Okay so I am more than familiar with horizontal and vertical line cracks in the screen, happens often with older consoles of course,well what the hell happened here? I have like splatter marks?
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I'm afraid the crystals cracked.
No way to fix it, the leak will spread further..
It's gone.
Rip screen.
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sigh, could this have happened from the weather Tim Bob? Thanks though, sigh, I guess I'll use her for a few more songs, then I'll salvage what I can off of her
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I just got a DMG without sound for $10 from ebay. 
Get one (I think he's got 2 more) and replace the front PCB. I noticed that sweet design around the screen cover. You have to keep this alive!
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Of all the damaged and degraded screens I have seen over the years I don't recall personally encountering that before. The stuff on the right looks like a weird frog headed guy jumping over something. Blame that guy.
Screens dying really sucks. I have many with various screen issues already, and last night while playing Tetris a horizontal line popped out in the middle on my main DMG. I will poke around in some of them next weekend to see if i can fix anything, and if this screen is gone I may swap front boards with one I use mainly with a keyboard for lsdj. I think good quality replacements are coming soonish...
Why do you think it might be weather related? What has the weather been like where you are? When I was younger I left mine in the car occasionally, sometimes in below freezing and very hot temperatures, but the screen always returned to normal after a while.
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DMGer wrote:
I just got a DMG without sound for $10 from ebay.
Get one (I think he's got 2 more) and replace the front PCB. I noticed that sweet design around the screen cover. You have to keep this alive!
Thanks man and I know AlleyBeach gave this a while backl he performed a dope ass mod on it, I would hate to lose this girl, so many.. memories, I shall peform surgery like the other good fellow said, I'm looking for that unlucky deaf gameboy with no sound, and I am going to rip him apart and save my baby 
and keep his shell too 
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rygD wrote:
Of all the damaged and degraded screens I have seen over the years I don't recall personally encountering that before. The stuff on the right looks like a weird frog headed guy jumping over something. Blame that guy.
Screens dying really sucks. I have many with various screen issues already, and last night while playing Tetris a horizontal line popped out in the middle on my main DMG. I will poke around in some of them next weekend to see if i can fix anything, and if this screen is gone I may swap front boards with one I use mainly with a keyboard for lsdj. I think good quality replacements are coming soonish...
Why do you think it might be weather related? What has the weather been like where you are? When I was younger I left mine in the car occasionally, sometimes in below freezing and very hot temperatures, but the screen always returned to normal after a while.
It was 22 degrees here, and I left my dmg in the car, as I went to an xmas party, then when I came back, turned her on, I was like GAAAAHG
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Yeah, I guess since they are now 20 years older than when I did this it might be more problematic now.