Original Nintendo "Nitro" Development Kit 

Fun fact - “Nitro” was the code name for the DS, just like “Dolphin” was for the GameCube. This is why NTR is written on your game carts!

"A company called Intelligent Systems" They are like a major Nintendo developer, responsible for WarioWare and Fire Emblem, as well as working a lot on hardware like you have here. They made the gameboy camera too!

It's fantastic to see a rare piece of history ending up in the right hands and being restored

The childhood DS sacrifices himself to fix the Nintendo DS Nitro Prototype

Blast from the past! Thx, this brings up lots of memories. 15 years ago we had these at our university. Was my first console/dev kit that i coded for. Later on the PS3 and the PSP. Sadly we never got any other Nintendo dev kits.

Seeing how they were able to capture the footage of gameplay is astonishing! Mind-blowing it looked like exactly how the AV output aesthetic visuals gave it that old 2000 commercial feel. Thats probably exactly how they got those small clips of gameplay for the ad

I feel like your channel compliments Hard 4 Games perfectly, he's better at documenting software while you're better at documenting and restoring hardware. didn't expect to see an off the shelf stick of sodimm ram inside the actual box

Please do more, the dev community deserves high quality videos like this

Pretty awesome thing to add to your collection!

Looks like a ds with a cooling system or life support...

"DO NOT RESALE" well uhhh-

We all knew this was coming :) I'm so happy you covered it

You should put a “Property of RetroFuture” sticker on there too.

I spent 2 minutes wondering why the hardware was censored, to realize it's out of auto-focus. haha!

Now the DS that Reggie held on the unveiling of the original DS is the only one left.

Projects like this never go to plan, and I like that you show the process warts and all. Also I gotta say that those tweezers are damn sexy!

I love everything that you buy most of them have "NOT FOR RESALE" or "DO NOT RESALE"

Would love to own something like this

Thank you for this fascinating video about a historical dev kit for one of the most popular video game consoles/handhelds ever produced. I'm happy to see the kit restored and preserved for the future

You really lucked out. Most of the debuggers did not have the video out option, as those were more expensive and were only really used for video capture, since the built-in screens were better for debugging what the end user would actually see.

I was wondering why this box seemed really familiar… and then I remembered that I’ve gotten to play some game on one of those! Like a forever ago as a child, on a cruise with my family I was randomly selected with my mom to test a game in developement! They told me the controls and let me play it, then they asked me for feedback and so on. Unfortunately I can’t for the life of me remember what the game was to be called, I don’t know if it ever got released or did well, but I remember it being a pretty fun, pretty colourful platformer-ish style game. They had the box plugged into a laptop, and now seeing this I assume it was to debug the game in real time. The game feels so hard to remember because at the time there were other stationary DS units on the cruise ship playground for children to play with, they had like Pac-Man and Pokémon games on them that I remember playing. What a weird nostalgia trip this provoked, thanks for uploading! I don’t know how common it was to take the developement unit on the go. Anyone got idea?

I love seeing obscure hardware like this! Thank-you. I particularly like how Elliott was able to identify the original owner of the hardware -- and the specific games developed with it. 😀

I love that you show closely what you do (for example which screws you unscrew, or which ribbon cable you detach)

Absolutely amazing as always man! Lost nintendo tech is my favoriteee. The way they do things behind the scenes is so interesting, I love it :D

AV out is also from the GameCube

I used to love these kits; we used them extensively when testing at SEGA. I used it for: - Touch Darts - SEGA Superstars Tennis - Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing. We had different test kits for the 3DS which were simply a labelled 3DS (the 3DS Devkits were similar to this; a tethered 3DS).

But can we just get a F for his childhood DS you will be remembered

Watching you clean this is very relaxing

This is what I keep coming back to this channel for. So cool to see a rare piece of hardware restored and up and running! Great job. 👍

Thanks for the sneak peek inside the blue box, nobody ever cracks that open for us. Very interesting stuff Elliot!

Thats a pretty neat addition to your collection, im sure theres loads of neat stuff you can do with it

We've been waiting for this since you started posting pictures of it on twitter. Finally it's here!

I was just thinking about watching some of your videos, then you uploaded!

Love your videos Eliot! So excited for you to delve into this device! Wishing you a safe year.

BEEN WAITING SO LONGGGGGGGGGG FOR THISSS

Awesome to see you won the auction and perfect that is in good hands now

I feel like Elliot is just breaking into Nintendo at this point...

i love how you are doing more ds videos lately

That Nintendo cease and desist is definitely on its way lol

"I was able to remove it with some flush cutters" Ah, the old dremel!

That's a very nice bit of kit for the collection. Good work as always on the clean up.

hi elliot just wanted to say thankyou for all your extremely helpful and entertaining content !!! i just bought a 2ds xl pokeball edition (broken) and thanks to your help have replaced the top screen and cartridge reader and also the rear facing camera and volume slider .... just like new now !!! thankyou so much for the help and information and i hope you and family are safe and well :) lots of love from West Yorkshire

beautiful! Its crazy how this stuff is like vintage now I grew up with the ds and got mine when I was 11, late april of 2005! Ill never forget coming home from school the one day and there it was, the box on my bed containing the silver Nintendo DS metroid edition bundle!

For some reason during the video I heard "Doughnut" while you disassembled and showed what appears to be your childhood Phat DS and from now on, I will refer the Phat DS as "The Doughnut."

I love your uploads thanks so much for sharing

i’ve been wanting to get into collecting and i was just looking at one of these kits!

I was disappointed the blue box didn't go BRRRR when it's turned on.

This video got you my subscription, top tier stuff.

Wow very interesting! Thanks for making a Video about this!😃

That's quite cool. i never knew what the DS's dev kit looked like. :) I've always been interested in seeing rare tech. (Mostly with nintendo stuff)

You did keep the integrity of your childhood DS. I sub.

Elliot, I really enjoyed that, understood little of it but still end to end watching! Like the Seiko to my man! Keep it up!

Love your high quality "Tech ASMR".

Dang that is beautiful. Legitimately, a wonderful piece of slightly retro tech.

Great job men that development kit back to life, salutes from Costa Rica Pura Vida 🇨🇷

FINALLY!! I'VE BEEN WAITING SINCE OCTOBER FOR THIS ONE!

I adore your sense of humor.

Your videos are so relaxing.

Heck yea! getting my first ds lite on Tuesday because of your videos!

Sweet find! Although, I must say I was distracted by your great looking watch!

That was a very nice capture of the DS. You should do more of those gameplay videos!

I did some research about this device a few months ago and I was honestly surprised this existed.

Awesome content bro 👊🏻

unreal dude so cool, cant wait to see it completed with a new ds, that video out feature is worth the whole unit

Love your content my man!

I wish I had as much tech as you. You got a good collection!

intelligent systems is also the company that makes fire emblem

Beautiful machine, you made it like almost like new! The visually impaired (such as myself) would have loved one of those to see the DS on TV.

Tbh idk what it is but your videos are addicting

looks sooo much better cleaned and fixed up haha

Nice Video Elliot.

I noticed there's not alot of ads in the video I quite enjoyed it and I'd be happy to watch more ads to support you mate

Man, you really keep surprising me with this contentent, the mf dev kit of the DS OMG♥️

Interesting. A German TV channel that I used to watch back then for its gaming show had such a device as well but with a longer cable (if I recall correctly) and WFC capabilities through the use of an ethernet cable.

Now this is cool as heck. Great content Sir! I'm curious if you ever get Nintendo actually reaching out to you on some of this stuff lol. Like I'm pretty sure they don't want most average folks seeing these >,>

This looks so cool!

Thank You mate ! I learn something new today thanks to Your video :) Have grate day !

Oh I used to have one of these on my desk, back in my development days of 2008/2009

I had one of these on my desk for years. Pain in the arse to use.

Nice work dude, very jealous you have snagged one of these. You could always just get a 3rd party replacement DS shell, then you know at least the plastic should be good for a couple more decades.

Love your DS related content

What a cool kit!

Climax were based in Brighton & Hove. I used to work down the road from them and sold them many, MANY "portable" 14" CRT televisions to attach to their dev kits. I visited them once to "install" them. At the time I was a proper fanboy of them as Moto GP for the original Xbox was getting a lot of people online to their new service. Fun facts: The woman who did the voiceovers introducing the tracks on Moto GP is called Penny, she was a PA for Climax at the time. As a some time local radio presenter, I offered my services but they declined! Also the only track on the game not to actually exist is called Sheridan as Climax were based at Sheridan House in Hove which is still there, although Climax have since moved out.

That's kinda rad, it's basically a "desktop computer" version of a portable console. So weird and, if you combine it with 2 monitors, a really cool way you could add the DS to an interactive museum where you can play all the consoles.

Things are just amazing aren’t they

Hard for Games is the most underrated channel on RU-vid. His content is amazing!

Pretty awesome never seen one thanks for sharing 👍

Great job!

As you probably noticed, the actual brains of the DS is in the blue box, and the shell simply held the screen, buttons, microphone, and glue logic. I have the DS Lite version of the developer kit. It doesn't have the AV out ports though.

great find love videos like this!

I have to love watching the retro Future

Awesome video Elliot! Just an FYI for people, magic erasers are great for cleaning certain surfaces that have tough marks on them but be aware that magic erasers are basically just a really fine grit sandpaper so it's actually sanding away at the marks you're cleaning off, so never use magic erasers on stuff like game catridge labels, stickers, shiny plastics and surfaces that have delicate paint or aren't meant to have a matte finish.

Great video 👍

Loved the animal print dryer!

You're an amazing refurber.

Nice to see dev kits like that. Some people still thinks the games are developed on actual retail hardware.

Your videos are stellar

Stuff like this is so cool

super rad, nice work.

Love the content! Contemplating sending in the gameboy Zero i got second hand but never finished and probably never will !