Any good GBA mods?

[bacteria]

I guess that rules out all the mods then, since overclocking would be useless, afterburner is not that good, LED lighting would be too hard, and case modding would make it useless for me to get a e-reader

I might mod in a TV out circuit though, so let's dedicate this topic to info on that now, please

Afterburner was disappointing. The LED mod sounds great in principle, however there isn't much room in the front of the GBA to do this; I share the thoughts of hailrazer. I don't see how the middle of the screen will get enough illumination.

Sure, you like the idea of the TV out - I suggest you therefore look at my topic on the BigBoy Advance if you haven't already done so. If you require any advice, or to ask questions (I have after all done a fair bit of research and hands-on experimenting on this), feel free to ask in my thread on the BigBoy Advance (link given on my previous post).

Speaking personally; I love some of the games on the GBA system, but find the original GBA (GBAD you call it) too dark to be playable, the GBA SP has a nice screen but it is fiddlier to use due to its shape; hence my mod with the tv-out. I don't see the point of the GBA Micro - the screen on the GBA is too small as it is, without making it smaller!

Had I known then what I know now, I could have desoldered some of the components which are not needed (eg the PSone cable output from the GBA Transverter) and link connectors (I only just got hold of some desolder braid to play with!); I could have laid these two boards end to end, on top of a battery compartment the full size of box, single layer AA batteries (instead of the double layer ones I used) - I could have saved about 3/4" - 1" from the height, and made the project really quite slim (and still easy to get to the GBA cartridge)! No point doing this now, but if I ever need to crack the case open to replace the PSone screen, I may update the mod to make these changes - however I am very happy with what I have at the moment, so no reason to change it.

[vskid]

Overclocking the GBA is fine in an idea, but probably little point. All commercial and homebrew games for the GBA (especially commercial) are designed to run full speed on a standard GBA, so overclocking one will not give extra performance, but would be more likely to increase heat or have some other adverse effect.

Nope, with stuff like these, it increases the speed of the game. Like on my OC'd GBC, walking on a Pokemon game is like riding your bike on a regular GBC. There is a limit though, I think the GBC tops out at about 2x its stock speed, then it becomes unstable. My GBC is OC'd 1.75x and I haven't had any problems with any games. I got my GBA, so I'll be overclocking that as soon as I salvage a crystal of the right speed. I'll post my results.

Afterburner isn't the only frontlight for GBA, a couple people here have put anti-glare film on their screen and put LEDs in front of the screen and had similar results to Afterburner.

Do you have a link to this led mod ? I searched and couldn't find any.

A couple people on the forum said they have, but when I asked for details, I got about as much info as I wrote. I haven't seen any pictures of it.