Well, I went and bought a new screen, Color+DMG cable (for linkin' my Color and my DMG together for future use with music), and also, a backlight kit with rocker switch. You know how the DMG's screen isn't actually black and white, more like green and darker green? It makes it pretty hard to see, even in direct light. And like all Gameboys up to the SP (besides the Gameboy Light, which I doubt many people have even heard of), you had to be in almost-direct light to see what's on the screen. That's not good for musicians like me. It doesn't look very good when you have to have a bright light on a table and you're performing in say, a dark club. To rectify that, Nonfinite Electronics has developed and is manufacturing DIY backlight kits. Basically, it comes with a backlight module that has 2 LEDs, a resistor to give the LEDs the correct amount of power, a non-adhesive rear polarizer film, and optionally, a switch to turn it on and off. And the end product of the kit I bought will look like this:
(might be a slightly different shade of green, though)
I can't wait to get it, because once it's installed I can work on my tracks just about anywhere and anytime. I can wake up in the middle of the night with a great seed for a song and put it down right there before I forget it. How great is that? The only way it could be better is if I could just telegraph the music that's playing in my head at the time into the device directly!
Also, it'll be a good way to practice my soldering skillz. Maybe. I might just get my dad to do it so I won't accidentally cause a short that totally fries the circuit board. But there's not that much soldering to do anyway. The hardest part is peeling off the LCD's reflective foil and rear polarizer.
Welp, I guess I'll post some pics on my Facebook and here after I finish in a couple days.
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