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Our Electrolytic Re-Cap Guide
Re-Capping Made Easy!
In this post, we will show you how to replace both types of electrolytic capacitors; "Surface Mount" and "Through-Hole". This process requires a bit of soldering knowledg...

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No-LOCA frontlights: A comparison
We get it...
…when it comes to illuminating the display on the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance one option is frontlighting. It’s effective and it’s inexpensive relative to the backlit solutions...

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Voltage and current - Comparing Game Boy Color backlit LCDs
We've been selling a backlit Game Boy Color LCD solution for a bit now and by all accounts people are loving them... we keep getting in more, and they keep selling out... thank you for your support...

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Midwest Embedded GBC LCD Test by Jellybelly Customs
Our friend Matt Whitehead over at Jellybelly Customs is at it again - this time taking the Midwest Embedded backlit LCD for the Game Boy Color, studying it, and plotting how it performs. This is an...

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Freckle Shack vs McWill by Jellybelly Customs
The modding community is a fairly small world in many ways, and being an active part of it we are glad to have made many friends along the way... each bringing their own skills and vantage point t...

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Is the Game Boy a Computer?
This is the first post in an occasional series by Colin from This Does Not Compute.
One of the things that has always interested me are devices that should be computers, but aren't really. We gene...
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New Backlight Sneak Peak
Here are some photos of the new thinner backlight with a flat fcp cable. They look amazing! Colors even better in person, the pictures do not do it justice. Clocking in at 1.23mm, this is our thinn...
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Game Boy Color Frontlight Preview (Installation Video)
Get a sneak peek at what our Game Boy Color Frontlight will look like and how to install. Coming Soon!