Exposing the FAKEST Nintendo DS Restoration

[@zabtronics]

The fact that it still has a stylus is the most suspicious thing

[@avalonofbabylon3024]

Yeah there's a reason everything came with 5 of the damn things back in the day

[@ZeranZeran]

lmao true. I think me and my friend were the only ones who still had our original stylus when highschool ended, and it was only because he had a super cool Zelda / Navi styled one.. and me? I used my fingers like a savage, and rarely if ever took it out. Still have it :)

[@animeloveer97]

Eh not really the 3ds has much better hold on the stylus than the DS lite the og of dissapearing styluses lmao. I have never lost my 3ds stylus and Ive had it since 2017

[@alinasrullah272]

@@animeloveer97 same for me

[@EliasJG1985]

jup, the stylus is to clean, compared to the rest of the DS.

[@sirflimflam]

A buddy of mine actually works for a repair shop and had a customer freak out on them when they couldn't fix something of hers. She literally called out to videos like this, "if they can do stuff like this, why can't you do something so simple!!"

[@alvianekka80]

Those fake videos mislead people and turned them into Karen.

[@powerplay9422]

@@alvianekka80 "WhErE tHe *FUCk* iS yOUr mANAGeR?" Seriously, Ann Reardon had a point, but she didn't know it'd transcend food hacks. We need to 86 ALL of these fake bullshit videos.

[@shitpostinggang]

I personally think that some guys Restoration videos are really cool, my favourite video was the restoration of a note 7.

[@nathanbrute9075]

Reminds me of the CSI effect, where people working jury duty will believe someone is innocent because the police haven't done all the precedures shown in shows like CSI, like enhancing a photo of someone's eye to see a person in a room they're not even looking at.

[@chocobear4078]

@@nathanbrute9075 unfortunately some people are really stupid

[@chrismingay6005]

Err this isn't fake, this was my grandads 3ds. He took it with him to Normandy when he fought in WW2. The crater on the outer shell is actually from a Nokia 3310 that German infantry launched at him on DDay. He kept the 3DS in his front pocket and it saved his life. The blown out screen was my fault, I set the 3D slider too high. Grandad was piiiiissed with me. Love you G-pa, r.i.p

[@rhinuu045]

Wow! Thank god they found this and fixed it up! This was actually also mine way back in 1756 and I loved playing super smash bros. I'm happy it served him well

[@calem28]

Are you making fun of the comment vultures?

[@vlco_o]

What a wholesome story!!!!! 🥰🥰 Hope it happens again so we can see more of these emotional restorations 😀😀

[@crypthick]

😂😂😂😂

[@MileenasDentist]

ok

[@elijahhuffstutler7012]

The most unrealistic thing about this is that, after all its supposedly been through, this 3DS still had the stylus

[@Twiddle_things]

I take almost paranoid care of my 2DS's, yet still somehow manage to lose the fucking styluses

[@tvoovm7254]

@@Twiddle_things stylus in plural form is styli.

[@Twiddle_things]

@@tvoovm7254 oh darn really? Thanks mate! The more you learn

[@Mermelaido]

@@tvoovm7254 Styluseses

[@ThatSocialKid]

@@Twiddle_thingsnah, its actually Stylisuesiesi

[@marksutter182]

It’s so clear what they’re doing. The biggest giveaway was the moisture sticker. But then, the grime on the “newly restored” 3DS was the clincher.

[@TerryProthero]

@@mondherbouazizi4433 I know I've clicked on a number of them and then clicked off from them after realizing it was completely fake. So, I guess that still counts as a view. Although, now I look form anything that is covered in mud and don't even bother to watch those videos.

[@Myonexis]

@@mondherbouazizi4433 I would hazard a guess and say it's mostly children who don't really even know what they're looking at. Just like all those other dumb channels such as 5 minute crafts. People just sit their toddlers with ipads and let them watch anything unsupervised, and this is probably what the algorithm feeds them.

[@CubeBag]

That poor 3DS... you can see at the very end that it had custom firmware installed and a custom theme. They loved their 3DS enough to mod it. If this were my console that I sold and later saw on KZbin like this, I would cry.

[@Dinas_cozy_cottage]

Yea that was my 3ds that i sold and it made me cry watching this

[@FoxCunt]

Yup. That was my 3ds that I sold actually and I cried after watching this

[@chibifox123]

​@@Dinas_cozy_cottage Damn if thats true im sorry i had something similar happen My 2ds got stolen and later found it on Facebook marketplace And the reason i know it was mine or used to be was because i made a custom shell made of wood mostly

[@scottg3192]

@@chibifox123 nah it was mine, and I donated its body to science, still sad though

[@randomactsofgaming845]

The worst thing (for me) about these fake repair videos is that the item could have been legitimately restored. They could have gotten that 3ds and actually restored it and made a video of themselves doing it. But instead they fake the restoration and in reality completely destroy the 3ds in the process to the point that it can never be restored. That 3ds still had life, it worked, It could have made someone happy for several more years to come and now it's just garbage.

[@jo54763]

I'd imagine the destroyed handhelds are just broken ones that they purchased to destroy... Still a waste, but I don't see them throwing away money when they can avoid doing so for a cheap price.

[@MariachiDeS]

Yeah, exactly. It is driving my mad. For the sake of the video that is fake so obviously that even my little son noticed it they destroy something which would deserve better treatement than "magical transition to trash" which goes straight to the landfill they have behind their house right after the video shooting.

[@KuganeGaming]

The thing is, that 3DS costs maybe 100$, but 1 million views will generate approximately 2000$ ad revenue. So it is far less time consuming and profitable for them to just record a working 3DS and then wreck the thing. The KZbin hustle is tough at times.

[@zeendaniels5809]

I don't know... I find even worse that people watching this videos can't realize how fake they are. People sadly is just to used to see garbage content here...

[@KuganeGaming]

@@zeendaniels5809 It may very well be that it is mostly kids and teenagers watching.

[@CptJistuce]

Meager credit where due: Super glue and baking soda is a traditional filler for plastic models. To take all the credit away: I really like how the "restored" version has the pink paint visible from under the baking soda and super glue.

[@fluffycritter]

So strange how the stylus is perfectly clean when the slot the stylus is in is caked in mud.

[@Jojordy2312]

not to mention the stylus even stayed in the goddamn slot

[@terriblyterrified8742]

a 3ds without it's stylus missing? impossible

[@TheSpeep]

Stranger still that a ruined, mud covered 3DS still has a stylus in the first place. Most well cared for and working ones dont even have that.

[@davidzea-smith1417]

I know, right?

[@gojoluvr28]

@@TheSpeep i lost my ds for 6 months and found it under my night dresser about 3 weeks ago and surprisingly it still had the stylus

[@Homodemon]

I think if I wanted to recommend a good restoration channel it would be Odd Thinkering. His videos are really informative on top of entertaining, and he even provides you with assembly guide pdfs and step by step indications on how to dismantle and replace each component on the console and links to places and sellers where to buy the reclacements. I love his videos.

[@Damaniel3]

There are plenty of good restoration channels (Odd Tinkering, TysyTube, my mechanics, Not Terrible Restorations, Hand Tool Rescue, Old Things Never Die), but there's definitely a lot of crap too.

[@spetsnaz1014]

'My Mate Vince' is also another good one. He's a real tryer.

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

@@spetsnaz1014 StezStix Fix is also good.

[@23345star]

I'm really hoping Odd Tinkering isn't a fraud. Those videos are a lot of fun to watch.

[@spetsnaz1014]

@@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co - Thank you.

[@Tron08]

The mud on the inside is hilarious, you'd expect that mud would penetrate wherever there is an opening in the shell (around the cartridge, around the shoulder buttons, charge port, etc) and spread inward from there. But nope it's just in there all willy nilly

[@stevesstuff1450]

Yep...and I have a sneaking suspicion that Mother Nature doesn't use a brush to fill the 3DS with mud...!! 😀

[@gatex33d74]

it spawned there

[@austinkoeppen6122]

I don't know why they don't just drop it in a bucket of mud, the "restoration" would at least look somewhat real that way.

[@trevorhaddox6884]

Odd Tinkering is legit from what I've seen. IDK about that one vid, but it's probably fine given it's far less destroyed, just looks like a normal broken device off Ebay. Of course, the rest of those vids with all the mud and junk are still total BS though.

[@servbot128]

You see Odd Tinkering actually gives step by step instructions on everything they’re doing and it’s actually very informative. This fake vid gives “hey check this out!”

[@trevornatiuk1031]

Odd Tinkering and Restoration EG are legit. Basically any channel you find where they consistently run through the full disassembly, cleaning, and reassembly, complete with commentary and explanations, are going to be far more trustworthy than this fake BS channel in the video.

[@BulletProofCupid7]

The biggest offender for me here is that there's absolutely nothing to learn from these videos. You in your vids explain everything. You actually share the knowledge and techniques of different methods that actually work not only for little handhelds but are quite handy for general maintenance of various electronic devices. Yet there's this dude who's done basically nothing, recorded it and haphazardly slammed some clips together and that's it. What did we learn from that? Don't paint your electronics with mud? I guess... Oh and that you can fix anything with cocaine apparently. Yea, I don't like it too and I really think it's unfair how algorithm just puts him on top of actual content creators like yourself or OddTinkering for example.

[@commscan314]

The 8-Bit Guy and LGR also make some good videos restoring old computer hardware. Learned some things from them too, like retrobrite methods and corrosion removal, but they aren't entirely about restorations.

[@BulletProofCupid7]

@@commscan314 I watch them too and actually you can learn a lot from 8-bit guy restoration vids too, he gets really technical sometimes and also brings up some fancy ideas but yea, not entirely "lets fix this up" type of channel.

[@ZAWFUL]

I'm guessing some people like the asmr type of restoration. And just like watching that's my guess.

[@amandamakin1542]

Odd Tinkering fixes a lot of different stuff, both electronics & antiques. Then there's TronicsFix, he fixes broken electronics, both old & new. As far as I know, these are legitimate Restoration Channels: - Odd Tinkering (I have seen how good they are) - TronicsFix (one I watch, he fixes broken consoles) - StezStix Fix? (It's similar to TronicsFix) - Backyard Ballistics (repairs & restores firearms) - Old Things Never Die - The 8-Bit Guy - LGR - Hugh Jeffreys - Psivewri - Necroware - Modstek - Cat and Andrew - TysyTube Restoration - Greg Salazar - Restoration Australia - RRC Restoration - Restoration EG - my mechanics - VigerP (cleans, fixes & restores consoles, but also does other content - Vintage Watch Services - Hand Tool Rescue

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

Hand Tool Rescue, Not Terrible Restorations, and LADB Restorations all restore old mechanical or electrical items.

[@Free-4554]

Stylus and SD card: pristine condition The literal motherboard INSIDE THE SYSTEM: splashed with dirt

[@MagikGimp]

I think the saddest thing about these videos is that they're gradually removing absolutely fine (and finite!) old stock from the market (and deliberately destroying it in order to rebuild it back worse than it was.)

[@Kiirabu197]

I don't think it's that big of an issue. Yeah sure, there are like.. a hundred or so videos like this? But the 3DS sold around 80 million times. It's really just a very small fraction of handhelds that are being wasted, despite being so prominent on KZbin.

[@finnisnotafish]

@@Kiirabu197 still its stupid and is uselessly wasting 3dses someone couldve actually put to good use

[@limeflashlight4101]

@@finnisnotafish agreed

[@Kiirabu197]

@@finnisnotafish sure, i'm not contradicting that

[@shyshy1894]

@@Kiirabu197 As the original comment had said, these items are finite. You get enough of these fake restoration videos and there will be none left 😭

[@casperwashere]

this is really just kind of heartbreaking. i’ve had a pink 3ds just like the one in the video for 9 years and it still works perfectly fine. it’s really sad to think this person destroyed a perfectly working console for the sake of content :(

[@gghoulbites]

It’s really sad, it reminds me of my first ever 3ds I had which was pink. I recently had to let go of my pink 3ds months ago, bc well I had a bit of Oopsies in the 8 years of having it and one last very accidental oopise happened and I figured I better let it go and transfer my data to my other 3ds atleast. It hurt a bit bc I got it as a gift for my 10th birthday, and as I got older I wanted to keep it nice and at that point I was 18, that 3ds was so sentimental to me I was really sad to see it go. which is why those types of those obviously ridiculous “restoration“ videos hit hard, (not in a good way).

[@Shamilscorner]

Kind of sad too that they are so expensive because they don’t make them anymore and they just probably have good ones laying around and they destroy them I had the first one and sold it to someone as a dumb child and now as a grown up I’m trying to get one and they are sometimes even more than a new console like a switch oled at least I found one but it wasn’t cheap 😭 but these dudes Willy nilly have good consoles and destroy them for some KZbin views 🤦🏽‍♂️ instead of really fixing damaged ones

[@gghoulbites]

@@Shamilscorner right?! I’ve been looking at the Galaxy themed 3ds and it’s way more expensive than my switch was 😭. It physically hurts my soul bc I don’t see the point in mucking up a still perfectly well working system and to “fix” it for views and clicks 😭.

[@Shamilscorner]

@@gghoulbites I’ve seen that galaxy one that one is so expensive I went for a dsi xl it’s hacked but fuck it cause to find all those games is a hassle now but that 3ds looks so nice and is so expensive but if it was one of these dudes in the videos they wouldn’t care for them sweet KZbin views

[@gghoulbites]

@@Shamilscornerfair enough to be honest, I was raised to keep all my consoles/ hand helds nice and clean, and try to keep them good condition. So that’s why it physically hurts me bc I just personally can’t even begin to imagine fucking up a nice system for some stupid views 😭💀.

[@DrKoneko]

My least favorite thing about these is that these devices could have been in my hands and loved and cared for. No but seriously, taking perfectly working devices and destroying them is heartbreaking as a fan of preservation. :(

[@queefgod420]

same here. i have a dsi xl and wouldnt even think about doing that for even 100 million views. i was even nervous modding it but my nervousness made sure it was done right, then these guys take apart, paint, and throw away a device ive been scraping my entire area to find in store

[@aurelionight]

I mean, that is actually an incredibly valid point! Sure, it's easy to just go 'but I could've used it :(', but these devices were literally designed to entertain people, and this is... I mean, you could argue these videos are a form of entertainment, but it's just a waste of a perfectly good device that could have, in fact, made someone genuinely happy if it wasn't used to make some dorks on the internet seem talented.

[@amandamakin1542]

One of these channels KILLED a Sega Saturn & a 90s PC. That breaks my heart & sets off my anxiety!

[@okarowarrior]

@The DaggerBones System For what I've read 100M views could be ~>$100k in ad revenue. I mean, damn, it's a gadget, not your grandma's ashes. That's more than some people make in their whole life. These guys turned a $100 item into $2000 money. Which can be used broadly for stuff like buying food. When you bought your DS your turned a couple of $100 into that. A console. Putting it this way, now it isn't as clear which case is the most superficial in this situation.

[@DegenWeb]

@@okarowarrior Money isn’t everything, sentimental value can mean more then money

[@ElihuAran]

Seeing you scroll past the Odd Tinkering video while calling the other videos bullshit made me a little sad; OT is a very good nugget and is incredibly relaxing. They inspired me to take some of my stuff apart to clean, even

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

Odd Tinkering isn’t pulling stuff out of the garbage.

[@SkylinkMC]

I have this exact 3DS. Hurts my heart to see them destroy it. Also on the back of the 3DS it says LL instead of XL so LL models are Japanese consoles and way cheaper so they bought it for probably like $60 and destroyed it for a video when someone else could of bought it and used it. 😭

[@JaredConnell]

The video states it is an LL model, they probably live in a country where they sell LL not XL

[@kokoseij]

@@JaredConnell Japan is the only region where XL is called LL. That one _is_ a japanese unit. They have not even slightest idea what they're destroying. They wrote LL because the thing says LL on the backplate.

[@yyyyuhzm6829]

oh boy do I have a plainrock124 for you

[@carbonated_salt9645]

Same bro I was just playing miitopia on mine like ten minutes ago this shit hurts my feelings to watch :(

[@puffpuffpassable]

I used to work at a Nintendo service centre here in farlington in the UK and can confirm the pad is there to determine if the console board has been exposed to water, and in all cases where it is pink it will void the warrenty and (at least when I worked there) would incur the largest repair charge. Great vid BTW :) Edit: what is interesting, at least to me lol, is that in some of the red dslite shells used to sometimes get a very odd bubbling effect on the case behind the screen, which only seemed to happen on some of the red ds lites, nothing like the whole they made in this ds ofc but for some reason it reminded me of the very odd red ds lites we used to take in, one of the few strange repair jobs alongside the countless broken hinges lol

[@animeloveer97]

I think it's cause the red DS lite had two layers of paint one metallic crimson and then clear this the separation occurs

[@speedwaynutt]

The saddest part of these kinds of video is that somebody abused these handhelds to make them look broken and destroyed.

[@matteobesho]

I'm more pissed at these kind of videos because they take attention off the legit, restoration channels

[@speedwaynutt]

@@matteobesho That's where we need to shout out the true fixers in the comments of these videos.

[@gertywhatagash_]

Guess all those views can just buy a new one for further vids to be destroyed?

[@Gold_Yoshi]

They destroy real shells just to put cheap shitty ones on or just “attempt” to fill in the cracks.

[@VehementisEaVeritas]

It actually makes me sad there's plenty of people out there learning from these videos when they wanna open and clean or repair their devices for the first time. And there's folks defending this saying it's just entertainment, let them make these videos.

[@SPARKI404]

MANN finally someone talks about this these types of restorations always ticked me off since there's no way a console (esp something modern like a 3DS) would get that dirty most of the time they're obv very fake and in fact, they literally ruined a perfectly fine 3DS for clout

[@liamthomas2032]

don't you hate it when your battery puffs up so much that it breaks your screens outwards, but then decides to not be puffy when you open the back? Or when your Dremel bits try to escape through the top and wind up breaking the screen under them?

[@rockrheadHD]

Gamers hate this trick

[@theoneandonlyartyom]

if it puffed on the back itd be kinda gay

[@hell_jpeg4976]

I could tell it's fake by the "dirt" alone. If the brush strokes aren't enough, the texture of it & how it's flaked in some areas looks exactly like how applebarrel paints dry😂

[@crossmirage]

I have a feeling they mixed up some mud or dirt with PVA/school glue and slopped it onto the DS. It's a technique used to create terrain for wargaming and dioramas so it would explain the brush strokes if they just lazily 'painted' over the thing with the mixture.

[@agentburningbutters3655]

I can just say that channels like Odd Tinkering are the true angels, they atleast know how to do everything, as well as explain what they are doing. And etc

[@bramvandenbroeck5060]

3:18 blue stylus 13:44 brown stylus . . . Did they quickly paint the stylus without showing it on camera? How sneaky of them!

[@allknowingpineapple4112]

😂😂

[@ocarinacat4690]

The channel Odd Tinkering has fantastic legit restoration videos that are so satisfying to watch. I feel like I need to go watch some of their videos to cleanse my eyes of these lies

[@Revolution5268]

According to some youtubers in the comment minipudsvinduespolering for example he is also a fake channel as well. Calling it "same kind og "dirt" on every item he "restores"." Thats why I ask Elliot Coll is he fake never got an answer.

[@zekester2097]

fake. @revolution5268 is correct.

[@acrawford01]

I wasn’t expecting it to look that fake but once he opened up the inside… it’s so obvious the dirt was painted inside of it 😂

[@shepshepson]

*Just a note* Odd tinkering is a REAL restoration channel, I watch the videos all the time and are nothing like these fake scams, and he goes in depth with what's wrong and how to fix it, and actually cleans it right

[@chrismifsud7154]

The first time I saw this guys videos my thought was, who goes around poking in rubbish and happens to have someone filming them while doing so ?

[@CryptidValentine]

As someone who completely took part their old broken 3DS for scraps and has seen how the inside looks, yeah I agree this is super suspicious

[@CanadianRetroThings]

I like how the soldering iron/dremel gouge marks around the big hole magically disappeared in the reassembling of it! I need to know the secret of how that is done for some of the things I fix...

[@stevesstuff1450]

Must've used a desoldering tool to remove the soldering iron gouges...!! ;-) 😀

[@DJayCubbz]

I was thinking this the whole time 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@Gooner333333333]

It's so convenient that the battery and memory card are practically in mint condition

[@ModelsExInferis]

"...In this instance it's cocaine" had me legitimately lol! Brilliant video mate!

[@windows8.1proforthewin]

Cocaine

[@Jared.Elliott]

Was perfect😂

[@xthejetx]

The baking soda and super glue thing actually works, but it's prolly not strong enough to patch a hole in that way. Really does harden quite a bit, like poly resin or something.

[@micksterminator3]

That baking soda and super glue trick is supposed to work well. It creates a plastic like surface. Idk why it isn't sifted tho lol.

[@daniel.gibbon]

*cocaine

[@extendoduck]

It works shockingly well. I use it to restore small cosmetic nicks in carbon fiber bike frames and it produces a really hard, tough surface with a tight bond to the substrate.

[@julcaos]

I actually thought I was the only one in this world who was suspiscious of these restoration videos. Good to know I'm not alone! Great video!

[@cambloch]

during the cleaning process of the motherboard with the dremel, it has not been filmed in reversed process, because the liquid indicator, the white/pink stamp, turned to pink after using water. but few seconds later, when testing the LEDs, the stamp magically comes back to white.... and for the "repaired" back plate, there are not the marks made by the soldering iron... definitively other evidences of fake restoration.... I definitely like these "debunking" videos of fake restoration. thanks

[@michan2006]

I was always told as a kid that if the white turned to pink, the item was defective. I'm unsure if that's still true!

[@cambloch]

@@michan2006 yes it is. This white stamp is still use in the Switch for example

[@purplecat2092]

It would've been so funny if they accidentally turned the """not working""" DS on mid restore.

[@SixtyDoesStuff]

For real, I want that rustproof technology they've clearly got over there. I've had things with NO water damage, just been in a humid location too long, that started rusting. 🙄

[@animeloveer97]

Well humidity is water homie you want less corrosion? Use oil

[@WC3fanatic997]

Who would have thought that the key tools required to properly fix a 3DS that was gently sitting in the back yard for three hours to be superglue, happy powder, burning a hole in the back of the case (and only the case) with a soldering iron, and tearing the screens apart like string cheese. Boy I woulda been lost without this wonderful step-by-step video!

[@Club_Michas]

The funny Part is that they managed to get rid of the Soldering Iron Marks on 8:47 and get the Original Paint back on there on 15:38. If you compare the Time stamps it's obviously that they dremeled it out after that footage with the fake filler was filmed.

[@a_creatorsstuff17]

Somehow the logo and ink looks perfect, its funny considering dust and dirt absolutely love to wreck ink

[@johnb3513]

You should do a reaction video to your fake restoration.

[@danieldubrovin8813]

He should do a reaction video to his reaction video to his fake restoration.

[@dreixmrls]

Thats a banger of a video great idea

[@Heymrk]

Yo dawg

[@EtanMarlin]

thats actually hilarious, id love to see that

[@NormanFoxLee]

You mean all reaction videos are fake with fake emotions as well?

[@MadnessHEROReverend]

I definitely agree with your assessment. The top lid is missing the gouges near the top of what was supposedly the filled in hole, and there's no evidence that they were even there.

[@jeremy2283]

There's always a hole on the back plate of the screens. The brush strokes were so obvious.

[@Pixelshroomies]

It’s also sad that some of the things they ruin are starting to become more limited availability.

[@elliotcoll]

I initially wasn’t going to upload this because I thought I had made 3 videos all on the same channel, turns out they were different channels… hope you enjoy! PLEASE REMEMBER - fake or not, these channels are still providing entertainment and it might be their only source of income so don’t send any hate or we will never be friends. Speak soon Mum x

[@rhysswildlifeanimalsandmor9903]

It was a good video

[@dexter_d_t5849]

That being said, I'm 90% sure that the "dirt" that's supposed to be on the front of the ds is literally paint so it's kind of hard not to.

[@Candlemantle]

Thanks Mum! Don’t be a stranger, I don’t drink milk.

[@oOWaschBaerOo]

that is not an excuse to bait people by literally lying to them about the content provided .. there is reasons why consumer protection laws exist that dissallow lies like this when selling a product ( they are selling a product, aka content that we pay for with view time, data, or even youtubes mechanism of becoming supporters )

[@blakegriplingph]

Harrassing or sending threats on them is below the belt but what these fake restoration channels are doing is still straight up deceit regardless. Not only is it cringe but it also gives legitimate tinkerer channels a maligned rep because of these shysters.

[@Heyani32]

i also love how the screens were completelly blown to shreds, and "later" on, the touchscreen glass cover had just a couple scratches.

[@becca_94]

I love how the water damage sticker thing just confirm it is fake 😂

[@rotgarg5308]

Thanks for pointing these out. It is very frustrating as a micro electronics enthusiast to see those fake repair videos littering up my screen. You are a great person :)

[@Kalvinjj]

I love it how the _professional_ at one point randomly probed a connector on the board, to any random pad/component there. Also I don't remember if the 3DS had stainless steel springs, cause damn they looked pretty given all the mud (...why always MUD?) in there.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Mud is easier to rip off after it's dried

[@animeloveer97]

I don't think there are Any springs in the 3ds or any da for that matter lol

[@Kalvinjj]

@@animeloveer97 One on R and L, plus the weird one (or how many it uses internally) on the hinge mechanism. The GBA is the same in that regard, just the GBA got two hinge springs/mechanisms.

[@joshuamasonseight-bitbasta2451]

I like how you were all "I'm so sorry for doing so many of these!" and now yer like "No, I'm not." I love these.

[@RestoreIt]

I must say, these videos do annoy me ever so slightly. Good video!

[@BloominFleury29]

A genuine restorer!

[@SwordsmanOrion]

The stylus still being in the slot is the biggest red flag of the entire video.

[@thesnazzypenguin172]

Those trip pads are super easy to actually trip. I tripped the pad(s? It's been a while) when I was restoring a DS Lite with the IPA I was using, so...absolutely incredible job on their part.

[@SuiteLifeofDioBrando]

The sd card being near mint condition makes this comedy gold.

[@merman1974]

This guy puts the con into content creator. You can clearly see "dirt" all over the area of the SD card holder when they first take the damaged one apart, but nothing on the card itself? How does that work?

[@crestofhonor2349]

Odd tinkering does actual restorations I believe. No weird cuts or looking through the trash and stumbling on it

[@justpassingby298]

I dunno man... All the consoles they repair look exactly the same, yellowed to shit like they're piss soaked, and dunno bout you, but I don't think I've ever seen old consoles look like that

[@crestofhonor2349]

@@justpassingby298 Plastics from that age do yellow if left out in the sunlight. It's possible he just goes through ebay and finds the worst ones. Also I've seen tons of consoles yellowed like that from other channels like 8 bit guy and other bigger retro focused channels

[@justpassingby298]

@@crestofhonor2349 I mean I guess it's possible I'm just looking to deep into it, but dunno man, some of the things he repairs just look way overblown, maybe it's just some thumbnail editing for more clicks from the few videos I skimmed through, usually the things weren't that bad

[@crestofhonor2349]

@@justpassingby298 Most of the damage seems to just be cosmetic. Most of them turn on right away or just have something small not working like the PS2 disc drive, which are known to fail with even a little bit of dust or whatever on the laser. It's not like they're in a ton of pieces. Most of the restoration is just making it look cosmetically better

[@andrejwalilko634]

15:12 OH GOD ARE THEY INSTALLING RIBBON CABLES WITH THE POINTY PART OF THE TWEEZERS

[@user-marco-S]

There is also a fake restoration video in which the object to "repair" always is painted with the same river mud. In one of his videos, a motherboard from a laptop did have huge hole in it. And, of course "repaired" even when it was beyond repair. The broken memory was "replaced" with one with the same serial number.

[@TheWeeklyWarpPipe]

I mean they got this down to a science. I think most people watch them as some sort of relaxing video, rather than a information video. I can only hope people dont try to restore something by using one of these videos as reference

[@rafaelcastro2591]

Guess what were going to use this time?!? Its not noodles, but alittle bit of cocaine

[@matteobesho]

It's funny how these videos the devices have always 2 characteristics, an impossible amount of mud, and a hole that can't be found on any other console, only the ones they "find" them

[@commscan314]

The thumbnails also always happen to have a lot of rust on the plastic. Plastic oxidizes, but it sure as hell doesn't rust in the process, or retrobrite would require mechanical action through vinegar and not chemical action through hydrogen peroxide and heat.

[@LordTyph]

9:35 'And in this instance, it's cocaine' I think we can guess who he might have gotten the supply from. XD

[@RiderLeangle2]

I don't know which the most hilarious dead giveaway aside from all the others you mentioned, the fact that hole managed to completely miss the ribbon cable right by it, almost as if someone carefully took it away before carving out that hole, or how they just find a 3DS XL in a mound of trash and it still has the stylus, even the brushstroke "mud" or whatever crap they put on is more believable than the stylus still being there lol

[@PunakiviAddikti]

Y'know, I saw a video restoring the most rusted, damaged Desert Eagle pistol I have ever seen.

[@K2ZE]

Love your reactions to this kind of "repairs" One of my favorite parts of this is the brand new scratched up bottom screen at the end :D

[@davidzea-smith1417]

The fakest part about the first video is the fact that, despite the damage, the stylus is still there.

[@Blacksmith52]

lol

[@heyspookyboogie644]

I don’t buy the “they’re poor so scams are fine” mentality. If they wanna say it’s purely for entertainment or something fine, but clearly they’re not so poor that they can’t afford all the tools, cameras, devices, etc it would take to *actually* restore something, even if it wasn’t back to pristine quality. But then it wouldn’t be quite so viral. It’s obvious why they do it. But the soft bigotry of low expectations towards poor people is still bigotry.

[@SianaGearz]

The main difficulty in restoring something is the time expense and the skill, like you can damage and ruin a lot of things inadvertently when repairing, i think it took me a while until i got good at it; you can see that they can't even bloody hold the tweezers correctly, they have literally no idea how not to rip a flex, or how to handle screws so you don't crossthread them. Then again if they ask around they'd find a neighbour who maybe knows their way around things? Maybe? Or maybe everyone who has that sort of skill has made it off from these sorts of places and has a better job? In a low wage society, actually being able to repair stuff is a substantially more valuable skill than on our bits of the planet. Just recently i murdered a Discman clone while trying to reverse engineer its headphone amp circuit. Whoopsie. Though it wasn't any good or valuable anyway, so well.

[@heyspookyboogie644]

@@SianaGearz not only would it be a more valuable skill in their area, but I’m sure if they were actually putting any effort into it, they could do a lot better even at their current skill level. It looks atrocious because they don’t care to actually repair it. They want to put out as many videos as quickly and easily as they can to capitalize on viral trends.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

Camera equipment is quite cheap, and repair tool sets are like $24.99 at most

[@mymomismad95]

The fact that people go through the effort to do fake stuff like this blows my mind. Their time is worth so little.

[@Poisso3]

Elliot, is this a re-upload of the video you took down? I don't care if it is or not, I am happy you did these videos because they are some of the worst examples of the bullshit on KZbin that is called restoration videos! Keep up the good work, mate!

[@Mindereak]

Yes this definitely is a reupload

[@iHazMuffinz]

yea pretty sure this is a re-upload

[@rphntw1n]

That would make it a good thing then.

[@dennisflanders1957]

My favorite part of the "restoration" is the mint condition stickers. I have a lot of Nintendo products in near mint condition and those stickers are almost always the first things taken by time.

[@kbhasi]

(18:25) Japanese region device but running U or E firmware instead of J firmware, so it was likely already softmodded by the previous owner.

[@tezzanoia]

The way they take out the parts looks about what it would look like if a child took apart and inspected a broken console to see what the insides look like, with no intentions of repairing it ever again (yk, a "it's broken anyways, might as well see what the electronics look like" kinda thing)

[@linc_inc]

That "in this case its cocaine" got me so hard 🤣

[@DanPottas]

Just love watching these fake restore vids taking piss out of them haha pls don't stop making this content lol love it funny as hell. Big thumbs up from me mate.

[@contramachina354]

I think Elliot is being too modest. The people he's exposing are complete frauds. They deserve to be exposed. Keep up the great work, Elliot

[@bahamut256]

I think I mentioned this in a previous video, but they use texture from games workshop and Vallejho. You can literally see the brush strokes spreading it to strips as those texture paints like to split the brushes into clumps.

[@XanCraft21]

I think you should make a video telling how the fake restoration videos work. Show how they put the big hole in the console and how the painted on dirt and the destroyed screen happened. A possibility of the screen being in the condition it is in probably happened by repeatedly stabbing it hard with a screwdriver, since there was a dent in the back metal panel that is sticking out.

[@danieldoesdumbstuff]

Ah yes. I too hate it when the plastic on my Nintendo 3DS starts to R U S T

[@totallymarceline]

I love odd tinkering bc you can tell he actually love what he does and isn’t bullshitting his viewers

[@Red_Chicken_Gaming]

Just a normal day going through the garbage

[@toasterrussian]

My mans looks like dollar tree radcliffe. Nice video though!

[@hsthatzo8063]

Dude be looking like the average climate protestor, agree with that though good video

[@WabbitRB]

I love watching Odd Tinkering and TronicsFix, I find them oddly relaxing and you can actually SEE them being repaired or restored.

[@geoffhunt3266]

I love how there's a clear impact site at 11:41 and then it's magically gone at 11:50.

[@ExceedinglyFPR]

one man makes a fake ds repair video for views the other reacts to the ds repair for views, a symbiotic relationship.

[@Jakubjakee]

I used to watch restorations, until I discovered your video on exposing them, never gonna watch them the same way again

[@lightningonlycommentsonce5824]

I like how the physics behind the trajectory between the hole and the exit point seems to be based on the physics from Call of Duty: Blacks Ops 2 multi-player.

[@donniecatalano]

I love you videos man, your style and precise comments. thanks and keep up the great work!

[@melissabell141]

Thank you so much for calling these out!! Its so annoying when you actually enjoy restoring consoles with potential and you see those purposely abused for views 😔

[@TonnyCassidy]

The damages outside of the patched hole is completely gone on the “restored” version, im talking the damaged color a few millimeters away from the big hole, gone without a trace and it wasnt painted and sanded after the repair

[@eightmysoul]

No DS actually used by any human has a stylus. Immediately clocked

[@ener.g]

The worst part of this is the fact these consoles aren't being made anymore, they maybe plentiful still now.... but theyre just wasting perfectly good consoles that could be given to somebody

[@darkdoctor1915]

I’ve seen those videos way too much, they keep getting recommended me all the dang time

[@Wolfspirat]

I imagine actually restoring the things in those video to be so stressful, especially other things. Theres machines to use and spare parts to find and to buy and it probably costs way less to just buy the item new. Even if the stuff gets sold afterwards, if its not a very rare item theres probably not nearly enough paid to cover all the work put in. But it still looks satisfying.

[@vladmocanu9802]

I saw the odd tinkering psp video you showed at 0:08 and it seemed fine to me, it didnt seem fake, tho the quality of the repair wasnt the best, still somewhat fun to watch

[@sheanstanks]

The putting it together section is actually in reverse 😂

[@CeeGeeFursuits]

Odd tinkering will never lie to us tho. He is a genuine restoration channel