Change Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Colors Through Software!
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- An awesome program was released the other day that lets you change the internal firmware on each Joy-Con to show up as any color on the Nintendo Switch. This is a great finishing touch for anyone who has painted or changed the shell on their Joy-Con controllers.
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I can't guarantee how this modification will affect your Joy-Con in the eyes of Nintendo. This is mostly a hex edit that shouldn't get you banned from online activity, but I can't guarantee that. Know that you are doing this at your own risk, Thanks!
Spawn Wave Glad you gave a warning. I like your channel and watch almost daily don't want you sued.
This was the only thing keeping me from considering buying Colorware joycons. (I'm more of a stickler for HUD elements matching than I am for potential risks playing online with modded controllers)
Thanks for the tip!
i think it would be kind of stupid if you got banned for just changing a colour
Dalrish Sparta. We're talking Nintendo
why would they ban you for changing a color value? (before you ask no i havent been banned becuz i dont even have a switch yet, i'm getting mine on the 19th of this august)
This was extremely helpful. In order to get the backup to stop crashing I had to uninstall and reinstall the Visual C++ redist (x64 and x86) a few times. After that it worked fine. Now my Joy-Cons are gold to match my whole Famicom situation.
Famicom situation?
Wait what?
ay its wulff den
WULFIEEE
I did this to my gray ones. I made them solid black with white buttons so I could easily identify them after playing with friends, that way I didn't have to mark them physically in any way.
you are so smart
You see I am one step ahead in the fact that I have no friends, therefor i cannot lose my joy cons in amongst the others!
Nice
I am the first one of my friends to have a switch so I don't really have that problem...
I'm so lonely ;-;
Pedro Oliveira what's your friend code
"Let's pick a color we don't have"
*Proceeds to pick splatoon pink joycon*
LOL
it wasnt out at the time
I thought that aswell
I have the joycons, and it’s pretty much a perfect match, like no joke
Mayor Blue Squiddo my sister has the pink one. I don’t think it was put at the time
I feel like instead of dmca-ing this(like Nintendo always does) Nintendo should hire the guy who made this and integrate in to the settings on the switch
Logan Arzuaga that's funny.
The switch was made by Nintendo you know
but not the colorcode software @@dynomitediamond6296
they cant DMCA it
@@dynomitediamond6296 It was?!?!?!?!?!?!? No way!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!
YESSS! This is exactly what I needed. I really wanted purple and yellow joycons but too expensive to get individually so bought drift damaged grey, fixed the drift, bought purple and yellow shells and saved myself about £100 in the process. Then realised the image on the switch still showed old colour and it was like all my hard work was undone, then I saw this! My job is now complete!
That is an awesome way of preventing you from mixing up your Joycons with friends
Mine are now forest green :3
Derrick Jolicoeur If you don‘t have friends, then rip
exactly what i use it for
I just got the Mario Odyssey ones, which none of my other friends had.
I just got a Zelda skin on mine xD
For people who keep asking if this voids the warranty, this is directly lifted from the Switch's Warranty statement (UK/AU/NZ version):
"This warranty does not cover... the Product if it has been opened, modified or repaired by any person or company other than Nintendo or its authorised partners, or if the Product has its serial number altered, defaced or removed;"
Modified in this case includes altering firmware, so proceed at your own risk.
well this would have been helpful!
im just gonna jurn the colours back and hope they dont notice haha.......
I appreciate this! It's really helpful to know if I ever have to send anything back lol
I wondered when I got my Splatoon bundle how it stored this information. Now I know it's a very straightforward method to color code each one. This is incredible planning on Nintendo's part. Kudos to the Nintendo engineer who had the foresight for a seemingly small detail and kudos to the consumer who discovered this feature and found a way to utilize it.
BasicB oh
Can you give me the hexadecimal codes for Splatoon joycons? If the code is changed to the correct specific color then the system/games view it as the real deal.
I want Hexadecimal codes for Skyward Sword Switch Colors!!! =3
The codes are in wiki
Hey, so I have a friend who called Nintendo of America and asked if this would be a reason to ban online:
This is counted as a cosmetic mod. As long as you don't do something to the controller that would allow cheating in games, it will only void your warranty. This is safe to do (outside of warranty) and shouldn't result in a ban.
Gavin Smith Are u sure?
@@saulsproject95 Yea. I modded mine using this method and have had no issues at all.
@@RollinWheels404 And there are people who have cheated and have had no issues as well. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen. That being said, I've never heard of anyone getting banned for this.
Wow was researching how to customize joycons and it just so happens spawnwave was 4 years ahead of me nice to see the progress he's been through 👍
This is so straight forward! I just swapped my shells to Atomic Purple from the yellow purple set so this should be exciting!!
"A random color that we definitely don't have right now"
*Chooses bright blue and hot pink*
"let's make it hot pink, we would expect that"
*Looks at my Splatoon Joycon*
Does no one get what this is for? As he said in the video. It is so you can match the colour of your joycon with the colour you painted it with! It is not pointless. It's a nice thing for modders
lets say you have 20 joycons. there all different colors but on the screen it says its grey, imagine you lose one and you use the find joycon feauture, waste about 20 minutes to see which joycon it is..
@owo グーチmoshi dude rich people you never know
@owo グーチmoshi plus it was just an example
My animal crossing controller got vomited on so i had to change the shell from a different joycon, this really helps me replace it without having to buy two
Not to mention that ACNH players can trick their game into thinking that they have the special edition Switch made for the game and thus they can get the special one in-game.
Thankyou so much, I customised my switch earlier this year and wanted to do this but couldn't find the right tutorial. I'm so happy I stumbled across this video, I did this within 30 minutes and I'm beyond happy. Thankyouuuuuuuuu
I want them with RGB lighting
RGB is always required for good game performance.
Hell yeah
I know RGBifying everything is just a joke at this point. But dang RGB joycon would be sick
Especially if it changes colour during a splatoon match
Xander Cookie that would be fucking awesome.
I love that I can search for what I want and find it immediately, often on your channel! keep it up dude
Thank you for giving credit to the software dev. So many people will just make a how-to without giving credit.
This is really awesome. All I need now is a Switch.
Thanks, bro! Going to be modding my joycon soon, making them gold, so this tutorial helped/will help a bundle! It’ll certainly add some more character to the joycon. Thanks again :)
I think what's interesting is that it seems to suggest that future joycons might actually have different colored buttons/joysticks just like the Zacian/Zamazenta edition.
exactly! how do i change it individually? probably can't, right?
@@melsedits Wondering the same. My buttons are different colors.
Just did two sets of joy con's, not a single issue. Super easy for anyone seeing this comment late in 2019 and wondering if it still works.
Do you know if this is possible with the pro controller?
this is great for someone who installed a different color shell on their joy con.
My jungle green left and fire orange right joycon both came with these firmware color modifications from the guy I bought them from, good stuff!
Kwakune Where’d you buy them from?
My grey joycons had stick drift on the left side, after I decided to replace the stick I figured I'd buy a shell for cheap, so I got the OEM pastel pink and yellow. Nice to know I can change the color with this cool software. Thanks for the video
great video! thanks man! i feel like this is something that would have slipped by under my radar for sure with out you
Wow! All these years later and this still works! You saved my joy con! I bought hall effects sticks for my green joy cons since they were drifting and when replacing the sticks I noticed the battery on the left one had inflated so I pulled the battery out but ended up breaking the connector on the board. Couldn't find another green left joy con so I bought a refurb from Nintendo and swapped everything out to the green shell. I FORGOT the color thing and it was super bugging me to the point I was about to try and find another $80 pair to replace this with but then remember this video from all those years back. AND IT STILL WORKS! Awesome stuff!
now this gives me an idea.
Chameleon controllers that can change colors through software
Wow I almost forgot how far you have come. You're literally a beast now 💪
Soo proud of you man 😭
Good way to tag your own joycons when you have multiple of the same set, especially if they're the gray ones.
I'm seeing a heated war in the comments about this, but I'd like to have evidence just to be sure:
HAS ANYONE PLAYED ONLINE USING JOY-CON WITH EDITED COLOURS, AND HAVE YOU BEEN WARNED/BANNED BY NINTENDO?
Oh and also, is it possible for Nintendo to see if the colours have been edited, even if you change them back before sending them in for repairs (do joy-con save records or something)? I doubt it, but I guess anything's possible.
Nintendo can read the chip inside the Joy-Con and see if the saved colors match up with the actual ones. If they don't, you have voided your warranty.
The type of chip that is used in the Joy-Con *is not* capable of creating any kind of logs or similar. So if you flash the original colors you've un-voided your warranty ; )
Nintendo *could* ask for your Joy-Con colors everytime you connect to their servers, and they *could* host an "allowed colors" database to determine if you should be banned or not, but I really doubt they actually do.
Still, if they did it that way, they *could not* see that you changed the colors if you only use the retail ones.
Felix Klenk Good to know, thanks!
Felix Klenk z
Felix Klenk oh
Thank you so much i wanted to know how to do this i thought it was going to be complicated but thanks to your video it helped a bunch i put a NES Shell on my switch with the Joy cons, Pro Controller and the Dock and wanted to change the colors on the click to match the color of the joy cons and now i can thanks to your video, the new update allows the pro controller so ill be doing that after i finish the Joy Cons Thank You Again :):):):)
this is so good when most of us have the red and blue ones, and we all sync to someone's switch and then argue who's who because it's the same colour LOL
(well we can look at the green squares but not all my family is tech savvy) switching my joycon's colours would help differentiate fast
Do you know if the written colors will be reflected in games like 1-2 Switch (the rotation game for example)?
No
coolyjojo Yes, actually they do, just the buttons on the joycons are normal
Still works like a charm 3 years later.
Man, have you updated the firmware after changing the colors? If you did, were the controllers fine and working as normal?
I love how you have the Nintendo sign on top, cuz we all know Nintendo is the best. 😡🤘🏻
Just to confirm, I tried this myself with my OLED White Joycons, and they still work! They only disconnected once, but still work otherwise. I rewrote them to the Skyward Sword Exclusive switch colors since I didn't wanna buy the Skyward Sword Joycons, knowing how expensive THOSE are...
I also backed up the original files too, don't worry. ;3
There already is a neon pink controller.
Yes, but it is only a right Joy-Con as of right now. Also, obviously, it doesn't have grey buttons. But yeah, neon pink is a Joy-Con color, and it's kind of funny that he didn't remember that.
V-Man 776 they sell a set that it just the neon red and also a set that is just neon blue
Yesh
@ChOctoMilk _
Yep it’s a G for grammar nazi.
And a purple joy con too
I just did and it works really nice, don't forget to back up or write your SPI for the default settings.
MoiDj22 hey, where do you go in the link to download it to your computer? Once I open the website idk where to go from there
i hope Nintendo don't patch this
JBcaptian Im pretty sure they cant and they probably wont
Well, the already patch it lol
2020 still works great
@@Yosoyalexgamelays cap they can’t patch something they use that’s how they make the official joycons come up there color
thanks so much for the link/tutorial! so convenient when you have a million joycons laying around :)
*Ahem*
Thanks for reading this comment before watching the video.
If you're here AFTER watching, you might as well just move on to the next.
Few little things to note before watching:
A) This only changes the HUD controller color, not the shell of the controller itself.
B) This is not going to get your Switch banned, I see no legit reason unless Nintendo states otherwise. (they haven't)
C) This is more for people who want to customize their controller colors if they have uniquely painted it, bought an off-brand color controller, etc etc.
I don't rly think this small detail matters, but some people might, so great job!
Hot pink joycon already exits, it's part of the splatoon 2 bundle, along with a green one.
I made mine white with green buttons tho', so this is pretty cool to be able to see it match the software. '3'
Worked flawlessly for me, definitely sharing this one around.
A good way to get rid of the warranty for a HUD color lol
Thank you so much!!! It was such a disappointment after I swapped my shell and realized that there was joycon color inside switch
And you also did a nice app with ui FOR FREE!! you r going str8 to heaven dude
THOSE FUCKING BLUE SHEEELS
from mario kart
Ikr I hate them!!!!!
This reminds me of back when the PS3 first came out and everyone was changing the color of their gamer tags by USB linking their PS3s to a computer and running some program.
I'm happy with my neon edition (:
Thank you so much for this tutorial and now my switch is finally complete. 😊
I hope hacking the switch isn't actually this easy...
me llamo Jeff
If you think that's hacking then you know nothing about hacking.
HNIC technically it is hacking. It's not very complicated hacking, but it's still hacking
Bob bobinson
But this clearly is not what the guy I was responding to meant. Having access to the kernel is the first step to homebrew not piracy.
Well people did say that the Switch is easy to program for
Accessing the firmware of a JoyCon is one thing, but hacking the Switch itself is something else entirely. I doubt they put much effort, if any at all, into protecting the JoyCon firmware. There's not much harm that can be done by hacking a JoyCon.
Maybe this will clear your doubts:
I just used the app and then updated the JoyCon. Nothing bad happened, it kept working like always and even retained the color config i put on it.
So don't worry
Cool, I'll change the colors ,so I won't know which one is missing
Will*
@@orionarclight he can say whatever he wants
@@bluemike1215 Yea... It's been 2 years I don't know wtf I was correcting either
Nintendo could make transparent Joy-Cons with low powered led lights in them. Then go to options and select between colors Red, Orange, Yellow, Lime Green, Blue, Violet, Smoke, and White.
WARNING! If you tamper with your Switch or Joycon (and the like) software in anyway then you are granting Nintendo permission to ban your Switch from online play.
Stacona I doubt that Nintendo makes it so that it sends any data about the Joy-Con. Also, proof?
even if, how will nintendo know if that's not the real color of the joycon?
Lmao are you serious?
DragonJarvis exactly lol
So you could do this and use the, on someone else's switch and get it banned
Finally! I can have black joycons without them popping up as red and blue!
5:35 I thought it was just gray because I only have gray joy cons
I can see this working with really cool shell exchanges or dbrand skins! Awesome!
Is there a Mac version? I'm on vacation and this Mac I'm using is all I have right now.
Hiruko Doesn't look like it. Kinda bummed. I'll just have to use my wife's computer.
Aw well, too bad. Guess I'll just wait until August 10th
Why not use bootcamp and install w10...
Yukito Atari because creating a Windows partition leaves you open to a lot of the security/hardware issues that issues windows has. It one of those things you tend to do at your own risk
There's always Wine. As for me, I just use Parallels and run Windows from there.
Thank you so much for this video! It was so easy and now my joy con matches my new mod! Very handy!
I'd use this to mess with my colour blind friend!
Good luck with that!
This is actually neat, the fact that also the Switch itself recognized the colors is nice :-D
If the switch didn't recognize the colors, this video wouldn't be made, because then it would be totally pointless. Hey look guys, you can change some values inside your joy con and it doesn't change anything!
Could this work with a pro controller? I'm getting one from colorware
I love how easy this is. Thank you
Does this void warranty or go against any of Nintendos policies? I would love to try it but I wanna be safe rather than sorry.
Randomninja47 Man screw Nintendo's Policies
Randomninja47 Yep. Tempering with software (even if it is this minor). Voids your warranty
The Aki War ehh. There's no Nintendo Support here.
MinePlayersPE alt Haha xD True my friend
As well as you can change the color to something else you can change them back. And you back-up file is even called the same as your original color code for your Joy Con, so it should be easier than building a PC. :-)
You're my favorite youtuber, your videos answer all my questions, feels like you're talking to me lol
Please help this bricked my left joy con. the joystick works but none of the button inputs do. Please help.
[BLANK] YewTooob lololo rip
rip indeed.
neither do I and I got in contact with the creator and we doesn't know either, just unlucky I guess.
Did you fix it
nope, just given up now
Thanks I got the skins for the animal crossing joycons so now it looks much more genuine thank you so much!!
It's Joy-Con (plural), not Joy-Cons. Same as with amiibo.
Thierry you mean amiibos :)
cheesewheel very funny.
it was pretty funny
TheMemeTrain yeah i just said that.
you sounded pretty sarcastic.
i like those three posters in the background
It doesn't actually change the color. What a letdown! >_>
Well yeah, we dont have a way to do that but just paint it
What were you expecting? It ain't magic dude.
GomuNingen Pls tell me you are joking
This is for people that painted the joycons
I Hate Blue at colorware you can just customise them and buy them
Dick Toaster For $120 no thanks
This is handy! Now my joycons won't be swaped or confused again whenever I bring them to a friend's house! :)
Why am I watching this if I don't have a switch
That's awesome, can't wait to do mine. I've painted 2 sets of my joycon & that's the last part I need!
I made a video showing them a while back
Sure hope this can be used as an exploit in the future for CFW. Maybe Joycon Hax?
I mean, we might find exploits to run codes from the joy-con using invalid code.
>tfw you get complete kernel access and run an exploit from a variable stored on a controller
I think not
Hubismal Chill, my dude. I don't have any experience with hacking, and I had no clue how the color switch worked. Just an ambitious guy who is excited for the Switch hacking scene.
Actually what MinePlayersPE said is kinda close to the truth so you aren't that far off. I just mean there would probably be more to it.
dfalt if that were the case we would have already done so with the 512 kilobytes of data stored on an amiibo! XD
That's awesome, Thank you so much!
Still working. its Grate
I don't mind people brew hack their system if they don't use for online cheating
My animal crossing controller got vomited on so i had to change the shell from a different joycon, this really helps me replace it without having to buy two! Thank you!
I think it's a neat thing for those people that painted their joycons but quite useless otherwise.
I'm so glad i found this video, as i just bought a new shell for both of my joycons, so I needed them to be purple
can you explain how the joy con connected to your bluetooh because mine wont find it
@@Audreys_Cloud hold down the button in between the zl and zr buttons, and go to your bluetooth in your computer
@@FishSnackems OHHHHHH I THOUGHT YOU NEEDED TO HOLD DOWN SL AND AR, thank you for the help
@@Audreys_Cloud No problem
Its safe to use? after changing the colors can they be updated normally?
My controller isn't recognized by my computer's Bluetooth, rip
yay! I have custom joycons from colorware and this is awesome
where is timestamps guy no views holy shit am I first
Cj Schneidt No time stamps because this isn't a news wave.
Cj Schneidt the timestamps guy only does timestamps on news wave
Thats better. I Hare BLue
And yeah I realize that now. Either way, i was still first so fuck you guys XD
Cj Schneidt nobody cares, stop being such a cringe
if nobody cares, why did you care enough to comment? Screw off XD
Just did this for my switch with the (not) animal crossing skins. THANK YOU!
I'm having trouble launching the app
Same. Wish I could help ya.
Doing mine atm, good tutorial as always, thanks
Does it break warranty?
It's now illegal to void warranties simply for disassembly, but yes, modification does void your warranty. However, doing so is not illegal--just Nintendo doesn't have to fix your Joy-Con if you mess it up.
Really awesome way to tell apart your joycons from someone else's
Damn you lost a lot of weight
Tysm for this Spawn! 😍
I contacted Nintendo, they said that doing this will void the warranty. Expect a firmware blocking this. Ha Ha.
Finch Harper why did you do this? You're just ruining it for the people who wanted this
Some people are just douche bags.
Haha no you didn't
Little Paws Music Maker it is more safe. If switch gets hacked, Nintendo will turn into sega
"Yeah uh.. Nintendo, I know it's 1:30 am and I'm sorry to wake you up but I just watched Spawn waves video on changing colors in your joy con software and you should stop that"
Nintendo: "Yes sir! Right away sir!"
You expect us to believe that?
Definitely gonna do this,
If/when I get the grey joycons.
And who want this realy? Virtual Joy-Con are colored, and now?
UndeadCollector It's just cosmetic.
People who paint or order different colored shells can now make the software match
UndeadCollector if you had paid attention to the video you would know shitfuck
and that matters why?
Josiah Araki Why would you have a wallpaper on your computer?
It works! Thank you so much!
Pointless lol
Xyphor If you have a custom joycon, It's cool
Also it prevents mix up with friends
Time to get Color Ware to do this with their custom joycons
Did u know u just made my day way more better !!😭😭💖💖😂😂😂
After modifying 3 sets of Joy-Cons, including ExtremeRate LED kits and Firefly kits, I am just now discovering this. Oh my God.