(Transcribed from image)Merki on Discord said:
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That's exactly what they did. But you need a "card" to translate the raw data into anything usable.
Luckily, if Loopy ever pulls through, his software is free! Not open source though, unfortunately.
Well, the price is over 500 euros for a new system with it installed, so if he got 200 of them, that's already 100,000 euros.
No. I haven't heard anything about that. Maybe you're thinking about Loopy? Apparently his aren't as good but not crappy.
Yeah, but the soldering is apparently pretty complex. Ever opened up a 3DS? Some of the pins are pretty damn small, some are under stuff (like the gamecart slot), and some are on the backside of the motherboard. Actually getting it to close after installing the card must be pretty hard because of all the wires. I wouldn't be surprised if a significant amount of the cost is labor.
As far as I'm aware they just have a single ribbon cable with solder points that you lay over the system in a specific way. Of course it would be difficult to solder when prototyping a capture card but a finished capture card install doesn't seem terribly bad.
They make fairly cheap chips that do this, I think it does all colors and converts it. I ordered some but never did anything with them.
Honestly I'd just love an open source solution to convert the top screen to HDMI. I've got a lot of chips like arduino, teensy etc to work with, just never really tried. I'm sure there has to be a way for raspberry pi zero to take the color signals through gpio and display them, which would be an easy way to convert to hdmi
Really?
What's surprising is that nobody made a plug and play solution (ie connected inline with the original screen)
Yeah I just checked, it's a single ribbon cable that you lay over the main board and solder through. The points also don't look too small. Most of the work looks like it's taking the 3DS apart and putting it back together lol
Dude...the nintendo version costs >$10,000. And you need to sign an NDA, which makes it pretty much useless because you're not allowed to upload or share any video or photo of it.
No, it is less then 4 grand (for a fully loaded capture+debugger O3DS model)
Of it (maybe... not like there isn't photos and documentation around), not of what you run on it (a restriction which is effectively unenforceable anyway)
If the unofficial option was 5 grand as you said (have never seen one for that much but who can predict the free market)... the official options (whether the directly "competing" model, or the go-all-in model I just said) are cheaper, no?
I have but even though they explain it, not all of the parts are easy to come by and they don't ship outside japan. plus 1 of the nintendo official recently sold on ebay for over 3000 us dollars.
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