GameBoy Advance IPS v2 Custom Mod Project

[Mavrick]

I've recently been going through some old boxes of stuff I had when I was a kid and came across my old GameBoy collection.



I forgot how hard it was to actually see what was going on on these screens. Especially the GBA.

This lead me down the retro moding rabbit hole and now I'm waiting on delivery of some mods to hopefully make a decent looking GBA.

The main upgrade is the IPS v2 LED display,



The IPS screens are too big for the OEM shell, so you can either cut out the space or opt for custom shells, I went with a clear black shell from Retrosix who supply Handheld Legend in the USA.





The screen uses some extra juice, so I picked up their USB-C Battery Pack, it adds 6.3 watts of power which should be good for about for about 10 hours of playtime with the IPS mod.

I also ordered an upgraded speaker/amp along with the dehum/dehiss mod to really clean up the noisy audio the GBA has.





Got a few other things I might add if it all works out I'll post some pictures when it's done. It's going to be a lot of soldering, so fingers crossed it all goes to plan and hopefully I'll end up with something like this