@candle
I was considering a backlight IPS screen mod for one or both of my ags-001 Clamshell GBA SPs.
I fear that I may not be able to afford replacement batteries after the mods...
Those batteries are only good for a few thousand charges. That's like four hours of estimated play time!
You know you grew up poor but your parents were trying when your light/magnifier wasn't even the off-brand, but the off-off-brand one
Game over man, game over!
@Htbaa @candle The original Nyko worm light was one of the very first commercial devices ever to contain a white LED! (LEDs were commercialized in the '60s but the problem of getting them to make white light was only cracked in '96, two years before the original worm light released.)
It was mainly just hard on your batteries by comparison-- Game Boys are *incredibly* low-power. Any flashlight, even an LED flashlight, is a comparatively high-draw device!
Weirdly, the key to making white LEDs was making the impossible blue, to up-shift with phosphors.
One day we will get beyond hardware designers thinking we want every device we own to have a harsh blue standby light.
Edit: AA cells were so much worse back then, weren't they? A modern no-name provides more.