GBA Mod (July 2002)

The Afterburner is a do it yourself kit that lets you install a transparent lighted plate over the GBA’s LCD screen. Installation is pretty scary, you have to do some modification to the shell of the GBA itself and some soldering onto the GBA circuit board. It’s quite easy except for applying an adhesive strip of anti-reflective film to the LCD screen.

The effect is an even and thorough illumination of the playing screen no matter what the lighting conditions.