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I know this is an old thread but does anyone have any diagrams i can look at to wire in the front light from an SP into my gameboy color?

So i have done a lot of searching and seems the best way to go with screen modding for the gba is to just take the frontlight out of a SP. Now what i was wondering now is has anyone ever made a slip-open cover to go over the screen to protect it when not in use? kinda like the style used in the SP ...

you are able to buy just the frontlite screen for a SP

I was reading up online about modding the screen for a gameboy color or gameboy advance, seems that the best way is to get a frontlit SP and use that for modding. Now what i was also wondering is if it is possible to replace the screen on either a gbc or gba with the SP screen. I know that the ...

Battery tabs are a female of the dog species to solder to. What I did that worked was I poked a hole in the tab, stripped two inches or so of wire, and looped it through the hole, then soldered the wire to itself. Then I took some aluminum foil, jammed it in between the two nice and tight, and ...

would have to be almost paper thin. the problem is the pins are not even bent to fit down into holes. i went looking back on the site and there are other buttons just like it but with longer pins. however i am unable to buy thoughs cause its not sold on the site anymore.

i got the buttons you suggested but there is a problem. they dont fit in pc board. the pins are not long enough. what can i do?

those are just what i was looking for. and those are the same batteries i had gotten before but while trying to solder the wires to the connects i fried them. any suggestions on how to avoid that in the future?

I started a portable SNES last summer and abandoned it once school started up but now school is done and i got the craving to finish the thing. i am almost done just need to complete the controller and a new battery pack.
I wanted to know where i could get push-button triggers to use for the ...

Valium wrote:As long as the backlight is grounded somewhere, it's fine.

so that is the right spot to ground the back wire from the screen then?

You LED modded it right? If you did, you should just leave it all the up. It won't make much of a difference on the battery life. If not, you should leave the buttons on it, if you're playing in a well lit room, maxed brightness is a little too much.

Also, you can just desolder the buttons and ...

do i really even need the brightness buttons, will they make much of a difference or should i just turn the screen to max brightness and leave it like that?

i got 12000 mcd LEDs and they seem to be bright enough. you should also try using 4 LEDs, it gives it a move even lighting. you wont need anything extra for 4 LEDs you just wire it in with the others and use the same resistor. i got mine from http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main ...

Use a normally open button for the volume and contrast buttons, but yeah- any should work.

I would suggest connecting both left and right audio, but it's up to you if you connect one, both, or neither. You've also got to supply power by the way- that's another wire you need to hook up. ;)

As far ...

I was wondering how easy it is to move the volume and screen brightness buttons on my zenith screen and if any type of push button would work for it. also i know this is off topic but i am going to connect the wires for video and audio to the screen and i noticed that there are 4 wires i need to ...