That is a very nice looking GBC!
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Sexy photo with the n64
It feels like its been a millennia, but first post in awhile.
These acrylic nail polish shelves work wonders for gb carts
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I really like the dimming of distant/non active elements in Top Ranking Tennis, does anyone know how this works? Belmont’s Revenge uses it sparingly and it doesn’t show up properly when emulated in the modern collection
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They flash those elements every other frame update, rather than keeping them shown constantly.
The slow update of the GB screen means that they don’t disappear before they reappear again, resulting in a sort of partially opaque version.
So this is a good game to test emulator shaders, etc.
In a crap emulator, you can see them flashing:
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Flickering - of course!
They also have an appearance of being further back on the screen itself, the elements don’t flash in M2’s emulator (thankfully) but they do look too close to the darker greys, like the contrast has been dialled up!
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Haven’t tried any new GBA games this past year except a couple of Famicom Classics, it almost seemed like I had exhausted the library.
But of course not! Konami produced a handheld specific side series to their Jikyou Powerful Pro baseball games, Pawapoke (Power Pro-kun Pocket), and I wanted to check it out many years ago but never did, until remembering the series existed recently.
So I picked up the GBA remake of the first two games that originally appeared on Game Boy Color. I’m in it for the success mode, which has its roots in Tokimeki Memorial, seems like another interesting Konami series that got largely overlooked outside of Japan.
Speaking of the Game Boy Advance, does anyone remember the Japanese launch lineup for the system? Japanese GBA launch details - GameSpot
That’s pure gold, almost twenty games in that lineup interest me, and it’s not hard to see why the GBA ended up being the fastest selling system in Japan. Funny how the SNES ports also came from Nintendo rather than third parties, who brought great examples of what portable gaming was all about then, bespoke games made for the hardware.
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Yea launches don’t have that level of support anymore.
Tokimeki Memorial? I’ve never played it but I have watched the six hour review and would recommend it (even if I preferred the Doom and Pac Man reviews more): https://youtu.be/xb-DtICmPTY
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You’d never be able to launch a low priced handheld that does its own thing and get industry wide support from the greatest developers in Japan like that, yeah. Nintendo set the narrative like that up to and including 3DS, which really was an end of an era for traditional handhelds.
Best you can hope for today is some ports.
I haven’t gotten round to checking it out either, but I have to say Pawapoke just seems like it’ll be more fun, from what little I’ve played it doesn’t seem to take itself seriously at all!
So true. We didn’t really understand how spoiled we were back then when games were smaller in scale from a development perspective. We had the biggest devs in the business producing like 5 games per hardware cycle.
We will never get that again. We’re lucky to get 2 games per dev team now.
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Saturday afternoon project turned out pretty good for the most part. Replaced a defective DMG screen with a Super OSD and wow, it’s finally what I’m looking for in a GB aftermarket display.
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Looks great!
The picture looks fantastic, even if the screen is installed a little crooked (sorry). 
Heh, I was wondering if anyone would notice that, hence the “for the most part” 
I plan to fix the screen when I open it back up to install a new speaker coming next week.
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DMG project #2. Before I invest any time in cleaning this and money for a new screen, wanted to get expert opinions. Is this PCB salvageable?
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I have a GBC that I opened new in box that also had a crooked screen straight from the factory. Not sure how that happened. It’s my second GBC - my first one has a perfectly centered screen.
The really nice thing about this screen is that it allows you adjust the h and v screen position in software. Doesn’t fix impatient installers putting it in crooked, but does make it a lot easier to get things just right.
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