Awesome, thanks! Glad you enjoy the videos

Yeah. He’s going to turn over all his secrets to you.😑

@Slipknlov a gameboy is never junk.

But Can you mod my "JUNK" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Bocho ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@Alessandro Hamza definitely, I have been using InstaFlixxer for since december myself :)

I agree love your content

Me too. Things are starting to pick up, thanks to all the viewers!

Yes, I may have done that off camera now that I think about it

johneygd I think the camera really enhances how bright it looks. It's by no means a perfect solution, you can see bleeding around the edges, but it's much easier to see. For under $20, it's a great mod to do

how?

@@chrish8904 ya turn it

screws turn

Julio Saldana whats the spidering effect ? I haven't had a gameboy in years

Chris Williams I haven't done this mod sence 2015,but i believe it's when the loca you thought was cured starts to cure improperly and causes the loca to spread spider-web like strans across the screen.

Chris Williams it's basically what RetroGamer Review said, and it only happens to Gameboy that have had a front light mod installed with loca. Basically the loca has to have an even stream of UV light in order to dry. If a portion of it does not dry properly you run the risk of it running across portions that already have. This creates little streams of unevenly dried loca and it gives it this bothersome "spidering" effect because it looks like webs.

Julio Saldana thanks for clearing that up for me. Back when I had the gameboy advance I had a the light that connects to the top of the gameboy so that I could play low light. My second gameboy was that gameboy advance sp which already came with a backlight already installed so I never really experienced the spidering effect.

Ha, yes, apparantly i failed to record that though. It definitely came off

She's a big Nintendo fan

If I come across one at a decent price, sure.

Nimble Mountain a $30 DS Lite is by far the best solution for GBA games. Plus with a $10 flash cart you have the whole DS library always in the console.

Yes, it's a necessary part of the installation

Aaron Chamberlain I was going to recommend the baking soda, or vinegar and a toothbrush. Failing that, desolder and soak

Thankls for the quick reply. I'll probably just remove them then. If I can't get them clean enough then I'll just find a for parts one and replace them.

Sure, can you email me at retrorepairsca@gmail.com. I'd love to check it out

Sorry it took me so long, I'll get on it!

Louie Ramos are you stupid, or just dumb?

It's just the camera not being able to pick up the light very well

It's the camera that can't really pick up the light very well. You can still see the color from the original display

I don't think it would affect the battery life as you're only adding few LEDs to the board.. But I think the light is too bright, and I would recommend adding a small resistor to reduce the brightness. Obviously, there are other more advanced mods that use actual backlit LCD panels, but these require some fancy equipment and a lot of painful and slow work (also they are by far more expensive than this simple one). Check this one here: Part 1: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l6iVZ8qlxsnblY0.html Part 2: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l6iVZ8qlxsnblY0.html (P.S. these are too long videos, so I recommend you skip as much as you can to see what parts you need, what modifications you need to make, and what result to expect)

@@mondherbouazizi4433 Incredible! that is very detailed and helpful! I appreciate your time and effort :) I also appreciate the links, but they both go to the same video. I was able to find part 2 in the sidebar with no problems, though :) Given what I saw in those videos and your advice, I think I will just put a resistor in.

Kedo Gonzalez "We don't make mistakes, only happy little cold solder joints." xD

How dare you compare this guy to the LEGEND that is Bob Ross. Bob is way to nice of a guy to ever admit it, but he would have been offended.

No, they are different sizes

Ash King I think using an actual Color game to demonstrate would've been a better idea, the Pokémon games only have basic palettes added to color them. I think the colors already look a little weak in comparison to an actual Color game, so with the bright light, I do think you get a better effect than with original non-color games. :)

Nice. Is it much different from the oem light?

RetroRepairs it's better than the tube. Much more even. Also more than doubles the battery life switching to led. You should test that game boy against one without the mod to see the difference in battery life

RetroRepairs have you done a game gear? I've picked up a bunch cheap on eBay that were dead and all they needed were new caps. That would be a good tutorial

Matt Hannel I have a game gear, but it didn't need any work. It's something I would keep an eye out for. I'm always looking for new stuff to work on.

Not sure exactly, some multi-tip precision set i found somewhere

Yeah I did, not sure why it didn't make it in to the video though...

KISSbestfan The Pocket can be backlit, the kits for it are only about $10. :)

Exactly. They make backlight kits exactly like what I use for my GB colour

RetroRepairs The Color can't be backlit without changing the entire screen. They don't make kits like that for the Pocket, it's a whole different mod. :)

RetroRepairs If I've learned anything today, it's don't reply to comments when you're half asleep and focused on another task... That's twice I've misinterpreted your replies today, I'm so sorry... xD

I swear i dont remember the screen on the gbc being as awful as it really is. This really makes a huge difference. One thing i might do next time is put a potentiometer on this so the brightness can be adjusted

RetroRepairs oh yea it was always playable and great fun because I guess we didn't know any better back then huh? :) Also isn't there a brightness wheel for the GBC screen? But yea definitely needs to be able to lower the brightness. Neve thought I'd say that about a GBc lol

No, there was a contrast wheel on the og gameboy, but nothing on the colour

Oh yea I remember! My bro had the og fat game boy then we both got GBC for Christmas one year :) I had turquoise and Pokémon blue and he got purple like yours and fire red

Its better, but not phenomenal. It's not a replacement for a proper backlit screen, but it looks better in person than on camera

So far so good here. Could be too much loca maybe?

That's a good idea. It would make for a relatively easy mod, as there's lots of slack in the wires. Could attach another wheel to the side or bottom of the game boy just like the volume knob

It would also help to save battery life to turn it down or off when not needed

You watch Elly Awesome's video on using the AGS-001 panel? :p

No, but i’ve seen the process with that. I just dont particularly care to destroy the front shell and cover up the power LED

RetroRepairs Oops, sorry, I was actually talking to OP who did the mod with the SP panel. Stupid KZfaq reply system, I posted public instead of direct to him. xD I also think we're talking about two different mods. I don't mean Benn Venn's AGS-101 backlit mod, I mean the frontlit mod with the 001 light panel that OP mentioned. Essentially the same as yours but using spare parts instead of buying a kit. :)

Barrel Roll / DoomGuy500 As long as you don't do it every day it shouldn't harm anything

the bit is called triwing, look at ifixit.com

No, the sticker was removed from the front, I just apparantly didn't record it. You'll note that the red dot is absent just prior to installation

RetroRepairs - OK. Just didn't see it in the vid, so thought that might be it. Great video though. Nice job. I'm going to light mine up too after this.

jonny f5ve currently I only sell locally in person. The cost and risk for me to ship isn't worth it.

RetroRepairs I understand.if you do ever start a online store i would diffenetly be interested.i just subbed the other day love ur videos I've been binge watching all your older videos

This mod makes it more desirable to players. Before knowing this mod existed, I would have never even considered buying a GBC and just stuck with my GBA SP and that awkward bulge when playing GB/C games. I've had friends with original GBAs and never understood how they could play their games on that dark mess. Because I know about this mod, I ordered two GBCs and plan on modding both.

Great to hear. It's a cheap and easy way to improve your gbc screen

I can't recall off hand what i have, but i use a smaller conical tip, and a wedge shaped tip. I find the cone tip too small sometimes to hold enough heat unless it's very fine work

Awesome thanks. And one more question. What temperature do you usually set the soldering iron to?

Depends on the type of soldering you're doing. This kind of thing with 60/40 solder works around 600 or 650

Will do. Hopefully it stays nice.

For sure the mod itself is great really bring new life to the gbc but I really wanna try the BennVenn backlight mod

The display certainly looks great, but I have my reservations about essentially destroying the top half of the shell to fit everything in place. I understand the top two screws aren't even usable anymore?

Yeah top two screw points are completely removed. I would only do it on eBay shell or at least my first attempts.

MufasaAM what would caus webbing and how would spiders get in there

No. It's basically glue, doesn't corrode metal and is there to occupy the air gap to make the picture clearer

@@RetroRepairs ok, good to know

You know the old pokemon games don't exactly have color right?

but it looks like black/white screen with no contrast

I just booted it up to double check. Color definitely comes through, maybe my camera isn't picking it up very well.

true, maybe its because that, the lcd is still the same so colors must be there ^^

Or not intro it all ;)

The Last Knight there's definitely no r in the middle of solder, but in North America people pronounce it "Saw-der", not "saul-der"

I've seen that. Only problem is you need to get a back lit screen from a gba (don't have), and you cut up the whole front shell which I'm not a fan of. This is a much less intrusive method, although like you mention, the quality isn't as good as a true back lit screen

I might try that. I also thought about filling the air gap between the front lens and the front light with loca for the best possible image. Im just not sure how thick you can apply this stuff. Might try find a cheap gbc to experiment with

@@RetroRepairs any updates on that?

No, i haven't. I've got another gbc, so might make a video doing this on that. I recently did an original game boy screen and lens recently if you check my videos

I had a couple sent to me. I didn't have a banner on my channel, and they made a logo to match. I might change the logo back, as it doesn't stand out from the banner well

RetroRepairs oh ok! Btw you should create like a twitter for this sort of stuff like feedback, some behind the scenes things and updates, it would be a nice additional promotion of the channel.

Virtual D-Pads are really shitty to use in my opinion.