Nomad --- New screen and better battery pack.

[Rayban]

EDIT: I was right! Here is the photo for anyone else that has this board:


other side of the board:

[seanami]

I'm looking to see if anyone is experienced and willing to do the screen and battery mod for my nomad. PM me if you can. Thanks.

[Rayban]

Everything is put back together and working really good!
Just a heads up for anyone thinking about buying that LCD that I have: you need to take the 3 menu switches right off the board for it to fit in the case.
I did notice that there is a light towards the bottom of the screen that is a bit garbled up but hardly noticeable at some points when I'm playing. All in all not a bad upgrade for $27!
Here are a couple quick pics I took. I'll be uploading a video soon.



EDIT: Here's a video of the screen in action!

[Hateshinai]

I finished the screen mod today. I went through 3 screens doing it but now it seems to work fine. Next I will install a 50/60 Hz switch to be able to play all my PAL games.

[Rayban]

I finished the screen mod today. I went through 3 screens doing it but now it seems to work fine. Next I will install a 50/60 Hz switch to be able to play all my PAL games.

Congrats! lets see some pics!

[Juanito]

Anyone that runs across this thread should know that the screen that member Rayban used does have a few quirks but aren't really dealbreakers

I recently used it and the picture flashes white every once in awhile (which he mentioned and you can see this happen in his youtube video link above) not that big a deal, doesn't really deter gameplay

Also there are some diagonal scrolling lines that arent extremely noticeable

all in all it gets the job done

we should start a compatibility list of lcd screens and their issues/quirks

[mekka_mikaze]

Hello folks

I just wanted to say a quick thank you to everyone involved in this mod (especially hailrazer of course).

I just managed to get my LCD mod working properly last night - had some difficulties with the newest revision of that reverse parking thingmajig. Even though the new board has shrunken in size (as far as I can tell) they added 3 buttons on top of the board to change Brightness, Aspect Ratio, Tint, Color, Contrast and Language. After I had made some changes in the options I tried to desolder them ...without success. In the end I had to break them off one by one to fit the controller board into the Nomad.

If someone has questions to the new revision of the reverse parking screen and/or are stuck with it just PM me and I'll try to help you as best as I can!

Nomad + modern LCD technology = BLAST PROCESSING² GALORE

I'm out, keep it up, much love to hailrazer for these awesome mods!

[Vrikkian]

I only read through the first three pages and the last page, so I apologize if this has been spoken about already, but can a screen modification also be done to the Game Gear? If so, I'm willing to pay what it takes to increase the overall quality of the screen. I know I've seen where someone replaced a Game Gear screen with a Nomad one, but this was a home project he did and I really don't have the soldering and electronic skills.

Thank you! Again, apologies if this has already been said.

[hailrazer]

While theoretically it can be done it is incredible difficult to fit a new screen and the circuit necessary to convert the signal for the screen.

[Vrikkian]

While theoretically it can be done it is incredible difficult to fit a new screen and the circuit necessary to convert the signal for the screen.

So I guess no one will do it, is what you are saying, because it's a hard mod to do. As I said, money isn't an issue. Plus if it took a couple weeks to get everything together that's fine with me as well.