The way is blocked by impassable (tri-point) screws. We can't progress further until we find and acquire the special tool.

No distracting side quests today—we're on a mission and we brought all the tools needed to beat the game. Y00 driver, we choose you!

Under the back cover, we find: another cover. Moving on.

We note here that the SD card reader is now permanently attached to the main board—whereas on the old Switch, we had already removed it by this point.

Modularity is generally good for repair, so this is minor step backwards from our point of view.

Let's peek under the metal shield and get our first look at the internals in the visible light spectrum.