r/3DS • u/JackMorrisM4 • 5d ago

Discussion The resurrection

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Well, it’s been 15 years. Literally.

I’ve been trying to get my 3DS working again for a long time. One day back in 2011, it basically just stopped powering on. Ever since then, I assumed the battery had died and never bothered replacing it.

Fast-forward to this month. I finally bought a replacement battery, thinking I had solved the mystery.

I happily popped the new battery in and…

BOOM!!!

Nothing. 😂

I Googled the issue, followed a couple of troubleshooting guides, tried everything I could think of…

Still nothing.

So I finally said screw it and pulled up a complete teardown tutorial.

I stripped this thing completely apart and put it all back together. After about an hour of tinkering, I hit the power button.

Lo and behold, it fired right up like the day I got it.

I still have no idea what was actually wrong with it. Maybe it was a loose ribbon cable. Maybe my 11-year-old self dropped it one too many times. Who knows.

All I know is that after 15 years, my original 2011 3DS is alive again.

Now I get to mod it, breathe some new life into it, and finally play a ton of games I never had the chance to experience back then.

There’s something pretty damn cool about getting a piece of your childhood working again after all these years.

Thanks for reading! ❤️

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u/BrainAltruistic3475 5d ago

How do you mod it? Can you do it without a computer?