
Deepak
Professional procrastinator
Towns Folk
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Have you found games hard to play?My left joycon started drifting a bit not long after I got my switch. From what I’ve heard, it starts small like that but it can eventually get really bad, making games very hard to play.
Both of my two left Joy-Cons started drifting a few months ago. I read a bunch of articles online. I even considered buying a repair kit at some point! But then I tried recallibrating the stick on my green left joy con. It was sort of brand new. I bought the green left joy con about four months ago at the time, do the drifting problem isn't that severe I would say. So after I recallibrated the green left joy con, the joy con drift was fixed! I tried recallibrating it several more time just to be safe. The blue left joycon however, the one that came with my Nintendo Switch, had a severe case of joycon drift. No matter how many times I recallibrate, the stick always inputs up no matter what. It's kind of annoying, so I replaced it with the green left joy con. I used the green left joy con all the during hand held play ever since. A couple days later, and I watched this video that said using WD-40 may fix the joy con drift on my blue left joy con. Luckily, I had some WD-40 over at the hardware store, so I bought some. On the way home, I was thinking if I just wasted some money, that I should've just bring it to a repair shop, which was more reliable, but expensive. Plus, if I had took it to the repair shop, the warranty will be voided. Not that it matters, as the warranty was going to expire in a few months anyway. (or a year, I don't know, I left the warranty over at my friend's house, as we played smash bros. immediately after I bought the splatoon colored Joy-Cons and my pro controller. He says "I'll find it when I do spring cleaning") But after I applied the WD-40, the joy con drift was fixed! Sure, it felt a bit slippery at first, but after a few weeks, the feel went back to normal. When I joined the forum, Sky told me that Joy Con drift was in every Joy Con, so I concluded that I'm lucky it didn't happen to me yet. But as for my Joy-Cons situation right now, they're feeling better than ever! I never stopped using the green left joy con as my default joycon for handheld play, because when I put back the blue left joy con, it just feels weird now. So I now play with green and red Joy-Cons all the time.So im sure you all know about the joy con drift issue. And its actually pretty common among switch users. So what i wanted to know is whether its as bad as everyone makes it sound. I mean, can it ruin games entirely? (Like super smash bros or animal crossing).
so would a game like smash bros (which has pressure sensitive walking i think) be ruined entirely cause of drift?Yea it's pretty bad. It's a full on hardware fault caused by them cheaping out, It's not a random issue that can happen in some. Lubricants and stuff can mask the issue for varied amount of time (unless the drifting is cause by another reason for now).
I only really started noticing my left joycon drifting when it started reaching the stupidly bad levels. Tried to calibrate it the best I could but nothing helped much. I would be playing a game like cat quest 2 and I'd just be constantly walking around the place, made the game basically unplayable since I would be constantly moving and in that game, there's no pressure sensitive walking, meaning it's always at full speed.
After trying to get new controllers I got a 3rd party pro controller and a new set of joycons. Those all worked perfectly fine. So I said to myself at this point, I have a pair of backup joycons, why not try and fix my drifting one? I ordered a couple of replacement sticks off of amazon since I already had the tools and when they came I followed a guide and sucessfully replaced the stick. Was a ton easier then I thought it'd be, even with my kinda shaky hands I didn't break anything. After replacing it I went in to calibrate it and I was incredibly suprised by how unusuable the new stick was with the calibration I had to use for the broken one, it was just everywhere. Seems like I kept calibrating it and the issue was small enough that that would "fix it", and it was only until calibration couldn't do anything anymore is when I finally noticed.
I've now got 2 perfectly working sets of joycons + a spare new stick ready to replace if/when needed. I looked as well at the stick that was broken and I can verify the hardware issue, the grooves where present and they where deep as hell.
so would a game like smash bros (which has pressure sensitive walking i think) be ruined entirely cause of drift?
Have you found games hard to play?
I've got a newer model and had drift with it, drift is more a use thing, if you use they joystick alot the it will start to drift because of nintendos choice in hardware.perhaps that newer model fixed the joycon drift?
Ty for the tip, I'll try this out ^You basically clean the inside of your joycons stick with rubbing alcohol and a Q-tip. Mainly keep your console clean for it to work properly. I do agree drift is a pain in the but tho honestly.
Ty for the tip, I'll try this out ^
Yeah that’s exactly what ended up happening, I did the q-tip + rubbing alcohol and it got rid of the drift for only a few days. It did reduce a little but the drift will probably come back fully within another few days if I keep playingLube is only going to help for a bit.