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    Hardware Any guides out there on how to file down the replacement joycon housing?

    Thanks for those links, I'll give it a shot tomorrow morning. I did shave a little bit from the area mentioned, but was wary of taking off too much given that they are clear plastic. As for the RCM, I've already link the points on the right Joycon board. As far as I'm aware having them...
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    Hardware Any guides out there on how to file down the replacement joycon housing?

    I wanted a D-Pad on my console, as well as wanting to solder the right joycon for RCM, so bought a pair of the clear joycon replacements from Aliexpress. However, despite it seemingly being a pretty common issue, I couldn't find any sort of guide out there on how to cut or file them to reduce...
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    Hacking Xecuter SX FAQ - Finally!

    If the soldered method is simply an internal implementation of the dongle, then I'm assuming it'll basically be a flex cable connected to the USB-C pins, which could be a real pain to solder. Or it could just be wired to test points.
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    Hacking New TX SX Information: New FAQs and Homebrew Support Confirmed for Launch

    The price seems half decent and I was tempted, but Shop01media are now stating 1st July for back-orders. By that stage everything they're offering might be freely available, hard to say as there are still a lot of unknowns with the product.
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    Hacking SWITCH NOOB PARADISE - Ask questions here

    https://switch.hacks.guide/blocking-updates I'm having an issue with my Switch whenever it's in sleep mode, I can't get it to reopen CFW. The only thing that works to boot it at all is the remove everything, hold down power, vol + and vol - for a few seconds and then power on to OFW, which...
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    Hacking How/When will you hack your switch for the first time??

    I'll probably play around with the first CFW that's available, doesn't matter about whether it requires a hardmod. Main issue for me is not wanting to risk losing my game saves - I have 50+ hours each on Mario Odyssey, BotW and MK8, which isn't something that happens much for me these days and I...
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    Hacking Need to remove CFW from a console I bought, but am

    Not sure what I did differently, but I managed to boot to the GodMode payload now, so hopefully from this point it should be pretty straight forward.
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    Hacking Need to remove CFW from a console I bought, but am

    So I bought a cheap 3DS XL as I needed the NTSC motherboard from it. The seller didn't say it was running CFW, but said "the console will play UK games when the SD card is inserted" so I assumed as much, but figured removing the CFW would be pretty straightforward, having done it before...
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    Hardware New 2DS XL Motherboard Pictures

    I was actually going to mention those pins as possible points when I posted yesterday, because the traces run diagonally on the other side of the board from the same area as the NAND, but didn't want to risk talking nonsense. Regardless, as I mentioned before, I really don't think it's worth...
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    Hardware New 2DS XL Motherboard Pictures

    Sorry it took me so long to reply. Here's a picture of the battery: I did see that guy's video teardown and although kudos to him for doing it, he made a complete mess of the console.
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    Hardware 3DS XL not powering on

    I've searched through the forums, but haven't found an answer for the issue I'm having. The console will not turn on and the power LED will not turn on at any point, even for a few seconds. Connecting it to the charger with the battery inserted turns on the charge LED and connecting it without...
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    Hardware New 2DS XL Motherboard Pictures

    I imported a 2DS XL from New Zealand and of course the first thing I did was to take it apart, take some pics and offer a few of my thoughts on the console. Pros: - Fewest screws in any 3DS I've seen - total of 13 screws to remove the motherboard - A single motherboard, with almost everything...
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    Hardware Fixing d pad on a "new" Nintendo 3DS XL

    You could try placing something small in the centre of the rubber part, that way you won't be interfering with the D pad contacts, but it might push up against the top plastic part and stop it from feeling so loose.
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    Hacking Downgraded using Decrypt9 and can't boot DS games. Any way to fix it?

    Oh, no I wasn't - I was trying to boot from HBL, forgetting that the arm9loaderhax.bin on the card was now the Luma one. I created a payload and it worked; updated and restored just to be sure and everything seems to be fine now.
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    Hacking Downgraded using Decrypt9 and can't boot DS games. Any way to fix it?

    OK, so I'm at the point where I've definitely got the files installed to the NAND when running 9.2.0 on A9LH, but I'm having some issues uninstalling it - SafeA9LHInstaller isn't booting for some reason and I can't seem to find any troubleshooting stuff on it post-install and restoring to the...
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  • Jayro @ Jayro:
    Eventhough the New 3DS XL is more powerful, I still feel like the DS Lite was a more polished system. It's a real shame that it never got an XL variant keeping the GBA slot. You'd have to go on AliExpress and buy an ML shell to give a DS phat the unofficial "DS Lite" treatment, and that's the best we'll ever get I'm afraid.
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    The phat model had amazingly loud speakers tho.
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  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @Jayro, I don't see whats so special about the DS ML, its just a DS lite in a phat shell. At least the phat model had louder speakers, whereas the lite has a much better screen.
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    They probably said "Hey, why not we combine the two together and make a 'new' DS to sell".
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    It's a DS Lite in a slightly bigger DS Lite shell.
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    It's not a Nintendo / iQue official product, it's a 3rd party custom.
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    Nothing special about it other than it's more comfortable than the Lite
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