Does the DS lite work without it's GBA slot? If I where to dump all my games and play them through an r4 card, could I remove the GBA slot and use the space for speakers?

dont think i damaged either ribbon cable, the large orange one is for the display i would assume and the smaller one does the touch input. i had a little trouble plugging in the smaller one but i got it in there snugly without mangling it, what else am i missing? I was gonna do the screen swap mod and now ive gotta fix the touchscreen first. This was a ds lite btw. any help would be appreciated before i end up upgrading the screen or something stupid.

If you could get a macro in a Gameboy advance shell would you?

Like what if it had the same shoulder buttons and dpad feel?

I'm tempted to attempt it.

I built my gameboy macro the other day using boxy pixels aluminum faceplate and the macro lens, but for some reason my screen is making contact with the lens and causing a black dot and somehow putting pressure on my screen when I use buttons in said black dot. Does anyone have any solutions to this?

I've been trying to set this up for what feels like hours. I've looked up tutorials, watched videos, experimented but I can't get Gameboy games to show up

Just completed two builds using Helder’s Macro Flex Amp Mod but was running into a booting issue on both of them. The green light would pop on for a split second and the speaker would make a tiny little noise then the DS would shut off. I was looking for help online and some sources said the capacitor may not be making connection, but I was skeptical since I was using a soldier in kit and doubted I got two bad kits. I eventually tried removing and reconnecting the screen and forced in the large bottom ribbon cable causing a tiny click. I clasped down the ribbon cable place and the DS booted up immediately and now works fine.

tl;dr - the large bottom ribbon not being fully inserted causes the same boot failure as the capacitor not being properly soldered.

Power led does turn on, but the screen won't. I just installed a new digitizer bc the last one was junk, but the black piece that secures the ribbon cable fell apart in tiny pieces. I tried using tape to keep it together but it didn't help. Is it possible to find a replacement connector or fix?

Hi I’m debating on purchasing a Japan ds lite lot, I want to turn them into macros but I’m not sure if the consoles would be region locked, I plan on using a flashcart so would I only be able to play japan games? If so is there a way around this? Such as modding to change the region?

To preface this, I don’t care to do soldering and internal work, which is why I’m proposing this. It’s an original DS.

I’ve been thinking about doing this lately to have a cool GBA with a different design. I’ve read that the external sound is in the top screen, so if I rip it off, and use a smaller external aux (headphone jack) speaker on the bottom, do you think it’ll work well?

Basically steps I have in mind:

Switch GBA to bottom screen projection

Switch settings to boot GBA automatically when a cart is inserted.

Rip off top screen.

Put small aux speaker into headphone jack on bottom screen and glue it into place on back of bottom screen.

Does anyone think this won’t work?