Game Boy Advance Laminated 720x480 IPS Backlight with OSD and FRM 

Unless you want a specific feature or look, they all do pretty much the same thing in pretty much the same way. I have a wiki linked in the description that summarizes these kits.

For some certain games I like playing on my GBA which has the Funnyplaying ITA screen but for the majority of games I prefer this one in the video, maybe due to the higher resolution. Using the pixel grid option you will have to bump up the brightness to balance things out, which in return impacts the battery life but even so from all the screens I've tried this one is currently number 1. But it's all subjective tbh

All these kits use frame buffers so that's gonna be an additional 1 or 2 frames on top of whatever frames the kit is already behind on.

If opening the button and cleaning it doesn't work, buy a pair of tacts and replace both imo (so they match, not because you can only replace the one).

There's no bracket behind the screen here but the LCD assembly is very thick. I'd wager they are about the same but with fewer moving pieces, this one is still gonna be a lot easier to wrangle.

It should already fit that kit. The posts were oriented in such a way that you gotta clip one or two depending on the kit you're using anyway.

​@@makho I am trying to find the best kit for an OEM shell. I read your wiki and im still confused lol. I just want it to look the best possible. Still want your recommendation!

The symptoms you describe are most commonly due to a dirty power switch. How did you clean it?

Nah so with these screens, the LCD is laminated to a small piece of glass the size of the view window and then the glass spacer is laminated to the glass lens. This pushes the screen back (enough to clear the edges of the shell and allow this to work without cutting more of the shell out) but also kinda messes with the viewing angles since the LCD is so inset. FP laminates their LCDs directly to the lens and the result is more in line with what most people expect.

You should consider it permanent.

Backlight kits make bad investments with how often newer iterations come out with new features. Get a kit you want for the build you want. A lot of the better kits require cutting your shell or purchasing a modified shell.

@makho gotcha, appreciate the info. Will probably just get any drop in kit and hope I'm satisfied

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Yeah, probably

Lots of little things. I make these videos and maintain a wiki that my site links to (linked in the description) to cover these sorts of questions. Do you have a specific concern?

Not without cutting. But yes.

These kits might have the front digitizer removed

@@Miroslawkrynda6477 they are removed. the dsi one is already a really tight fit as is. so, I couldn't imagine making that thicker with a digitizer and a larger board. then you would also not be able to have it laminated unless you had a custom front capacitive digitizer. but that gets into the too expensive and too much work for something that has already been solved with touch sensor/soldering to test pads.

The digitizer is a separate assembly with a separate cable and would also require a dedicated controller circuit to handle all the functionality, in addition to the fact that digitizers are typically of a proprietary design specifically for the phones they were designed for, I don't know if it would be all that feasible to design and produce a brand new digitizer to retrofit an existing LCD. If you were to go that far, it may make more sense to design an entirely new LCD, though I can't say the high costs and redundancy would be worth it for a bit of functionality on a drop-in replacement that is already achieved with an insanely easy skill. If you can undo a few screws and completely reassemble a GBA, you can surely solder a few wires. Of course, I won't try to discourage you or anybody else from creating such a product and bringing it to market! 👍

I don't even remember what I said but if that's the case, I must have misspoke since CGS doesn't make kits that aren't integer scaled.