Okay... did this repair (I actually transplanted a screen from a donor system)... apparently my n2DSXL was really banged up. As the R-button was depopulated from the board (I guess I pushed it too hard playing Mario Kart?). Several screw columns were loose inside the case and the ribbons were unlatched/unclasped... and mostly just staying in place as a suggestion

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When I put it back together, the analog stick was all messed up. So I'll have to fix that up a bit... but I have a touch screen now. Hooray

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It would also appear that the ZL button was loose in the donor system... so uh... guides on repopulating the L/R/ZL/ZR buttons in the future?

Any advise for dealing with CTR-003 spicy pillow? So far in this transplant operation, both my devices batteries are okay... but... I dunno, if I were to run into a spicy pillow in the future, what would be the least awful way to pull it out?

Not sorry, when I see these repair jobs that involve the company gluing the battery into the device (or even soddering in that soon to be spicy pillow) this is just something I'm wondering about

Okay update on how I got confused... turns out all the latches (except one) were already open. Apparently I tend to jostle my game device a bit on the hard side... and at some point they all (except one) came exceptionally loose. I literally could have just pulled the ribbon cables out

On a related note... the reason my R-Button wasn't working wasn't due to stickiness... turns out I had somehow managed to push it so hard it depopulated itself from the board and was just sitting loose inside the case (well... as loose as it could be... it did not travel too much)... going to need to figure out how to repopulate the R-Button--looks like it could prolly be resoddered back in

Prolly a good thing these repair guides exist

But yeah... turns out all the clasps/latches whatever were completely open when I opened the case... that would prolly explain why the battery kept draining so quickly

Oh right, and it doesn't take a psychic to know somebody is going to be all "ooh, why not Google it". After about a full page of ads, this is the Wikipedia entry for Latches. I do not see anything in the image, or on my board that matches that

Trying to follow this guide... uh... what is a latch? That is a type of leverage based opening/closing device right? I'm not seeing anything on my board or in the images that I could call a "latch"

I'm not able to find this locking mechanism described in the image... much less know what I am using tweezers on

I would love to go further... but uh... there is no leverage based locking/closing/opening device in any of the images that I can see... no I can see on my board