Modifying an Original Gameboy?

[astrangeone]

I picked up a Japanese one for about $15 on fleabay, and the only thing is the screen doesn't work properly (the vertical lines don't work). I was thinking of fixing it with the soldering pen rubbing method...

Any other ways I can jazz up this original gameboy?
- I might add in different coloured buttons
- I might wire in different LED lights (the power light is one of them)
- changing the vanity plate (the thing that sits above the screen)
- retr0brighting the grey plastic

What else can I do to add value to this piece of junk?

 

[TheRedfox]

Throw it where it belongs to, the junk bin *trollface

 

[The Real Jdbye]

A front lit LCD would be nice.

 

[FireSeel]

You could backlight it.

 

[nukeboy95]

or throw it away and get a gba sp

 

[FireSeel]

An AGS-101 would be good, but sometimes you want to play on the hardware that the games were designed for.