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Why I OWN Today
Sep. 1st, 2006 02:19 amBecause I put a new case on Girl's Nintendo DS, THAT'S WHY.
I bought one of those Hong Kong cases off eBay because the hinge on Girl's DS had broken. The case came with screws, stickers, a new screen, and two wee screwdrivers. It DIDN'T come with the promised instructions. I found a couple tutes online and printed them out.
Sure, it came with the tri-wing screwdriver to remove the PITA screws from the bottom of the case, but that screwdriver was a PIECE OF SHIT that stripped almost immediately. I replaced it with a STEEL linoleum cutting blade I filed down. Take THAT, you fucking screws!
Let me tell you, the guts of a Nintendo DS are epic. There are a million screws. There are ribbon cables. It is exactly this: a teeny computer. I got it all taken to pieces, re-used some of the old DS case parts (like the original case's gasket around the inside edge of the touchscreen, which was VASTLY better than the replacement's, and the original bottom), then reassembled it.
Putting it back together meant some inevitable taking it apart a few steps again to correct problems. I am lucky I have accumulated so many tools. Making the reassembly extra-challenging (by which I mean extra painful for my fingers) was that the plastic parts where unthreaded so the screws had to be screwed down, backed out, screwed down again, to get them through holes. A reaming file or a small drill bit would've saved some agony, I realize.
I had a bad moment where I powered it on before I'd completely reassembled it and it didn't stay on. I hoped complete reassembly would fix that, and it did.
The $14.00 for the new case sure beat shipping the DS off along with $75 of our money. The nerdy satisfaction of taking apart and putting back together a gadget is, of course, priceless.
It will all be perfect when the swelling in my fingers goes down.
I bought one of those Hong Kong cases off eBay because the hinge on Girl's DS had broken. The case came with screws, stickers, a new screen, and two wee screwdrivers. It DIDN'T come with the promised instructions. I found a couple tutes online and printed them out.
Sure, it came with the tri-wing screwdriver to remove the PITA screws from the bottom of the case, but that screwdriver was a PIECE OF SHIT that stripped almost immediately. I replaced it with a STEEL linoleum cutting blade I filed down. Take THAT, you fucking screws!
Let me tell you, the guts of a Nintendo DS are epic. There are a million screws. There are ribbon cables. It is exactly this: a teeny computer. I got it all taken to pieces, re-used some of the old DS case parts (like the original case's gasket around the inside edge of the touchscreen, which was VASTLY better than the replacement's, and the original bottom), then reassembled it.
Putting it back together meant some inevitable taking it apart a few steps again to correct problems. I am lucky I have accumulated so many tools. Making the reassembly extra-challenging (by which I mean extra painful for my fingers) was that the plastic parts where unthreaded so the screws had to be screwed down, backed out, screwed down again, to get them through holes. A reaming file or a small drill bit would've saved some agony, I realize.
I had a bad moment where I powered it on before I'd completely reassembled it and it didn't stay on. I hoped complete reassembly would fix that, and it did.
The $14.00 for the new case sure beat shipping the DS off along with $75 of our money. The nerdy satisfaction of taking apart and putting back together a gadget is, of course, priceless.
It will all be perfect when the swelling in my fingers goes down.
