Backlit Game Boy Pocket : what about battery life ?

Sun, 19 Sep 2021 13:07:21 +0000

I’m pretty happy with my Backlit+Bivert Game Boy pocket. After several hours playing with it, I was surprised by the battery life. The Game Boy pocket is known to runs out of juice faster than the others Game Boy models, because it uses AAA batteries (typically 750 / 800 mAh) instead of AA batteries (typically 2200 / 2500 mAh).

Wikipedia says that the Original Game Boy Pocket last about 10 hours. Let’s check the real battery life of a backlit modded Game Boy Pocket !

Gameboy pocket : backlight + bivert

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 21:51:23 +0000

Even if you can now put an IPS screen on a Gameboy pocket, adding backlight (and bivert) is a cheaper solution and it’s still a good way to enhance the screen.
Adding backlight without bivert is quite acceptable on the Gameboy pocket, but you loose a lot of contrast. However, together with bivert mod, the screen become better than the original non-backlit screen… And this also accentuate a little bit the ghosting effect of vertical lines.

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Backlit Game Boy Pocket : what about battery life ?

Gameboy pocket : backlight + bivert