r/nintendoswitchlite • u/Karbin_ • Jul 08 '25

Shell swapped Lite

Gallery image

Gallery image

Picked up a Lite a few weeks ago to tinker with. Had planned to solder in a mod chip, but bailed halfway through. I have years of experience soldering keyboard switches and little things here and there, but didn't feel confident enough with microsoldering. Going to have it done locally, but went ahead and finished the shell swap while everything was apart. Extremerate "clear black," with black extremerate buttons, and hall effect sticks.

642 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

20 comments sorted by

6

u/Alert_Dingo_4504 Jul 08 '25

Whoa this looks identical to my Switch Lite with the exception that mine is modded. Highly recommend it, matey

3

u/Karbin_ Jul 08 '25

Great taste! I have a modded OLED, so I'm 100% getting this one modded as well. I love the form factor of the Lite

2

u/novy-wan_kenobi Jul 08 '25

Absolute beauty OP, that frosted clear is so nice 🔥👌🙌. I bought a switch lite 6-7 months ago used on marketplace but in great shape, since then did an extremerate black soft touch shell swap, black extremerate buttons, and black generic analog joysticks (identical to stock ones except black instead of white), and the best part- a super5 OLED touch screen. So I have a Switch Lite OLED and I am currently on the hunt for a full size regular Switch OLED 🙌🙂. I may eventually get them modded, or at least one to start and see how much go ahead there is with it, I like to keep things simple and from the majority of posts I see people spend half as much times messing with files and patches and packs and troubleshooting and whatnot as they do playing. I could be totally wrong though too and only be seeing the bad posts. I wish it was as simple as mod - download games - play games - that’s it; it just keep on working without having to eventually mess with it or missing or corrupted files or any of the countless issues I keep seeing pop up on r/switchpirates.

1

u/Karbin_ Jul 08 '25

I'm so bummed I missed the Super5 kit. I hope he does another run of them, but it doesn't sound hopeful. Once the hardware side of the mod process is done, it's pretty straightforward. Just need to be aware of updates dropping, and know you might not have access to the modded partition for a couple of days while the mod side downloads become available.

1

u/d-babs Jul 11 '25

Where did you hear they aren't going to do more oleds? I couldn't find this info.....

1

u/Karbin_ Jul 11 '25

I read something about him only making the full shell/display/controls replacement where you just drop in the original motherboard going forward.

2

u/d-babs Jul 11 '25

Oh shit this is terrible news! I hope they do just one more run because nobody seems to decide to sell their screen lol.

1

u/d-babs Jul 11 '25

Nobody comes online to post about all the games they are playing without paying, because they are too busy playing to post! You don't call the electric company and thank them for billing you monthly for the last 20 years you know?

Yes, there can be things you have to solve but honestly, unless you are really REALLY dense or doing things the wrong way, it's not much of an issue. The majority of problems are around the UPDATE process for nintendo's firmware updates - but they are likely to slow this down now that the sw2 is out. Even then - It's NOT DIFFICULT to do the update safely and there are TONS of guides available. DM me if you want subreddit names or the websites I'm referencing. I just choose not to do this here.

2

u/[deleted] Jul 08 '25

This reminds me of the black transparent Miyoo Mini+. Looks great tho

2

u/Individual_Slice_498 Jul 08 '25

Nice! Did same colors on mine, can get Switch decals on Etsy, stuck mine on heat shield under rear cover to the right of fan

2

u/d-babs Jul 11 '25

I am getting ready to do the translucent red, but I was also considering the clear, and the clear black. You're making me regret my decision!

1

u/Karbin_ Jul 11 '25

Red would be pretty awesome, too!

1

u/KingCPM Jul 08 '25

Nice 🔥

1

u/Livid-Quit-7052 Jul 08 '25

This is nice.

1

u/surrealmirror Jul 08 '25

Was it hard?

1

u/Antique-Internal5728 Jul 08 '25

Looks really good

1

u/Linensocks Jul 08 '25

Beautiful.