Lost Nds Tv

The Lost Nintendo DS Television Output, brought back to life

Overview

Lost-NDS-TV

Introduction

On December 2020, we discovered that the Nintendo DS Lite's SoC (System on Chip) had a hidden feature: a leftover TV(Television) composite video output signal. This project contains our hardware designs and software code to restore this hidden feature and make it usable again. More details here

Contents

• Schematics & design & BOM
  • Can be found in this respository under /pcb
• Production Files
  • Gerber files are available in the releases page
• Documentation
  • Some base explaination of how the system works, how the PCB and software act altogether, etc. can be found here after the Installation section
• Tutorials
  • For a quick installation/usage tutorial, click here
  • Video Tutorial coming later this month

Video Tutorial for Installation

Video analysis + installation tutorial by MachoNacho

Acknowledgements

This project wouldn't be possible without the contributions of Gericom, Nitehack and pedro-javierf.

Files in this package

• CAD source: NDS_TV_OUT_PCB_V1I2.step, mechanical nds tv out v1I2.dxf
• Images: 3d_pcb_nds_tv_out_V1I2.PNG
• Documents: NDS_TV_OUT_V1I2.pdf, NDS_TV_OUT_V1I2.pdf

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Source & license

• Original author: LNH-team
• Source repository: https://github.com/LNH-team/Lost-NDS-TV
• License: GPL-3.0

Imported into the CommunityCAD Archive with attribution preserved. All rights remain with the original author under the stated license.