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I might be late picking up on this, but i guess it's better late than never.
Anyway, i recently noticed this little story about a listing on a chinese website which allegedly had a moded GameBoy Color with a true backlit screen on sale (here's a video about it from some guy on YouTube). Now apart from this overpriced listing on eBay that appears to have one of those said 21 moded GameBoys for sale, i didn't find any further developments coming from that direction.
When looking further however, i did also discover this guy named BennVenn (Facebook page) who managed to create a similar mod, where an actual AGS-101 screen from a Gameboy Advance SP was adapated to work with a standard Gameboy Color using some kind of custom ribbon cable with an FPGA attached to it - mod kits for which are being sold here (US/CA only). There's also a video (made by someone else) demonstrating the concpet:
From what i understood from the first video and that eBay listing though, is that the original backlight mod from China used some kind of a third party IPS display (whatever that actually was), while the later mod by BennVenn used either an original or an aftermarket chinese clone of either AGS-101 or AGS-001 displays which were meant to be used in GBA-SP's.
So for those of you who might have an opinion on this, what do you guys think about this and which in your opinion is more technically viable for your avarage retro enthusiast?
Anyway, i recently noticed this little story about a listing on a chinese website which allegedly had a moded GameBoy Color with a true backlit screen on sale (here's a video about it from some guy on YouTube). Now apart from this overpriced listing on eBay that appears to have one of those said 21 moded GameBoys for sale, i didn't find any further developments coming from that direction.
When looking further however, i did also discover this guy named BennVenn (Facebook page) who managed to create a similar mod, where an actual AGS-101 screen from a Gameboy Advance SP was adapated to work with a standard Gameboy Color using some kind of custom ribbon cable with an FPGA attached to it - mod kits for which are being sold here (US/CA only). There's also a video (made by someone else) demonstrating the concpet:
From what i understood from the first video and that eBay listing though, is that the original backlight mod from China used some kind of a third party IPS display (whatever that actually was), while the later mod by BennVenn used either an original or an aftermarket chinese clone of either AGS-101 or AGS-001 displays which were meant to be used in GBA-SP's.
So for those of you who might have an opinion on this, what do you guys think about this and which in your opinion is more technically viable for your avarage retro enthusiast?
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