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Of all the things I had to change on my switch (1), I had to do a joy con battery once. It was annoying because the only third party battery I could find was like one millimeter wider and was a pain to insert.
Mostly my repairs were loads of sticks and joy con rails. Once i had to change the switch fan that started to fail too. Also the shitty plastic on the backplate started to crack and I replaced it too.
I even replaced the sd card slot, but I think I didn’t need to do that in the end. I had read errors that were due to software and I “just” needed to transfer my games to the system memory and back to the SD again. Weird stuff.
Haven’t needed to repair anything on the 2 yet. I hope it’s a bit more reliable.
Of all the things I had to change on my switch (1), I had to do a joy con battery once. It was annoying because the only third party battery I could find was like one millimeter wider and was a pain to insert.
Mostly my repairs were loads of sticks and joy con rails. Once i had to change the switch fan that started to fail too. Also the shitty plastic on the backplate started to crack and I replaced it too.
I even replaced the sd card slot, but I think I didn’t need to do that in the end. I had read errors that were due to software and I “just” needed to transfer my games to the system memory and back to the SD again. Weird stuff.
Haven’t needed to repair anything on the 2 yet. I hope it’s a bit more reliable.