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Retro Remake has announced<\/a> that its Switch Lite OLED screen upgrade kits will be available for sale<\/a> on September 26th at 10PM ET and will start at $49.99. The Super 5 OLED kits come with everything needed for the upgrade, including tools like screwdrivers, and unlike many mods, don\u2019t require soldering or modifications be made to the Switch Lite\u2019s shell to fit extra components in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If that\u2019s a deal breaker for you, you\u2019ll need to spend a bit more on the $64.99 Super5 OLED Touch Standard Upgrade Kit<\/a> that includes a touchscreen. For an extra $20, there\u2019s also an $84.99 version of the touchscreen OLED kit (or a $69.99 version without touch<\/a>) that adds 1080P video output<\/a> through the Switch Lite\u2019s USB-C port \u2014 a feature Nintendo didn\u2019t include on the smaller version of the handheld.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Although the upgrades sound relatively easy since soldering skills aren\u2019t needed, they do require you to open the Switch Lite and remove components like the original LCD screen, which isn\u2019t trivial. For those less confident in their modding skills, a $109.99 Mega Kit<\/a> includes both the OLED touchscreen and HDMI output upgrades preinstalled in a third party replacement shell requiring users to just swap over their console\u2019s guts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Retro Remake says the OLED screens used in its new upgrade kits are brighter than the screens Nintendo uses in the Switch OLED, with better contrast and a wider color gamut.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If you\u2019re hesitant about potentially spending over $100 with a relatively new hardware maker, the Super5 OLED kits won\u2019t be the first products the company has successfully shipped, according to our colleague, Christopher Grant<\/a>. \u201cWhile a new shop, we have one of Retro Remake\u2019s \u201cMiSTER Pi\u201d clones of the MiSTer\u2019s DE10 Nano, as well as the accompanying USB hub and A\/V hat, so they\u2019re capable of shipping real hardware,\u201d he said. But he did note,\u201d the SDRAM module that accompanied the kit failed in our tests, but once replaced with a module from another working MiSTer setup, the rest of the kit performed dutifully.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n