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Hi! I see the offer was down for some time but now it is back again www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002925069431.html?spm=a2g0o.order_detail.order_detail_item.3.613543ceihzOuV&gatewayAdapt=glo2pol . Like I said in the video, I'm very happy with the quality... so unless something changed in the past year, then I think you could go with that one. I've read some comments in other offers on ali and mostly people are not happy about printings that sometimes have some skewing and misalignments, but I would expect plastics to be fine in general. In the end of a day it's always a little bit of a lottery to buy on ali 😃

@@MuchbarHandiworks Thank you for your reply! I'm looking out for a white shell which is unfortunately sold out on aliexpress, so I'll just be patient! When the time comes to do the shell swap I'll definitely come back to this video for some pointers 🙌

Hi! I didn't struggle too much with it. Probably... the parts that required the most force to use were the covers for an upper screen... but it wasn't too bad. I don't really remember how hard it was to take apart the top of og shell, but I'd say in both cases it was comparatively the same.

Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately I usually don't do repair service. Unless you're from Poland shipping costs, possible duty pay and time itself would make it rather too much of hassle. If I were in your shoes I'd look for some repair shops in your country. Also, check out facebook groups or reddit, maybe you could find there some local modder or repair guy who works with retro consolses.

Yeah, I'd love one too, but haven't seen any yet

This black tape is made of spongy material. It gives some minor protection from impact and fills gap between shell and screen

Hi! Thank you! I haven't encountered any issue till now, so I'm still very happy with this shell :D

Hey! I usually buy parts on aliexpress. Here is offer I've taken for this video: www.aliexpress.us/item/1005004443610034.html?gatewayAdapt=4itemAdapt

Hi! I bought it on aliexpress, but I see that offer I`ve taken is no longer available. pl.aliexpress.com/item/1005002925069431.html?spm=a2g0o.order_detail.order_detail_item.3.735743ce09dZeN&gatewayAdapt=glo2pol If you type "ndsixl shell complete" in ali search bar, you will find offers of the same shell.

​@@MuchbarHandiworks thank you so much the shells as well as the screens particularly the top one are hard to come by for some reason

Thank you @BooksTinn 😄 1. Audio jack works fine, never had problem with it. 2. About audio through USB C. I've thought about it while making this video, but I found it not to be an option. The thing is that most (if not all) USB C headphones has embedded digital-analog audio converter inside them, so the input has to be digital signal. GBA obviously delivers only analog signal. Frankly, I've dropped this idea pretty early, so I don't have much of an idea what can be done about it. Only thing that comes to my mind is to install analog-digital audio converter, however I don't know where to get such thing or even if it exists. Maybe you could rip one out from microphone ADC adapter, and maybe that adapter would work. But then, even if you find such adapter, I doubt you could fit it in GBASP shell.

Hey... I added a headphone jack exactly as shown but My screen got way dimmer... Its like all the current (or voltage) is taken by headphone jack... please help.. As soon as I disconnected my headphone jack screen lighted normally. I am using an AGS 101 model.

​@@BooksTinn Hi, so you have og ags-101 and the only mod is the headphone jack, right? And headphones are working with this device nonetheless? Well, first thing is to check that if you soldered ground wire from jack to audio ground (see schematics at 6:27). Audio and common ground are separated, so all different signals (audio, video, and all the other on the PCB) won't interfere with each other. Also make sure you haven't shorted any trace by mistake. Other than that... I can imagine 101 screens might not get enough power once you plugged in headphones, but that doesn't makes sense since built-in speaker shall drew more power than headphones. But! there is still chance you got there a voltage division effect. I would do the following: 1. see what happens when you go with max output on built-in speaker. 2. get (if you don't have it) GBA to audio jack adapter and see if the problem appears. in either case if is you see screen is dimmed that means there is some component that is not working properly. I would guess something drastically heats up, or some resistor, coil or IC has much more resistance than it should. There is also a chance that your battery is dying and has voltage drop below of what's expected, so you may also check how long you can run within single power cycle... maybe replacing battery would help. Anyway, without having the device in my hands I cannot tell you much more :/

Dużo ciszej, to napewno. Podobno też klatkarz trochę się polepszył, ale nie robiłem testów... Takie wrażenie miał właściciel.

@@MuchbarHandiworks pytam bo ja wymieniłem i klatkarz taki sam a nawet mam wrażenie ze się trochę bardziej grzeje ( może dlatego ze lepiej odprowadza radiator )

@@MuchbarHandiworks a tez tak długo się ładuje konsola przy włączaniu ?

To dobry znak. To znaczy, że ciepło jest skutecznie odprowadzane z procka. Długość włączania się konsoli raczej nie jest związane z chłodzeniem. Z tego co pamiętam, w tych konsolach były montowane dyski HDD Możliwe, że Twój dysk już dokonuje żywota.

@@MuchbarHandiworks dzięki za podpowiedź , sprawdzę dysk .

It's a shame it's a green one too and not one of the more common ones.

Hello Ivan. The ds with replaced trimpot works fine. You know, once I've regulated it I haven't touch that trimmer anymore, so there was not much chance to damage it. If you haven't soldered on PCB, well, you need to know you would need a some fine or edged tip on your soldering iron. Temperature control is also a nice thing. I have all-in-one rework station with iron and hot-air. VR2 trimpot is SMD 2x2 50K (2mm length and width). You can see in the video in one cut there are all pads present and on the other one there is one missing. That's because I tried first to install 3x3 trimmer and I obviously failed. Then I destroyed the remaining pads anyway :D That yellowish goo is flux and the green goo is UV curable solder mask. For cleaning I used isopropyl alcohol for electronics (99,5%). 91% doesn't sound right, it is contaminated with most likely water. On the other hand I really doubt that amount of water would do any damage. Just make sure it's dry before booting your ds up. pl.aliexpress.com/item/1005003338213189.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.208.21ef1c24KGYwLc&gatewayAdapt=glo2pol

@@MuchbarHandiworks Thank you so much for getting back to me and for posting a link to the pots as well. The information you’ve given me is very helpful. Fortunately I was able to find a retro game store here in my city that repairs DS’s. I informed them of my diagnosis and explained to them it was most likely the trim pot, fortunately they have some replacement pots in stock to use for my DS. They should be able to replace it for me for $40. As much fun as this looks to do by myself, I would much rather have the peace of mind and just pay them the $40! I will pass them along your information from this comment section to better aid them. Thank you again Much!!

@@ivanxva Hmm, by $ you mean USD?.. I think you could get fully functional DSL on ebay for something around 50$. There is also and option to get some dsl with broken screens and replace the motherboard. Generally when ds is turned on and it blips the power led and then shuts down, it means some peripheral is failing and it's usually either of displays. If I were you, I'd lurk ebay first. On the other hand if you got bad luck you'd end up with two broken units :/

@@MuchbarHandiworks yes USD. You won’t believe it but I just managed to buy a fully functional mint condition DS Lite with games and case for $50 today from somebody locally on Facebook Marketplace! Crazy!!!

@@ivanxva Great! That's what I was talking about!

I didn't know. Thanks :D

Well, that's a good question. Now I see there are some, but when I was doing this mod there was none dedicated usb c mods on market... I mean shops were out of stock or shipping aboard would cost something like 20 bucks. Here I did mod for both usb c and audio for something... I guess about 2$. In case of replacing proprietary port with some random usb c port... Even if I found fitting one, I would still need to figure out adding resistor and filling the gap, so I do not expect that would require any less effort. But, in the end I'm just not a fan of stripping any functions from devices I work on, I prefer adding them :)

I've added list of supplies at the bottom of description. Not much links, because I buy a lot of stuff at local electronic and hobby stores. Btw the IPS screen drains more power than original one and it impacts the work of speaker. There is this pop when you turn on the console and speaker is humming a little all the time... It's not much worse in comparison to unmodded device but if you want to get rid off this effect there are things like this: www.zedlabz.com/products/noise-filter-for-game-boy-advance-sp-power-cleaner-flex-ribbon-cable-nintendo-gba-sp-easy-install-capacitor-mod-for-ips-screen-audio-noise-reduction-zedlabz?variant=38030866514091

Don’t you find having the cable on my side uncomfortable to hold the gameboy?

@@fallvec1423 Actually no. USB plug goes between index and middle finger and does not bother me at all, even when playing games that utilizes LR buttons.