Gameboy Color New Screen Upgrade!!!!

[retro junkie]

When I first got my hands on a Gameboy Color back in its "glory days" I was somewhat irritated. I am sure it was a cost saving manufacturing decision in order to make it below a certain price point for the consumer. That screen was met with a "Oh Boy Color!" With a wait a minute it is darker than my Gameboy Pocket. Then you go through the shuffling moving around tilting, getting it just at the right angle under a lamp or out in the sunlight. And when you found that sweet spot to play you were happy. I never purchased a lot of Gameboy Color games and this was the reason. It was more troublesome than the Gameboy Pocket.
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Now is a new day and multiple years later since that initial release of this handheld console. And since then I have grabbed up a couple of more Gameboy Color consoles over the years simply because I was walking through an indoor flea market and there they were laying on the table for only a few dollars.

I found a kit that was a "drop-in" screen upgrade for the Gameboy Color. Yes I am aware that there are a couple of manufactures creating and marketing a Gameboy alternative for retro gamers using modern FPGA-based hardware technology in the $200 plus range. Hmmm.....and this upgrade that I am using is around $60 using the original hardware? Hmmm... let me do the math and think. TIMES UP!!!  I will go for the screen upgrade!
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Found me a place in the house. Got out my TV tray and some of my tools. I used some double stick tape to keep my screws from rolling off the tray. It was a simple one, two, three operation taking some precautions and care not to break anything when dealing with those ribbon cables.
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I was through in a matter of minutes. Pull one out drop another one in. Put everything back together.
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The result was amazing. I feel like I have a brand new game console. I am pulling out the Gameboy games that are color with backward compatibility, plus the small library of GB Color games. I am now in the market to purchase more games. I have a Gameboy multi cart that I have been keeping in the console since I performed the operation yesterday. Somewhere down the road I will need to reshell this game console. Big thumbs up for this one upgrade and highly recommended.
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@retro junkie This looks like an awesome project.  It also looks like you have great results from the screen change. 

The Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance (before backlit SP) systems had horrible reflectivity.  I didn't have as much of an issue with the original Game Boy.  Unless you were in the right light, they were hard to play... at least from what I experienced.  The Game Boy Advance SP changed EVERYTHING.  That is still one of my favorite console launches.  I went pretty late at night to pick up the system at Launch.  If I remember right, my 1st game played was Advance Wars!    Now I could play at night before falling asleep.

The Game Boy Color is one console I do not have.  It would be interesting to pick up a GBC to test this mod!

Awesome post - What games have you tried on it so far?  What looked the best? And is everything still holding up well?