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Nintendo Switch Lite with SUPER5 OLED and swapped buttons (media.piefed.social)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by misk@piefed.social to c/consolemods@lemmy.sdf.org

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I shell swapped this originally turquoise Lite to black ExtremeRate one some time ago but I struggled loads with fitting SUPER5 screen into it without any gaps and ended up with a damaged LCD port due to trying to line up ribbon too many times. Fixing that motherboard is beyond my soldering skills and repair costs almost the same as a second hand Lite so I decided to buy some beat up and scratched yellow one to harvest shell and motherboard from. Screen snapped so easily into original shell that it could probably hold without any adhesive. Lesson learned on aftermarket shells, I guess. Quite happy how it turned out in the end. New looks heavily inspired by this guy:

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[–] Mobile@leminal.space 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wow great job on the mod! What games have you been running on the lite? Mine's in a closet. Just gathering dust. Maybe it's time to mod it out.

[–] misk@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

Mina the Hollower is a great fit for Lite that I’ve been enjoying lately (even if I suck at it). I also started playing Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance but quite early on there’s a place where the game stutters badly which is a stark reminder that I’ll have to get this Lite modchipped. A touch of overclock makes many games get good enough quite often.

SUPER5 screens are no longer sold unfortunately. The guy who made them lost a lot of money on a version of this mod with HDMI output on top of numerous complaints from customers who botched their installs and damaged either screen or their Lites. He seems to be quite successful in selling his Mister FPGA clones too.

Lite is a great companion handheld regardless of screen though! It might not have every indie game that Steam does but that Switch library is still very impressive.