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

[Peltz]

I think it’s the backlight. I wrote about it here:

Playing GBC and early GBA games on a backlit screen looks... wrong. Am I alone?

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…

Someone once posted that GB Micro is calibrated a bit better to not have such garish colors while still being backlit, but I’ve never used one myself.