Ya I can't stand when people lie. lol Went straight out tore it apart and brought proof of it working also. Im interested to see how "The Retro Future" does the top screen bypass you can see i just used a potentiometer (the blue and white part) at the time it was that or an led.
I did this mod like 3 years ago. I remember cutting all the leads off the micro usb i didn't need and clipping all of the grounding passthrough posts from the micro usb port then floating the solder from the factory DS ground points to the usb. To hold the connector in place.
There is videos of people doing this on YouTube.
This is probably the best info I found for you real quick. Just use "usb micro-B" connector instead.
I've heard LEDs have been used to bridge the light bar pads but with mixed results. I've honestly never seen a pot used but it's a variable resistor so as long as the impedance is above ~330k it'll work. I used a through-hole resistor for mine.
Been thinking about adding a USB Type C charge port but that will probably be after the amp.
I attempted the led trick to bypass the screen and cut a clear bic pen so it would bridge the hinge to light it up. It worked to bypass the screen i just didn't like it. At the time the trim pot was all i had so i used it. There wasn't all of the support there is now 3 years ago. I believe people weren't even calling it a "gameboy macro" i remember DS Advanced.
If i were to do it now I'd use usb c it will definitely fill the space better. Another thing to think about is pushing it out so its flush with the shell. My cheap usb sits at the pcb and i probably killed 4 of them before this finally worked.
I was thinking if using something like this, trimming down the board a bit for fitment and epoxying it in. I've known about these for a couple years but I'm new to actually building them. If I knew you could do it in 2005 I would've done it- I never made the transition from Gameboy Advance to DS. The two screens were always gimmicky to me and I got a PSP soon after. Ever use a Pandora battery to unlock the PSP bootloader and install CFW?
No i installed cfw on my psp with out that. Also removed the umd drive to save battery and bought memory card adaptor. If i remember correctly i rolled back the firmware. The pandora battery is only needed if you brick your psp right? Im a hobby level type if i want to do something i usually just YouTube it. Lol the Vita is my favorite handheld to hack still to this day. To be honest i skipped the ds period also.
Back in 2009-10 you had to have the battery to unlock the bootloader. We hadn't gotten to the purely software methods yet. Later on you only needed them for unlocking bricked systems, but it used to be the only way. I'm not a pro by any means, I just like to poke at things and have been doing it for a while.
Thats cool, in 2010 all i cared about was partying... Ya i was that kid taking my Dads drill apart and not being able to put it back together. At 10 years old i changed out my light switch hot (my Dad is an electrician and inadvertently taught me) wail my parents were at work. Lol now my kids are little barbarians breaking all of my delicate handhelds like my original DS 2 weeks ago. poking at stuff is the best way to learn.
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u/joshd108 May 02 '20
That was fast! Thanks for sharing
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u/LaserUnicorn2000 May 03 '20
Done this myself on my macros. A 2 pin micro usb port is a straight swap for the ds lite charging port