The screen swap was easy peasy, the hardest part was getting the old screen out. Mine was already broken, and I wasn't keeping the front plastic, so I didn't have to worry about being too careful, except around the top edge where the mics and ambient light sensor are.
The case swap was a bear, took forever. I'm fairly handy, but the whole process took almost 4 hours. My buddy was doing his in tandem with me and he was over 5 hours, and that's with me lending a hand towards the end.
It looks great, in my opinion, and I'd do it again, I'd just start earlier in the day π¬
As far as the OLED goes, so far it looks good. The stock brightness slider isn't working, it must be a software thing? I have had zero time to look into it. I haven't even played a single game on it since doing the swap. I'll report back when I have time to give it a fair shake.
It's 1080p, which is unfortunately just a little harder to drive. Apparently the hardware in the new screen technically supports hardware downscaling to 720p, but that isn't implemented yet, and may never be.
Ah, dang - I was hoping for a 1:1 replacement.
I mostly just use mine to emulate PS1-2 games, so 1080p isnβt all that enticing - but OLED blacks definitely would be.
While not as enticing, it should be much easier for the deck to handle.
People's concern with the increased resolution is that games that are already marginal, like horizon forbidden West, will slip further down in frame rate.
If hardware accelerated 720p becomes a thing with a software update, I'll most likely bump it down for a net INCREASE in performance π¬