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To play Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a fan built his own Switch using replacement parts
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is being used to communicate. The employees of the companies are chatting playing this life simulation game. How lucky they are because they have got a chance to play New Horizons on Nintendo Switch. On the other hand, Some fans of Animal Crossing are striving to buy the Switch. Because its hard to find the Switch at most retailers.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
You are going to know about some people who desired to play Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Nintendo Switch but they failed to buy. After a long struggle, they got the Switch. It will be surprising to know that they did not order on Amazon, BestBuy, etc. They built the Nintendo Switch themselves.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
A fan of Nintendo Switch, Sarbaaz37 by name has shared a detailed post with pictures documenting not only all the parts required for a build like this but also their cost and the complex process of assembling a Nintendo Switch from scratch. To be clear, this isn’t a project for an amateur who’s just desperate to play Animal Crossing. Sourcing the parts is the first complicated step, which Sarbaaz37 estimates took a little over a month, followed by the build itself, which requires some real expertise in electronics.
He said
After playing New Horizons and hyping it up to my friends, they decided they wanted a Switch. They called around to different retailers every day for a week with no luck finding anyone who had one in stock. No one knew when the next shipment would be. This led to an online search like Craigslist, OfferUp, and Ebay.
Unfortunately everyone knows the rest. Upwards of $ 450 to $ 600 in the Seattle area for a used Switch. Some with and without all the accessories. This enraged me to the point of telling them I could build one cheaper out of spare parts. So they hired me to do just that
Furthermore, he told us how he built and what he used to build the Nintendo Switch.
If anyone is interested in doing the same here is my step by step buying guide along with assembly instructions and a pricing guide.
- Game Cartridge Card Slot Socket Board w/Headphones Port – $15
- NS Console Micro SD TF Memory Card Slot Port Socket Reader – $5
- Nintendo Switch HAC-001 CPU Cooling Heatsink – $7
- Game Cartridge Card Plastic Cover – $1
- Console Speaker Replacement Parts For Nintendo Switch Built-in speaker – $8
- Wifi Antenna Connecting Cable (Short) $2
- Wifi Antenna Connecting Cable (Long) $2
- Internal Cooling Fan – $3
- Power & Volume Button control flex cable (w/ buttons and rubber conductor) – $4
- Side Slider Sliding Rail Flex Cable (Left) – $3
- Side Slider Sliding Rail Flex Cable (Right) – $3
- Replacement Top Housing Shell Case Faceplate -$6
- Nintendo Switch Console Replacement Battery (New) – $15
- Replacement Bottom Housing Shell Transparent Case Faceplate -$5
- Touch Screen Digitizer Adhesive – $0.50
- Touch Screen Digitizer – $9
- LCD Display Screen Replacement – $12
- Shield Plate – $2
- Iron Middle Frame – $6
- (Not Pictured Here) – 100% WORKING OEM NINTENDO SWITCH REPLACEMENT LOGIC BOARD MOTHERBOARD – $95
- (Not Pictured Here) – Full Screw Replacement Set – $2
- (Not Pictured Here) – (Removal of Copper Sicker on CPU)
Grand Total For Used Parts Build: = $199
eBay Average Price Jan 2020: = (between $175 and $225)
Ebay Average Price April 2020: = (between $300 and $400).
If you’re also struggling to find Nintendo Switch, then we have good news for you. As reported by Nintendo, the Switch will be back in stock soon.
On February 11th the new MMORPG Lost Ark was released in its Free2Play version for all people who just want to try it. That’s a lot though, which is why the game is still struggling with server issues. That should change now.
Update 8:05 a.m.: The servers are now down.
When will the servers shut down? As announced by Amazon via the Lost Ark official website, the servers will go offline this morning, that is, on February 13, at 8 a.m. GMT.
The downtime affects all European servers equally and you will not be able to log into the game in the meantime.
How long will they stay offline? The maintenance work is planned for about 3 hours. So if all goes well, you’ll be able to return to the world of Arkesia at 11 a.m.
We’ll keep you up to date in the live ticker when the servers return and if there will be any delays again.
Lost Ark’s last scheduled server maintenance was scheduled for 4 hours, but ended up lasting over 10 hours, leading to some negative reviews on Steam.
Why are the servers going down? Since Lost Ark was released, the new MMORPG has been struggling with long queues and server problems. At the prime time on February 12, more than 1.3 million people played the action game at the same time.
This also meant that some servers had to be completely closed to new players. Especially the server Asta, on which many German players gather, is affected by long queues.
Sometimes the fans have to wait up to 6 hours just to log in. Incidentally, this only works if you already have a character on the Asta server. New players were completely denied access until the evening hours of February 12th.
To address this situation, Amazon is working with Smilegate to increase server capacity. At this point, however, they are not telling us exactly how this is supposed to work.
Are the queues gone then? No, probably not. In the blog post, the publishers emphasize that they only want to create the basic framework for further updates and more server capacities during the downtime.
We, therefore, do not assume that you will be able to continue gambling directly at 11 a.m. without queues, even if that would be desirable.
Today at 6 p.m. the Lost Ark servers should (re)open to all players after the scheduled maintenance. But nothing will come of the official Lost Ark Launch! The launch is delayed due to “deployment issues”.
An exact time when the servers will go online again has not yet been announced. “We hope that this problem will be fixed in a few hours,” the announcement simply says.
We’ll keep you posted on updates here!
Unfortunately, the launch has been delayed due to deployment issues. We hope this will be fixed in a few hours.
Your patience is appreciated and we will update you soon.
Restart Lost Ark Client
We have received important information from the Community Team. Waiting in the server screen doesn’t seem to help. The server list does not appear there automatically. So a reboot is required.
Waiting at the server screen won’t help, as it will require a fresh launch of the client as far as I’m aware.
You can read our guide for Lost Ark here.
Lost Ark has been better received than many thought. Even Amazon did not expect this rush. And so there were long queues on some servers, as was the case with New World. Since a real server change is not possible, many players simply created a new character on a new server. However, some of these players have already redeemed their pioneer package on the first server and thus used it up unnecessarily.
As Amazon has now announced, we will get an additional set of exclusive items on the new server. These items are bound to the character and thus cannot be traded. They can soon be redeemed on every new server.
During the Head Start period for Lost Ark, a massive number of heroes arrived in Arkesia. While we are thrilled to have so many players joining us, we also recognize that this has brought about large queues on our more popular servers, leading to a less than ideal experience for these players.
In an effort to improve the player experience for those who have faced queues, we will be taking several steps to put preventative measures in place ahead of our full launch tomorrow morning, in addition to addressing some of the outstanding issues surrounding Founder’s Pack claims.
Founder’s Pack Redemptions
Players have let us know one of the reasons they are reluctant to switch to lower population servers is because many of them have already redeemed their Founder’s Packs on another server. To help combat this and make exploring new servers a more reasonable choice, we will be granting ALL Founder’s Pack purchasers that redeem their pack by 12 PM PT (8 PM UTC) on Monday, February 14th with an extra set of the exclusive items from the Founder’s Pack they redeemed (e.g., the Founder’s Exclusive Pet and Founder’s Title from the Bronze pack; see full list below) as well as some additional Royal Crystals for Silver, Gold, and Platinum Pack purchasers. These items will not be tradeable, and will be delivered to a player’s Product Inventory so they can be claimed on a new server. Your original Founder’s Pack will not be affected by this, and will remain on the initial server where you redeemed it (or in your Product Inventory, if you have not yet redeemed it).
We are currently working to get these item grants ready to go, and will update players when they are ready to claim — these will be claimable on any new server you choose, so in the meantime we encourage you to find a perfect server to call home.
Bronze Pack
Founder’s Title*
Founder’s Exclusive Pet (Untradeable)
Silver Pack
150 Royal Crystals
Founder’s Title*
Founder’s Exclusive Pet (Untradeable)
Gold Pack
500 Royal Crystals
Founder’s Title*
Founder’s Exclusive Pet (Untradeable)
Northern Lawmaker Skin (Untradeable)
Platinum Pack
1,000 Royal Crystals
Founder’s Title*
Founder’s Exclusive Pet (Untradeable)
Northern Lawmaker Skin (Untradeable)
Founder’s Platinum Skin (Untradeable)
Founder’s Exclusive Mount (Untradeable)
Platinum Welcome Crate (Untradeable)
Founder’s Exclusive Wallpaper*
Founder’s Exclusive Structure
Legendary Rapport Gift Selection Chest
Launch Limited Card Pack
*If the Founder’s Title or Founder’s Exclusive Wallpaper are used on the same Roster where a pack has already been redeemed, you will not be able to use these items.
Please note that this is a one-time grant, and we do not have plans to continue to make additional grants of items available to players in the future. For example, there will be Starter Packs available for purchase at full launch tomorrow (more details to come), and we highly recommend only redeeming them once you settle into your permanent home server.
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