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the glitchy logo sounds like the PCB inside has slipped slightly off-center. 

look up into the cartridge, from the bottom where the edge connectors are, you can see if its aligned that way.

even less than a millimeter can get the pins touching/crossed, your symptoms are pretty classic for this.

and, do what kineticturtle said and put LSDJ on both sides of the cart (*if* you got the cart from us and requested LSDJ, its already been done for you unless you changed it).

also, LSDJ MUST!!! be on the menu all by itself.  it will NOT share menu space.  so, if you put LSDJ in both menus, its the only ROM you can have on the cart.  If you just keep it in menu 1 and use menu 2 for something else, just keep it alone in menu 1.  LSDJ doesn't like to share, at all...

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links spread throughout the text

you need to replace R1 with a resistor appropriate to the color of LED you are using.

the film that is lifting up could possibly be the ground plane, i don't have a PCB in fron tof me to check and see what it might be...  too much heat will cause the layers of a PCB to come apart like that

its easy to replace though.  just switch out the LED, and change the value of R1 if you need to do this.  thats it, if you are modding a stock gameboy.

unless i've gone crazy

both the DMG-07 and DMG-04 cables have all the proper connections, including the 5V.  this is the reason why people scavenge for these a bit.

the 4-player adapters are just ideal because you have more sections of cables with plugs on the end, and you've got to cut the cable anyways so doesn't matter. 

so if you're using an official nintendo cable, you don't need to switch around the pins at all.  if you've switched them on an official cable that already had the proper connections, then the solution is to either, 1) reverse the switching you did and fix it back, or, 2) just pay attention to your wiring connections, not really what the wires should be, what what they've become as a result of your pin switching.

i haven't done this in a realllly long time though, but i'm pretty sure both the DMG-04 and -07 have the 5V connected, unlike all the other cables around.

and to your other point, yes you can add an external power source, it needs to be regulated to 5V, +/-10%, and i think supply at least 500mA (i can't remember the PS/2 specs).  you need to tie this into your ground and this will feed the keyboard's power.  you can register key-presses then.  the gameboy doesn't need the extra power,

hope that helps some.

Hypanaut killed the cover art.  thats so great...

can't wait to listen to this!

thats not a bad idea.

i'll email and mention it, but make no promises.  its much easier for them to do a local drawing methinks...

yeah, the insides are basically a xerox copy, there are some tolerance issues and of course internal changes to compensate for the change in shape a little bit...  but other than that its the same.  100% compatible, no changes needed to anything to make the switch...

to make a change like you mention would require a new mold, which is a ton of money.  i *can* do it, but you don't want me to even give you the quote