Using a GBA SP would be way better if it had a headphone jack. Also, the cgb loads songs way faster and has more battery life, but the sound is different too.

In defense of the CGB, the Game Boy Color is really a different device. It's a more powerful computer with a few more capabilities, so if you're using it for your project, it should be because you want to use it specifically. Game Boys aren't expensive enough, even modified, to create a situation where you have to choose one over the other forever.

Also, the GBA runs pretty much exactly like a color, so you can always use a GBA SP for tracking or whatever extended use activity you'd like, and then just use a Color (pro-sound or not) to record.

To the point! I laughed! : D

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Sell CGB -> buy DMG -> get it backlit.

Yeah, the best is to look for a broken one on eBay or Craigslist.

That said, this is a pretty involved mod and probably isn't well suited for a beginner. Proceed at your own risk.

i didnt want to gut my gameboy

You have to frontlight them.

The most common method is to use the frontlight out of a broken AGS-001 Game Boy Advance SP.

If you can't find a broken one, or don't want to gut a GBA SP at all, maybe you could find an Afterburner kit for the original Game Boy Advance.

That said, I don't know where to get those anymore, and I haven't done this mod before, but maybe that information can help you.

Maybe settle for a lightboy?

i have recently bought a gameboy color and i had forgoten the one problem with it. no backlight. i understand you can destroy a gameboy sp but who want s to do that. is there any other way i can give my gameboy color a backlight?