In the next 25 years or so I bet we'll have holographic videogames you play using the dimensions of your bedroom, that by todays standards, would be considered way too advanced
@@nickz5849 probs not, it'll just be advancing what we have now, with vr getting much more slimmed down and cheaper. moors law also seems to be slowing so vr gaming will probably be great in 20 years
David, if you turn the brightness all the way down, the screen will work just like an original GBC reflective screen, so you can save up on battery life if you need to.
I was rather disappointed that he skipped the brightness control wires. I mean, the gbc was already disassembled and it didn't seem any more difficult to solder to those pads.
I think the funniest thing about this is the memory of when the GB Advanced had a backlit screen, my mom refused to get it for me saying "backlit screens are harder on your eyes" haha
it was more expensive. my dad was just like your mom except he would try the convince me that the shittier one was better in some way. he would never just be honest.
@@Patrick_AUBRY GB Boy Colour has your back. Go onto AliExpress (Chinese wholesaler) and buy one. It'll cost £25-£30 and it'll replace anything that you have. The only thing it lacks is the ability to use a link cable..
@@longlostwraith5106 Same with NES ROMs. After ignoring them for 30 years they now strike down anything since they noticed there’s a community of retro fans.
They took down emuparadise now 3do games are hard asf to find along with the full collection of vintage power mags and game guides gj nintendo we lost a gaming archive.They dont care because they can do what ever they want they release a new smash or pkmn game example people are stupid enough to buy it.
I've been waiting 6.000 years for a viable backlit mod.. Now i can finally start working on my buddy's Gameboy Color. My friend and i are both in our mid 20's but he will definitely love the end result!. Thank you for the video dude. :- )
Thankfully, Nintendo doesn’t follow that trend as much as other companies. While I am indeed a fan, I know they are not perfect. But it’s still admirable that they focus on fun mechanics to make games. Hell, the Switch was influenced by Super Mario Odyssey’s development team. That lead to a system that has unique and fun ways to experience games.
Casper Randominator - Yeah, I tried it, but I completely lost any interest in it within half an hour. I couldn’t make heads or tails of it. I have no desire to try it again, honestly.
Evangelos Killer mike - Yeah, some of the experiences allowed by today’s tech are downright amazing! However, it does occasionally feel like companies go “Look how powerful our systems are” or “Look how expansive how game is” without paying close enough attention to finer details. Now, I’m not saying for a moment that all games are like that. I have immense respect for developers who yank the last kilogram of power out of a system to create an amazing adventure. But right now, it feels like people are chasing 4K and not aiming for 60fps as often. 60fps always feels better to me.
CORRECTION: The Game Boy Color's bootrom contains several unique palettes for original Game Boy games (including nearly every pre-GBC first party game) which are initiated as default when it reads the cart's ROM header. In fact, it's more robust than how the Super Game Boy interprets color for non-enhanced games
Well, the problem with this implementation is that the color is static throughout the game. The SGB can receive palette change commands from SGB enhanced games like Pokémon Red (for example, going from one area to another). The CGB, can’t.
@@StrobeFlashLite I was about to say this! This is one of my favorite features of playing older Game Boy games on a Game Boy Color. Makes games look really cool in different ways and you can change it when you start them up every time!
I'm always amazed at how good the old classic games look on a modern screen. Emulators can even hack some of the 3D games like Mario 64 to display in 16:9 ratio with the right settings.
Hey I just wanted to say I have been watching your videos for years now. My first exposure to your content was actually the backlight mod from 2014. I love your videos and the care that you take with all of your Restorations and Documentaries. Keep up the great work!
Personally I would've used a 6v RC Car battery pack where the DC Jack goes, like it is on the REAL pack.. or just get a 5 cell series AA holder and use 1.2v AA cells (or even C and D). That's fine too #ProblemSolved
@referral madness -with a lighter. I did this to fix a friend's Gamecube and it worked AMAZINGLY well. I could even sometimes get 2 screws unscrewed with 1 pen. Now it's 2020 and I have an $8 screwdriver set that handles just about anything
I feel it worth to make known to you that in the case of Axanar, there WAS a legitimate case of copyright infringement in the form of Alec Peters, the man at the helm, openly stating online on his own site (which he, upon being filed against, immediately removed) as well as in other locations that post production of Axanar he intended to rent out the studio, thus profiting in the end from an IP that they had no legal right to. Additionally, he openly stated that the project only required about $500k to make, thus making pocketing the $1 million in crowdfunded money and the construction of the studio to begin with an additional violation of the copyright protecting CBS's claim to the Trek IP. The funniest thing is Alec Peters's day job is playing lawyer. He KNEW what he was doing, and did it anyway. I have no sympathy for him. He got in my opinion what he knew could have happened and likely deserved. It is unfortunate that it led to the curtailment of Trek fan fic on this platform, but the worse and more heinous act would have been to allow the project to continue to potentially damage the Trek IP when it comes to the furtherment of canon, as it would have done with Season 1 of Discovery chasing the same content. And I'm not really looking for your opinion on Disco here, just presenting you facts as well as my general opinion.
@@tomlindo2863 - I thought the same. A 9V li-ion battery might fit in the place of 2 penlights. It probably requires a voltage regulator to prevent burning the thing by U=I*R when different parts of the system power up.
@@manuell3505 U? What is U? I know I is current and R is resistance.. Anyway, if you used such a pack, I'd hope you have a voltage regulator wired to the GBC main positive and negative to spit out a constant 3v (edit: or 3.3v is fine too, considering a fully charged AA one time use battery is like 1.6v)
very cool to see this initial version of this. I just modded a Gameboy I bought that was parts for repair that had pretty significant PCB damage and needed many traces repaired and I had to rebuild the button contact pads so it is pretty rough on the inside but I got it working again and decided to replace the very badly damaged screen with the new Retro Pixel IPS LCD mod. It requires quite a lot of case modification but I just slowly shaved it back with a knife until I got it perfect and soldered up the new screen added a rechargeable battery pack and it is amazing now. Feels great to play and since the screen is actually large and backlit it is an awesome experience especially since it is all original hardware running the games.
John Knight you would need to change the arrangement of the cells. 2x2 would give a max voltage of 8.4v while the max with fresh AAs is slightly under 7v. A quick and dirty hack would use a diode with a 1v+ voltage drop.
I remember very well back in GB/GBC time when try to find the right angle that allowed you to see something was part of the game itself! Backlight screen, a wet dream when I was a child but today, play Super Mario Land or Pokemon without see a thing is pure "Childhood flavor"
When doing these mods, look into the glass replacement screen protectors available all over the internet. Scratch resistant and much better viewing, they usually come with repro graphics on them so they look like an original part.
I can’t believe how good it looks. I just dug up my gameboy collection. It’s cool and all to see a color with a backlight but really the damn screen is still too small. It’s just better to play them on the sp IMO. Emulation is cool and all on the pc or psp or phone but the real deal is way more fun for some reason
@@user-pi5xz5je4y And yet I've never been able find a working C64 :( What is with that thing breaking down? They all seem to have bad PLA chips. I have two VIC-20s and they work perfectly fine...even though they're older!
Why would you buy a Switch or a C64 to play SMB when you can play the original rom on almost anything? It would be a 1000 times easier to get a copy of SMB and an NES or Famiclone than to find a working C64 and the hardware necessary to run SMB C64.
was thinking of getting a gameboy color recently and just saw this video, a backlight would be nice but man this is too much effort for me XD, great content man!
Ok, weird comment, but I really appreciate the clean, trimmed nails and cuticles. It never fails to squick me out when someone is doing a modding video and their closeup has dirty fingernails (shudders).
Agreed. And I don't know why every video I've seen about this screen thinks the viewers are blind, because they all claim it's barely noticeable or you can hardly tell. I have eyes, they work, and I'm not stupid: I can clearly see 3 different colors of "bezel" before I actually get to the image. The makers of this screen really need to include a new screen protector that covers up all the extra dead space. I wouldn't mind the smaller viewable screen if I didn't have to see all the borders.
I was thinking the same thing. Really does look off, when you're expecting the original screen size, and then that extra bezel looks bizarre. I was really surprised he didn't mention that.
there is a company that makes lenses for those new GBC screens, and they fit perfectly. Also this mod is not the cleanest one, there is one available where you cut only the bottom frame.
Huh, this explains why my GB color is so dim. I turned it on for the first time in years, and just assumed the backlight stopped working, lol "The More You Know!" Nice mod, may need to give this a go myself now.
Benefit of having double pixel resolution is that you have 4X the pixels pumping out color which means the LCD wash out effect is negated. Beautifully done!
I'd highly recommend the BennVenn screen option over MW Embedded - the battery life is drastically better. And, y'know, BennVenn kinda pioneered this stuff.
I'm aware of the pinball lag issue with the early V1 of the PCB, but what is supposed to be wrong with everdrives? I have an Everdrive X3 that seems to be working fine.
@@JonathosDX multiple people on the Krikzz forum have reported that the graphics freeze but the audio keeps playing when using the X7 with the BennVenn mod.
Interesting. Haven't seen any real complaints elsewhere. Everdrives do have pretty high power draw, though - if the GBCs needed new caps and were already straining, I could definitely see a backlit screen pushing it over the edge. Though I'd suspect any of the kits would cause issues, given BV and MW both use the same actual screen.
Wow, the screen itself does look phenomenal. The doubled pixel density really makes for a razor-sharp image. Still, most folks would be just as happy with the backlit GBA SP, model AGS-101.
@@erik19borgnia lol i paid $134 for my gba sp ags 101, 2 weeks ago and it was used on ebay and it was the cheapest one that was not broken and didnt have actual teeth marks on it, and it did come with plenty of scratches
@@jasonbrown467 I was talking about just the screen to do the mod. And it was a year ago. Now they are even more expensive. I actually got this screen last year (the Midwest Embedded one) and I'm pretty happy with it. In the last year I played a lot of games in my GBC and it was a blessing to be able to really see.
@Bailey Washington I really prefer the correct/original colors of the GBC as well. That's why I couldn't stand playing GBC games on an AGS-101 (even most GBA games show incorrect colors on the backlit screens). The solution for people like us right now is sadly only in emulators that offer color correction. Gambatte (a Retroarch core) is extremely accurate and also supports color correction. I've found that using it on a Nintendo 3DS gives something really close to what an actual GBC with backlight would have been like.
@@Izquierda There are a lot of reasons for this. Gameboy Color and (especially) early Gameboy Advance games were designed with the reflective LCD displays in mind. Because of how they work, they are naturally dimmer than a backlit LCD. These games tend to look washed out when played on a much brighter backlit screen. In my opinion, a PROPER front light would be best if you're looking for a Gameboy Color with authentic color. If you take a front light out of an AGS-001 GBA and fit it into a GBC, it looks fantastic. There are some aftermarket front light kits, but they're pretty terrible. If a proper front light kit was ever made (with a good light panel like the AGS-001 had) I think it would be the best solution.
10:17 i love that the 8 Bit Guy loves games but isn't very good at playing them haha (just a fun observation here btw, he's just demonstrating the games lol)
I mean, I recall an older video of his called "Rebuild a laptop battery pack" where he said "total bull", but edited in an image of a stamped "bullshit", if that counts.
Bro, you just made me so excited to visit my mom. I'ma look for my old GBC and do this mod to it. Along with a couple other mods. I love the future, thank you. Thumbs up 👍
0:50 "I think that game developers were too busy trying to "Wow!" consumers with graphics and they kind of forgot that game needs to have good gameplay."
nice job on that clear case mod! it came out looking really nice... and finally the GB Color is worth playing!...if only it had some more colorful games!
Yes, but Gameboy / Gameboy Color games stuck out of the SP quite a bit making it uncomfortable and the games looked tiny on screen as it had the same issue the regular Advance did. Also there were 2 models of the SP released, the AGS-101 which had the best screen now sells for around $100 used today, while the other model has terrible viewing angles. Personally I like the Gameboy Colors feel in the hands more than the others.
Man your videos are the best! Exceptional commentary and editing! Only question I had after watching this is, how is the battery life of the new screen compared to the other units? With a much better screen and back-light, it must have half the battery life?
Dang Love the Mod, maybe I’ll do it myself, brings back some nostalgia playing on my old GAMEBOY Colour ❤️ I mean I got all the accessories for it, even the lens with light and batterypack etc but the mod makes it muuuuch better
yep only minor quibbles: black border around the game image like at 2:08, cartridges stick out of the slot, adapter required for headphones. good enough for me
2:55 "-army of lawyers-" You're forgetting a more immoral alternative to lawyers who can easily win cases even if they're wrong. It's called bribery, and it's been done for thousands of years.
A big part of copyright laws are that you legally have to protect them, that's why Nintendo does this. The more they don't the more an argument can be made against them in losing their copyright. Love the video, thanks for sharing!
This should have been done 20 years ago when I needed it...
:D
The FPGA used in that product would've been priced at about 200k$.
In the next 25 years or so I bet we'll have holographic videogames you play using the dimensions of your bedroom, that by todays standards, would be considered way too advanced
@@nickz5849 probs not, it'll just be advancing what we have now, with vr getting much more slimmed down and cheaper. moors law also seems to be slowing so vr gaming will probably be great in 20 years
I had the little dongle light that plugged into side port. It worked ok but sucked up batterys like a mf'r
David, if you turn the brightness all the way down, the screen will work just like an original GBC reflective screen, so you can save up on battery life if you need to.
I was rather disappointed that he skipped the brightness control wires. I mean, the gbc was already disassembled and it didn't seem any more difficult to solder to those pads.
@@humbertojunior2819 ditto, I couldn't believe it, thought he was joking. Weird 🤷♂️
that information just turned this from a maybe to a must buy for me thank you
well if it uses fpga then turning backlight off wont make that much difference
@@Timsturbs can still be useful if you're outside. But it's up to the person doing the mods, it's good to have an option anyways.
I think the funniest thing about this is the memory of when the GB Advanced had a backlit screen, my mom refused to get it for me saying "backlit screens are harder on your eyes" haha
And harder on her purse.
@@moparmanicgarage she had the money to buy 30 of them if she wanted to...... it wasnt about the money stranger, it was about control.
@@CaptainPhantom93 No need to call him stranger, lets not forget you posted this on UA-cam.
@@moparmanicgarage Harder on her ASSHOLE
it was more expensive. my dad was just like your mom except he would try the convince me that the shittier one was better in some way. he would never just be honest.
I think you should have covered two additional items: 1) how does the screen look in the sun, and 2) impact on battery life.
And the impact of a smaller screen. I ment to Say on the usability or gaming experience.
@@Patrick_AUBRY GB Boy Colour has your back. Go onto AliExpress (Chinese wholesaler) and buy one. It'll cost £25-£30 and it'll replace anything that you have. The only thing it lacks is the ability to use a link cable..
@Nylon pixels are quadrupled*
So? AA batteries are cheap these days
AAA and 9V last A LOT less
i think your thumbnail has the images in the wrong order
I'd say it's just the arrow that's backwards
Hello mister epic content
Or he accidentally makes a line.
Hey Taran
Oh hey it Taran
Movie companies did they same thing. Forgot that stories and characters were the most important thing in the movie. Not CGI.
*laughs in George Lucas*
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yeah everything checks out
@@whateverforevermusic what's happening here?
@@whateverforevermusic patreon supporters view content early
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I love how Nintendo goes after people who make videos around their games, and yet they ignore the fake Super Mario Maker 2 ads.
Because they are not the real Nintendo
@@javieralejandrotrianapaz6343 omfg
Nintendo themselves make these fake ads and fake shit in order to legitimize more controls. It is actually more profitable.
Woooow. That literally was an insane difference, definitely worth the work if you're a hardcore fan. I'm not but yeah.
The mode should have been with an AMOLED screen.
Dear Nintendo,
Don't bite the hand that feeds you
Sincerely,
Everyone who makes videos for the love on Nintendo
From what I heard, it’s Nintendo of Japan that goes crazy with the claims, not Nintendo of America.
They don't care. Nintendo think they own the place, and they fight tooth and nail to "protect" their copyrights.
@@L1701 Japanese copyright law should be proof enough that two nukes were not enough
@@longlostwraith5106 Same with NES ROMs. After ignoring them for 30 years they now strike down anything since they noticed there’s a community of retro fans.
They took down emuparadise now 3do games are hard asf to find along with the full collection of vintage power mags and game guides gj nintendo we lost a gaming archive.They dont care because they can do what ever they want they release a new smash or pkmn game example people are stupid enough to buy it.
Well, this video is 16 years too late.
Worm light saved me
I hear ya, but those worm lights weren't really very good.
Yup, had a few of those.
@@paulkevinkoehler9490 Yeah, even worse were those crappy magnification lenses which had a light built in.
I tried a worm light once. The glare on the screen was just as bad as the darkness and it drastically reduced the battery life.
Unfortunately we didn't have FPGA back then...
I've been waiting 6.000 years for a viable backlit mod..
Now i can finally start working on my buddy's Gameboy Color.
My friend and i are both in our mid 20's but he will definitely love the end result!.
Thank you for the video dude. :- )
"developers were so busy trying to wow consumers with graphics that they forgot games need good gameplay"
Wow, could you imagine that?
Nihon Falcom: we didn't , we do make great games.
Thankfully, Nintendo doesn’t follow that trend as much as other companies. While I am indeed a fan, I know they are not perfect. But it’s still admirable that they focus on fun mechanics to make games. Hell, the Switch was influenced by Super Mario Odyssey’s development team. That lead to a system that has unique and fun ways to experience games.
*cough* *cough* fortnite *cough *cough*
Casper Randominator - Yeah, I tried it, but I completely lost any interest in it within half an hour. I couldn’t make heads or tails of it. I have no desire to try it again, honestly.
Evangelos Killer mike - Yeah, some of the experiences allowed by today’s tech are downright amazing! However, it does occasionally feel like companies go “Look how powerful our systems are” or “Look how expansive how game is” without paying close enough attention to finer details. Now, I’m not saying for a moment that all games are like that. I have immense respect for developers who yank the last kilogram of power out of a system to create an amazing adventure. But right now, it feels like people are chasing 4K and not aiming for 60fps as often. 60fps always feels better to me.
Oh man, it is already out of stock.
EDIT: looks like it is back in stock
Mhm.
Yep.
Yea, it is.
Yes, you're right.
Correct.
CORRECTION: The Game Boy Color's bootrom contains several unique palettes for original Game Boy games (including nearly every pre-GBC first party game) which are initiated as default when it reads the cart's ROM header. In fact, it's more robust than how the Super Game Boy interprets color for non-enhanced games
StrobeFlashLite can you give some examples please
@@nicklesm202 tcrf.net/Notes:Game_Boy_Color_Bootstrap_ROM
Well, the problem with this implementation is that the color is static throughout the game. The SGB can receive palette change commands from SGB enhanced games like Pokémon Red (for example, going from one area to another). The CGB, can’t.
@@StrobeFlashLite I was about to say this! This is one of my favorite features of playing older Game Boy games on a Game Boy Color. Makes games look really cool in different ways and you can change it when you start them up every time!
Came here to say this!
I just finished installing my backlight mod and I LOVE it! Thanks for showing off this product!
I'm always amazed at how good the old classic games look on a modern screen. Emulators can even hack some of the 3D games like Mario 64 to display in 16:9 ratio with the right settings.
And now that SM64 has been decompiled, we have high frame rate support, true camera control (even mouse camera), and even raytracing lol
There's even a android port of sm64 now which is crazy. But og hardware is dope with mods, flashcart and roms.
This Brings back memories from the ibook guy
wasn't this the same channel?
@Bryce Forsyth Yes, that was their point.
@40 wise He changed the channel name to better reflect what most of his content is about.
This is him now; feel old yet?
@@bryceforsyth8521 yeah. But when the channel was still named TheiBookGuy, he did a similar mod to a gameboy pocket
"Measure twice, cut once" is also applicable too IMO
nowadays tho the saying goes "just let CNC machine cut it for ya"
@@jackasshomey also very true! Haha!
Hey I just wanted to say I have been watching your videos for years now. My first exposure to your content was actually the backlight mod from 2014. I love your videos and the care that you take with all of your Restorations and Documentaries. Keep up the great work!
Amazing! Got one opened up GBC sitting in a box, gotta try this mod out asap. Thanks for the inspiration.
That's a really impressive mod for the work required. I think I'll be ordering one of those kits. Thanks for the info!
RIP 1999-2003 all the AA batteries I killed playing Pokémon
Donny Kong & Mario
especially with an old gameboy that ate 4 at a time.
I just ignored the warnings and used rechargeable batteries. I never had a single problem with them and saved a ton of money on batteries.
Anthony Salter I guess that the Gameboy didn't care that much about the voltage drop of rechargable cells
Personally I would've used a 6v RC Car battery pack where the DC Jack goes, like it is on the REAL pack.. or just get a 5 cell series AA holder and use 1.2v AA cells (or even C and D). That's fine too
#ProblemSolved
no special type of screws can go against universal magic screwdriver - а half of scissors
Sadly, wii screws still beat it
Thats a damn good way to strip screws.
but then the screws will get carved up and the 3 points will more resemble a circle.
Or, buying 100 pens from the dollar store, melting the tip on one, and stabbing the screw hole! I did that for my OG Xbox and Gamecube.
@referral madness -with a lighter. I did this to fix a friend's Gamecube and it worked AMAZINGLY well. I could even sometimes get 2 screws unscrewed with 1 pen. Now it's 2020 and I have an $8 screwdriver set that handles just about anything
Hey David,
I ordered it last month and followed your manual. I am so happy that I did this. Thx so much for explaining! Many greetings from Germany
💯 for calling out Nintendo and CBS 🤣
Yentendo and See-BS.
I feel it worth to make known to you that in the case of Axanar, there WAS a legitimate case of copyright infringement in the form of Alec Peters, the man at the helm, openly stating online on his own site (which he, upon being filed against, immediately removed) as well as in other locations that post production of Axanar he intended to rent out the studio, thus profiting in the end from an IP that they had no legal right to. Additionally, he openly stated that the project only required about $500k to make, thus making pocketing the $1 million in crowdfunded money and the construction of the studio to begin with an additional violation of the copyright protecting CBS's claim to the Trek IP.
The funniest thing is Alec Peters's day job is playing lawyer. He KNEW what he was doing, and did it anyway. I have no sympathy for him. He got in my opinion what he knew could have happened and likely deserved. It is unfortunate that it led to the curtailment of Trek fan fic on this platform, but the worse and more heinous act would have been to allow the project to continue to potentially damage the Trek IP when it comes to the furtherment of canon, as it would have done with Season 1 of Discovery chasing the same content. And I'm not really looking for your opinion on Disco here, just presenting you facts as well as my general opinion.
As always, great vid. Keep them coming sir!
Wow, what a great result! Im glad you found a way to bring more life into games you still play and love.
Absolutely love your vids almost to 1 million subs great job and keep up the good work
What I'm really curious to see is how much this new screen affects battery life compared to an unmodified GBC.
My next mod would be a rechargable lithium battery pack.
Check out the MW website, it says 3 hours, ouch
Depends on the batteries used, actually.
Well, that and usage itself.
@@tomlindo2863 - I thought the same. A 9V li-ion battery might fit in the place of 2 penlights. It probably requires a voltage regulator to prevent burning the thing by U=I*R when different parts of the system power up.
@@manuell3505 U? What is U? I know I is current and R is resistance..
Anyway, if you used such a pack, I'd hope you have a voltage regulator wired to the GBC main positive and negative to spit out a constant 3v (edit: or 3.3v is fine too, considering a fully charged AA one time use battery is like 1.6v)
I still can’t believe how I played it without the light back in 1998. but it was very fun in childhood
I really like how you kept the custom Pitfall cartridge, it’s really cool and you did a good job with it
very cool to see this initial version of this. I just modded a Gameboy I bought that was parts for repair that had pretty significant PCB damage and needed many traces repaired and I had to rebuild the button contact pads so it is pretty rough on the inside but I got it working again and decided to replace the very badly damaged screen with the new Retro Pixel IPS LCD mod. It requires quite a lot of case modification but I just slowly shaved it back with a knife until I got it perfect and soldered up the new screen added a rechargeable battery pack and it is amazing now. Feels great to play and since the screen is actually large and backlit it is an awesome experience especially since it is all original hardware running the games.
What does it do to battery life, though?
I'm wanting to do see if I could do an 18650 (or similar) mod.
Adam Carmichael you know there's 14500 cells that are the AA size, they just give more voltage... Much easier mod.
@@lightdark00 Will a Game Boy accept the voltage? Those things are way higher than 1.5 volts and can kill some machines.
@@lightdark00 I wonder if a pouch type battery would work even better, maybe allow for easy charging via USB.
John Knight you would need to change the arrangement of the cells. 2x2 would give a max voltage of 8.4v while the max with fresh AAs is slightly under 7v. A quick and dirty hack would use a diode with a 1v+ voltage drop.
Loved the dig at Nintendo - keep fighting the good fight! 👍🏼
Love the thumbail! The arrow is great and pointing in the right direction.
Wow that does look really nice! The brightness seems to be set just fine as default. Going to have to find my GB colour and figure this out somehow.
I remember very well back in GB/GBC time when try to find the right angle that allowed you to see something was part of the game itself! Backlight screen, a wet dream when I was a child but today, play Super Mario Land or Pokemon without see a thing is pure "Childhood flavor"
When doing these mods, look into the glass replacement screen protectors available all over the internet. Scratch resistant and much better viewing, they usually come with repro graphics on them so they look like an original part.
Thanks!
This looks amazing, definitely going to get some more tools and give this a try!
such a cool dude, much love for you and the things you do
Keep going! I love this channel! :)
your background room is a wiring dream, but you gotta work on the tetris ;) cool MOD!! :)
I've never heard of this but i need it. Thanks for bringing this to light so to speak hehe. Can't wait for this to be back in stock!
I love the reflective screen, last time I bought GBA SP AGS 001 and it is perfect to play outside in sunny day.
I can’t believe how good it looks. I just dug up my gameboy collection. It’s cool and all to see a color with a backlight but really the damn screen is still too small. It’s just better to play them on the sp IMO. Emulation is cool and all on the pc or psp or phone but the real deal is way more fun for some reason
Why would I buy a Switch when I can just play Mario on a C64?
Why would you buy a C64 just so you can play mario?
@@alexc3504 Maybe he already owns a C64?
@@user-pi5xz5je4y And yet I've never been able find a working C64 :(
What is with that thing breaking down? They all seem to have bad PLA chips. I have two VIC-20s and they work perfectly fine...even though they're older!
you are sooo stupid
Why would you buy a Switch or a C64 to play SMB when you can play the original rom on almost anything?
It would be a 1000 times easier to get a copy of SMB and an NES or Famiclone than to find a working C64 and the hardware necessary to run SMB C64.
was thinking of getting a gameboy color recently and just saw this video, a backlight would be nice but man this is too much effort for me XD, great content man!
Glad to see you're also following the whole axinar thing with cbs
Wow I just got home from Pokemon go community Day and the 8-Bit guy uploads a video for me to relax to?
Today's been hella good.
LilPuff me too! **cries**
I Can’t WAIT for for the RetroFlag GPi Original GameBoy like case for the Raspberry Pi Zero and Zero W to be released!
this is great! just discovered you, love the vids
I love watching these videos ‘cause to be honest, there is no way I could go through all of that without messing up at some point.
Ok, weird comment, but I really appreciate the clean, trimmed nails and cuticles. It never fails to squick me out when someone is doing a modding video and their closeup has dirty fingernails (shudders).
The usable size of the screen isn't the same... massive borders between the screen protector and the displayed image. Unacceptable.
Agreed. And I don't know why every video I've seen about this screen thinks the viewers are blind, because they all claim it's barely noticeable or you can hardly tell. I have eyes, they work, and I'm not stupid: I can clearly see 3 different colors of "bezel" before I actually get to the image. The makers of this screen really need to include a new screen protector that covers up all the extra dead space. I wouldn't mind the smaller viewable screen if I didn't have to see all the borders.
What border
I was thinking the same thing. Really does look off, when you're expecting the original screen size, and then that extra bezel looks bizarre. I was really surprised he didn't mention that.
@@mjc0961 They do make new ones that cover up that space.
there is a company that makes lenses for those new GBC screens, and they fit perfectly. Also this mod is not the cleanest one, there is one available where you cut only the bottom frame.
I love how the title screen image points to the darker version from the brighter version.
Damn! That is one of the cooles Mods I´ve seen in last time. As always cool video man
well, the screen size isn't 1/1 to the original, but I think the sacrifice is worth it.
Huh, this explains why my GB color is so dim. I turned it on for the first time in years, and just assumed the backlight stopped working, lol "The More You Know!"
Nice mod, may need to give this a go myself now.
It's actually on presale now, almost out of stock!
I love my old Gameboy.It is fun to bring it out and play it every so often.
Benefit of having double pixel resolution is that you have 4X the pixels pumping out color which means the LCD wash out effect is negated. Beautifully done!
The new screens are out of stock... I can only imagine your video caused a rush to buy on their website :)
And the price of the Gameboy increasing on eBay
How are you verified? You have 27 subscribers?
@AstronomyToday how???
@AstronomyToday this is false you need 100k subs
IPS screens work the same
I'd highly recommend the BennVenn screen option over MW Embedded - the battery life is drastically better. And, y'know, BennVenn kinda pioneered this stuff.
Has BennVenn resolved the compatibility issues with the Everdrive though? I'd be annoyed if I bought one only to find out I can't use my Everdrive.
I'm aware of the pinball lag issue with the early V1 of the PCB, but what is supposed to be wrong with everdrives? I have an Everdrive X3 that seems to be working fine.
@@JonathosDX multiple people on the Krikzz forum have reported that the graphics freeze but the audio keeps playing when using the X7 with the BennVenn mod.
Interesting. Haven't seen any real complaints elsewhere. Everdrives do have pretty high power draw, though - if the GBCs needed new caps and were already straining, I could definitely see a backlit screen pushing it over the edge. Though I'd suspect any of the kits would cause issues, given BV and MW both use the same actual screen.
Cool! I remember watching that old video SOOO many years ago.
Was thinking about getting the gameboy......now i really need this backlight mod for sure
Wow, the screen itself does look phenomenal. The doubled pixel density really makes for a razor-sharp image. Still, most folks would be just as happy with the backlit GBA SP, model AGS-101.
Sadly, the AGS-101 it's really hard to get, and costs like 50 USD, or even more. And it requires to destroy the GBC shell.
@@erik19borgnia lol i paid $134 for my gba sp ags 101, 2 weeks ago and it was used on ebay and it was the cheapest one that was not broken and didnt have actual teeth marks on it, and it did come with plenty of scratches
@@jasonbrown467 I was talking about just the screen to do the mod. And it was a year ago. Now they are even more expensive. I actually got this screen last year (the Midwest Embedded one) and I'm pretty happy with it. In the last year I played a lot of games in my GBC and it was a blessing to be able to really see.
You should've used the Benn Venn's freckleshack. Way easier to intall and their newer batches come with a brightness controller
@Bailey Washington cheaper than the competitors
@Bailey Washington frontlighting is even worse since all the colors become washed out
@Bailey Washington the freckleshack color palette is almost identical to the OEM LCD. Designed that was for this exact reason
@Bailey Washington I really prefer the correct/original colors of the GBC as well. That's why I couldn't stand playing GBC games on an AGS-101 (even most GBA games show incorrect colors on the backlit screens). The solution for people like us right now is sadly only in emulators that offer color correction. Gambatte (a Retroarch core) is extremely accurate and also supports color correction. I've found that using it on a Nintendo 3DS gives something really close to what an actual GBC with backlight would have been like.
@@Izquierda There are a lot of reasons for this. Gameboy Color and (especially) early Gameboy Advance games were designed with the reflective LCD displays in mind. Because of how they work, they are naturally dimmer than a backlit LCD. These games tend to look washed out when played on a much brighter backlit screen.
In my opinion, a PROPER front light would be best if you're looking for a Gameboy Color with authentic color. If you take a front light out of an AGS-001 GBA and fit it into a GBC, it looks fantastic. There are some aftermarket front light kits, but they're pretty terrible. If a proper front light kit was ever made (with a good light panel like the AGS-001 had) I think it would be the best solution.
Brilliant video man.
Very tempted to get this and start Pokemon Red again!
Wow! Thanks for posting this. I can’t wait to get my hands on one!
10:17 i love that the 8 Bit Guy loves games but isn't very good at playing them haha
(just a fun observation here btw, he's just demonstrating the games lol)
Therapist: Cussing 8-bit guy isn’t real, he can’t hurt you.
Cussing 8-bit guy: 2:34
I mean, I recall an older video of his called "Rebuild a laptop battery pack" where he said "total bull", but edited in an image of a stamped "bullshit", if that counts.
J A C K A S S
Gamma I remember that
Bro, you just made me so excited to visit my mom. I'ma look for my old GBC and do this mod to it. Along with a couple other mods. I love the future, thank you. Thumbs up 👍
I felt like a boller when i was in school and had my see-through purple gameboy and Yellow version, such a sweet time to be a kid.
the screen is a bit smaller than the original
And a little to the right in this video. Unplayable
Literally unplayable
0:50 "I think that game developers were too busy trying to "Wow!" consumers with graphics and they kind of forgot that game needs to have good gameplay."
0:34 what a great point you made here. I totally agree that the game play and genuine games ideas affected by that!
nice job on that clear case mod! it came out looking really nice... and finally the GB Color is worth playing!...if only it had some more colorful games!
Didn't the Gameboy Advanced SP basically handle all of this and include a rechargable battery?
Wrong form factor
Yes, but Gameboy / Gameboy Color games stuck out of the SP quite a bit making it uncomfortable and the games looked tiny on screen as it had the same issue the regular Advance did. Also there were 2 models of the SP released, the AGS-101 which had the best screen now sells for around $100 used today, while the other model has terrible viewing angles. Personally I like the Gameboy Colors feel in the hands more than the others.
Yes thank you. I was wondering why this wasn't pointed out before
Man your videos are the best! Exceptional commentary and editing! Only question I had after watching this is, how is the battery life of the new screen compared to the other units? With a much better screen and back-light, it must have half the battery life?
The McWill backlight only gets about 3-4 hours battery life, however BennVenn's freckleshack backlight mod gets like 14 hours and is easier to install
Don't bother trying to ask 8BG any questions - he NEVER replies to comments.
Judging by other comments...
Nope.
More like 1/10th the battery life.
So uhh yeah. Thanks, but no thanks. XD
Played GBC from 6 to 20 :')
This makes me happy
The Anologue Pocket is the one I'm waiting for, the hardware built in that is insane!
Finally? I've had mine modded with a backlight for about 10 years...
Why is the thumbnail backwards?
Maybe it's like: "Compare THIS to THAT" instead of: "From this to that".
Mistake or joke.
I love everything about this channel.
Dang Love the Mod, maybe I’ll do it myself, brings back some nostalgia playing on my old GAMEBOY Colour ❤️ I mean I got all the accessories for it, even the lens with light and batterypack etc but the mod makes it muuuuch better
Expected retrobrite-ing but never got any.
Still top notch video 👌
Thanks for speaking up about Nintendo abusing UA-cam and copyright takedowns.
I just saw the title and cried a bit because I've always wanted this when playing...
That double resolution really cuts down on the "Screen-door" effect too, that's really nice
2:38
UA-cam Poopers: "First time, huh?"
Fart
It's a shame that you didn't solder the brightness cables.
You're missing out on a good portion of the functionality of the screen.
@Chiron Keller you're*, mind*
@@marshmallowdub You mean *might.
That turned out so much better than I thought. Made me want to get my Gameboy color modded.
That screen looks awesome through my screen. Imagine how awesome it looks in person
You could just get a backlight GBA SP and have a more compact unit with all of the controls in the place he wants them. But that would be sane.
yep only minor quibbles: black border around the game image like at 2:08, cartridges stick out of the slot, adapter required for headphones. good enough for me
@@nicktonic The mod cuts the top and the bottom anyways which annoys me
2:35 That's the most accurate picture of Nintendo, ever.
This episode may be my favorite yet. I may try to modify my old yellow Gameboy color this summer
That’s so cool, your videos are brilliant!
2:55 "-army of lawyers-" You're forgetting a more immoral alternative to lawyers who can easily win cases even if they're wrong. It's called bribery, and it's been done for thousands of years.
Edgeworth goddammit....
McLovin.... is that you....🤣🤣🤣
dude i just did this, scroll boom too late.
Man i love the 80s synthwave soundtrack of your videos
A big part of copyright laws are that you legally have to protect them, that's why Nintendo does this. The more they don't the more an argument can be made against them in losing their copyright. Love the video, thanks for sharing!
except that it actually hurts them. Videos on their games are free advertisements. Most companies embrace it.