1 Reply by Eric

(3 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

bitjacker wrote:

what color of backlight do you plan on doing? you can also get biversion kits.

I have a green and an orange one. I should also have some smd and dip hex-inverters lying around.

Payday wrote:

By top polarization layer do you mean the actual glass on the screen under where the protector would be?

Yes, as far as I understand it, there is one polarizer on each side of the LCD. But it is possible that one of them is fused with the glass. sad

Payday wrote:

it's good practice anyway and you can just take the backlight from that one and move it to a better one later anyway. I would try on one of the least pretty screens just to practice.

I will try that.

Edit:
It was quite some work to pull it off (the reflective layer wink ). I installed the orange backlight and the result is better than expected.
The visibility is greatly improved and the scratches are actually less visible when the backlight is turned on. smile
I will probably try biversion on the weekend, hope that it will look even better.

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2 Topic by Eric

(3 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Hello,
I recently got my hands on several 'broken' DMGs. Fortunalety, the only issues were missing vertical lines, leaking batteries and scratched/missing screen covers.
I more or less managed to restore them.

Is there an easy way to reattach the rubber strip I had to remove to fix the display? Maybe double-sided tape?

Next, I would like to backlight some of them. As two of them were missing the screen protection, they have some scratches on the top (polarization?) layer.
Are they even worth backlighting? I can imagine that the scratches are even more visible with backlight. Can this be repaired or are they a lost cause?
On the other hand, they could be good test subjects in case I break something when removing the reflective layer, as this is my first try on modding.

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