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Two weeks ago I was walking around with a friend in Hong Kong who has a DS, but didn’t care for the plain look. I met up with her in Mong Kok, a major shopping district, to check out clothes, a place that actually carries Oshiri Kajiri Mushi no Rhythm Lesson DS (got it!) and a shop that sells Nintendo DS decals.
I thought I was going to see a bunch of Mario stickers. Instead I saw two binders worth of art and textures to physically skin a Nintendo DS Lite. A small selection of the decals can be seen in the photo, but the best pieces of abstract art aren’t there.
After scanning the choices she opted for one of the pieces of abstract art, which was printed on the fly. Thirty minutes later we went back to the shop and they were using a hair dryer to shrink wrap the decal on her DS Lite.
Here’s the final product… sort of. The decal covers the back of the DS, the GBA slot cover and the tip of the stylus too. Pretty through!
Photo credit Spencer/Siliconera.
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4 Responses to “A trip to the Nintendo DS decal store”
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:21 pm
@Melody Kitn - I honestly don’t remember the exact price, but it was reasonable. Something around $100HKD, so that’s like in the $13 range.
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Definitely a nice cheap-ish solution to personalizing the DS. Wonder if they do custom art…
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:27 am
@Melody Kitn - I’m pretty sure they can since everything comes out from a printer. The question is where to find the templates…
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May 2nd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
That’s a beauty of a decal, probably more than I’m willing to put on my lite in terms of size, but it’s definitely much more interesting than just the plain gloss finish.
How much did that cost?