#Hispeedido #retrogaming #nintendo #gameboy #gbc
... An hour and a small pile of plastic clippings and filings later, I managed to fit the screen in the original top part of the case.
They weren't lying! The screen is a bit bigger on the front, but required a lot more room on the back. You have to remove everything but a 2mm edge underneath the bezel of the screen, to which it adheres with some heavy duty double sided tape.
From what I hear, the screen is actually surplus from the old #Blackberry handheld devices. For this to work in the GBC, they need a controller board, which is fixed with dreaded #kapton tape. There is plenty of room for this though, and it seems like an electrically safe sandwich of hackish goodness.
Fully assembled, I turned the unit on and everything just works! Here it is, with a brightness of 2 out of 4. I turned it down to 1 afterwards, and that's fine too.
Not sure how much I'll be using it, but installing the mod was a lot of fun and very satisfying.
