Modding the console case is considerably riskier and has heftier warranty ramifications - but Joy-Cons, which I did, are a doddle. While doing this will definitely void your warranty and totally could result in a broken Joy-Con (undertake this operation at your own risk, obviously), I actually found it remarkably easy. So, I hear you inner-monologue: sure, they can look cool, but how much of a pain is it? The answer: not as much as you'd think. Indeed, I had that classic see-through purple Game Boy Color at one point (later, I got the equally awesome Lime Green model) and I ended up deciding on the semitransparent purple Joy-Con as a tribute to that classic model Game Boy. I'm an eighties kid (just), so I have fond memories of the craze of cramming technology into slightly-gaudy semitransparent plastic shells in order to show off the circuit boards underneath. It's bad-ass.Īt first Joy-Con mods were a case of buying parts off slightly shady eBay sellers, but since a bunch of replacement Nintendo Switch console shells and Joy-Con shells are now easily available on Amazon, I finally decided to take the plunge by modding a set of Joy-Cons - and I love the results so much I just had to take a moment to post about it. I now have a sweet 90s-style transparent purple Joy-Con pair. The community springing up around modding Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons is brilliant.
