Tricky slide in-and final led module placement.ħ. While youre there, go ahead and solder the single small wire to the solder pad closest to the dial. Flip the lcd glass mainboard over and snip out or use desoldering braid like i did to remove the diode and resistor in the top corner. This is for a proper slide in of the led module.ħ. Picture of the plastic piece snipped out. Just use the razor to get a corner up, then use your fingers to do the rest.
You wanna keep any ribbon cable movements and creasing to a minimum, just take it real slow peeling a little at a time. Its imperative that you take your time on peeling off the reflective film by hand. Once youve snipped out the plastic frame piece, CAREFULLY use a fresh razor blade to peel off the lcd glass' reflective film. You have to remove this in order to have room for the Module to fit flat and proper. While its pryed up, put something underneath it so you can go ahead and snip out the plastic white frame at these two spots. CAREFULLY, CAREFULLY! use a flat head or xacto to pry up the lcd glass from the white plastic frame. Get your heat shrink piece and cover like this so it wont touch any exposing led leads. Now you wanna bend them like this, low profile, and solder.ĥ. Lay your module out so it looks like this, taking note of the long ends, versus the short ends.Ĥ. Get your soldering iron out and let it heat up. Now you want to prepare the led plexi module. Carefully pry the casing open and separate to get a good look at your work spaceĢ. Commence to take apart the gameboy with the triwing screwdriver, theres a total of 6 screws on the back. DMG replacement screen (optional), led plexi module, polarized film, 100ohm 1/4 watt resistor, switch, single short wire, 3 wire long length, piece of heat shrink.ġ. Gameboy, nonfinite business cards, optional gameboy jap cart/gb socket cleaner Tri wing screwdriver - $2.00 : Zen Cart!, The Art of E-commerce You can choose any color, but i chose yellow as its the easiest on your eyes IMO.ġ.5mm Dual LED Backlighting Kits - $15.00 : Zen Cart!, The Art of E-commerceīlack Mini Rocker Switch - $2.00 : Zen Cart!, The Art of E-commerce
#REMOVE GLASS DMG GAMEBOY MOD#
1.5mm Dual LED backlight mod kit from Nonfinite $15.
#REMOVE GLASS DMG GAMEBOY HOW TO#
So here i present a how to just in case anyone here ever plans to do the same. I had a hard time trying to find a tutorial, so i had to go by their gallery pictures to figure out how to do this.
I just successfully and happily backlight modded my gameboy, took about 3 hours time.
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