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Like I said, I don't have one with me to check out, but I'm pretty sure it's close to the Game Boy Color. They have the same sort of volume wheel:

There's a small board-mounted potentiometer on the bottom of the unit off to one side of the screen. This is a stereo potentiometer for controlling the strength of the signal going into the headphone preamp circuit, and it connects to the board at five points. One of these is ground, two are left and right going into the potentiometer, and two are left and right coming out of the potentiometer. You can identify which is which with a continuity test feature on a multimeter.

I don't want to rain on anyone's parade here, but I see virtually no advantage to doing this outside of the shock value of a color screen in a DMG case.

Furthermore, most of the components in the CGB are surface mount, meaning it would be a pain in the ass to put as many through-hole wire extensions for board-mount components as you would need to do.

I guess my main point is that you will essentially be performing a downgrade on this game boy for a novelty. Unless you're using the extra space you'd get in the DMG case from doing this to add some seriously out there new circuits, like an internal arduinoboy, an analogue filter, a summing circuit like the PISSBox, et cetera, this seems like an essentially destructive mod where you create a "worst of both worlds" game boy.

I haven't done it before. I could probably figure it out, but I don't think it would be fully ethical for me to offer this as a service when I don't have a method I prefer figured out yet. I haven't heard of or seen a colored front-lit CGB before, but that's an interesting idea… I wouldn't do it on mine, though. A colored frontlight will distort the colors of the display.

Also, I'd advise keeping the Pokémon one stock since it's collectable, but it is your game boy.

I like your sound textures bro.

Zazzle's prints look decent, but they are digital prints last I checked, so they don't had the fade resistance of a quality screenprint, or the unique inverse dye qualities of something less typical like a discharge print.

Yeah, I've seen more than a few bands screenprint their own shirts. If it matches your aesthetic it is a pretty cool option because you essentially make each one unique.

I don't know much about spreadshirt, but I've done merch design for some nonprofits in my area and gotten them estimates from area screenprinters. I know we've gotten American Apparel single color prints for as low as $8 a shirt at I think 50 shirts. That's really not bad at the end of the day, if you think you can move fifty shirts at $10 or $15.

Holy shit, thread over.

Hahah no you're not.