The DREAM GameBoy Build! - DMG IPS Screen Mod
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2020
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Today we will be looking at the latest and greatest GameBoy mod - the DMG Original GameBoy IPS Screen. This mod is fresh off of the production line and hasn't been covered by many people yet. Thank you to Retro Modding for supplying me with these parts (NOT SPONSORED) and allowing me to get the newest mods to show you!
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Look like a nice display, but at the price they are selling the DIY version, I would have expected them to have corrected the colour palette issue.
Man time to clean and retin your iron tip. It's basically allergic to solder right now.
doesn't help that its a USB soldering iron. They never work very well.
@@OkiDingo Looks like a ts80 which is an excellent 80w direct heat iron.
@@OkiDingo Used properly, it's fine for small solder jobs like that. It just has low mass, so can't handle larger jobs.
@@frac it's direct heat, it handles larger jobs for me better than my older Weller setup.
You don't need nearly as much thermal mass when your heater is directly in the tip itself vs a few CM up the shaft. As instead of being slow to respond to temperature changes, it's response becomes almost instant and it becomes an issue of power delivery which the ts80 is perfectly capable.
Will it replace my old 100W soldering gun for soldering chassis grounds and tie points, no of course not, but what started as a portable iron has now replaced my Weller station as the main iron I use. It makes xt-60 connectors a cinch to solder, my old Weller would struggle to keep the tip hot.
Sounds like my soldering iron.
I agree with what people are saying. It's far too expensive. I do like the idea of not having to solder anything and just dropping it in with the pre-made kit though.
But it's a custom part that likely isn't going to turn a huge profit.
@@voidofspaceandtime4684 and yet there are other kits that cost significantly less for the same console and kits for other consoles like the GBC and GBA that can cost half the price. Largely this is because this quite a complex kit, with lots of parts. And that is the problem, this is an overly complex solution. There will be better options in the future.
@@edwardtcrump5312 Are you gonna provide sources for those kits? Cuz I would love to have more options for modding parts and stuff.
@@ShadeSlayer1911 I saw someone saying this is rebranded from China and I do find alot of gb modding shit on Chinese sites
I really liked the video, as always, and the new mod looks nice. But I do prefer the slightly less scripted format from previous vids. It allows more of your personality to show through, and it's only now that you are scripting a bit more that I realize that your personality is a huge reason why I enjoy your content.
And it shows he is a bad writer
No need to be rude Bob.
This was less of an entertainment video, more of a promotional video.
@@theonebegotten Says the guy with no content himself.
The only way he'll get better is practice. That being said, I didn't think this was bad at all. Elliot is especially impressive for how young he is. Watching this channel grow over this last year has been some of the most fun I've had on RUclips in years. Seems like his content gets better every video. Let the kid experiment, it's his channel.
TLDR: Go fuck yourself, Bob. :)
@@S7ARBOY damn. He's impressive for being so young? At least I was straight up while you were patronizing
thanks to your videos, I am taking on a half dozen DMGs as projects, doing some restorations with backlight biverts, and a shell swap with a TFT IPS. Still waiting on my parts, but can't wait to get started. Keep it up, you are teaching me so much.
I find the alignment issue to be a deal breaker for me actually. Even though it's only off a little bit, it would drive me crazy! That's all I would be thinking about. For that kind of money, it needs to be 100% aligned. I find that to be unacceptable. The alignment issue was the first thing I noticed when the new screen was revealed in this video, not how good it looked.
Then if you do want to do this, actually listen when you fit it, and do the extra step to align it properly. But that's not the point is it, you just like whining
@@desposyy his point, i guess, wasnt so much that it isnt aligned out of the box, but that it would be expected for a kit of that price to be aligned. if it was a 10$ kit, yeah sure, you can brush that off. but if it is an almost 100$ kit you would think they made sure it was aligned perfectly out of the box.
desposyy : It's people like you that are ruining youtube. I have every right to have an opinion, as do you, but keep your childish remarks to yourself.
Console5 sells a 3D printed bracket for like $5.
@@JeffCD77 it's a deal, you keep your childish ill informed comments to yourself and I won't reply to them.
Thank you for the super clear and informative video! This is just what I needed - I recently ripped a pin off of my original DMG screen while attempting the backlight mod, so this mod is perfect for people like me who have damaged components. I just needed more info on how to fix the color palette, and you delivered! Cheers!
I put your channel on when I study because the music, your voice and content really helps me concentrate. Your channel is great! Keep it up.
And I remember when repairing a Gameboy screen meant pulling the screen apart to replace defective parts, and the best/only replacement was the backlight mod and bivert chip, or low quality LCD screens with the wrong aspect ratio or weird scaling.
"I love the fact it doesn't have any logos or text on them, it just makes the whole thing look overall more clean and minimalistic"
While true, it also makes it look like some chinese bootleg haha
If you’ve watched my channel for any amount of time you will know that I love my knock-offs! 😂
The Retro Future dude me too lol I think people kinda overexaggerate things when trying to knock on them. It’s pretty exciting when you’re buying and browsing the typical sites and scoring all of these super cheap electronics, and it’s a really exciting feeling once you’ve recieved them and you get to mess around with them. Most of them are nice and work great for what they are, ecspecially at how cheap we get them. Rather than the exact same tech, repackaged in a different casing and resold by companies here in the US/UK for 10x the price 😂🙄 not to mention with a ton of more restrictions put onto the device’s OS to prevent a lot of freedom the Chinese clones and gaming handhelds allow us to have lol
I agree, I think it made it look cheap without any branding.
@@Dominicn123 I love super cheap electronics, because I can play with it without fear. If I break it, oh well, I'm out $20, $30, $50. Once the price gets above $100, I get a lot more tentative about messing around with it.
While I do agree to an extent the lack of logos or patterning would make it great for custom painting it. God damn now I really wanna do that mod.
This mod will make a great Christmas gift.
Great video, thanks again for another one. I just got their standard backlight and bivert chip to keep my first DMG as close to original as possible.
I just have to say I really enjoy your content and videos. I work with electronics all the time and I really like your work. The videos are well edited and scripted. I cannot wait until you have 500k
Your content has gotten so much better than just a few months ago, proud of ya!
There’s is nothing like seeing an old gameboy, that would otherwise gather dust, be brought back to life 👌
It’s really magical how a bunch of little metal parts and few green and black pieces would FORM that.
I love the light coloring of the shell. It is beautiful
the design of the classic game boy will never die.
I love the fact that it can display green!
Omg thank you now i can save most of my dmgs!!!
This was very satisfying to watch, thank you
This was cool to watch and I like the quick fix. It makes me wonder how far people have gone with there gameboys
I did a polariser and bivert mod to my DMG, had to repair the display cable anyway, so made sense to do the mod 😊
Nice build👍,
Inspired me to go back and rebuild a couple of gbc's thats currently a work in progress.
The "screen" is defined by software or hardware. The actual display is much larger than the original display, they are simply using the pixels they expect to see in the window. They should be able to move the screen area through firmware, possibly even allow you to move the virtual screen after install pretty easily.
Wow what a beautiful mod I'll wait for the newer revision kits to come out.Im not good at bridging thx Elliot love the vids mate :)
Nice review by the way! To the point and it shows very well what to do.
Not sure what's more impressive... your soldering skills or the fact that you could cleanly film them. Well done.
It’s beautiful man. The colors scream switch lite. Nintendo needs to get into this market
Its actually a chinese product that RetroModding bought and resold for double the price. If you are whining that its "too expensive", go buy it from china for 50 bucks.
I don't live in US
if thats true thats an ugly story
Proof ?
Woah! Amazing work as always! Love seeing these videos!
Ps. How was your chickensoup?
The angles are so perfect.
man I always have and always will love your dmg mods man I'm one of your original subscribers what if you made a bluetooth gameboy?
Agree with the pricing as mentioned below. Got the newer version of the ips screen without the crossed over grey colours on AliExpress for £44. Even states it’s the new one showing the difference in the grey
Retro modding is the shit. I've got the 3" screen, I used it for a NES themed DMG. 👍👊👊🔥
@Wizzy Wambo I said "the shit" not "shit" so I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean the screen, it's great. I prefer it over the original. 😉
A brilliant job as usual! I want one!
It’s a pretty poor move from retro modding no matter how much you say “it’s not a big deal” but it kinda is when they’re charging £60 odd pounds for about a tenners worth of kit because we are involved in such a niche market! I love the work they do but can’t help feel that still paying the price of a working unit for a “faulty” one is poor
I mean, it's not like they are selling tens of thousands of thousands of models. They gotta make a buck too. Small market, less buyers, so the product needs to sell for more
Kai Brunk which is fine but when they make an error sell those parts at cost on the website and explain the issue with them! Don’t send them out in kits while charging full price? their sole market is small as you say so why shaft them! Good will gestures go a long long way
These kits should be sold cheaper I agree.
Love your channel! Been watching for quite a while now and would be really interested in getting into restoration myself thanks to you. How'd you get into it? I don't know if anyone else would be interested in watching a video where you tell about it but I'd really love to hear your story. ☺️
Great job it looks fantastic!
Love that color combo
I’ve installed the same kityestersay, but from Console5.com, which comes with a 3D printed bracket. It doesn’t use the tabs nor any adhesive and is perfectly centered.
My only regrets are the palette problem (which is pretty easily fixable right now, ans should be fixed in the software anytime soon) and the fact that you have to stick with preset ones. There is no way to edit or create your custom palette. The included ones are OK, but I wish I could use softer tones for some.
But it’s still a GREAT improvement for our beloved old DMGs. I’ve been able to restore a broken one with this, but with a great bright new display, that works great, wether in the dark of the night or in the plain daylight
Same here, in The Chinese Guy video we saw a better green original pallete for example and in this kit the green one looks so shiny and fake... Hope a Rev2 came out to fix this and then I will be sold! And hope a GBP one release sometime soon
Don’t get me wrong there, while I love the idea, why does the screen look so much off Centre?
Michael Frank
I think because the screen cover is white.
Lucas Verrier Nah, it’s because of poor alignment. I really love all the progress around the IPS displays, but at that price I’d expect the Display to be aligned. I mean, it’s not that all DMG differ or so.. Also that pinout issue there.. *facepalm*. It feels like someone’s up to earn some money while the retro train is on full power, instead of delivering a polished product. I’m quite upset that RM even sells them at this quality.
Oh wow, yeah, that is off centre!
EDIT
Elliot mentions this at the (9:30 mark, by the way)
Because they were using a different LCD initially, but switched to this one late on, so the tabs that go through the PCB aren't aligned for this LCD.
@@fraenker The display is aligned if you do it right. And the pinout, it's because they were testing with pokemon yellow and they did it so the palette makes pikachu yellow instead of pink. No excuse really, but that's why. It's not like RM made them.
That's a super cool mod. Makes me kinda regret selling one of my spare gameboys the other week.
Gameboy aside, that's the best cup of tea I've seen in a long time lol
uuhggg i just thought that one before was THE ultimate screen to mod, now I have to buy this one to replace THE other screen lol that I have ordered.
Awesome build buddy!
Every DMG Gameboy is your dream, Elliott
That game with green screen from 8:04 reminds me Prince of Persia from like 25 years ago, oh boy what a game that was.
I know it's super nitpicky, but I can't get over the "There is many benefits"
I cried with happiness, it's beautiful
The Mods are nice but I've always wondered if theres somewhere that does like for like restoration parts rather than mods avalible in the UK, so far its only been the Lens I've managed as my yellow DMG has some screen rot and worn decals.
I've got so many ways to play the games in better resolutions and colour but it'd be nice to play them as the way I remember from time to time.
I love these game boys
Nice mod and I just adore that marsmello look. You could make video about battery life test with these screen modded Gameboys compared to the original. I'm curious to know how such screen affects the battery life.
I really don't think we've hit the sweet spot yet. We need modern, low resolution, monochrome replacement screen, which doesn't replace too much hardware, and is the same size as the original, without introducing any problems (such as the increased blur on the 3 inch screen). The ips screens are nice, but I don't think they suit the DMG and are a little overkill
You have a new intro... WOW!!!! Looks nice!
I wish the screen was bigger. It really looks like so much more can be done
Hello mate great videos
I would love to mod my own GBC and GBA both Matt black with white buttons. Unfortunately they are in storage atm but will definitely be given them ago. Cant get enough of your content keep up with the great work 👍
Beautiful color scheme. I'd like a GBA SP in those colors, or a DS Lite.
Holy crap that thing is awesome.
Just got my first pocket 2 days ago and a new shell for my old color. I think I’ve already put 4+ hours into Tetris already.
Get pokemon crystal, mega man, red and you'll be playing for days
yup I got red and I’m hopefully getting crystal in a few weeks.
@@jaxsonbarry947 I'm going to get crystal vc so I can shiny hunt suicine, shiny hunting is a great way to slow your playthrough down so you can get more out of the game ;)
yup agreed
still sayin oled would be the next step for this and the blacks on the screen would just be way better
I got the courage to Backlight my GBP after watching your vids! Reason I aced it on my first attempt! :D I really wanna import some GBs from Japan, haven’t pulled the trigger cause I don’t know what other fees I’d have to pay >o< Keep cranking out the vids amazing work!!!
Hi! I have the same soldering iron, but I have problems to get the solder stick to the tips... it is really a problem in usage. I always have to renew the tip with "Tippy". I use solder without lead, coud this be the reason? Do you use solder containing lead?
And by the way, great things that you do ;-) I modded my childhood DMG with a backlight with retro look (no bivert). I found out, that you can get more contrast by rotating the polarizing film. This in addition to a warm white led gets you the standard retro look though it is illuminated. And I modded some Advance mit IPS v2. The Advance I first got to know about one year ago now is my favourite retro console/handheld.
I found "four players adapter DMG-07" in charity shop for 1£.
tuto mode are also nice to watch, thanks
So I have an honest question about replacement shells for GB/GBC. Are the ones on retromodding higher quality than eBay ones? Asking because I did an AGS101 housing replacement, but the quality was poor.
not a fan of the shell but the ips screen is sure a lovely addition
Love the case, very attractive!
Maybe it's only a matter of time until there will be amoled displays for retro handhelds? Would be a sight to see!
I want this SO BADLY!
Great Scott! Marty we're in the future
So I want to do this with lighted buttons. Is there anywhere off the new board to pull power from? Previously I pulled it from the same place the other DMG backlights pull from.
Fun to watch these console get restored
Freaking awesome. I really like it.
Does the prebuilt kit come with speakers soldered on already too? Because you first soldered with that, not the weird screen color issue.
It being horribly misaligned is a big issue too, except it doesn't even have the usual alignment menu to offset the pixels, odd when the screen is so much larger than the hole it fills, so it could easily adjust...
I think that it is still not 100% perfect... but it can definitely get there... (my idea of it being 100% perfect is not having to cut the original shell, have backlight, have high resolution, and have the original screen size....) I don’t mind soldering too much, as long as I don’t have to scrape away at the board to get to the traces... either wise, I think it is a decent mod for the time being👍. Good job RetroModding👌!
Don't think its possible since getting a direct screen replacement is impossible unless they pay someone to manufacture one, and with a minimum order of thousands units and all the costs involved they will not make a profit and will have to charge $200 for a direct drop in.
The screen they are using are probably cheap generic and mass produced lcd screens so cheaper option to do it this way.
Like you I dont want to cut into my original dmg case.
TN_AU ahhh.... I see.... still think it would be really awesome to not modify the original case tho...
6:12 No that doesent improve anything. If you scale it up, you wont magicaly get more detail. Its like watching RUclips on 240p settings on a 240p vs a 4K tv. It wont make look better. This is a fixed pixel display, so it wont get less blury.
Hi, where did you buy that "Big Face Cat" pad? Is it magnetic? Thx.
Do you know if that screen is possible to use for let's say a retro pie project?
0:10 solder free
2:45 solder the speaker
Best Screen Ever
Absolutely gorgeous. Does such an IPS display exist for GBC?
I’m probably never gonna do any thing but still great job
beautiful
Is there an IPS screen mod for a Gameboy Pocket that gave you a larger screen (pretty much reduces bezel sizes to thin slivers) in addition to quadrupling the pixel count of the original screen?
Great video as always, man that tea looked strong, what teabags do you use? Yorkshire tea??
Yup!
The Retro Future I’m quite partial to twinings tea 👍
I have a backlit & biverted DMG already, is this worth it?
I recently bought a decent condition limited edition pokemon gameboy color the one that is silver but can also be gold at certain angles The lens is has medium scratches so I bought another pokemon lens and compressed air And I heard some people still have dust after compressed air is there a way to make sure that doesnt happen
i hate how overpriced those components are, but thats just how it is in a very niche market. imagine paying 80 dollars and still having to do soldering because you may or may not get a faulty one
Yeah and cut the traces, not good if you have a broken screen and want to keep the rest of your Gameboy as original as possible, hardly a drop in kit. Pay 80 pounds and still have to stab the mother board with a knife RIP DMG, goodbye vintage collectible/investment.
@@samscreativefarm you didn't actually watch it did you? Maybe you had the volume off? It's an early version, you won't have to do that with the newer revision. You only have to cut traces and do soldering because the people who made the first ones accidentally switched 2 pins. The newer ones fix the error. Besides, this is modding we're talking about so if you can't solder maybe you shouldn't mod... Or just learn to solder. It's really not that hard.
@@suicide19915 I did watch the whole thing, my comment references the cutting of the traces because I watched it. I was laughing at how it ruins the professionalism of the whole video.
@@samscreativefarm they sent it free as a gift and to probably clear the stock of misstraced boards with specific notice that they were not done right by the manufacturer... These people aren't companies, they're small time modders doing what we all love. If you don't want to "ruin vintage DMGs" just don't mod, this one is his and he likes it. If they sent me one I'd be glad to cut the traces and jump wires on one of the million DMGs I have... 🤗
@@suicide19915 You keep saying negative stuff like I can't solder and I shouldn't mod. I'm calling you out, I've looked at your channel and I don't see any mod videos, you don't seem very bright at all resorting to personal attacks that are groundless. You have no credibility, you are a troll. There isn't much that I am going to get out of replying to your messages. I am commenting on videos I watch to discuss with people who have an interesting point of view. Please if you reply again, come up with something relevant and original.
I got one of those and the screen is displayed with inverted colors.. do you know how to fix that?
Does it allow you to play the game in full color spectrum or just the backlight color option?
It might be expensive but come on-
he did it for us :)
Can't find anything on the product page about battery life
ok first, do you sell your stuff i would love to buy it for a reasonable amount, and second, you are somewhat right it does give it a slightly different detail you notice that you can see the image a lot more clearly without blur but same animation
The Gameboy turned out very well. It looks Retro and Modern at the same time. Is the shell color Cerulean or Pastel Blue?
Big question, does anyone make drop-in direct replacement screens? I' recently got scammed on Ebay and got a DMG-01 with a bad screen, and although I could do something like this, I want to replace it with something a little more... I dunno... authentic? Excellent video, cheers!
I like programming for the GBA! Minecraft and Zelda and goldeneye :)
I might be wrong from the shots in the video, but the pixels on the new screen looked rectangular to the naked eye. That is going to mess with image accuracy at least a bit. Hard to say since I am not familiar with the games you were demoing.
Does anyone knows where i can by a battery cover for an original game boy black
what happened to the ebay job lot follow on video?