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GBA Backlight question

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  • 22-09-2003 1:13pm
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    Syth
    Registered Users Posts: 1,865 ✭✭✭


    I've heard you can buy a backlight kit for the GBA (not SP). Does anyone have one of these things? Are they any good? Where can you get them? Do you really have to disassemble your GBA to put it in?


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    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,322 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    www.lik-sang.com sell them (they're called Afterburners). They're supposed to be pretty effective, but tricky to install (yes you have to take your GBA apart) and you have to be ultra-careful not to get anything on the screen while installing them.


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    Syth
    Registered Users Posts: 1,865 ✭✭✭Syth


    Do you (or anyone) have one? I'd like to know before buying one.


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    Mr E
    Registered Users Posts: 55,514 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    A friend of mine got one, and damaged his GBA doing the soldering! I think I'm just going to get a SP.....

    - Dave.


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    quaalude
    Registered Users Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭quaalude


    Installing an Afterburner is quite an undertaking, apparently.
    I was excited when I heard it was coming out, but chickened out when I heard it was a such big deal. I know you can send it to someone to get it done for you in the US; don't know about here.
    Check PA's take on it: http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-05-20&res=l


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    long_b
    Registered Users Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭long_b


    You could try this place in the UK.


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    jaggeh
    Registered Users Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭jaggeh


    afterburner is relativly easy to install
    just 1 solder

    however modifing the top plate to accept the thicker screenplate is the tricky part.

    word of advice, invest in a compressed air can, and before you lay the screen down blow it with can.

    the first afterburner we did had terrible dust problems.


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