/vr/ - Retro Games

It added SOUL

It added SOUP

Like all handheld retro consoles, it's better to play in a way that lets you use a real controller, either emulation or SGB. And no one who actually grew up with or played the original grey brick GB ever liked the greenscale screen and how hard it was to get just the right lighting and angle to make everything visible.

Only downside with the green is that you basically have to be under light to see anything. Like nowadays there are mods or addons that make it so you can see the screen even in a dark room but a gameboy by itself caused a ton of issues for me just due to how dark the screen was.

>>6034852
It was actually the coolest thing about the original Gameboy.

It was shit and as soon as the Color came out I couldn't have gotten rid of the old brick faster. not having to fiddle with an almost useless contrast knob was amazing.

>>6034906
What the fuck I didn't even know there was a knob

>>6034906
>>6034909
>What the fuck I didn't even know there was a knob
Same, >>6034897 speaking and honestly that might been my issue unless it is as useless as you claim. For all I know my dumbass kid self could had put it on the darkest setting though.

>>6034878
unironically, it adds a lot of nostalgia

>>6034909
It was a wheel, one of the two on the GB. The other controlled volume, and the contrast wheel was clearly labeled. It was only good for getting it to the clearest it could be, then leaving it the hell alone.

In retrospect yes it did add a certain something, but back then everyone was dying for a better screen

Is this really what it looked like?

>>6034925
Yes. It was shit and hard to look at.

>>6034852
Nothing, other than it would have been a hell of lot better than looking at a red screen. I've seen mods. It's horrible. Blue actually isn't too bad.

>>6034925
pocket lcd

I bought a Backlight kit + Bivert Chip for the Gameboy DMG for around 10$

Sadly I still need a cheap gameboy to test it

>>6034925
yes and also imagine an absurd amount of ghosting when anything moves

It added some unusual character. I don't know that that's a good thing. It doesn't really matter.

A green background doesn't make the picture dim or severely reduce its contrast. I don't know why people keep talking about those problems in this thread. Those were the real problems, plus the fact that it was a monochrome display. And they were obviously very big problems.

The fact that this monochrome screen's "white" was actually green, though, wasn't really a big deal one way or the other.

A lot of charm and soul, I love green DMGs in general. Be it Game Boy, synthesizers, modulars, etc.

>>6034910
The darkest setting makes the entire screen black
The lightest setting makes the entire screen blank
It was fucking USELESS.

>>6034925
yes, sometimes better if you had sunlight or a really bright lamp

>>6034925
Yes

>>6034925
>>6035103
>>6035112
>that dot matrix sexiness

I took the screen cover off and used flash. The screen doesn't like it much, but it looked better than without flash.

Soak in that dot matrix goodness.

>>6035170
Nice, careful not to get dust in there anon!

>>6034852
Yes. I unironically feel it is essential to the aesthetic of original GameBoy games and, as such, is my preferred GB playing device.

is there an emualtor filter that captures it perfectly?

>>6035438
No

>>6035170
I loved this game.

>>6034925
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9So0Ms3ts4

even Retroarch's shader can't capture the pure blurriness SOUL you get on the actual gameboy.

>>6035473
>blurriness
Wow, please be joking. Please tell me you know that's from the youtube video.

I had a gameboy pocket and honestly I like normal black and white look more

>>6035485
You kidding? I whipped out my Game Boy right now and it's the same.

>>6035495
So did literally fucking everyone else. Anyone who says they like the green is a fart sucker.

>>6035513
>I whipped out my Game Boy right now and it's the same.
The fact you had to pretend to take your gameboy out to check is kind of sad. That's something that doesn't need checking if you actually owned one.

>>6035523
Eat shit, troll. I literally posted a screenshot above.

>>6035513
what's with the green hate?

>>6034852
>green tint

it was clearly yellowish according to the advertisement art

>>6035792
Yellow tint confirmed

>meanwhile in reality

It added SAUL

>>6035473
What if I run it on an e-ink screen?

>>6035792
Is there a higher resolution version of this or related marketing art?

>>6035825
best I could find

>>6035837
I want that to be a retroarch shader

Nah, the games look better in black and gray on the Gameboy mini. The green just makes you want to vomit.

Added lore. Gameboy games take place in piss world

>>6034852
I guess it added battery life, also SOWLE

>>6035473
>Literally everything in the game is Alucard from Symphony of the Night

>>6035837
Would it have been better as yellow rather than green?

>>6034879
based

>>6035837

They had Tetris on GameBoy?

>>6037474
was never actually released

>>6036523
>I guess it added battery life
Pretty much. It was green because of cost reasons. Cheaper screen, better battery life, so if it weren't for that decision the Gameboy probably wouldn't have sold as much as it did, and who knows if Nintendo would have continued that gimmick if it had failed

>>6035837
FALSE ADVERTISING

IF NINTENDO DID THIS TODAY THEY'D BE SUED INTO BANKRUPTCY

>>6037474
Oh I don't know it only sold 35+ million copies

>>6036303
Find me a clearer photo/scan and I'll make it happen. I can't tell if that's even a star field in the background or just pure black with a bunch of lint and smudges. The blue letters spelling out GAME BOY have the same shit so I'm leaning towards lint.

>>6035809
Thats not a bad idea. It would still probably be crisper and lack the shadowing but I think it would look quite nice.

>>6035473
technically the "retroarch shader" is a 4chan shader, it was devved on /emugen/

>>6037487
Nope. In fact, I remember seeing copies of the game in Woolworths when the Mario Land bundle was released in the early '90's. For some reason, images of the box aren't showing up in searches, so you'll have to take my word for it. There is this (pictured), though.

>>6037487
Yes it was. I have it

>>6034852
See nothing

>>6035121
with stereo sound!

>>6035071
Feels good, man

>>6041227
noice

but in all seriousness. Is the screen blur on the fat Gameboys really that bad?

>>6042046
Yeah

DUDE
PUKE GREEN

>>6034852
Always preferred the pocket. Much better screen and less of a house brick.