its an all-in-one part.  like...  a brand new LCD screen. 

no parts from the original are used, you could recycle them even.  backlight color depends on what LEDs i have them solder in for that batch. 

  like i said...  big project, but i'm hurrying!

Stoked!  I'm guessing the backlight color is dependent on whatever screen you're using.   It would be cool if we could just use the current run of backlights though.  Excited for the new goods!

Sorry for not posting back. Good idea!

Matt, just keep doing what you do. It's super beneficial to the scene and I appreciate it personally too.

i mean a whole new replacement kit for the front half, yes.  the back half won't be touched in this go-round.  just need to connect the ribbon cable from the back to front.  the front otherwise is reworked a lot.  nothing remains from the front. 

there are a lot of features in this project i'd rather keep under wraps for right now, sorry if i'm too cryptic sometimes....  regardless, its not too far off now, at all.  finishing up some of the coding/design in the next couple weeks for a last part of this, the LCD is starting production this week (i believe, need to double check).

its really not too far off.  just such a huge project i can't say for sure, anything could happen....  !!!yikes!!!

if you actually mean new front replacement PCB then I can revive 4 out of my 5 dead gameboys (not placing a RCA mod can be a killer to a ribbon cable)

RGB backlight with logic gates, where if you hold certain buttons for certain colors (dpad for red, a for green, b for blue). So you simply hold down different buttons at bootup, and boom, any color you want from the basic RGB kit.

nearly done.  its time to start thinking about the backlight color for the first run even.  i'm sort of stuck on green unless someone can change my mind...

Props for giving my little experiment a shot!
I did another frankenboy with smaller wires then previously used but both were impractical to be fitted in any shell.
Do you have any dead or horizontal lined front boards?
It is possible to transplant a working ribbon cable into another front board with display still attached.
There is something like 21 solder points connecting the cable to the board.
Ideally you'd want a solder sucker, helping hands, magnifier perhaps, a good soldering iron, a good source of light.
I have revived one of mine this way and it ended up fixing the thing entirely.
Also on another note if you wanted to make the wiring a bit neater and more manageable try finding an old sata cable to splice apart.

Yes, I found this tantalising mention of it here:

http://chipmusic.org/forums/post/112683/#p112683

but nothing since... updates, kitsch?!

I believe Kitsch is working on that. It was on his thread awhile back...

So I fixed a DMG GoingHam style...almost. I'm just having some D-pad issues. It seems to not respond at all. I know it's messy and I'll figure out how to get it back in the case but I take it the ribbon cable also handles the input as well right? Actually it appears to just be d-pad left.

I'm on board with that. I coulda sworn that Nonfinite or someone else was looking into finding a PCB printer or something...but it's been a while and I forgot what was happening with that...

But yeah, I was going to try GoingHam's way on the DMG that I was experiencing something similar on, since I've got a few IDE cables I could rip apart but the soldering iron I have has the chunkiest tip ever...not exactly the best for so many tightly spaced points. I did try to mess with the ribbon cable some more just a bit ago on the Pocket, but it's too difficult to pinpoint where the break is occurring.

It's so funny because DMG's and MGB's aren't exactly as cheap as they used to be, but still fairly cheap...and I still can't even afford that right now

I'm just gonna hang on to these corpses for parts while I save up for new ones. Thanks everyone for your help!

This is why we need newly produced GB PCB's.

It's basically a DMG fitted onto a dual sided pcb using more modern components and new processor. it is a similar layout to a gbc, but functionally (down to how buttons work) it is much more like a DMG.

My guess is that the screen is shot, or you have a short

The game boy pocket is a lot closer to the game boy color from a circuit board layout perspective. I don't know much about them either, though.