Alright! I finally fixed the battery (batterie? batterey?) problem. here is what I had trouble with: When the batterys were fully charged, the screen ran fine, because the batterys were at 1.4V each. But once the battery's started getting power taken from them, they quickly (in about 20 minutes) dropped to 1.2V each. That's only 4.8V! Not enough for the backlight to work right, and it was unplayable.
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So what I did was turn the 4 AA compartment into a 5 AAA compartment. That way I had 6V when they dropped to 1.2V each
Problem solved.
I also replaced the velcro since it wasn't holding it shut anymore. I put a "Super Rare Earth Magnet" in place of the velcro. I got it from those smart and friendly friendly radio shack people. It only took 2 weeks of asking for them to order the damn magnet! And of course they told me it would be in one week, then when I got there "it's another week. Sorry."
anyways, it works awesome! Once the lid gets to about a 45 degree angle you can just let it slip into place. It's very cool. And it's easy to pry off, yet will never fall off accidentally
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Anyways, to the pics before you fall asleep!
It was quite tricky to fit the AAA's in there. I had to take a 2 AAA holder and a 3 AAA holder, cut off the sides, dremel certain areas, dremel the GBO case some, then wire and hot glue in place.
The magnet was easy! Remove old velcro, superglue in place, paint over. It's a very small, but powerful magnet. I plan to use them for my battery llids on my N64P.
Screen playing Ninja Gaiden. The picture looks very washed out and blurry due to the camera (stil getting used to it ya see...), but it's very clear and crisp in real life.
One other small improvement I did was to get rid of that awful electrical tape around the screen edges. It looked awful. Instead I used permanent marker. It scratches every now and then, but it's easy to fix, and it looks ood.
One thing I am goona fix later (I'n too tired right now..), every now and then the contrast will all a sudden just turn off. Thwapping the case restores it, so I guess it's a loose solder lead.
I'll be taking pics of the whole system when there is some good light (I can do that now that I have a camera!), it's been really dark and gloomy these days. Oh, and I'll make a page for it. Maybe with a short how-to.
any updates, you WILL be informed . 
