- There's been a new
discovery about Joy-Con drift that claims to be a permanent cure. After some use, a Joy-Con thumbstick might start to move to
one side on its own. So you might be playing a game and your character just
starts walking on their own. It's a widespread issue. One that Nintendo is being sued over. And one that Nintendo
won't admit that it has. But also, will fix for free, if you call them up and
send them your problem unit. I have never experienced
this issue myself, but I also mostly just play in docked mode with a controller. So it makes sense that
I don't use the Joy-Con for long enough to experience
an issue like this. But I really, really
wanna try this new fix. So I gave myself drift. (thumbstick clicks)
Ooh. Oh, no. It was way, way harder
than I thought it would be. But the fix, you'll happy to know, seems to work like a charm. (gentle music) This video is sponsored by Satisfye. (drawer scraping) Ha! What are you doing here? How do you even fit there? Anyway, if you like playing with the Joy-Cons in portable mode and you got big hands like mine, you might be all too familiar
with how uncomfortable the Switch can get after
a long play session. (gentle electronic music) (bones crunching) (gentle chiming music) And if you can relate, you should check out the Satisfye Grip, the original ergonomic grip for the Switch that we've talked about many times here. The ZenGrip features
Silicon tabs for a great fit that is not gonna scratch your Joy-Con. And it works just fine with
the new Zelda ones too. They're available for both
the Switch and the Switch Lite with all different styles, like clear ICE. And case bundles with tons of accessories. Every Elite bundle comes
with a shoulder strap and charging cable with a 56-ohm resistor, Perfect for battery power banks. Get your own Satisfye Grip, or even a case bundle now during their Summer Tyme Sale, with stuff at their store up to 50% off. But if you use the code
WULFFDEN, spelt like that, you'll get an additional 5% off. So use the link in the
description below and that code, and get yourself playing in portable mode for a little bit longer. (drawer scraping) Ah! You're still here? Get outta here. First, I'd like to say
that if you have a Joy-Con that needs fixing, your best bet is to just send
it in to Nintendo for fixing. It's completely free. And
it only takes about a week. Will actually do this
about a few years ago. - So I got my left Joy-Con,
blue Joy-Con back from Nintendo and they fixed it for the drift. It took a while. I'm
surprised how long it took. I think because I sent it out on a Friday. So it took a little over a week. - That's kind of a long time. - That's a very long time. - They should just send you a
new one and then refurb one. That's what they should do.
- Yeah. - But I would only recommend
sending in your Joy-Con if you have one of the
standard neon red, neon blue, or gray Joy-Con, because Nintendo doesn't
actually guarantee that you will get the
same color Joy-Con back, unless it's one of those. So if you have a special color or one of the limited edition Joy-Con, like if you're brand new
Zelda edition Joy-Con just start to drift, you
might wanna fix that yourself. Luckily, you don't have to
open up the Joy-Con all the way in order to perform this fix. So it is very simple to do. Credit can be given to
VK's Channel channel for finding the fix. I recommend watching his video. He goes into detail on what
made him find this solution. But essentially the previous theory was that the graphite pads
under thumbstick assembly would wear down over time. While this is still true, this might not necessarily
be what causes the drift. The current theory is that the backplate, what holds the thumbstick
together, might loosen over time. Making the connection to
the graphite pads weaker. The solution proposed by VK
is to put a shim in there to make everything tighter. You can use a thick piece of paper or tape or a thin piece of cardboard. Or some people are even making
their own 3D printed shims. If this turns out to be the solution, this would be awesome because
it's easy enough to do for the average Joe
with a Y00 screwdriver. So this is kind of a big deal. And I wanted to try it out for myself to confirm that this works so that I can then show it to you guys. And if you have this problem,
you can fix it for yourself. But I have lots of Joy-Con
and none of them have drift. (Joy-Cons clattering) This weekend I was away
with a bunch of people and my friend Jerry said
that his Joy-Con got drift. So I said, "Give me that
(clicking) right now!" And I robbed him. And now I have his Joy-Con. So I took it home, I tested it, and I could not, for the
life of me, find the drift. It worked perfectly fine for me. So for two days, I used the
Joy-Con as like a fidget cube. I sat there furiously
flicking the stick around to try to induce drift. Nothing! I even tried pressing really, really hard into the middle of the Joy-Con. Still nothing. After all this talk and
controversy by Joy-Con drift, I'm honestly shocked at how resilient this thing turned out to be. After bringing this
up, my other friend Leo claimed to have a pair with drift. And guess what? The same thing happened. You said you're 80% sure
that one of these has drift? - [Leo] Yes. That one. - Okay. Well, let's give
it a whirl right now. This doesn't have drifts, buddy. (laughs) - [Leo] I guess I was wrong. - If you've ever experienced
Joy-Con drift before, I can feel your frustration
watching me try to get it and not get it. (laughs) I think Nintendo is trying to
just pull a big prank on me. This is what I get for
talking about Mario fan games and emulators. I have a very quick
turnaround time for videos. I try to get one out once a week. So I decided to just absolutely
mutilate this Joy-Con to try to induce a drift. I'm so sorry, Jerry. So I ripped it open, took
out the thumbstick assembly, and broke all of the metal tabs off. (thumbstick clicks)
Ooh. This made it so the backplate was completely off the
thumbstick assembly. You, you can't get any looser than off. Obviously, this wasn't gonna work, so I super glued it back together. You'd think that this hack job would cause the thumbstick
to go all wacky. Nope! I'm must've done a good
job with that super glue because, after all that mutilation, I gave this Joy-Con the
slightest hint of drift. It's such a small amount of drift that it was impossible
for a game to register it. You could see here that it looks like it's pressed forward a little bit because when I press back on the stick, it doesn't go all the way back. And I played for a little bit longer and I rubbed it a little more
and I abused it some more. And then I fired up "Rogue Company" because apparently, that game allows you to set the
stick dead zone to zero. And boom, my character moves on his own. Drifted achieved!.
(upbeat music) The character didn't
always move on its own. And honestly, if this was
like my daily driver Joy-Con, I wouldn't think anything of it. But we were able to prove
that this thing has a problem. So now let's employ the fix. In order to do this, you
need a Y00 screwdriver and a regular small Phillips head. I don't know the exact size for that. There's four Y tip screws on the back and only three regular
screws on the inside, after you moved the battery aside So once you're inside you only need to unscrew
these three screws right here. Also, be careful of these ribbon cables. They are very delicate. You wanna place the shim right behind the thumbstick assembly. I used an apple USB-C cable box, which has really thin cardboard. It's basically like thick paper. I tried one piece and that didn't quite
give enough pressure. So then I tried three pieces
and that was way too much. The Joy-Con wouldn't even close. Two seem to be perfect. So whatever paper you're
using, your results will vary. You want just enough so it feels
tight when it's closing up, but you still want it to be able to close without stripping all of the screws. This tightness is what is keeping
the Joy-Con from drifting. And like magic, there's no drift. At first, I still wasn't able to pull the stick back all the way. But after a short play session, it seemed to have evened itself out. I think paper shim just
needed some time to settle. But this seems like it fixed whatever issue I induced
on my Joy-Con myself. Now, is this a permanent solution
like everybody's claiming? I think it's a little too early to tell, but I think chances
are that it probably is at least a somewhat permanent solution. If you perform this fix yourself and you do end up getting
Joy-Con drift again, down the line, you can either just put
more paper in there, to try to increase the pressure more or replace the paper
that's already in there. The big discovery here is that
the graphite being worn down might not necessarily be the problem. The problem seems to be that the backplate is losing pressure. But I suspect it could be both because when you're
putting that shim in there or that paper, you're
increasing the pressure and that would fix the issue no matter what part caused it. So if you do succumb to the Joy-Con drift and don't wanna send it in to
Nintendo for whatever reason, this is easy enough for
you to fix yourself. I'll leave an Amazon affiliate
link in the description for that iFixit toolkit that I use. It's a bit overkill for
just this one project, 'cause you really only need
two of the bits in here, but I've been asked about it before. And I bought this one way
back when I did my first Joy-Con shell swap. Now, this isn't gonna necessarily get me to use my Joy-Con more, but I will periodically
check back on this one to see if it's holding up. Maybe while I'm using my Satisfye Grip! Use code WULFFDEN! (electric guitar wails)
(explosion blasts) So what do you guys think
about this Joy-Con drift fix? Have you tried it for yourself? Is this something you're
willing to try now? Again, unless you've done
stuff like this before, I'd recommend just sending
it back to Nintendo, but if you've done stuff like this before and wanna try it for yourself,
absolutely go for it. Let me know what you think
in the comments down below. @ me on Twitter, any and all of this other social media garbage. A lot of what you saw here
was taken from a livestream over on Twitch.tv/WULFFDEN, where I was trying to
induce drift on here. And that got distilled onto a clips video over on WULFF DEN Clips, if you wanna see a YouTube video of me purposely trying to get drift
and getting very frustrated. But, of course, the most important things that you can do to help
support this channel is just subscribe right here and only click that bell
if you want the new videos and you're gonna click those notifications because that helps us out tremendously. And share this video with a friend. A friend who might have
succumbed to the drift and could use an easy solution like this. Thank you very much. Have yourself a very good week.
