Sick mod! For a while, I was looking at trying to add a backlight to my Gameboy Advance. That's my favorite Gameboy shape but it just drives me nuts trying to play it in crappy lighting.

I found a tut for it but I can't remember what I did with it, it was basically the same thing as this, GBA SP 001 screen and basically do a transplant. The only reason I didn't do it was because I was too lazy to go to Radio Shack to get the proper resistor for the job. -.- Not to mention the tut was a tad hard to follow. A video would have been fucking awesome. I might do this mod on my color if I can get another gameboy for the job.

thanx guys, greatly appreciated.

The pictures no longer work on the guide though, which may (or may not) have been what xero was getting at. The best I could find was this youtube tutorial;

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpxs1K7SmeY

It seems to be fairly in depth but I haven't fully watched it so maybe surf through it before you get to work. Good luck, I absolutely love frontlit Game Boy Colors!

EDIT: Nevermind, apparently most of the pictures do work and just weren't showing up for whatever reason, my bad.

http://mikejmoffitt.com/wp/?p=70 I think this is what you're looking for. Never actually seen the original guide, so there might be differences

a friend of mine asked if i would light his GBC,
i head to modretro... and bibin decides to remove his guide
alternative link?

i owned 2 mashmods... not impressed, blurry image.. Thretris's version is wonderful!

ok.
i'm doing this.
pretty easy till now.

in the tutorial there are a white cable (+V) and a black one (Ground).
where should i exactle solder them in the backlit module?

thanks.

got to do this when i'll find a broken (or cheap) SP.

AGS-001 is the original  front lit GBASP from 2003

AGS-101 is the bright ass Backlit GBASP from 2005

I was disassembling a gameboy color, and I ended up actually breaking a tiny little piece of the glass on the screen and the screen stopped working altogether, the glass on those things is real thin and fragile.

also in the tutorial it says use AGS-100, not 101, anyone know what the difference is?

What DS is front it? unless the very first one was (cause I never had one) then I dont think any of them are. Hope this dont mean your not sending me those SPs now..lol

I'll be doing a few of these for my new live rig i think... same w/ gameboy pockets...  
Can't wait to start.

If i remember correctly it can be done w/ DS front lite kits too..

I do too, I also trimmed away the plastic under the COLOR logo, so light would shine through that too.

I kinda like the light coming through the case!

Looks like you need to put some insulation tape on the inside of the case or something.