Now THIS Is The Game Boy Color Mod Tutorial That You’ve Been Waiting For

Anyone who has followed this blog for the past several years is perhaps aware of my interest in Game Boy Color backlighting; what was once deemed impossible is now totally possible. Not only that, but you also have choices, plenty of choices! Perhaps too much so?

Enter my fave YouTube discovery of 2020: Macho Nacho Productions. There’s only 6 videos thus far, and a subscriber count barely over 200 as of this writing. Yet even the very 1st video from host Ignacio Perez, aka Tito, feels as if it’s his 101st; there’s a level of polish, know-how, and approachability that you simply don’t find in 99.99% of all the other channels out that cover the same ground.

I’ve said it before in the past, but the bar has officially been raised; Macho Nacho Productions is now the new gold standard when it comes to learning Game Boy mods. Tito knows exactly what he’s doing and he shows you exactly what to do, period. With the best evidence of this being his five part Gameboy Color Backlight Showdown series, which takes a look at every single solution out there by showing how they’re done, and also noting how difficult it is to perform, how much it costs, and how well it functions.

The above look at the Benn Venn Freckle Shack mod, when paired with the Boxy Pixel Shell. Part two takes a look at the AGS-101 mod, utilizing the Benn Venn El Clono adapter, with another Boxy Pixel Shell…

Part 3 is Benn Venn Freckle Shack once again, version 2 of the mod, along with a standard Game Boy Color shell this time…

Part 4 is on the McWill…

And part 5 is all about Midwest Embedded, followed by a comparison of all the mods thus far…

… I say thus far because there might be a part six it sounds like? There are no other mods on the market, that fits Tito’s criteria of something that’s a true drop-in solution, sans soldering, not yet at least. But who knows? Adding a backlight to the Game Boy Color period was once considered an impossibility… but even then, Tito’s instructions makes me feel like I could actually do one of the others, they’re that easy to follow.

Originally published at blog.attractmo.de.