How did you get my mom's toothbrush...?

I love how every one of these GBC mod videos I watch showcases Pokemon Crystal, which is actually the reason I'm modding my old grape GBC. Successfully replaced my speaker and a dozen cart batteries without killing anything, so I figured I'd treat myself to my first major project build (most of the parts should hopefully be in by Saturday). IPS kit + case, some clear buttons/membranes, LED flex board, LiPo battery kit, amp board, and some replacement caps because supposedly those are good to change out. Going to be super tricked out by the time I'm done. Yours is the only tutorial I've seen that talked about the possibilities of shorts, so with all the stuff I'm throwing in I guess I'd better be extra cautious about that. Retro Game Repair shop has an amazing selection of stuff, but I also wanted to shout out Handheld Legend for having a lot of product overlap, but also having a lot of smaller mods and accessories that RGR doesn't. Between the two, as far as I can tell you can get a pretty complete catalog of hardware mods, stickers, shells etc. To anyone on the fence about trying stuff like this; get a cheap soldering kit online and practice with some Gameboy batteries or a cheap soldering project. It's really not as difficult as it seems once you've gotten some practice, and being able to mod/repair your old stuff is a really satisfying skill to have.

The quickest, cheapest and easiest way to learn soldering is to solder a cube out of wires of different thickness. You can even use paper-clips for that, mix them up with different sizes of wire, use spare metal parts, what ever you have lying around.

I was super nervous while doing it, but watching this video over and over helped alot.

Man, the best tutorial! Thank you so much, first ever modding project of mine turned out great thanks to your guidence! Thank you for sharing your experience too with the tips and everything! Greetings from Hungary

It looks gorgeous tbh

Great video. Awesome collection you have back there. Thanks for sharing. Subscribed.

Just finished, thanks so much! I was nervous for the soldering but it turned out great! Thanks so much for the tutorial it really helped.

just followed this video step by step and modded my first Gameboy Color!! Awesome video dude :^)

This is a legit clean build 🔥🔥🔥 Gameboy Color be looking amazing 🤩

God dang that's clean! I do wish I had this as a kid.

I just purchased the Gameboy Color Charmander 🔥👏🏼💯🙏🏼. Thank you.

I was a young adult when I had my GBC lol. But, yes, would've much rather had this one. Nice work as always.

This is awesome

I knew he was serious when he whipped out the Zenni glasses. 😂

I ordered this kit for one of my gameboy colors. I got a nice pikachu shell to go with it too.

I just uses a reading light, but I do want to get a separate GBC to mod at some point.

i used to have a little light that plugged into the transfer port, also had a logitech light magnifer too.

those childhood memories were accurate, to the parents yelling at us 🤣

😂 the street ligjt one hit hard af 😂😂

The two peels part!! 😆

The actual AD sponsor word was clean!

Hey Jake, your videos inspired me to get in into modding, just got my materials, and ordered my LED v2 GBC screen. I was wondering, how to you figure pricing when you sell your modded GB's?

Nice I have the same one only instead of a white screen I have a black one.

i remember having a clip on torch powered by the headphone socket on mine.

Talking about holding the game boy up to the window for light. "Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch! I was there when it was written."

1:57 Well that saves me from watching the rest of the video I guess.

Cool video

So Beautiful 🤩 man amazing 🤩

I mean the basic gameboy color is an spectacular quality system with lots of amazing games, but a good quality backlight lcd makes an already amazing system better

This video is perfect

I called the gameboy a few years back and it actually still was in service ,I’m not sure if it is anymore though

I had a gameboy color when I was in my 20s. My friends and I used it throughout college. We had a link cable to connect 4 players. People would watch us play it at lunch.

Hey jake, is there a chance in the future you will make another all-white GBA again? Identical to the one that you have as a thumbnail you have on your website. I would definitely buy one.

Playing by street light in the car... memories.

Do you have tips for fixing the light spill? I installed my screen with the black sticker for light spill but am still getting some towards the top

Can any one recommend a good solder kit the one he uses is out of stock? Thanks

DAMN, all the kits I find are smaller or for custom shells/not just drop in. Man I gotta learn basic electronics skills and soldering 😅 I want to tinker with some of my other stuff and my guitars…

I have a gameboy colour and trust me you help me alot 😎

Can you add the buttons down here as well

Next step: Sending these back in time to our younger selves...

The game boy color and light.

Do you ever worry about crossing wires since you use all the same color? I tend to use several colors and label them in a notebook.

Ps you should know that KZfaq inserted ads right after your line "here's a word from our sponsors." Apparently you are sponsored by McDonalds now.

Such a great explainer😊 video. Can you do the same with GBA !!!

I use the same thing, but for some reason the start button dont work anymore??? Can somebody help?!

I’m nervous about soldering. Do you have a video that teaches it?

Hey! I have a question!? It looks like something poked through my ribbon cable where the little connector plugs into the back of the screen. The screen still works but looks like images get burnt and the images all start over lapping. Do you think I just need to replace my cable or is the screen garbage too

Thanks for the tutorial! Just modded my brother’s Christmas gift 🎁

Does anyone know what kind of wires are included with the screen to solder? Mine did not come with enough to solder the touch sensor!

With these mods do they play any regular games

The only problem I have is the only Gameboy Color I have is a near mint Pokémon Yellow Special Edition.

Nice build Jake, what's a good site to buy japanese consoles?

I accidentally bought an extremerate shell, but just bought a funnyplaying screen with your code. Gonna have to cut the shell so we’ll see how it goes lol

Hey question I bought the kit and installed the 2.0 version, ribbon said 2.7 version so it pops up a display when I hold start and select. But I can't seem to change the different color options for each word just the whole thing to a different color? Any ideas on the new version? Ty

Where can I get this shell from? I can’t find it.

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Hehe I have 100% ipa. No… I really do have it, and it melts through gunk like no tomorrow but mine smells like it has some methanol not water so it’s gonna smell awful. P.S. It’ll only smell like that tho for about a day then it will smell like almost nothing.

At 21:41 i sware man i I had cold sweats 😂🥶

i want a snorlax one

If the shell screw holes are too skinny, how do you widen them?

Your intro explained my childhood to a T hahaha. Also, I don't have my mom's toothbrush can I use my aunts or cousins as a supplement?

Where to buy gbc games like Pokémon at a reasonable price

Hi Is it necessary cut the pins of mb?

God God God

Actually, no, I don't, 'cause I had a worm light.

Imagine not having back lit LCDs in the 90s... Oh wait... I don't have to. Thanks Jake!

VA reparar modificar su Nuevo juego chico .

The low price of $160

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You don't use flux, so from my opinion your soldering is crap.

I don't know man maybe I'm the odd one out but I feel like it's blasphemy to replace the screen. I know technically it's superior in every way but I feel like it's putting a brand new Corvette motor in a classic Chevy. It's cool to most people but to purists they kind of cringe.