FAKE Nintendo DS from China!
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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How is it “FAKE”? It’s just a poor re-shell job of a genuine DS. I was expecting an emulation handheld stuffed in a DS shell. Just clickbait I guess…
This channel is nothing but clickbait.
Actual brain dead comment
Nah not everything @@miro5052
@@miro5052 joke or?
Fr
Brazilian creators are going nuts for these refurbs from Ali, buying one of each to see which ones are decent and which aren't - I usually see them recommending the 2DS from one specific seller. I suppose it's because our used videogame market is just nuts, it's very hard to find things at a decent price
There's a couple Brazilian youtubers I watch and they all talk about how hard and expensive it was to get any kind of game console. One told me about shops where you could rent time with a console so you could play your games because consoles were just way too expensive to justify owning one
@@KP_Uravity we've come a long way backwards, because back in the 2000s places where you could pay by the hour to play, like a LAN house/internet café were very common precisely because of what you said, then there was an economic boom where these places died down because people were able to buy their own games, now we're back at "too expensive" and it happened so fast... I bought my PS4 in 2019 for 700 reais used and now you can't find a decent one for less than 1400
@@fatburdo That's seriously crazy, I just have a PS4 Pro sitting around collecting dust because my PC is just better.
That's kind of impressive. The DS is such a simple console to fix up that I'm amazed someone screwed up this badly.
"I'm amazed someone screwed up this badly."
Because CHINA.
Que esperabas?
Mira solo las versiones falsas de Game boy advance
Ni son compatible con game boy
@@carlosxboxpsnintendo3300 jag pratar inte spanska men fortsätt om du vill
@@RisingRevengeance que?
@@carlosxboxpsnintendo3300 Var jag otydlig?
Why not refurbish this refurbished ds? Those poor internals deserve a good shell.
The little sticky thing on the back of the screen is to stop the screen from touching and shorting stuff on the board I'm pretty sure. Aftermarket screens don't come with a backing so you have to make your own. 😂 I used electrical tape for the one I worked on.
Additionally, I received an anomaly of a ds lite in a sendico junk lot. It had an aftermarket shell, but it's better quality than any aftermarket shell I've seen, but the shell is also worn, beat to hell, and dirty. It's got other strange things going on too like its triggers with no springs, and one solitary screw cover on the bottom. If you're interested in it I'd be happy to send it, no charge.
If he’s not interested I am interested in the day
If he’s not interested I am interested in the ds
I just bought a used DSlite from half price books which is a book and video game thrift store in the US. The DS was in BAD condition and I had to order a new shell, touch screen, and d-pad. But nothing compares to this horrid thing 😂
I just got myself a new ds lite from dkoldies and it's in super good condition. It looks like no ones used it before. It was about 150 dollars and it's been so nice to use again. They also have cosmetically flawed options which brings the price down to like 110. Over priced? Probably, but it's worth it to get something that's been properly cleaned and tested
@@KP_Uravity dkoldies 😢
@@KP_UravityI LOVE DKOLDIESSS
HALF PRICE BOOKS MENTIONED?!?!? (I may be a little obsessed with that place-)
I remember pre-ordering my original ds way back when!!
I remember getting mine for Christmas!
I remember getting a ds lite!
I love this channel! I get shocked every time I see the views because I feel like you deserve to have so much more
"Nintendo BS" is the best pun I've seen all day
Yes the Nintendo Bs that released after the Nintendo wee right 😂
holy shit, you blew into the cartridge! don't you know by doing that the resale value plummets to below 30 cents, the cartridge's interior explodes and your house gets set on fire???
I cannot get over how much the prices of these old (original) units have gotten. A few years ago I was able to get them for a pretty decent price. Now I have to really search to find something that is worth the money.
Its insane. I got a 2ds xl for $300 total, but it had a rare case listed online for $250 by itself....
I have a couple DSi's, DSi LL, and a basically broken DSi XL, and an original DS with a broken hinge but i wanna sell it cus its a rare skin (gray shell, green with black flame bumpers (definitely not decals as they sink into the ds units shell
ah, just like the one in the video the hinge is fucked.
@@sexygirlmax2019A case for 250?!? What the hell is going on nowadays..
Maybe the title was lost in translation, and it was actually meant as "Nintendo DS for refurbishing" :D
It's great to have content back, you are amazing Elliott
I would love to see a clean up and a re shell of this
Did you announce the gameboy light giveaway?
My favourite handhedl consel!
I work at Goodwill and some of the original DS’s we’ve gotten have been in great shape. They still felt pretty solid so maybe some became more brittle than others?
maybe it depends on sunlight exposure, it's a mobile console after all
I used to find lots of great retro game stuff at my local goodwill, but I think they hired an employee that likes games and now all game stuff has dried up. Have you ever seen employees taking all the great retro game stuff?
@@MA_KA_PA_TIE Nah bro, it’s not employees. It’s scalpers, resellers or whatever you wanna call them. They make up a majority of our store’s sales sadly. These people genuinely suck :(
@@MA_KA_PA_TIEIts not just your shop. They pull out nice items to sell them online for a lot. Like with Littlest Pet Shops since some of them can go for $50-$500 individually.
Haven't watched the full video yet but judging from all your other videos it must be a good one
Thank you!
@@TheRetroFuture I have sent you a message to your email. Can you check if you have time?
My original DS Phat just recently snapped it's hinge so it won't hold itself open anymore. Big RIP
Yo I know it’s late but congrats on 500k :)
Betcha that ds ML is looking pretty good right about now! Has it beat in price AND performance.
4:06
I am not sure but personally I have a graphite black ds phat and the shell on mine is still super solid, like when I took it apart I tried to flex it and it didn't snap nor produce stress marks! So ig maybe later ones suffered less about this?
I had the lowest expectations and I'm still disappointed
Not trying to be a kiss ass but i like these kind of videos.
Thank you!
That's the thing with AliExpress refurbish: they usually use aftermarket parts with awful quality, and they never clean anything inside. Actually, you were lucky the DS had came with the original battery. Chinese refurbishers normally use poor quality batteries, which doesn't last even an hour with energy. Or, even worse, the batteries start to drain itself even if you're not using the device!
All rechargeable batteries will drain even when the console is off, although batteries manufactured by a reputable company should have decent capacity and relatively minimal drain over time.
God I wish there was an actually good aftermarket shell for the OG DS phat. I always liked that more for the clicky buttons and flush GBA port, but everyone is obsessed with the DS Lite instead which has some of the worst feeling, mushy buttons I've ever used
Same. I don't get why people dislike the mechanical buttons.
I just replaced the lower screen for $9 in a used ds that I bought a few years ago for the stylus... now I have 2 ds phats.. And they both work fine lol. I guess I have one to play and one to charge for continual play lol
Parts for these are fairly cheap.
I agree wholeheartedly. The d-pad does look like the big bad indeed.
Me:sees the thumbnail ds name*
Me again: A bs?!
Me again lol: that stands for….BAD SCREEN
Do nottt blow into the cartridge pins, that will damage them due to spit... only take it out and insert it again...and clean it properly if necessicary.
So it's just refurbished not fake?
First. Sorry, had to 🤣
Ur not but close
That’s okay! Thanks for being early!
@@ImNotAProfessional 😅 I mean, if you really care about that, sure have it 🤣 I was just taking the piss
This isn't fake. It's a real DS in an aftermarket shell. It was refurbished poorly, but it's still a real DS.
C l i c k b a i t title
I haven't had an original DS in like forever it seems, but were the buttons 2 toned on the original? I legitimately can't remember.
I have an original silver DS and couldn't remember. I just looked and, yes, they are. Maybe not as much as the ali express one, though.
@@Babydoll3133 I think I went BLUE originally. I can't remember. I was kind of sad they didn't go with the prototype design for the Nintendo DS at first. I thought that was a nicer design. OKAY, NEVER MIND, looked it up, and oh boy was that bubbly looking. I've only saw it opened and never closed or anything like that.
Good video but misleading title/thumbnail. Had to hit dislike.
Love the content! Always making such high quality videos!
Love your videos
Thank you very much!
@@TheRetroFuture you inspired me to restore and mod my own gameboys and retro consoles and I love it.
Hiiiii
@Ryuu 👍🏻
Hi!
@@TheRetroFuture just wanted to say that im very glad your back and absolutely love your content i got into retro tech through you and now own an nes classic, a wii( which is my old one) a ps4(which i already had and isnt retro) but also a ds lite (again i already had but things i brought were the nes classic a 2ds and gba sp 001, your content really means alot to me and many others and i just wanted to say thank you 😊👍🏻👍🏻
@@TheRetroFuture also just saw this is ur 555 th vid 👌👍🏻
4:57 - Plot twist: That's the external wireless antenna because they somehow broke the internal one.
When you started clicking the shoulder buttons up against the mic I lost it 😂.
My favorite british youtuber 🥰
That’s very kind thank you!
The rule when buying from China directly is that parts are fine, but assembled items are appalling. This looks like it's been done by those fake restorers 😂
I still have a silver DS like this from when I was a kid. Everything works except the R button. Don't really have the tool or motivation to open it and fix it, but I recently got myself a used blue one. So that ain't bad.
Hey, man! It would be really cool to see more accessories being restored and modified for modded Gameboys.
Specifically, I happened upon the urge to get my hands on an accessory for the GBA SP from Intec called the Stereo Soundz, which are attachable speakers for the SP that have a small footprint compared to others. Mine kind of pop and would like to see someone fix a set so that I can do it myself, as I've never seen other youtubers do it.
As for the modding bit, well... a common SP mod today is the USB-C mod and maybe you'd find it a challenge to mod the thing since the accessory itself has stereo speakers and both male and female connectors. I'm looking forward to seeing a video with them, modded or not. A resration video would be enough, tbh. There aren't many accessory videos out there so I thought this would make a nice addition to that limited catalog.
Best option if you want a DS is just pick up a used DSi or newer. DS Lite if you really want to play GBA games but they do have weak hinges like the original model but not as bad.
To add on to all the other problems, something you missed (I guess because it was a EU charger so you couldn't use it anyways) the charger they provided was for a DS Lite, not an original DS (which uses the same charger as a GBA SP).
No, he mentions that.
Nintendo Bs is crazy wild ☠️
Hey Elliot. I know you're probably busy, what with the house and all, but I'm having a bit of an issue with Sendico where I get outbid automatically whenever I bid, no matter how much I bid. I was curious if you have ever encountered this and if you had some ways around it.
It's probably cause people use bots to bid. Like an app that automatically bids for you without having to do anything. That's why i gave up on biding for stuff on ebay and i just straight up buy it now cause that thing would happen to me where no matter how much i would bid it would say you been out bid or your bid does not exceed the highest bidder
המטען הוא ישראלי its an israeli charger
If a DS has all its parts replaced is it still the same DS? Seems very Ship of Theseus
Until they replace the motherboard this isn’t much of a question.
As someone who does my own refurbishments from ebay I'm baffled how they managed to get such a bad shell, honestly even the pure shells you find on Aliexpress (Before anyone calls me out, there are good parts sold there and I find most places you buy parts are reselling those exact same parts for a markup so why not go there directly?) are fine and typically better than the poorly aged original shells these days but how did they manage to do this poorly, especially for that price point because if you're sourcing an original DS and a new shell, you definitely can get some margin out of that.
Something else I noticed but you didn't point out, the ribbon cable that connects the main board to the little daughter board that connects to the top screen and speakers looks like it's aftermarket as well, again aftermarket does not automatically mean bad but I definitely noticed as the one that was in there was completely black while the OEM ones are more of an amber color, I'm not sure if this is down to lighting in your studio or you didn't notice but with the quality of parts this seller I'd definitely feel a little skeptical of it.
I get my systems from dunkirk, they sometimes do a good job but price is reasonable
The Nintend ⬛️ DS
⬛️
This is why if you wanna a refurbished system, do it yourself or just dont.
i got the 64th like (funny minecraft number)
Nintendo DS more like Nintendo BS
Nintendo bs = Nintendo bull shot
It doesn't remotely seem refurbished at all...
For me, I don't care what it looks like, especially for $60 as long as it's playable. As for the lines under the LCD, my PSP had something like that on the original screen brand new out of the box.
Just take a screwdriver and push the top pin back and the charger will fit in your outlet.
First gba, NOW DS!
6:22 Unintentional ASMR
i dkw all of this.
like u pay 5 bucks in some generic copy of something and u still expect much of it?
10 or 12 years ago I bought a refurb DS Lite from Deal Extreme, I had a little bit of prejudice against it but a few years later with my original DS in pretty bad shape, the Chinese one took it's place and still is alive today and rocking. I might've been lucky though and mine might not even be "refurbished" at all, might just be an used one, the box that it came with is probably a reproduction though, despite trying to look as original as it can be.
Did you hear the DS Lite power switch apparently is a good replacement for gameboys? Credit to RetroSix!
The endless money making, Wish and Ali sellers 🤝 UA-camrs who make money on it. It's like the useless models who cant do anything but have everything, a terrible world. Terrible replacement shells, terrible work, terrible quality, terrible price, why is the world so terrible?
This channel has ruined me….. I keep buying broken cheap systems from Japan and fixing them, half of them aren’t even really broken. Systems I’ll never play. Just expensive toys to put on a shelf.
How sturdy is the hinge on a nintendo 2ds xl...? I just bought a "brand new" one from eBay but disappointed with how cheap it feels.. and the hinge is very loose. Is it suppose to be that way?
Mostly buy one,
if your gonna make your own custom ds
and gonna overhaul/refurbished it yourself with new better parts,
not a... it's ready to use and play out of the box buy item.
It's a really shitty job tbh. Sorry but it's dirty, feels cheap and the worst: it has a bloated battery, which could be quite dangerous. Alltough you can look away the cheap shell this is just jbad.
Interesting video!
8:45 I thought he wouldn't notice this at all 🤣
He got a cable with the wrong connector on both ends.
Amazing video.
One part that I would have loved to see is you investigating the shoulder buttons in more detail - to find out why they sound so squeaky. Maybe the springs are aftermarket trash?
Bad mistake including the wrong charger, and that clicky shoulder button was horrendous. Definitely looked like the D-pad was too far into the shell and those contacts had clearly been replaced.
Is it refurbished or FAKE? Big distinction there. Atleast its not another -GB- DS in a stupid UA-camr epoxy table. Eheh
I absolutely love your channel bro!! Great content!! Right now I'm absolutely obsessed with Nintendo handhelds!!
Besides the shell being fake, the DS is the Handheld that hasn't aged very well. Especially the Shell/Hinges are very mediocre.
I have a silver NDS with broken hinges and no idea (n00b here) on how to fis it. Mabey somthing for a future video??
Man... I've bought some very nice original ds's for $40 usd. Doesn't seem worth it
Elliot please make another Walkman video but about the press man especially the dc port internals a black wire popped off somewhere and I can’t figure it out
the dark lines will cut your ds screen up at some point and make it go pitch black with minimal light in otherwords no backlite
It's too bad Nintendo obsoleted the Nintendo DS consoles. You are an expert. I love the charging port mistake.
Please review the Miyoo Mini on your channel, would like to get your thoughts! Seems to be the most popular retro gaming device at the moment!
I was going to watch this anyway, but "Nintendo BS" in the thumbnail made me click so much faster 😆
Yeah that's European plug, but for your knowledge UK is a part of Europe - unless you somewhere else?
The B and A buttons look like the Gameboy advance sp ones if I’m honest
Oh my! Its really bad!
At least its board is an original Nintendo :)
Please use it on one of your projects
U bought a refurbished nds from China where Nintendo probably sent your broken ones to wen u sent it to them under warranty
Whats new?
Can't stand the other youtuber that keeps getting "fake" Nintendo
Yes the refurbished use aftermarket shell that is crappy for the 7th time yes we get it
At the beginning when youre examining the shell you sound like the gordon ramsay of electronics
Idk if you will see this but i was wondering if i can buy a game boy advanced sp from you just seeing.
It's just a poorly refurbished DS, and I don't see where the FAKE in the title fits in all of this
With that title I expected it to be like. A clone system or something. Not just a bad refurb :I
Fake? Poorly refurbished maybe, but what makes it fake? Are the ones you refurbished fake?
the 2nd channel video where you talked about filming this video got recommended to me but this one never did, wack
To be fair the original DS body had flaws. If you want to have an older DS, start with the Lite.
My favorite game console, the Innuendo BS.
Great video! I really enjoy your videos!
This is probably one of those found in the trash heap on the side of the road. Probably full of Roman noodle.
Is it really fake? I wouldn't say so, poorly refurbished original sure