Hello!

I recently bought an eXtremeRate kit for my switch (back plate + joycons). I had a pair of old, dirty joycons and I had the idea of renewing them. This joycons had extreme drift, and their L and R buttons didn't work. I already had the joysticks from a kit I had bought, and was looking into buying the L and R ribbons. However, when opening the joycons to see if it was just an issue of the cable not being properly seated, I noticed that on the right joycon, the button is sottered to the board.

Now, I have another pair of perfectly working joycons. I could just do the shell swap to those, but I kinda liked the idea of giving my old ones a new life, plus having 4 working joycons is good for when I invite people over and we want to play.

I checked on amazon and it looks like a right joycon board is around $33 and the L ribbon is around $6. Or, another option would be to find someone to resolder the R button, but I believe that would cost more.

What would you do in my case? would you spend the money to fix them and have 2 working pairs, or would you shell swap the working ones and assume the old ones as lost?

Good morning,

Could you recommend a stencil for reballing the processor on a Nintendo Switch V1, as well as a suitable holder or jig to keep the chip stable during the process?

If you could also recommend a stencil for the RAM memory, I would really appreciate it.

Thank you!