Exposing the FAKEST Nintendo DS Restoration 

Yeah there's a reason everything came with 5 of the damn things back in the day

lmao true. I think me and my friend were the only ones who still had our original stylus when highschool ended, and it was only because he had a super cool Zelda / Navi styled one.. and me? I used my fingers like a savage, and rarely if ever took it out. Still have it :)

Eh not really the 3ds has much better hold on the stylus than the DS lite the og of dissapearing styluses lmao. I have never lost my 3ds stylus and Ive had it since 2017

@@animeloveer97 same for me

jup, the stylus is to clean, compared to the rest of the DS.

Wow! Thank god they found this and fixed it up! This was actually also mine way back in 1756 and I loved playing super smash bros. I'm happy it served him well

Are you making fun of the comment vultures?

What a wholesome story!!!!! 🥰🥰 Hope it happens again so we can see more of these emotional restorations 😀😀

😂😂😂😂

ok

Those fake videos mislead people and turned them into Karen.

@@alvianekka80 "WhErE tHe *FUCk* iS yOUr mANAGeR?" Seriously, Ann Reardon had a point, but she didn't know it'd transcend food hacks. We need to 86 ALL of these fake bullshit videos.

I personally think that some guys Restoration videos are really cool, my favourite video was the restoration of a note 7.

Reminds me of the CSI effect, where people working jury duty will believe someone is innocent because the police haven't done all the precedures shown in shows like CSI, like enhancing a photo of someone's eye to see a person in a room they're not even looking at.

@@nathanbrute9075 unfortunately some people are really stupid

I take almost paranoid care of my 2DS's, yet still somehow manage to lose the fucking styluses

@@Twiddle_things stylus in plural form is styli.

@@tvoovm7254 oh darn really? Thanks mate! The more you learn

@@tvoovm7254 Styluseses

@@Twiddle_thingsnah, its actually Stylisuesiesi

not to mention the stylus even stayed in the goddamn slot

a 3ds without it's stylus missing? impossible

Stranger still that a ruined, mud covered 3DS still has a stylus in the first place. Most well cared for and working ones dont even have that.

I know, right?

@@TheSpeep i lost my ds for 6 months and found it under my night dresser about 3 weeks ago and surprisingly it still had the stylus

I'd imagine the destroyed handhelds are just broken ones that they purchased to destroy... Still a waste, but I don't see them throwing away money when they can avoid doing so for a cheap price.

Yeah, exactly. It is driving my mad. For the sake of the video that is fake so obviously that even my little son noticed it they destroy something which would deserve better treatement than "magical transition to trash" which goes straight to the landfill they have behind their house right after the video shooting.

The thing is, that 3DS costs maybe 100$, but 1 million views will generate approximately 2000$ ad revenue. So it is far less time consuming and profitable for them to just record a working 3DS and then wreck the thing. The RU-vid hustle is tough at times.

I don't know... I find even worse that people watching this videos can't realize how fake they are. People sadly is just to used to see garbage content here...

@@zeendaniels5809 It may very well be that it is mostly kids and teenagers watching.

Yea that was my 3ds that i sold and it made me cry watching this

Yup. That was my 3ds that I sold actually and I cried after watching this

​@@Dinas_cozy_cottage Damn if thats true im sorry i had something similar happen My 2ds got stolen and later found it on Facebook marketplace And the reason i know it was mine or used to be was because i made a custom shell made of wood mostly

@@chibifox123 nah it was mine, and I donated its body to science, still sad though

The funny part about is, even after soaking the motherboard in water, the sticker still looks like it has never seen a droplet of water in its entire life! These videos are disgusting, and I am not sure who watches them. 1.5 M views!!! really??? I mean Eliot is one and he's watching it to "debunk" it, but who are the 1,499,999 other people who watched it?

@@mondherbouazizi4433 I know I've clicked on a number of them and then clicked off from them after realizing it was completely fake. So, I guess that still counts as a view. Although, now I look form anything that is covered in mud and don't even bother to watch those videos.

@@mondherbouazizi4433 I would hazard a guess and say it's mostly children who don't really even know what they're looking at. Just like all those other dumb channels such as 5 minute crafts. People just sit their toddlers with ipads and let them watch anything unsupervised, and this is probably what the algorithm feeds them.

I don't think it's that big of an issue. Yeah sure, there are like.. a hundred or so videos like this? But the 3DS sold around 80 million times. It's really just a very small fraction of handhelds that are being wasted, despite being so prominent on RU-vid.

@@Kiirabu197 still its stupid and is uselessly wasting 3dses someone couldve actually put to good use

@@finnisnotafish agreed

@@finnisnotafish sure, i'm not contradicting that

@@Kiirabu197 As the original comment had said, these items are finite. You get enough of these fake restoration videos and there will be none left 😭

You see Odd Tinkering actually gives step by step instructions on everything they’re doing and it’s actually very informative. This fake vid gives “hey check this out!”

Yep...and I have a sneaking suspicion that Mother Nature doesn't use a brush to fill the 3DS with mud...!! 😀

it spawned there

I don't know why they don't just drop it in a bucket of mud, the "restoration" would at least look somewhat real that way.

same here. i have a dsi xl and wouldnt even think about doing that for even 100 million views. i was even nervous modding it but my nervousness made sure it was done right, then these guys take apart, paint, and throw away a device ive been scraping my entire area to find in store

I mean, that is actually an incredibly valid point! Sure, it's easy to just go 'but I could've used it :(', but these devices were literally designed to entertain people, and this is... I mean, you could argue these videos are a form of entertainment, but it's just a waste of a perfectly good device that could have, in fact, made someone genuinely happy if it wasn't used to make some dorks on the internet seem talented.

One of these channels KILLED a Sega Saturn & a 90s PC. That breaks my heart & sets off my anxiety!

@The DaggerBones System For what I've read 100M views could be ~>$100k in ad revenue. I mean, damn, it's a gadget, not your grandma's ashes. That's more than some people make in their whole life. These guys turned a $100 item into $2000 money. Which can be used broadly for stuff like buying food. When you bought your DS your turned a couple of $100 into that. A console. Putting it this way, now it isn't as clear which case is the most superficial in this situation.

@@okarowarrior Money isn’t everything, sentimental value can mean more then money

It’s really sad, it reminds me of my first ever 3ds I had which was pink. I recently had to let go of my pink 3ds months ago, bc well I had a bit of Oopsies in the 8 years of having it and one last very accidental oopise happened and I figured I better let it go and transfer my data to my other 3ds atleast. It hurt a bit bc I got it as a gift for my 10th birthday, and as I got older I wanted to keep it nice and at that point I was 18, that 3ds was so sentimental to me I was really sad to see it go. which is why those types of those obviously ridiculous “restoration“ videos hit hard, (not in a good way).

Kind of sad too that they are so expensive because they don’t make them anymore and they just probably have good ones laying around and they destroy them I had the first one and sold it to someone as a dumb child and now as a grown up I’m trying to get one and they are sometimes even more than a new console like a switch oled at least I found one but it wasn’t cheap 😭 but these dudes Willy nilly have good consoles and destroy them for some RU-vid views 🤦🏽‍♂️ instead of really fixing damaged ones

@@Shamilscorner right?! I’ve been looking at the Galaxy themed 3ds and it’s way more expensive than my switch was 😭. It physically hurts my soul bc I don’t see the point in mucking up a still perfectly well working system and to “fix” it for views and clicks 😭.

@@huh4578 I’ve seen that galaxy one that one is so expensive I went for a dsi xl it’s hacked but fuck it cause to find all those games is a hassle now but that 3ds looks so nice and is so expensive but if it was one of these dudes in the videos they wouldn’t care for them sweet RU-vid views

@@Shamilscornerfair enough to be honest, I was raised to keep all my consoles/ hand helds nice and clean, and try to keep them good condition. So that’s why it physically hurts me bc I just personally can’t even begin to imagine fucking up a nice system for some stupid views 😭💀.

There are plenty of good restoration channels (Odd Tinkering, TysyTube, my mechanics, Not Terrible Restorations, Hand Tool Rescue, Old Things Never Die), but there's definitely a lot of crap too.

'My Mate Vince' is also another good one. He's a real tryer.

@@spetsnaz1014 StezStix Fix is also good.

I'm really hoping Odd Tinkering isn't a fraud. Those videos are a lot of fun to watch.

@@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co - Thank you.

I'm more pissed at these kind of videos because they take attention off the legit, restoration channels

@@matteobesho That's where we need to shout out the true fixers in the comments of these videos.

Guess all those views can just buy a new one for further vids to be destroyed?

They destroy real shells just to put cheap shitty ones on or just “attempt” to fill in the cracks.

It actually makes me sad there's plenty of people out there learning from these videos when they wanna open and clean or repair their devices for the first time. And there's folks defending this saying it's just entertainment, let them make these videos.

The 8-Bit Guy and LGR also make some good videos restoring old computer hardware. Learned some things from them too, like retrobrite methods and corrosion removal, but they aren't entirely about restorations.

@@commscan314 I watch them too and actually you can learn a lot from 8-bit guy restoration vids too, he gets really technical sometimes and also brings up some fancy ideas but yea, not entirely "lets fix this up" type of channel.

I'm guessing some people like the asmr type of restoration. And just like watching that's my guess.

Odd Tinkering fixes a lot of different stuff, both electronics & antiques. Then there's TronicsFix, he fixes broken electronics, both old & new. As far as I know, these are legitimate Restoration Channels: - Odd Tinkering (I have seen how good they are) - TronicsFix (one I watch, he fixes broken consoles) - StezStix Fix? (It's similar to TronicsFix) - Backyard Ballistics (repairs & restores firearms) - Old Things Never Die - The 8-Bit Guy - LGR - Hugh Jeffreys - Psivewri - Necroware - Modstek - Cat and Andrew - TysyTube Restoration - Greg Salazar - Restoration Australia - RRC Restoration - Restoration EG - my mechanics - VigerP (cleans, fixes & restores consoles, but also does other content - Vintage Watch Services - Hand Tool Rescue

Hand Tool Rescue, Not Terrible Restorations, and LADB Restorations all restore old mechanical or electrical items.

Odd Tinkering isn’t pulling stuff out of the garbage.

I think it's cause the red DS lite had two layers of paint one metallic crimson and then clear this the separation occurs

The video states it is an LL model, they probably live in a country where they sell LL not XL

@@JaredConnell Japan is the only region where XL is called LL. That one _is_ a japanese unit. They have not even slightest idea what they're destroying. They wrote LL because the thing says LL on the backplate.

oh boy do I have a plainrock124 for you

Same bro I was just playing miitopia on mine like ten minutes ago this shit hurts my feelings to watch :(

Gamers hate this trick

if it puffed on the back itd be kinda gay

Cocaine

Was perfect😂

According to some youtubers in the comment minipudsvinduespolering for example he is also a fake channel as well. Calling it "same kind og "dirt" on every item he "restores"." Thats why I ask Elliot Coll is he fake never got an answer.

fake. @revolution5268 is correct.

😂😂

Either its just me or they literally look the same

Must've used a desoldering tool to remove the soldering iron gouges...!! ;-) 😀

I was thinking this the whole time 🤦🏽‍♂️

*cocaine

It works shockingly well. I use it to restore small cosmetic nicks in carbon fiber bike frames and it produces a really hard, tough surface with a tight bond to the substrate.

Well humidity is water homie you want less corrosion? Use oil

I dunno man... All the consoles they repair look exactly the same, yellowed to shit like they're piss soaked, and dunno bout you, but I don't think I've ever seen old consoles look like that

@@justpassingby298 Plastics from that age do yellow if left out in the sunlight. It's possible he just goes through ebay and finds the worst ones. Also I've seen tons of consoles yellowed like that from other channels like 8 bit guy and other bigger retro focused channels

@@crestofhonor2349 I mean I guess it's possible I'm just looking to deep into it, but dunno man, some of the things he repairs just look way overblown, maybe it's just some thumbnail editing for more clicks from the few videos I skimmed through, usually the things weren't that bad

@@justpassingby298 Most of the damage seems to just be cosmetic. Most of them turn on right away or just have something small not working like the PS2 disc drive, which are known to fail with even a little bit of dust or whatever on the laser. It's not like they're in a ton of pieces. Most of the restoration is just making it look cosmetically better

It was a good video

That being said, I'm 90% sure that the "dirt" that's supposed to be on the front of the ds is literally paint so it's kind of hard not to.

Thanks Mum! Don’t be a stranger, I don’t drink milk.

that is not an excuse to bait people by literally lying to them about the content provided .. there is reasons why consumer protection laws exist that dissallow lies like this when selling a product ( they are selling a product, aka content that we pay for with view time, data, or even youtubes mechanism of becoming supporters )

Harrassing or sending threats on them is below the belt but what these fake restoration channels are doing is still straight up deceit regardless. Not only is it cringe but it also gives legitimate tinkerer channels a maligned rep because of these shysters.

He should do a reaction video to his reaction video to his fake restoration.

Thats a banger of a video great idea

Yo dawg

thats actually hilarious, id love to see that

You mean all reaction videos are fake with fake emotions as well?

I was always told as a kid that if the white turned to pink, the item was defective. I'm unsure if that's still true!

@@michan2006 yes it is. This white stamp is still use in the Switch for example

Mud is easier to rip off after it's dried

I don't think there are Any springs in the 3ds or any da for that matter lol

@@animeloveer97 One on R and L, plus the weird one (or how many it uses internally) on the hinge mechanism. The GBA is the same in that regard, just the GBA got two hinge springs/mechanisms.

lol

The thumbnails also always happen to have a lot of rust on the plastic. Plastic oxidizes, but it sure as hell doesn't rust in the process, or retrobrite would require mechanical action through vinegar and not chemical action through hydrogen peroxide and heat.

A genuine restorer!

Yes this definitely is a reupload

yea pretty sure this is a re-upload

That would make it a good thing then.

But the problem is that you're reverse biasing other components that are electrically connected to the LED. There wouldn't be any directly in parallel, but there are paths to both rails, so they will be reverse biased. Though at the current this meter can inject, in 3DS in particular, nothing will probably actually take damage. But there's plenty of other devices where you better think twice about probing.

The main difficulty in restoring something is the time expense and the skill, like you can damage and ruin a lot of things inadvertently when repairing, i think it took me a while until i got good at it; you can see that they can't even bloody hold the tweezers correctly, they have literally no idea how not to rip a flex, or how to handle screws so you don't crossthread them. Then again if they ask around they'd find a neighbour who maybe knows their way around things? Maybe? Or maybe everyone who has that sort of skill has made it off from these sorts of places and has a better job? In a low wage society, actually being able to repair stuff is a substantially more valuable skill than on our bits of the planet. Just recently i murdered a Discman clone while trying to reverse engineer its headphone amp circuit. Whoopsie. Though it wasn't any good or valuable anyway, so well.

@@SianaGearz not only would it be a more valuable skill in their area, but I’m sure if they were actually putting any effort into it, they could do a lot better even at their current skill level. It looks atrocious because they don’t care to actually repair it. They want to put out as many videos as quickly and easily as they can to capitalize on viral trends.

Camera equipment is quite cheap, and repair tool sets are like $24.99 at most

Dude be looking like the average climate protestor, agree with that though good video

You've never been able to predict what's going to happen next? I'm just tired of seeing people accuse reactors of being fake. I for one have never faked a reaction in my life (I've had to reenact some due to computer issues but I always say so and try to stage them as close as I can to the originals).