Successful 2dsxl top screen repair!

This is my beloved console of over 7 years 🙂

A couple years back my sister broke the top screen by accidentally slamming it closed on my thumb. It also got dropped pretty hard by someone else a few years ago, which caused some shell damage and the blue light and charge light to stop working (though the red does work). I've been wanting to replace the screen for years and was finally able to! The battery was also swelling and needed to be replaced as well.

took me like a week because I had to order a new screen lens and wait for that and I tried to take frequent breaks while working. Working on it made me so anxious but excited, especially because I have almost no console repair experience prior to this.

I also had to troubleshoot a prefetch abort kernel panic that happened before the repair as I was trying to discharge the old battery as much as possible. I got a new one, fixed up the screen, ran all the tests, and everything came back great!

(Also the top left corner of the new one is a little fade-y but I could care less because all that matters is I have my console back. And somehow my circle pad is slightly off center but oh well)

Many, many reddit posts have been made across multiple subreddits and I could not be more grateful for all the people who offered help and advice!! Huge thanks especially to this subreddit and the console repair subreddit!

I am super proud of myself and wanted to share this, and hopefully this post gives other people hope and all my past posts help other people out 🙂
For anyone seeing this before repairing their console, best of luck!!