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I got my DS back from Loopy with the capture card installed, which is awesome! It worked great! But, and I suppose it was just how old the DS was, and also the heat and the transport, on the first day I got it back, the hinge cracked in a few places, which is a real bummer, but that was part of the risk I took getting the capture card installed.

That being said, I want to replace the shell, but on the DS, the new chip is installed over top of the wifi connector, so I don't know if it's possible to get at that wifi connector to detach it for the shell replacement. I don't know exactly what type of glue/adhesive is sticking the new chip to the motherboard, and I'm worried I'll damage things if I pry the pieces apart. I am not going to just snip the wifi cable, since I thiiiiiink it's necessary for the DS to run. Is there anyone who's replaced a shell on a DS system with the capture card installed?

Update (in case anyone needs to do this in the future): I was feeling impatient for an answer, so I instead got out a hair dryer and heated the chip a bit, and started to wriggle the glue a bit, and heated it again (making sure that I put a piece of paper so the heat would mostly just focus on the new chip where the glue was), and eventually was able to get an exacto knife carefully underneath the chip, and I pried it up veeerrrrry slowly and carefully. The glue was still somewhat sticky (which was nice when I finally put everything back together), but it allowed me to remove the wifi connector on the motherboard and then pull out the motherboard itself so that I could put it in an aftermarket shell.

Aftermarket shells, by the way, are of mediocre quality, especially some of the screw holes, which get stripped pretty easily. BUT, the quality of the plastic, while feeling a little flimsy, is not nearly as brittle as the older DS shells (when I took out the top screen from the original shell, it shattered), so it'll do. Swapping out a DS shell is an incredibly tedious process, although there are a few pretty good youtube tutorials which show you how it's done.

So, last night, I was able to stream from the new DS, with the capture card, and everything worked great!

Hair Dryers are not a good idea for any electronic device / component. It can melt the solder and possibly cause connectivity to loose functionality.