The matte black with gray buttons looks amazing. You should keep it that way.

When I was a kid I actually had a tiny white bug on my screen. I squished it. Turns out it was inside the screen. He's been squished there ever since.

Been waiting for an SP refurb! Keep up the great work Elliot. Also, loving the new intro.

Great video Elliot, that SP came out really nice, loving the matt finish. Well done :-)

"Don't be doing that." -Elliot

I really like the way the SP came out! Great job as always!

Intro is back! Great stuff. A friend of mine has an sp thats in a bad state and needs to be refurbished in the same way.

You inspired me to rehouse my old SP. You're videos are fantastic and so easy to follow. You're amazing!

It's truly inspiring to see how you work, and how much effort and precisision you manage to put into such thing. Thank you for keeping alive all this devices after so many years since their release.

Perfect timing for this as I’ll be doing mine soon 🙂

Woah, new intro! Also that black mate paint looks gorgeous!!!

Personally I love how the contrast between the black of the case and the gray of the buttons! I think it looks so good and I would keep it like that!

LOVE the new intro. Keep it up man!

That spray painting turned out really well!

I like the matt black and quite like the light button covers with it - different is good!

You are very inspiring,I was scared to mess around with my Gameboy advance so but after watching some of your vedios I was convinced to do my own, love your vedios amongst all those other youtubers, good luck with your work, keep it up

This video of yours was extremely satisfying my dude! Great job!!!!

Well done for fixing and polishing it up nicely. Keep these babies going as long as they can. Mine still works perfectly.

I have been getting in to retro consoles and you inspire me to keep doing what i love doing is fixing history in my hands (also love ur vids)

This was to relaxing bro great job

Thank you for doing this! I have been trying to fix my cousin's old Gameboy advance SP and now I now what I have done wrong!(sadly I f up so band that I Broke the screen and part of the shell before this)

Loved this GB so refurb, and noice new intro!👍🏾👌🏾

Seeing you do one of these makes me smile. Why? Because using a video you did ages ago I bought a cheap beat to hell SP from Ebay and re-shelled it and I still use it to this day, so thanks for that!

The paint looks like it turned out pretty awesome! Nice job!

Wow, that turned out fantastic! Excellent choice with the matte black finish.

I'm loving the new intro man! Different music and different kind of vibe from the original

Idk why i really enjoy watching these repairs to now retro gaming devices. Respect to you even having the knowledge/expertise to do this. You could make a killing if you ever decided to do this as a service.

Omg I loved playing on mine when I was younger. I managed to lose it but found it again a couple of months back. I might give it a bit of a clean as little me was very sticker happy. Great vid dude!

The Retro Future, that was funny when you said “What on Earth is that” by you looking at the LCD screen in this video!

Awesome new intro! Great video, as always!

That's the first video that I seen on your channel and I subscribed when. Your channel is amazing man, love your videos!!! 😊

Can you make a video about how to deal with stubborn screws to remove?

that black suits the sp really well, really cool finish

That was a great video,this was worth watching as I have 3 of these,nice spray job on the casing,I replaced my pink SP to a Nintendo one, as a beginner it was fun doing it.

It looks real nice with the silver buttons. It complements the matte black finish pretty well.

Getting a Blue Game Boy SP with Pokemon Sapphire for christmas was one of the best moments of my life, I had so much fun with that thing

Finally a video I can relate to! I actually mounted a GBA SP 101 using a motherboard I got and getting a replacement shell with buttons, a speaker and a screen. Putting the ribbon cable is sort of hard, but I got used to it I actually had this spare motherboard due to another GBA SP I tried to fix, but I learned that you can't use a frontlit screen with an AGS-101 motherboard. So I fixed than previous one and mounted this one and when I actually saw how the backlit looked, I was so impressed that I sold my old frontlit model

Man, this turned out wonderfully. The paint job looks great, don’t sell yourself short. You mentioned that it looks reminiscent of the IBM ThinkPad, as well as colored buttons... I think it would be really cool if you replaced just the light switch button with a red one as if it were the “pointing stick” mouse of the laptop! Just a suggestion 🙂 Well done as always!

Elliott, I've really missed the intro in the recent videos. Thanks for putting in a new intro. Now it really feels like I'm watching a proper video.

The gba looks beautiful i love it , amazing work

Great work as usual the paint job on it is really good

Love the black and grey look of the SP.

Looks very good! Nice Vid again

That was awesome!! The combination of colors are perfect.

Love the vid, I've always been a huge fan of the Advance SP

I have the EXACTLY the same problem with mine! Thank you for making this video! Though I can’t dare to do it on my own, at least now I know its possible it can be fixed! 😭♥️ (gonna be sending mine to be fully refurbished with a pro, just to be sure I don’t break any parts!)

Oh wow I've only just noticed Ashens is in your intro video that's epic

Great video👍 I feel inspired to give my battered sp a revamp

Looks awesome and I love that screwdriver

That is bloody gorgeous mate!

Finally did my one of these recently. Absolutely infuriating how many small parts there are lol.

I still have my original silver SP AGS-001 which I bought brand new in 2003, still got the box, manuals and even the receipt and credit card slip from purchase. Unfortunately the casing is all scratch up from loads of use but thats OK, it shows its been well used and loved :) And it still works fine too.

Awesome intro dude! Great video!

You're spraying with the can is fine, short bursts back and forth. One thing that may help is using small gator clips on thin dowels. You can clip the frame or inside of the object you're painting and stick them in a block of styrofoam. Lots of model builders use this technique and it allows them to move the piece to get all of the area coated each time they spray.

This video is very very helpful, Thank you so very much for this

Love the new opening!

Paint job came out great

Very cool. The SP’s ribbon cable folding hinge is a headache to deal with. Looks awesome.

Love the video and new intro

Wow that spray paint job came out really clean, great work. I've always had trouble painting stuff, I guess I'm too impatient at the sanding and painting stages to get a nice smooth surface. And yes that is a gba lcd with frontlight bodged on using a 3rd party ribbon adapter.

Looks amazing

I actually really like the black with gray buttons, it looks really good with that little bit of offset color

Why are this videos so satisfying to watch...

I love the color bro I will try this in my Gameboy Advance

Kuru Kuru Kururin was my first game on GBA! Still have great memories of it.

Mint vid as always! You should keep the grey buttons and screw covers, theyre an interesting contrast with the matt black.

The black with the white buttons looks good

another great job mate,very impressive

Clean work .. good job

We all want to know...can you fix GoT's ending?

Bro I almost cried that gameboy looks Beautiful with the white and black

Amazing work 👌

love the new intro!!!

That spray painting looks excellent! I have a matt black SP myself (Original colour) so maybe I'm just biased...

Love the intro! 👍

The SP has my favourite motherboard. No space is wasted and it kind of looks like a crowded city.

Great video - would have liked a bit more explanation regarding the painting prep. What grit sandpaper did you use? What type of primer/paint did you use? Also, in your experience does the spray paint wear off any faster than the original paint? Is it worth it to apply a sealant of some kind?

Nice vid love the sp my fav is the baby blue and pink

awesome channel dude!

It looks so cool. Now I want to repaint my old GBA SP, which looks really bad.

Heck yes! I've been waiting for an advance SP video 😄 I just bought another one yesterday lol

YOU'RE SO TALENTED!!!!!! keep up the good work!😄👍😊👌

Love the channel

Just finished watching a Gameboy color mod by the 8 bit guy and then got a notification for this! Low key on a handheld binge - I love the new intro btw!

Pro-tip: the inside of a Bic Round Stic ink pen fits the hinge clips. Just disassemble a pen then chop of the part of the tip that fits in the tube/body. Open the hinge to the detent and press the piece we cut against the hinge clips. If they don’t retract and pop out a bit from that alone, and often they do, it’s still hollow and you can easily push something through while the clips are retracted. Piece of cake! No cracking the housing or slipping and stabbing yourself.

I did a GBA SP refurb a while ago. My one involved the case and the battery though. It was an interesting time, as superglue was a problem with the console.

Nice job on the paintwork! If you are going to paint outside though , get something like a large plastic tub to put over the pieces when you let them dry, so stuff cant fall into it! :D

That Matte Black looks good!

Great video as usual.

That color looks nice

amazing! good job!

Snazzy new intro. I'm into it.

Ofc after I did a shell swap, you did one. I could have really benefitted from watching you do this if you did it earlier because when I took mine apart it took a long time and I wasn't sure how to reassemble. Took me like 20 mins to figure out how to rip the screen out with the ribbon cable.

I like the black with white buttons/accents!

Ooooh man, we have a new intro! Also, you have to lower the volume during the Patreon credits. It's a bit too loud.

i got my metal teal gba asembled. and WOW!!! metal gba what else do u need. buuuuuut the sp still holds a dear place in my heart. i will always love my sp!! time for a metal version lol

I picked up a Japanese Kuru Kuru Kururin from CEX back at the time it was a new thing and loved it, great game, great looking refurb too :)

I love the white buttons

10 minutes ago I just posted my video game console INSIDE and Game Boy cartridge!! :)

I was always more of a Sega kid, but the Gameboy Advance SP was the only Nintendo that I ever bought new. That clamshell design was so Star Trek that I couldn't pass it up.