GBA pics ahoy!
Spoilered for their mahoosive size, because my phone has decided I'm not allowed to choose the resolution for my own photos, and imgur's resizing is pants.
Here we have the donor console and all the mods about to be crammed in: Funnyplaying IPS screen, purple shell made specifically for said screen, new buttons/membranes, new speaker, and Retrosix's Cleanamp Pro, Dehum/Dehiss kit, and Cleanjuice rechargeable battery. Quite the laundry list!
First off, I popped the motherboard out of the original case. I installed the IPS screen into the new shell, which would have been simple enough, had I not kept smudging the inside of the sodding lens.
Then, a quick test to make sure the new screen was working properly, which it was!
The dehum/dehiss kit came next. A flexible little PCB thing almost like a ribbon cable, all it required was a bit of tinning on the corners, and then it just sat comfortably on top of the motherboard.
The Cleanamp audio board went much the same way. Tack down the corners, attach the speaker, job done!
Then we can start to put everything back together, but not before soldering some wires to the shoulder buttons so that we can alter the brightness level.
Last but not least, after the case had been buttoned back up, we drop in the USB-C rechargeable battery, which couldn't be any easier.
And there we have it! The screen looks bloody brill, but in hindsight I should have gone for a different coloured shell, as this one is quite a bit lighter than the original purple GBA. Ah well!