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Deck 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.

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poke86 Sep 12
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Are people actually willing to add 10-15% to the price of their Deck just for some fancy buttons? Madness.
Drakker Sep 12
If 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.
Claude_Lib Sep 12
High 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.
DrNick 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.
such 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.
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
Metal buttons sound awful. Especially copper. Copper looks cool as hell, but . . . is terrible for buttons. They're heavy and just going to be awful on your fingers.

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.
WMan22 Sep 13
I'm more interested in reliable buttons that feel better to mash during QTEs, honestly.
chickenb00 Sep 13
I 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 !
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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