Getting into Nintendo modding
Feb. 4th, 2023 03:03 am![[personal profile]](/post-https-www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pendulumscaleI've messed around with my modded DSs for a few years now, but only recently have I really looked into more of the software to make using my ds a more enjoyable experience. I think when I first used homebrew, it was more related to hacks for certain games, but as I've aged, I just want a portable console that's comfortable to use. And for whatever reason, this has led me to using this lil 2ds I got for modding purposes more than my first 3ds (the year of Luigi :3). It's just way more comfortable in my hand and a lot lighter, plus I kind of like the screensize being smaller to make emulating nDS games less blurred. I realized I'd been living in the stone ages cause I never realized that Luma3ds has screen filters now! And I can disable the intensely bright blue LED!! And on top of that, someone finally make a patch to make the screen less intensely bright for the nDS games (https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/TWPatch_3DS). Thank god! Now I can be a cavedwelling gamer from the comfort of my bed with all the lights off, just how I like it. Yes, I know it's probably bad for my eyes, but if this is one of my only vices, so be it.
Other than quality of life mods, I'm also looking into doing some of my first hardware mods. The 2ds/3ds is already basically perfect, so I don't think I'm going to do anything wild and crazy to mine, but I did win an auction for a broken 2ds with a blue clear plastic shell like I always wanted. I just have a lot of nostalgia for see through consoles because of growing up with a bunch of different transparent tech, so of course I need to have it. For some reason, there's not as much love or interest (or money) in the modded, old 2ds world, so there aren't already shells that I can buy to swap it out with. So I've been watching listings like a hawk to see if I could find anything that wasn't insanely expensive or would leave me with ANOTHER DS lying around. For some reason, I felt like I could justify getting a non-functional console and scrapping it for parts, especially if anything needs to ever be fixed with my working 2ds. Or I guess I could look into repairing it eventually, since the 2ds' hardware is actually not that difficult to wrangle.
I've also been looking into getting myself a GBA cause I've been wanting to play a lot of different gameboy games, and the shape of that system is way more comfortable in my hands since it's not as compact as a GBC or OG GB. I found out there is a dedicated modding community for this 20+ year old system, so I'm trying to win an auction to get me the GBA that I wish I could have had as a kid :'). Fuck you, mom and dad! But yea, there are a ton of IPS displays and such, and I could also mod the screen so there's a touchpad dimmer and everything. I still need to get a soldering iron, which I've been wanting for a while because I know at some point with all of the keyboard bullshit I do, I'll need one (I've also been wanting to get into making some of my own wires, but that's another story). But this seems like a sign that I should just get the dang soldering iron. Who knows, maybe I can use it as a weapon too if I ever need to lol. We love a multi-purpose tool!
I'll have to update once I'm able to swap my shell over to share what the process is like. I'm a little nervous to crack this baby open and spill its metalic guts all over my desk, but after helping my partner build their computer, nothing can be as scary as installing a cooler to the CPU and motherboard lol.
Other than quality of life mods, I'm also looking into doing some of my first hardware mods. The 2ds/3ds is already basically perfect, so I don't think I'm going to do anything wild and crazy to mine, but I did win an auction for a broken 2ds with a blue clear plastic shell like I always wanted. I just have a lot of nostalgia for see through consoles because of growing up with a bunch of different transparent tech, so of course I need to have it. For some reason, there's not as much love or interest (or money) in the modded, old 2ds world, so there aren't already shells that I can buy to swap it out with. So I've been watching listings like a hawk to see if I could find anything that wasn't insanely expensive or would leave me with ANOTHER DS lying around. For some reason, I felt like I could justify getting a non-functional console and scrapping it for parts, especially if anything needs to ever be fixed with my working 2ds. Or I guess I could look into repairing it eventually, since the 2ds' hardware is actually not that difficult to wrangle.
I've also been looking into getting myself a GBA cause I've been wanting to play a lot of different gameboy games, and the shape of that system is way more comfortable in my hands since it's not as compact as a GBC or OG GB. I found out there is a dedicated modding community for this 20+ year old system, so I'm trying to win an auction to get me the GBA that I wish I could have had as a kid :'). Fuck you, mom and dad! But yea, there are a ton of IPS displays and such, and I could also mod the screen so there's a touchpad dimmer and everything. I still need to get a soldering iron, which I've been wanting for a while because I know at some point with all of the keyboard bullshit I do, I'll need one (I've also been wanting to get into making some of my own wires, but that's another story). But this seems like a sign that I should just get the dang soldering iron. Who knows, maybe I can use it as a weapon too if I ever need to lol. We love a multi-purpose tool!
I'll have to update once I'm able to swap my shell over to share what the process is like. I'm a little nervous to crack this baby open and spill its metalic guts all over my desk, but after helping my partner build their computer, nothing can be as scary as installing a cooler to the CPU and motherboard lol.
