This will free up the display, and allow you to take it out of the white plastic frame. They also sell different colored front lenses and buttons.įirst, remove the two screws on the brown connector just below the display. You can get your backlight in wide variety of colors, and even buy an inverted screen! Truly an awesome source. I got my backlight module from a great company called Kitsch-Bent. This was a lot of fun, and I’m sure any 90s kid would have killed for this when the Gameboy was still super popular. Next I thought I would add a backlight to the Gameboy’s screen. It helps keep the connector from experiencing the stresses that caused it to fracture in the first place. If fixing the lines is all you wanted to do, you’re done! Go ahead and reassemble your Gameboy, and don’t forget to reattach that rubber strip. I was able to get my display 100% working again, and it looks like this repair has about a 100% success rate if you do it correctly. Once you stop the heat and the solder solidifies, more lines should begin appearing. This is just some product of the solder reflow process. While you’re doing this you may notice that more lines appear while you’re heating the connector. Don’t spend more than 3 or 4 seconds on any given spot. That being said, you shouldn’t need a whole lot of heat.
I believe the brown ribbon connector is kapton film, which is incredibly heat resistant (it’s used in heating elements), so don’t worry about heating it too much. Don’t venture onto the white plastic, or else you’ll get a sticky mess. If the lines are towards the left side of the display, heat the left side of that connector.
Now we fix the display! Heat up your soldering iron and gently rub it black and forth on the brown part of the connector just below. It should peel off kind of like a sticker. Using a razor blade or sharp knife, remove that rubber strip and the adhesive below it. For me, that strip stuck to the plastic Gameboy case when I took the board out, but from looking around online it seems like most boards will still have that slip attached. Just below the display there’s usually a thin black rubber strip attached to that brown film. You can see here that the act of removing the display from its housing was enough to cause even more black vertical lines to appear. Once you’ve done this, put the batteries in the Gameboy, turn it on, and change the contrast with the knob on the left side of the display until the whole thing turns black (with the exception of the lines we’re fixing). It’s a good idea at this point to place a slip of paper between the top board and bottom board so that you don’t short anything out you don’t want to. If you’re having some real difficulty, double check that you have removed all ten screws. Don’t be too violent here, the board is thin enough you could put some stress fractures in it if you’re not a little careful. Remove those ten screws, and gently wiggle the front board away from the case. From this point forward, all the screws we’ll be dealing with are just phillips. Next, you have to remove ten screws holding the display board onto the front case. You can do this repair quite easily without having to put this connector back in. You could disconnect the ribbon cable at this point (it’s a ZIF socket, so the connector just slides out), but I didn’t want to bother having to reconnect it when I was done. Carefully hinge unit so the screen half is face down on your desk with the circuitry portion sticking vertically upward. There’s a fairly short ribbon connector connecting the screen half of the Gameboy to the circuitry half. Once you take those screws out, don’t pull the Gameboy apart quickly. There’s four obvious ones on the back of the Gameboy, and two inside the battery compartment. It’s not super difficult, but you definitely want to be careful to avoid stripping the screws. If you don’t want to spend a couple dollars on a triwing driver, you can do what I did and use a small flathead in one of the three slots in the screws. Triwing screws, for those of you unfamiliar, are Nintendo’s favorite way to make opening their products just ever so slightly more irritating. There are six screws, and depending on when your Gameboy was made, they are either going to be triwing or phillips. The first step is to remove the back cover of the DMG.
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