It was 100% worth it for me, but I have several handhelds that I have disassembled numerous times and have proper tools, so I wasn’t expecting any big trouble. I decided beforehand that I wasn’t going to swap the touchpad covers or the buttons, because I think they look cheap and bad. So that simplified concerns about the touchpads being fragile and/or hard to modify.
My process was to watch extremeRate’s howto before buying, and then weigh the risks as such:
Assuming no carelessness, what’s likely to break?
Screen
Trigger hinge(s)
How much do they cost?
$70
$20 (each)
And since I can afford ~$110 it would cost if I broke both triggers and the screen, it would be sad if I broke it, but not a huge problem.
And … I love it. I keep looking at it and just being floored that it’s mine.
It was 100% worth it for me, but I have several handhelds that I have disassembled numerous times and have proper tools, so I wasn’t expecting any big trouble. I decided beforehand that I wasn’t going to swap the touchpad covers or the buttons, because I think they look cheap and bad. So that simplified concerns about the touchpads being fragile and/or hard to modify.
My process was to watch extremeRate’s howto before buying, and then weigh the risks as such:
And since I can afford ~$110 it would cost if I broke both triggers and the screen, it would be sad if I broke it, but not a huge problem.
And … I love it. I keep looking at it and just being floored that it’s mine.