# Game Boy/Color/Advance OT + Collecting Thread - Get into it!

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**Category:** Video Games\
**Created:** [October 31, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/game-boy-color-advance-ot-collecting-thread-get-into-it/281 "2017-10-31T18:39:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peltz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/peltz/32/6142_2.png) [@Peltz](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Peltz)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/game-boy-color-advance-ot-collecting-thread-get-into-it/281/541 "2020-09-21T14:52:32Z")

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> [@Playing GBC and early GBA games on a backlit screen looks... wrong. Am I alone?](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/playing-gbc-and-early-gba-games-on-a-backlit-screen-looks-wrong-am-i-alone/1623):
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> Oddly enough, I don’t feel this way about original Game Boy games due to their monochromatic graphics. Backlighting doesn’t ruin them. But it does seem like the gamma levels for GBC games are genuinely tailored around the GBC screen. Even playing it on a front-lit GBA SP ags001 looks wrong because of the different calibration that screen has. On a GBA SP AGS-101 backlit model, however, GBC games look completely off. The screen has far more ghosting than the original GBC (which had no ghostin…

You’re not at all nuts or just trying to justify your purchase. I totally get it ☝

I want a completely stock GBA too, just like yours, but they’re very hard to find unmodified in good condition these days.

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