Game Boy Colour With Backlit Screen

Does anybody know where I could pick one of these up?  I mean a modded official console so that the screen has a light in it, not one of those knockoffs you see on eBay.

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  • Backlit GBCs don't really exist. There was reportedly ONE on eBay a while ago, but it's disappeared again. The only options are putting a GBA SP inside a GBC body or using an internal frontlight. I've modded plenty of GBCs with frontlights. I have feedback on NA for the last one I made and sold. Please PM me if you're interested.
  • this mod is getting more popular. i guy near me has started doing it.
  • Originally posted by: retroupgrade



    Backlit GBCs don't really exist. There was reportedly ONE on eBay a while ago, but it's disappeared again. The only options are putting a GBA SP inside a GBC body or using an internal frontlight. I've modded plenty of GBCs with frontlights. I have feedback on NA for the last one I made and sold. Please PM me if you're interested.



    A lot of people mix up back/front light. I sure as shit do.

     
  • Originally posted by: Bert

     
    Originally posted by: retroupgrade



    Backlit GBCs don't really exist. There was reportedly ONE on eBay a while ago, but it's disappeared again. The only options are putting a GBA SP inside a GBC body or using an internal frontlight. I've modded plenty of GBCs with frontlights. I have feedback on NA for the last one I made and sold. Please PM me if you're interested.



    A lot of people mix up back/front light. I sure as shit do.

     





    Yeah, all I really meant was a GBC with a light in it at all.
  • https://www.facebook.com/BennVennElectronics/

    http://shop.bennvenn.com

    "Backlit GBCs don't really exist" is an outdated piece of information

    Bennvenn's shop sells AGS-101 backlit screen adapter ribbons for installation in GBCs including a motion blur fix

    He's also working on a 1:1 custom screen replacement
  • Originally posted by: Phins



    https://www.facebook.com/BennVenn...

    http://shop.bennvenn.com...

    "Backlit GBCs don't really exist" is an outdated piece of information

    Bennvenn's shop sells AGS-101 backlit screen adapter ribbons for installation in GBCs including a motion blur fix

    He's also working on a 1:1 custom screen replacement



    Well, that's still not a true backlit GBC, it's a GBC with another screen shoved into it.  I recall watching a YouTube video from ThisDoesNotCompute a few weeks ago about some Chinese guy who did something similar, swapping in a non-standard LCD to provide "true" backlit GBCs.  The bad news is is that Bennvenn apparently won't ever be doing more of the AGS-101 screen boards (per the linked Facebook page), so hopefully an easy to drop in screen replacement will actually become a reality.
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