Gadgetory

so you got a brand new switch or you want to get one soon but you're not really a fan of the colors that it comes in I mean the main unit is really just in black right now and the joy Collins have plenty of very bright fun colors to choose from but that might not be for you now there are places that do offer custom paint jobs but this can get really expensive so if you're on a budget what exactly can you do well recently in Amazon there's been a huge pop up of these replacement shells that you can do yourself for way cheaper but is it easy to do that's what we're gonna find out right now I personally don't do a lot of actual like opening up and modifications of my system so if you're like me how hard is this to actually do on your first try we're gonna start with actually switching out the back plate on the switch itself because believe it or not this is actually the easier thing to do because we're not doing anything with the front we're not changing anything with the screen we're only changing out the back so let's see how this goes I might even be stripping the screws a little bit this one's easier use those realizing this is the Nintendo likes using these y-shaped screws a lot for a lot of their stuff which is also why it's basically impossible to open these if you don't buy like a specialty teardown kit alright we have a working switch stand okay so as I'm almost done screwing this thing back closed I just realized I forgot something I moved the kickstand over which was good do I did not move over the game flap so back at it kickstands gone back gone let's put this back together again all right so after some trials and tribulations and one missing screw we have switched out the back of the well switch and it actually looks pretty nice I'm not a big fan of having a different logo on the back but yeah that it was actually pretty easy other than a few little mix-up is on my part but like I said this is the easier thing to do so now let's see how the joy cons go over so we got the back off now here's why the joy cons are more fun the switch with a switch or just only moving the back plate off and that was it everything else was staying with the joy cons though if we want to change the front back the whole thing we actually have to fully gut it and then refill all those insides into the new joy Cohn covers okay so this is the inside of the joy con you can see right here this little big thing on the bottom is actually the HD Rumble which is what we're gonna remove next then we have to unplug a lot of this other stuff still so let's do that one thing we are going to do from putting it together though is that along with the new case covers this also came with buttons we can change out so instead of using the plain black ones that are enjoyed cons we're gonna go for a more classic kind of Japanese Famicom style we've got the four colors I just can't get these two frickin plug back in guess I didn't do put the front bumper in I am NOT good that was almost a third one gone okay so after losing a couple screws and I think possibly putting a screw in the wrong place I have put the controller back together and actually all the buttons and stuff feel fine okay I definitely messed up on the trigger yeah other than messing up the trigger I actually almost did this right so yeah the trigger and the release button right here are messed up so I'm probably enough to reopen this I am also missing two of the screws that actually keep the backplate on so the other two seem to be enough to keep it together but yeah not the best changing hub on my part so yeah if you've never done stuff like this before it is possible to do this correctly if you're careful you just have be more careful than me and also don't do this over a carpet where you will lose any screw that falls down here we have the finished switch I took care of the right joy con as well and then I did a few fixes to the left one that had some issues with like I said I messed up the lock button which was really easy to do I just had to turn the button sideways and then the trigger wasn't actually my mistake the molding on the replacement one was a little off causing it to not have the right amount of push back so you'll see I'm actually still using the greyjoy con center piece and I did that for the right one as well just so they're matching I also read that the buttons on this one I made it so that they're matching when they're both sideways and joy' conformed because that just seems cool to me you know I gotta say this was very intimidating to start with you know I mean especially the droidcon because you're basically gutting the whole thing and if you've never done something like this before there's that real fear that you're gonna you know brick a joy con which is you know you're out 50 bucks but after you're having to reopen and do this one a couple of times and working on the right one it's really not that bad I mean as long as you have a little bit of experience and a good tool set this is something that you can actually pretty easily do making it definitely worth the money now as for the actual replacement parts itself like I said earlier I'm not a big fan of having this different logo on the back I like having the colorful buttons though and that really wasn't that hard to change out otherwise I'm not a huge fan of the actual white it is it's a little too creamy for me I kind of wish it was more of a very pale stark white which would be a good contrast for the parts of the switch that are just gonna be black no matter what cuz you can't exactly change out the screen and such but the really cool thing about this is because all these replacement parts come is just you know a few bits of plastic on the side this would be very easy to just pick up on your own and paint whatever color you want I mean anyone looking into doing an actual custom design switch pick up one of these and paint them instead of actually changing the shells in your current switch that way you have the original parts for a backup but also the white makes it a lot easier to change up a customized if you want so for 40 bucks this thing is actually a pretty awesome investment I mean yeah like I said earlier there are professional paint jobs you can have it done but that's gonna cost you over a hundred bucks maybe even for just the joint cons alone so if you're on a budget it's really not that hard to do I mean yes it is a little intimidating at first but once you actually start diving into it and get a little more confident it's just not that big of a deal