Guide to frontlight a Gameboy Color
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Hey guys I recently modded my Gameboy Color to have a frontlight from a GBA SP in it. Doing this mod was a blast, so I decided to make a guide. Visit this link to get started building your own front lit Gameboy Color. http://www.choochoobot.com/builds/gameb ... d-001.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Guide to frontlight a Gameboy Color
This is a pretty good guide. It seems a lot more thorough than a lot of other guides. Thanks for sharing!
By the way, is there a way to solder the wires without melting the ribbon cable? I'm a newbie to things like this. Any tips you can give me?
By the way, is there a way to solder the wires without melting the ribbon cable? I'm a newbie to things like this. Any tips you can give me?
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Re: Guide to frontlight a Gameboy Color
Ahhhh I can see your concern and trust me I worried about that too. A thin tip for your solder gun will help you get in narrow places. If your nervous about soldering practice on wires, a perf board, or start with a more simple circuit. I have messed up my fair share of GBA SP frontlight ribbon cables in the process of making my own so don't feel bad if you mess up.
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Re: Guide to frontlight a Gameboy Color
Yeah, I'm pretty worried, I can't really get access to many frontlight sp's for a decent price even if they're broken. What type or gauge of wire did you use?
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Re: Guide to frontlight a Gameboy Color
Thanks! I might also paint the outside of my GBC. Purple isn't exactly the color I like. Maybe silver on the front and then make the back black.
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Re: Guide to frontlight a Gameboy Color
I just got some 22 gauge wire. I didn't know whether to choose between solid or stranded. I picked solid, is that ok?
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Re: Guide to frontlight a Gameboy Color
I like to use stranded in all my mods. But when I prototype on my breadboard I like solid. You should be fine with solid wire for your Gameboy.
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Re: Guide to frontlight a Gameboy Color
I've had a thought. Somebody said something about the color being washed out from the mod. I heard about anti reflective film for the screen to prevent that. Where would I happen to find this?
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Re: Guide to frontlight a Gameboy Color
Nah you won't need any anti reflective film. Those films are used in Backlight mods. In our mod the light is in front of the screen. Hence it being called a frontlight mod. If your screen looks washed out when your mod is done it means that your frontlight is flipped the wrong way.
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Re: Guide to frontlight a Gameboy Color
Oh, I thought I would have to put one on the lcd, but I'm glad that I don't have to do that.
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Re: Guide to frontlight a Gameboy Color
I finally got the donor sp. Just waiting on the srewdrivers to come in the mail. The sp has some problems, so I don't feel bad about killing a fully working one. I paid 5 bucks for it as-is.
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Re: Guide to frontlight a Gameboy Color
I've been thinking. Is there a significant loss in battery life, or is there no loss at all? Nobody has really complained about it, but one of my friend brought the question up when I told him I was going to mod my gbc.
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Re: Guide to frontlight a Gameboy Color
Nice grab on the 5 dollar SP. Mine were $24 a piece.... . The battery life feels the same to me so no need to worry about in draining batteries.