anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original?

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anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original?
by on (#193232)
anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original or game gear? if not then could someone do that the reason i ask is the pixel refresh is the best on that screen.
Re: anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original?
by on (#193249)
Different size, resolution etc. Won't really work.
Re: anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original?
by on (#193272)
but someone did it with the ds lite screen so how is it not possible?
Re: anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original?
by on (#193274)
Did what with the DS Lite? Citation?

Game Boy Advance: 240x160 pixels
Nintendo DS Lite: 256x192 pixels

You'd need some sort of circuit to insert the black windowbox pixels at the top, bottom, left, and right.
Re: anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original?
by on (#193280)
I believe what he meant is that the original DS LCD has been transplanted into a DS Lite. Why in the world you'd do that is beyond me.

If he means the DS Lite LCD has been used in a GBA, the main problem is the physical dimension differences. If you feed it a signal as-is, I can almost promise you that it'll just be a 240x160 box in the top-left of the LCD, with the border on the right and bottom being garbled repeated lines from another frame or some other don't-care-condition anomaly.
Re: anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original?
by on (#193287)
no i meant game gear so it's possible to probably use a ds fat screen for it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-R7GwZKW8
Re: anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original?
by on (#193289)
Don't need to replace the full screen there, just the CCFL.

You should be able to get/build a replacement LED strip fairly easily/cheaply, given how large that CCFL seems to be.
Re: anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original?
by on (#193293)
with the gba i want a backlit screen with perfect pixel response time
Re: anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original?
by on (#193306)
You can't just do that. If you want that, learn some about video signals and how displays are driven.
Re: anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original?
by on (#193322)
so there no mod to get backlit screen to have the best pixel response time?
Re: anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original?
by on (#193324)
supermario4 wrote:
so there no mod to get backlit screen to have the best pixel response time?


I think this question came up previously. Here's an earlier thread about it:
http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?p=192880#p192880

;P
Re: anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original?
by on (#193366)
Espozo's reply here is the right answer, use a GBA SP screen. Apparently the mod kits are harder to come by now(?). What is your budget? You can find premodded systems on ebay.
Re: anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original?
by on (#193381)
no i meant a backlit screen with great pixel response time because the sp 2 has lower pixel response time instead of great
Re: anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original?
by on (#193382)
It's not happening.
Re: anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original?
by on (#193383)
Espozo wrote:
It's not happening.


you mean no one has done it or no one can do it?
Re: anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original?
by on (#193384)
No one can do it and make a profit.
Re: anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original?
by on (#193393)
this sucks :(
Re: anybody put a fat ds's backlit screen in gba original?
by on (#214391)
Digging up this old post...
and speaking of "no one can do it and make a profit" ...

Someone did a very small run of a few custom-modified CGBs to scale the video up and use some kind of comparatively newer screen:
https://hackaday.com/2018/02/27/investi ... -game-boy/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evUnemODZBs