[How To] Replace / Fix / Repair Nintendo 2DS Screen & Digitizer | + Full Disassembly 

Thanks man, I was bored during quarantine/ vacation and I found my old 2ds, after 4 years I finally fixed the screen😁😁😁

Hey, I know it’s been 3 years since this video was posted, but if you are reading this, thank you so much for making this tutorial available. I had a screen issue, and this helped me replace it.

Excellent video - thank you. My tips from doing this just now are; make sure the little rubber bits behind the buttons are lined up correctly before screwing down the motherboard (or your buttons don't work) and make sure that the little ribbon wires are fully inserted before closing the tiny clamps (or the screen lights up, but no picture appears, or the touchpad is unresponsive). I've finally put it back together correctly and everything now works, happy parent, happy kid!

Thanks for the video, found this because my 2DS happens to have the same issue and I don't want to abandon all the games I have on it. The tutorial you may is visually easy to follow and I will use it as a stepping stone.

I “made sure” to give you a thumbs up

Thank you. I just repaired my ds I had for Christmas 2013 because I accidentally sat on it. I can't use words to tell you how much I love you. Thanks

Bought a decently used 2ds a few weeks ago; the Y button didn't work but thanks to your video I could open up the console and clean up the contacts. Everything worked afterwards, thank you so much!

Thanks a lot for the neat instructions! I must admit that you're awesome in delicate work! Because the cables are extremely delicate and tiny, however, they don't break or tear easily because your instructions are so clear. One thing I want to highlight here, there is a hard plastic stripes, one big stripe and two tiny ones, they are on the back side of the screen, I guess, that plastic is for insulation with motherboard. I removed that plastic (indeed hard to remove) and then stuck it with the new screen. The screws are little bit tricky, however, I recommend to have 4-5 little bowls to place the screws as you remove! The black double side tape is the worst to adjust on the new screen, well, not impossible, need patience!! Everything else goes with this video, the 100% goes with video and you're good to go! Much much appreciated 😊👍!!!

Thank you very much for your video, very useful and easy to follow. I was messing around with the wireless piece until i watched your video, those little things that drive you crazy.

Thank you for making this video! It was super easy to follow your instructions. I just finished replacing my son's broken screen and he is ecstatic! His 2ds screen has been broken for about a year and he was really disappointed when he thought he had lost all his games. I appreciate you!

I just did mine watching this video. Simple to follow. Thank you very much.

Nice teardown. Not overly drawn out, yet covers what needs to be done. Considering taking mine apart to clean the screen, as it had soda spilled on it at one point, and the screen internally has residue on it yet, but otherwise works great.

Very helpful video. Had no problems getting that screen out. Thanks!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I replaced the screen successfully before few months ago!! Today I followed your instructions and fixed the A button (just opened up, and scratch a little bit the copper foils of all ABCD buttons to ensure the buttons contacts them properly! It worked. The last thing, the strap rod (a tiny little rod) wondered me where it will go, but found the right place for it at the end of your video! Perfect bhai! Thanks

Thanks dude, I really needed to know this so I can fix my 2DS

This video was perfect for me. I came here because I was given a 2ds for free. Upon looking at it I noticed it was a bit different from the bunch I’ve seen before. I googled it and come to find out it’s the Zelda ocarina of time remake limited edition 2ds!!! I’m so excited just got to fix the screens and I have a beautiful handheld to add to the collection!

He makes it look so easy

Holy crap, You're a life saver!!! This is my first time working with tech like this so this is pretty big for me!!

Just got done with the job. Thank you very much for the guide!

Thanks for the great video! Was able to change the screen on my son's 2DS.

Thanks man, I was bored during quarantine/vacation and I found my old 2DS, after 4 years I finally fixed the screen 😁😁😁

great video mannnnn, I have been thinking about fixing my ds for years. I finally decided to fix it and this video helped me tremendously!!!

Most simple way to fix a 2ds my brother broke my 10 year old 2ds that I had since I was 3 and I was so mad. At this little rat but since you came in to help with this video I was able to figure out how to fix it thanks😊

i referenced this tutorial while trying to replace my 2ds broken camera! whenever i turned it on it made a popping sound before turning off again!! after replacing it, it still makes the sound 😢 still a great video 😊 !!!

Thank you so much this was so useful!

haha love the make sure counter. It was a nice touch

This convinced me to buy a 2DS with a busted digitizer and fix it. I made sure 😁 to get the right parts.

It worked! Thank you so much

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Great video. It really helped repair my daughter's DS. She loaned it to her 6-yr-old brother and he broke the screen. He got mad because he was losing and decided to bite the screen, if you can believe that. She had taken really good care of it all these years. Needless to say, he has been banned from all video games for the past 6 months and had to pay for the parts out of his Christmas money. The top screen had a small dent where the bite mark was and I thought I would take your advice and remove it from the outside, but I'm having quite the difficulty in doing so. What kind of suction mechanism do you recommend to get it off?

Tysm! The inner screen for my 2Ds shattered and I haven't had any idea how to fix it

Thank you for the tutorial

i need some advices i got to figure out how replace a nintendo 2ds connection clip. please help me

Thanks!

Thank you! This video was very helpful 😊

Where did you get the world map for your desk? it looks really good

Thanks for this, got a new 2ds xl for Christmas 2021, but couldnt move my saves and pokemon cos my original was busted and i couldnt remember how or why, trying to get all my stuff before big nintendo kills the 3ds

Hey man amazing work I just did this last week and is was perfection love your videos! I do have a concern tho, do they not make 2Ds housing shells so we can replace them? I’m asking cause mines pretty banged up and I prefer to change the whole shell than to add a skin? I can’t find any nowhere the 2DsXL keeps popping up.

I have my touch screen really messed up, so, I think I will do something with my free time now :D

Hey which screen do you have to pick like 3rd screen cause I can’t find a 2nd screen on ali

After watching this video, I have decided that I'm just gonna send my 2ds to somebody for repair😅. This seems WAY too stressful for me. I'm almost 90% sure that if i try this on my own I will break a ribbon cable or something. Great vid tho👍

What screwdrivers are you using I can’t get the bottom screws for the life of me and they are just stripping

Hi umm I have a question my Nintendo 2ds sleep mode button broke and every time I used the button it didn’t turn off so I tried to know why it didn’t work with this video thanks anyway and I didn’t knew why it didn’t work so the only explanation I saw was that the problem was the button so do you probably know were can i buy a replacement for that button it would help a lot to know where I could by it thanks.

I am having a lot of trouble with the top 2 screws. I think something happened during assembly on this unit and they seem to be buried and not lined up with the console. Every time I go in and try to unscrew them, I get a bit but eventually CLICK CLICK type sound, whereas the bottom 4 screws came out with ease. Is there any way to get around this? What pisses me off is I ordered this refurbed from Nintendo back in 2019.

Tysm! This looks so easy to do, but the top two screws are giving me a hard time (won`'t come off even though they can turn)

Do I have to replace the top screens or can I reuse the old ones?

I tuned into this cause under my screen is rewlly dirty the plastic in-between the top and bottom screen is bulging so dust is getting in the top screen. Wondering if I should glue it or something

Yay I can finally fix my screen I broke the screen without breaking the digitizer

Is there any place I can it repaired instead of repairing it myself? Because I don't have the proper tools and I'm afraid I might loose some of the peices.

Are the listings for the screen replacements on AliExpress still reliable? I get hesitant about ordering replacement parts for retired game consoles.

I bought a 2DS with some scuffs. Thanks for showing how "low level" this repair is. I will *make sure* to be careful!

Trying to swap screens between my 2 2ds’s and when I got it open the screws are stripped on the motherboard any idea how to get them out? It’s the same for the other day, just on the back before you can open it. Thank you I appreciate it.

Yo what do i do with the screw in the semi circle hole near the battery

I need help about the 2DS Digitizer, its sold out, are there any thing else I can use for my 2ds?

Hey when I try to use the 2DS and use it’s camera function I keep getting an error on it and I get the feeling I broke the camera on the Nintendo 2DS, is the there a way to fix the 2DS camera so that I can take pictures and scan QR codes with it again?

Hopefully I’ll never have to do this both of mine are fine and I’m being as careful as possible to not have the need to do this new 2ds xl looks lot harder to do but I only have surface scratches on the regular 2ds so that’s a easy fix

Help im having trouble with the sleep button alignement how do i do ?

I broke one of the smaller ribbon cable latches what do I do

I noticed your motherboard is not the original Nintendo one but looks like from Aliexpress since the wifi card is already an integrated chip. I got the same one but the only thing that didn't work is the sound. I didn't solder the speakers like you do but there should be sound coming from the headset jack. Do you have any clue why it isn't working?

To repair my 2DS do I need to purchase everything in your description? (Except the stylus)

My son dropped his 2DS and both screens broke. Will I need to replace the digitizer too?

My best friend gave me his 2ds before he switched schools and both screens are knocked out. I also think tbe volume might be broken since when i turn it up there is no sound.. I want to try to fix it myself but I'm not a expert at all so I'm scared I'll damge it more. Is there some type of store that fixes 2ds for cheap or would me fixing it be cheaper??

Did you make sure?

How do you swap out the home button?

Could have gone into more depth when it came to the joy stick circle thing, but other than that, all is good.

hello my nintendo 2Ds has been broken for two years everything works the sound and the touch screen so should I also change the digitizer?

Where can I buy one if those blowers?

I just need to replace the exterior top piece and all I needed was a suction cup without opening it?

Do you know where i can find the motherboard

I’m going to do this to my 2ds one day and try to put a metal circle pad in because my rubber is missing on mine

Im hoping someone or you see this that can this question I have another fully fine 2ds and a broken screen 2ds can I use those parts from the working 2ds to the broken 2ds ( the working 2ds got a homebrew brick)

plus i worked on my games for 3 YEARS!

Will it matter if the replacement screen is dusty as I started fixing it before and forgot about it

What size screw driver is this

a couple years ago my 2ds fell and it broke in the same way as the beginning of the video, do I have to change both the screen and the digitizer or just the screen?

Hopefully I can fix it, it just broke when my laptop fell on the bottom screen and it broke the top one too.

make sure.

URGENT!! I flipped over the console after taking out the screen and a small rubber circle came out and i dont know where it goes i need help! Is it important?

I can't find a cheap 2DS display, all of them are really expensive, do you know where I can find a cheap one ?

Is the 3ds digitizer the same as the 2ds one

very good tutorial but i havent done anything like this before so im scared that i would just break it 😭

my 2ds broke yesterday from me droping it. i do not think i can fix it

The buttons and the touch screen on mine don't work idk what to do

Sigh a back in the game employee must've broke the black plastic piece from my l button... Is there a free way i can get my l button to work without soldering in a new one or taking it to a repair shop

this is really difficult i've done it step by step i've looked for places near me that can fix 2ds screens & no luck hopefully there is something or someone that can help me

hey i am new here and i have a problem that I need help with I search all over the internet butting I couldn't find anything so my problem is that my bottom screen has some like shade of black on it and i don't know if i should replace my screen or is there another way ? could you please help me😥

What screw do you need? My friend asked if someone I know could fix it

tried this hut 2 of my motherboard screws are threaded- any advice?

followed your tutorial and I got everything in place, however when I boot my 2ds the light turns on and then the system cuts off, not sure where I might have went wrong

Hiya, could you run me through what the Digitizer, display and display window mean? I just wanna make sure i don’t purchase the wrong thing

The ribbon cables are VERY fragile. They don't like to be flexed too many times.

Hi my battery have 4V Do you know if I can start 2DS without battery ? My 2DS don’t start with and without battery but I don’t know if the battery is the problem… Thx for answer

Where are the links to the replacement digitizer? I can't find them.

my 2ds is two separate screens?

OK here’s my story so about a 3DS XL 2012 model I call Nintendo they tell me I can get a replacement one time replacement for $85 turns out they discontinued the new 2DSXL in 2020 and they tell me they’re out of stock after they tell me I can get a replacement so I accidentally stepped on my 3DS XL in a black trash bag at my old apartment And busted the top screen on accident so I took it apart and they cannot give me a part number for the motherboard or the screen so I look on eBay and find multiple 2ds xl for sale that have broken screens because I’m in luck I find one for cheap and I have an extra screen from Old 2ds years Ago that I tore apart I will be watching this video when I order the 2DS to repair the screen thank you very much for the video

So much easier when there's no hinge

I just found out that Pokemon bank and the eShop in general is closing so I'm gonna fix my screen and get ready to send over my sun and moon mons

Ok so I followed the video and now after putting it back together I power it on and then it turns back off, am I doing something wrong? I’ve checked all of the ribbon cable connections too

How's the quality of the screens from aliexpress?

what is a 2ds display window? I need to repair my 2ds screen and I am confused.