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DMG works just fine, but apparently I never ran it long enough to find out that it overheats if played for a while. I imagine this has something to do with unregulated powersourcing for the backlight, though I used the same solder points for the v3 indicated in the manual pdf. DMG overheats at the same place as in this thread: http://forum.modretro.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=9743 which happened to be the only overheating DMG discussion I could find.

alternate solder points for the backlight? unfortunately I already clipped the wires to size, they reach just under the lower LCD ribbon cable. One broke off during installation and I resoldered it easily, so maybe I have to do that again to make this work.

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matt's mind

what other mods have you done?

in particular, have you done any clock mods on this console?

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an internal prosound which never caused overheating on its own before backlighting it.

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Overheating could also be a short somewhere. Maybe a drop of solder or some residue fell on the pcb and shorted something out?
Or a piece of wire or something...

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Chicago IL

damn i didn't even realize a gameboy could overheat

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time to open'r'up and take a peek.