch your video and the intro music kicks in my wife one the other end of our couch would say, "this guy again?"

Thanks Russ!

After installation of the hall joy sticks, when I press the L2 button the left stick registers a move downward. I've tried reinstalling the sticks three times, and I've swapped them left to right. Any ideas? I've confirmed through game testing it is not just a calibration app problem.

Ah, wish I would have had your guide for correctly calibrating the sticks before sending them back again. The Gulikit ones have superior haptics compared to the originals. But even if I had managed to successfully get them to work properly, in the end, I'm still not a fan of the Gulisticks' square movement pattern, which feels a little awkward with the type of games I tend to play.

Great video as ever! What OS are you using here? Looks great

I got drift on my left stick. Same exact Odin as this one. But it was an easy fix.

Thanks for the video, always great to know we can improve our lovely devices. Do you think these sticks could fit the Aya Neo 2021 ?

Just bought Odin yesterday, because of this video. Hall-sensor analog sticks are a must after I've started using them. Still waiting for some mod option for Mechanical or Dome button on the face buttons tho. Please share if you ever find an option to it.

I hope someone makes dome sticks or maybe they do I just don’t know any better. I’ve always loved how psx-3 joysticks felt

Love the joysticks from GuliKit but I can't take my eyes off the left one being rotated lol

Russ, I believe this video needs an update. Many Odin users including myself cannot get the Gulikit sticks to work with the Odin. There is magnet interference with the Left Trigger hall sensor, and even with using an external magnet workaound that someone figured out, my Gulikit switches won't won't calibrate after I restarted the system. Some users are reporting good success and no interference with the hall sticks sold by Retroid for the Pocket 3/3+.

How much more do the sticks protrude from the handheld now compared to the originals? i like to carry mine without a case

Can you apply skull&co thumbstick cap for it? does it have full range after applied the tumbstick cap?

Hi Russ, Very cool :-) I love my switch and all, but my brain defaults to A at the bottom.

The ABXY buttons seem to have specific "notches" that protrude from the sides. Can we swap the placement of A & B and X & Y if we want to retain the Nintendo Switch YXBA orientation instead of the xbox XYAB orientation?

Are there concave sticks like on the Xbox360 or xbox one pad for the odin? Not a huge fan of convex sticks cause my thumbs always slip of easily😅

How the crap did you get the calibration to just work like this? I have been trying for days to get them calibrated properly to no avail

Great video! Do you have to unmount the sd card before removing or no? Always get paranoid bout corrupting em.

Is there a good fix for the shoulder buttons as well? Mine broke and it just kills me.

Question: can this be done to the Odin Lite?

A nice mod to improve gameplay.

I've heard these sticks get a bit crunchy after a while due to burrs from the manufacturing process. Do you experience this?

Hope I win some of those buttons! Thanks for the awesome video Russ. Do you know what kind of cap replacements are available for those sticks? Not a big fan of the switch style caps

I used the same hall sticks, and I can not get the calibration to keep after a reboot. I can not use the odin calibration tool they just won't calibrate, just like in your video. I can, however, get everything to work by deleting the calibration in the tool you recommended until i reboot though, he'll it won't even keep the xbox button layout after a reboot. Any ideas? P.s. everything worked fine before the stick swap.

Are these still quite tough to get hold of? Shipping times etc wise?

What frontend are you using in the video? I'd like to get it

Having slight issues getting them to calibrate correctly, please help

Hey Russ, I'm having a lot of the trouble calibrating my sticks on my odin. I've tried calibrating them multiple times but they never want to to Center.

It looks like the new buttons couldn't travel any less without depressing beneath the shell. I've been trying to determine whether the pad is swappable with any other controllers..

I just got the Playstation style buttons recently and I love them! Shame about AetherSX2 though...

Im thinking of buying an ayn odin lite but i have a question: when using ps5 remote play is there a button that works as the touch pad of ps controllers?

Have you tried adding the skull co thumb grips to these new sticks? If so do thet restrict movement

Would these sticks work in a switch lite? I've been looking to switch mine out with some hall sticks

Profound sadness! I just received a set of Gulikit hall sensor sticks for my Odin Lite only to find the seat for the left stick is off centre in the frame (The mounts within the odin itself). Which meant my left thumstick would hit the wall of the case at 75% of horizontal axis toward the left. I then spent nearly 3 hours fiddling with calibration, deadzone, sensitivity, etc. No combination I found could compensate enough without screwing up something else with the stick experience... *sigh*. I then tried 3 other sticks (I ordered 4, with the intention also upgrading a set of joycons), all the exact same issue (which is how I discovered the issue was defect in the internal construction of my odin) I'm not confident enough in my modding to try to move the mounts to fix it... I ended up putting the original left stick back in and keeping the hall sensor on the right, still an improvement, but, hoo boy, that was an afternoon of emotions, lol. Edit: I also found the left trigger interfered with hall sensor stick slightly, causing the vertical access to move to 0.2 (-20%) (it only happened with the left trigger, I assume the trigger must be using a magnet which interfered with the hall sensor). Nothing I could do to fix that, short of switching back to the old stick.

Can someone please tell me how you get the ribbon cable back in? I can not for the life of me figure out how to do it. Thanks

Why did you invert your button layout?

I know this is an old video but the odin lite doesnt appear to have the option to do this sort of calibration on the joystick (deleteing old calibration and setting up new calibration) can anyone help?

What front end are you using?

What is the best emulator to download on odin pro that plays gamecube ps2 games

que chidos botones, me laten para el odin

does anyone know if the nintendo switch buttons are the same size as the odin buttons?

Just got my odin lite 2 days ago and my left stick is clicking when i rotate it -. - so i'll have to upgrade sooner then i thougth xD also trying to find taller caps for the gulikit sticks so there is more clearence but no luck there so far..

Hey how did you get widescreen for SNES?? is there a retroarch hack?

Can you upgrade the ssd in Odin lite

Yooo I was just looking at the odin

Should I wait for a update to new version?

man the sticks are sold out on amazon and ali has them not going out \until the end of march for me

Can these work on the x86 handhelds too? Aya neo oxps etc

I did the hall sensor sticks upgrade to my Odin, but when I try to calibrate the left joystick if I touch the left trigger it interferes with the calibration.

Update 12 28 23. My odin light has no calibration option shown when using your method. Adjust sensitivity 😢

I've found the AYN Odin pro buttons to be a little too clicky for my tastes due to the rubber membrane they use, I wish someone would come out with a replacement rubber membrane that allows you to change this quality

Are you running on Odin 2?

If i replace the buttons to playstation design, could i do that in the settings too? Because i dont want see the xbox design in game bc than i dont know which button i should press lol Sry for my bad english💀

I really want to get this. How does it play wii games. I want to get a handheld for nintendo emulators from NES to Gamecube/ Wii.

Do you notice movement of the left stick when you pull the left trigger? If so do you notice it in game?

Any rumors of RK3588-based handhelds?

Can installed in nintendo switch bro?

My 8BitDo Ultimate controller has hal sensing sticks. The difference between them and analog sticks are night and day. They are so much smoother to use, and are dead on accurate

Currently unavailable on Amazon 😭

When I press L2 it shows my left hall stick moves too why is that?

On the odin you shouldnt have to pry the bottom clips, once the top is open you press down and it slides off.

Поставьте в настройках калибровки в верхней строке радиус плзунком 40 или 50 процентов и проблема с l2 и вниз пропадет

Anyone know if it still takes forever to actually receive an Odin?

Has AYN been shipping these out quicker lately?

Kids broke the cap on one stick on my Odin Pro and the right stick on my Odin Lite has no X axis (kids suck lol) so an repair/upgrade sounds nice

Can we see your Stuido Setup!?

Now if only the screen and triggers were better it would be flawless.

is there any mod to convert the abxy buttons like the ones on vita? i mean the clicky sound like the pad. I dont like the rubber buttons :/ I havent received mine yet but i want to have everything before it comes