The Secret To Fixing Gamecube Controllers...

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In this video, I'll show you how to replace a worn-out GameCube joystick with a Nintendo Nunchuck joystick. It's a quick and easy fix that can save your controller. Watch the video for the full process and see how it's done. Don’t forget to like and subscribe for more tips and tricks!
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Chapters:
0:00 What's Wrong With Your Controller?
0:47 Testing the Controller
1:13 How to Open a GameCube Controller
1:58 Assessing the Stick Box
2:30 Removing the Board
3:06 How to Remove Solder
4:52 Remove a Wii Nunchuk Stick Box
5:38 How to Basic Solder
6:56 Replacing GameCube Thumbsticks
7:20 Will It Work?

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I hope the solderer gets some lessons

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[@StefanPiano]

There's actually different models of the GameCube controller, specifically different in the stickbox. Later revisions used the Type 3 box, which is also the best one out of the three. These ones are sadly only really found in the Wii Pro controller or the Wii Classic controller. The one in the video looks like either a type 1 or type 2. Edit: 7:51 oh well, looks like I was too early

[@FigureFarter]

I have a controller that uses T3. My gamecube from november 2006

[@53sindako]

RKJXV, RKJXP, RKJXK... etc... and every model has different numbers defining types of the yoke and the type of the micro button...

[@mohamedasfarmr5885]

If you put your soldering iron straight into rosin it will evaporate quickly from the tip, instead of place the desoldering wick in rosin and place the soldering iron top of it. It will absorb the rosin after that you can use for desoldering it will make the desoldering job easier.😊

[@England91]

Which is the reason he should of used flux on the board before using the wick

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That orange controller Is really cool looking..I still have my original Nintendo 64 system from 1996..it works perfectly..oh the memories..😅😅

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[@PaperLuna2812]

Hi, I’ve serviced a lot of GameCube controllers and the non interchangeable stick boxes are I believe specifically the T3 ones, which are basically all plastic. You actually are able to use those on older boards, you just have to melt down the two white plastic bits very carefully with the soldering iron, or just sand them down with sanding paper. I did this with a T3 stick box from a Wii Classic Controller and it works so well now. Hope this helps anyone hoping to do this! Just don’t lift any pads, it’s a bad adrenaline rush.

[@SoberAddiction]

Some tips with desoldering the joysticks incoming. For whoever reads this. First, add some flux and some fresh solder to the joystick. The fresh solder helps the old solder flow easier. Use the tip of your wick and cut it off as it gets filled up. Put the flux on your wick, then press the side of the tip of the iron to the wick. Or better yet, get a C3 or a C4 tip. The ST-J Bent tip for your iron should sit with the bend down and your tip shouldn't poke holes through your wick. Use the side of the tip, not the tip tip of your tip. Putting the tip of your iron doesn't do what you think it is doing. Get some liquid flux, or a little brush that you can use to apply the solder right onto the board. The flux helps everything flow, so you want to apply a decent amount. Just don't go overboard with it. Clean everything with IPA - Isopropyl Alcohol (Rubbing Alcohol), the higher the percent the better, and Q-Tips. Before you desolder, after you desolder and before you resolder, and after as well. You want a clean metal surface for the solder to bond to. Flux helps with that as well, but you need it clean. Get a fan to suck the fumes away from you, It doesn't have to be a big one, but flux fumes aren't good for you. Excellent job man! I love seeing this stuff get repaired rather than thrown out. There are some great videos on YT about soldering. There's and old one for NASA that is fantastic. It's called "Above and Beyond" on PeriscopeFilm YT channel.

[@PercyPanleo]

I've noticed that white PCBs (or PCBs where the silk screen covers most of the board) are pretty common when translucent shells are likely to be involved. Given when the GameCube released it makes sense that they would consider translucent shells as a potential option (though in the end I don't believe there were ever any stock controllers with translucent shells for the GameCube)

[@FigureFarter]

There were, one of the controllers was indigo on the top, clear on the bottom

[@E-hab]

Why do you use a solder wick from the middle? Use the correct soldering iron tip. Add flux or new solder to the old joints before desoldering. Use flux with the solder wick. Clean the board before resoldering the components. Use flux again when soldering. Clean it at the end again.

[@cartanfan-youtube]

Are you only here to complain?

[@E-hab]

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[@trelag]

@E-hab As someone who's pretty new to soldering, this was helpful. Thank you!

[@E-hab]

@@trelag You welcome

[@real_synthax]

Thank you! I came here to say pretty much all of this. Technique matters a lot here! Also just a huge waste of solder wick.

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[@SilvaDreams]

Soldering is fairly easy so long as you have a decently steady hand but there are proper techniques to it you have to learn... He failed to do a number of them here. You flux the wick not the tip of the soldering iron for one. Plenty of rosin while slightly messy will make things cleaner in the end. Also if you are just learning you started with something rather hard (well maybe depending on the fix on the switch) but I started soldering at 6 just taking apart my RC cars and eventually learning to do it to fix my PC (Welcome to 80's tech where capacitors blew)

[@wryyyy]

Nintendo had a thing for white PCBs back with the GBC and GBA. I assume you noticed the rather funny "engineering" bit nintendo did with the analog stick's skirt that touches the PCB when tilted, a very strategically made cut to accommodate the support solderjoint of the left trigger slider.

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[@brothiscatcreaks]

awesome! id recommend using some amtech or solderking flux paste instead of rosin, its way better and more comfortable to use

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Wild! Great find, great work!

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Loved this video, especially the soldering parts, I'd love to learn as well and your small tips are helpful.

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[@GamesInAlpha]

Please, before soldering the replacemnt, clean the PCB. Old flux should allways be cleaned before putting more

[@NBC_7]

Soooo…. What exactly did Nintendo hide? I think I missed that part

[@HeadlessMaruder]

Im guessing the fact u can swap control sticks

[@sleepdeep305]

@@HeadlessMaruderYeah but it’s not exactly a secret. Aren’t Wii U joysticks also compatible with switch pro joysticks?

[@Digi-Yamo]

I love orange spice GameCubes. Also I have been watching your content for years now, you have come a super long way. Thank you!

[@Cobalon]

the stick boxes being swappable make sense! the Wii controllers were made first on GameCube hardware as prototypes and they used a lot of existing parts from the GameCube and the GBA SP. neither stick box has a click button and the only difference between the actual sticks is that the nunchuk has less grip and is taller than the GameCube one

[@avrel820]

Amazing job 😊

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[@Le_Grand_Rigatoni]

0:16 "Why do you want to fix this ?" Well, because it's... broken ?

[@remty516]

the board being white isn't a sticker. it's green underneath because the board is actually a standard green board, it's just the silkscreen

[@MisterYeko]

I knew the stick on the gamecube looked definitely similar to the Nunchuk when i swapped my Gamecube Controller with a third party shell. Since i experienced myself with the Nunchuck and really recognize the controller part inside. (yes it does work swapping a third party shell with the OEM GCN controller but you need to do some bit sanding, also use cutting wire to cut off the plastic part of the rumble shell and sometimes maybe few pipe, because it will push the board.)

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Where in Canada do you operate? I might live close enough to come to you with repairs

[@alleycatjack4562]

Awesome job. Didn't realize they were the same part either. Highly recomend you getting, or building a fume extractor though. Burning flux fumes is incredibly bad for your health. They are simple devices that can be made quiet and don't cost much.

[@bader51500]

3:30 I got an electric all-in-one solder sucker. When using it, you don't need a soldering iron or a solder wick to remover through hole components, just some flux and voilà ✨️

[@bader51500]

I think it's called a de-soldering gun or something like that 😅

[@teeheetummytums972]

Desoldering iron works pretty good too.

[@sebastiantorres7299]

Nice Video That's Interesting ngl using that controller

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[@Frollet1]

If you don't have a fume extractor you can gently blow as you a solder and it gets all the nasties away

[@PhoneRepairGuru]

I do it’s just at my soldering station not my main desk 😅

[@T3KFTW]

for rosin core or flux core solder you dont need to pre-apply flux it's very helpful. I only ever need to use flux for desoldering or reflowing now

[@cookingplayer1828]

I have the interests like fixing and the satisfying feeling after

[@tuniaaaxx]

The Wii nunchuck (at least here on Spain) came with the gray stick, I got one of those early models, they just made them white later

[@hyakin7818]

Isn't a loose stick better for melee as you can turn faster with a loose stick

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I think camera man deserves a raise 😅

[@MiguelDeMarchena]

One tip i will give you my friend to make de-solder process easier first put a bit of fresh solder on each solder joint and put some flux to the solder wick braid, the sucker or soldapullt is not a bad tool at all, just need a little practice to become good using it and will help you to save a huge length of solder wick braid if you use it and then use the wick, long ago I had years of experience during the vacuum tube and the transistor age, when we had to make our own flux, etching chemicals for making pcbs, liquid cold thinning and even solder mask heat resistant paint (almost 40yrs ago) and sorry if my english no so good amigo.

[@why_is_every_username_used]

I’m no expert in this, but can’t it be interchanged for some new joystick? A newer one with non stick drift tech or a Hall effect stick etc? So it would last longer?

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[@floppydisk4500]

If you put the flux in the holes before you put the part through them, you end up using a lot less and it works a little better in my opinion

[@floppydisk4500]

Doesn't work for micro soldering, but it does help with some applications like this

[@user-qr8ze7kw8t]

Cool video. Old school Nintendo head here lost faith 💔💯

[@MMARC..]

my offbrand Xbox controler has a white board

[@HomersTaken]

Use Amtech flux next time. You can get it from Northridge Fix. They ship from Cali and you don't even need to clean them off. It also doesn't leave that awful brownish red residue. I would highly recommend you try it out next time and not go by the cheap rosin or flux.

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Could you repair an xbox one/x/s controller with the bumpers and stick. As well as the ps controllers to play nice😅

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[@DarkGT]

The customer missed an opportunity to replace the rubber buttons pad while the controller is open.

[@nicwelch]

I would urge you to get comfortable using a desoldering pump. They work great in the right situations.

[@mrwang420]

They are interchangeable because Nintendo does this all the time. They always use their older hardware as much as they can in their newer console. It's apart of their philosophy.

[@RehanRo3734Wreal]

I have a soldering iron but I didn't use it from a long time and now it's not heating

[@nextbizzy]

We call that better than factory my friend!!

[@PADB]

Wouldn’t it have been better to swap the potentiometers on the GameCube controller instead of taking the nunchuck one? The right stick is usually underused and the loose stick is perfect for smash attacks since people normally flick it.

[@rakhsanrazan4333]

Yes!

[@53sindako]

It's still the same. some use the T1 T2 T3 like gamecube. (without micro switch in other controllers they use the common RKJX thumb pointer/stick amd they are still the same for every analoge controller ... I've been fixing these since PS1....😅 The best quality ones are used by Microsoft in their controllers. i should know who provides microsoft with these RKJXV & RKJXP pointers. the PS joustick drift and fail alot.... used to buy them in sets and change them. . there are other types of these analoge pointers with micro switches. like the ones used in PSP (rkjxu & rkjxs) and Nintendo Switch joycons (rkjxy). still though . the rkjxv/rkjxp are the best.

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[@zaxchannel2834]

My favorite 'hack' to do was to swap the 'c' stick out with a regular analog stick

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[@S己G]

What causes the loose joystick, though? I've had multiple controllers do that to me, and I've been unable to find out.

[@DragonProtector]

Plastic nub wears down

[@vadnegru]

I tried to repair xbox one controller, but replaced unit was way off center. And no, anti drift board doesn't fix it, it's still way of, no matter how i twisted resistor adjustments

[@tightanddry]

we love melee players!

[@Zebra66]

All analog sticks are interchangeable. They're just a pair of potentiometers under the plastic.

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Subscribed so your camera man doesn’t need to sniff those fumes also… I’m hacking you RN

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The d-pad on the gameboy advance is also interchangeable with the gamecube controller. It's not really news. TwT

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I have an og silver controller. I think I'll replace the thumb sticks after having seen this.

[@ItzMiKeKirbY]

This is pretty common in the smash community. Among a ton of other customization available.

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1:43 wow "Stick" around because you are rreparing a joystick 😂😂

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i just got my gamecube today. what a coincidence

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and thumbnail

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Ngl but orange GameCube is rare

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Gamecube has a cool 3D GUI OS. God bless.

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Fellow Kirby player on smash 4! :D

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The GBA also has a white board

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Right

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Just open a few game boy pockets and colors, and you will see “white” boards! 1:58

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Did they?

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If you want a quiet solution for the solder fumes I got an inline fan with a carbon filter, it's super strong, but still cheap and quiet. I'm in canada too and they were easy to get on amazon. :D