Retro Remake has announced that the Switch Lite OLED Screen Upgrade Kit will go on sale starting September 26th at 10pm ET, with prices starting at $49.99. The Super5 OLED kit comes with everything you need to upgrade, including tools such as drivers. Also, unlike many mods, there is no need to solder or modify the Switch Lite’s shell to attach additional components.
If that’s a deal breaker for you, you’ll have to pay a little more for the $64.99 Super5 OLED Touch Standard Upgrade Kit, which includes a touchscreen. For an additional $20, there’s also an $84.99 version of a touchscreen OLED kit (or a $69.99 version without touch) that adds 1080p video output via the Switch Lite’s USB-C port. This feature was not included by Nintendo in the smaller version. Hand-held.
The upgrade seems relatively easy since no soldering skills are required, but it requires opening up the Switch Lite and removing components such as the original LCD screen, which is not so easy. For those not confident in their modding skills, the $109.99 Mega Kit comes with both OLED touchscreen and HDMI output upgrades pre-installed in a third-party replacement shell, allowing users to replace the console’s body. All you have to do is
Retro Remake says the OLED screen used in the new upgrade kit is brighter, has better contrast, and has a wider color gamut than the screen Nintendo uses on the Switch OLED.
If you’re hesitant about potentially spending more than $100 on a relatively new hardware manufacturer, the Super5 OLED kit is the first the company has successfully shipped, according to our colleague Christopher Grant. It’s probably not a product. “Although it’s a new shop, we have one of Retro Remake’s MiSTer DE10 Nano ‘MiSTer Pi’ clones, along with the included USB hub and A/V hat, so we can ship the real hardware.” he said. However, he said, “The SDRAM module that came with the kit failed the test, but when I replaced it with a working module from another MiSTer setup, the rest of the kit worked fine.”
