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Game Boy Color and Sega Nomad Screen Mods - Modern Upgrades!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2024
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For the GBC, BennVenn’s uses a fraction of the battery and if only $50US
True except he doesn't seem to have any stock of anything on his store. I got sick of waiting and ordered a similar kit off AliExpress. It was less expensive and actually came with a new lens to cover up the gap left by the smaller screen.
@metalJesusrocks I just want to say you are one unique youtuber and i watch all of your videos. You are a true gaming fan. Big up from Sweden
Now is possible play games to Sega CD in Sega portable with the super cartrige MEGA SD ! Sensational!!
I love how modern output and cables on consoles and updated screens on handhelds has been able to show us what we were missing on all the earlier gaming hardware. The games were far more beautiful than we ever knew!
crazy right?
@metalJesusrocks there is a mod for the neo Geo Pocket color it requires first generation Gameboy advance SP backlight and a few solder points and it should work will send you a link through Twitter
Mikey Seda I would love to do that to my NGPC
@@Dylan-wp5kb www.retrorgb.com/neo-geo-pocket-color-gets-a-backlit-screen-mod.html
SHAWWW!!!! I didn't know this!!
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I did a front light on my ngpc and it's just terrible. I'm thrilled to learn there's a backlight mod.
The Nomad mod uses composite for the screen, that's why it looks blurry.
I’ve been itching to install a backlit screen in my GBC. That McWill looks really nice. Also, sweet Opeth tee!
The mcwill is doing its job very nicely. At first I was worried that such sharp pixels would alter the retro experience, and sure it does to some extent, but played in dark its absolutely phenomenal
It's kinda irking that the screen size is smaller though.
Yep it's small to begin with! There's better options!
You can buy very good aftermarket lenses that fill up the difference. The kit i bought of AliExpress came with one
Damn man, Sega Nomad. I remember burning through so many AA batteries playing NBA jam on the school bus.
@metalJesusrocks BennVenn is working on a Neogeo pocket backlight kit.
And his backlight kit for gbc gives much longer battery life then the mcwill kit.
Prototype:
facebook.com/BennVennElectronics/posts/2264480370332070
With the new Terraionin Mega Sd, you can now play Sega CD on the Nomad.
Mega SD. Analogue makes the Mega SG.
SD not SG
S this D
what a time to be alive
if only, now you gotta spend $100 to get the triple bypass for the nomad to be able to do that
Sega Nomad is basically a portable Sega Genesis. I found one, complete, years ago in a pawn shop for $10. They were getting ready to trash it they said. So I picked it up for $6! Needless to say, I have hung on to it for years and still get an itching to play it once in a while! I would love to do the screen upgrade and battery mod. It would get a lot more use! The game library for this machine is awesome!
I remember taking my Nomad into Gamestop back around 2000-2001 and trying out their used Genesis games on it. Lol. The dude working there got pissed and told me I wasn't "allowed" to do that. I'm not sure if that was an actual store policy at that time or not, but I'm a pretty easy going person and didn't want to be a douche, so I took the Nomad out and locked it in my car, then went back in and finished shopping. Every time I see anything about the Nomad, though, I'm reminded of that. 😂
$75 to modify a gameboy color feel like a gameboy advance mod or a gameboy sp would be a better option.
Agreed. Over Priced. you can get them on ebay for $30. China works wonders if you dont mind waiting 2-4 weeks for you product
Yeah, doesnt make any sense
Yep
Ya I agree
I put an SP screen in my GBA original model for less than $20, but I just got lucky and found all the parts. Sometimes the form factor is just nice
Modding Gameboy colors are actually fun to do!
One of my first memories with a Gameboy Color was with the Scooby Doo Classic Creep Capers, such an interesting game that I haven't heard anyone else mention before! I remember it being difficult, but that could be due to my age at the time
Ah Super Airwolf! A classic game with good graphics. Love it and the show too.
RIp, Earnest Borgninr and Jan Michael Vincent.
The Nomad's screen being blurry despite higher pixel count is likely because instead of running through the internal digital output from the processor/GPU itself, so it gets a 1:1 pixel mapping (like the GBC mod does, tho that's 2:1) before going to the analog output converter, it takes that composite output from the console and then converts it back on the screen, so yeah you would see pretty much how it looks on a modern LCD without anything else than plugging the console to the TV on composite.
I have a nomad and I remember it took 8 packs of batteries to get from Fort Worth Texas to Corpus Christie Texas.
I remember a few years back a retro modding company called Rose Colored Gaming did front light mods and custom paint jobs for the GBC, WS, and NGPC.
I did grab a final fantasy Wonderswan from them. Such good work.
They used the AGS 100 front lite from the SP. Anyway I remember them saying the Neo Geo was the hardest one to do because it had the least amount of space inside the shell despite being the biggest of their handhelds.
I’d love to see a backlight NGPC though...
Very intersting. As a french old and harcoregame fan (44 years old gasp) It is very rare to have a Sega Nomad... But I've got one ! I wish so bad to improve it and also my gamegears ans other classic handhelds ! Thx U so much to you our pal MJR ! Always a pleasure to see you and learning with your advices !
I begged my mom for years to buy me one at ages 13-15. Even the salesperson at GameStop discouraged me from buying it (probably thinking I wouldn't appreciate it as much as a collector :( )
Marcel Petrus, the screen mod is fairly simple to install is you have some adequate soldering skill. However, I highly recommend getting a 5” screen rather than the 3.5” screen. It actually mounts to the top of the Nomad, but makes gameplay much more enjoyable. I put a link to the screen I bought from eBay in another comment.
Finally love your videos inspired me to collect psp games! Now I have like 30 games! Thanks
How many of those games do you actually like?
@@AustinGen every game !
The PSP rocks!! Congrats :)
@@MetalJesusRocks oh no i cant believe u replied me! 🙈
Mey Mjr, your vids are possibly the best game or connected media content on the overall TH-cam channel. Dude, you're awesome! More people need to support u
BennVenn is finalizing a backlit NeoGeo Pocket color screen now. There is a guy in Vietnam that charges an exorbitant amount of money to also do a backlit screen mod. Best to wait for the BennVenn option which is coming soon
The replacement screen taps into the composite video line hence the blurriness. Those cheap lcd screens only accept composite unlike the other mods like McWill's. Still a huge upgrade from the original!
Just recently I was lucky to acquire my very own Sega Nomad at a game store close to my house, after saving up for it by trading in several PS3 games and an old DSi, aming other things.
The Nomad had to be sent off somewhere offsite for repairs because of some damage that the LCD screen had on it, and what transpired is that the repairman managed to do what Wes did, which was frankenstein a similarly-sized LCD screen from a GPS monitor, which was a MASSIVE improvment over the original screen, which I was aware of (thanks to a video that Stuart Ashen had about the Nomad), so that saved me time and money having to mod the screen myself.
No Li-Io battery in there, but what'cha gonna do? (DC IN can tide me over for a while) Best $130 I have ever spent! Thanks for the video!
The Sega Nomad looks fun!
The crazy thing is, I just got my second Sega Nomad yesterday. It was given to me. And I was talking about modifying it. I was also looking at my Gameboy Colers and thinking I should mod one of them. Keep the other, both gameboy and nomad original. All on the day this video was posted. I'll take it as a sign to move forward with the idea.
Don't forget about the Turbografx 16 Turbo Express. Also a portable home console. It came out before the Sega Nomad.
The Nomad is siiiiick. I seriously want one, but with all the upgrades like you have.
I am so glad you covered the gameboy screen mod. Definitely something worth doing, although I don't like the borders around the screen but that's a personal opinion. haven't been able to get my hands on a nomad yet due to the insane prices in Australia.
Did you forget about the Turbo Express? That came out five years before the nomad and played TG16 games on a portable console that was a little bit bigger than the size of the original gameboy...
So happy to see you still doing videos!
Your hard- and software collection is just amazing to look at and your fans and friends are just great for doing such mods and tweaks for ya.
Project S-11 is actually a great game. I play it on the retron every now and then. I remember I got a copy for me and my buddy when we were younger.
Hell yes brother! Great video and also extra points for the Opeth shirt!
The lighted screen is smaller
I was just going to say- Doesn't look like a good choice for screens.
@@Nickfil it's definetely not a good choice for that price.
*lit
I remember when they said a Game Boy Color will never be able to have a backlight. That was only like 3 years ago, and now there are many ways to get a backlit GBC.
Those colours are really popping, looks amazing. Breathing new life into older technology is a wonderful thing.
Ben Heck has made some pretty impressive console to handheld mods.
I took on the project of modifying my nomad last year. The cartridge slot freezes sometimes, but it works great. New screen, and a battery recharged inside. Took a little Dremel work to make the batteries fit inside. But it's awesome. Totally worth it.
Edit. I can also agree though, the nomad screen replacement isn't very sharp. But still very playable.
Liked your videos as usually!
But regarding buying dozens of batteries: ever heard of recharchables? They come in quite handy and are equally eco friendly as modded Li-battery and if you have a couple you can change them on the road when needed
Back up camera into a Nomad...that dude is genius!!!!
If I had to take a guess as to why the Nomad screen looks like it does, it might be because it's just getting a composite signal in, rather than RGB.
I'm really glad these screen mods have come a long way from just being a brighter screen. The extra board helps things along
That Spider-Man gb color looks pretty cool. Never seen that one before.
The thing about modding the Nomad. If it wasn’t so uncommon and hard to come by I would totally be down to mod it.
Installed a backlight screen mod for my GameBoy Color over the frontlight mod I did several months back. Bought the backlit screen from Handheld Legend for $75, and the price dropped to $50 and has the 3D printed spacers to align the screen properly. I need to get black double sided tape to prevent the light from seeping out, but it works better than the frontlight mod (kept it for a future GBC in case the screen in it doesn't work). I also have a Nomad that was repaired by the person that runs a game store shop that is going to be modded soon, and the Nomad can be modded to allow region unlock and playing Master System games using the Everdrive or Mega SD.
Modded GBA was the best purchase I ever made.. damn it feels good to be a nerd, LOL
The _GB Boy Colour_ is essentially a GameBoy Color Clone which comes with a backlit screen...and some of the later embodiments of it are converted to an _SD Card_ slot instead of accepting GameBoy cartridges...
NEC did it even earlier with their PCEngine GT/Turbo Express handheld😊
I'm so glad I got my screen upgraded in my Lynx. It's so much nicer than you think it would be :)
@GamePurist It takes some getting used to for sure.
The screen is even smaller than original but understand that having backlit screen is a must.
BennVenn is working on a backlight display mod for the Neo Geo Pocket Color. On his facebook page he recently posted about the progress he's making. Should be released some time this year.
There is enough retro love around that if Sega decided to rerelease the Nomad and Game Gear just with modern screen technology they would likely sell well. Especially if you could use regular batteries or lithium ion packs in the battery compartments.
The screen is way smaller than the original. This is not the perfect screen. Also the 75 dollar price tag is absolutely ridiculous. These screens cost almost nothing to produce.
Rubentje you have to remember the costs they incurred in setting up all the equipment needed to produce these.. don’t be stupid, you can’t just go “oh, the parts to make these are little to none”.. that’s literally 30% of the process and costs... jeez
#Emulation
@@LaurenceReeves If it was specifically designed for the GBC then it would not have those edges around the screen and an option to display on your TV. There is a very big chance (like the previous GBC backlight kit) that the screen has been made for some other purpose and has been modified afterwards.
@@LaurenceReeves Well what he said does make sense. The parts are insanely cheap to use/produce. I think the reason why it is so expensive is that they don't make a ton of these screens in 1 shipment. The more you make the cheaper the product. Production costs are really nothing, just look at the PCB factories in China.
@@rubino7 it's certainly made for that, they just used already ingeneered boards, adapted them and added an lcd screen without even doing too much work.
So yeah, the price is too high, but that's not the problem, i would never do that mod if i lost my screen real estate, i mean come on, that screen is already very small.
Waiting for Rechargeable Battery mods for Nomad, with New Mega SD Nomad will be great choice to play Genesis on the Go of course if you prefer play it at Original Hardware.
Just get a PSP 😉
I love modded handhelds and hdmi modded consoles. I have a few. The Nomad is blurry because it’s using composite to lcd.
My previous comment was just initial excitement. After seeing it I cant resist replacing the screens for my 2 GB colors. I have grape and atomic purple. Cant wait to get some kits in the mail!!
I actually prefer AA batteries over proprietary Lithium packs because I know years from now I can still find them.
game boy color was my first system ever still have it and the box it came in, love it always
When I was young man I loved my gameboy color.
The great thing about the original game boy color screen is that it forces me to go outside and it looks much better than my smart phone in direct sunlight. It looks amazing if I'm playing on the beach. How does this back-lit screen do in direct sunlight?
Man just feels that ppl are now catching to sega they were the true pioneers of game technology
BennVenn is currently working on a NGPC backlight kit. So won't be long till you get your wish, dude!
www.retrorgb.com/ngpc-drop-in-replacement-backlight-kit.html
BennVenn (Ben Grimmett), not "Benn Venn"
@@RWL2012 Corrected. I knew that, but getting my phone to capitalize mid-word is wonky and I got lazy, lol.
@@magicchainsmoker Sorry, I wasn't in the best of moods
@@RWL2012No worries, mate. Didn't come off as rude.
As someone who has low vision, it would be really cool for someone to cut away all of that extra plastic around the screen area and put in a larger screen.
If it's more or less half of your 90s TV res, it's not upskaling but downscaling. Thus I think it's normal that some info disappears from the fonts. In any case, myep pretty nice job, it looks way better than on the original ones.
Having a replacement screen that matches or is an exact 2x (or possibly 3x/4x...or slightly larger, but adjusted to black out the extra lines) match to the original is important to keep odd pixel artifacting. That's why a lot of newer handheld emulation devices kinda suck...many of them just don't care and let it display how it displays on the cheapest screen they could buy in bulk.
Nice Opeth T-Shirt
Nice video @MetalJesusRocks :D
Glad you got a couple nice upgrades there. I am totally with you on modding these older handhelds. Last year I got my Game Boy Color modded with a Game Boy Advance AGS-101 screen installed and the difference was amazing. I also upgraded my Sega Game Gear with the McWill mod and omg I love it!! Sonic looks pretty sweet on it lol
sounds like the BennVenn AGS-101 screen to GBC mod, am I right...? I'm actually the owner of one of his first ever pre-builds of that from mid-2017 (the atomic purple one with red SMD power LED that's in his first build video) but I've barely played on it because of the issues with dust coming in and landing onto the screen itself, and also the console not being able to run my Everdrive GB without shutting off due to the battery consumption. I need to sort out an up-to-date one with him!
@@RWL2012 Doh! Sorry to hear the issues you're having! Yeah, the BennVenn one is exactly what I have. Luckily haven't experienced any issues with it and dust. Don't have an Everdrive so can't test that though.
@@michaeljohnston5890 the air gaps in my shell weren't glued up though and also the board is one of the ones that doesn't like flash carts
The Nomad was the truth back in the day. My older brother got one, and it was mind blowing. We didn’t know anything about the screen being weak, when we showed it to friends, it was like showing a lighter to a caveman. Yes, the battery life was bad, and you had to carry bigass genesis cartridges, but damn, it sure was cool. I dig these mods though.
For 75$ thats a pretty thick border around the viewable area of the screen.
THICC.
Yeah resucing the total ciewable area by a solid half inch on an already barely 2 inch screen
Had my Sega nomad upgraded super awesome.
I had the NiCad battery packs that plugged in to the battery ports on the Game Gear.
It's super cool that this exists but for 75 you could probably track down an AGS-101 GBA advance SP which also has an backlit LCD for the same price or cheaper.
That Nomad screen is just fine. It is blury because he soldered AV screen leads to Nomad's AV out ;)
Woo hoo! New MJR video! And it’s on handheld upgrades?! I NEED the video-out mod!!!!!
I just bought a sega nomad at Salvation Army for 8$!!!! Came with the double a battery pack.
It also came with the cord to plug it into the wall
Lucky. I got mine on ebay back in late 2017 and I payed around $160 for it if I remember correctly.
Your lucky it came with the battery pack, people on eBay want $70 just for that one part. That is why I did the internal battery mod for MJR on the Nomad, I didn't have a spare to give him, and honestly running on AA batteries on the Nomad is such a waste of money, even with rechargeable batteries, as they take longer to charge then they last in the system.
@@PhoenixDawn2525 I use eneloops on my nomad and it only takes a half hour longer to charge them. (I get 4 hours on my nomad and it takes four and a half hours to charge. If I had two eneloop quick chargers it would just be 3 hours since the chargers only hold 4 at a time and it charges 2 batteries in an hour and a half) I also have an extra set of eneloops just to swap when the other ones 4 hours are up. While its still a little longer then it lasts to charge them its not that big of a deal to me because its not that much longer. I do agree with you on standard non rechargable AAs though. Unless your using ultimate lithium batteries the thing eats them really fast and I agree that it is a waste
if you can get over the slightly stretched aspect ratio the gb boy colour is still a legit option for around half the price of the backlit gbc display.
Awesome video Jason! Been looking at the gameboy colours quite a lot recently on ebay and with these new screens iam definitely sold on them!
Call me old fashioned but I like to play mine with orginal screens how they were meant to be played in the day. I know. The new screens are awesome, I agree, they are very tempting but I will keep mine original. But nice to see as well.
Awesome! Did the GBA mod and GBC front light modes, but now I have some new projects to mod with this video lol.
Great vid =D If you want a nice LCD screen for the Neo Geo Pocket - I think SainT over at Retro HQ is producing one! Marco might be working on one too! I've recently covered this Gameboy screen mod on my channel, as well as a Nomad repair and screen replacement too.
GadgetUK164 - Retro Gaming Repairs & Mods BennVenn is working a NGPC screen too
Cheap LCDs not being able to display sharp text is fairly common. Those things aren't meant to be super crisp because they're intended purpose doesn't need it so they use the cheapest components and techniques possible to make them.
There’s a guy on Instagram I’ve seen posting photos of backlit NGPC. Definitely possible and I need to add one to my collection so I have every single handheld with modded screen!
I'm programming a 3D Zelda Ocarina of Time for the GBA! I posted Minecraft already.
3DSage you won't finish it.
@@natsyrte Correct it will be just Kokiri forest. The gba doesnt have enough memory or cpu power for the whole game but still i want it push it as far a i can
I did the mcwill lcd mod for my gamegear and it is such a crazily good upgrade, quite a bit of soldering and swapped out a lot of caps but totally worth it. Weirdest part is seeing the old backlight which is basically a small lightbulb!
I got my Nomad modded with an LCD and it was well worth it.
The new nomad screen has such a low quality because it's using the composite signal, which is a really low quality. This means it looks like an old console you plut into a modern LCD tv via composite.
There is a much better GBC screen replacement releasing next month. The 8 Bit Guy did a great review on it, it’s worth looking into.
there are li ion rechargeable AA batteries for RC car/aircraft transmitters..that use USB to charge. Nothing fancy or extra required. Check on hobbyking.
For Game boy I had the light for the screen with magnifier and speakers
Ive been looking at buying the Nintendo handheld range, so these mods look like what im looking for.
I remember how badly the Game Gear chewed throw batteries so this behemoth of a Nomad must have lasted minutes 😂
The reason both versions of Mickey's Speedway USA reminds you of Diddy Kong Racing and RC Pro-Am is likely because all four games are made by Rare!
i hope you realize your a lucky bastard with all your gaming stuff. hope you play everything mane
i had mickey speedway usa, it was my only gameboy color game (i only had pokemon games and some other randoms while growing up) and that game was stupid hard i remember ragin so bad
I have this same Nomad upgrade, and the screen is decent by modern standards, but fantastic compared to what was there before. I wish it had a better resolution match however, that would have helped. As for the battery... there is no way it gets up to 4 hours. Maybe 90 mins at most, maybe. Still, I'm very happy with it. The Nomad, in your hands, feels great - it has a great d-pad, the buttons feel great, and it runs everything like a Genesis model 2 since that's what it is. Nice thing is these never go down in value at this point so I don't mind paying some money for it. Hopefully that battery lasts for a while but apparently it's pretty easy to change down the road when it's out of juice.
Glad got my Sega nomad mod screen
Great vid, Great shirt! Thanks for the vid👍
The backup camera LCD mod for nomad is using composite video signal (yellow RCA). That's why it looks like crap. I have the mod on my Nomad and it is a million times more clear than the original (💩). Maybe one day an RGB capable LCD will turn up to replace the mod. I doubt it.
What this guy said. The nomad screen is using composite. The mcwill screen is pulling rgb directly from the processor. That's the difference
The solution already exists. I upgraded my Nomad and my Turbo Express with an RGB board from Japan + new lcd. The issue is that the boards are hard to get ahold of because the company will only sell to Japanese residents. Luckily I happened to know a guy who is from Canada and lives in Japan and runs a retro Ebay store for a living. So he was able to get me a couple of the boards and I ordered the rest of the parts. My screens look FANTASTIC now.
@@amerikaOnFire Cool! If you could hook me up, send me model of RGB board and LCD if it's not too much hassle for you. Maybe I can find it.
@@amerikaOnFire You should post a video to see the quality. I'd like to see it in action! If you do make video, link it on a reply message.
isanchez64 I originally put in a replacement 3.5” screen but got frustrated by the small size of the screen. Then it occurred to me that since it is essentially a TV out port, I could put in any size of screen that I wanted. So I found a 5” screen and mounted it to the top of the Nomad. I can’t tell you how much more enjoyable playing the Nomad is on 5” screen versus the 3.5”. A 5” screen is what the Ps Vita used. I put a link in another comment I posted with the screen I bought if you are interested. I’m not selling them, just pointing them out to others to help out.