Nintendon't DS Lite GBA port cover

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I found out that these little circuits (that do nothing electrically) are pretty much unobtainable on their own. You pretty much have to buy the port cover, take it apart, then toss the outer shell (because it wouldn't match your new custom case), leaving you with a piece of 0.6mm FR4 that does nothing other than protecting the contact inside (which is pretty important).
This part is so cheap it's not worth cloning, and is deemed not important enough to be included in the kits commonly available in the Aliexpress. So, here it is.
Once the Beer situation is resolved and the cheapest option for delivering the circuits is back again, maybe try making this. Or if you're selling a reshelling kit, include one of these too!

For DMCA takedown request contact me directly through the chat, Nintendo.

Details

LEDs: Common 0805 SMD LED

All resistors are valued between 10 and 100 ohms.

If you are using a clear case kit, use the LEDs with proper color (cool blue - ice blue, green - phosphor green, red - phosphor red, etc)

Note that LEDs with lower forward voltage drop (regular red, green, yellow-green, etc) must be paired with proper current limiting resistors!

This circuit will *usually* fit right into the stock or aftermarket slot covers without modification, but if it doesn't, you can file down the sides. You don't have to populate the LEDs.

Lower the current on the LEDs if the console freezes on start-up, or the LED gets dim fast.

Attributions and credits:

This project and files are based on the "gbcartbreakout" project. https://wiki.nonchip.de/GameBoy/GBcartBreakout