Removing the LCD metal frame also makes a huge difference.”
“You need to take off nearly a mm of width from the front. “Removing a lot more plastic is a must with this build,” Grimmett wrote. However, Grimmett left a comment on Wirth’s video to explain that he had come up with a solution that worked perfectly - it just required an even more drastic elimination of material from within the shell. That was even after he took steps like scooping out a whole bunch of plastic and shaving down contacts on the circuit board. The heart of Grimmett’s kit is a $40 custom-made ribbon cable that converts the GBC’s output so that the GBA SP’s display can read it.īecause the SP’s screen is larger and thicker than the GBC’s display, Wirth wasn’t able to get everything to fit inside the original shell of the GBC.
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The mod swaps out the Game Boy Color’s built-in screen for the backlit LCD of the upgraded Game Boy Advance SP, the AGS-101 model, which was released about two and a half years after the original GBA SP’s debut. Wirth used a backlight setup provided by Ben “BennVenn” Grimmett, a longtime Nintendo hardware tinkerer. That has finally changed with a new hardware mod, which you can see come together in a video from Colin Wirth at the YouTube channel This Does Not Compute. Over the years, Nintendo fans have retrofitted all the company’s handhelds aside from the Game Boy Color with backlit displays.