Nintendo DS-TV-Out Restoration Project

Reminds me of an interesting feature(?) of the old DS Phat. If you held it close enough, analog tv antennas could pick up the video signal going to the top screen.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5VlCpZkVss4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5VlCpZkVss4</a>

I&#x27;d bet this was a feature to support their in-store kiosks where people could play a DS and see the output on a TV. It&#x27;d be a lot cheaper and easier to pull some DS machines off the production line and reflash the firmware than to engineer entirely new units just for the kiosks.

And to think Nintendo wants these to end up in a landfill.<p>Imagine if jailbreaking video game consoles (that is, modifying hardware that you own however you want), were actually legal. Old consoles like these could continue to provide value to owners via competing app stores, free and open source apps&#x2F;games, cool hardware features like the OP, etc. All of that could happen without infringing on Nintendo&#x27;s rights, or requiring them to do anything in any way.<p>But the DMCA doesn&#x27;t allow it.

It always blows me away when people work out this stuff so long after the product comes out. This hardware sold hundreds of millions of units and yet no one noticed it had a video output inside it? Just goes to show how complex this stuff is I guess.

I wish I could have decent output of a 3DS! I was looking into it and apparently it is really hard and one of the small setups modding them in Japan recently closed down!

I just wish I picked up a DS. The prices for them now is ridiculous.

Now if you could drive the lower screen with an iPad then you have a real winner and great accessibility for the disabled.

Could this be one of the first iterations of the Switch?