I think that is truly the ultimate DS lite. The one suggestion I have about making the DS lite better would be a USB C charging port. that is an amazing DS.
I've opened up my DS Lite a couple of times to clean the shoulder button contacts, but it was interesting to see what would be involved to do a full case swap. You were brave adding all the sticky rubber caps on before switching on and testing!
“I had a terrible time with these pesky shoulder button assemblies” -holds breath to focus while installing- -audible groan when they f i n a l l y go in”
Great video! Although I do have one suggestion. On your R4 Gold Pro, I would suggest installing YSMenu as opposed to the stock kernel. This is because the stock kernel is slower, uglier, and it has a timebomb installed (when the DS reaches a certain date, the kernel will become useless) Installing YSMenu can solve all of these problems and it's a much better overall experience
Do all the R4s have the timebomb? I kinda liked the UI on the stock firmware, along with access to Moonshell and Morning Timer, but I didn't like the incompatibility issues with certain games.
@@chopsmccartney6786 YSMenu is far superior when it comes to game compatibility, and nearly all R4 cards that are produced today have timebombs. If you really want the stock UI you can set the clock of the DS back several years, though this may still trigger it. Regardless you’re still better off using YSMenu
Nice one ds lite is my fav handheld. A couple add-ons from modder: R4 has timebomb so acecard+ezflash is the best combo. You can use ysmenu with an R4 if you want to disable the timebomb. Also you did not check the mic, they are mostly faulty in my experience. You can use mini usb cable to charge ds lites. Some mini usb cables are tight but there are some fit like a glove, or if you are into more action you change the charge port with female mini usb. If you are feint hearted buy a usb to ds lite cable without hard modding so you dont have to carry the power brick. Lastly I slapped a 3200 mah battery to my dsl for extended usage, these little devices can utilize any 3.7 v battery. Thanks for reminding me the happy time i spent modding and playing this handheld...
Dude I loved the video, I’m literally doing the same thing you’re doing, but what I did was buy a refurbished DS lite, it was such a good deal too, and I currently already have a R4, so all I really need is my EZ flash omega, which I’m planning to buy in two days lol, good video tho, I liked it a lot!!😆👍
still had a charge, doesnt suprise me the batteries in them are fantastic i hardly ever have to charge mine shame they dont make handhelds with good battery power anymore
I read that the battery life in modern handhelds is shorter than the DS Lite's due to the amount of hardware in it relying on the battery power. The wireless functions in particular suck the life out of the battery, I think. I wish the 3DS and the Switch had the battery life the Lite had.
Some times they reuse battery models between devices for example the pro controllers for the switch and Wii U use the same battery found in the 3DS and 2DS
Dude, that battery is no joke. I just pulled my DS Lite out of a storage bin. Its been there for the better part of 2 years, maybe 3. Frigging thing still has a full charge.
I did buy one of those R4 carts a few years ago but not because I emulate games. You can backup your GBA saves on it, and with pokemon you can put your save data on an emulator and inject the mystery gift events onto it and then put it back on the cartridge and you have 100% legitimate event pokemon from the early 2000s.
Dope video, dope DS. I really like the dark smoky case. I have a clear one right now. I have a GBAccelerator DS coming in the mail for my next revision.
Duuuude, that's kinda unreal youtube recommended this to me right now - I just ordered the same black shell, flashcart, screen replacement to refurb a badly used DS with broken top screen. Thought for a while to make a gameboy macro, but almost all of the examples found online look ugly unless you either spend a couple of days to sand/sculpt/paint your mod or buy a separate faceplate for five times the price of what I paid for my used console. Totally using the vid as my tutorial :)
Great stuff! I see I am not the only one who keeps a DS Lite around because it can hold two flashcards. Too many good games on the GBA to not have this model as a standby even though I have DSi XL _and_ a 3DS XL.
If you have a slot 1 flashcart, you can use gameyob or lameboy to play gb and gbc games, and yiu can play some gba games using gbarunner2 without any device in slot 2
I recently got a DSTWO card for my DSXL. It's an awesome card if you can get one. It runs a few old DOS titles and at a push can do a couple of old PS1 titles via Linux.
@@wideasriel don't be... DSTWO is a cool little card but you'll push it for 3D PS1 titles :)... Best can do is a few of the turn-based PS1 games and also got Red Alert and Discworld working well. A 3DS runs PS1 games really well. I just enjoy taking old machines and seeing how far they can be pushed.
I wonder if any of these sellers on ebay that have sold these things for 15 to 30 bucks thinking that they were broken only for a simple clean to fully restore it, ever found out and was pissed they lowballed themselves. Now obviously im not talking about this ds in the video as it did have a busted top screen but surprisingly there are a lot of these where the only issues are cosmetic damage but the system itself is completely fine being sold for as cheap.
I have taken apart a few DS lites so at this point I can probably take them apart with my eyes closed and this might actually be a project I want to do in the future. I mean I'm actually a trained and licensed electronics technician that is specialized in small electronics mostly so this is kind of my thing. I also have a spare DS lite because I'm a hoarder.
I don't know what curse did Nintendo used for their DS until 3DS series(not really long for 3DS compared to DS). The battery seems last forever for years if not turned on(and still got more than half % if fully charged). I mean some devices like phone, camera and other stuffs, if you turned off and turned on again maybe few weeks. It will be dead or at least low charge.
Ive been asking about this for months. I am not the biggest fan of the TFT, especially for GBA games or a Macro build. Hopefully someone can alter the IPS screen cables used for GBA and use them in a DSL
The only replacement screens are actually worse than the original. Well they do work but the color temperature doesn´t 100% fit the touchscreen´s temperature and the viewing angles are not so great. But they aren´t too bad aswell, but only recommend it if you smashed your screen or if it has a broken flex cable like in my case. My replacement screen also got a dead pixel, so it´s not super quality.
Theoretically the true ultimate ds lite would be 2 custom XL screens, one bottom and one at the top, and to just add too it it would probably use BRZ to smoothen all the pixels out, at that point it would probably become the ultimate ds lite! I almost wanna try it, converting a dsi xl's top screen into a ds lite screen using some pin converter (as the ds lite has 43 pins and the dsi xl has 45) Though i bet it would almost be impossible sadly...
Then, the ultimate DS (for you) would be a DSi XL. It has IPS XL screens, better CPU and ot is easly moddable via the SD card. The only thing that the Lite does better are the transparent third party cases and GBA support. And you can easly run GBA games using GBArunner. It's not perfect, but for games that work, it's almost 100%
@@vhateg I suppose so! But I’m kinda going for nostalgia as I when I was younger grew up with a DS lite, so experiencing it with a bigger screen would be almost like you did as a kid!
How hard is this? I've customized 2 GBA's SP's. One was my friend's which strangely shattered in half in a coat pocket I forgot about, so I ordered a glow green shell. It came out so nice I redid mine. But there was no saudering. I have no other experience with this kind of stuff, even struggling with PS3 and PS4 controllers with faulty shoulder buttons because interiors were different. Is the saudering necessary, and how much harder is this? My DSI shoulder buttons don't work whatsoever, I'm not even sure if the new shell would fix this, whether I can fix this myself without ordering a new shell, whether I should even try if saudering is involved, etc. I think Emerald might be the coolest, but Glacier, Diamond, Ruby, and Smoke are all neat, better than sun damaged Topaz which Diamond might become.
What's that grey case on the bottom right of the stack at 21:03 it's giving me the original DMG vibes with the color of it like a case for the original gameboy ?
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I think that is truly the ultimate DS lite. The one suggestion I have about making the DS lite better would be a USB C charging port. that is an amazing DS.
I was literally thinking to myself. “I wonder what this song is from.” He answers me instantly.
@Brendan Brewer x2
xD
I've opened up my DS Lite a couple of times to clean the shoulder button contacts, but it was interesting to see what would be involved to do a full case swap. You were brave adding all the sticky rubber caps on before switching on and testing!
Yeah man that was a risky 0.001 cent move
@@ZippyBytes Maybe he lives in Venezuela, than that would be a risky move
“I had a terrible time with these pesky shoulder button assemblies” -holds breath to focus while installing-
-audible groan when they f i n a l l y go in”
Awsome video, it's nice to see old systems like this get a second life; instead of just ending up in the trash.
Great video! Although I do have one suggestion. On your R4 Gold Pro, I would suggest installing YSMenu as opposed to the stock kernel. This is because the stock kernel is slower, uglier, and it has a timebomb installed (when the DS reaches a certain date, the kernel will become useless) Installing YSMenu can solve all of these problems and it's a much better overall experience
Thanks for the suggestion, sounds good. I was aware of the timebomb and I think the one I got doesn't have it but i'll need to check.
Do all the R4s have the timebomb? I kinda liked the UI on the stock firmware, along with access to Moonshell and Morning Timer, but I didn't like the incompatibility issues with certain games.
@@chopsmccartney6786 YSMenu is far superior when it comes to game compatibility, and nearly all R4 cards that are produced today have timebombs. If you really want the stock UI you can set the clock of the DS back several years, though this may still trigger it. Regardless you’re still better off using YSMenu
With the ysmenu i couldnt play any pokemon game and save some other games,so i prefer to just modifie the date of the nintendo
What about TwilightMenu? Can’t that bypass the timebomb?
Be more carefull with the dust, is to nasty.
Super cool! Great production. Lighting was good and music entertaining! My kids were enthralled (5 and 9)! :)
This is a really good video, it's crazy you don't have more popularity.
great video! that before and after shot was gorgeous
Nice one ds lite is my fav handheld. A couple add-ons from modder: R4 has timebomb so acecard+ezflash is the best combo. You can use ysmenu with an R4 if you want to disable the timebomb. Also you did not check the mic, they are mostly faulty in my experience. You can use mini usb cable to charge ds lites. Some mini usb cables are tight but there are some fit like a glove, or if you are into more action you change the charge port with female mini usb. If you are feint hearted buy a usb to ds lite cable without hard modding so you dont have to carry the power brick. Lastly I slapped a 3200 mah battery to my dsl for extended usage, these little devices can utilize any 3.7 v battery. Thanks for reminding me the happy time i spent modding and playing this handheld...
The R4 I used I bypassed the timebomb so it won't happen. And I just checked the mic in brainage and works normally. Thank you for the suggestions.
What’s timebomb?
@@21tangtang72I'm pretty sure some r4 cards come inbuilt with instructions to stop working after some time so you buy a new one but not 100% sure
I have the very same R4 card as him, and a firmware update fixed the timebomb (upgraded from 3.9a to 4.0b)
Dude I loved the video, I’m literally doing the same thing you’re doing, but what I did was buy a refurbished DS lite, it was such a good deal too, and I currently already have a R4, so all I really need is my EZ flash omega, which I’m planning to buy in two days lol, good video tho, I liked it a lot!!😆👍
cheese?
@@gzplog2967 YOOO Dababy replied to my comment😱!!!! “LETSS GOO”
Phantom Hourglass, the game that got me into Zelda and Nintendo in the beginning. Love that game.
This is honestly the best video I have seen in a long time. Relaxing, informative and has great music. ❤️
still had a charge, doesnt suprise me the batteries in them are fantastic i hardly ever have to charge mine shame they dont make handhelds with good battery power anymore
The only handheld that has any ability to keep up with the DS battery wise is the PSP. My PSP battery is still going
I got a DS Lite at a thrift store a couple months ago and was able to test it right there in the store because it still had battery lmao
I read that the battery life in modern handhelds is shorter than the DS Lite's due to the amount of hardware in it relying on the battery power. The wireless functions in particular suck the life out of the battery, I think. I wish the 3DS and the Switch had the battery life the Lite had.
Some times they reuse battery models between devices for example the pro controllers for the switch and Wii U use the same battery found in the 3DS and 2DS
Dude, that battery is no joke. I just pulled my DS Lite out of a storage bin. Its been there for the better part of 2 years, maybe 3. Frigging thing still has a full charge.
2:58 when I saw those tools I was like: this man is about to do some surgery on the DS! He got the gloves and everything
I never thought it could be so simple then
Awesome video. Mad props to the guy who composed all the music for this video. Im just jamming out here.
that ds is...*cheff kiss*
I did buy one of those R4 carts a few years ago but not because I emulate games. You can backup your GBA saves on it, and with pokemon you can put your save data on an emulator and inject the mystery gift events onto it and then put it back on the cartridge and you have 100% legitimate event pokemon from the early 2000s.
Dope video, dope DS. I really like the dark smoky case. I have a clear one right now. I have a GBAccelerator DS coming in the mail for my next revision.
i can verify the shoulder buttons are the worst part of reassembly on these things
You can modify the power jack to a type c usb port. That's what I did on mine. So nice not having to have a proprietary cable anymore.
Duuuude, that's kinda unreal youtube recommended this to me right now - I just ordered the same black shell, flashcart, screen replacement to refurb a badly used DS with broken top screen. Thought for a while to make a gameboy macro, but almost all of the examples found online look ugly unless you either spend a couple of days to sand/sculpt/paint your mod or buy a separate faceplate for five times the price of what I paid for my used console. Totally using the vid as my tutorial :)
I subscribed. You only have 500 right now but this channel will blow up soon. Amazing content.
Everyone had an R4 card at one point
I never had an R4 when I had a DS Lite and only one game, although I did play some other game on my DS Lite(that I lost)
i still do
Never did
Nah, I bought myself an acekard2 and still have it today :)
What's that?
Great stuff!
I see I am not the only one who keeps a DS Lite around because it can hold two flashcards.
Too many good games on the GBA to not have this model as a standby even though I have DSi XL _and_ a 3DS XL.
Amazing video. It's so cool watching you build the DS
man the results came out beautifully must've taken you a long time to build this thing
Put the video on 2x speed and the music sounds so good lol
Im happy youtube actually recommended something good 😭💙
I never thought about it but I would love to see a Frankenstein Nintendo DS lite. Where every part comes from a different DS and it’s all used parts.
I like that you can swap the shell on a Nintendo d's and make it look new again.
Man great job with that shell swap. I enjoyed you’re video, keep up the Greta work you deserve at least 100k
i ordered a ds exactly like this on mercari. i can't wait to get it
Beautiful work! Sweet video i rarely ever comment on anything ever so but this was actually really good!!! Thanks for the quality content
finally, a prison friendly DS!
Nice job, congrats!!!
Haha and then it went on the shelf, never to be touched again! I know how it goes. Seriously though, great job on restoring it.
Awesome job !
that was the most unexpected jump scare ive seen
You deserve more subscribers
The r4 can play every typa game boy game
Great Video , Vile "Music"
The music in the video sounds like it's in a similar style as Pokemon Clover.
Beautiful job!
Oh man, that's so nice!!
Great vid man the final product looks great
After watching this I just had to order the clear black shell from ali express
This is dope, I wanna do this some day.
You can do it!
Awesome video. You continue this path and your subscribers and likes will increase. Your awesome!!!!
sick love the video ive been really getting back in to ds gaming because of quarantine
I bought a lite with 400 games,case, charger etc for $95 & I love it!
this music is pure agony. well done
Nice job my brother ! 👏🏻👏🏻
excellent video! great work! God bless you and yours!
awesome video man
Where did you get you tool kit please and thank you
Music goes kinda hard ngl 🔥🔥🔥
Do GB & GBC games work on a GBA flashcart on a DS? Or only GBA games?
I know GB & GBC games work on the GB Micro if you use a flashcart.
Yes GB and GBC both work with the EZ Flash Omega on a Nintendo DS!
If you have a slot 1 flashcart, you can use gameyob or lameboy to play gb and gbc games, and yiu can play some gba games using gbarunner2 without any device in slot 2
I recently got a DSTWO card for my DSXL. It's an awesome card if you can get one. It runs a few old DOS titles and at a push can do a couple of old PS1 titles via Linux.
PS1 SPYRO ON DS IM JEALOUS 😭
@@wideasriel don't be... DSTWO is a cool little card but you'll push it for 3D PS1 titles :)... Best can do is a few of the turn-based PS1 games and also got Red Alert and Discworld working well. A 3DS runs PS1 games really well. I just enjoy taking old machines and seeing how far they can be pushed.
@@rhysholdaway nah, the new 3ds gets it, on old 3ds it will not work well (even only the 3dsx version of retroarch works then)
@@wideasriel sorry for clarity I meant the New 3DS. Get some slowdown but generally it works really well.
It turned out great! I’ve got a new shell coming for one of mine, that ribbon cable that comes from the top screen annoyed me 😂
I loved every second of this video
I wonder if any of these sellers on ebay that have sold these things for 15 to 30 bucks thinking that they were broken only for a simple clean to fully restore it, ever found out and was pissed they lowballed themselves. Now obviously im not talking about this ds in the video as it did have a busted top screen but surprisingly there are a lot of these where the only issues are cosmetic damage but the system itself is completely fine being sold for as cheap.
Very cool! Just subbed. Have a great day!
Dope music
Great content! Keep it up and I hope you get lots of subs.
Guessing it'll be another 5-10 years before screen/sound upgrades for the DS line, real Ultimate DS will happen someday...
Stock up, the upper screens will soon be out of stock, especially the dsi xl models
I have taken apart a few DS lites so at this point I can probably take them apart with my eyes closed and this might actually be a project I want to do in the future. I mean I'm actually a trained and licensed electronics technician that is specialized in small electronics mostly so this is kind of my thing. I also have a spare DS lite because I'm a hoarder.
My DS lite broke a few years ago....
So did my heart as a result. I want a replacement DS lite. 😩
If it broke, it can be fixed. What happened to it?
@@MitchCairns gave it to my cousin to use bottom half as Gameboy macro
is it possible to homebrew a ds lite because i cant seem to find any video on youtubt... or is it the same as the dsi?
I like how you don’t put lots of Adonai and actually make it better
Great work.
Where do y'all find a decent battery replacement for the DS lite? I need a new one.
i wish i had any idea of what you did to do it to my dsi
I don't know what curse did Nintendo used for their DS until 3DS series(not really long for 3DS compared to DS). The battery seems last forever for years if not turned on(and still got more than half % if fully charged).
I mean some devices like phone, camera and other stuffs, if you turned off and turned on again maybe few weeks. It will be dead or at least low charge.
The ds lite needs a microswitch dpad and a gba link port though
Cool. I always hated the clear glass cases though.
Man you are so ready for road trip.
I would recommend using a gba flash cart to complete that.
Is it possible to change the screen to ips, like some of the ultimate GBA build? Then it will be the real ultimate ds
Ive been asking about this for months. I am not the biggest fan of the TFT, especially for GBA games or a Macro build. Hopefully someone can alter the IPS screen cables used for GBA and use them in a DSL
The only replacement screens are actually worse than the original.
Well they do work but the color temperature doesn´t 100% fit the touchscreen´s temperature and the viewing angles are not so great.
But they aren´t too bad aswell, but only recommend it if you smashed your screen or if it has a broken flex cable like in my case.
My replacement screen also got a dead pixel, so it´s not super quality.
Not currently. But all DSiXL have IPS screens. So you can just mod that and have the ultimate DS since it can emulate gba games also
Theoretically the true ultimate ds lite would be 2 custom XL screens, one bottom and one at the top, and to just add too it it would probably use BRZ to smoothen all the pixels out, at that point it would probably become the ultimate ds lite!
I almost wanna try it, converting a dsi xl's top screen into a ds lite screen using some pin converter (as the ds lite has 43 pins and the dsi xl has 45)
Though i bet it would almost be impossible sadly...
Then, the ultimate DS (for you) would be a DSi XL. It has IPS XL screens, better CPU and ot is easly moddable via the SD card.
The only thing that the Lite does better are the transparent third party cases and GBA support. And you can easly run GBA games using GBArunner. It's not perfect, but for games that work, it's almost 100%
@@vhateg I suppose so! But I’m kinda going for nostalgia as I when I was younger grew up with a DS lite, so experiencing it with a bigger screen would be almost like you did as a kid!
this was so much fun to watch. Can't wait to work our way up to this. We have just re-shelled a few SP's so far
Can you build me Ds Phat but with DSLite Screens?
I need to put that on the list of ideas.
@@FactoryReset
I still have a bunch of DS games and the DS Phat, the high hasn't worn off yet. But thankfully stopped buying the games 😭🤣
How hard is this?
I've customized 2 GBA's SP's. One was my friend's which strangely shattered in half in a coat pocket I forgot about, so I ordered a glow green shell. It came out so nice I redid mine.
But there was no saudering. I have no other experience with this kind of stuff, even struggling with PS3 and PS4 controllers with faulty shoulder buttons because interiors were different. Is the saudering necessary, and how much harder is this?
My DSI shoulder buttons don't work whatsoever, I'm not even sure if the new shell would fix this, whether I can fix this myself without ordering a new shell, whether I should even try if saudering is involved, etc.
I think Emerald might be the coolest, but Glacier, Diamond, Ruby, and Smoke are all neat, better than sun damaged Topaz which Diamond might become.
I want to see something like this but with 3ds part in a ds lite shell
Good video, a serious suggestion is the Original 3DS
sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo satisfying my god
great video! thumbs up given and subscribed
awesome i thought of re shelling but i dont wanna mess up my ds, maybe if i learned more ill try too
What's that grey case on the bottom right of the stack at 21:03 it's giving me the original DMG vibes with the color of it like a case for the original gameboy ?
I'm so confused about why you are so underrated!
I have an r4 but I only have a 3ds so no ezflash
Apologies if someone already mentioned this, but I noticed that the power LED isn’t functioning on this device even after the restoration.
Did the same thing a few years ago with a clear shell. Looks nice at first, but after a while it cracks everywhere.
You do far too good a level of work for the number of subs your channel has. Great upload.
hello good morning, I would like to know if it would be possible to provide the link from where the r4 gold was purchased?
Lol i got a good condition one with accesories missing for 5 bucks at a flee market
Glad to hear that, what games you playing?
@@FactoryReset all kinds of games i got a used r4 for 15 bucks
A good ds?
@@wisxper yes