that Linus won't tell you.

Do you have a DualShock 4?

Have you maybe been playing some PlayStation lately?

Well if you've had any issues,

there's a secret way to reset your controller.

It's right here.

Right there.

So there are a few reasons

why you may need to reset your DualShock 4.

If you are having any latency issues,

if you're having any stick drift,

if your light bar isn't reacting correctly,

or, simply, if you've just connected your

DualShock 4 to 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 pretty much anything here,

pens maybe not quite so much,

but if you have a little SIM tool like this,

all you need to do is press and hold this button

and it will factory reset the DualShock 4.

Before resetting your controller however,

make sure to go over to your PlayStation and turn it off.

Don't put it into rest mode

but actually legitimately turn it off.

And then you will also want, just for safe measure,

to fully unplug the PlayStation once it is ready.

So with our 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.

All right, so I'm gonna hit the PlayStation button

and it immediately syncs up!

Cool!

What a helpful tech tip.

I just didn't even know that that button existed,

so I thought this one was cool (laughs).

Look, 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,

but let me show you if you don't have that button.

So just jump over into your settings

and then inside the Devices & streaming,

you'll see a digital assistant.

All you need to 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

at the office.

So let's try this again.

Okay, (beep), open YouTube on the office Xbox.

Hey!

Look at that.

It's almost like I have Kinect,

our good buddy back from the dead.

Let's watch Fortnite videos, yes.

Let's watch a Fortnite video.

Hey, (beep), pause the office Xbox.

Okay, it takes a second but it's not so bad.

Hey, (beep), turn off the office Xbox.

The nice thing here is that you can very easily

use whatever digital assistant you already have

to give you some decent level of voice commands.

- [Matt] That's you trying to be hip with the kids.

- I played a Fortnite video!

If that's not hip with the kids, I don't know what else is!

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- Now for this next one,

Austin had me out here

because I actually dabble in a lot of Japanese stuff

and so I have Japanese accounts on my phone and what not.

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 gonna get physical carts

in Japanese

but you can actually have a Japanese eShop 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 setup 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 Kenjp.

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 what not.

I'm just gonna have them 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.

- [Austin] It does not like--

- Yeah, it's not happy.

- [Austin] It does not like this at all.

- Aw, there we go!

(reads Japanese out loud)

So, I don't know.

We'll just,

oh, okay.

This is actually my personal password so don't...

All right, and look!

Japanese eShop, everything's in yen.

That's, oh.

And it shuts off.

(offscreen laughter)

We're having some monitor 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 was happening with our monitor.

But the upside is now,

I have the Japanese eShop 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 whether you can buy stuff

from the Japanese eShop using an American credit card.

It can be tricky, it's hit or miss,

PayPal might be a little bit better,

but odds are you might have to rely

on third party outlets to get eShop 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.

- [Austin] Really?

- Yeah, it's like $3 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 Find my AirPods

or Find my Computer or what have you,

but did you know that there's also

a Find my Joy-Con feature?

So say you like Ken and you lose your very expensive,

limited edition Animal Crossing Joy-Con.

Matt, if you would 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...

You just pressed something, you realize.

Wait, how do I back out now that--

- I can't help that they're wireless.

(laughter)

- [Matt] What do you want from me?

- So on your Switch,

you can actually open up the controller menu,

you have to tap it twice,

and you can tap on Find Controllers.

So you can see that this right one is not connected,

so if I tap on the L or R button...

I don't know if you can hear that but it is vibrating.

So now,

(controls clicking)

I hear it.

(controls clicking)

Ah, excellent!

I found it!

That is the sound of our lost Joy-Con.

So it's a really simple feature,

it's built right into the Switch.

But if you ever lose a Joy-Con,

which you shouldn't because

what are you doin'?

It's a very handy way to find it.

Although, actually what happens if you lose both Joy-Cons?

Wait, I'm just gonna do this for a second.

Can I...

Sorry for throwing your Joy-Cons.

Can I just do it straight from the console?

Oh I can, yeah.

It's funny because the Joy-Cons 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 or whatever,

it actually is surprisingly loud.

Now 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 Nintendo Online.

You might be trying to add someone

on like Animal Crossing or something.

And 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 up to your little page menu,

there are a couple of ways that you can add friends.

Now one of the really easy ones

is to link your Facebook or your Twitter account.

Now it's up to you if you want