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Your distributor is pulling your leg, then. Nintendo doesn't make gameboy color screen cover replacements anymore, and the screen covers never looked like that. Those are quite clearly reproductions. Look at how spaced out the "color" text is.

The screen covers are original. They look odd because they have a plastic film over them. It just caught the light in my photos.

Original as in genuine, or made by you? Because authentic ones don't have protective plastic on them.

http://www.choochoobot.com/builds/game-boy-color-mod-pics/gbc ...

I would suggest doing a GBP backlight mod! I have done several, you can make your own LED backlight, buy premade ones, or if you are super hardcore, you can use an electroluminescent panel (As far as I know, I am the only person to pull that particular way off).

EL backlighting has been done a ...

The battery life feels the same to me so no need to worry about in draining batteries.

It feels the same? You'll probably find the added current draw is considerably higher if you do a multimeter test. Probably somewhere around 20% or more.

It's more efficient to shape the panel down and put it ...

The gameboy pocket screen is the only real alternative. It's possible, and has been done, but it'll be somewhat of a pain to wire, and won't be a straight up swap.

Wormlights suck.

An led mod would look better.

You mean an external LED mod like he was considering doing or internal? Internal would not look better (in my opinion, at least), and a wormlight is just an external LED. A DIY alternative would be much more annoying than just spending 3 bucks on a ...

No modifications are necessary. You can get a wormlight for less than it would cost you to buy LEDs and a link cable.

I'm not sure if they made them for the DMG, though, but you could use an adapter.

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crap wrote:

Did my username seriously filter to 'crap'?

But yeah, you can use a cellphone battery.

I don't mean to be discouraging, but you will not, under any circumstances, get good results with using pcb mount LEDs. They're not designed for front lighting, you need something else to distribute the light. The only practical way to do this would be like I said, make it external and have the led ...

That's not really going to work. If you need the screen lit up with a normal LED, you should make it external and use the 5v (with a resistor, of course) from the link port.

The reason front lighting works with SPs and such is because there is a plastic sheet that has been etched to evenly ...