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we have done our fair share of shell replacements on the Nintendo switch joy Kahn's but today I've got a special some little different and that's gonna be a shell replacement that actually adds a d-pad one of the big complaints a lot of people have had about the switch is that the traditional joy cons don't come with a d-pad option so we're going to take this clear one that we've already modified and upgraded to this atomic purple with the d-pad and see Oh stab my hand all right I might have just set a new record for how fast I can take meetings apartment but it back together so this was actually pretty much identical to switching out with just another shell the only difference is where you would normally have to lay each button down you just put a d-pad right here and it actually fit together exactly the same looks like all the buttons are working all right well I'm just gonna go ahead and miss rather than feel it awhile and see how well the d-pad works out so after having spent some good time using this thing I gotta say I really really love this modified iPad I mean yes there is that fear that if you're gonna modify your droidcon you might accidentally brick it destroy it make it totally unusable and to be honest yes that is a very valid fear if you're not careful you could mess things up but as long as you take your time and take a little bit of care for it it really isn't that hard to do and the benefits are awesome I mean this thing feels completely and totally natural to use almost like this was just an official Nintendo joy constants I was able to put it together successfully I mean it's still using a lot of the same internal parts it's just that instead of having the four directional buttons out here you've got this d-pad instead so since all the internals are the same you're getting the same snappiness for all the buttons and even doing rolling motions feels perfectly natural now where this thing does get awkward though and this is really the reason why Nintendo didn't pursue using a d-pad in the first place is that when you want to use the droidcon by itself sideways you don't actually have any regular buttons at least on the front facing you've just got the stick here start button and then another d-pad with no regular ABXY array but honestly it's still completely functional I mean it feels a little weird at first and it's a little off-putting but as long as you still make the connection that you know these are supposed to be the for regular buttons still works out perfectly fine that being said since I have multiple droid cons to use I'll probably stick with this one just being on the regular portable mode and if I want to use some sideways ones on their own for like a party game I'll break out different ones if you're in a situation where you only have your one set of joy' cons this might be a reason to maybe hold off just for now they may have also noticed that with this upgrade I not only switched out to having the d-pad on this but I'm also now using the atomic purple color now this is something I've talked about back when I first is the clear modification on the Joye cons and this is actually a color that Nintendo is used a lot in the past and for comparison here's a gameboy color in the same style and one thing I'm really impressed by is actually how closely to being the exact same these really are it's not a perfect match the one area where this is a little different is that the kind of transparency they use is a little less hazy it's much more just straight clear than the official image no ones are but this definitely captures the feel of this classic Nintendo style that I really love you know for a long time I've been sticking with just using the red and blue draw icons because like I said before I love that kind of just classic game example of red versus blue but with the addition of the d-pad and this atomic formal color this might become my daily driver now if this isn't the interested in doing but the atomic purple really isn't your jam the same guys that make this woman have made a whole bunch of other colors as well they've got some more transparent ones like this that are very reminiscent of the n64 fantastics but they also have some solid colors as well like a plain white if that's more your style I'll like a couple options down below and I'll see you guys later