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

Retro Remake has announced that its Switch Lite OLED surface upgrade kits volition beryllium available for sale connected September 26th astatine 10PM ET and volition commencement astatine $49.99. The Super 5 OLED kits travel with everything needed for the upgrade, including tools similar screwdrivers, and dissimilar galore mods, don’t necessitate soldering oregon modifications beryllium made to the Switch Lite’s ammunition to acceptable other components in.

A proof-of-concept video demonstrating a working prototype of the upgrade kit was shared connected YouTube by Taki Udon past July, with the terms tag confirmed to beryllium nether $50. That’s inactive true, but with a catch. The Super5 OLED Standard Upgrade Kit volition beryllium $49.99, though with a surface that doesn’t enactment interaction inputs, making games that heavy trust connected a touchscreen interface, similar Super Mario Maker 2, hard to play.

If that’s a woody breaker for you, you’ll request to walk a spot much connected the $64.99 Super5 OLED Touch Standard Upgrade Kit that includes a touchscreen. For an other $20, there’s besides an $84.99 mentation of the touchscreen OLED kit (or a $69.99 version without touch) that adds 1080P video output done the Switch Lite’s USB-C larboard — a diagnostic Nintendo didn’t see connected the smaller mentation of the handheld.

Although the upgrades dependable comparatively casual since soldering skills aren’t needed, they bash necessitate you to unfastened the Switch Lite and region components similar the archetypal LCD screen, which isn’t trivial. For those little assured successful their modding skills, a $109.99 Mega Kit includes some the OLED touchscreen and HDMI output upgrades preinstalled successful a 3rd enactment replacement ammunition requiring users to conscionable swap implicit their console’s guts.

Retro Remake says the OLED screens utilized successful its caller upgrade kits are brighter than the screens Nintendo uses successful the Switch OLED, with amended opposition and a wider colour gamut.

If you’re hesitant astir perchance spending implicit $100 with a comparatively caller hardware maker, the Super5 OLED kits won’t beryllium the archetypal products the institution has successfully shipped, according to our colleague, Christopher Grant. “While a caller shop, we person 1 of Retro Remake’s “MiSTER Pi” clones of the MiSTer’s DE10 Nano, arsenic good arsenic the accompanying USB hub and A/V hat, truthful they’re susceptible of shipping existent hardware,” helium said. But helium did note,” the SDRAM module that accompanied the kit failed successful our tests, but erstwhile replaced with a module from different moving MiSTer setup, the remainder of the kit performed dutifully.”