OK first start off with some materials
1. Light dispersing panel (All my stuff was taken from an old laptop)

I dremeled out 2 semicircles in the sides so the LED goes in smoothly , and keeps the light all in one place

2. An LED or 2, make em small enough to fit

3. Tinfoil (I included a Pic if you have been in a coma for the past 80 years and dont know what it is)

4. A metallic Sharpie

5. Some white plastic that was on the bottom of the screen from the laptop

6. Some polarized film I found on ebay (Got some from ebay the size of paper for $3, I chucked the one in the laptop)

7. A NEW razor Blade

8.-Optional-A new screen Lens (Found on ebay for $5)

9.-Optional-A power switch

-Box o Materials-

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Now how to build it!
1. Take apart the Gameboy using a triwing screwdriver (As found here)


2. Now remove the screen mobo from the main mobo

3. Now remove all the screws from the screen mobo backing

4. Now pry the mobo off the casing, it will be stuck on so gently do this
5. Now remove the two screws (Small) in front of the screen

6. Now peel off the reflective layer off the glass using your NEW razor blade, after it should be just the glass

6-2. Apply too much pressure to the screen, and it will make a pop sound and look like this

6-3. There will be some stickyness left behind, take your time peeling it off.
Now take off your shoe, take off your sock, put your hand in the sock, put two fingers together cticking out of the sock, spray windex on them, now rub off the glue from the back of the screen (I know im so professional!)
7. Now cut off part of the plastic around the screen to make room for the panel, or drill holes if you let the light shine through

See where the part is missing?

8. Desolder time. Remove the indicated parts with you soldering iron

8-You should end up with the Power LED from the front, and two resistors as so

9. Now here is the wiring Diagram

10. Now wire up the -OPTIONAL- power switch like so

if you dont know how to wire on up just solder on opposing pins

11. Put the metallic shrapie on 3 of the 4 sides, leaving one of the shorter sides untouched (This traps the light, or use more tinfoil)

12. Now to assembly the backlight, put the tinfoil under the light dispersing panel

13. Put the white panel ontop (I dont know what it is, but it helps keep the light not so bright, and makes it look cooler)

14. Now remove some of the mobo so the switch can fit (Upper right hand part of screen)

After

15. Now put your resistor that was removed earlier where I showed in the diagram, and wire that to the positive terminal, then solder the negative terminal to the ground source where the LED used to be

16. Slide in the film ontop of the light panel


17. Now cut away part of the case for the new switch

18. install the switch, put it all together, and now your playing with power (Yes I know thats a nes slogan)

The final Product!!


Did I leave anything out?
Let me know

Can you get the stuff from Ebay instead of an old laptop

Maybe, I dont know.
Trying to skip out on our deal huh?

This is nice, but doesn't anyone have a guide for MGB instead of DMG? I have seen literally dozens of DMG back lighting guides, but NONE for the MGB. Zero. What gives? I imagine there are differences, but until I know what those are I am really reluctant to fiddle with the backing on my MGB's screen.

whats MGB? the pocket?
I want to write one up...but I forget how to do it after I took apart and ruined mine

The MGB is a lot more risky. I think me and Bibin are the only ones on the net, along with Sony, to do it! Yay us!

Sony, this is a fantastic guide!

Indeed, a nice DIY guide. I am working on a way to help eliminate some of the risk involved in doing the Pocket mod. Most of the risk comes from the grey ribbon cable attached to the screen, which is flimsier than most and can be easily damaged. You can, however, desolder the connection located at the bottom of the LCD safely (if you do it right) and reassemble it without too much trouble or special tools. This allows you to move the ribbon away during the removal of the adhesive. That's the second problem with these, which is that stupid adhesive backing on the two layers. On the old DMG it just peels off in one piece almost, but on the pocket it tends to be a huge mess.

i peeled the pocket in one piece, there was even no stickyness left, on my first attempt i left some though

This guide is awesome! If only it would've been done a day earlier, I probably wouldn't have ruined my DMG If I ever get another DMG, I will totally backlight it with step by step pictures instead of this guide ->

has anyone else tried this. i would love to see a better pic of the finished product.

i cant decide whether to use this, der warst's or bibin's tutorial

Do not use der warst's. It looks so bad, so terribly bad.

anyone want to stickyify this?