So while I've got these Game Gears open to replace their failed capacitors (have about 4-5 right now) I figured I could probably make a few extra bucks on the eBay market by swapping out the CCFL tube in there like many others have (as seen on Google). The backlight is what drew me to the Game Gear over the Game Boy years ago, problem is LED tech then was in it's infancy and CCFL tubes needed to have a transformer knock the 9v DC from the batteries up to 120v AC. Yes, you read that right. Obviously this is ineffecient and wastes a lot of power that could otherwise be used for playing games and many modders report almost/exceeding a doubling of the play time from 2.5 hours to 5-6 using LEDs. My problem is that LED brightness levels are mostly voodoo and people use metrics that seem to be perception based rather than reality based. As a result I can't for the life of me find LEDs on eBay that are bright enough for my taste. The ones I am using are good, but I'm going to need upwards of 5-10 to get the screen as bright as the CCFL tube did. I don't mind going for a higher voltage LED but the goal of this is to IMPROVE battery life while maintaining or surpassing the quality of a factory stock Game Gear. Anyone have any suggestions and/or information/supplier links? I'll be happy to put up a tutorial.
120V is quite high, the Tomy backlit LED games only used a 35V CCFL.... although i replaced this with 12 LEDs (4 x 12V LED strips) although the battery life sucks worse then the CCFL... thankfully i run it off a 12V PSU.
My personal take, ditch the cfl, put in a dsi or dsixl backlight and see how it looks. GG just has a white plastic diffuser and the cfl (this being the reason for such shit battery life)
Yes that would be good but how easy is that mod i have a few spare ds lite bits. i have 3 game gears one blue japan model a 2 pal units.
