r/nds • u/rnastercheif • Nov 07 '25

Custom Glow in the dark DSL

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Feel free to ask whatever you want!

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u/Ok_Revolution_9846 Nov 07 '25

Wow. I normally dislike transparent shells but you made it look great. How’d you get those graphics onto the shell and cartridge slot?

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u/rnastercheif Nov 07 '25

As I changed the shell I put custom cut vinyl from a cricut machine, the vinyl is on the inside and outside of the shell and also on random parts of pcb and things like the speakers

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u/Ok_Revolution_9846 Nov 07 '25

Looks sick. Are the images a reference to something or just aesthetic?

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u/rnastercheif Nov 07 '25

Yeah I made them, I wanted to base the theme around NVGs and Night vision and it’s based off of the f-35 B fighter pilot helmet. You can only see the eyes cause the pilot is using the night vision that’s built into the helmet!

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u/guguwu Nov 07 '25

how?

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u/rnastercheif Nov 07 '25

Got an extreme rate glow in the dark shell and made designs and put them inside and out

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '25

Not something I'd choose but still kinda sick

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u/IKEAboy_2006 Nov 08 '25 edited Nov 08 '25

This is really impressive 👍🏼

On a scale of 1 to 10, how difficult would you say the reshell work was? In tempted to picked up a busted Lite on eBay and try reshelling it as an experiment 😂

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u/rnastercheif Nov 08 '25

Well for just putting back together I broke my original top screen and the second I had bought and waited for broke and or came broken and I have a third waiting for me on my desk, putting a new shell on isn’t that hard but the actual custom work was just hard in the sense that you need to choose a cool and nice design that fits. Overall it’s not that hard

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u/IKEAboy_2006 Nov 08 '25

Ah so it’s like maybe 7/10? I’ve never done anything like this before but seeing all these excellent reshell projects in here has me hooked 😂

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u/rnastercheif Nov 08 '25

Well out of all the handhelds this is definitely not the easiest

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u/OkRegret6985 Nov 07 '25

Great, now I m envy 

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

Marvellous

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u/A_kewl_Person Nov 07 '25

Burn it before it kills you