I am planning on trying this mod, but as someone with pretty much no modding experience I'm a little nervous...

If someone should take some pictures showing whats going on with the wires inside and stuff inside the gameboy, it would be highly appreciated^^

Also I found this picture showing where to solder, but is this correct?

Thanks a ton!

the title of this thread sounds like a line from a sublime song

Well the last pair I used were freshly charged and brand new.  But it's not a problem.  I'll just switch to regular backlight which don't have problems with rechargeable batteries.

It's all about the voltage they put out. Rechargables can "sag" after a while.

I use rechargeables and I tried fresh ones but still got the problem.  So maybe rechargeables don't like the panel.  I'm just going to swap it out or a regular backlight and put the el in something.

I experience the same problem with the contrast when using used batteries, when I used fresh batteries it works great, or when I use an aca adapter it works perfect too, but as soon as the batteries ran out of power the problem starts.

^ check batteries, sounds like the batteries have gone weak

the contrast changing so much during playback sounds sort of like classic weak-battery-syndrome

Been using my MGB for a few days now with the el_dmg kit installed but now my cart constantly crashes and when I press play the contrast almost completely disappears.  Are you having any problems with yours?

I finish mine today, pretty nice even light

Thanks to Matt (kitsch) for creating awesome things!

I tried that and it didn't work but I read somewhere else that someone used tape somehow to fix it.  Either way, learn from my mistake and take it easy the first time.  It's not a hard install.  Just have to be careful.

Thanks a lot, so if the cables get disconnected from the metal pads they cannot be attached again with a little solder?

Turn the panel so the wires go out the right side of the LCD and trim away the plastic from the shell around the LCD so the wires can pass through unobstructed.  Also, be very careful with the metal pads where the wires connect.  I actually broke my first panel and had to reorder a new one from kitsch (hence the delay).  What I did to be careful was I grabbed the wire with a pair of needle nose pliers near the metal pads and held the connection very straight then bent the wires at the black heat shrink part so it would fit into the shell.  Also, the panel has to be slid all the way over so the side with the wires is touching the side with plastic surrounding the LCD.  then just tape it down to the ribbon cable.

Looks awesome.

Was it hard to install?, I will do mine today, Any tips you can give me or advise?

BTW, How did you avoid the EL_DMG cables messing up with the ribbon cable of the LCD?

Thanks man, really like the finally results on tha MGB

Good job on this! I really like the paint job and buttons .

Little delay but finally got it installed.  Apparently killed a line of pixels during install but it works and this is my personal writing unit so I don't really care to attempt to fix it.  Sorry about the bad picture.