Building the Ultimate Nintendo DS Lite 

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 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.

Be more carefull with the dust, is to nasty.

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

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!!😆👍

“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.

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...

This is honestly the best video I have seen in a long time. Relaxing, informative and has great music. ❤️

Super cool! Great production. Lighting was good and music entertaining! My kids were enthralled (5 and 9)! :)

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

great video! that before and after shot was gorgeous

This is a really good video, it's crazy you don't have more popularity.

I never thought it could be so simple then

Amazing video. It's so cool watching you build the DS

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.

Beautiful work! Sweet video i rarely ever comment on anything ever so but this was actually really good!!! Thanks for the quality content

man the results came out beautifully must've taken you a long time to build this thing

Awesome video. Mad props to the guy who composed all the music for this video. Im just jamming out here.

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.

Man great job with that shell swap. I enjoyed you’re video, keep up the Greta work you deserve at least 100k

Great vid man the final product looks great

I subscribed. You only have 500 right now but this channel will blow up soon. Amazing content.

Phantom Hourglass, the game that got me into Zelda and Nintendo in the beginning. Love that game.

Everyone had an R4 card at one point

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.

excellent video! great work! God bless you and yours!

Nice job, congrats!!!

The music in the video sounds like it's in a similar style as Pokemon Clover.

sick love the video ive been really getting back in to ds gaming because of quarantine

After watching this I just had to order the clear black shell from ali express

that ds is...*cheff kiss*

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.

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 😂

Beautiful job!

Awesome job !

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.

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

finally, a prison friendly DS!

This is dope, I wanna do this some day.

Nice job my brother ! 👏🏻👏🏻

Oh man, that's so nice!!

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.

Great content! Keep it up and I hope you get lots of subs.

awesome video man

I loved every second of this video

Im happy youtube actually recommended something good 😭💙

i ordered a ds exactly like this on mercari. i can't wait to get it

Awesome video. You continue this path and your subscribers and likes will increase. Your awesome!!!!

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.

Very cool! Just subbed. Have a great day!

I bought a lite with 400 games,case, charger etc for $95 & I love it!

Music goes kinda hard ngl 🔥🔥🔥

Great Video , Vile "Music"

You deserve more subscribers

Great work.

that was the most unexpected jump scare ive seen

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.

Put the video on 2x speed and the music sounds so good lol

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.

Cool. I always hated the clear glass cases though.

Dope music

great video! thumbs up given and subscribed

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.

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.

awesome i thought of re shelling but i dont wanna mess up my ds, maybe if i learned more ill try too

i can verify the shoulder buttons are the worst part of reassembly on these things

Bro I did mine a few years ago and the hardest part for me, which caused me to screw it up, was the wi-fi antenna got stuck under the cartridge slot, and the ribbon cable got caught inside of the hinge and got damaged. Any tips on avoiding these? You made it look SO easy.

My DS lite broke a few years ago.... So did my heart as a result. I want a replacement DS lite. 😩

The r4 can play every typa game boy game

good vid

Man you are so ready for road trip.

sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo satisfying my god

I just Subscribed you got 61 now

i wish i had any idea of what you did to do it to my dsi

Awesome video! Your DS Lite is now officially gorgeous... Did the R4 cart you purchase have the timebomb? I heard that, if it does, you can circumvent this by flashing a different environment into it (YSMenu, apparently)... I am waiting for my R4 to arrive, and I'm not sure whether I need to do that, or if it is OK to leave it as is instead...

Awesome video! I noticed your green power light was not working after the building. Where you able to fix it?

You do far too good a level of work for the number of subs your channel has. Great upload.

I would recommend using a gba flash cart to complete that.

I want to see something like this but with 3ds part in a ds lite shell

Did the same thing a few years ago with a clear shell. Looks nice at first, but after a while it cracks everywhere.

Stock up, the upper screens will soon be out of stock, especially the dsi xl models

now you gotta try out some of the home brew. my favorite is gameyob which runs gameboy and gameboy color games really well.

Hello! I've been thinking about buying an EZ Flash Omega. After all this time, is still a good choice? Thanks for your great video.

I wish I knew how to solder, it's the only thing holding me back from a couple of devices I wanna repair.

Where do y'all find a decent battery replacement for the DS lite? I need a new one.

Good video, a serious suggestion is the Original 3DS

Lol i thought you had 1 million subs you deserve it

i would get acekard 2i instead of r4, but i think they are hard to get now

Lol i got a good condition one with accesories missing for 5 bucks at a flee market

I like how you don’t put lots of Adonai and actually make it better

How does the combo of R4 card and EZ Flash work out? I have been thinking about modifying my DS Lite and using this setup, but was unsure if the EZF is needed with the R4 card.

How is the quality of the buttons working? I recently ordered a refurbished DS Lite from AliExpress with this shell, and I wasn't so lucky with how the buttons and D-pad worked.

Wow! This is cool and also do you like Super Scribblenauts for the Ds?

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?

Don’t use the ez flash omega if you have a r4 card. It will drastically decrease your battery

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

Nice work. Does the replacement screen have the same ghosting as the original one?