Question Gamecube stick on 2ds/3ds

[Sethamphetamine]

Ive seen alot of people use the 3ds circle pad as a stick for portable wiis instead of a gamecube stick. Ive always wanted to do the opposite and put a gamecube stick in my 2ds. I cant think of any reason this couldnt work but i just wanna make sure before i attempt it myself. Would theyre be any real issues?

 

[cy]

Most portable Wiis nowadays use the GC+2.0 from 4layertech. This board was designed to be compatible with many different joystick solutions and has software that allows you to map joystick values to it making it compatible with nearly any joystick.

Joysticks are potentiometers that output different resistance values as you move the joystick. So while your theory could work, you probably won't end up with the results you desire by simply swapping a GameCube T3 joystick in place of a 3DS slider.

I'm sure there's a way you could make this work with the right homebrew app (you might need to make it if one doesn't already exist) and the right combination of software and hardware. But I'm not too sure what any of that would look like. It may also just work if the system has a means of calibrating the joystick, although I wouldn't hold my breath for that solution.

 

[Sethamphetamine]

Yeaah had a feeling i wouldnt just work. Maybe ill give it a go anyways one of these days. Thanks!

 

[Kamp]

Ive seen alot of people use the 3ds circle pad as a stick for portable wiis instead of a gamecube stick. Ive always wanted to do the opposite and put a gamecube stick in my 2ds. I cant think of any reason this couldnt work but i just wanna make sure before i attempt it myself. Would theyre be any real issues?

This is definitely possible, I've wired a joycon thumbstick to a 2DS and it worked.
You'd basically want to do the opposite of the diagram shown in this post: https://bitbuilt.net/forums/threads/wiring-up-3ds-sticks-to-your-controller.173/
Just make sure you keep track of which direction will end up being left/right and up/down when you're wiring things.
Then, you can calibrate the slider in the settings.

Then the tough part is making a case for it...
Best of luck!

 

[Sethamphetamine]

Thats SICK dude! Id love to see your 2ds if you have any pictures. Ill probably give this a go then. Thanks so much!

 

[Stitches]

You can definitely do this; you just have to take into account the different analog range of sticks vs sliders. Sliders have a lower analog range compared to joysticks, which is why the GC+ has a calibration feature. Putting a full sized stick in a DS would work, but you'd likely experience the opposite phenomenon whereby the stick has full range of movement, but reaches that full range with lesser movements. IIRC it's something like moving the stick 70% of the way in one direction counts as max and the rest is phantom range.

Joycon and PSP sticks have lower analog range than full sized sticks, so that would be less of an issue if you opted to use them.

 

[Sethamphetamine]

Yeah that should be fine. Thanks so much!