GuliKit, makers of the genuinely fantabulous KingKong Pro 2 wireless controller for the Nintendo Switch, which we reviewed past year, has conscionable released an upgrade/repair kit for the authoritative Nintendo Joy-Cons that brings its drift-free Hall effect joysticks to the handheld console’s autochthonal controllers.

It’s an unfortunate information that if you ain a Nintendo Switch and play it regularly, you’ve perchance already experienced the contented known arsenic ‘Joy-Con drift’ wherever the Switch detects joystick inputs adjacent erstwhile a player’s fingers aren’t touching them astatine all. The astir apt origin is related to components successful modern controllers called potentiometers that physically deterioration down implicit clip with prolonged use.

The contented tin marque games unplayable, and the lone existent solutions are to effort to person Nintendo to repair your Joy-Cons oregon repair them yourself. Even so, some are lone a impermanent hole erstwhile the aforesaid problematic joystick hardware is being utilized arsenic a replacement.

The biggest selling constituent down GuliKit’s KingKong Pro 2 wireless controller was that it uses upgraded joysticks that trust connected Hall effect sensing, wherever magnets and magnetic sensors observe adjacent the subtlest movements of the sticks. This eliminates moving parts rubbing against each different and wearing down implicit time, perchance eliminating joystick drift forever. On definite platforms, if the bundle is determination to enactment it, you tin besides usage Hall effect sticks to destruct dormant zones oregon customize however ample your stick’s input radius is.

The KingKong Pro 2 was a workaround for Joy-Con drift, however, not a solution. Now, GuliKit has made that controller’s Hall effect joysticks disposable arsenic a drop-in replacement/upgrade for the joystick hardware that inactive ships wrong the Joy-Cons.

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It looks similar you tin get a pair of them connected Amazon for astir $30 close now, oregon a four-pack for $53 if you privation to assistance a person and prevention a fewer bucks successful the process. But portion GuliKit promises these are a “100% fitable, cleanable replacement, driblet successful with nary hassles” fix, swapping retired the sticks successful your Joy-Cons isn’t arsenic casual arsenic swapping retired AA batteries successful a radio.

iFixit has shared a video connected YouTube of the process of swapping retired a Joy-Con’s joystick, and portion it’s comparatively straightforward, it volition decidedly assistance to person the close tools connected hand, including tweezers for manipulating ribbon cables, and a peculiar tri-point screwdriver for dealing with the non-standard screws Nintendo loves to use. It goes without saying that an upgrade/repair similar this volition decidedly void your Joy-Cons’ warranties, and astir apt the Switch’s too, but if you’re suffering from Joy-Con drift with nary solution available, this seems similar the champion mode to spell close now.