While I'm still in the process of restoring my MVS, I thought I'd show off a Christmas present I made for someone, this is a Backlit, USB-C rechargeable Gameboy colour.
It was fairly easy to do, the main difficulty was cramming in everything!
The screen may look out of alignment but that's just the angle I took the picture at, it took me a good 30 minutes to make sure it aligned alright.
That charging port was such a a pain, I desoldered the old Power input jack, and then broke it completely, turns out the jack bridges 3.7v and ground over itself, so I had to solder some bridge wires, the tp4056 board wouldn't fit either so I had to buy a seperate breakaout and solder the connections from that to the charging board inside the body. Honestly I'm not too happy with how it looks either, It's quite a a rough job, but it does work in the end and you don't notice it from the front.
I used the cheapest parts I could find, here is the parts list for the build:
LCD (The cheapest GBC baacklight I could find on Aliexpress that came with a glass screen protector, the right size for this slightly different size screen)
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/33060031573.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.2db44c4dywfZHq
A 2000mAH 3.7v battery, if I was going to do this again I may have bought a smaller one so it would fit with less hassle.
A tp4056 battery protection circuit making sure I don't under/overcharge. If I had access to a 3d printer I would have printed off the tp4056 bracket you can downlod from thingiverse here
A ds lite speaker makes quite a big difference in speaker quality!
A full shell replacement so the colour was the saame asa their childhood GBC!
A female USB c socket so I can put the charaging port where the original DC input jack was.
Fitting the LCD is simple, just unplug the old one and slot the new one in, if you want to be able to change the brighhtness you have to place a little flexible circuit boaard in front of the ir glass, place your finger on it to change the brightness.
The battery mod is a little more tricky, I desoldered the batterry terminals on the mainboard, then soldered that to the tp4056, the tp4056 is then soldered to the female breakout and the battery. I followed this tutorial.
The speaker simply is a soldering swap, no problems.
overall I'm very satisfied with this, the screen is fantastic, so much more usable nowadays, and for what I paid you can't really go wrong.
dudeyds2019-12-25 23:42:41
It was fairly easy to do, the main difficulty was cramming in everything!
The screen may look out of alignment but that's just the angle I took the picture at, it took me a good 30 minutes to make sure it aligned alright.
That charging port was such a a pain, I desoldered the old Power input jack, and then broke it completely, turns out the jack bridges 3.7v and ground over itself, so I had to solder some bridge wires, the tp4056 board wouldn't fit either so I had to buy a seperate breakaout and solder the connections from that to the charging board inside the body. Honestly I'm not too happy with how it looks either, It's quite a a rough job, but it does work in the end and you don't notice it from the front.
I used the cheapest parts I could find, here is the parts list for the build:
LCD (The cheapest GBC baacklight I could find on Aliexpress that came with a glass screen protector, the right size for this slightly different size screen)
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/33060031573.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.2db44c4dywfZHq
A 2000mAH 3.7v battery, if I was going to do this again I may have bought a smaller one so it would fit with less hassle.
A tp4056 battery protection circuit making sure I don't under/overcharge. If I had access to a 3d printer I would have printed off the tp4056 bracket you can downlod from thingiverse here
A ds lite speaker makes quite a big difference in speaker quality!
A full shell replacement so the colour was the saame asa their childhood GBC!
A female USB c socket so I can put the charaging port where the original DC input jack was.
Fitting the LCD is simple, just unplug the old one and slot the new one in, if you want to be able to change the brighhtness you have to place a little flexible circuit boaard in front of the ir glass, place your finger on it to change the brightness.
The battery mod is a little more tricky, I desoldered the batterry terminals on the mainboard, then soldered that to the tp4056, the tp4056 is then soldered to the female breakout and the battery. I followed this tutorial.
The speaker simply is a soldering swap, no problems.
overall I'm very satisfied with this, the screen is fantastic, so much more usable nowadays, and for what I paid you can't really go wrong.
dudeyds2019-12-25 23:42:41
