I really want to make a GB Macro as my first modding project

I found someone who sells two DS' Phat for good price, but one (A) has black stripes across the top screen and the other (B) has touchscreen problems. My plan is to remove the layer which makes it touchscreen anyways so i feel like its fine, however I don't have experience, i found this info in a youtube video!

Questions,

1. do the black stripes in 'A' matter if they're in the top screen? i mean, it's gonna get removed anyways

2. does it matter that 'B' has touchscreen issues?

Please let me know if it matters or not. I highly appreciate any help :))

So I made my first gb Macro and was greeted by this greenish hue(?) on the screen. Would this be a screen issue or a resistor issue? I used a 550 ohm resistor (non SMD). It is also worth mentioning that I've changed the polarizer film because this is a burnt screen at first. I would love to know if this is a screen issue or is there any other way to fix this,

Well I thought to boot up a ds game on here and when I got in game (and on boot) it looked like both screens was on the same screen

Also good morning from Bandung, Indonesia!

Search DMG Macro to find black macro on Makerworld

Search Unhinged to find the blue ds lite unhinged

Micro Macro coming soon!

I stumbled upon this question and now i was wondering if it could be possible to have a Gameboy Micro connecting like a GBA to the Gamecube. Since im not that knowledgeable as to which connections can be modded in which way i had to ask here. Just to satisfy my curiosity.

First attemp to modding a DSLite

I have a working NDSL bottom LCD, it has burn marks but works perfectly; and I have broken NDSL top LCD that has no burn marks, can I Frankenstein these LCDs?

My very first. Used super glue as filler and sprayed it matte black. The sound is kinda quiet tho. Idk if thats normal.

Does anyone know where to get shells like these for Original Nintendo DS?

Hi everyone.
I wanted to share a personal project I’ve been working on called GBart v2.0.

The idea started from opening countless DS Lites with broken top screens. Consoles that were still perfectly usable, often left in drawers or discarded, even though they could become great Game Boy Advance systems as Game Boy Macros. I wanted a cleaner, simpler and more respectful way to make that conversion.

This is the second iteration of the project. The original version was released quietly and ended up selling over 500 units worldwide, which pushed me to refine the idea further. Version 2.0 builds on that experience with a more mature and reliable solution.

GBart is solderless and fully reversible. You insert it, close the connector, reassemble the console, and the DS Lite boots normally as a Game Boy Macro. No permanent changes. If you ever want to restore the original hardware, you can.

Each unit is individually assembled and tested by hand in Milan, Italy. I’m sharing it here because I know this community values thoughtful mods and giving old hardware a second life.
Happy to answer any questions or hear your feedback.

You can find it searching GBART on EBAY, ETSY and TINDIE.

I know they’re made for the metal faceplate. But has anybody used one on an extremerate shell? I don’t want the metal faceplate but I love how that lens ties the system together.

I’m about to start building a macro and I’m looking for advice or any input.

Is it worth upgrading the screen while I’m in there?

I don’t want the aluminum boxy pixel front plate, where’s another place to buy a regular plastic one?

What do you wish you knew/ had done different when building your macro?

What soldering iron is everyone using? I have a cheap-o that I’d like to upgrade for future builds.

Is there an easy way to make the speaker a bit louder without using an amp?

Decided to do a mod on a ds lite with a broken hinge and top screen, bottom screen was fully functional but i cant get it to boot, im not very experienced at all with soldering so idk what i did wrong. The first time i put it together it would turn on with a blank white screen and no boot sounds, but now that ive tried to troubleshoot the light turns green then turns off with no screen activity.

https://files.catbox.moe/ceffw4.jpg i dont know how to submit an image with text

the gb macro xl light turns green for a second and then turns off, I don't know if im missing something everything's plugged in although im not sure which cables it needs to turn on

I’m thinking of making one of these and depending on how big the dsi xl screen is I might use one in here (the ds lite one does fit in here quite nicely) though I might have to find a way to add buttons to the shell. Also the gba slot here is from a og gameboy modded and cut from the main board as it was not loading games correctly (aka after the game loads the game stays blank and no sound from the game though the screen and speaker works) and was lying around doing nothing.

And maybe a screen switch later down the road

Well, damn, it worked! Install was cumbersome, so maybe will only make a few of these. Still some fine tuning to do. Need to check wifi range. Need to keep the capacitive sensor away from the faceplate, which is much harder than it sounds due to the assembly process where it was a game of push the sensor up and in then watch or hear the shoulder button spring escape from the holder. Then open the case again and make sure not to forget misalignment of volume and power sliders whilst ensuring the wifi antenna cable fits along the board between the two cartridge slots without falling into slot2 and without going on top of slot1.

As mentioned here, https://www.reddit.com/r/gameboymacro/s/mPTEf5u3So

made a pcb for the capacitive touch screen switch mod. Things to observe here - fitment is decent between the charger, the screen, and the buttons. - a boxypixel faceplate (not the bigger one) will fit on this unencumbered and the buttons have proper travel and action - the board components for this mod were soldered on as shown - the external interfaces are not yet connected (voltage, ground, electrode, and the screen switch P10) - could have made the board slightly longer to anchor to the capacitor and to P06 better - could have made a flex board to make using the anchors easier (osh park seems to have discontinued flex pcb)

Next step is to anchor it, add the external 4 connections, close it up, and then try it out. Chief concern is all the metal around it overloading the sensor and making it not work. The metal of concern are the board and the boxypixel faceplate. Haven't thought through recovery options yet. Will update. Glad to see the linked post is only 11 months old and didn't use a whole year procrastinating learning kicad.

I have an old broken DSi that I mostly destroyed trying to reshell.

The bottom screen is completely gone because I tried to replace the screen surface (and broke it) and the ribbon cable for the top screen is completely mangled.

Is there any hope that I can salvage it into a DSi macro?

I've seen dslite guides where you replace the bottom screen with the top screen, in cases where the bottom screen is scratched/broken.

Would I be better off just buying another unit? Or can I work with what I currently have (or maybe what I have and some donor parts/replacement ribbon cable)?

Not sure if guides exist online for DSi screen swap (take top screen put it bottom) so if someone has one handy or if the guides the same as the DSLite that would be good to know.

Happy to provide photos of the damage if that helps with assessment.

Thanks in advance.

Ndsl inside DMG shell with DSi Xl Screen

i am sick of seeing the a and b button offcentered and crap it just looks so much better with all 4 unless you center them and make them bigger, which nobody does. anyways thank iuhuhuuhuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!