/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4836754
As sad as it sounds a GBA is probably what you're looking for to play GB and GBC games.

GBC is great but it's best played in sunlight. GB is pretty damn good with a backlight and bivert mod. The "washed yellow" screen that is sold is probably the closest to the pea green that we remember.

GBC "can" be backlit, but it honestly looks like dogshit and is horribly washed out. It's not worth it, https://youtu.be/9vSxneikLEg?t=3m29s . It's honestly horrible and a terrible waste of original hardware.

>>4591463

I just did a backlight and bivert mod to my original gameboy. I'd highly recommend it. If you can solder even super basically it's pretty easy. I'm good at soldering and finished the mod in about 30-45 minutes even including taking it apart, rewatching key points in the video, and putting it back together. Handheld legends has a screen called "washed yellow" that looks pretty close to the olive green.

Ignore the bad focus and also that the screen looks washed out on the edges. It's not, just the polarizing film messing with the camera. It looks epic in person. Also, you can see newton rings where the rear polarizer film touches the glass, this can (and will) be fixed by applying a light bit of diatomaceous earth. It's basically the same effect when you put a screen protector on a cell phone. I literally did this mod yesterday so I haven't got the d. earth yet. The stuff is a microscopic powder that you can't see on the screen, it just prevents the polarizing film from sticking.