/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10502554
People can do what they like with what they own, but I don't like people buying up lots and doing this shit in bulk.
Also people needing to have a backlight instead of just using a lamp is very gay.
Passive matrix LCDs are a little rough to go back to but far from "unusable" and active matrix LCDs are still great, even without a backlight.
People can do what they like with their stuff, as I said before, but I think these people would be better served getting an anal log pocket and leaving the original devices for people who actually like the original devices.

>>10502554
If the screen Is broke, then this is good and it brings hardware that would otherwise be in a trash heap back to life. If the screen isn't broken, then you should feel like a retard for destroying one more working console in a sea of dwindling consoles. I wouldn't mind but it seems that the overlap between preservation and these console modders is large. Meaning you get people crying preservation while destroying working consoles. There are enough broken consoles for a lifetime of console modding. It's dumb to use working consoles.

>>10502554
Cute

>>10502596
Completely agree. I specifically bought one with a fucked up screen from eBay to mod. I even bought a new 3rd party casing so I wouldn't have to permanently modify the original plastic when I added a USB C rechargeable battery to it.

>>10502697
Does the system still remain a normal GameBoy tho? Or can you load custom Roms?

>>10502554
At the end of the day, if people buy a console with their own money, they can do what they want and I don't have to think anything of it, good or bad, it's not really my bussiness. I do agree that it's best to do it with units that are broken instead of perfectly working ones, to attempt preserving those, but then again all of these electronics will die at some point anyways.

I especially don't see the point of modding now that the Analogue Pocket and these emulation handhelds from Retroid, Anbernic and Powkiddy are coming out all of the time, and work fine.

We also have higher end stuff like the Deck, Odin and Ally, which no one buys just to emulate old stuff, but if you have one then you might aswell use it for retro emulation too, why not, right?

I get the appeal of modding these old handheld consoles, especially if they're broken, in this case actually I think it's awesome that people do it, bring new life to something that would've been dead otherwise, but to working consoles? I mean, it's more authentic than an Analogue Pocket I guess, but if you're modding it, you're already sacrificing authenticity anyways, so why bother?

>>10502720
Yeah, it's just a regular Game Boy but with a nicer screen, built-in rechargeable battery and a USB C port. There are other mods available but that's all I've done.

I do have an SD card adapter which can load ROMs, but it's just a cartridge like any other. I can remove it whenever and plug in an actual game cartridge if I want.

>>10502596
>Meaning you get people crying preservation while destroying working consoles. There are enough broken consoles for a lifetime of console modding. It's dumb to use working consoles.
This is so fucking true. Also goes for all those clowns destroying their mega drives with RGB mods

>>10502749
>I especially don't see the point of modding now that the Analogue Pocket and these emulation handhelds from Retroid, Anbernic and Powkiddy are coming out all of the time, and work fine.

Based
(I am ok with modding while repairing non-functioning units tho)

>>10502554
It's neat but there has been zero focus on games and that's the troubling thing. The game boy is so much more than just pokey man and mario and twink.

>>10502749
>I especially don't see the point of modding now that the Analogue Pocket and these emulation handhelds from Retroid, Anbernic and Powkiddy are coming out all of the time, and work fine.
Analogue Pocket is a pain in the ass to actually get.

>>10502554
I'll tell you what, it is very hard to sell a DMG Game Boy. I have one listed with an Everdrive x7 w/ 32GB SD with all ROMs and one of those battery bricks (still holds charge for 5+ hours) and I am having a hard time selling it for $120, which means they are basically getting the Game Boy for free - and they still don't want it.

>>10502554
Some are cool, some are gay, the one in your pic is gay because it uses shitty ips screens, and also removes the best feature about the gba sp it's ability to fold shut for portability and to protect the screen.

I really enjoyed the ips modded gameboy I had even if it was haram but I sold it off. RIght now my dmg is backlit and biverted, figure it's a good balance of original display, yet more functional. But honestly for my gbc I really do just enjoy using a good old light+magnifier attachment with an incandescent bulb.

>>10502574
I was looking for a GBA recently, and it became kind of frustrating to see how much of the pool was modded. Local retro store? One regular model GBA, and it was $200+ because it had a gay screen mod and rechargeable internal battery. Online? Most stock systems looked like they’d been run over by a car, while anything half decent was only so because it was an aftermarket shell, but they couldn’t stop there and threw in a new screen, too. I didn’t have to wait forever, but getting something stock that was actually worth having and using took a bit of patience.

>>10502904
If I didn’t just blow $200 on a Everdrive GBA and an SP, I’d be all over that. Damn.

>>10502942
I just sold a GBA for $40. The sticker on the back was a little dirty and someone had written their name on the back of it, which I was able to remove 75% of. It had a couple little dings on the lens, nothing that obstructed gameplay. Other that that it was in good+ condition.

>>10502968
I’m a bit poor, so I was really thinking it over and ended up having a really good quality one of the color I specifically wanted slip through my fingers for $60. The thing looked brand new in photos. I watchlisted it, and later that night resolved to just get it. The time stamp for when the listing ended was something like 10 minutes after I saw it.
I ended up just getting an SP since the one I nabbed was in great condition and wasn’t much more than originals are being listed for. I really wanted the original form factor and the nostalgia of clear glacier, but I’m happy.

>>10502904
>>10502968

>>10502554
I don’t see any harm in modding your devices to make them play the way you want them to. The only mod that rubs me the wrong way is the Gameboy Macro though. Stop destroying perfectly good DSs for this. If it’s broken and not fixable, that’s one thing, but don’t sacrifice a good DS for this shit.

>>10502554
If you're gonna spend money to produce an inauthentic experience, why not spent $70 on a chinkheld and get a way more versatile inauthentic experience? It doesn't make any sense. I guess some people think of consoles like toys in themselves, rather than just a means of accessing the content.

>>1050305
DS are dirt cheap for a reason.

>>10502554
>Lately, there's been a surge in modded Game Boys
Sauce? GB modding has been a thing for a long time. A quick look at historical trends for various popular platforms don't suport your claim.
Are you the "most games have seven levels" faggot?

>>10503205
>disagreeable pendant anon is now projecting past threads onto current ones in the manner of a schizophrenic

Neither my GBA or my brick GB turn on.
I was told all I needed to do was clean the power switch with alcohol, but no luck on either. Any advice?
One of my GBCs also has an issue with the speaker, last I remember trying it.
My old stuff :'(
It's broken

>>10502554
My GBA already has a bright enough screen.

>>10502904
I would buy it, but I'm sure the shipping would be expensive as fuck to my country

I like those new open source motherboards for the GB. All you need is a cpu donor.
Besides their property, their rules

>>10503351
>Yes. You caught me. Again. I coulda just said "No, all zoomies start threads with bullshit statements" But I couldn't just, you know, lie, like I always do. So I had to cope.
This is why I always equip my Disagreeable Pendant. +10 advantage to get zoomers to out themselves.

>>10502996
Man I'd splurge on this I don't even need the everdrive

>>10502574
>Also people needing to have a backlight instead of just using a lamp is very gay.
You're just being a contrarian. Par for the course for this board.

>>10502554
>few remaining original units
Yeah, no. Counting everything from the OG to the GBC, over 118 million units were sold. For the GBA, that number is just over 81 million.
Just over 24 million original Xboxes were sold, and no one cries foul when you mod one of those.

>>10503160
>If you're gonna spend money to produce an inauthentic experience, why not spent $70 on a chinkheld and get a way more versatile inauthentic experience?
Modded consoles are fun. Why do they need to be practical?
>I guess some people think of consoles like toys in themselves, rather than just a means of accessing the content.
Cool, keep playing your bootleg handhelds then, or play your ROMs on your phone.

>>10502554
I don't like this trend at all. There are a ton of emulation handhelds you can play game boy games on, and they don't require sacrificing original hardware.

Depending on my mood I'll use either of those options, but I have no interest and some disdain for these modded game boys.

>>10504179
Get a lamp you fucking fag.

>>10503498
Use 99% isopropyl alcohol. Use a toothbrush on the battery contacts on the back, as well as around and inside the power switch.

>>10503205
You are actually fucking crazy. Go outside.

>>10504438
I already own one. I still think handhelds with unlit screens are bullshit. I got a GBA when it was only a few months old and I was jealous of the other kids who waited until 2003 to get their SPs.

>>10502574
Backlights literally improve every handheld. I'd spend the money on a GBC backlight, if it wasn't for the fact that I have a GBAsp.

>>10504179
>>10504959
>>10504968
>You're just being a contrarian.
>I still think handhelds with unlit screens are bullshit
>Backlights literally improve every handheld.
THIS.

I despise the OG GBA screen even today, I recall owning one while other kids had the GBA SP, DS and DS Lite, and they could ACTUALLY FUCKING SEE what they were playing, or play in the dark... oh, what's that? "You can just use one of those frontlight attachments." I'm sorry, but they still suck, they sucked back then and they suck now, stop pretending as if they were ever a solution.

Game Gear had a backlight in 1990, Nintendo's brand new, next generation GBA, in 2001, not having one was downright pathetic, and fans of Nintendo justifying it even today is ridiculous.

>>10502554
>few remaining original units
How many do you think they made?

>>10505007
Rest assured, there was no thinking involved. OP is an NPC. A small language model bot that rehashes the same talking points over and over.

>>10505294
True, friend. Thanks for the backup clarity.

>>10503056
Yeah those are the worst. I also hate the GBA SP slab conversions, but at least those don't break something that used to work.

>>10502574
>Also people needing to have a backlight instead of just using a lamp is very gay.
Grow up.

>>10502554
I really want to try some out but I don't know how to solder and it seems like a crapshoot which systems and upgrades actually require it.

>>10505452
Grownups have lamps in their houses and don't need LEDs shining into their corneas at all times.

>>10502554
It's the worst of both worlds

>>10505457
Didn't ask.

>>10505457
I distinctively remember struggling to see what I was playing at all on my OG GBA even with lamps at home, or natural sunlight, no matter what, the screen never actually looked good, it just ranged from "Awful" to "Bearable" visibility wise... if you had an OG GBA, you know this to be true, anon...

>>10502554
I wonder if it has to do with the apparent fascination that zoomers seem to have with old handheld game consoles. Something to do with growing up with smartphones, I guess?
Regardless, people can do what they want, though I feel like the original spec display is actually fairly integral to the "authentic" experience, because unlike home game consoles which were hooked up all manner of TVs through different video connections, handheld games were absolutely developed with the standardized displays of the console in mind. Granted, this becomes debatable following the introduction of the Super GB in particular, when you take into account something like Donkey Kong Land which looks like a cluttered, sometimes incomprehensible mess when viewed on an original GB screen.

>>10505570
You're actually right. The original GBA is really damn dark.
The problem is that this has poisoned people's memories of the devices that came before it.
For example the GBC is still perfectly playable with a reasonable amount of ambient lighting.

>>10505570
The reflective, low power screen was the best part of the GBA. Less portable LED lighting options back then, but today you can buy a reading light with both warm/cool LED's and the GBA colors pop.

>>10505626
There are many ways to see the GBA screen clearly, some of you probably lived in a dark cave of a room where it just didn't work out.

>>10505626
I never managed to play on a real GBC or GB/GB Pocket, but from footage I saw online, it always looked way better than the GBA one for me, I'm not sure if it's just the GBA one being darker, or the more detailed graphics making it harder to see on the same style of screen, anyways it does seem that the OG GBA had the worst screen that Nintendo has made, which is a real shame to me.

>>10505636
Don't gaslight people, I didn't live in a dark cave, nor did I only try to play my GBA in only a single place, i've mentioned before that I tried pretty much everything, and even in those few times I'd get the screen to look alright, it was a real pain to keep that position, I couldn't just lay on my bed and relax, nor play in the dark before going to sleep, it was downright uncomfortable, if you liked it then good for you, but you've admitted that it was both low power/ dark and reflective, which maybe is good for you, but for a lot of us it wasn't at all, and it's why many mod the OG GBA.

Of course there were less options back then, but the GBA SP came out only a couple of years later, the Game Boy Light came out a few years before, and other competitors came out in the early 90s with backlit screens, they could've given us a dim light for cheap and it would've been 10x better than nothing, and having a dark screen that's hard to see unless you're in the perfect spot.

>>10505636
why did you choose this hill to die on?

>>10503686
This is interesting. Couldn't we just re-create something that uses off-the-shelf CPUs to create something compatible? Of course it would need a BIOS on a separate SD card, but since we are re-creating a system almost from scratch, we could make it 100% open source.
(And I like things from hobbists more than any corporate stuff)

>>10505636
This is the most ridiculous thing ever posted onto /vr/. Contrarians really don't take a single day off on this site do they?

>>10505663
If you're the guy that called me a contrarian earlier for advocating for lamps, then I think you're a bit too quick to pull that word out.
I conceded that the GBA screen is particularly dark, but I don't think it's contrarian to say that playing the consoles like everyone played them for decades is okay and that people rushing to cut up original hardware to sloppily install a laggy chink screen with other issues may not actually be the best thing to do.
Might be contrarian on reddit where posting a picture of your fat hands holding the fruits of your labor displaying the title screen of a game you'll never play gets you a healthy dose of validation.

>>10506007
>I conceded that the GBA screen is particularly dark, but I don't think it's contrarian to say that playing the consoles like everyone played them for decades is okay and that people rushing to cut up original hardware to sloppily install a laggy chink screen with other issues may not actually be the best thing to do.

NTA but while I agree with you that customization is kind of dumb, no one said that it wasn't okay for you to play these consoles how they used to be, you can do that, it's your console, where people have a problem is how you acted as if everyone should do that, when most people find that screen to be too garbage to play on, even back then, we played like that for decades because it was the only option, not because it was good, the GBA SP was a God sent. Again, if you like it then I'm happy for you, but it's not just a matter of having a lamp or not, anon.

I only emulate GBA nowadays, since pretty much every screen is now backlit, its the standard I always wanted and I'm happy with it, no need to get an old console to mod it just to make it just like the new stuff when the new stuff already exists, it's bad for preservation, but whatever.

>>10506047
>how you acted as if everyone should do that
Literally said people can do what they want with what they own twice in my first post.
>most people find that screen to be too garbage to play on
Once again, I'll give you GBA is unreasonably dark. But the GBC screen is not garbage whatsoever and the Game Boy Pocket screen is perfectly fine to play on. DMGs are a bit rough for action games, but perfectly fine for RPGs.
Ultimately if you don't want the authentic experience I think you should emulate, which is what you said you're doing, so that's good.

>>10506076
>Literally said people can do what they want with what they own twice in my first post.
I see, I apologize then, I think I mistook you for someone else, anon.

>Once again, I'll give you GBA is unreasonably dark. But the GBC screen is not garbage whatsoever and the Game Boy Pocket screen is perfectly fine to play on. DMGs are a bit rough for action games, but perfectly fine for RPGs.
I mean, I'll agree that they're better than GBA, but I personally struggle to play without a backlight, but then again it's a matter of taste and why I stick to emulation and emulation handhelds.

>Ultimately if you don't want the authentic experience I think you should emulate, which is what you said you're doing, so that's good.
I agree, as much as these consoles sold, there's a limited number of them out there, if you're going to play with a brand new and lit screen you might aswell go for an Analogue Pocket or a Miyoo Mini Plus instead, I prefer to keep the real hardware for those that prefer the OG experience from back then.

Speaking of Game Boy screens being too reflective, would it be efficacious to replace the lens, but hit the new one with a coat of matte clear coat? Or would that also dull the visuals too much to be worth it?
I’ll be replacing my GBC lens soon, so maybe I’ll give that a try.

>>10502554
backlight is very welcome; some aesthetic mods are really cool

Then you have meme mods for virality purposes and many downright cringe conceptual ones. I'll never be okay with fags destroying gear for fucking upboats

>>10502554
I'm torn on this GBA mod, on one hand it gets rid of one of the most important aspects of the GBA SP, the hinge design that makes it more compact on the pocket and protects the screen... but it's a nod to the older GB/GB Pocket and GBC designs, so it's charming too. I guess it's fine if your hinge is broken or something, though it could be fixed, but then again, if it's your console, do whatever.

>>10507614
This is reaching some Doctor Moreau/Frankenstein or whatever levels. "Lets put the brain of a goose on a monkey mwahaha" Seems so out there to remove the ability of the GBA SP to fold.
And the look of the old Pocket isn't that well achieved so it's some kind of monster anyways
At this point it feels better to just buy whatever chinese handheld and put games in there, the emulation is getting to a level that nobody normal can notice it's not the actual cart.
Unless you really want to play Boktai or something.

I'm gonna be honest guys, I love handhelds, but these days I rarely have the opportunity to use them. When I was a kid, I'd bring my gameboy in the car, or to other places where I'd have free time not at home.
Now, I'm either busy doing something, or I'm at home. The few free moments that I have to spare while I'm out are usually consumed by my phone, and wouldn't be long enough to play a game anyways. It's just hard to justify carrying around a handheld.

For me at least, I'd rather just play on a TV using a game boy player or other method.

>>10505007
How many do you think are in landfills across the globe?

>>10508234
How many do *you* think there are? Like people throw away electronics like cups or something.

>>10508254
they do. t. trash slinger

>>10508254
i know i threw my childhood nes in the trash as a kid just because someone wrote graffiti on it...

>>10508270
>>10508272

>>10502554
They did enhance the experience for me, I was able to actually bring my DMG out with me and play it, for most games it is so much clearer. For some games they do erode the nostalgia factor so it would be important to keep half the screens original, Aladdin in particular looks much better on the original screen but there are many more games that look better with new screens.

>>10504996
I never liked it, even the sp had too much of a blue tint. New screen is way better for sp but make sure to get a good one. The first one I got has screen tearing.

I had a gamegear with a new screen but I could never be happy playing it because the uneven pixels would cause flashing when scrolling, I'm hoping for a good screen to come out.

>>10502938
I started with bi vert and was very happy for many years with it. You still keep a lot of the character of the original screen but it is so easy to ruin the screen, mine turned out ok but it still has a little of the residue left. I actually did ruin a gb pocket screen by pulling on the ribbon cable, I barely pulled on it. The ips screens are so much safer but the gb pocket has a sort of pencil drawn look to it that can really look great on some games.

>>10502904
most people are looking for the lowest price
you shouldn't sell the everdrive and the gameboy together