I have a decapitated DS, what should I do with it?

Kyo · Post by **Kyo** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:15 am

A friend of mine was testing the durability of his DS by throwing it against the wall

Long story short, I have two halves of one DS, otherwise working. What should I do with it?

I already have a DS lite so just repairing it would be boring

yoshilime · Post by **yoshilime** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:17 am

make the bottom part a new case mod for a snes controller

Kyo · Post by **Kyo** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:20 am

that would be such a waste of the DS itself, though

Besides, I don't particularly prefer the DS over the SNES controller. Quite the opposite, actually...

...mhmmm...

Maybe I should build it in a SNES controller?

palmertech · Post by **palmertech** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:04 am

You should buy a new screen off DealExtreme for $9, then fix it.

A new case is like $5.

Master Kirby · Post by **Master Kirby** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:06 am

Another idea is that you could use it as a real big Gameboy Micro. You could play GBA games on the bottom screen without needing to use the top screen.

If the top and bottom screens are similar enough, maybe you could wire up some kind of switch so that you can toggle between displaying the top and bottom screens on the remaining touch screen. Then you could still play DS games that just use the bottom screen as a menu.

Kyo · Post by **Kyo** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:12 am

or I could just buy a new ribbon for like 7€ and have a functional DS. But that's not good enough. I already have a functional DS lite. I want to do something cool! Come on, guys, where's your creativity?

palmertech · Post by **palmertech** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:16 am

Take a gameboy original, cut it into a front face and a bottom face. Use bondo to attack the DS Case/hinges to it, and have it look like a normal gameboy... Until you open it!

Creative enough? Or, make a DS projector, I have made one with crap optics (Read: plastic toy parts), so expect to spend at least $20 in optics to look nice, plus a good light source.

avert1 · Post by **avert1** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:21 am

You could give it to me!

If you're willing to part with it, maybe you should hold a contest of some sort, and give it to the winner. Probably not the suggestion you're looking for, but just a suggestion...Happy face.

Post by **eagle5953** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:25 am

Get the top screen working again, and then do a cool casemod. Maybe a steampunk-inspired one. Or put it in something unexpected and have a stealth DS.

jjhammerstein · Post by **jjhammerstein** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:25 pm

palmertech wrote:Take a gameboy original, cut it into a front face and a bottom face. Use bondo to attack the DS Case/hinges to it, and have it look like a normal gameboy... Until you open it!

This would be awesome with a relocated cart slot for GBA in the normal cart spot and the DS slot in the battery holder. It might have to be a little fatter than a GBO, but maybe not.

themadhacker · Post by **themadhacker** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:03 pm

maybe you could sell it to me?

You could try to do what rekarp did with his DS (woody)

BTW what happened with your atari portable?

eurddrue · Post by **eurddrue** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:32 pm

I agree with that person who said big gb micro. All you have to do is bridge two pins or something. And, YOUR BACK!?!!1?

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:42 pm

WTF KYO! I MISS U!

I was wondering where you got off to!

Gut it, and build an sp into it.

SS

XCVG · Post by **XCVG** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:44 pm

I agree with the GBO idea. That would be sweet. I wonder if you can connect 2 top screens and 2 controllers?

Kyo · Post by **Kyo** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:36 am

That would actually not be all that hard to do seeing as how I have a gazillion GBOs.

As for me being back, yeah, you guys know the drill. Sometimes I just gotta take a break for a couple of months. I still gotta finish that atari too.

DS projector?

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