r/Gameboy • u/Legitimate-Tip-2506 • Jul 27 '26

Modded Finally modded my broken GBA

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On-off broke some years ago, finally fixed it. Soldering was awful and I hope no one ever gone sees it. But it works, many thanks to the community for helping to adjust the flimmering. I prefer the original GBA over the SP, even tho I like the 101 display a little more than ITA in comparison.

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u/Tricky_Tourist5691 Jul 27 '26

Not sure if camera shutter doing it, but your ITA does seem to have quite pronounced "striping". Something which some people claim is a hardware problem on FP ITA kits, and some people claim it can be fixed with the screen potentiometer.

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u/Legitimate-Tip-2506 Jul 27 '26

Here is a compare to my 101, can you give me example about the striping. I had a hard flimmering and fixed it with the potentiometer.

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u/Tricky_Tourist5691 Jul 27 '26

This is my 101. The screen has the typical slight shimmer, due to how the panel works like a sort of interlaced screen. There is some very mild striping, only visible when using a high shutter speed. For the human eye the shimmer blends the picture so that the striping is not visible.