Recent content by Karas288

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    Hardware N3DS Only powers on when plugged in.

    It works (home button still don't but) it powers on without external power yay I made a bit of a mess of things but I did manage to get it to work I removed the resistor as mentioned in the link and then used a pencil very carefully to link the pins where the resistor is meant to go next to the...
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    Hardware N3DS Only powers on when plugged in.

    Thank you so much for that link I was going to start looking into the inductor beside the power connector and yeah I've just taken a look at mine and that resistor is absolutely tiny definitely need a reflow station to move it I just tried with a battery powered 12w iron and I cant do anything...
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    Hardware N3DS Only powers on when plugged in.

    Sorry to resurrect a old post but I too have what I believe to be a demo/kiosk unit my motherboard looks exactly like yours with the two 0 ohm resistors next to a ic and the black inductor near the power connector I'd just like to ask though when you said "swapping the boards had no effect" what...
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    Hardware Nintendo 2DS Kiosk unit to retail conversion - spoiler alert you move a resistor.

    Thats awesome glad to hear the kiosk model can be converted back to retail i just got a new 3ds that turns out is a kiosk model do you think the 3ds might be able to be converted to retail and run off the battery in a similar manner Im currently in the process of modding mine to cfw but cant...