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PayPalDeck Buttons have released a fresh set of fancy button upgrades for your Steam Deck, this time blending together real metal and high-quality resin for a really unique look.
They already sold a fair few different types of button upgrades to replace inside your Steam Deck like a Game Boy inspired set and various Neon colours but their latest selection is quite different. Although, swapping out the buttons can be quite a pain to do since it requires some very careful backplate removal and removing various parts inside the Deck. Still, they look awesome!
Available across copper and aluminium you can style them a bit yourself, although they ship looking "raw" you could polish them or perhaps use some steel wool to give them a brushed-like effect. There's a few possibilities here.
Available for pre-order with shipping expected in the second week of October.
Check out the overview video below and see more on the web store:
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Any GamingOnLinux readers swapped their buttons out? What did you go for?
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Claude_Lib Sep 12
Quoting: Claude_LibHigh chance they're not gonna work with eXtremeRate face clicky set. I mean, my Deck is fully stock, but somebody's gonna have to choose.Didn't know about these. I'm ordering some immediately.
Quoting: DrakkerIf at least they fixed the buttons order and made it like the Nintendo layout. There's no way I can unlearn that layout after having used it for so long.Who's 'they'? SteamOS does offer the option to switch to a Nintendo button layout.
slaapliedje Sep 12
Quoting: DrakkerIf at least they fixed the buttons order and made it like the Nintendo layout. There's no way I can unlearn that layout after having used it for so long.https://foosel.net/blog/2023-01-19-custom-steamdeck-buttons/
Oops, that's just the colors, not what I was looking for...
I swear I'd seen some that were specifically molded / shaped to have the Nintendo layout, which you can definitely pick in the configs (especially since SteamOS supports the Switch Pro and other controllers).
Last edited by slaapliedje on 12 September 2024 at 9:21 pm UTC
mattaraxia Sep 12
There are some things plastic is just really good at. Like keyboards, even the craziest mechanical keyboard nerds, they don't want metal keycaps for the same reasons. They might look cool and appeal to some expensive = good crowd, but I don't want to type for hours on a metal keyboard, because I don't hate my hands. This just seems the same to me.
Mmmmmaybe this being some kind of 3d printed resin+metal makes me wrong? But . . . I doubt it.
chickenb00 Sep 13
slaapliedje Sep 13
Quoting: chickenb00I watched a YouTube tutorial recently on how to swap steam deck buttons, and it's an arduous process. Looks like it would take 30-60 minutes just to get to where you would have access to the button caps. Then you have to put it all back together !Really? I swapped out the analog sticks in my LCD one and it only took like 10m, and I was doing it very slowly. The buttons seemed like they were just right there to do along with that.
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