Game Boys (Bivert-curious welcome)

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For screen protectors I use the bathroom with the steam method. Leave the shower running for 5 minutes, keep cleaning the screen, keep shower running and once I'm happy no new dust seems to be settling work on the installation. No issues with moisture.

The DMG seems to be more tolerant, you're working in a very confined space and you have a chance to get the dust out as there's no adhesive required. Didn't have any trouble with dust. Was working in two kitchens though, FWIW.
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Hopefully my buying spree is done. Four original transparent DMG-01 in total. I'll green backlight the remaining three, keep one as a spare and sell the other two.

Still need to backlight my GBAs too. Got everything unpacked yesterday after the house move, should have time soon.
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Did a GBA. Took ages because I was triple checking everything and reassembling to make sure it all fit. Easy enough. Would have been quicker with a non-Poundland scalpel set.
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That's with the DA1 point soldered, and I didn't need to adjust the pot at all.

Cheapro plastic lens fitted as the original was pretty scratched up before I started, and I managed to scratch the inside during the work...
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Micro Machines. Cracking little version of the game done by Ocean, almost unplayable on a stock DMG due to blur. Brilliant on a bivert!
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Got a copy of Drill Dozer on the way and figured I should do another AGB-101 so I'd have a way to play it. Two hours work later:
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A bit less frustratingly fiddly with a decent knife (I bought an X-Acto Z specifically to do these) but just as tedious. Can't get away with collateral scratches in a transparent case. Kept the original plastic lens undamaged in this one.

Very little light bleed too.
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Great work! I forgot to get a cheap lens from you for my transparent GBA.
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I forgot to pack them.
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Are you selling any more GBAs?
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I've got another two to mod, both are Fuschia ones. I'll keep one and sell the other.
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I would take a pinky
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Might do one tonight, I forgot I bought some new flush cutters that should make the plastic trimming a lot quicker. £60+P&P
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Damn it.
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This one must have taken a fall in a previous life. While reassembling the screw post near the power switch shattered. A touch of superglue to try and bodge it... bad idea, the fumes denatured the backlight. :palm: Now I'm out a shell, a screen, and a replacement lens. :roll:

Got a clear shell and another screen on the way from ViViGame and Gamers Zone Store on Aliexpress.
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:( pity

so any sign of all those gb /gbc /gba games landing yet ?
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For over a week, so I'm chasing Parcel Force about what the hold up is.
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My parcel of tape and GC stuff has been in transit for an age. I better see if I have a tracking number

Edit: left Japan 18/06, still nothing on parcelfarce :problem:
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