Like most of you, I enjoy the earlier gameboy models. However, I hate not being able to play when it is dark and you dont have acces to a lamp or do but are unable to use it(i.e. in a hotel room with other people at 2:30 A.M.). I also dont have the money for a back/frontlighting kit. My idea was that i drill holes in the case around the screen and attach a currently unknown number of LEDs to illiuminate the screen. My 2 major concerns are the LEDs breaking if the gameboy is droped, and the LEDs being too bright and cant be used(see above example).Any feedback as to the likelyhood of this working,recomendations on how to do it, LED placement, color used, or problems that I have not seen is greatly appreciated.

There's no need to drill anything.
I'm currently doing the same thing to my DMG, and I got really good results.
Soon, I will finish it, and post pics and a tutorial.
I'm using two white LEDs, and, believe,me it's enough.
With my system, the lights can be turned ON and OFF, if you think it will drain the battery.

Even better then. Pics and a tutorial would be great. And thanks for the confirmation that it could be done. But due to other people in the room being annoyed by bright lights, i think I'm going to use red/blue/green LEDs. Haven't decided just yet.

Well, you're welcome!
No need to change the color of the LEDs.
Just diffuse them with some sandpaper.
Search on Google for "diffuse leds" and you should find the best method. Not difusing them, however, may cause you to have headaches. At least that happens to me.

thanks again. That will come in very useful when i get around to actually doing this.

No modifications are necessary. You can get a wormlight for less than it would cost you to buy LEDs and a link cable.

I'm not sure if they made them for the DMG, though, but you could use an adapter.

Exactly what I thought...

Wormlights suck.

An led mod would look better.

Debatable...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9CTFnl9THM&feature=related

OMG that looks terrible. Did you even look at the pic in the description ? He shows how it looks in the dark and it is absolutely horrible.

glare is suck, and it's no fun. go to a gas station get a led flash light, crack open a game boy and... you can do the math here right? also I saw some stuff I think it was on hack a day where some one modded even the color backing on the screen so it was completely red, not green. looked killer. Might be on benheck forums can't find it on hackaday.... any way do the mod learn more ignore impatient users with little posts and no real contributions. (sorry but you've railed to be more lazy jack)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNmWKUAQ ... re=related

here you go...

any way the more you do your self the more you learn

You mean an external LED mod like he was considering doing or internal? Internal would not look better (in my opinion, at least), and a wormlight is just an external LED. A DIY alternative would be much more annoying than just spending 3 bucks on a wormlight.

I mean not getting your hands dirty will teach YOU nothing. Get them Dirty, inspire better work.

Can't argue that.

Can't discount much of it, unless your hands are cut off.

As for wiring, just hook up the new LEDs in parallel to the power LED that's already in it (they'll only light up when hooked in a certain way)...just make sure to put the right current limiting resistors in series with the new LEDs so you don't burn them out.