As an OLED owner, I’ll never understand the IPS hype. All you get is washed out colors, contrast that can’t compete with 2010s display standards, and absolute garbage viewing angles. Why do people obsess over it so much? Even VA looks better.
VA Panels back in the day had atrocious viewing angles and ghosting and OLED didnt exist back then. This was the time when Nintendo went from front lit screens to back lit screens and people were used to really bad screens. The DS lite was miles ahead in terms of display quality.
Now its a Gameboy Advance Macro.
People in the scene are literally doing this to get a cheap way to play GBA games on an IPS screen, albeit a little bit more professional.
They could just sppare the top screen, to have a fully functional DS instead or ruining a perfectly functional console for shits and giggles.
I think most are removing it and selling/keeping the top for parts to be used on a broken model, assuming they’re using a good one at all.
There might be something to be said about cutting and smoothing the of bottom case, but 3D printing, and cases sold online can mitigate that as well.
Console modding doesn’t have to be inherently destructive.
As an OLED owner, I’ll never understand the IPS hype. All you get is washed out colors, contrast that can’t compete with 2010s display standards, and absolute garbage viewing angles. Why do people obsess over it so much? Even VA looks better.
VA Panels back in the day had atrocious viewing angles and ghosting and OLED didnt exist back then. This was the time when Nintendo went from front lit screens to back lit screens and people were used to really bad screens. The DS lite was miles ahead in terms of display quality.
The difference between the DS fat and the DS lite (in the photo) screens was miles.