1. I recall seeing this before, and it being called a fake. Still not sure.

Posted at 12:51AM on Jan 3rd 2007 by AndrewNeo

2. I'd try this.

Too bad my DS was burgled by a couple of meth heads.

Posted at 3:22AM on Jan 3rd 2007 by Brandon

3. "Extremery daricate handy work!"

holy shit the stereotype is true!!!

Posted at 4:42AM on Jan 3rd 2007 by monster

4. why cant you do it with software like the psp?

Posted at 5:24AM on Jan 3rd 2007 by redfireant3

5. Aw man, Monster beat me to it; I wasn't up as early this a.m. as normal. Now I have to use the proceeds from selling my NDS in 2005 to buy a new NDS.
Redfireant3, perhaps the oscillator is not programmable?

Posted at 6:07AM on Jan 3rd 2007 by Pocketbrain

6. iwe done this a long time a go. and it works. :P even in online games.(mario kart).

Posted at 7:06AM on Jan 3rd 2007 by whitewiz

7. @redfireant:

who the hell plays psp anyway?

Posted at 8:05AM on Jan 3rd 2007 by Alex K.

8. #4, the DS was not designed to have the clock speed changed in software like the PSP as scaling down the speed is not necessary for extending the very short battery life of the PSP due to moving parts (UMD) etc.

#7, not many people although it has become quite popular recently with the PSX emulator hack allowing quite a few games to run perfectly on it.

Posted at 9:07AM on Jan 3rd 2007 by Mattts

9. how about the older Game Boys? could you manipulate its cpu frequency, too?

Posted at 11:33AM on Jan 3rd 2007 by Kevinin

10. I would like to see an underclocking mod, so you could slow down the DS at a flick of a switch, would come in handy for fast games.

Posted at 12:36PM on Jan 3rd 2007 by mad_cow

11. ummm... other than telling your friends that your DS has a switch and is 1.7x faster than theirs, is there any noticable performance enhancement with this hack?

will i be able to play the surgery game faster? ;)

Posted at 12:40PM on Jan 3rd 2007 by CRVH

12. yes you can! check here:
http://gieskes.nl/underclocking_or_overclocking_the_gameboy_classic_tutorial/

Posted at 1:32PM on Jan 3rd 2007 by gijs

13. Anyone know how oscillators react when they are placed in parallel?

I cant really see the layout of the circuit from the pictures, but it looks like he might have done that.

Posted at 4:58PM on Jan 3rd 2007 by japroach

14. #12: Thanks gijs! That's totally excellent. I put my old GameBoy on a necklace, like Flava-Flav. It's totally dope. ;)

Posted at 6:58PM on Jan 3rd 2007 by CRVH

15. yeah, i saw something similar on DS;GEN1.aren't those only like 30MHz (normal)(sorry i don't know DS ihave touchscreen PDA, and PSP im good =D)

Posted at 11:22PM on Jan 3rd 2007 by some city boy

16. #13 (japroach) yeah, looks like that's what he did; 24+33 = 57, 57/33 = 1.7. The sum frequency is apparently driving the 33MHz coprocessor.
#10 (mad_cow): You might have to remove the stock oscillator to do that. It might require lifting just one lead. I could see putting in a 3-position switch with slow, normal, and fast speeds.

Posted at 11:22AM on Jan 4th 2007 by Pocketbrain

17. I did this, and it works well, even on the old ds

Posted at 6:47PM on Jan 29th 2007 by smb1985

18. It's pretty neat, but I have a couple things that I don't like about it:

#1: You can't switch it live... needing to close it, switch it, then open it.

#2: He really butchered the case putting that horible switch in there... Why not a push button one? You know... the kind on old computers that it like a retractable pen? That way, you can drill a nice little hole in there, and use the stylus for pressing the button...

Posted at 12:36AM on Mar 15th 2007 by Chris

19. Is there any way to get a little more speed to it. Like 2.5 or 3X faster.

Posted at 5:56PM on Apr 11th 2008 by Mos