Game Boy Color and Sega Nomad Screen Mods - Modern Upgrades! 

For the GBC, BennVenn’s uses a fraction of the battery and if only $50US

@metalJesusrocks I just want to say you are one unique youtuber and i watch all of your videos. You are a true gaming fan. Big up from Sweden

Now is possible play games to Sega CD in Sega portable with the super cartrige MEGA SD ! Sensational!!

I love how modern output and cables on consoles and updated screens on handhelds has been able to show us what we were missing on all the earlier gaming hardware. The games were far more beautiful than we ever knew!

I’ve been itching to install a backlit screen in my GBC. That McWill looks really nice. Also, sweet Opeth tee!

So happy to see you still doing videos! Your hard- and software collection is just amazing to look at and your fans and friends are just great for doing such mods and tweaks for ya.

It's kinda irking that the screen size is smaller though.

Hell yes brother! Great video and also extra points for the Opeth shirt!

Mey Mjr, your vids are possibly the best game or connected media content on the overall RU-vid channel. Dude, you're awesome! More people need to support u

@metalJesusrocks there is a mod for the neo Geo Pocket color it requires first generation Gameboy advance SP backlight and a few solder points and it should work will send you a link through Twitter

The Nomad mod uses composite for the screen, that's why it looks blurry.

Damn man, Sega Nomad. I remember burning through so many AA batteries playing NBA jam on the school bus.

Awesome video Jason! Been looking at the gameboy colours quite a lot recently on ebay and with these new screens iam definitely sold on them!

I'm really glad these screen mods have come a long way from just being a brighter screen. The extra board helps things along

Sega Nomad is basically a portable Sega Genesis. I found one, complete, years ago in a pawn shop for $10. They were getting ready to trash it they said. So I picked it up for $6! Needless to say, I have hung on to it for years and still get an itching to play it once in a while! I would love to do the screen upgrade and battery mod. It would get a lot more use! The game library for this machine is awesome!

Very intersting. As a french old and harcoregame fan (44 years old gasp) It is very rare to have a Sega Nomad... But I've got one ! I wish so bad to improve it and also my gamegears ans other classic handhelds ! Thx U so much to you our pal MJR ! Always a pleasure to see you and learning with your advices !

Those colours are really popping, looks amazing. Breathing new life into older technology is a wonderful thing.

I am so glad you covered the gameboy screen mod. Definitely something worth doing, although I don't like the borders around the screen but that's a personal opinion. haven't been able to get my hands on a nomad yet due to the insane prices in Australia.

Modding Gameboy colors are actually fun to do!

Great vid, Great shirt! Thanks for the vid👍

$75 to modify a gameboy color feel like a gameboy advance mod or a gameboy sp would be a better option.

@metalJesusrocks BennVenn is working on a Neogeo pocket backlight kit. And his backlight kit for gbc gives much longer battery life then the mcwill kit.

Nice video @MetalJesusRocks :D Glad you got a couple nice upgrades there. I am totally with you on modding these older handhelds. Last year I got my Game Boy Color modded with a Game Boy Advance AGS-101 screen installed and the difference was amazing. I also upgraded my Sega Game Gear with the McWill mod and omg I love it!! Sonic looks pretty sweet on it lol

Finally love your videos inspired me to collect psp games! Now I have like 30 games! Thanks

Ah Super Airwolf! A classic game with good graphics. Love it and the show too. RIp, Earnest Borgninr and Jan Michael Vincent.

Awesome video! Great screen mods!

The screens look amazing!

The Nomad is siiiiick. I seriously want one, but with all the upgrades like you have.

The Sega Nomad looks fun!

Cool video Jason!

One of my first memories with a Gameboy Color was with the Scooby Doo Classic Creep Capers, such an interesting game that I haven't heard anyone else mention before! I remember it being difficult, but that could be due to my age at the time

The crazy thing is, I just got my second Sega Nomad yesterday. It was given to me. And I was talking about modifying it. I was also looking at my Gameboy Colers and thinking I should mod one of them. Keep the other, both gameboy and nomad original. All on the day this video was posted. I'll take it as a sign to move forward with the idea.

Liked your videos as usually! But regarding buying dozens of batteries: ever heard of recharchables? They come in quite handy and are equally eco friendly as modded Li-battery and if you have a couple you can change them on the road when needed

Glad I can recommend this channel to my nephew

game boy color was my first system ever still have it and the box it came in, love it always

I remember taking my Nomad into Gamestop back around 2000-2001 and trying out their used Genesis games on it. Lol. The dude working there got pissed and told me I wasn't "allowed" to do that. I'm not sure if that was an actual store policy at that time or not, but I'm a pretty easy going person and didn't want to be a douche, so I took the Nomad out and locked it in my car, then went back in and finished shopping. Every time I see anything about the Nomad, though, I'm reminded of that. 😂

Great video as always dude!!! Saludos desde Buenos Aires Argentina

I took on the project of modifying my nomad last year. The cartridge slot freezes sometimes, but it works great. New screen, and a battery recharged inside. Took a little Dremel work to make the batteries fit inside. But it's awesome. Totally worth it. Edit. I can also agree though, the nomad screen replacement isn't very sharp. But still very playable.

Just recently I was lucky to acquire my very own Sega Nomad at a game store close to my house, after saving up for it by trading in several PS3 games and an old DSi, aming other things. The Nomad had to be sent off somewhere offsite for repairs because of some damage that the LCD screen had on it, and what transpired is that the repairman managed to do what Wes did, which was frankenstein a similarly-sized LCD screen from a GPS monitor, which was a MASSIVE improvment over the original screen, which I was aware of (thanks to a video that Stuart Ashen had about the Nomad), so that saved me time and money having to mod the screen myself. No Li-Io battery in there, but what'cha gonna do? (DC IN can tide me over for a while) Best $130 I have ever spent! Thanks for the video!

Had my Sega nomad upgraded super awesome.

Awesome! Did the GBA mod and GBC front light modes, but now I have some new projects to mod with this video lol.

With the new Terraionin Mega Sd, you can now play Sega CD on the Nomad.

Woo hoo! New MJR video! And it’s on handheld upgrades?! I NEED the video-out mod!!!!!

Metal Jesus you have an awesome into to your videos, catchy music and fresh cut scenes, i always look forward to the intro to see your new cut scenes. Hey when you do hidden gems will you please title them part 1, part 2, etc. Some of your titles are confusing and I can't keep them straight or remember which parts i already watched.

I'm so glad I got my screen upgraded in my Lynx. It's so much nicer than you think it would be :)

Glad got my Sega nomad mod screen

I remember a few years back a retro modding company called Rose Colored Gaming did front light mods and custom paint jobs for the GBC, WS, and NGPC. I did grab a final fantasy Wonderswan from them. Such good work. They used the AGS 100 front lite from the SP. Anyway I remember them saying the Neo Geo was the hardest one to do because it had the least amount of space inside the shell despite being the biggest of their handhelds. I’d love to see a backlight NGPC though...

Those screens are dope.

Love your videos metal Jesus!

Cool T-shirt!

I have the same gameboy color! Great video!

Ben Heck has made some pretty impressive console to handheld mods.

Its sort of hard to believe. It looks stunning

I like keeping things original but that video out mod is ridiculously awesome. Very tempting. 👍🤘😳

New vid? Hell yes

Regrats from Costa Rica!

The replacement screen taps into the composite video line hence the blurriness. Those cheap lcd screens only accept composite unlike the other mods like McWill's. Still a huge upgrade from the original!

Installed a backlight screen mod for my GameBoy Color over the frontlight mod I did several months back. Bought the backlit screen from Handheld Legend for $75, and the price dropped to $50 and has the 3D printed spacers to align the screen properly. I need to get black double sided tape to prevent the light from seeping out, but it works better than the frontlight mod (kept it for a future GBC in case the screen in it doesn't work). I also have a Nomad that was repaired by the person that runs a game store shop that is going to be modded soon, and the Nomad can be modded to allow region unlock and playing Master System games using the Everdrive or Mega SD.

Back up camera into a Nomad...that dude is genius!!!!

Crosscore is actually Super Airwolf in japan :) these mods really look amazing, great video showcasing the new screens 👍

The Nomad's screen being blurry despite higher pixel count is likely because instead of running through the internal digital output from the processor/GPU itself, so it gets a 1:1 pixel mapping (like the GBC mod does, tho that's 2:1) before going to the analog output converter, it takes that composite output from the console and then converts it back on the screen, so yeah you would see pretty much how it looks on a modern LCD without anything else than plugging the console to the TV on composite.

I did the mcwill lcd mod for my gamegear and it is such a crazily good upgrade, quite a bit of soldering and swapped out a lot of caps but totally worth it. Weirdest part is seeing the old backlight which is basically a small lightbulb!

That's pretty amazing.

The SEGA Nomad screen mod is SICK!! I will definitely be trying that out. I’m kinda curious where he got the lithium ion battery at so I could get that too. Great video! 😀

My previous comment was just initial excitement. After seeing it I cant resist replacing the screens for my 2 GB colors. I have grape and atomic purple. Cant wait to get some kits in the mail!!

Project S-11 is actually a great game. I play it on the retron every now and then. I remember I got a copy for me and my buddy when we were younger.

Great vid =D If you want a nice LCD screen for the Neo Geo Pocket - I think SainT over at Retro HQ is producing one! Marco might be working on one too! I've recently covered this Gameboy screen mod on my channel, as well as a Nomad repair and screen replacement too.

Nice Opeth T-Shirt

Waiting for Rechargeable Battery mods for Nomad, with New Mega SD Nomad will be great choice to play Genesis on the Go of course if you prefer play it at Original Hardware.

that is a cool game boy color mod. right now they are out of stock, but i think i am going to get a kit and maybe get a different shell as well

BennVenn is finalizing a backlit NeoGeo Pocket color screen now. There is a guy in Vietnam that charges an exorbitant amount of money to also do a backlit screen mod. Best to wait for the BennVenn option which is coming soon

NEC did it even earlier with their PCEngine GT/Turbo Express handheld😊

I wanna party with you bro! I hope I have as many musical friends and games as you one day! Your videos always lift my spirits!

That looks so cool 😎 those gamses look great for old games wish nintendo done this back in the day

I have this same Nomad upgrade, and the screen is decent by modern standards, but fantastic compared to what was there before. I wish it had a better resolution match however, that would have helped. As for the battery... there is no way it gets up to 4 hours. Maybe 90 mins at most, maybe. Still, I'm very happy with it. The Nomad, in your hands, feels great - it has a great d-pad, the buttons feel great, and it runs everything like a Genesis model 2 since that's what it is. Nice thing is these never go down in value at this point so I don't mind paying some money for it. Hopefully that battery lasts for a while but apparently it's pretty easy to change down the road when it's out of juice.

I have a nomad and I remember it took 8 packs of batteries to get from Fort Worth Texas to Corpus Christie Texas.

That Spider-Man gb color looks pretty cool. Never seen that one before.

YES! I asked about this on the FB group just a couple days back as well! :D Thanks MJ!

I put a mcwill in my game gear it's a game changer for sure. I can find a good battery mod but I just use rechargeable batteries. Love the channel MJR

GBC Really does look great... I just got a DS lite and the difference between it and the GBA sp, playing GBA games, was night and day.

Don't forget about the Turbografx 16 Turbo Express. Also a portable home console. It came out before the Sega Nomad.

I got my Nomad modded with an LCD and it was well worth it.

Holy shit, that's incredible! :o

That Nomad screen is just fine. It is blury because he soldered AV screen leads to Nomad's AV out ;)

I just finished my front light mod w/ Loca for my GBC the other day. I think I'll have to try the new screen on a second gameboy. Looks badass

Ah, lots of memories around that Scooby Doo game! I will have to power it up again. It’s been too long!!

Rocking Jesus's metal great content

There’s a guy on Instagram I’ve seen posting photos of backlit NGPC. Definitely possible and I need to add one to my collection so I have every single handheld with modded screen!

Never heard of Sega Nomad, I grew up playing the Gameboy color, the Nomad looks very interesting but for it size it would of been interesting if they would make it so you can hide the cartridge, awesome video🤘

i hope you realize your a lucky bastard with all your gaming stuff. hope you play everything mane

Thumbs up for that Opeth shirt! 🤘

Did you forget about the Turbo Express? That came out five years before the nomad and played TG16 games on a portable console that was a little bit bigger than the size of the original gameboy...

The nomad is so cool!!!

I had the NiCad battery packs that plugged in to the battery ports on the Game Gear.

I got my Nomad screen replaced a few years ago amf it looks fantastic but I really want the lithium ion battery mod! How expensive/ difficult was it?

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Ive been looking at buying the Nintendo handheld range, so these mods look like what im looking for.

cool video tech talk metal jesus rocks

If it's more or less half of your 90s TV res, it's not upskaling but downscaling. Thus I think it's normal that some info disappears from the fonts. In any case, myep pretty nice job, it looks way better than on the original ones.

BennVenn has been working on a backlite screen for the NGPC.