The GameBoy Pocket Color Mod 

I like the way you always show the errors, breakages, problems. It makes me feel so much better about my own experiences.

I felt actual pain at 5:47. Broken screens are a complete nightmare.

Note to viewers, Boxy Pixel will not replace a broken screen for you if you put it inside a shell (even if you don't use the adhesive) or solder the touch sensor. Do a screen test on the table with the bare minimum. I ended up having to buy a replacement elsewhere.

Congrats on this build man. Looks modern with an exquisite feel, and and the reflective feeling is nice!

Absolutely beautiful mod. My biggest gripe I think is the fact that you have to completely remove the IR from the GBC.

the cartirdge sticking out is a no deal for me, everything else seems real nice (minus your broken screen haha)

Couple of the small criticisms! Like the giant hump on the gameboy's back. The Quasimodo Boy Two gameboys are two completely different things?

Nice build, shame about the cart sticking out, this actually puts me off doing this build as I was looking for a metal shell build next, but this won’t be it.

Looks beautiful. Wish I had the soldering skills to be able to put it together

Honestly, I'd prefer something plastic. Also that proud cart in the back is a deal breaker.

Damn, looks aboslutely amazing! Wish I was as skilled as you at modding!

Man. I'm fairly new to the Gameboy game, currently making my GBZero, but the Gameboy Color with the IPS mods are seems to be truly amazing devices. Tickles my must to have bones. With this shell it's the best it ever gets.

I bet it has a satisfying weight to it. Love your videos man. Super calming and awesome content about Gameboys and anything else you want to review. Can't wait for whatever you do next.

Welcome back, Elliot! Very glad to have new content. Hope all is well with the house and bike. Cheers!

That sweep across the desk with the Mac Studio was so slick. Great video!

The top bezel kinda looks short, maybe because of overall bigger screen frame, which makes it look rather disproportional than gbp Yet this shell is still beautiful

Man how are you that skilled with that gameboy stuff? The gameboys were big part of my childhood but I can't do anything with them except playing on em. Keep going man

Really loving your videos keep it up 👍🏻👍🏻

just managed to dig up my old gameboy pocket! definitely want to mod and refurbish it, this is great inspiration

That is really a work of art great job on the build!

I love the silver, it has a nice look to it

This is gorgeous. Was my fav model as a kid for a long time. Cuz was a huge upgrade over the og before color every existed.

Great Mod and great video Elliot! The gameboy looks so awesome!

the red and black buttons looks so nice, a great build!

The pocket is the best design, Whith the color features, is a dream come true. Hope you show another vídeo with the final screen.

I love your videos. It’s so relaxing to watch you do tinkering with these amazing stuff. Your videos help me relax lol. Keep up the great work as always!

Your solder work is so clean

Fantastic video and mod. Perfect length, nice details, some shared disasters and peeves - ending with a great joke. Master class for aspiring RU-vidrs.

I think I enjoy the videos a bit more when something goes wrong, kinda shows that not everything is perfect and that those kind of things can happen

Love that spin just adds respect ✊ love the vid man so cool I learned how to mod and fix gameboys from watching your videos :) great days to you man

Masterpiece! Love the color combination.

Nice job. Beautiful gb.

Wow that looks awesome!

great as always mr retro

While I may not have said anything, this was the video I have been waiting for. Thanks BoxyPixel and Elliot!

You can really make a load of money modding Gameboys like this! I'm impressed by this mod 🙂

Great work Elliot as per usual. ❤ I love my boxypixel SP, so well machined,and feels so premium in the hand. On another note,I purchased some ifixit tools yesterday, I'm impressed after your recommendation. 👌 Also looking forward on an update on the C90. 🙂

Great job with the mod Elliot. In the past I've criticized your soldering but I'm glad to see you've improved a lot. Keep it up mate!

This has to be the best gameboy of 2022 Well done my lad

What a beautiful video and very good mod, Keep up the good work Eliot!! :) By the way, the white glass looks honestly good for me personally!

This is sick!! Love this

I really was looking forward to see a Aluminum Machined Classic Game Boy after I saw the unhinged Advance SP. Also there's something called GB operator which is basically a good Cartridge reader(sort of like Save-The-Hero, but it is compatiable with all generations of Gameboy cartridges(yes, that includes the camera cartridges) and it's on meet_epilogue, since no body uploaded a lot about it, I thought you can do it since your videos are mostly about Gameboys.

looks sweet. I always loved the pocket and thought it was such a shame the color didn't have the same body. I ordered the red casing with black buttons because my friend had that OG gameboy when we were kids and I was always jealous

beautiful in a lot of ways!

FYI given it's Japanese those screws are probably JIS screws not phillips. JIS cross point screws are slightly different and using a phiillips screwdriver with them makes it more likely to strip the head.

It looks amazing.

looks sick!

What you do inspires me to do things to game consoles. Among those things you’ve inspired me to make is a Switch PC known as the Switch Nite that me and my team is building. Thank you, Elliot! (Also, I will buy a 3DS Panda shell if you have a spare.) (You probably don’t have another, just thought to ask.)

Using your tweezers like that was genius! IDK why I've never thought to do that.

This looks great! Id love to do this when I am more skillful! Also, I think it would be fun if you could make or find a gameboy micro xl or a very very tall or wide gameboy micro! Love the videos! 👍

Looks incredible!!!

Holy crap, what kind of soldering iron is that? I was looking for a small kit like that, but couldn't find anything like it.

OMG, that tweezer wedge, never thought to do that before!

I did mine in anodized black with the purple buttons a month ago when they first released Easily my favorite game boy of all time until you own one you won’t understand how heavy and quality this shell feels in the hand it’s next level

As much as I love this mod, I wish it came in a plastic version. I know it's more premium to have that aluminium finish but it's gonna be a nightmare to replace in the event something goes wrong like a bad drop. The metal adhered to the glass also seems like a questionable choice with thermal expansion being a thing, and the glass used in the Q5 laminated display has had a couple concerns over its strength.

I know you said it's not really a fair comparison to the Analogue Pocket, but with those prices, it's kinda hard not to. Both seem like very pricey endeavours. Though sorry that your screen was broken. It's a total bummer and it can happen to best of us. Still, for what it's worth, you did great mate!

Hi Elliot , thanks for the video, I was actually wondering if I'll buy it or not but thanks to your video, I have decided to save a bit more and arm myself with patience and order the Analog Pocket, thanks again and keep up the good work :)

Very cool! I want to do this now!

Metal & Colour absolutely gorgeous 👍

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Good Work Elliot ❤❤

Damn what iron is that. Very cool. Looking for a new good one. Can't get the cheapos to hear up and melt correctly.

I’ve just spent £100+ on mods for my GBC, can’t wait for them to arrive!

Liked the vid while the ad was playing before the clip.

God, that is stunning.

Nick Rose of Boxy Pixel really knows his stuff, and I look forward to his new aluminum DMG shell coming soon!

Dang those battery terminal wire colors are so nice.

How many different mods can their possibly be?!

Such a beauty.

Very cool!

Another cool and sleek build! Looks super clean! Also, I like your little soldering iron. Can you tell me what model you have so I can pick one up?

Got to say I always preferred the shape and size of the Pocket over the Color and that the quality was always a step down in terms of build quality. This mod actually not only solves it but makes it more modern too. May have to get one of these soon myself.

Me: Wow, that’s so cool! Nintendo: Wait, that’s illegal…

Might buy one

The nicest of the original Gameboy designs matched with a Colour motherboard and IPS screen? Tempting, really tempting, even though there's not really any games pre-Advance that really interests me

The Pocket is definitely the best form factor of the GB lineup ⭐

Soldering lipos scared the crap out of me. That's why I have yet to switch my micro drone batteries to bt2.0 lmao. Beautiful build man!

Beautiful mod 😍

You see, this is a cool build, if anything is the coolest. and Boxy Pixel makes excellent builds! However, as far as I know they do not mix and match the color of their aluminum pieces. He did point out the buttons but the most expensive is the screen frame, which comes with the whole shell. I can relate with the screen mishap as I did messed up the screen on my first try. So if anyone that is not a youtuber wants to do this exact same build it will be (two sets of shells, two sets of buttons, IPS screen, USB-C battery, and two touch sensors ) approx. 250 bucks without taxes and shipping. I love the product but is definitely not a cheap for this exact same build. Hopefully Boxy Pixel allows people to do mix and match in the future.

I've been watching your channel for a couple months and just love the content, kinda inspired me into repairing my old 3ds XL, any suggestion on where to buy the shelling and the buttons? Thanks in advance, again love the videos keep up the great content!

The pocket is my favorite body. This is perfect

The pocket is the most Beautiful design. I would love to see it in a color LCD version

Compared to existing GameBoy Pocket Color mods, at least this one doesn't require you to trim your PCB to fit into a Pocket shell. Nice one!

Incredible looking, but that charging port isn't in a good position to me, it goes under your hand so humidity, sweat and dirt can easily accumulate inside.

Nice Elliot

This is what I've been missing. I get that you are trying to expand into other areas. But sometimes I just want to watch a build with some talking. Would love to see you tackle a wiiboy.

Love how this turned out! Personally I would rather have this modded GBC than the pocket.

Why yes it is, also I'm happy to see you.

Hope everything's been looking up for you, King.

On a totally unrelated note, my first iFixit kit finally showed up and I got about 13 Nintendo DS lites, 7 don’t work, about to dig into that for the first time ever.

It looks awesome I want to see the gba sp unhinged if you can

On those desk shots I spotted a Mac Studio in the background, was not expecting to see that kind of baller hardware sitting there 👀

That screwdriver flick 🔥

As much as i like the Retro NT, it's just so much more fun putting together something like that yourself with your own hands to really personalize the device. I just really don't like that whole LiPo Battery thing… i would have preferred to use standard rechargeable batteries but i guess the Screen just needs more than the 3 Volts the original GBC needed. Love the fact that now it looks like a Game Boy Pocket always wanted to be, if aluminium cases would have been just as cheap as silverpainted plastic.

I NEED THIS

don't you love how the analog pocket puts four tiny, hard to use face buttons on it to play consoles which never used more than two?.. rather than, you know, putting on two big, easy to use buttons?

Can you link the flux and solder you use? I just don't even know if I'm using the right stuff or not.

Always enjoy watching these, hope things are going well! What soldering iron do you use here?

*has a gameboy color in my pocket* Elliot: "Is that a gameboy color in your pocket?

very nice

The Gameboy color pocket would have been cool if Nintendo actually made it.