With battery bested, we turn to the next hardware priority: the cooling system.

The heatpipe is secured by simple Phillips screws, meaning thermal paste reapplication should be a breeze.

We aim for the fan, but looks like you can only clean it from here—it's trapped under the I/O board.

So we pop out the game card reader, and attached headphone jack.

And no, we didn't lick any cartridges.

STMicroelectronics FingerTip touchscreen controller on the opposite side of the game card reader