i just did a little DS mod.

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 1:41 am

ok.. ill do it. i wont upload the final pics.. (i did just take them) untill i do a compact flash reader built in. here goes!

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 1:48 am

PLEASE!! upload them

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 2:47 am

common you guys.. whats better to see a paint job or a sweet new mod?

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 3:09 am

a paint job!!!!!

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 6:14 am

Tell us what you used!

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 2:24 pm

black testors... vary comon. in fact i will upload a pic but i think im going to redue the hole thing. i dont like how it turned out. plus i have to any ways when i put the compact flash reader built in... (im going to put dsllinux on that puppy)

see.. the contrast is crappy with the white buttons.

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 2:37 pm

You should just paint everything a flat black or dark gray, if I paint mine, itll probably be a slate gray or something, maybe with a darker gray for the controls..

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 2:43 pm

well its not that i dont like the controlls that much. if i did just want to change the controls i would just change the controlls but i think ill redue the hole thing. i also want tthe DS to be a lot thiner. its wasting a lot of space and i want a slim and cool machine.

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 3:41 pm

WOW CENNAR!!!! thats great!!!! im going to paint mine!!! although.....it sorta looks like a PSP now!

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 5:03 pm

Cennar, I am going to do this to my scratched up DS. Anything needed to prep it? Sand paper? I am building my own GBA CF adapter to go along with my Movie Player 2.

Oh, I would like a quick how to so I don't mess it up.

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 12:46 am

well get nintedno screew driver kit then take all the paint off with well i gots 4oo grit sand paper. taking apart is hard there are them dam hinges that you gots to worrie about. then you got to make sure when it all goes back to gether that all the things are pluged in fine the ds wont start with out having all its junk pluged in fine. then there is a little plastic bit that makes no sense.. so just remember where it came from when you reassemble.

yay a 4oo grit papper and some model paint (primer gloss and clear) you might want to use some putty for any junk you want to reshape. seems and stuff two

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 2:05 am

could you give me some details about disassembly?

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 2:41 am

i undid the screws, then i pulled the.. ah screw it look at these pictures

fisrt after the case was off i took a look around to see how i can get the mother board lose.
well there where 3 screews that had to go soon after that i saw the ribon cable for the bottom screen.

it came out soon after and you can see

here it in my hand the rest was vary not dificult...

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 11:51 am

Cool, does this get off scratches?

Oh, and can you tell us how much the paint wears?

And would it look nicer if you used matte black paint?

I'd like my DS too looks as close as possible to this!

FDSMAN · Post by **FDSMAN** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 12:19 pm

I see cennar had some fun with his bong or am I mistaken? it looks like a bong, cennar is it?

Anyway, nice paint job