LCD, IPS-panel and backlight replacements and upgrades.
7 repair logs
+17 photosSuccessful repairSega — Game Gear
This Japanese Sega Game Gear went through a lot: a full IPS LCD mod with speaker upgrade, FM sound module and glass lens, then a trip to the floor courtesy of a curious one-year-old that tore the flex cables. A clock-line bodge wire and a barely-surviving TP10 pad later, everything was restored.
+32 photosSuccessful repairSega — Nomad
Sega Nomad with a broken aftermarket screen, brought back to life. Plus physical mods to restore CD audio mixing and add Master System game compatibility, both omitted from the original Nomad's design.
+14 photosSuccessful repairNintendo — Game Boy Color
Two pixel-effect IPS kits, bought from RetroSix in October 2021 to upgrade the clear smoke Game Boy Color, both arrived unable to display video. Support's suggestion was to buy a second kit to test, and when that one failed too the answer was that there was no way two kits could be broken. A friend's unmodded Game Boy Color, recapped along the way, ruled the console out. The first kit turned out to have an LCD flex connector that was never properly soldered to its pads, and touching up those joints made it run reliably, which in turn proved the second kit's display was good and its PCB was not. The findings went back to RetroSix and got no reply.
+4 photosNintendo — Game Boy Color
Imported from Japan and modded to a friend's spec over a few evenings in October 2021. Cleaned and recapped first, then transplanted into the matte black shell he asked for with the original housing left uncut, and finished with a glass lens and a FunnyPlaying IPS kit, the version with the selectable pixel effects.
+6 photosSuccessful repairNintendo — New 3DS XL
Three handhelds bought on eBay in 2020 to learn on. The New 2DS XL only needed its connectors reseating, while the 2DS and the New 3DS XL both needed screen replacements, the 3DS XL top screen being much the harder job, with corrosion and a break turning up on a flex cable along the way. All were put back to working order and given CFW, and two went on to new owners.
+6 photosNintendo — Game Boy Advance
Companion mod to the Game Boy Color, done about three weeks later in June 2020. FunnyPlaying IPS kit fitted, with the flex cable soldered from the board test points across to the pads. Moved out of its Glacier shell into a grey RetroSix shell with a glass lens so the original stayed uncut, then finished with a rechargeable battery mod.
+6 photosNintendo — Game Boy Color
First Game Boy Color screen mod, done in May 2020. Stripped and cleaned, IPS kit bench-tested before committing to it, then rehoused in a clear smoke shell with a glass lens rather than cutting the original Atomic Purple housing. Years of Tetris DX followed.
