Ok thanks dude. everyone here has been super helpful and knowledgable but reading this definitely calmed my nerves a little.
I actually had a pretty grand idea. I have the PCB (correct terminology?)from the broken 3ds literally out of the system right now, so I might attempt to take a part my working console and replace the PCB or whatever. If everything works ill do the hardmod on that system. who knows, maybe it will already be on 9.2 lol... hopefully this works wish me luck
EDIT: i just remembered i fucked up the ZIF connector or friction based connector or whatever tf for the circle pad connection. i should be able to navigate with the d pad so im still gonna attemp this