Game Boy – The original, iconic handheld from Nintendo required 4 AA batteries and had a green, monochrome screen. There is an excellent bi-verted backlight mod available for it that really brings out the sharpness of the screen and (in my personal opinion) makes playing on. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Nintendo Gameboy Original Play it Loud DMG With Backlight and Bivert Mod Backlit at the best online prices at eBay!
The first step is to remove the back cover of the DMG. There are six screws, and depending on when your Gameboy was made, they are either going to be triwing or phillips. Triwing screws, for those of you unfamiliar, are Nintendo’s favorite way to make opening their products just ever so slightly more irritating. If you don’t want to spend a couple dollars on a triwing driver, you can do what I did and use a small flathead in one of the three slots in the screws. It’s not super difficult, but you definitely want to be careful to avoid stripping the screws. There’s four obvious ones on the back of the Gameboy, and two inside the battery compartment. You’ll need to remove all of these.
Once you take those screws out, don’t pull the Gameboy apart quickly. There’s a fairly short ribbon connector connecting the screen half of the Gameboy to the circuitry half. Carefully hinge unit so the screen half is face down on your desk with the circuitry portion sticking vertically upward. You could disconnect the ribbon cable at this point (it’s a ZIF socket, so the connector just slides out), but I didn’t want to bother having to reconnect it when I was done. You can do this repair quite easily without having to put this connector back in.
Hey, I was thinking about modding my DMG and I wanna go all out. Here are the mods I want to use:
Gameboy Dmg Screen Replacement
- batt_dmg : shows when the battery is low (http://store.kitsch-bent.com/product/batt_dmg)
- V³ Triple LED Backlight : Just a backlight (http://www.nonelectronics.com/catalog/i … 4s2u26h904)
- Pro sound 1/8' jack : Better sound, either an easy prebuilt pcb (http://store.kitsch-bent.com/product/pc … -pro-sound) or the classic one (http://www.nonelectronics.com/catalog/i … 4s2u26h904)
Also, I'm painting my case, changing the buttons and replacing the screen protector. I don't think this would be a problem, since it doesn't involve current.
Nintendo Game Boy Model Dmg-01
So, what do you guys and girls think?