Vita stick drift

katy81 · 12 Jul 2025 at 19:55

Bought a cheap vita. The right stick is spinning 360.

Looked on YouTube seems easy enough to replace.

Is there any difference between the left and right stick? On ebay it doesn't seem to say left or right replacement

JoeBoi · 12 Jul 2025 at 23:36

katy81 said:
Bought a cheap vita. The right stick is spinning 360.

Looked on YouTube seems easy enough to replace.

Is there any difference between the left and right stick? On ebay it doesn't seem to say left or right replacement

Going to guess no, the sticks look identical from the outside. I'd imagine left and right are typically same across all consoles (except Gamecube of course).

katy81 · 13 Jul 2025 at 15:03

JoeBoi said:
Going to guess no, the sticks look identical from the outside. I'd imagine left and right are typically same across all consoles (except Gamecube of course).

Yeah that's what I assumed. Ordered one. Hopefully its an easy fix

Nigel Kingdon · 16 Jul 2025 at 11:29

Check out Vinces repair thread. Plenty of advice on stick drift.

JoeBoi · 6 Aug 2025 at 15:27

I was going to ask if these worked, but looks like OP has been permabanned! Shame (well maybe not depending on what they did lol).

SimonRigga · 6 Aug 2025 at 15:30

@JoeBoi as above Vince's repair thread is superb, and Vince is always willing to help.. and there's also @Unseul 's thread https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/diy-repairs-cleaning-etc.18993507/ if it's VR related..

JoeBoi · 6 Aug 2025 at 15:54

SimonRigga said:
@JoeBoi as above Vince's repair thread is superb, and Vince is always willing to help.. and there's also @Unseul 's thread https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/diy-repairs-cleaning-etc.18993507/ if it's VR related..

Cheers Riggs, I do pop in and out of Vince's thread. Very comprehensive and impressive! I would love to do a fraction of the same work (looking and soldering myself when I get some free time). I didn't know Raggs also had a thread, I'll check that out. Thanks mate.