In this video I try and find out what's wrong with a device that is meant for capturing Nintendo DS footage and displaying it on a pair of NTSC displays.
I can imagine Raymond Scott's Powerhouse is playing in his head (aka Bugs Bunny industry music) with thousands of tiny elves laboring away to make his thoughts. Ben is a treasure of brilliance and insanity
As you eventually figured out, on these things the "DS" that's connected to it is just a dumb display and a controller. All of the actual DS hardware is inside the gigantic blue box. I used the original version of this back when I worked on DS games at Ubisoft. This brings back memories.
I did nothing I swear.. Opens it up to find half a can of coke and all the gears in the dvd drive are broken off... I charge extra if the factory seal is broken..
Dude your not lying. Ive literally seen a laptop completely soaked with soda brought in. Literally was still dripping when they asked "can you fix it?". Well fuck who knows and WHY DO PPL fucking keep drinks right next to fucking laptops
Ben, your content is great! You're like a cool uncle I never had Every time I see a new video from you, I cancel all my plans, stop the work I'm doing and just start watching Never change man! Continue being you
Judging by the plastic protection and parts in a bag, it looks like it's a replacement shell. Probably would explain the bad fit of the a and y buttons.
Its bit too much tbh. I like his work and stuff, but go to artist academy for that. Its simply too much. My wife looks at me weird every time when he goes foobar.
i know very little in electronics and I must say everytime I see you repair something like this I find it pretty amazing. When you retro-engineered the nintendo playstation, that was pure black magic to me! 😅
Ben Heck has a way of brightening my day. I dont know if it is his temperament, his stories or his electronics expertise...or MAYBE his singing? IDK what it is but I love these videos.
40:12 No Springs! I appreciate the MST3K reference! 😆 I was a NDS software developer a long time ago and had lots of these Test & debugger units laying around our office. Never got to open one up. Glad to see someone is having fun with these units years later.
Remember the super flimsy touchscreen ribbon latch breaking off easily. The spring on the shoulder buttons were a pain to put back together. Putting the top LCD ribbon through the hinge was a bit annoying too. Both screen have to be attached to power up, but you can remove the top screen by placing a resistor near the button pads. That way, you can remove the top screen/housing and use it solely for Gameboy Advance games, just like a more affordable GBA micro. Looking back, perhaps the DS build quality wasn't great as compared to its competitor, the PSP. The plastic support near the stiff hinge broke frequently. The top LCD flex cable was very easily damaged due to poor stress relief. The LCDs feels cheap, with a few of mine having heavy backlight bleed at the edges and developing dead pixels. At least most of the issues were fixed with the 3DS.
Ben your a legend brotha. If you ever take on an apprentice I would move there from Oregon to learn. Wish you made more vidoes like your last gig.... was kinda shocked to see the notification pop up saying there was a new one... Stay safe brotha
Well, my early diagnosis during the intro of "The screens probably weren't seated properly" wasn't entirely wrong 😂 Super common with DS console repairs and mods.
Ben Heck you rock brother! In these crazy times you are like calming therapy to soothe my soul ( “the never ending battery! Doo doo doo doo doo doo!” lmao!)...keep it up man, you keep doing you!
"I said, don't call me Junior." (Dremel cutting noises). This was an interesting video. Logically, I knew there had to be more professional units for capturing screens and footage but my brain jumped to all the 3rd party capture cards when I read the title. Nice showcase and video!
I didn't realize you lived in Madison. My dad lives there and I think I might know the used game place you are referring to. The lockdown wasn't too bad here in Waukesha county, but then again I rarely leave my apartment anyways. My favorite part of watching Ben Heck videos is him figuring out whatever he is working on.
This is epic. It would be awesome fo you to add the wireless board you mentioned. Also would be awesome to make a dns that wirelessly syncs to this or some other controller so you can get best of both worlds. Either way another awesome heck from the hacker
I think one of my life's ambitions is to be in the shop while Ben fixes something. More entertaining than most comedy gigs. We need to start a petition to have a Ben Heck guest star on Red Letter Media. They are close enough after all. #GetTheHeckOnRLM
Usually if the system reboots after a display swap it would mean that the console can't find the resistance that tells the system that the top or bottom screen is present. That usually comes from inserting the ribbon cable incorrectly into the display connectors. Touch screen pins if bottom screen don't matter.
What I find interesting about this unit that there's a little switch inside for the GBA cartridge slot. When the GBA was still around, there was a switch in the cartridge port that was activated when an original GameBoy or GameBoy Color cartridge was inserted. That switch activated the system's GameBoy Color mode. Original GameBoy and GameBoy Color games won't fit into a DS.
Regular/retail DS and DS Lite need both screens connected as well. If they can't detect a load they do the same reboot loop, if you're doing one of the mods to remove the top screen a resistor added across top screen power on the motherboard tricks it in to starting up.
Very cool....A DS consolizer basically! I could see this being useful for speedrunners when streaming on twitch as well. The Mummy is about the closest there's been to a real Indiana Jones movie in the last thirty years since Last Crusade. Brendan Fraser needs to come back !
Yeah Mummy 99 is a solid flick. I've watched it many times. It's actually the movie I popped in and got drunk and watched after work on 9/11. Escapism!
These things can also reflash development cart's via usb, also on the bottom it has a sticker that tells you what is in this particular system, while they all have the ports some don't out put video, have wifi etc
Ben i miss the giant gameboy, when the BHE room guys and I were down there i had bought a bunch of crappy games to play on it and we all spent hours playing that thing. I think Jason had the high score in Solar Striker on it
Ben Heck... The musical. You never know when he's going to break out into a song. :) Now to get other youtube electronics channels to follow suit. Just think how much better Big Clive and EEVBlog would be!
What Ben apparently doesn’t know, and didn’t tell us, is that the IS-NITRO-CAPTURE units also connect to a computer via USB and can capture both screen’s footage as video files (with the right Nintendo-made devtools).
We had a guest from Nintendo demoing a new game a few years back at the TV station I work at, and they brought one of these beasts to output the game screens to the control room for the broadcast! It's quite a "thing" indeed! Apparently, it was a game development platform, for the programmers of the game...
I never doubted that it wasn't... That bit of kit is not something just anyone can come up with. Those custom ASICS cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to spin up! I know people that use to work with custom IC's, costs a million dollars for the first custom chips and then the next 100 thousand copies are less than a dollar per chip...
Hi. Great game choice! This Contra is a very pleasant game to play anytime!!! Forget about switch, as Contra in multiplayer with second ds via wifi is still GREAT
You seemed surprised, but yeah, that's how all NDS devkits were designed; the DS case itself was just a fancy controller with screens, and all the brains were in the ugly blue box. The ones I used were all older nitro kits that used the original fatty DS shells, making them extra ugly and awkward. Dunno what all the capture units had in them, but the normal devkits not only had the dev interfaces but also had random tools like an EEPROM programmer built in to program the EEPROM carts for testing on retail hardware. AFAIK there were no devkits that weren't that blue box with annoying tether, and they always felt like a hacky kludge, even though they made tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of them. ...I do not miss those devkits. Are you sure the owner painted a new gloss coat? The original DS Lites were horrendously glossy.
Don't get a switch light, you want one you can connect to a tv and use joycons or you'll miss most of the fun. In Australia they always seem to be in stock but then they rip us off so probably not much use for scalpers $327 USD retail.
I am exactly the same with heights. Flying is fine (actually I love flying). Tall buildings, bridges, etc? Nope. Even the road surface of Tower Bridge freaks me out.
Ben, you could legit cheat on the extra-large DS and use a PC with Snickerstream and a soft-modded console to wirelessly output _one_ of the displays. But I think I have a better idea: Replace the three-pole audio connector with a five-pole phone connector, converting both video displays to composite if space internally permits it. Then you could use that specific 3DS with a specially-made phone connector to output audio left and right, as well top video and bottom video,
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Original cartoons are playing all the time inside Ben Heck's brain.
And Indiana Jones movies.
I can imagine Raymond Scott's Powerhouse is playing in his head (aka Bugs Bunny industry music) with thousands of tiny elves laboring away to make his thoughts.
Ben is a treasure of brilliance and insanity
As you eventually figured out, on these things the "DS" that's connected to it is just a dumb display and a controller. All of the actual DS hardware is inside the gigantic blue box.
I used the original version of this back when I worked on DS games at Ubisoft. This brings back memories.
Thanks for sharing! Are you still working on video games?
@@Geraki0n Only as a hobby.
Thanks for the comment stating what was in the video, how helpful
EndOfLineTech hey wow that is also a very helpful comment, that totally makes the world a better place. You seem nice.
Ubisoft Canada?
"It was working then it wasn't working." Thats like 90% of my job.
I did nothing I swear..
Opens it up to find half a can of coke and all the gears in the dvd drive are broken off...
I charge extra if the factory seal is broken..
Dude your not lying. Ive literally seen a laptop completely soaked with soda brought in. Literally was still dripping when they asked "can you fix it?". Well fuck who knows and WHY DO PPL fucking keep drinks right next to fucking laptops
Your job is to break stuff?
@@Okurka. his job is IT repair he is stating the "quotations is what ppl say to him 90% of the time
Customer statements - almost always the opposite of help.
"You can learn a lot about someone from their garbage."
This I 100% agree.
Giant DS? YES!!!! I'd love to see that!
So would Scott the Woz
Ben, your content is great! You're like a cool uncle I never had
Every time I see a new video from you, I cancel all my plans, stop the work I'm doing and just start watching
Never change man! Continue being you
Judging by the plastic protection and parts in a bag, it looks like it's a replacement shell. Probably would explain the bad fit of the a and y buttons.
I thought it was “Is Nitro Capture?”, but then I finally realized that IS stood for Intelligent Systems.
Islamic State
it more of an attack considering IS was capital lol
Ben is why I never have to rewatch the Indy films.
"And they don't taste awful like Switch cartridges."
And it was at this moment that Benjamin J Heckendorn contracted the 'rona.
Hilarious because I thought that same thing!
I'm liking Ben's interpretation of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with Harrison Ford replaced by Batman.
And Sean Connery replaced by Bane.
Its bit too much tbh. I like his work and stuff, but go to artist academy for that. Its simply too much. My wife looks at me weird every time when he goes foobar.
@@josipbroz5434, the fact that it's a bit too much is part of why I like these so much. I don't think I'd bother watching otherwise.
i know very little in electronics and I must say everytime I see you repair something like this I find it pretty amazing. When you retro-engineered the nintendo playstation, that was pure black magic to me! 😅
Ben Heck has a way of brightening my day. I dont know if it is his temperament, his stories or his electronics expertise...or MAYBE his singing? IDK what it is but I love these videos.
40:12 No Springs! I appreciate the MST3K reference! 😆 I was a NDS software developer a long time ago and had lots of these Test & debugger units laying around our office. Never got to open one up. Glad to see someone is having fun with these units years later.
I'll be honest, I come for the movie quotes, random bursts of song and general shenanigans >< the learning stuff is just a by-product ;)
Remember the super flimsy touchscreen ribbon latch breaking off easily. The spring on the shoulder buttons were a pain to put back together. Putting the top LCD ribbon through the hinge was a bit annoying too.
Both screen have to be attached to power up, but you can remove the top screen by placing a resistor near the button pads. That way, you can remove the top screen/housing and use it solely for Gameboy Advance games, just like a more affordable GBA micro.
Looking back, perhaps the DS build quality wasn't great as compared to its competitor, the PSP. The plastic support near the stiff hinge broke frequently. The top LCD flex cable was very easily damaged due to poor stress relief. The LCDs feels cheap, with a few of mine having heavy backlight bleed at the edges and developing dead pixels. At least most of the issues were fixed with the 3DS.
Loving all the content, Ben.
Ben your a legend brotha. If you ever take on an apprentice I would move there from Oregon to learn. Wish you made more vidoes like your last gig.... was kinda shocked to see the notification pop up saying there was a new one... Stay safe brotha
Well, my early diagnosis during the intro of "The screens probably weren't seated properly" wasn't entirely wrong 😂 Super common with DS console repairs and mods.
Hey thanks for putting up a great video it makes the 3 straight days of rain in madison just a little more bearable.
My front lawn was pretty brown I actually didn't mind it.
Ben Heck you rock brother! In these crazy times you are like calming therapy to soothe my soul ( “the never ending battery! Doo doo doo doo doo doo!” lmao!)...keep it up man, you keep doing you!
I love your jokes and voice. You have good sense of humour. Thanks for this cool fixes videos!
"I said, don't call me Junior." (Dremel cutting noises). This was an interesting video. Logically, I knew there had to be more professional units for capturing screens and footage but my brain jumped to all the 3rd party capture cards when I read the title. Nice showcase and video!
"USBiquitous" - this is why I love you Ben.
Good work Ben! And don't feel too bad about the capacitor thing, I learned to do that from your book lol
I might not fully understand this kit, but Ben's impressions and singing crack me up
this is without a doubt, the most fun I ever had watching a electronic repair video.
My hats off to you. Amazing troubleshooting. Fantastic video. Keep them coming !!! Love ur chnl. Thank you.
You really should have more subscribers, this is quality content!
I recently got one of the IS-NITRO-EMULATOR myself (which is a similar unit to this one). Interesting video, watching with great interest!
those are sexy cause you can just run the game on the pc
You should probably start to gather all required caps to recap it, then...
Biggest issue with the emulator is it can't run retail games without some modifications.
I wish these were a thing for new 3ds, those third party capture devices from dead companies are pretty rare
There are the Partner-CTR 3DS dev units
I'm not sure which I enjoy more: seeing you fix things or having Indiana Jones conversations in your head.
Ben, you are really a cool guy. I am so glad you are online to show what cool is.
"This isn't really a normal DS"
I was expecting that once you saw it had an umbilical cord attached to it, not when you took off the back!
Always quality content Ben and I too have a completely rational fear of heights.
Good bit of electronics troubleshooting. Thanks for the great videos.
35:28 peels off protective plastic.. Owner of NTR : "Noooooooooooooo!".
It looks like this is a cheap chinese case replacement anyway.
@@0xybelis Yeah, more than likely it is.
I didn't realize you lived in Madison. My dad lives there and I think I might know the used game place you are referring to.
The lockdown wasn't too bad here in Waukesha county, but then again I rarely leave my apartment anyways.
My favorite part of watching Ben Heck videos is him figuring out whatever he is working on.
That was super entertaining,Thanks Ben!!
Loved the Last Crusade banter and improv!
Awesome work Ben. Thanks for the video.
Ben’s now committed to the conservation cause - reusing the blue tape on the Ultimate Gaming Device! 🤣
I'm gonna pack it up with his same tape. You're welcome planet
That was the best bane voice ever. That was the best part. I’d honestly love to hear it more often...
very nice usage of paradise by the dashboard light
Thank you Ben
I really like your impersonations to be quite hilarious. I haven't laughed that hard in a while. 🖖
After having a $hlt@$tlc day...watching Mr Heck sing to his TI83 just made my day
86 :) 83 is for plebs (like is on my fuckin' desk rn) 86 is for real OGs.
very cool man! awesome piece of hardware :D
This is epic. It would be awesome fo you to add the wireless board you mentioned. Also would be awesome to make a dns that wirelessly syncs to this or some other controller so you can get best of both worlds. Either way another awesome heck from the hacker
I think one of my life's ambitions is to be in the shop while Ben fixes something. More entertaining than most comedy gigs. We need to start a petition to have a Ben Heck guest star on Red Letter Media. They are close enough after all. #GetTheHeckOnRLM
@mike h His extensive knowledge of pop culture and sense of humor.
Thank you for what you did to that rare piece of hardware.
It is crazy that essentially one capacitor can take down that whole thing. Great vid Ben!
Spoiler alert!
Yea thanks for that lol 🤦🏼♂️
Great video Ben ❤️
6:52 -- I literally LOL'd at that... What happened to putting big before the beefasaurus lol
Usually if the system reboots after a display swap it would mean that the console can't find the resistance that tells the system that the top or bottom screen is present. That usually comes from inserting the ribbon cable incorrectly into the display connectors. Touch screen pins if bottom screen don't matter.
Amazing as usual 👍🏻
yeah, the DS get weird with the top screen off there also a fuse that can blow that cause that reset loop
Very awesome Sir Heck..nice remixes to those songs. Lol
What I find interesting about this unit that there's a little switch inside for the GBA cartridge slot. When the GBA was still around, there was a switch in the cartridge port that was activated when an original GameBoy or GameBoy Color cartridge was inserted. That switch activated the system's GameBoy Color mode. Original GameBoy and GameBoy Color games won't fit into a DS.
I enjoyed the nail biting case modification scene were we hear the dremel off screan and a bit or two of plastic lands on the workbench.
LOL... "Whoops, OWWW" *blood gushing on screen*
Regular/retail DS and DS Lite need both screens connected as well. If they can't detect a load they do the same reboot loop, if you're doing one of the mods to remove the top screen a resistor added across top screen power on the motherboard tricks it in to starting up.
best one man impression of Connery and Harrison i've ever heard lol.
Better than Saturday morning cartoons. Thanks Ben.
I swear when he had the closeup of the Y button and was poking it with his tweezers I thought he was going to go all Steve Irwin...
The singing and story telling is magical
This slew of Ben's Backlogs is amazing
Many replacement DS cases are painted. I think it has to do with lack of polished molds and in some cases the color is not molded through.
That is pretty neat and what an easy fix!
Best Harrison Ford impersonator: Ben Heckendorn 2020.
Bens Connery impression is spot on 😄
Thank you for your content
Very cool....A DS consolizer basically! I could see this being useful for speedrunners when streaming on twitch as well.
The Mummy is about the closest there's been to a real Indiana Jones movie in the last thirty years since Last Crusade. Brendan Fraser needs to come back !
Yeah Mummy 99 is a solid flick. I've watched it many times. It's actually the movie I popped in and got drunk and watched after work on 9/11. Escapism!
Loved the Sean Connery impression
Ben, I really think you could pull off a killer Goku impression.
Again.. love these videos and the humor... just sayin' !
Ben you used a top screen bezel for the bottom screen!!!
These things can also reflash development cart's via usb, also on the bottom it has a sticker that tells you what is in this particular system, while they all have the ports some don't out put video, have wifi etc
Did you just take a DS game, which you just got in the mail, out of the system and lick it? During a pandemic?
Big Brain Age
Haha good point. But that package has been sitting for over a month. Big backlog.
Oh, that’s fair. Carry on!
😄😂🤣😂 priceless! The exchange between the two of you made your comment even better! Thanks for the laugh guys.
@@BenHeckHacks Big frontlog too, I hear... 😂
Dual-Screen upgrade! How hasn’t this picked up steam with the whole Dual-Screen phone on the horizon?
Time to spread it around then.
38:00 "i said don't call me junior!" *dremel sounds*
dead.... ROFLMFAO
Ben i miss the giant gameboy, when the BHE room guys and I were down there i had bought a bunch of crappy games to play on it and we all spent hours playing that thing. I think Jason had the high score in Solar Striker on it
When you said kaboom you referenced some deep cut nintendo memery without even realizing it
Ben Heck... The musical. You never know when he's going to break out into a song. :) Now to get other youtube electronics channels to follow suit. Just think how much better Big Clive and EEVBlog would be!
I didn't want one until I saw the "demo" at the end :)
What Ben apparently doesn’t know, and didn’t tell us, is that the IS-NITRO-CAPTURE units also connect to a computer via USB and can capture both screen’s footage as video files (with the right Nintendo-made devtools).
Bane slowly turned into Goldmember
We had a guest from Nintendo demoing a new game a few years back at the TV station I work at, and they brought one of these beasts to output the game screens to the control room for the broadcast! It's quite a "thing" indeed! Apparently, it was a game development platform, for the programmers of the game...
Intelligent Systems [IS] is a second party Nintendo developer, they made Fire Emblem and Paper Mario. This is real Nintendo dev hardware.
I never doubted that it wasn't... That bit of kit is not something just anyone can come up with. Those custom ASICS cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to spin up! I know people that use to work with custom IC's, costs a million dollars for the first custom chips and then the next 100 thousand copies are less than a dollar per chip...
I love the DS and GBA. I have a Loopy capture card installed in my DS but, something about playing it on two tvs is just amazing
Hi. Great game choice! This Contra is a very pleasant game to play anytime!!! Forget about switch, as Contra in multiplayer with second ds via wifi is still GREAT
You seemed surprised, but yeah, that's how all NDS devkits were designed; the DS case itself was just a fancy controller with screens, and all the brains were in the ugly blue box. The ones I used were all older nitro kits that used the original fatty DS shells, making them extra ugly and awkward. Dunno what all the capture units had in them, but the normal devkits not only had the dev interfaces but also had random tools like an EEPROM programmer built in to program the EEPROM carts for testing on retail hardware. AFAIK there were no devkits that weren't that blue box with annoying tether, and they always felt like a hacky kludge, even though they made tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of them. ...I do not miss those devkits.
Are you sure the owner painted a new gloss coat? The original DS Lites were horrendously glossy.
Don't get a switch light, you want one you can connect to a tv and use joycons or you'll miss most of the fun.
In Australia they always seem to be in stock but then they rip us off so probably not much use for scalpers $327 USD retail.
your Harry Ford was channeling his inner Batman
A dual screen Contra 4 arcade cabinet would be the most amount of cool
Ben has internalized every MST3K episode ever.
Drink every time Ben says “it was working”
DS kits are pretty cool. Got a couple CIB.
I am exactly the same with heights. Flying is fine (actually I love flying). Tall buildings, bridges, etc? Nope. Even the road surface of Tower Bridge freaks me out.
Woah,you live in Madison,also green bay east Walmart has Nintendo switch's are in stock
Ben, you could legit cheat on the extra-large DS and use a PC with Snickerstream and a soft-modded console to wirelessly output _one_ of the displays. But I think I have a better idea: Replace the three-pole audio connector with a five-pole phone connector, converting both video displays to composite if space internally permits it. Then you could use that specific 3DS with a specially-made phone connector to output audio left and right, as well top video and bottom video,
I got one of these devices recently and have a video about it on my channel. It is a really cool device.
18:40 I saw it! It was a bug, you fixed it right there!
Maybe I missed it, but what made you think to look at the capacitor? just closest proximity on the rail and an easy part? Or was there something else?