Well more clarification then advice. I recently got a DS lite with a broken screen and sketchy too screen and promptly did the solderless method to turn it into a Macro. So far it all works great. But..

Bottom screen have some really weird markings on it that I think are either gunk under the screen cover or issues with the touch screen piece. I'm looking on here I should be able to just run it without the touch screen function correct? A dead also save the screen cover from the top screen to swap out as it's near mint.

Are there any aftermarket purchasable faceplate to get rid of the hinge situation and only use two of the buttons? I know of the aluminum one I'm just not a fan of the cost of it.

On the resistor mod side of things how hard is it to solder to the board I have some okay experience with soldering wires together just nothing on pcbs. The resistor is super tiny can you use a normal wire one instead of a flush mount one?

Also any recommended sellers for quality replacement battery a(for the DS lite and an advance SP)

I have pictures of the screen marks on my modded DS light (as well as my resheld SP) just no idea how to post them here I have not done third party picture posting since photobucket ended