hello and welcome to some gaming tech
tips that Linus won't tell you do you
have a dual shock for have you baby been
playing some PlayStation lately well if
you've had any issues there's a secret
way to reset your controller there so
there are a few reasons why you may need
to reset your DualShock for if you are
having any latency issues you're having
any stick drift if your light bar isn't
reacting correctly or simply if you've
just connected your dual shock board of
several devices sometimes the controller
can get a little bit confused however
there's a very simple way to fix it
which is to factory reset the controller
so if you look on the back of the
controller right beside this little
screw there's a tiny little button now
if you have a little sim tool obviously
you can use pre much anything here tends
maybe not quite so much but if you have
a little simple like this all you do is
press and hold this button and it will
factory to reset the DualShock for
before resetting your controller however
make sure to go over to your PlayStation
and turn it off don't put it in to rest
move it actually legitimately turn it
off and then you will also want just for
a safe measure to fully unplug the
PlayStation once that is ready so with a
PlayStation powered off and unplugged
we're going to now press this little
button for 10 seconds
okay and now you just grab a USB cable
plug it into the PlayStation and plug it
all back in and theoretically we will
then be reset alright so I'm gonna hit
the PlayStation button and it
immediately syncs up what a helpful tech
tip I just didn't even know that button
existed so I thought this one was cool
I'm gonna be real I actually really
liked Kinect when it first came out on
the Xbox because I could use my voice to
tell it to turn on and play and open
different apps while sadly Kinect is no
longer with us
you actually can replicate almost this
exact same thing using either the Google
assistant or Amazon echo so it just so
happens that there actually is a little
button to do this from my dashboard let
me show you if you don't have that one
so just jump over into your settings and
then inside the devices and streaming
you'll see a digital assistance all you
do is enable this and then you need to
go over to the app either using Amazon
or Google so for this I'm taking
advantage of Google home although if you
are using the Amazon echo you can do the
same thing using the Alexa app so here I
have Google home connected and it
doesn't see my device okay so my problem
was that I was controlling the Xbox at
my house therefore making it turn on and
off while I was here the office so hmm
let's try this again okay open youtube
on the office Xbox Hey look at that it's
almost like I have connect our good
buddy back from the day let's watch
fortnight videos yes let's watch a
fortnight video hey pause the office
Xbox
okay thanks a second it's not so bad hey
turn off the office Xbox the nice thing
here is that you can very easily use
whatever visual assistant you already
have to give you some decent level of
voice commands I played a fortnight
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actually dabble in a lot of Japanese
stuff and so I have Japanese accounts on
my phone and whatnot but whenever I want
to play Japanese games the switch is
actually really handy because it is
region free now of course I'm not always
going to get physical' carts in Japanese
but you can actually have a Japanese
each shop account now the first step for
this is to use an email that you haven't
used already for a Nintendo account and
then what you're gonna want to do is set
up a new user on your switch so I'm
going to add a user we're gonna call it
in this case since I'm gonna add a
Japanese account I'm gonna call it just
Ken JP and then it will ask you to link
a Nintendo account now a key step for
this is when you're making the Nintendo
account on your smartphone or PC you're
gonna want to set your country / region
to the country that you want your store
to be in so in this case I want it to be
Japan and of course it'll set your time
zone and whatnot I'm just going to have
not send me random emails but I will
agree to the Terms of Service and just
like that we are good to go oh look at
this so we just restarted our switch and
we're actually getting all of our
headlines in Japanese now so we know
that that actually worked
oh it's doing some weird things that's
not happy oh there we go
young goa cardema sense so I don't know
well we'll just oh okay this is actually
my personal password zone all right
and look Japanese eShop everything's in
yen that's uh oh and it shuts off we're
having some monetary issues but I can
show you here on the switch that all of
the prices are in Japanese yen so we
know that it works I don't know what's
happening with our monitor but the
upside is now I have the Japanese key
shop on the switch and I can go buy
joysound and do karaoke in the comfort
of my own home now because I've never
done this before I actually had to look
up wither you can buy stuff from the
Japanese shop using an American credit
card it can be tricky it's hit or miss
PayPal I'd be a little bit better but
odds are you might have to rely on
third-party outlets to get a shop codes
that will work with the Japanese shop
though the cool thing about joysound is
that you pay by day it is actually like
a karaoke booth in the comfort of your
own home yeah it's like three dollars a
day or something like that it's nothing
crazy it's actually cheaper than doing
karaoke in person so everyone's probably
familiar with Find My Phone or finds my
ear pods or find my computer or what
have you but do you know that there's
also a fine to my joy Khan feature so
say you're like canon you lose your very
expensive limited-edition animal
crossing' joy Khan if you be so kind
well while my assistant Matt is going to
go hide it there's a little function
inside the switch where you can try to
find it so I open up the can you just
press something you realize wait how do
I back out now that it helped that
they're wireless so on your switch you
can actually open up the controller menu
you have to tap it twice um and you can
tap on find controllers so you can see
that this the right one is not connected
so if I tap on the L or R button I don't
you can hear that but it is vibrating so
now
ah excellent
I found it that is the sound of our lost
joy kaan so it's a really simple feature
it's built right into the switch but if
you ever lose a joy kaan which you
shouldn't because what are you doing
it's a very handy way to find it
although if you actually what happens if
you lose both joy Kahn's
do this can I sorry for throwing your
joy constant I just do it straight from
the console oh I can yeah it's funny
because the joy calls don't have
speakers the only thing they can do is
vibrate but especially if you have it
like kind of stuck in like some corner
of the couch whatever it actually
surprisingly loud of course I have a
microphone on right now so you might not
be able to hear it too well but if
you're in the same room as the joy cons
you'll probably be able to spot them or
hear them this next one is simple but
super useful so if you're playing the
switch you might have a Nintendo online
you might be trying to add someone I
like Animal Crossing or something you're
probably familiar with the friend codes
they work but they're also super
old-school so actually a couple of ways
to do it a little bit faster so you go
to your little page menu there are a
couple of ways that you can add friends
now where the really easy ones is to
link your Facebook or your Twitter
account now it's up to you if you want
to add all of your Facebook friends to
your switch I particularly do not want
to do that but there's also one other
way if you are nearby so you go down to
the add friend menu there's a search for
local user now this one I will admit can
be a little bit finicky but you can see
if you tap the same symbol as someone
else and you are in the same area as
them you will instantly be able to add
them as a friend now if you regularly
use the switch you're probably familiar
with my nintendo rewards which is a
helpful little program that will allow
you to earn little bits of credit which
you can put toward buying games or even
getting something like say switch online
for free or at a discount now if you
ever buy a digital game you
automatically get these go over if you
have a physical game you can also earn
those rewards so this is super super
simple so go ahead just press the plus
button on a physical game card that you
have plugged in and on the bottom you'll
see my nintendo reward
all you do is hit earn points that's
pretty much it
you should got yourself some free like
three days of Nintendo online or music
wait that's it extra C yeah so I just
got sixty Nintendo points that super
simple if you have a bunch of physical
switch games you should absolutely do
this
the only real caveat is that you can
only earn these points for a year after
the initial release so you'd have older
games this may not work but if you have
any games that have come out in the last
year in physical cart form get yourself
some points why not these are types of
the card it I feel like I've never tried
it I think it is actually tied to the
card so you can't just go like rent a
game and like put a bunch of the men so
you just use my car this next tip is
actually really cool until this video
actually didn't even know it existed so
if you have like maybe a little sibling
or someone who likes to play xbox but
maybe you can't quite hang with the game
there's an option called copilot to
enable this just open up the settings go
down to ease of access controller and
then copilot settings now from here you
can enable copilot and what this will do
if I grab the second controller is we
can allow each controller to override
each other so say little Timmy can be
playing fortnight and he knows how to
like press the trigger but you're the
one who's actually moving it around a
little Timmy here's your controller are
we going online Timmy stop pressing
buttons on the controller I'm trying to
show everyone how to do this
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so obviously use copilot responsibly and
maybe don't give little Timmy the
controller unless you're actually ready
to play
so now wait are you walking wait no I'm
walking now I will go right I'm going
right I'm going straight ha ha wait no
no okay I'm running no this other way
left no Timmy stop no what are you doing
to me ah you broke the law
okay so copilot needs to be used
responsibly however it if little Timmy
is a responsible six-year-old then he'll
not kill everyone in red death so that
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little Timmy signing out I know I was
waiting for you to say something
off-camera but you ruined the joke