![]() ![]() ![]() Don’t try to pull until you’ve flipped up the little black cover! The mod There’s a little black bit you have to lever up with your finger nail, and then once it’s released you can just wiggle the ribbon cable out. I practiced on the connector for the top screen, since I couldn’t really do much more damage to it: I did it even though I no longer have a top screen, and saw the mark of an old friend:Ī tricky bit for me was removing these screen ribbons. You have to pull the wifi/BIOS module in order to make it easier to remove the top screen. If you actually have water damage this turns solid pink, instead of polka-dot: It appears that this DS Lite had gone for a swim in the past, since this water damage sticker was lit up: Now the sweet, sweet goodness of the inner electronics could be at last exposed. Look out for the volume and power sliders falling out as you lift the back off. Nobody wants to have case dimples from too-long screws. There are a lot of different screws, so don’t mix them up and put them back in the wrong hole. Both of them had omissions, which is why I have to write this now. I used a combination of the “official” tutorial and an iFixit community guide on taking a Lite apart. The first guide I saw on the Game Boy Macro technique neglected to mention the triwing screw in the battery compartment, but after I tried to pry the case open and failed in that corner a few times I figured it out pretty quick. ![]() This is a good sign - at least the motherboard worked, the battery worked, the lower screen worked, and it didn’t seem to have any dead pixels. The DS gave a white screen flash and then shut down, which is normal when the top screen is missing altogether. When it arrived, I tried switching it on. Canada Post is not an inexpensive service, that’s for sure. I got it for $6.50 - seventeen bucks shipped. Only a little stub of the ribbon cable remained. My victim was found on eBay, and came from Quebec, with the top screen already severed. I was interested in the idea mostly for the sake of getting to do some Bondo and paintwork on plastic, but at the very least it would be good practice on taking apart a complicated, teeny-tiny, surface-mount device like the DS Lite. The end result is a fairly large-screened Game Boy Advance (grey Game Boy cartridges don’t fit into or run on the DS due to a lack of hardware) that is a canvas for further modification.īlog friend Illuminado did an excellent build of his own that looked great and was the inspiration behind this session of slamming hot lead into a Nintendo: Someone did do something! The conceptĪ “Game Boy Macro” is the internet’s name for a Nintendo DS that’s had its top screen amputated. A shattered screen there, a broken flip hinge here: it would be nice if someone could do something to save some of those wounded machines. There are a lot of broken Nintendo DS consoles out there. ![]()
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