r/dsi

Tried fixing my childhood Dsi, bought a new battery from ifixit and a bottom screen LCD, opened it up, put it back together, pressed the power button and a blue light flashed, the bottom screen flashed white, and the speakers made a popping sound, i opened it back up and re-seated all the ribbon cables, now it doesnt do anything when i press the power button, but when i plug it in, an orange light flashes, if i press the power while plugged in, nothing happens, and the light turns off until i unplug then plug it back in, the battery isnt the issue, i tested it before i swapped the screen and it turned on fine, ive also made sure its seated correctly, cleaned the pins on the ds and the pads on the battery as well as pushed the battery into the pins to make sure its making good contact. I went back and reseated every ribbon cable a second time and payed special attention to the top screen ribbon cable because it seems i didnt have it all the way in anyway. Im not sure what else the issue could be, because its the same orange light still and everything seems to be firmly seated in place just fine. I dont have a multimeter or any way to solder so any solutions involving that are outside my scope of possibility. If yall have any ideas please lmk and thank you for reading my essay worthy post.

SOLVED! It was the wii photos hint cat

I'm not sure if this was a DSI game menu, or a Wii one, but im starting here first. I remember a game where on the title screen if you waited long enough a cat (or another animal it was in the 2000s ish) would walk across the screen, if you pressed the stylus near it, it would run away. I'm looking for it only to remember what it was, anything is helpful (even if it means sending me to a different subreddit lmao)

I recently bought a DSi XL with an odd thing.

It doesn't stay powered unless it's plugged. I looked for answers on youtube and reddit, and discovered that it's a "kiosk" version.

DSi XL Opened and with too many dust

DSi XL closed and less dirty

i saw in that video, that it's a "simple" thing to convert a kiosk console to a "normal" one. You just need to remove three little things named C109, Q14 and Q15.

video : Talking about the Factory DSi + removing kiosk mode

https://preview.redd.it/f55gkjztoc1h1.png?width=729&format=png&auto=webp&s=c37d9a0da4f1c2f714d5c554a309e6b46b4b6ffe

My problem is that these 3 little things are absent on my DSi XL motherboard.
There are 3 slots though but nothing to desolder.

my DSi XL motherboard

Detail of Q14, Q15 and C109 slots

close up of previous shot

I don't know where to look, i've searched during hours for no answers !

Please help me T^T

------------------------------------EDIT:---------------------------------------

Thanks to u/Complete_Habit_4662, transistors and resistor mentioned by him in his nice video (go check it!) are located here, right by the potentiometers. :

https://preview.redd.it/mrqiebt07i1h1.png?width=1030&format=png&auto=webp&s=e3e5c31833b20f135a8c7c056be88129c4d9ffa8

does anyone have a website they’d recommend for downloading games? I did find one and it worked well too, however it doesn’t have a wide range of games to download

So, apparently, both my DSi’s can connect to the internet, only downstairs (I guess 5G internet is too fast for it but not the Wii.) my best guess is to make sure the DSi is away from the router. Or not, the main router is upstairs and the extender is downstairs and my second guess is that the DSi is connecting to the extender.

So, I ordered a replacement card from ebay, and it connected for the first time. But when I test connection a second time, because the apps won’t connect, it threw me an error screen again!