easily one of my favorite game systems in general, I like how it's a portable master system with more colors and how games sound. here is the progress so far
This is a LED strip for under the buttons. I avoided the one for the power led as it had it's original backlight and the LED posts were pretty close I didn't want to hit it with the soldering iron. I might add a stand alone purple LED in the future
it's also been recapped, screen replaced, I added the clean juice batteries to charge via usb C, the clean amp amplifier and a new speaker and a clear shell with a purple lens
Planned mods so far are a modern screen replacement, stereo speakers and an HDMI out
one of my oldest consoles, I have a soft spot for the master system honestly. I like how the games look, how the console looks and I appreciate what sega did here. here's what I've done so far on it
This was a pretty simple mod to do. Remove the old port, bypass the 9V regulator (with usb the voltage will only ever be 5) and connect the new port to power and ground. this is part of a larger project of replacing all my sega consoles with usb C power.
this was the most difficult console I've worked on so far, the dual screens and small triggers makes this very finicky to work on, here are the mods I've done so far
Fuck this was the toughest handheld to work on. there's a ribbon cable going thru the hinge, one of the cables for the wifi card is fished between the card reader and the board, the trigger springs are so finicky and I needed to use a hair dryer to remove the screens and digitizer.
Also my DS lite had one of it's triggers not work so I had to open up the trigger button casing and clean the contacts.