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Lets say I have a capture board installed in my original 3DS and now lets say I wanted to buy a New 3DS when it launches in November here in Australia (woot). Whats the likelihood of being able to ship both my Original with the Capture Board and my NEW 3DS and ask for the Capture device to be placed in the New?

Not very high, considering the N3DS will require a different board.

Guest wrote:Not very high, considering the N3DS will require a different board.

Actually we don't know if a new board is needed. Not even loopy knows for that matter. If it's mostly the same internally he can just use the same board, that way when you ship it loopy can just switch it out for you. If he ends up designing a new board then yes, then it'll cost more.

It can take over an hour to install the capture card. I have to imagine uninstalling would be about as long, and that's time (read: money) Loopy's losing when he could just be doing fresh installs.

I'm sure it will never work like that!
Even if the Capture Card would work with the new device and you would assume that the Information coming from the device is exactly the same way as on the devices before (which I definitely do not believe!), you should consider the next problem - the placement of the Capture Card.

If you think about the 3DS Capture Card, then we speak about an outside placement of the unit. That means at least the flatcable and the design of the backplate need to be redesignt.
If you think about the upcoming XL version, then again the flatcable and the shape of the Capture Card need to be changed again. They never could fit! The shape is the most important thing, it gives the needed stability when you plug in the USB cable and also when you move it around.

And I also agree, that the transplantation work would take even more then the double time.

I'll also throw in a response as to why it won't work more than likely...

Considering that Katsukity's blog which I checked a few days ago says that they are having a hard time with making a capture device work with it... saying "it may take a while" as far as getting it done due to how technical it could be... I doubt theirs will be even ready before the Australian release (I said myself a few days ago on my Twitter that it could even be next year before it is done over there)

They actually even put in their blog that they would only be selling the 3DS with the capture device installed already in it only for the time being, that is how hard the installation process is right now.

So chances of the board that is in old models of 3DS being able to fit into a New 3DS are EXTREMELY slim I'd say lol...