How to Customize Joy-con Shells FOR DUMMIES (EASY)

How to Customize Joy-con Shells FOR DUMMIES (EASY) - eXtremeRate & Nintendo Switch

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Bored of having the same Joy-Con shells? Well we're here to show you how to customize them, using eXtremeRate shells! (PROMO code below!)
Our method has the least amounts of steps vs. other methods, as we avoid removing the ribbons from the motherboard as much as possible. This process is already tricky, so we may as well keep it simple this way! Trust us, you'll thank us later.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro and Kit Unboxing
LEFT JOYCON
0:30 - Step 1 - Remove 4 screws
0:50 - Step 2 - Open Joycon
1:00 - Step 2.5 - Change out screwdriver
1:07 - Step 3 - Remove 1 silver screw
1:10 - Step 4 - Remove rail from back frame
1:15 - Step 5 - Remove battery
1:21 - Step 6 - Remove 3 gold screws
1:30 - Step 7 - Remove middle frame
1:36 - Step 8 - Remove 2 silver screws holding mainframe
1:42 - Step 9 - Remove 3 silver screws
1:50 - Step 10 - Remove L button
1:53 - Step 11 - Remove 2 gold screws holding joystick
2:00 - Step 12 - Remove rumble part
2:08 - Step 13 - Remove mainframe
2:21 - Step 14 - Remove buttons
2:26 - Step 15 - Remove dust cover
2:35 - Step 16 - Add buttons and dust cover into new shell
2:51 - Step 17 - Remove ZL button
2:58 - Step 18 - Remove silver screw to detach middle frame
3:03 - Step 19 - Insert mainframe to new shell
3:17 - Reverse steps
RIGHT JOYCON
5:11 - Step 1 - Remove 4 screws
5:31 - Step 2 - Open Joycon
5:49 - Step 2.5 - Change out screwdriver
5:54 - Step 3 - Remove 1 silver screw
5:59 - Step 4 - Remove rail from back frame
6:09 - Step 5 - Remove battery
6:20 - Step 6 - Remove 3 gold screws
6:28 - Step 7 - Remove middle frame and antenna*
6:41 - Step 8 - Remove 2 silver screws holding mainframe
6:51 - Step 9 - Remove 2 gold screws holding joystick
6:59 - Step 10 - Remove rumble part
7:16 - Step 11 - Remove mainframe
7:37 - Step 11.5 - Remove black frame, sensor and dust cover
8:21 - Step 12 - Remove buttons from joycon
8:31 - Step 13 - Remove ZR button
8:42 - Step 14 - Remove silver screw to detach middle frame
8:58 - Step 15 - Add buttons into new shell
9:15 - Step 16 - Add dust cover into new shell
9:19 - Step 17 - Insert mainframe to new shell
9:57 - Reverse steps
11:50 - DONE!
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@berker4321 10 ай бұрын

I love this guide. I was discouraged when I looked at other guides where they unplugged everything. Then I found this vid and now my Animal Crossing joycon shells look amazing.

@lilybebaplay 8 ай бұрын

so happy to hear this!!

@garfballs Жыл бұрын

this seems so much less intimidating than removing all the wires and ribbons completely and putting them back

@lilybebaplay Жыл бұрын

We thought the same! This way was the easiest for us too, as long as you handle the wires very delicately

@trobi153 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this guide! I managed to change both joy cons in around two hours. I never would have attempted anything like this without your tutorial and i love my switchs new look.

@mentaikiryo 11 ай бұрын

I was going through hell replacing the buttons on my left joycon, it took me 3 ½ hours just to finish the left one but when it came to the right joycon it took me only around 40 minutes. This was a very helpful tutorial and is probably the only reason I don't have two disassembled joycons without understanding how to properly put them but togetherm

@lilybebaplay 8 ай бұрын

it is not a fast process by any means, but we took a long time with ours too :) glad to hear you were successful!

@mentaikiryo 8 ай бұрын

@@lilybebaplay yes. I now have a splatoon 3 switch that has a green joycon with metallic purple buttons and a purple joycon with metallic green buttons

@celestia8165 Жыл бұрын

Perfect!! You made it look almost easy lol. I will definitely be using your tutorial this week when I change mine. Thank you.

@lilybebaplay Жыл бұрын

Yay! All the best :) You can do it!

@TheGuy2UrLeft 6 ай бұрын

This is very helpful, took me around 2.5 or maybe 3 hours total to do (one of my joysticks died and thankfully we had a repair kit for it). Easy to follow instructions, very detailed in showing how to break down and put together with the steps. Thank you and I will use this video again for future reference. 🤙🏻

@zelrius8714 3 ай бұрын

Thank you SO much. I found your video from a comment on reddit and your guide was very easy to follow and it took me about 2-3 hours to finish (mainly had issues with the springs flying and screws AND buttons falling on my floor). I have experience working with many pc parts so this wasn't hard but for anyone who is still nervous/scared about going into this, just be gentle and follow each step carefully. However, the one annoying part is the SPRINGS!! Those flew everywhere and I ended up losing one but luckily the company I bought the new shells from had extra springs. One tip is you can actually just hold down the springs or if they're bent ( at 10:31), I used a tweezer and put it back in place straight again. Also, it HELPS a lot if you have a small magnetic tray to keep all the screws together/organized, one breath or crazy movement will have the screws/springs flying lmao. I got my tray from amazon for 5 dollars

@reggie6948 4 ай бұрын

This was the perfect guide!! Just changed our grey shells out for the cherry blossom pink for my fiancée!! You’re a lifesaver!!!

@MavH81 8 ай бұрын

You are a legend. Thank you so much for this amazing tutorial it honestly made everything so easy. I had the Standard Switch version with the neon red and blue joycons and finally got the white eXtremeRate ones from Amazon and this tutorial has made it so easy to do. It did take me just over 3 hours, but it was nice taking my time with this as I got the Switch as a gift from my girl. Also, if you do get a rounded out screw on the outside (one of mine just came stuck for some reason, the rest were perfectly fine) and you plan on not needing the stock housing, just ply away at the nearest entry point on the plastic towards the area the screw sits in, only took me 5 minutes to chisel my way in and worked like a charm.

@stephanieyang5050 5 ай бұрын

finally got around to wanting to change out my joycons. thank you for showing both sides and dumbing it down for me lol i love my new joycon colors

@ngndnd Жыл бұрын

i just spent two hours doing one controller. Im start the other one. You made it look so easyyy

@lilybebaplay Жыл бұрын

The video may be a few minutes long, but in reality it definitely took us an extensive amount of time too. I think we actually had to take a break between the left and right joy-con, because of how much concentration it took!!

@ngndnd Жыл бұрын

i modded my other pair of joycons and did each in only 30 minutes thanks to your tutorial!!

@rronberbatovci8160 6 ай бұрын

great video!! i followed step by step and im so happy with the results thank you so much!!

@SeeingStarsGaming 2 жыл бұрын

Ooh so useful!!! This was a very good guide. Definitely saving this video to refer back to when I change the shell for my Nintendo Switch! 🥰

@lilybebaplay 2 жыл бұрын

We're so glad it was helpful for you 🥰 !!

@adipietropaolo 6 ай бұрын

I can’t recommend this video enough! thank you for helping me ❤ i only wish you had a video for doing the back shell too

@mayarubysmith Жыл бұрын

i got this exact shell they used along with this video, and it worked!!! thank you so much for posting😊

@lilybebaplay Жыл бұрын

Yes!! We are so glad to hear about your success!! Big win!

@M1GYT Жыл бұрын

Just did mine in the green/purple chameleon! Tutorial was great! I did find removing the ribbon for the right bumper made it easier for clearance reasons (and because forcing the bumper down already made me nervous enough) I ended up just using the tweezers to help me place the ribbon cable back. (Not going to mention the part where I pulled the ribbon cable off accidentally and started panicking for a bit lol)

@lilybebaplay Жыл бұрын

Congratulations! Yes it can definitely be scary to pull the ribbon out. There is nothing wrong with removing it as long as you put it back after! We just tried to keep the steps simpler and more streamlined :)

@Andeyunderscore1990 2 ай бұрын

Great video, the visual reference was really helpful.

@haujohnny Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the step-by-step tutorial!

@lilybebaplay Жыл бұрын

we're so happy it helped!!

@nicolash5482 10 ай бұрын

I would highly recommend disconnecting the battery from the joycons as soon as you open it 😬 just to prevent any short circuit caused by the screwdriver 🪛 nice tutorial!

@giselleramos4455 Ай бұрын

Yes, this happend to saddly 😞

@sitmisfit4841 Жыл бұрын

I now shell swapped 2 different joycon Sets using your tutorial. :)

@lilybebaplay Жыл бұрын

We are so thrilled that it helped you! What colour shells did you swap to?

@Nintenko Жыл бұрын

I ended up getting the nes classic joy cons, as I’ve always loved that retro 80s futuristic look. They look stunning and it’s all thanks to you and this amazing tutorial you really did help. Thank you so much! Oh and I decided to do the right one first as I’d rather get the most difficult one out the way 😅

@lilybebaplay Жыл бұрын

So glad we could help :) the retro 80s joy cons sound amazing!!

@Nintenko 8 ай бұрын

You really did help so thanks again, yes there stunning :p All thanks to you. 😊

@Therocky8912 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! Came out better than expected?

@taengmeez 11 ай бұрын

I'm just waiting for the rest of my tools to arrive so I can customize them already and this tutorial makes it seem so simple, I'm almost confident I won't mess up lmfao. I'll watch this again for when I'll finally change my shells and buttons!

@lilybebaplay 8 ай бұрын

I hope you were successful!

@catpersonality66 Жыл бұрын

The best tutorial I ever watched and I modded a couple of pairs following your video!!! Will you ladies make a tutorial for the Pro Controller customization cause there is no even a clear and easy video about the Pro Controller modding, so I am really looking forward to this 🥰🥰🥰

@lilybebaplay Жыл бұрын

We're so glad to hear it helped you!! It's in the plans to do the pro controller soon :)

@catpersonality66 10 ай бұрын

When the pro controller tutorial coming out? Need your guide to walk me through lol@@lilybebaplay

@laurenlewis3605 4 күн бұрын

This tutorial literally save my life thank youuuuuu

@JoshuaFante Күн бұрын

Basically take your time pay attention to what your doing and be careful. It's tedious but most things are when small. Cool video

@ghosttiee9212 10 ай бұрын

My joycon gameboy shell is arriving this weekend I already removed everything from both joycons without removing the cables it was east thanks to this tutorial thank you I can’t wait to get my gameboy shells

@lilybebaplay 8 ай бұрын

so glad to hear!!

@TheFrogger1108 4 ай бұрын

Very good guide, I swapped my joycons successfully, thx.

@coolstuffgaming 7 күн бұрын

Took me 2 days, I lost track of time but at least 4 hours @_@. My only advice is patience, maintain good posture, use tweezers and for the ZR's put the button on first then manually squeeze in the springs later, much easier that way imo Thank you :)

@samanthasanford2742 Жыл бұрын

extremely helpful, thanks!!

@lilybebaplay Жыл бұрын

Have fun customizing!

@firey3888 6 ай бұрын

im going to buy a new shell so i can customize mine and i love how you explain like im a toddler so thank you so much

@amandawalck9467 5 ай бұрын

With the ZL I personally found it easier to click the button in before the springs and use a tweezer to put the springs in place after the fact.

@coolstuffgaming 7 күн бұрын

OMG thank you, I think I spent over an hour with the original method, It took so long that I ended up doing it a separate day, your method took only 10 minutes in comparison for myself

@connorobrien8957 Жыл бұрын

This was great! V helpful. Tysm 💖

@lilybebaplay Жыл бұрын

We're so happy it helped! If we did it, anyone surely can!

@honmarthenhidayat6623 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 nice guide

@moonpowerofficial Жыл бұрын

I’m scared to do this because I feel like I’ll mess up, but im pretty sure I won’t if I watch carefully ✌ Also I haven’t bought shells yet so it will be some time before I’m able to shell swap and use this tutorial. But it’s super good I love it ❤

@lilybebaplay Жыл бұрын

We believe in you! I'm sure you can do it!

@laetitialips Жыл бұрын

I used this video to do my joycons in emerald green, they look perfect 😉 so thank you. A french diy girl

@lilybebaplay Жыл бұрын

Beautiful!! Emerald green sounds so elegant. So glad we could help :)

@meganmcglathery7307 2 ай бұрын

This guide is fantastic and I was able to successfully change one joycon so far! I’m experiencing a lot of issues with stripping on the back Y screws. Would you recommend the eXtreme rate toolkit?

@kdb-qr9jh 6 ай бұрын

Did mine with this.Didnt manage the ZL button without help but I managed to get a grip and fit the ZR one fine after learning a technique

@fulltimeleo_ 5 ай бұрын

any tips ?? i cant do mine

@PedroWentBlind 10 ай бұрын

Tysm! :)

@DontTallkToMe 4 ай бұрын

I BROKE MY CONTROWLER WILE TRYING TO PUT THE TRIGER ON 😂

@laellajayde5701 5 ай бұрын

i tried but the screws got stripped immediately and i can't get them out

@laellajayde5701 5 ай бұрын

to update this, I had an ACNH switch lmao and I got so frustrated after stripping the dang screws that I just snapped off the back of the joycon, pulled out two ribbon cables in the process and spent all night thinking id completely ruined it, but this morning reattached the cables and put it all back together and it works 😭😭 im too scared to try the right side now I'm traumatized

@jasobeats2644 Жыл бұрын

Great tutorial. Thank you! Does the battery rattle at all?

@lilybebaplay Жыл бұрын

No rattling from what we can tell :)

@landl4235 19 күн бұрын

I have a question about your multi colored buttons. So I know there LED and have a lot of color option, but how do you change them?

@metalmilo 5 ай бұрын

I found it much easier to remove the ZL and ZR buttons by wedging it from the top side instead of trying to pull it out from the bottom

@CutieRingoJoy Жыл бұрын

Oh I saw the website you brought from, it came with the buttons. I want pink shells and purple buttons

@lilybebaplay Жыл бұрын

Yes! They have so many options of colours!

@Tracheaaa 4 ай бұрын

How do you attach the l r slider back to the new frame?? I’m so confused :(

@andreaagosto7023 Ай бұрын

Thank you for the video, I followed the tutorial step by step but now the right joycon doesn’t connect in handheld mode. Any fixes? Congrats for the video

@chucksfeeduckandseeduck Ай бұрын

This happened to me, kinda. When I pressed the home button, the right joycon would disconnect from handheld mode. If you didn't break anything by accident, taking it apart and adjusting the rail might fix it. Don't tighten the screw too much and make sure it's aligned. Mine wasn't and that was causing the issue.

@melanievera4587 Ай бұрын

I need help please one of the wires popped off how do I put it back on

@JoshuaFante Күн бұрын

I want to customize my actual console switch out the boring black plastic with a cool color scheme. Id paint it but paint wears once handled etc.

@PsychwardCaptive 5 ай бұрын

Seems like a lot of work just for customization. My white ones are boring but I have a purple and orange pair. I do need to replace the joysticks on the white ones because my cat chewed them though.

@connormanable Жыл бұрын

I noticed the battery on your blue joycon was a little bulged did you end up having to replace it in the following months or have you noticed any reduced battery life or anything

@lilybebaplay Жыл бұрын

so far no issues with the battery. We also noticed the bulge and have been keeping an eye on it since then in case we needed to change it! We may still change it just in case

@connormanable Жыл бұрын

@@lilybebaplay awesome good to know the batteries are pretty resilient seeing as mine are alway connected and pretty much never removed although I just got a new pair for Christmas they’re the splatoon 3 ones they were $40 from a 3rd party and they are wonderful and so nice looking

@sitmisfit4841 Жыл бұрын

@@connormanable Made a animal crossing switch for myself. Looks great .

@cobularity 8 ай бұрын

is this the same as the oled?

@MavH81 8 ай бұрын

yes, the joycons are all the same on the Standard and the OLED edition. Not the console itself though of course, just the controllers.

@eridionkiorai 7 ай бұрын

When you put the joy cons in the switch it shows the old color of corse ibut is strange for me

@camilybarboza447 5 ай бұрын

I've heard there's an app that can change this, it's called joycon toolkit or something like that. Btw, idk how to use, but theres a lot of tutorials on youtube

@miguel.bujold22 13 күн бұрын

Theres some silver screws longer than the others, how do i know which one goes where?

@catpersonality66 11 күн бұрын

you can use the longer ones first and if they can't fully go in, they use the shorter ones instead

@miguel.bujold22 9 күн бұрын

@@catpersonality66 thanks!

@fknlife 7 ай бұрын

Someone can explain me how to remove ZR/ZL carefully?

@sapphic-sunrise 3 ай бұрын

While doing this I’m finding out that the way my joycon is designed is quite different from your own (the breath of the wild themed ones). Has anyone else encountered this issue? I’m at the mainframe part and have two screws left and I think that’s the only thing holding it to the top of the shell? Will update

@sapphic-sunrise 3 ай бұрын

Update: it was the other joycon :|

@sapphic-sunrise 3 ай бұрын

Loved this tutorial!! Thank u for being so thorough!!

@indigovioletiris 4 ай бұрын

i feel like if i did this i’d manage to lose all the screws

@eyemohini Жыл бұрын

cute!

@lilybebaplay Жыл бұрын

Thanks!! We get compliments wherever we take them :)

@proraptor4146 Жыл бұрын

Easy? Looks like a nightmare

@SweetMelaninn 7 ай бұрын

That's literally easy

@JssUser Ай бұрын

Left joycon is easy. The right joycon is such a pain.

@Milo_Malo Жыл бұрын

nice tutorial, still too complex for me

@lilybebaplay Жыл бұрын

You can always customize joy-cons by applying skins instead! WAY easier! :)

@saneiplushie 11 ай бұрын

I don't know what happened, i tried to put it back together and now it's making these random pressses.

@damexoid 10 ай бұрын

might be late but you have bloated battery which is fire hazard and needs to be replaced. spicy pillow is not a joke

@stanleyhoptroff Жыл бұрын

please replace that battery looks like it will blow any miniute

@lilybebaplay Жыл бұрын

We noticed after editing too! Always best to replace a "puffy" battery, especially if you're taking apart your joy-cons anyways

@ShadowsSIayer 10 ай бұрын

Not helpful, screws would not turn in no no matter how many times I turned did nothing

@lilybebaplay 8 ай бұрын

you may have unfortunately stripped your screws :(

@BarrySkinner-gw7ef 6 күн бұрын

Then how to fix@@lilybebaplay

@ExtraFungus Жыл бұрын

How about you not make tutorials. Seriously, always disconnect your battery at minimum. Follow this tutorial and you could easily just brick your joy cons or destroy ribbon cables trying to balance that mess.

@CopperYeen Жыл бұрын

If the battery is completely drained, it should be fine. No need to disconnect it. It sure is something they should've mentioned but nothing to get angry about. Also, as long as you know where everything goes, balancing that mess won't be too hard. It looks scary but you'll get used to it quickly. A few days ago I switched out the joystick in one of our joycons. The battery was completely drained and I only disconnected one ribbon cable (not counting the joystick) and another one fell out. It still works perfectly, no need to worry.

@fealxnqs6398 2 ай бұрын

i really would like to make my joycons white with these type of covers but it looks so intimidating and i'm already stressing about it even though i haven't even bought the cover 🥲

@BarrySkinner-gw7ef 6 күн бұрын

I'm the same