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the switch pro controller is awesome go get me wrong joy counts are great too and in fact I still use those most of the time but there are some games out there where once the gameplay gets a little more intense it's a lot more comfortable to have a more traditional controller design the only problem is when it comes to having choices and variety and kind of being a blowing setups and stuff you don't have a lot of choices color wise there are so many different colors for joy cons but for these you basically just have the standard black one and then everything else they've released so far is kind of a more special edition collector's edition kind of approach like we have the one for splatoon too or xenoblade chronicles too and then of course we have Super Smash Brothers on its way but if you just want a blue one a red one a white one that's not actually a thing right now then until Nintendo handles themselves there are a few ways that you can try to customize them on your own there of course skins you can buy or you can trade you paint jobs then get very expensive if you go to someone else or very messy if you try to do it yourself and you're kind of professional but there is of course another option that we've done before for our joy cons and you can switch back and that's a shell exchange now I haven't actually done one of these just yet personally I've looked into how to do it and it looks like it's kind of a midpoint between the switch shell and the joy collins in that it's a little more difficult and time-consuming than doing just the switch back but it's a lot easier than joy cons at least I think it's gonna be so let's go ahead and do an exchange and see how it goes so for the shell exchange we actually the same company that made the shells that we used on our previous joy con and Shellback exchanges and for pro controllers they have five different options you can get into white that we already showed they've three different ones that are kind of a transparent color option that's very reminiscent of some of the older game boys like the atomic purple but we went with the fifth option which is this awesome looking SNES inspired design now once we started doing the actual shell exchange it is really interesting to see how an instant have built the pro controller because it's done in such a way that the shell is actually pretty divorced from the inside parts there's not a lot of stuff you really have to mess with you just have to remove a lot of layers which is pretty easy to do is just a little time-consuming but thankfully very simply you just start by unscrewing a screw that's at the bottom of each of the handles of the pro controller and then once that's out you can just take the grip off super easily after that you just have to started screwing the whole bunch more to take off the backplate and then another layer to remove the front plate now this one is where it gets a little bit trickier because you'd have to apply a little pressure to kind of snap it off and where things might look a little scary at first is there are some parts of the inside that are directly attached to the front plate it's not actually that bad though it's very similar to kind of the final steps you have to do for a joke on shell exchange which are super simple and sexy the easy part of that one where all you have to do is take out a couple screws and then just very carefully lift out all the different buttons and stuff and place them in the new shell in the same kind of way and then just basically put it all back together at this point you're just Reese crewing everything in yours doing everything in reverse order and bam you have a brand new looking awesome SNES which pro controller with a joy con there are so many different risks you run while doing a shell exchange you could accidentally cut a ribbon cable you could scratch something up you could mess about something's plugged in you could destroy the battery there's a lot of ways that you could brick the joy cleanser.you the exchangeable with these it's honestly pretty hard to do because you're never really messing with any of the deep inside bits now as a result this is not a complete perfect shell exchange there are some parts of the original design that are still visible on it for instance the lights down here still have that same black body it has the same d-pad the same sticks although honestly the d-pad and these buttons wouldn't be hard to have alternate designs if they wanted to release new color buttons where you're really stuck though is on the top here with this black base right here you're still gonna have that design right there and I'm not sure if it's possible to maybe do an exchange with those in the future but there's a lot more going on because this is directly connected to all the different inside bits and that's where it gets a lot more dangerous that being said though as long as you're cool with keeping the black up top everything else is a new shell and looks like a completely separate controller and honestly it's really awesome like I said it was really safe and easy to do worse with the Joye cons I would urge a little bit of extra caution and say you know hey if it's something you're confident doing go for it this honestly super easy as long as you have the right kind of screwdriver on hand you can do yourself no problem at all if you're interested checking these out I'll link it down below they've got this SNES design and white design like I said they're also some really great looking transparent color cloth I was actually really debating for a while whether I want one of those or this one but you know I'm pretty happy with my choice