Opinion time: worth chipping a switch with missing peripherals?

Is it worth adding HWFly to a switch with no touchscreen, game cart reader, or headphone jack?

  • Hell yea, down with ewaste

    Votes: 2 100.0%
  • No, you're an optimistic idiot (but I like you really)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

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notSoMadHatter

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As the title alludes, I came into possession a very broken switch, after a lot of time bringing it back to life (the whole thing was bent in half about 5 - 10 degrees, all in pieces, no screws) I came to realise the digitiser never worked. I replaced the digitiser twice. Could never get it to work. After aggressively adding mod wires between the game card reader board and the motherboard, I came to make the ultimate idiot mistake by making the problem worse, and ripped some pads that made the game card reader stop working. I went to town adding more mod wires to various test points on the board, but I came to throw that away as I was getting neck deep in a cluster fuck of wires and it was taking far too much time. Suffice to say, this was very much a pet project to see if I could bring a console that was almost as bad as it can be back to nearly 'as new'. Of course, I failed there but it seems like a waste to have a console that's nearly perfect, and I have a spare HWFly, so I wanted to know what you guys think, shall I mod it? The device will likely be docked most of the time, I practically live off digital games, never used the headphone jack, and very rarely have ever used the touchscreen.

What would you do?
 

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I mean if everything else is working fine and you can actually dock the switch and are sure that you will never feel the need to use whats broken then go for it as you will still be able to play your legal backups of both switch and retro games this way
 

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I mean if everything else is working fine and you can actually dock the switch and are sure that you will never feel the need to use whats broken then go for it as you will still be able to play your legal backups of both switch and retro games this way
Yeah, i was worried if there was a point in the setup of hekate etc where you need the touchscreen but i just checked and it seems like I won't need it, so i think it's good to go.
 

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