r/eXtremeRate

I've been wanting to do something to my controller for a while. Finally took the jump. I love it. Next time im gonna do the hall effects.

I received and installed this kit about 24 hours ago. The first 2 pictures are what it looked like immediately after installation. The third picture was when I picked it up around 16 hours later and I took the last picture a few minutes ago ? Is there a solution to this ? I didn't drop the controller or anything, I set it down normally on the table. The buttons still work, but now I cannot map new profiles cause I can't see anything on the screen

This was a first shell swap for me. I’ve encountered a few problems with the swap and it took such a large amount of my time with a meh result.

I want to start by saying that most of my anguish with the shell replacement was with the quality of the screws. Most of the screws were not going down to place, causing click and pop sounds, and just were incredibly difficult to screw into the shell. I’m not sure if it’s the screws or the quality of the plastic, but even using the OEM screws wasn’t working well. A few places on my shell swap let out creek sounds with pressure, and I couldn’t tighten the 5 screws around the screen fully, which caused me to be unable to place the rubber covers of the screws on the screen.

The A and B buttons feel awful. All the other buttons feel fine. It almost feels like the A and B hardly depress when pressed (no to very minimal feedback).

The most annoying part was removing the rotating hinges from the original. I imagine I probably damaged them, but my gba sp doesn’t fully close (stays open). It does “snap” when opening and closing as intended, however.

I did also order a gba shell to replace, but I’m not motivated to swap that after my experience with this.

Edit: I’ve been reading that the nes shells have a common issue of the gba sp not fully closing. So I got unlucky with my selection?

(FINAL EDIT)****

I just want to say, my hinges are in fact not broken, my hinges are not (and never were) installed incorrectly. The fault is with the janky extreme rate shell that everybody had seemed to recommend.

​I just inserted the same hinges onto my original gba sp shell and it closes and snaps shut/open perfectly.

I’ve been reading this morning that the nes shells seem to have this problem. Aside from the hinge situation, once again, the biggest anguish was the god damn screws that seemed impossible to thread into place (every. Single. One). Why is the plastic not threaded?

For the people that really tried to offer help, thank you. For the other people that rushed in here to just immediately go “everything wrong”, I don’t know what to say to you. Downside is I’ve wasted many, many hours of my time trying to figure out what is wrong with this. Upside is extremerate reached out and hoping they remedy the situation with a new, actually functioning shell. This experience taught me I should be able to hopefully put things together quickly too. Let’s just hope I figure out the stupid screw design situation.

Leaving this thread here for anyone who may need to reference in the future. Awful experience. Picture in comments of seated OEM with same hinges. Cross posted to r/Gameboy

I bought these thinking it would come with the bases as well, I assume the bases are easily interchangeable like on the dualshocks, anybody know where I can get a pair? Extremerate can you help me out?

Wanted to challenge myself to a different build and honestly it was 10x easier than standard Dualsense controllers. Jury is still out on the feeling/performance of the back paddled but I’ll give it some time to get used to. I would really love to have a clicky trigger kit with this.

!! White and pink are a perfect match!!

First time I’ve ever worked on a joycon, I’ll admit. I’ve done several switch lites and my steam deck with little to no issue. But I’ve probably been sitting here for about an hour trying to get this back part of the joycon to lay flat and clip in to no avail. I’ve looked at all the screws at least that are easily available, I’ve messed with different positions of the “release” tab / metal bar… I’m stumped. Does this warrant a complete tear down and checking other screws? Any advice is welcome. This one’s really testing me. Sorry this video isn’t super great, let me know if you have any questions.

Decided to have multi colored face buttons. Itll also help my kids when I tell them which button they need to press.

This was a lot harder than I thought it was about to be going into it