Pay for a DMG mod or do it yourself? (Page 1 of 2)

If you will be performing with it, you should have a full functioning spare fired up ready to go (including cart with duplicated .sav), so either way if you modded it or someone else did the show goes on!

Game Boys are pretty hardy bastards, I've yet to break something that a resolder or sticky tape couldn't fix.

You'll feel like a pro engineer. Promise.

There should not be any shame in paying for good craftsmanship. Just because it's easy, doesn't mean that anyone is a chump. Not everyone was meant to mod gameboys and build midi-controllers.

I say this because I've busted 3 dmg screens in the past #slighted

the only one ive done on my own is an underclocking, and i hear thats the easiest mod to perform. i see no shame in getting someone else to do the hard stuff, especially if your worried about quality. unless money is an issue perhaps you could get a cheap little backlit and sounded gb then start investing in the stuff to start experimenting. im sure almost no one here could tell you their first mods were masterpieces.

If you know not what you are doing, better leave it for someone who does. I tried to go onto it on my own and found out it's not as easy as it seems. You may not have problems with things like pro-sound and similar mods, but peeling the polarized film when backlightning is a step further... At least for me. Soldering is easy, if you've had previous experience.
If you have money and don't feel like it, I'd say leave it for someone else. You'll get a very nice product and you're making someone else wealthier xD

Same thing happened to me.

I'd go with mod it yourself, not only do you get the satisfaction of knowing that you've done it, you also get the guarantee that if you cock it up, then you'll know how to fix it.