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The Switch

You can find the custom D-pad shells from Basstop here, as well as all the regular Joy-Con and Switch shells. You can also find the exact E.Durable toolkit we used here.

To assemble it yourself, be sure to watch our in-depth tutorial on how to mod your Switch and Joy-Con with custom cases, the process for the special D-pad shell is nearly identical. You can watch that walkthrough below (or read it here) and take a closer look at the D-pad variant above:

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The D-pad itself feels surprisingly good. Even though it’s basically just a single piece of plastic to replace the button faces, it hasn’t felt secondhand or faulty at all in the time I’ve used it. It’s impressive, especially considering it takes basically no extra effort over the regular custom shells to assemble.

The whole process is relatively straightforward, but it can still result in a broken controller if you aren’t careful. Having the right tools helps, and hopefully you can learn from the mistakes we already made in the videos above.

Tom Marks is an Associate Editor focusing on PC gaming at IGN. You can follow him on Twitter