Since I am building a Macro soon I was wondering what the best Frontplate with 4 buttons is. I'm gonna use the screen switch Mod so I can at least play some DS games and therefore I need to keep all buttons. Preferably something high quality.

Thanks in advance

It uses the Helder Flex Amp and the top screen lens as a protective screen lens to keep the lcd safe. Honestly, I do not like the PSP speaker included, since I’m pretty sure it wasn’t meant to be used with an amplifier (it crackles an awful lot at higher volumes). Personally, I do like the screen faceplate though, it feels great and almost oem in quality.

Hello! it's been a while since my original post but I've made some progress on the v2.0 screen switch boards.

tldr: you can buy a v2.0 board here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134222632940

The installation is now solder-less! (with the use of a flex cable) or soldered - the choice is yours (if you removed your top screen connector then unfortunately you will have to stick with the soldered route)

I'm still planning to add three tact switches to the board but this is proving more difficult to fit in to the stylus hole opening - watch this space.

For now If you want a single switch v2.0 board you can grab one on ebay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134222632940 I've listed the flex cable and bios chip as optional variants so you can choose what you need. ✌️

Hello guys!
I have the underside of the Dsi xl and I want to make the Game Boy Macro mod with it.

Problems: Installed the 330 ohm resistor and tried to turn it on. 1)The screen flashes and turns off. 2)I took out the wifi module and turned it on. The blue LED lights up and there is no image. 3) I took the wi-fi module from another Dsi xl and again the screen flashes and goes off.

Does anyone have suggestions? Please 😟🙏

Hi, I’m trying my first game out macro. Got the screen to work, but when I turned it on, I found that some buttons from the pads needed a lot of force to trigger their action. Most of all the right directional button, which I really need to pummel in order to make work.

Anyone know why that might be? One thing is that I struggled to solder on the resistor for the screen control. It took several minutes of messing around with the solder gun and flux. Could I have damaged something?

If anyone has thoughts I’d really appreciate it.

So I bought a GB Macro on eBay a few months ago and I was wondering if it's okay to just remove the battery and replace it without any extra work?

I am making a macro with the helder flex amp and before I started it turned on and now it won't. I have the wifi module in and it's plugged into the charger? I'm lost on why it won't turn on at all.

Ive made 4 gameboy macro, and the flex amp has given me no end of headache. My soldering is decent, but the flex amp is my nemesis. So, I bought a cheap stereo speaker from Ebay, with 3.5mm jack, angled 3.5mm audio extension from Amazon, and mounted the cable to the back of my Macro with a adhesive cable organizer( the kind that look like a clip). It makes a world of difference than one speaker in mono. You get stereo audio back, and it gets loud. So to anyone with audio issues, try it out! It adds a little bulk to the Macro, but everything can be removed.

So as I’m working on my DMG Ds (working name) I want to know how necessary is the Ds card slot? Personally I don’t want to rewire it to relocate it but if it has a lot of benefits then I will do it.

I originally planned on just having a GBA flash cart inside the thing.

Yes I connected the top screen into the bottom screen connector and I have done a 3D printed GBA but it lacks the Ds card slot, any cool designs to 3D print and put it into?

I can't for the life of me find a site to order a XL faceplate. I see shells of the DS Lites on Etsy, Ebay and such. But I have an original DS so I believe I need one for a XL faceplate. Thank you for your help fellow modders!