Circle Pad Pro built in 2DS

[BlueLemming]

This is more of a discussion than it is a question, I suppose. But I just bought a 2DS for a fairly good price and then realized that there is no Circle Pad Pro designed for it. I've found a video of a guy basically chopping one up and forcing it to work on the 2DS and it does seem to work. So I thought I might try to take one apart myself but mod it into the 2DS casing.

After looking at the insides of a CPP, there is not much to it.

And after looking at a teardown of the 2DS it seems there could be enough space to mod one in. I won't be home for a couple weeks so I won't be trying anything soon, but so far I have this idea... (excuse the poor photoshop skills, I didn't find it worth it to spend so much time getting the colors right)

I could probably move the start/select a bit closer to the screen on the right hand side, but I'll find out more whenever I take it apart.

The other issue is the triggers. Not sure how I'll do that.. I initially wanted to move the original L/R triggers on the back to be more comfy before I thought of the CPP mod, but now I'll have an extra 3 shoulder buttons to place. Although, the only NEW button is ZR right? And the other 2 buttons are just L/R remapped? If so.. this makes it a heck of a lot easier.

What are your thoughts on this? Realistic to try? Has anybody else proposed this idea? I've done a good amount of searching, couldn't find anything exactly like this.

 

[chicodiesel]

Not sure if it's possible with the 2ds since the trigger buttons, circle pad, and board will add bulk to the console. As far as I remember, there isn't much space in there to work with. Currently I'm attempting a similar mod, but instead with a 3ds inside a 2ds housing. Long story short, bought a 2ds with a broken screen for relatively cheap. Instead of purchasing the hard to find 2ds LCD, I decided to make a 3ds with a CPP mod inside a 2ds shell. The only thing left for me to do with the casing is to make speaker holes. Below is my concept art:







Also, in my mod I will have to relocate the cartridge slot, buttons, and sd card slot. Plan on adding start & select buttons to the side of the unit.

 

[BlueLemming]

Wow that sounds pretty cool! Interesting concept too. I couldn't decide whether it would feel better with the right analog on top, since I really like the positioning of the ABXY buttons on the 2DS. It's true it would add bulk to the back of the 2DS with the CPP triggers added. I suppose worse comes to worse I could just only add the ZR button (since I assume the regular L/R buttons still work with it attached?). As for room inside the 2DS, all I would need is enough space for the thickness of the analog so I hope I have at least that much.

I also noticed the IR sensor on the 2DS is right above the game cartridge slot, so I'd likely have to cover it and add some way to remove/move over the IR on the CPP when mounted. Or I could move the IR sensor on the 2DS itself, which might be smarter. Tough to plan this out when I've yet to take apart the 2DS myself haha.

 

[bentendo64]

You could add another IR sensor for the CPP, and have a switch between that one and the original IR sensor.

Also, this is sounding pretty cool!

 

[BlueLemming]

You could add another IR sensor for the CPP, and have a switch between that one and the original IR sensor.

Also, this is sounding pretty cool!

That's a good idea too. I'll have to consider that.

After a bit more consideration, it would probably be a lot easier to put the right analog where the notification light is (top right). I could move the light or get rid of it, whatever I want to do, and then I would only have to add the ZR button as the L and R buttons would feel natural in that position. Of course it's still dependent on whether there is room or not for the analog.