It finally happened. After 48 days, the PSVSD finally arrived today.
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It came when I didn't really expect it to. I was working on some other random thing when my mom called me and said I had a package, and that she had to give a signature for it. I was a little confused why she called me up at first since she didn't tell me why, but she showed me the package and I just was kinda shocked. I kinda thought it just wasn't gonna arrive. And I know the shipping is supposed to take a long time, but 48 days is A LOT OF TIME.
Regardless, it was finally in my hands.
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It was so nice seeing this in my hands now. But now that I had it, I needed to start modding the Vita. So I prepared by taking out my SD2Vita, which only lasted me 4 days... It did well while it lasted.
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After I took my SD2Vita out, I flipped the console over and unscrewed all the screw on the body, and popped the back off of it.
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After that, it was a pretty straightforward installation. It was just a matter of removing all the old antenna cables, popping off the plastic piece covering the 3G module, unscrewing it, and it came out with no problem.
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Now I just pop my SD card out of my SD2vita, and into the PSVSD module, slide that in, and...
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And that's the whole mod! ...Well, at least, the hardware side of it. I still had to do the software modifications as well. Before getting to the software, I had a bit of a panic because the system wouldn't turn on, but after some troubleshooting, I figured out that I needed to plug the charger in to boot it up, so once I figured that out, it was alive!
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I had to reset the time because I unplugged the battery, but that's alright.
From there, I had to mess around with installing stuff, and I actually did need to use my SD2Vita again to transfer some files and install them, since the Vita wasn't at the point of setting up the PSVSD yet, so I guess it was a good thing I got it. But in the end, I got it all set up!
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Overall, the set up was decently straightfoward, and I'm really happy to finally have what I would call the definitive PS Vita. And now, I'm installing some games on it to play, so I can't wait to start using it.