NDS IS-Nitro Capture Teardown

Picked up an IS-Nitro for super cheap last week, and I haven't found anybody that has done a teardown yet, so I figured I might as well. I only tore down the main unit, I don't have time to open up the handheld portion. Mine doesn't have WiFi, sadly. Here's what I came up with (sorry for just throwing out links, I've been at this way too long today to bother creating a nicely formatted thread post...)

PCB Scans

Component List (primary components only, I don't have the patience to document every resistor and capacitor)

One interesting thing to note, it uses the same video DAC as the NTSC GameCube. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any indication that NTSC GameCubes can be RGB-enabled (though it seems strange to me that they would use a DAC that doesn't accept RGB as its input...). If anybody happens to have any more information about the AVE N-DOL/BU9949FS chip, please share.

 

These are awesome. Thanks for the photos.

 

The input to the DAC is in 4:2:2 YUV (or YCrCb, if you wish) digital format. The NTSC variant outputs composite and Y/C only, the PAL one outputs composite and RGB. Possibly you could replace the chips with AVE-P-DOL and rewire the boards to get RGB, but I don't know if anyone has ever tried this.

 

Nice! I was considering doing this when I owned a few, but I was afraid I'd break something. Thanks for taking the plunge.

 

Hello
I don't have enough knowledge for this kind of system, so may you forgive my noob'ness, but for modding your video output, maybe you could look toward this guy :
http://www.badassconsoles.com/
He's actually working on the GCVideo (see his twitter https://twitter.com/BadAssConsoles ), a mini-board enabling HDMI or component for GameCube ; based on Unseen's work http://www.gc-forever.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2500 .