Chromatic by Mod Retro. A GBC clone with a true 160x144 pixel screen

It’s like bob deinterlacing flicker, but I can see the individual lines flickering whereas on TVs it’s like the whole image flickers at once

I had a GBA SP (non backlit) that had this really bad, basically unplayable. Turning one of the potentiometers clockwise slightly basically got rid of it. always wondered if my GBC had a similar issue, but sounds like this is pretty common

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Eh, it seems a lot more accurate than GBA SP (Frontlit then 101) which basically became my Game Boy Color player for nearly 20 years. Which definitely had the colours wrong.

And with so many models of Game Boy I’m no longer a sticker for ‘correct’. Between just GBA, SP, Micro, GB Player, DS, DS Lite, SP101 GBA games alone had so many official ways that all looked different.

Really my IPS GBC looks ‘correct but with the saturation turned up’ to me.

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The Tetris port they’ve been selling with this has been dumped and it’s excellent. Palmer Luckey has been working hard to pull it off the internet so it’s a little hard to find.

Shame such a good port of Tetris is, at least officially, confined to this thing.

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It is quite good, yeah, and it will never be completely off the internet. :wink:

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One could say that the Internet is an Archive on which you might find Chromatic Tetris.

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Yes, but it’s still hard for people to find it because they keep taking it down.

Interesting. The one I found had been there since Jan

That’s interesting, last handheld to ship with such a screen was Game Boy Micro I think?

Rediscovering the joys of original hardware has made me forget about this device and the Pocket, though.

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Micro is my least used handheld, I don’t think I’ve ever tried taking it outside! I prefer original GBC/GBA hardware too over the Pocket but the screen size is really nice I have to say, real shame they couldn’t nail the colour space profiles.

This version of Tetris is excellent.