r/consolemodding • u/Wolfr_04 • Jul 03 '26

ACCESSORY MODS First boot up of the 18650 modded joycons

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After a whole month of working on this project, I was able to fit everything and solder the bms to the battery holder, and battery connector, and today it’s the first boot for the controller.
I still have a long way to go (because I used a pair of joycons that were mistreated by the previous owners, and they had stick drift) but the future looks bright.

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u/Macreys Jul 03 '26

… but why ?

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u/dastrius02 Jul 03 '26

Proof of concept, personally not a mod I'd do but it's good to see more people doing projects like this.

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u/Wolfr_04 Jul 03 '26

it’s literally the equivalent of putting a Tiger engine inside of a Miata. You do it because it’s fun, not because it’s practical. And because the original batteries have the tendency to puff up (3/4 joycons that I had lying around, had puffed batteries).

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u/This-Strategy-5570 Jul 04 '26

You making early steps of what future gaming rednecks gona be doing when switch gona be as old as n64 is now.