/vr/ - Retro Games

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I bought the kit two weeksish ago and assembled it earlier in the week. Got the v1.11 variant of the board. The worst part of assembling the kit is simply having to thread the screws on the shell itself because they don't come prethreaded. Honestly took me like 20 minutes of just screwing them in as hard as I could and then backing them out and the middle-right screw is acting up on me by being firm but not coming out now.
>I just don't know what the user experience is actually like when it comes to playing games on it.
When turning it on it functions exactly like any other legit GBC. With the newer firmwares they made their own OC boot logo so you need to get the modified one from
https://github.com/makhowastaken/GWGBC_FW/tree/main/HWv1_1
The volume slider is now this rocker thing you can push in to get to the OSD menu. It is much MUCH worse for turning sound down and you can't get it as low as the original GBC at all. It's always at like middle level on a real GBC even if you're one tick away from being mute.
If you play a GB or GBC game on the GBC core the graphics sometimes break. This is not handled automatically by the FPGBC yourself and you need to open up the OSD to tick "GBC fix" which fixes it. I think they said they're working to make this automatic.
The CPU speed is ever so slightly higher than a real GBC when you get it in the sweet spot which is like 3-4 ticks lower than max (It defaults to this on 1.08). I believe they're also working to fix this.
Real cartridges all seem to work based on the ones I own with no issues at all outside of the GBC fix thing.

Flashcarts are a mess in terms of compatibility.
Everdrives are officially supported now and work like they do on a real GBC. This should mean the clones on AliExpress (The Game Boy GB Pro+/Game Color ones) work as well.
EZ Flash JR requires the 1.5e patch (You need to Google it) and like 70% of games don't work. Some work by setting the CPU speed lower but crash when you put them back.