Flip up the black tab on the connector before pulling cables out. The wider LCD cables are held in place with a locking mechanism. The capture board should be able to lie flat against the stylus holder. Lift off the case, remove the top screw from the stylus holder.Ĭut away the case, making a hole for the USB connector. Remove the battery cover, battery, and all 7 screws from the back case. Tweezers, and x-acto knife for cleanup are also recommended. You'll also need a small Phillips screwdriver (#00), Dremel (with small cutting bit), soldering iron, and solder. You should have received a board, flex cable, USB cable, and tri-wing screwdriver. Assume everything inside is fragile and breaks easily.
#3DS CAPTURE KIT INSTALL#
Period.DS Capture Install Guide Some soldering experience is assumed. In any case, you aren't going to find a cheaper service ANYWHERE ELSE. It's up to you anyway, no one's forcing you. If you can't justify it, then don't buy it. Or acquire and modify an OG3DS with the cheaper self-installation kits when they become available again an OG3DS card is the option you should have explored if you were trying to save the most money.
#3DS CAPTURE KIT HOW TO#
Learn how to micro-solder and buy a self-installation kit. If you are that pressed for cash, be frugal. If you don't have enough disposable income to comfortably put together $200 for a very much not needed thing, then it's probably not a good idea to even explore it. Now that's something to be shocked about.Īfter-market modifications are always going to be in the "want it, don't need it" category. A user just linked a site that offers a mail-in service that is $700. He could very well increase the prices and demand wouldn't change. Loopy's capture card boards are some of the most sought after for the DS. I think he's more than earned the trust of the community in his ability to produce a fair-priced and high-quality product. Loopy has stated in the past his distain for the ridiculously over-priced services out there. I don't know how you can come to the determination that one installation is more involved than the other just by looking at it, but I'd imagine the $30 difference is a result in increased labor and increased price in board manufacturing. I would hardly consider a $30 difference from OG3DS prices to be "shocking" or "quite a bit more" than his past boards. Regardless, they all utilize reproduced Optimize boards, and they are ALL ridiculously inflated prices. Shops such as Delfino Customs are located in the UK, I believe, but there are a few capture card services in the states. Katsukity closed shop because it's now illegal to offer console modifications in Japan, so you wouldn't be able to send them to the OG shop anyway. But as it stands either way, it's more than $100, and I don't know if I'd get my money's worth out of it. I already have all the necessary tools (not sure if this includes any, but if so, Loopy could just leave them out). Of course, I'm not afraid to dig into these things myself (I've entirely rebuilt a DSi XL before with no experience or teardown guides), so the cheaper kit option is one to consider.
#3DS CAPTURE KIT MOD#
I try to keep my spending under tight control, and this mod definitely falls under the category of "want it, don't need it." So I just don't know if I can talk myself into this one. In my case, I find it hard to justify spending that much on a mod for a console that I only spent less than $150 on (I got a beat-up used one, and fixed it up). Now, I understand that he can name just about any price that he wants to, since there really isn't any competition other than Optimize (which is an option that I ruled out long ago because they're overseas and that really complicates things, even though ordering a kit from them might actually be cheaper, but I haven't checked in a while). I don't know how his old 3DS capture kit is built, but it looks more involved, unless I'm just mistaken, so I was hoping the price would be lower on the new one. Honestly, he could charge the same $300 as Delfino Customs, and it would still be more than worth it. His boards are extremely fair priced, even with the $30 dollar increase. The 3DS capture card market is overpriced, and Loopy offers THE lowest priced capture card service on the market. Repudiable services like Delfino Customs charge over $300 for the same service, and they utilize the Optimize board, which is considered an inferior product by comparison. The price for the N3DSXL mail-in installation is only $30 more than the $170 OG 3DS board installation prices.
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