Game Boy Bivert/Hex Module V2 for DMG and GBP

It does what it says it does. The chips provided on these boards, the 74HC04D are about $0.47 cents each (when sold individually; for official Toshiba) and 100 of these boards would total about $14. $2-2.50 would be a more reasonable price for all it is. That's what I would charge, personally. At least for customers buying backlights as well, I would give them a reduced price.

I purchased the backlight and bivert kit. This makes the screen so much clearer and brighter. Takes a decent time to install if you desolder the LCD (recommended) and remove all traces of dust, but a totally worth it modification that retains the retro feel of the original display.

Great little chip and easy to install. A must have if you don’t want to do an entire LCD display swap on your DMG1. Makes all the difference when accompanied with their screen replacement as well.

Really improves the screen quality and the installation isn't too hard.

I installed the bivert mod while also adding the screen backlight, which I highly recommend! All in all this is a near perfect product. the ground pad on the corner sort of lays over where pin 1 for the ribbon socket are on the logic board, and that ground pad is right up against the corner of the chip. I'd recommend soldering the ground wire onto the bivert board ground pad BEFORE soldering it to the gameboy board and pins. I did the pin-lift method, soldered the through holes and pins and then did the ground wire last. While doing the ground wire I had to be careful to not over-solder and inadvertently connect the ground of the bivert module to that socket pin that ends up directly underneath it, which was blobbed pretty heavily with solder. It would have been easier if I had just attached the ground wire to the bivert prior to installing the bivert. At the end of the day this was not a challenging mod really, though I found it slightly more complex electronically than adding the backlight kit (which I did at the same time of course). If you have 0 experience soldering or working with electronics you might want to find an old board to play around with first and at least watch the videos, but I feel this is still definitely within the beginner skill range. Some SMD removal solder (like chip-quick) along with the de-soldering wick makes the pin lifting slightly easier (at least it did for me). I would definitely do this again if I came across another console and I totally recommend it. The video I'm attaching is with the HHL backlight and bivert mods both.

Sooo... I thought this was just a gimmick to sell more products. I WAS WRONG! This is amazing I installed a back light without it, just to see, I was blown away with the difference. Crisp clean, darks darker, it really helps with game play. And the install was extremely easy!