thrashers game console mods guide

thrasher_565 · December 12, 2024

so i like modding and well i also like modding game consoles and swapping shells out. so this is just a list of parts to buy for consoles. its not evry console or evry part. i was going to keep some of this stuff to myself but decided to pass it on.

so a bit about me and consoles. started with a nes and played smb3 with my dad. later on he got a snes(also had the black killer instinct console but lost it? cant find a pic of it dont no why?) and a few games with it and the rest was up to me to get at pawn stores. had a game cube before i left home. latter on got a ps3, wii but mostly played my pc and yes i had an crt monitor at that time and built my i7920 with an 3549 or something fan less... but anyway i had to sell some of my stuff like most of my nes stuff as i was moving. anyway between that time i modded my ps2, xbox, xbox 360, wii remote shells and back then they were like $40 called the ghost shell. probably round 2012 ish...

anyway so there are shells for may consoles and controllers as well as mods and this is a list of interesting shells to me. im more nintendo fan as i grow up with it but i still collect xbox and ps consoles and controllers (dont have many games for them thow) lbp of coarse. just got an astrobot but no ps5...

some point i got a bunch of consoles 30 sfc and 30 n64(modded them cut the tabs out of the n64 and sfc cut the slot bigger not worth doing) and like 140 n64 controllers and about 350 sfc controllers i was going to fix and resell. but its so much work and boring opening them up to fix em and is not worth doing just get a minimum hour job even ifs its 4 hours a week you make more moeny for your time and its guaranteed sales. most game stores fix stuff like this on there down time with no customers so.

if you do it as a hobby thats fine to but for prophet its not all that. posably installing hdmi mods you can make moeny with that thow...specially when tired from work and have tendonitis...

so for snes\sfc parts: difference from snes and sfc: snes has purple buttons 2 concave 2 convex and long cord, sfc 4 color buttons all concave and short cable. they sell lots of this stuff from japan as no one has space or time for it and they get it for free (from like hard off sos like store) so they sell it in lots mostly junk lots. form time to time you can get a deal but prices have been going up mostly shipping. some lots its a gable wither the stuff works or are all broken. for sfc controllers problems are mostly dpad rubber broken, button pad broken, or start button broken (why the start button i dont no... or they just need a cleaning. so you can find pads online and some are good and some are not. there are some that use white rubber pads and the contact pad has bumps on it witch make it so it dose not contact right if you find a way to rub thow bumps off you can make em work probably...then there was a clear pad witch didn't have thow bumps hard to fined these days...i found a few so ill link them. i use a usb to nes\snes\n64 adapter and go to device manager and left click on the game pad and you can calibrate it and see witch buttons work. for n46 all of the 140ish controllers i got its all been the joy stick loose witch you can get an gc like joystick to replace it. there are parts to repair the oem joystick and vary in quality so might need some trimming to make it work. there are ways of fixing the holes in the joystick bow with an ball baring and maybe the re print of the joystick or find good quality oem joysticks. some times in the lot you get a tight stick witch is lucky. they have so many of this stuff they sell it as junk and just sell the nice looking stuff. lots of junk oem joysticks from stores can be found too on ebay all the time. kinda un taped market thow require some leg work and a name i guess.

links are just a place holder and whats available to me in Canada and you might find cheaper prices els where.

also alot is from aliexpress there are resellers with sites but they add alot to the cost like $60 vs $300 in some case... i no its there job but its a bit much some times. if you can afford to buy from them do so up to you. some stuff will only be left at there sites. things come and go also on aliexpress just take time restocking. at fist aliexpress sucked but now it has PayPal and so far not been scammed yet so... but you can be at any site and i have been on all sites so...

wave bird shell swap all swaps require cutting some plastic and you have to cut for the dial on the controller and dongle too.

why shell swap? well 3 party controller they just kill them self's over time but you want the cool color it has. i shell swapped red wii mote, transparent orange ps3 (didn't work right) wavebird, xbox 360. for consoles that i shell swapped are snes, n64, ps2 slim fat, xbox, psm, ps, gamecube, wii (also didn't work right) attempted switch remote, pro controller, switch back panel.

swapping the switch shell: the back part is essay to do but the front requires you taking the whole thing apart and using a heat gun to remove the screen so its a big job i would pay some one to do it imo.. for switch light also have to take it all apart also heat gun the screen and need to take it apart to replace the joy sticks same gos for the controller.

switch controller: is ok to swap shells but its tetanus to do say 6 out of hard scale. small peaces.

nes:

clear link 2

transparent red link 2

smoke link 2

transparent purple

nes buttons: link 2 link 3 link4

snes:

transparent purple link 2

sfc:

clear link 2

transparent purple

smoke link 2

snes parts:

clear rubber set link 2

clear 100x dpad 1x dpad

clear 100x ABXY pad 1x ABXY pad

clear 100x LR pad

100x ss pad 1x ss pad

(not confirmed but might be clear pads... buy at your own risk)

restrosix pads set i think? i think its clear link 2

snes controller:

n64:

translucent  dark green

(i no there were thows transform head shells but dont no were you buy em i seen them on ebay before)

n64 parts:

joy sticks:

gears:

bowls:

I haven't had much susess of fixing and oem n64 joystick with new gears bowls or joysticks just don't feel right...

gamecube:

clear gbp

Translucent Purple gbp

Transparent Green gbp

Gc controller:

wave bird: (oem colors were gray and silver no other color was made)

(dont no how a shell swap worked with this shell i have not done it so...)

joystics: (some joysticks works on other controllers like the wii mote

dongles (don't work with oem controller)

wii:

transparent blue zelda

transparent blue dragon?

smoke zelda

clear pokeymon i think?

wii u: ( never was a shell for it as far as i no other then stickers)

zelda Wii U Gamepad Housing

white wii u gamepad housing

Wii controllers:

Yellow A spongbob?

yellow B racing stripe

Pink helow kiddy?

Green White flower?

switch:

Transparent blue dock

Transparent orange dock

Transparent smoke dock

controller:

Classic 1989 dpad

The Great Wave dpad

Wood Grain dpad

Classics SNES Style dpad

Gold Star Universe dpad

Classics NES Style dpad

sfc Classic dpad

Blue Flame dpad

sega genies:

dreamcast:link 1 link 2

Sega MD3:

xbox: link 1 (preorder)

xbox 360:

orange controller buttons (no controller?)

Black

microps:

ps2: link 1
ps2 slim

there many of these shells so i wont list them easy to find.

Psp:

gb:

gbc

gba:

sp:

ds:

dsi:

dsi xl:

switch lite:

n64 video fix

bowl fix 1

ball bowl fix i think? part 2

transparent most controller shells

hdmi nes remake (can take a real nes cpu if you want)

m64

water cooled xbox 360 never was complete messed up the cd drive... didnt find a way to mount it ether..

30x n64

controller shells. i took them apart and thought of putting them in dishwasher to clean them but it shrinks them so...dont no that.. most were fine but few then n64 system shell were pnta...

oh look a flock of wave birds... i got them as they were cheap the dongles are what cost all but 2 were broken. i only got 1 of each color of the 3party controllers to swap shells with some time ill get to it... oem pcb in 3party shell

sfc and n64. you can do the retro bright to un fade the sfc but there not much prohest in sfc atm...so

opening controllers for days...and days...and days...oh... i dont recommend you open each sfc controller up as there shells are slightly different so was a pita to put back together. just do one at a time. pro tip the nse controllers are a junk lot as it and lost the gamble something is broken with them other then the pads and dont no how to fix so that was a loss im guessing its the big chip? (ya its the big chip CD4021BE need to be un solder and new one resoder)

this is the idea of the snes to sfc mod not worth doing just buy an adapter. the n64 mod is easier but still. cutting the tab out of a snes to fit sfc games too probably is not worth doing making your snes games more sloppy. i thought of doing to add value to my systems as there not much money to be made with them.