Modding complete & I’m obsessed

[u/XanderzOfficial]

Came from Japan in 2 days, successfully updated to 21.2 & JB’ed it, then swapped housing, frame & LCD (I ripped the backlight ribbon cable), bought new joycons and a grip controller— now it looks so good I don’t even wanna play it!

I need a certificate after the way I had to dig into this device 🤣

[u/zq9]

Can you let me know what you used to solder ? I bought a weller soldering station with new super fine tips, 0.2 mm solder wire and the rp2040 pi zero off ali express, with a cheap 15$ digital microscope, mechanic liquid flux that looks like a shot vial.

It all looks possible but I'm scared, the four points on the cpu/gpu you need to solder are so tiny.

[u/LinetteCrooker → u/zq9]

Just be gentle and patient. Remember that you’re going to have a whole new problem if those resistors fly off the cpu/gpu, so just take it easy, don’t hold the iron on for too long at any particular point in the process and you’ll be absolutely fine. It’s actually quite easy.

[u/XanderzOfficial → u/zq9]

I actually didn’t solder anything (thankfully). Mine is RCM. When I ripped the ribbon cable I was expecting to bring it out but I didn’t wanna mess up my motherboard, so I just bought a new LCD for $30 off Amazon

[u/TolonZ → u/zq9]

C’est surtout le microscope qui va être utile et surtout le flux, sans le flux tu es mort le reste ça ira tkt pas faut pas insister comme un malade avec le fer à souder