"Just a quick note to give you my latest experience. I've played my modded Glowguard for several days without a problem. It doesn't have the dimmer feature that the Lightshield has, but even though I've been playing GBC games the LED shows no sign of strain. It's life may be shortened by the 5v input, but it's not burning out right away at least :) This bodes well for its longevity in theLightshield, which does have a dimmer.

I also bought a Lightshield to mess with. I like the way it fits the Gameboy much better than the Glowguard. At first I was pretty pleased with it as it was, but as soon as I started playing GBC games on it, the light burned out. I even knew enough to keep the dimmer down, and it still burned out. That bulb doesn't make it. So, I ordered some LEDs to play with from RadioShack.com. I put in their 5mm "High Intensity White" LED (90-7864), and it's good, but still not as good as the 276-320. It's not quite as bright, and has a little more of the spotlight effect, but it does not have the "blue ring". Still, it's quite usable, even with Castlevania, so it would make an OK substitution if the 276-320 was not available for some reason. When running a GBC game, with 5v, it can be turned up really bright, and in that mode outshines the 276-320. Of course, I don't know how long it will last with 5v going thru it yet.

For now, I'm going with the 276-320 in the Lightshield, hehe. No surprises there I guess.

Thanks again,

Jan "