Gadgetory

the 2d SXL is an excellent handheld but there's one problem that it has that's shared with all the line of new 3ds systems and that's this little annoying guy right here little guy I wouldn't worry about that little guy the right C stick which is barely even that it's basically just a little plastic nub that you apply some pressure to and magically it counts it as left-right up-down it's just it feels very unnatural not comfortable at all to use and thankfully there's actually a way to pretty easily mod this to something different if you don't mind doing a little bit of damage now this is not an idea I can take credit for this was originally discovered I think on reddit by user by the name of spent the day on reddit and it was recently brought to my attention by our good friend Jimmy champagne yes that is actually his real name yes that's his legal name and on the form they show that you could do this with the new 3ds excels where you basically rip this nub out and replace it with the slide pads from the PSP now all those tests back then were on the 3ds XL and I haven't actually read up on whether or not it works with the 2d s XL specifically I don't see any reason why not but while it might be an easy google search to check I kind of want to take the risk and see what happens now from what I can tell this may be an irreversible process because you basically rip out some stuff that keeps that nub in place so that's why I bought a brand new Pikachu to TS excel we're gonna open up and rip apart to do this change I'm just joking that'd be a terrible idea no we're gonna do it on the basic 2d s Excel so let's see how this goes okay so as I said the process is actually pretty basic the first thing we need to do is rip out this little nub and there's nothing really sophisticated about it you basically just pry it out and maybe if you want to be a little more careful you can cut some of the plastic and strings that help keep it in place so let's see how this goes okay so this already went kind of a little wrong I was able to get the nub out but I actually left the plastic constraints in there which I don't think is gonna actually cause any problems for the rest of the process it's just before at least in the tutorials I've seen that they're able to get the little loops out but shouldn't be an issue and this is actually the reason why this is kind of irreversible because yes you could just jam this thing back in and it'll probably be okay but it's never gonna be secured quite the way it was when you bought it brand new so this process is kinda reversible but there's definitely some lasting damage you're kind of doing to the system the next step which is also once again really simple is to just take a psp-1000 analog stick it has to be a 1000 specifically they changed them on to 2000s I don't know the specifics as to why that messes up this mod but it does matter for this so we've bought the little black ones you can give them in other colors and you're supposed to just be able to kind of just shove it in place and it should work yeah see there's protecting the back this looks kind of a diamond shape so we're gonna kind of put it diagonally so yeah you're not getting the same kind of feeling that you would on a PSP or actually slides around a little because this is still based on just having that light pressure but this definitely feels loads better than that little plastic nub it's almost like you're kind of just pressing a little applying pressure to it now of course just messing around on the menus just lets us know that the stick is registering up-down left-right but we really want to test it how it works in a game so I've booted up the opening part of Monster Hunter stories there's gonna look around a little bit to see how it feels and it's actually really natural like this actually feels like this is how the system was meant to be I mean it's a little getting used to because I'm used to the PSP and I'm expecting this thumb stick to actually slide around but just like the nub you just apply a little pressure but grab it a rest your whole summonin and it just feels way more comfortable nice and responsive too yeah I mean just feels natural so yeah not a very hard mod to pull off and I think it's really impressive to me about it is the fact that for how basic the technique is where we pretty much just ripped out one part of the system and shoved something else in its place it looks like that PSP stick head actually belongs here blends in really nicely and in fact you can actually buy these in a couple of different colors such as white so if you own a different color TDS excel like the white norwich one you can grab one of those which is gonna match a lot better and not only does it fit in that way but it doesn't interfere with any of the functionality of the 2d s at all in fact it's just enough to where you can still close the system perfectly fine so yeah awesome little thing you can do really you