GameBoy DMG-01 Screen Invert
This page is nowhere near finished, but I've put together some photo's of me inverting my DMG-01 screen, ready to to a "bivert" mod. Here's the original guide that I followed, but in case that site ever goes offline, here's my photo's...
You'll need a 7404 Hex Inverter, I've tried 74LS04 and 74HC04 ones and both have worked fine. Both are 14 pin chips, pin 7 is Ground/GND and pin 14 is VCC (power).
The following photo shows the connector for the screen, you can see a cut I've made through two of the traces. The highlighted legs/dots show which leg of the 7404 chip you need to connect them to.
To save a bit of space, cut a bit off of each leg.
I'm using fine Kynar wire for this, I add a small bit of solder to each of the points that I'm going to attach a wire onto. The next few photo's show the wires being attached.
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Then put it into place! You don't have to secure it, it will hold itself in place when you re-assemble it.
It's not very easy to do a comparison photo, these are my best efforts.
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You should definitely combine this with a backlight which you can invert again when installing, which I'll do some photo's of next time I fit one. It will give you a very clear screen.
This info on this page is taken from this site.