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I'll be honest and the truth is I'm very happy, I'll explain.

My DS Lite charger, died a few weeks ago, And I really didn't want to buy a new one, so I thought, what if I modify it? And that's what I did; I took an old USB cable that still worked, So I cut it in half, stripped it, and revealed the two wires, the same with the DS one, red to red, black to white, and it worked!

(Edit: For anyone who asks about it, yes, I already unplugged it, I don't have any Electrical tape with me right now, I have some things to do tomorrow, I'll buy what's needed and fix that mess, that photograph was just a test to see if it works)

I bought this DS Lite a couple weeks ago (used & in great condition according to the seller).

It was doing this from the start (showing green bar on screen but light turns red after a very short time, but I never experienced the console shutting down, probably because I was careful and didn’t game on it). I decided to wait and not use it until I received my DS Lite charger today (as all my chargers were only DSi compatible).

Anyway it is plugged and charging now. Is this normal or is the battery icon supposed to visually show the estimate percentage of the battery?

After months of consideration, I’ve finally bought myself a DS and decided my first game to be Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story. I’ve never owned one of these and the only other Nintendo console I’ve ever owned is the Switch as I’ve always been playing on PlayStation my whole life. This is a new start for my game collection.

Any game recs?

Added a lanyard because I finally moved from an intec hard case to a soft case. Updated Pico firmware for the first time since launch. She feels buttery smooth.

Extremerate shell 🤌🏻

This build features the eXtremeRate Chameleon Green Purple shell while retaining the original green interior.

The goal was to modernize the Nintendo DS Lite while preserving some of its original character. Because custom green mods in the community are rare, I drew inspiration from Evangelion Unit-01 (EVA-01) from Neon Genesis Evangelion. The metallic, iridescent finish shifts from purple to green depending on the lighting, giving the console a sci-fi machine feel, while respecting the original green color.

To protect the shell while enhancing the aesthetic, I added a transparent crystal case from AliExpress. This creates a great layered effect, making it look as though the bright green interior is part of the inner machinery sitting beneath protective armor (like a EVA), rather than just another decorative color. I also swapped the buttons to introduce a touch of purple and green to the front, tying the entire design together.

Bonus: By keeping the original interior, I bypassed the headache of disassembling the hinge, screens, and ribbon cables.

So I was browsing Amazon this week and to my surprise found this 2008 case for the DS lite for 17€. I don't have any idea how this survived 18 years brand new, but I'm definitely going to use it for storage and transportation on long trips.

After my old cobalt blue DS lite hinge cracked, figured I might as well try the replacement myself. A few bumps in the road along the way, but now that I’m done I think it came out pretty great!

I went with a cheap Chinese brand on AliExpress (in retrospect just stick w Extremerate, this shell came scratched to hell, dust molded into the plastic, and shoulder buttons didn’t work so I kept the original black ones), so the workarounds weren’t too bad. Stickers were put on the DS itself, not the clear case.

Chose this green specifically, it works well with the ‘plant/clover’ theme pretty well. I had to re-apply a second top screen cover after scratching the original which unfortunately does not perfectly match the bottom shade.

Happy to have learned along the way, any thoughts?

I have been looking for good DS games, what I want to see are some:

Really good Hidden Gems or underrated games

Some of the worst underrated DS games (so I can see how bad they were)

Fan Translations from Japan or Europe.

I also really enjoy racing, platformer, puzzle and etc.

Can you guys Please send me recommendations?

Thanks, from 6D0! (:

It's been several weeks since my last update on this project. I've made huge progress since my last update on 8/16

• Title and Menu navigation.
• All fighters and stages added
• 1P campaign is playable start to finish.
• 4 fighter matches are playable (No actual DS multiplayer yet)
• All Items added

Not yet added/finished:

• stable 30FPS performance (its mostly there, but 4P matches can dip to 20FPS, 1-3 should be fine)
• Training mode (honestly not high priority)
• Bonus stage buttons not working.
• End Credits/End Scene
• Intro scene (not high priority)
• Proper character unlocks

BUGS/Compromises:

• still have random freezes in some areas.
• Saffron city's garage door thing is always open lol.
• Transition/loading screens are much longer (a couple secs instead of instant lol) than on n64 (loading screen is currently just a blank black screen in between scenes because of DS's limited RAM and storage bandwidth)
• Occasional Audio Stuttering during heavy matches/loading states.
• of course running at a target of 30FPS instead of 60FPS like the original. The DS CPU is anemic compared to the n64 and has no coprocessors or FPU to offload tasks to like the n64 does. Tons of optimization has been done to even get it to run at 30FPS lol.

Current gameplay video is from MelonDS since it's so much easier to capture. Don't worry though, it works just fine on a real DS too.

Overall i'd say the project is about 75% complete. multiplayer and final optimization are the next big project. And I do want to add Remix characters.....

Also I haven't tried building the ROM from a clean folder so if it doesn't build for you, I'm sorry I'll get around to it when it's ready for a "1.0" release.

My first shell swap. Inspired by u/rnastercheif ( https://www.reddit.com/r/nds/s/UYBQBqCreP )

Storytime included:

Rose gold was my childhood ds, that I taped up to be a makeshift 2ds from a broken hinge until I messed up a DIY case and use it to keep it together for now, I absolutely beat it senseless with 2000+ hours of pokemon alone (because within two days of getting a dsi for Christmas my brother broke the screen fighting for it off me because he basically wanted two dsi's instead of one to always keep from me for pokemon.) It was a habit he started when we got pokemon games and he basically felt entitled to everything I had- to avoid triggering content I'll keep these parts vague, to say the least I got many hours out of flipnote so it's still a loved dsi.

The friends he made were also entitled chud kids and stole just about all my games besides the pearl and leaf green I had in my original ds bc they didn't know I had more than one system, and when I confronted the kid at his home his mother only gave me the wappydog and LSP games back, I lost everything until I cried to my mom to get me heartgold again then soulsilver (very good call on my part they are super expensive now) and the rest is history- I got some back, Super mario, Cooking mama, through different circumstances, Later in time my mom bought the 2ds because it was a cheep (and in my opinion not ideal sorry not sorry 2ds stans I hated it) system and it broke after I bit into it during a reactive abuse moment from my lovely brother again, I trashed it because I didn't want to face having to admit that to my mother or anybody else really.

My childhood console journey ended with the 3ds xl because by then I really just wanted a ds that I could play and wasn't going to be broken in any way, I kept that thing secretive but that also means I didn't get many chances taking it out with me, and because it was my only and first 3ds, and first limited edition, I didn't completely understand the aura I had and took it to places like Ihop where ppl talked about it. pictured I treated that thing like literal gold, it is very minty despite being my original 3ds. Frankly I just wanted a gold ds again, even if not rose gold.

Then later on I got my first Switch lite because frankly I never moved on from handheld consoles and didn't do much outside of that- unfortunately not my favorite because the screens are out in the open and not as portable- even if I am technically missing out, I have yet to find any other way I like playing games then just literally from my pocket while touching grass- Then my cousin years later surprised me with another switch lite for Christmas which I put animal crossing decals on from a time he also took me to an antique store.

All the games here are authentic as far as I understand. My Wappy and the game are the original pair. And I lately got back into the ds line of systems after I bought myself a minty (literally and color wise) ds lite for a not so good price online, but with fix ins like the R4 cart and pokemon black I used to have, so I could finally play my leafgreen again, and it spiraled into me also getting a new dsi, cases for all my ds's, acrylic cases for all of them and decorating them. Along with some new game carts I didn't have as a kid. (Atari Retro, Tamagotchi 2, Super Monkey Ball, Game and Watch GBA, Ontamarama) I basically sold a lot of games that were given to my brother then thrown to me because I wanted to buy these games with all the protection and cases I needed.

I don't have much going for me in life but I can say for certain the Nintendo handhelds, especially the ds, have given me comfort throughout my life even if they had it just as rough as me. I'm sure as my life changes they will be incorporated in my daily life.

💔Bonus: Bro found out and got jealous despite me thinking he was over it, and got himself a used OG switch I'm not sure he done much with tbh, that's when our relationship really was obviously fallen apart. It was a weird moment of me moving on from his tormenting and making sure I didn't share anything gaming related with him, but he still cared apparently. And ironically my brother got jealous after seemingly moving on from the ds line and onto PC in highschool- he never really played it as far as I know but somehow managed to have it in worse condition than mine, also mimicking getting a limited edition console. I think looking back he had a hard time accepting that not everything I done included him, and that he struggled to accept that I was a separate person that would be treated differently, but he wanted everything I got, literally, and his own, and he never grew out of that, we are estranged now.

Sharing my Ds Lite build.

IPS Screen on Top and Bottom. Led Buttons. 1200mah Battery and Type C Charging.

Games are on DSPico.

My ds babies, I'm gonna reshell the black one into a clearshell... How hard is it??

For context, this screen started appearing when I load the game and one day I connected my Dsi to the internet (and it probably updated or smth) which I think is what caused this issue.

I'm not a ds expert so I have no idea what to do to make it work again and I'm holding on closely to this dsi out of pure nostalgia and it really makes me upset to not be able to try to play my old games like I used to.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

ho comprato questa R4 Revolution senza niente ed non riesco ad farlo funzionare, io non ho un PC qundi tutti i file li inserio nel mio telefono (quindi collego il telefono con la scheda micro sd), non è che ci sarebbe qualcuno che sa come fare sono disperato😞