#gameboymods

I copped the clear plastic shell, aluminum housing, custom glass screen lens, and the necessary 330 ohm resistor from Boxy Pixel. I sourced a Nintendo Switch speaker from eBay.

If I had to do this again I'd source that plastic shell from somewhere else. The fitment wasn't great on the ones Boxy Pixel sells and it was missing some parts that I had to transplant over from the original shell.

I did my first teardown the week prior just to see what about that top screen was broken. I confirmed that it was a torn ribbon cable and put it all back together minus the top half while I waited for everything to arrive.

When all my parts showed up I opened it back up, pulled the motherboard off the orignal shell and removed the LCD screen from the board. I then soldered the resistor and speaker to the board and scraped off a connector that wasn't going to be necessary anymore to make room for the new speaker. I put the thing back together minus the lens just to test that it was working. It wasn't.

I didn't connect the LCD screen's ribbon cable correctly. Once I got that all working I then had to open it up a third time to swap out the new clear buttons with the original ones. The buttons that came with the transparent shell weren't doing it for me.

It's a bummer because I was really down for the look of those transparent buttons. It broke up the all black front shell. The final results were pretty enough, though.

I later went online and found one of the newer EZ Flash cartridges that could sit flush with the shorter DS Lite cartridge slot. It cleaned the look up a lot and I'm pretty happy with the final results.

Next time if I ever come into possession of a broken DS Lite I might try and have fun with the available shell colors. There's a purple aluminum shell one that I'm feeling a lot.