Thank you for this video. I thought I broke my ds trying it before hand with no videos. That rubber and electrical tape trick saved me big time. 😄

Tutorial unclear laptop is now in two pieces...

Lol I did this with my own broken DS Lite, using it from the video you found. I only did that because I botched the soldering the points, and didn't know what to do. That was my last resort, and somehow it worked. Still works actually. Something I'd be careful of is this: Be careful of which of the directional pads you use to bridge the gap between each point. Use one of the pads that are under the ABXY buttons, as if you take it from the D-Pad, you'll have one of the D-Pad buttons not work. I accidentally took it from one from the D-Pad, and not from the ABXY buttons, so I kinda screwed up there. Thanks for the tutorial!

Ok but can you maybe go into more detail on the button contacts thing?

Nice video! Great that this even works haha!

Trying to get my hands on a used inexpensive DS Lite to try this out. And a fellow Pittsburgher 👏🏻

There's a 3rd way to do this, it's basically keeping the top screen ribbon cable along with it's LED lights and it works

I wanna try this so bad now since my DS is broke at the top.

I just bought from eBay a DSL macro with no soldering or a light bar. I’m pretty convinced the owner just ripped the top screen off and believe it or not without soldering you can still get it to work mine powers on with no soldering of a resistor or a light bar as long as there’s a GBA game in there it will power on, but mine also doesn’t have any volume From a speaker

tutorial unclear, I now have a boeing 747

When you don't have a tri-wing screwdriver

Modding can go hand in hand.

Led stays lit, screen won't power on tho

I tried using the “y” button trick, didn’t work, I’m going to try taking something out of my sp and just solder it

Um when you said you would cut out the nub for the a b x y buttons don’t you still need it ?

Anyway to do this without tri wing screw driver?

I wonder if you can just put a small wire with tape on the same spot? Or even hot glue it? As the black contact button is the same thing right? Does it heat up or something?

Question, will this still work even without the digitizer ribbon cable plugged in?

hello brother, I did everything right and my nds lite worked with this method, but I wanted to know if it is safe to leave the nds like this with the rubber and not with the soldering method, can my nds burn in the future because of this method?

what about sound?

hey I bit wonder how you put neon bar on the macro like in Your.purple neon bar. di You used acrylic rod ?.which diameter ?.3mm ?.and how You manage to solder the cables for the led ?. thanks

Other way. Take top screen apart. Take rubon with led out. Put top screen rubon back on. Fold rubon right behide the screen. . Take pin holder out. Have 2 sided tape for the speaker. . Video on youtube .

Will any rubber work? Or does it have to be butyon contacts from the ds?

Did you reshell that ds? cause it looks badassss

i tired the led contact thing. it doesnt work

Why does this not work for me?

I just made a nintendo ds macro, and now when I try to switch on the device (even with a gba car inserted) the screen flashes once, and the system shuts off. please help.

Ok so I tried this and when I got it to work, it would either flash a white screen then shut off, or it would hold on a white screen

I tried this and its all well but when I try to load a game the screen goes black

Ik this is a no solder video but if I was to solder can I just bridge those two dots together making the bridge? Will it work?

what would happen if i just snapped my ds in half?

Any tips to get the digitizer cable back in? Mine came undone and I've been struggling for an hour now.

I don’t know if you’re still alive, but I have questions, I really want to just snap the top screen off and go into the settings and change the game into auto and have it display on the bottom screen, can I just do that or do I have to soder stuff? I really don’t care if it looks ugly. I just don’t have money for a Game Boy advance.

Thanks, this worked for me! Question: The green LED turns on, but no orange light when plugged in with the charger, is this normal? Any way to check if the battery is charging?

Just done this mod with zero issues build wise but when trying to power on I get green power light then nothing? Any ideas? Black button not engaging maybe? (Although the tape was solid and secure when I put back together)

i accidentally flushed down the rubber padd in toilet😊

I just figured out my own method of not soldering, it’s permanent and you get to keep a speaker, I need to make a video on this

I just got done with mine. I have a retro which looks just like it. See them on my KZfaq.

I have a DS lite where the touch screen doesn't work because the P6 connector is broken do I have to replace that connector in order to make a macro like will it still work if I don't have that plugged in?

Does this work for the ds original??

hey hello cool video simple to follow, but i got a question when u turn the modded ds on will it still have ds menu pop out or it goes straight to the gba start up. hope u read this thank you.

Will it work if you Sautter the botton down

Until someone flashes it to get rid of the ds software it's just a broken ds.

so do i cut the top part of the contact button and stretch it to the led contacts?

This method leaves me with a white screen

hold it... Im making a GBA here... So i don`t need the Y button...

so covering the 2 spot using one rubber pads?

Is this a joke? Because thats funny cuz i think i just broke my ds ):

Yo its great i tried it on a 3ds and it works but i got a lil issue it turns on once and everything works perfectly exept the power button and i cant turn it off and when i remove the battery it wont turn on for a bit🫠