{"id":42911,"date":"2018-08-25T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/video_can_homemade_wireless_hacks_work_on_horis_d-pad_joy-con_controller"},"modified":"2018-08-25T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T02:00:00","slug":"video-can-homemade-wireless-hacks-work-on-horis-d-pad-joy-con-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/25\/video-can-homemade-wireless-hacks-work-on-horis-d-pad-joy-con-controller\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Can Homemade Wireless Hacks Work On Hori&#8217;s D-Pad Joy-Con Controller?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c619e8f2a282f\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c619e8f2a282f\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/video_can_homemade_wireless_hacks_work_on_horis_d-pad_joy-con_controller\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>When Japanese peripheral maker Hori revealed its D-Pad Joy-Con controller, it appeared to be the perfect solution to all those 2D games available on the Switch eShop. Not long after the announcement, it became <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/horis_mario_and_zelda_themed_d-pad_joy-con_limited_to_handheld_mode_arrives_locally_this_september\">apparent<\/a> the left-hand controller was only able to be used in handheld mode &#8211; with a number of features removed including\u00a0the Bluetooth, Gyrosensor, HD rumble, battery and the SL\/SR buttons. This is not to forget <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/horis_working_on_a_fix_for_its_d-pad_joy-con_controller_that_gobbles_battery_life\">reports<\/a> of a Switch battery-draining issue prior to its western release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his latest video, our very own Alex Olney attempts to make the Hori Joy-Con wireless by swapping out the internals and replacing them with Nintendo&#8217;s official Joy-Con parts. The video runs for close to 20 minutes and the procedure is a delicate one. Take a look above and\u00a0be sure to tell us in the comments what you think about this unique controller.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] When Japanese peripheral maker Hori revealed its D-Pad Joy-Con controller, it appeared to be the perfect solution to all those 2D games available on the Switch eShop. Not long after the announcement, it became apparent the left-hand controller was only able to be used in handheld mode &#8211; with a number of features [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}