Lunarwhale
Member
Pretty excited about the Win 2, but god almighty please fix the atrocious membranes. Use dome switches like the Vita or something - the current controls are bad, Makes it hard to recommend an otherwise fantastic little device.
I think I finally got the dpad to a good enough state, though. I'm using a 3DSXL dpad, the update membrane, and a really thin piece of flexible plastic (one of the flat screw covers from a GBA SP, cut in half with an X-Acto knife) jammed in the center to serve as a pivot extender so the pad doesn't bottom out. It's not perfect - still bottoms out a bit too much for my taste - but this thing's such a pain to keep taking apart and it requires a ton of precision to get the pivot "just right." Before, I used the entire screw cover. It looked like it fit perfectly, but it made it almost impossible to press down after I put the whole thing together.
Going to stop messing with the device now probably. Every time I open it up, I somehow lose a screw (and have yet to find good replacement ones). More recently, one of the case screws somehow destroyed the peg it goes into. I'd like to attribute this to my own incompetence, but I'm still at a loss as to how that happened. To GPD's credit, the device is actually really solidly put together. They went overboard on the screws - everything stays pretty nicely in place just clicked together. Missing a few screws makes literally no difference.
I think I finally got the dpad to a good enough state, though. I'm using a 3DSXL dpad, the update membrane, and a really thin piece of flexible plastic (one of the flat screw covers from a GBA SP, cut in half with an X-Acto knife) jammed in the center to serve as a pivot extender so the pad doesn't bottom out. It's not perfect - still bottoms out a bit too much for my taste - but this thing's such a pain to keep taking apart and it requires a ton of precision to get the pivot "just right." Before, I used the entire screw cover. It looked like it fit perfectly, but it made it almost impossible to press down after I put the whole thing together.
Going to stop messing with the device now probably. Every time I open it up, I somehow lose a screw (and have yet to find good replacement ones). More recently, one of the case screws somehow destroyed the peg it goes into. I'd like to attribute this to my own incompetence, but I'm still at a loss as to how that happened. To GPD's credit, the device is actually really solidly put together. They went overboard on the screws - everything stays pretty nicely in place just clicked together. Missing a few screws makes literally no difference.