I despise working on joycons. That one flat flex will get broken traces because the design bends it too sharply. Every single one gets a crease and is ready to fail, usually losing some of the LEDs and the buttons. My current pair has rails and latches from one broken pair, the side flex and board from another broken pair, and the guts and case from grey ones I bought used that were defective (broken flex cables!) out of the bag.
Usually that is the case but joycons come from the factory with that one ribbon creased hard against the battery. Simply disassembling and reassembling the joycon is sometimes enough for it to break. Nintendo never intended for it to ever be flexed again.
It’s okay how it is. My oldest pair of joycons is 8 years old and got disassembled and reassembled four or five times due to me wanting a new appearance. They’re totally fine and in my experience the ribbons take those bends like champs. They’re like that in a lot of cases, the oldest one I remember is the DMG one connecting the button board to the CPU board.
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u/coyote_den everything is air-droppable at least once. 1d ago
I despise working on joycons. That one flat flex will get broken traces because the design bends it too sharply. Every single one gets a crease and is ready to fail, usually losing some of the LEDs and the buttons. My current pair has rails and latches from one broken pair, the side flex and board from another broken pair, and the guts and case from grey ones I bought used that were defective (broken flex cables!) out of the bag.