How to install an AMOLED Display in a Game Boy Color - The BEST display for a Game Boy Color PERIOD

This video is a full guide on how to install an AMOLED Display in a Game Boy Color. The Game Boy Color was released in 1998 and even today has amazing games that are still worth playing. The Game Boy Color is still a worth while handheld to own, with one caveat the display being heavily dated and with no backlight. This video remedies that problem and updates the Game Boy Colors display to a modern 2024 OLED. With its vibrant colors, color accuracy and brightness the games on this handheld can now be played and enjoyed how the developers probably envisioned it back in 1998.
For more information or If you have questions or need help doing your own installation of an AMOLED Screen for a Game Boy Color, visit my website at www.tzirf.com/... and feel free to make a post. I am more than happy to assist!
0:01 Intro : AMOLED Display Kit for GBC
0:23 Soldering cable to BAT terminal on driver/daughter board
0:50 All components for Display included in the kit
1:31 Connecting Driver board to AMOLED Display
2:17 Installing AMOLED Display into shell
3:40 Putting protect film in place on back of driver board
4:50 Installing A, B and D Pad Buttons, IR Cover & Power Switch
6:08 Installing Membranes for A, B, D-pad and Start/Select
6:55 Opening GBC to harvest its motherboard
9:10 Disconnecting display ribbon cable
9:40 Tzirf notices the IR cover is backwards & fixes it
9:55 removing Phillips head screws to GBC motherboard
10:20 Installing motherboard in AMOLED Shell
12:59 Soldering cable to Pin C on Power Switch
13:33 Microscope view of Pin C/soldering cable
16:00 Installing back shell
18:31 Powering on GBC W/ AMOLED Display to test it
18:50 Testing Legend of Zelda Oracle of Seasons
21:23 Installing GBC model sticker (I call it an asset tag in the video, my bad)
21:52 Comparison between IPS Display & AMOLED Display in dark room
23:23 Comparison between IPS Display & AMOLED Display in lit room
24:45 Outro
For additional resources & guides you can visit my website www.tzirf.com. It is a forum based website where I post all the repairs I am working on so that the resources are there for others to do the same repairs. If you are working on a repair and want to share it, or need help with your repair I encourage you to join and make a post.
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[@sammydavis3796]

Awesome video bro

[@carlo2492]

Great video! And Oracle of Seasons is my favorite GBC game too ❤

[@HalfAMind]

$65-$80 …just to point out. That’s just about what a GameBoy color goes for now a-days. Even though that’s how much it was brand new. Prices are crazy for everything. The $65 one would be $130. And the $80 one would be $160. With the screen that is. So if you paid that much with screen. You would have to sell at $480 or more just to show a profit. I don’t think anyone would pay $480 for a gameboy with a new screen. I mean to me I just don’t see it. But to someone that’s rich it might be like five bucks to them. But that’s a small pool of people. Where-ever you market it.

[@d3viant86]

Great informative video! Almost makes me wanna go find an old gameboy.

[@Tzirf]

Do it! Its honestly worth the effort and price. I started playing my Game Boy Colors games again. Currently playing through Legend of Zelda Oracle of Seasons. The AMOLED display is a game changer, no pun intended.

[@nemesisnine3297]

I want a tut with tjis OLED screen, retrosix audio amp, button leds, power cleaner, super cap 680uf, Crystal buttons and shell and wireless battery mod.

[@Tzirf]

What wireless battery mod? Do you have a link to this product?

[@jackipiegg]

22:48
is that the minimum brightness level? Pretty bad if it is, can't play in a dark room without blinding yourself.

[@Tzirf]

No the brightness on the IPS (left GBC) is set to max, while the AMOLED Display is set to level 7 out of 10. The camera makes it look brighter than it is in person. Neither display is too bright to be played in a dark room and both have enough brightness levels to be adjusted so that anyone can play them comfortably

[@jackipiegg]

@@Tzirf
How do you compare it with your phone's brightness? example, I can't use my phone above 5% brightness without getting too uncomfortable.

[@LumbyMcGumby]

​@jackipiegg yeah I was wondering the same thing my current ips is too bright in the dark that I use the red filter. I just ordered the oled so I'm gonna see how that compares