https://www.retromodlab.com/ DS, 3DS and Switch hacks, mods and homebrew, tried on real hardware. New post every Friday. https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/switch-homebrew-toolbox-october-2026 https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/switch-homebrew-toolbox-october-2026 Five Switch homebrew releases from this month worth installing, from a capture-card-free 1080p60 stream to save backups that finally restore at the right size. Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/alttp-3ds-stereo-3d https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/alttp-3ds-stereo-3d Cliffs, walls and statues that actually stand up when you push the 3D slider, a bottom screen in the A Link Between Worlds style and a walkthrough tab. It is a pull request for now, not a release. Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/switch-in-game-walkthrough-overlay https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/switch-in-game-walkthrough-overlay Guide Watch is a free Ultrahand overlay that spots the game you are playing, opens its walkthrough over the left of the screen and remembers the line where you stopped. Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/3ds-in-game-guides-plugin https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/3ds-in-game-guides-plugin 3DS In-Game Guides is a free Luma3DS plugin. Press L + R + Select in any game, the walkthrough shows on the top screen, press B and you are back exactly where you were. Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/guides-sd-card-browser-tool https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/guides-sd-card-browser-tool RetroMod Guides is a free browser tool. Pick your SD card's ROM folder and it matches each game to an English GameFAQs walkthrough and saves it as a .txt beside the ROM. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/guide-watch-miyoo-mini-plus https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/guide-watch-miyoo-mini-plus Guide Watch for OnionOS buzzes when your game has a guide, opens it with L2 + R2 then Down, and drops you back exactly where you were. Plus a downloader that fetches guides over wifi. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/full-teardown-step-by-step https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/full-teardown-step-by-step Every RetroModLab build starts the same way: a genuine donor console on the bench and a full test before a single screw comes out. Screens, touch input, every button, the hinge, charging, both... Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/translucent-shell-playbook https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/translucent-shell-playbook Ask anyone who grew up in the late nineties about their favorite console color and you will hear the same word: Atomic. Translucent purple plastic defined an era of hardware, and it never... Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/shell-kits-done-right https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/shell-kits-done-right Search for a DS Lite shell on any marketplace and you will find kits from a few euros to several times that. They look identical in photos. They are not identical on the bench. Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/why-the-ds-lite https://www.retromodlab.com/blog/why-the-ds-lite Nintendo sold about 94 million DS Lite units. That number matters for one simple reason: donors. A console this common means healthy motherboards are still everywhere, and a restoration business... Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT