Is it possible to light an NGPC w/a GBA BACK-light kit?

[pakopako]

I'm asking if anyone's used an Innovation HALO Backlight (frontlight?) kits for the GBA on a Neo Geo Pocket. (YouTube clips and other forums usually use a GBSP frontlight or Afterburner kit.) Two reviews of the HALO were highly polarizing.

The Halo kit says it is a backlight kit, but it looks like a frontlight. There are two nodes for the screen; I am assuming these are power and ground since the clip attachment to hold the screen in place (on a GBA) is drawing power from the GBA link-up connector. And it looks like the clip has a potentiometer I can use/yank-out for brightness/contrast purposes.

Can these two me meshed together or am I better off just giving up and selling everything?

[Satoshi_Matrix]

That's an interesting question, one I don't know the answer to by I would say in theory it should work, as long as there's enough room for it in the casing.

[lisalover1]

Yeah, it should be possible, but it wouldn't be easy; most people just install 1-2 LEDs above the screen.

[noiseredux]

I'm fairly certain the Halo is a frontlit as you suspected.

[pakopako]

Thanks. I've ordered a small cache of NGPCs in case something (invariably) goes wrong.

Yeah, it should be possible, but it wouldn't be easy; most people just install 1-2 LEDs above the screen.

I have seen those on YouTube and various forums, but the lighting is a bit uneven. The best result I saw was when someone created a mini-arcade-style cabinet for their NGPC and used a LED-lit mirror inside. Now that was good looking (and impressive).

[Zutroy]

I had and fitted a kit that looks like this halo kit here. Basically it's a replacement front lens and a thick gel like thing that sandwiches between the screen and lens, built into the replacement lens is a strip of fairly bright teeny tiny leds that shine into the gel stuff to diffuse the light over the surface of the gba screen. Although not as horrendous as show in that review, it's not great, the main problem is the light diffusing gel really hates being in contact with the the gba's screen, the pass-through power connector is a really tight fit and squishes the screen at the top and is really hard to plug stuff into or remove. End result on the gba was a pretty evenly illuminated bright screen but quite washed out. After about a month though the diffuser seemed to begin to shrivel and a huge air bubble appeared between the screen and diffuser. Unfortunately when trying to re-install it i dropped the diffuser and it is impossible to clean.

terms of what you could get in order to mod a ngpc from this kit would be the diffuser and strip of leds. The strip of leds are cool and the diffuser would be pretty neat if you could get it to fit in a ngpc. Without the diffuser though it's amazingly crap as it only lights the top 1/4 of the screen

I paid about £3 plus p+p for this though from superufo years ago, it's probaby not worth shelling out that amount of cash for unless you can think of a way of using the strip of the teeny tiny surface mount leds

[pakopako]

I had and fitted a kit that looks like this halo kit here. Basically it's a replacement front lens and a thick gel like thing that sandwiches between the screen and lens, built into the replacement lens is a strip of fairly bright teeny tiny leds that shine into the gel stuff to diffuse the light over the surface of the gba screen.
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In terms of what you could get in order to mod a ngpc from this kit would be the diffuser and strip of leds. The strip of leds are cool and the diffuser would be pretty neat if you could get it to fit in a ngpc. Without the diffuser though it's amazingly crap as it only lights the top 1/4 of the screen.

Yarr. Yeah, I'm seeing the set of LEDs on top of the Halo-kit. I had originally thought this was just a ring of LEDs that I could fit on the inside of the NGPC, but I might have to experiment (or buy another kit US$15 so I can get a strip of LEDs on top too).

End result on the gba was a pretty evenly illuminated bright screen but quite washed out. After about a month though the diffuser seemed to begin to shrivel and a huge air bubble appeared between the screen and diffuser.

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The diffusor is plastic isn't it; is it supposed to do that?

(Oh yeah, is that BYDO-sponsored avatar?)

[Zutroy]

The diffuser was some weird sticky silicone stuff. Dunno if you remember as a kid those weird things you'd fling against a window and they'd like, crawl down? That stuff. Pretty good at diffusing the light but terrible to handle.

Bydo ftw.

[ac_90]

take photos if it works out!

[pakopako]

Ugh. I'm still having trouble buffing out the scratches in the screens. But I'm going to see this through dammit.