As for the screen, this isnt replaced so what youre seeing is actually the original screen but with a backlight behind it, its just that the active matrix of the screen is centered with a slight margin around the borders, and when you backlight it this becomes more noticeable.

If you want to try modding but never done it before, start with this its easy, cheap, cool, effective and satisfying.

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There are plenty of tutorials online that show you how to do this, but heres a few practical things Ive learned along the way gather round for storytime.

The replacement cases are generally kinda cheaper and flimsy, so best to stick with oldschool.

Replace the buttons if you want though, these are pretty good, and definitely get that awesome glass screen replacement very nice.

I bought my gear at handheld legends, theyre quick to respond, have a lotta stuff, not too expensive, good (not endorsed by them btw).

Youll need their backlight v3 and possibly a bivert chip, but before you do, read the next paragraph.

Pale yellow seems to be closest to the original screen of the Game Boy, so I bought a bunch of those.

Take note, the washed yellow on the DMG screen seems a lot brighter than the Pocket screen, and gets a little unpleasant after a while.

Thats why, for the DMG, I used a white backlight with bivert mod, which is much calmer and sharper.

The pocket screen with washed yellow is also calmer and pretty great; I didnt even bother with the bivert on that one For the Game Boy Pocket, make sure to connect the backlight to the cartridge pins though and not the capacitor in the front, as this dims the screen enormously.

I added some black masking tape around the border of the screen just to clean it up.

On the Game Boy Pocket, bivert generally didnt really do much, and with the pale yellow background it wasnt really needed.

No idea whats going on, but the additional drain on the batteries with the backlight on the Game Boy Pocket and the EverDrive x3 when its loading SD card content makes the system reset.

This is not the case with the Game Boy DMG, but I seem some dimming appearing when the cartridge is being read.

I have to say that it does look the closest to the original thing on the DMG though, but the brightness is off-putting after a while.

Now I know what color I will be buying, but I still have one question: I have noticed most of the modded DMG have a smaller screen than the original one, you can see this sort of frame around the image, which I really dont like.

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I have noticed that in the picture illustrating this article, both the DMG and MGB dont have that framed screen, but it looks like a full sized original screen.

I have gotten all my backlight gear from handheldlegends (look online).

I used black electrical tape and neatly taped off around the edge with my DMG, so that only the active part of the screen was visible.

Any chance we could get in touch I had a couple more questions about the post that I would like to ask (where would you recommend me to buy the screens, etc My email is linked right here so I guess you can contact me using that.

Thanks.