#74849 - ultrablade - Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:44 am
Want to build your own DS instead or buying a factory one?
Go ahead.
Instrutions:
1. Go and buy a DS motherboard. One can be purchased here for $30 USD.
Click Here
2. Now that you have the motherboard I assume, you need to buy a shell. All parts are included. (Buttons, top&bottom shell)
A shell can be purchased here
3. Hence I told you to go grab 1&2, you can now get the wi-fi antennda and speakers. (They run together)
Here and here.
You need three more items now. (hey, buy an SP battery and cut the two little plastic peices off top. I did it.. 50 cents cheaper lol)
4. You'll now need a top LCD, a touch LCD, and a battery. Find them all here!
YOU'RE DONE!
Now I'm tell you like this. I'm dead serious you can do this but DON'T attempt if you don't know alot about electronics are in doubt. And if you want instructions, look at Lik-Sang's tech pics. Tell tell you everything you need to know.
(I am probably going to do this for the DS lite...)
TOTAL MONEY: 30.00+70.00+20.00+12.00+4.00=136.00 USD + TAX
I'll tell you this. Look around. You'll find these part waaaay cheaper than off of ebay though.
If futher instructions, ask someone around, like me.
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#74850 - vb_master - Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:46 am
Overpriced. Has better prices.
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#74852 - ultrablade - Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:51 am
That's a lie!!! DS touch screen 50 dollars??
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#74853 - swimgod - Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:53 am
what firmware do the mother boards have?
lol,
btw: the ds is $129.99 ....
http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/categories/systems/ds/default.asp
LOL
even more on...
the $50 bottom "touch " screen is no touch screen...
its just the bottom screen
the touch screen on that site is $30
30+50=$80
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#74854 - ultrablade - Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:56 am
| swimgod wrote: |
what firmware do the mother boards have?
lol |
Various I guess lol...
Oh, and do you seriously have Firmware version 6?!? (I heard it disables everyting!!!! Passkey wise. I have a passkey & passkey 2)
Can you take a screenshot of it?
Thanks! :D
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#74855 - swimgod - Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:58 am
oh whoops :P
i ment V4!!!
so sorry :S
and, i have been to nintendo world
they have the ABSULTE
newest ds's
there supplier is dirrect
and they sell fast there
the most recent version they have is v5
in other words
from what i have seen there THERE IS NO v6 YET!
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#74858 - natrium42 - Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:13 am
You know where those eBay people get these replacement parts? They disassemble brand new DSes (and the occasional used one, probably) and sell them for parts.
Notice how the most thought-after parts are the most expensive? Smart, eh?
The sum of all parts is greater than what they pay for the DS, since they naturally want to make some profit. I can see how you might combine cheapest parts from different "businessmen" to try building a DS cheaper than buying a new DS, but shipping costs really kill that idea.
Additionally, I don't think "the man" likes them doing that stuff. Go figure :)
Good luck!
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#74859 - Nushio - Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:16 am
If you play this video in reverse, you might assamble a DS!
Just make sure you grab Paco, Jos? or Juan to help you with the video, because its in spanish*
*I'm Mexican, and I speak spanish, I hope I didnt offend anyone with my comment
#74860 - ultrablade - Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:20 am
Okay... so this isn't the best alternative... dumb topic...
Sorry guys...
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#74861 - natrium42 - Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:22 am
| ultrablade wrote: |
Okay... so this isn't the best alternative... dumb topic...
|
Well, it's still a way to get a DS if you like building things :)
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#74887 - arlow - Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:42 pm
Ehm I doubt your math skills ultrablade because as I went throug I came to this result not understanding your result at all
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Xbox Repair Ebay Guy Cheapest
Guide
Logic Board 29,95 30,00 29,95
Wifi Antenna 4,95 12,00 4,95
Top Screen 49,95 47,00 47,00
Bottom Screen 49,95 70,00 49,95
Touch Screen 29,95 0 0
Case 29,95 0,99 0,99
Buttons 9,95 9,95 9,95
Speakers 4,95 3,00 3,00
Battery 4,95 11,00 4,95
without shipping 214,55 183,94 150,74
or tax
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I think 150$ is quite expensive and if you think of shipping and tax I bet you will end up at 200$ so I dont think that if somebody likes building things he might buy a DS take it apart and screw it together again, as this is much cheaper :)
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#74889 - Diffuse - Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:16 pm
I ended up bricking my DS, so I simply bought a new motherboard off of ebay.. (I don't think it was off of him..) and after a bit of trouble my DS works fine now :D. So a tip for everyone with a bricked DS... get a new mobo from ebay :)
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#74895 - Nuja - Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:43 pm
Lo all,
Is there better speaker for nintendo ds or its only the original one ?
TIA
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#74896 - adrian783 - Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:44 pm
just as an advice, dont get the ebay replacement shells if they are not OEM. the made in china cases use cheapass screws and cheapass plastic, it just feels weird
#74917 - tssf - Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:39 pm
This seems kinda useless when a used DS would suffice, but then again, how many people can say, "I built my own DS from the ground up?"
This is actually pretty good for customizing the DS if you wanted to...
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#74920 - adrian783 - Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:04 pm
lol, if you really want to impress people build a minty mp3, that is the truly "ground up"
#74922 - tssf - Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:41 pm
| Nuja wrote: |
Lo all,
Is there better speaker for nintendo ds or its only the original one ?
TIA
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The DS speakers in the way they're shaped, are proprietary, I would think.
Though if someone wouldn't mind getting into dirty soldering and maybe case modification, someone could put better speakers in the DS..of course, it would require much work. The Shell of the DS is also not designed to accomodate anything of the sort either, which means: More fun trying to figure out how one would replace the speakers as well. It probably wouldn't sound right, either. But it would be nice to put my creative lab portable speakers into my DS..not gonna happen, though. Well, not soon, anyway.
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#74928 - MaHe - Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:37 pm
Is it possible to grab Lite's motherboard & shell and keep everything else from the old DS (I can use FlashME and don't really care about the screen brightness)? Or are there any differences in battery size/screen thickness/connector pins/wifi antenna/blah blah ... ?
#74931 - swimgod - Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:58 pm
lol,
the size of the whole ds in the lite is smaller.
i would think nothing would fit...
Maybe the speakers and screens
but nothing else...
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#74932 - tepples - Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:58 pm
| tssf wrote: |
| This seems kinda useless when a used DS would suffice, but then again, how many people can say, "I built my own DS from the ground up?" |
Ask the guy who made the VCSp and the first PSp. Another tip: Running the process in reverse would allow making a TV-out-capable DS.
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#74961 - ultrablade - Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:00 am
| arlow wrote: |
Ehm I doubt your math skills ultrablade because as I went throug I came to this result not understanding your result at all
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Xbox Repair Ebay Guy Cheapest
Guide
Logic Board 29,95 30,00 29,95
Wifi Antenna 4,95 12,00 4,95
Top Screen 49,95 47,00 47,00
Bottom Screen 49,95 70,00 49,95
Touch Screen 29,95 0 0
Case 29,95 0,99 0,99
Buttons 9,95 9,95 9,95
Speakers 4,95 3,00 3,00
Battery 4,95 11,00 4,95
without shipping 214,55 183,94 150,74
or tax
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I think 150$ is quite expensive and if you think of shipping and tax I bet you will end up at 200$ so I dont think that if somebody likes building things he might buy a DS take it apart and screw it together again, as this is much cheaper :) |
I didn't base all prices on ebay and what is the "cheapest" way anyway? >:(
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#74966 - tepples - Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:08 am
Read each line. Cheapest is the smaller of eBay price and Xbox Repair Guide price.
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#74976 - vb_master - Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:08 am
The mainboards at Xbox Repair Guide used to be $14.95! They keep raising prices!
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#74977 - ultrablade - Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:12 am
| tepples wrote: |
| Read each line. Cheapest is the smaller of eBay price and Xbox Repair Guide price. |
i meant what actully is the cheapest way....
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#74987 - Nushio - Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:53 am
| ultrablade wrote: |
| tepples wrote: | | Read each line. Cheapest is the smaller of eBay price and Xbox Repair Guide price. |
i meant what actully is the cheapest way....
ultrablade |
Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Gamestop...
#74988 - zzo38computer - Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:59 am
Yes, maybe you could customize a Nintendo DS unit with this. I think if you replaced the speakers in a normal unit, you would need to have speakers of the correct size, impedance, magnetic field strength, etc. If you build it yourself, you could put different speakers. You could also omit parts you don't need, add a CF card slot, add a debug button, add a serial port, add a RAM expansion slot, etc. And if you don't like the placement of the buttons you can move them.
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#74999 - tssf - Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:47 am
| tepples wrote: |
| tssf wrote: | | This seems kinda useless when a used DS would suffice, but then again, how many people can say, "I built my own DS from the ground up?" |
Ask the guy who made the VCSp and the first PSp. Another tip: Running the process in reverse would allow making a TV-out-capable DS. |
Well, his work is actually making a home console portable, so that's not really the point of say, making your own customized DS. But I see what you're saying.
Slightly off topic now, I hope Darkfader succeeds in releasing schematics for a "TV-enabled" DS, I really would love something like that released to public so people can actually do this kinda stuff without, say, being a member of the gaming press, or an employee of Nintendo to be able to obtain something of that sort.
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#75005 - MrD - Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:10 am
Maybe you can un-Heck it, and turn your handheld into a non-portable household console?
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#75035 - tssf - Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:49 pm
| MrD wrote: |
| Maybe you can un-Heck it, and turn your handheld into a non-portable household console? |
That's what tepples suggested.
It would be nice, but which controller interface would you allow for? Maybe a custom SNES-style one with the touch screen appended to the top. Of course that would make connection to the console difficult, you'd have to include more pins.
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#75052 - tepples - Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:04 pm
| tssf wrote: |
| It would be nice, but which controller interface would you allow for? Maybe a custom SNES-style one with the touch screen appended to the top. |
I might suggest replicating only one screen to the TV (switchable) and still having both screens display on the DS. This would let me play, say, Mario Kart while staring at the TV, or tape-record Meteos.
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#75064 - MaHe - Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:08 pm
Watching movies from MoonShell on the TV would certainly be cool ... :o
#75092 - ultrablade - Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:05 am
intresting topic i must say...
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#75095 - natrium42 - Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:48 am
You should talk about video out in the topic here: http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=8846
Mainly, DarkFader needs some "encouragement" to finish it, if you know what I mean :)
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#75898 - ultrablade - Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:15 pm
| adrian783 wrote: |
| just as an advice, dont get the ebay replacement shells if they are not OEM. the made in china cases use cheapass screws and cheapass plastic, it just feels weird |
Hey adrian, can you tell me which ones are OEM? I don't want a cheap one. Also, are the ones made in Hong Kong fake or real?
I am going to order one tomorrow lol
thanks
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#75967 - tssf - Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:35 am
:( I can't afford phillipino hookers. They're too expensive. Maybe some people can get together and put together a "Get Dark Fader a hooker!" fund on paypal or something. :D
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#75969 - swimgod - Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:45 am
| tssf wrote: |
:( I can't afford phillipino hookers. They're too expensive. Maybe some people can get together and put together a "Get Dark Fader a hooker!" fund on paypal or something. :D |
but don't get the cheap ones...
i can't promise the sex of those >.>
i think we should open a fund and create a list of things that need to be done for the ds...
so we can get something done! lol.
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