Retro Remake has announced that its Switch Lite OLED screen upgrade kits will go on sale on September 26th at 10pm ET, starting at $49.99. The Super5 OLED kits come with everything needed for the upgrade, including tools like screwdrivers, and unlike many mods, no soldering or modifications to the Switch Lite's chassis are required to fit additional components.
If that's a deal-breaker for you, you'll have to spend a little more for the $64.99 Super5 OLED Touch Standard Upgrade Kit, which includes a touchscreen. For an additional $20, there's also an $84.99 version of the touchscreen OLED kit (or a $69.99 non-touch version) that adds 1080p video output over the Switch Lite's USB-C port—a feature Nintendo didn't include on the smaller version of the handheld.
Although the upgrades sound relatively simple, as no soldering skills are required, they require you to open up the Switch Lite and remove components like the original LCD screen, which isn't trivial. For those who aren't as confident in their modding skills, there's a Mega Kit for $109.99 that includes both the OLED touchscreen and HDMI output upgrades pre-installed in a third-party replacement case, so users only need to swap out the innards of their console.
Retro Remake says the OLED screens used in its new upgrade kits are brighter than the screens Nintendo uses in the Switch OLED, and have better contrast and a wider color gamut.
If you're hesitant about potentially spending more than $100 with a relatively new hardware maker, the Super5 OLED kits won't be the first products the company has successfully shipped, according to our colleague Christopher Grant. “Despite being a new shop, we have one of Retro Remake's 'MiSTer Pi' clones of the MiSTer DE10 Nano, as well as the accompanying USB hub and A/V hat, so they can ship real hardware,” he said. He did note, however, that “the SDRAM module that came with the kit failed in our testing, but after replacing it with a module from another working MiSTer setup, the rest of the kit worked fine.”