"Diamond" GBA screen cover
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 12:22 am
So I bought one of those ebay GBA screen cover replacements recently, and it seemed all fine and dandy until a day after I got it on and took the film off. I carried it to my car with a game against the screen, set it down on my car seat and by the time I went to play it later the screen was scratched to hell! Those covers are terrible quality.
So I went back on ebay, ready to buy another one and put a screen protector on it or something, then I stumbled across an auction for a glass screen replacement! It seemed to be an old stock item that someone tossed on ebay to get rid of. Auction price was only 2 bucks, so I bid and waited. 6 days later and $4 dollars (2 for shipping) it was on its way to me! Well I just got it in and thought I would show off what I am thinking is a not so common accessory.
Here it is, the poor wording on the packaging suggests some cheap Chinese piece.
Here is my GBA before the swap, I tried to get the scratches to show up, but they are worse than this:
Install was no problem, the only thing is there is no logo on the bottom, just a blank black oval (nice hand print on the screen lol)
Oh yeah, this is my modded backlit GBA! (as previously seen in the other thread
)
This thing is super clear, and should resist scratches pretty well. I am happy I stumbled across this, and got it cheaper than what the crap ones were going for. At this point I have a pretty much perfect original GBA, they should have been made this way from day one!
So I went back on ebay, ready to buy another one and put a screen protector on it or something, then I stumbled across an auction for a glass screen replacement! It seemed to be an old stock item that someone tossed on ebay to get rid of. Auction price was only 2 bucks, so I bid and waited. 6 days later and $4 dollars (2 for shipping) it was on its way to me! Well I just got it in and thought I would show off what I am thinking is a not so common accessory.
Here it is, the poor wording on the packaging suggests some cheap Chinese piece.
Here is my GBA before the swap, I tried to get the scratches to show up, but they are worse than this:
Install was no problem, the only thing is there is no logo on the bottom, just a blank black oval (nice hand print on the screen lol)
Oh yeah, this is my modded backlit GBA! (as previously seen in the other thread
)This thing is super clear, and should resist scratches pretty well. I am happy I stumbled across this, and got it cheaper than what the crap ones were going for. At this point I have a pretty much perfect original GBA, they should have been made this way from day one!