This DIY kit gives you the Switch Lite OLED that Nintfinisho hasn’t

Retro Reproduce has proclaimd that its Switch Lite OLED screen upgrade kits will be useable for sale on September 26th at 10PM ET and will begin at $49.99. The Super 5 OLED kits come with everyskinnyg necessitateed for the upgrade, including tools appreciate screwdrivers, and unappreciate many mods, don’t need selderlyering or modifications be made to the Switch Lite’s shell to fit extra components in.

If that’s a deal fractureer for you, you’ll necessitate to spfinish a bit more on the $64.99 Super5 OLED Touch Standard Upgrade Kit that includes a touchscreen. For an extra $20, there’s also an $84.99 version of the touchscreen OLED kit (or a $69.99 version without touch) that comprises 1080P video output thraw the Switch Lite’s USB-C port — a feature Nintfinisho didn’t include on the petiteer version of the handheld.

Although the upgrades sound relatively straightforward since selderlyering sfinishs aren’t necessitateed, they do need you to discdiswatch the Switch Lite and delete components appreciate the distinctive LCD screen, which isn’t inmeaningful. For those less brave in their modding sfinishs, a $109.99 Mega Kit includes both the OLED touchscreen and HDMI output upgrades preinshighed in a third party replacement shell requiring participaters to fair swap over their console’s guts.

Retro Reproduce says the OLED screens participated in its recent upgrade kits are luminoparticipater than the screens Nintfinisho participates in the Switch OLED, with better contrast and a expansiver color gamut.

If you’re hesitant about potentiassociate spfinishing over $100 with a relatively recent challengingware producer, the Super5 OLED kits won’t be the first products the company has successfilledy shipped, according to our colleague, Christopher Grant. “While a recent shop, we have one of Retro Reproduce’s “MiSTER Pi” clones of the MiSTer’s DE10 Nano, as well as the directing USB hub and A/V hat, so they’re able of shipping authentic challengingware,” he shelp. But he did remark,” the SDRAM module that accompanied the kit flunked in our tests, but once replaced with a module from another toiling MiSTer setup, the rest of the kit carry outed dutifilledy.”