is it always impossible to clean the stuff off the lcd though?
2 Aug 26, 2012 10:58 pm
Topic: Trouble backlighting pockets? (5 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Recently i decided to backlight a gameboy pocket. I have backlit around 4 dmgs without any trouble, so i thought it would be easy. i found this tutorial just for some help http://mikejmoffitt.com/wp/?p=10 and it didn't look so bad. Anyways, i get to the step where you remove the back layer/polarizer with a razor blade, and it's fucking impossible. i ended up only peeling off the foil layer at first, and the polarizer layer came off unevenly.
(you take off both layers right?)
Anyways, now it was covered with this sticky crap, and i couldn't clean it with rubbing alcohol. It looked terrible, but I thought i might as well see if it works. when i went to turn it on, i experienced the same problem as this person did http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSqH77srdew so i guess i damaged the ribbon cables while trying to peel that off.
So i guess i ruined one gameboy pocket lcd, and i'm reluctant to try backlighting another. I see a good number of backlit gameboy pockets on the internet, so i figured it's not to hard to do.
So was this screen just defective, or is it always this hard to peel the polarizer/reflector off a gameboy pocket screen? And are there any tips that will make it easy, or a video showing someone doing it? I really don't want to break another gameboy pocket screen.