/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7076453]

Why are zoomers so obsessed with modding Gameboys and adding backlit screens? Part of the appeal of these bricks is their battery life, adding in a backlight defeats the whole purpose of a Gameboy

[Anonymous No.7076461]

>>7076453
I'm in the camp of leaving regular gameboys alone unless you want that classic experience.
Otherwise, get an SP or mod an OG GBA.

[Anonymous No.7076502]

>>7076453
The CPU is too outdated and inefficient for today's standards anyway. I wish someone could just replicate the hardware but with modern technology. Arduino is like 4 times more powerful and it lasts for months on a small battery.

[Anonymous No.7076516]

>>7076453
hardware mods are fun thats why

[Anonymous No.7076521]

>>7076502
i'd like to see drop in replacements for old components that lower power consumption and enhance things

[Anonymous No.7076529]

I fucking hated those dim gameboy screens. What's so appealing about that?

[Anonymous No.7076536]

>>7076453
To make them playable

[Anonymous No.7076541]

>>7076453
youtube told them it was cool

[Anonymous No.7076545]

>>7076453
zoomer feel the need to mod everything because its "aged" and unplayable to them

[Anonymous No.7076551]

>>7076529
I had a Game Gear too growing up and I can tell you I used the Gameboy far more

[Anonymous No.7076556]

>>7076453
Zoomer care about gameboys? They cant run fortnight so what good are they?

[Anonymous No.7076567]

>>7076502
it's called the analogue pocket

[Anonymous No.7076625]

>>7076567
>6-10 hours on a 4300 mah battery
What the fuck is this shit? Even some random chink emulator is better than this???

[Anonymous No.7076639]

>>7076453
The battery life is actually better with an IPS mod.

[Anonymous No.7076646]

Will there even be any original Game Boys left soon at the rate they're going?

[Anonymous No.7076673]

>>7076453
Because they're retards that don't know that Nintendo made a backlit Gameboy back in the day.

[Anonymous No.7076689]

>>7076453
In this day and age there should be built in USB charger hacks for it.

[Anonymous No.7076723]

>>7076646
The hardware that matters is still original. I'm an anti-mod autist, but these new GB mods don't trigger me because they don't ruin the original screen, just remove it.

[Anonymous No.7076739]

I don't see the appeal in playing a gameboy now, it was so common I'd rather emulate. I could however see the appeal in having one of these physically. Basically your own little handheld gaming experience in your pocket.

[Anonymous No.7076791]

>>7076453
because they like it, doomer nostalgiafag

[Anonymous No.7076825]

Because of a few reasons.
>The original screen is utter dogshit and ghosts
>It's fun to mod
>No need to use a lamp to see the screen
>Reversible because modern screen mods can be swapped out.
Unless you're a nostalgia fag, there's no reason to care about shit like that.

[Anonymous No.7076839]

>>7076825
in that case just emulate it dumbass

[Anonymous No.7076841]

>>7076453
My backlit DMG still gets wtfyuge amounts of battery life. I wish I'd gotten the back light in peasoup green.
t. milennial who hated not having a backlight

[Anonymous No.7076869]

>>7076453
>Why are zoomers so obsessed with modding Gameboys and adding backlit screens?
people who fell for the original hardware meme.

[Anonymous No.7076878]

>>7076453
Backlights barely affect battery life, which has been proven time and time again.
Backlights and biverts are THE way to go with DMGs. They become so much more comfy. Just keep to an olive screen light if you want to retain the original look or go neutral white and get to see what the pixels actually look like. No meme colours and shit.

But you're probably just jealous because you're either too retarded to do this very simple mod or too poor to buy one.

[Anonymous No.7076885]

>>7076878
I'd be fine with the backlight if it used a separate battery.

[Anonymous No.7076907]

>>7076453
well some folks want a tricked out GB, other folks use it for other reasons. For a while it was really popular to use GB tracker music in production, and even live shows, and with how dark shit is in the average music venue, you can't realistically use a standard GB screen effectively.

[Anonymous No.7076912]

>>7076739
still don't get why the ones that bought SNK told them to make casino games for the console. You kind of knew the writing was on the wall at that point though.

I had an NGPC back in the day, it was a fun handheld. Can't believe how expensive they are now, they're good but not that good.

[Anonymous No.7076914]

>>7076839
but what if the only thing you dislike about your GB is the screen?

[Anonymous No.7076916]

>>7076453
They want to feel "cool" for playing old stuff but don't want the downsides. These days I just play my SP for every Game Boy game

[Anonymous No.7076917]

>>7076453
So you can fucking see better.
3/10

[Father Electronics Couture No.7076963]

>Drop-in back-lit screens
>USB rechargeable battery replacements
>Full emulator swaps
Literally every mod people in this thread are wishing they made, they make.

[Anonymous No.7076983]

>>7076885
The difference in life is literally minutes you autistic fuck.

[Anonymous No.7077094]

>>7076963
I don't understand the appeal of USB rechargeable batteries, why replace perfectly good AAs with random-ass proprietary china miracles?

[Anonymous No.7077108]

>>7076453
love my gooby boy

[Anonymous No.7077132]

>>7076916
I use my DMGs predominantly but for some games that test my patience I just switch over to the SP. That's how I finally beat Double Dragon 3 and Tetris game B recently

[Anonymous No.7077156]

>>7076625
with that screen and that level of accuracy? no way

[Anonymous No.7077175]

>>7077156
If it was accurate then how come is the battery life worse than the original hardware?

[Anonymous No.7077213]

>>7077175
are you retarded
emulation accuracy is extremely computationally expensive

[Anonymous No.7077247]

The Gameboy Light is overpriced. It's more cost efficient to add a teal back light and it still works with my hyperboy.

[Anonymous No.7077340]

>>7076453
Why can’t you afford a backlight? They don’t cost much, stop seething.

[Anonymous No.7077589]

>>7076453
You know >>7077108
I'm with you, I love my GB as well. There's something about it's aesthrtics that appeal to the senses. The wide availability of parts and games that give it such variety in style make it an absolute joy to play. It's not something you binge like a hardcore rpg or competative fps. It's resembles casual gameplay, yet the titles available offer a depth of challenge that any experienced user could appreciate. Try the shmups of the system for instance. Better yet, it's easy to play these same games on the tv with a GBA player, which can be activated using Swiss. Why mod games at all? Why not play your games in more comfort and pleasure, secure in the symbolic representation that it's yours? Your own "custom" system. And theyre quiet cheap to customize and fix up with only an online tutorial, compared to 'gamer machines' like a pc, or even a console. I don't own a ps4, and I'm not getting a ps5.

A Zoom zoom indeed daddy-o

[Anonymous No.7077817]

>>7076453
It's fun. I like having fun.

[Anonymous No.7078178]

>>7076453
They're quite nice to use with the backlight/bivert modification. I did these two. A screen you can actually see and a form-factor suitable for adult-sized hands.

[Anonymous No.7078705]

>>7076453
Buy a gameboy light already

[Anonymous No.7078761]

>>7077213
it ain't even emulated it's hardware replicated. The screennjust has a backlight and does hella other things. It's s pretty good

[Anonymous No.7078792]

Considering Nintendo literally made a version with a backlight I'd say it's fine to do with og models

[Anonymous No.7078806]

>>7076912
Simply scalpers.

[Anonymous No.7078810]

>>7078761
if its hardware replicated then why is the battery life so awful?

[Anonymous No.7078930]

>>7076453
Did you have a OG gameboy back in the day? I think I wear glasses today from straining to play it wile riding in the car in the dark, fucking stoplights were a godsend.

[Anonymous No.7078946]

>>7078930
I distinctly remember a trip to a relative's house in the middle of a blizzard going up a mountain where there was so much snow that the car's own headlights were enough to play games off of.

[Anonymous No.7078958]

>>7076453
What are you talking about? modding have always been a thin in GBA. Remember afterburner? yea, i dont think you do ZOOMER.

[Anonymous No.7078959]

>>7078946
Lucky bastard

[Anonymous No.7079089]

The screen was fine growing up but now it really strains my eyes, it's bad enough that I'd rather just emulate to save what's left of my vision
>tfw I was too poor for a GBA or SP growing up
>tfw OG Gameboy helped in part to ruin my vision

[Anonymous No.7079595]

>>7076453
because it's incredibly easy to do now, did you ever have a game boy? You'd put up with the lack of lighting, find a spot in the house where the lightings right or get a worm light. It's a good way to play the library a bit easier. Also pic related is 100% reversible.

[Anonymous No.7079631]

>>7078810
because it does things on top of what the original did and it had a modern chip, it's called fpga.

[Anonymous No.7080851]

I got around to modding a game boy color isp mod, the one that doesn't require you to mutilate your case.
I 100% recommend doing it, being able to see all the time makes gameplay much better.
Do yourself a favor and remove the touch sensors though, they fucking blow and I hate how they block the ir port.

[Anonymous No.7080998]

>>7076673
Gameboys didn't have illuminated screens until the Advance SP released in the early 2000s.
>b-but muh gameboy light
Was only released in Japan. Before you were born. You didn't know about it. You didn't have one.

[Anonymous No.7081203]

>>7076689
There are, and they're USB-C.
>>7076839
The point of a gameboy is to play it anywhere. Sure, there's the chink devices that emulate, but they tend to be shit and have less battery life.
>>7076916
>I just play my SP for every Game Boy game
Same. And with a flashcart you can also play translated and rom hacks. I just started Pokémon Clover.
>>7078930
>fucking stoplights were a godsend
I just got a flashback of something I didn't remember. When I got the SP it was so good...
>>7078958
>modding have always been a thin in GBA
Yeah, but recently there's so many of them that it's impossible to buy a gameboy for cheap.

[dreamcast mini No.7081309]

>>7076453
It still lasts at least 4 hours with recharables which is not much different than lynx and game gear. The game fills out the border unlike if you play on a gba or psp. Before you would have to angle the light perfectly, gets real annoying after 5 minutes. Its the best way to play these games, they look like crap if you try to play them on anything else.

[Anonymous No.7081512]

The appeal is playing the games, retard.

[Anonymous No.7081776]

>>7079631
>needing fpga to emulate gameboy games
Literally why.

[Anonymous No.7081889]

>>7077817
what are you doing on /vr/ then

[Anonymous No.7081893]

>>7081889
>why are attention whores attention whores

[Anonymous No.7081894]

>>7076453
>what is the Gameboy Light
Clearly Nintendo experimented with the better screen and *probably* would have liked all their Gameboys to have it if they could have.

[Anonymous No.7081940]

It's what your autistic brain had to deal with, and now you're whining cause people can get what you never had.

[Anonymous No.7081979]

>>7076453
Modern IPS screens are actually pretty power efficient.

[Anonymous No.7081996]

>>7076453
I drop modern backlit replacement screens into any gameboy that comes through my shop with a cooked screen. There's no reason to waste time and money hunting down broken gameboys with working screens when those screens are just as fucking old.

[Anonymous No.7082173]

>>7081776
Because software emulation is shit for games that pushed the boundaries. Pokémon Crystal on a GBA flashcard is glitchy af, for example. You need a GB flashcart because that way an emulator won't be used.
>>7081979
OLED for maximum power efficiency when?

[Anonymous No.7082624]

It’s fun to tinker

[Anonymous No.7083026]

>>7076639
No

[Anonymous No.7083068]

>how DARE people do what they want with the things they bought

[Anonymous No.7083149]

>>7082624
Those are hideous

[Anonymous No.7083779]

>>7083068
You’re a selfish retarded faggot.

[Anonymous No.7083789]

>>7083779
>it's somehow selfish to do what you like with what things you've bought
>telling others what they can do with their stuff isn't though :^)

[Anonymous No.7083815]

>>7076453
cause back then we had mercury or nickel cadium batteries,now we have lithium ion which last for ages so it can warrant a backlit screen now,stay mad zoomcuck

[Anonymous No.7083873]

>>7083789
eat my inormes dick you gaycel your destroying history for you own sellfish reason and i will make you fucking pay for it

[Anonymous No.7083881]

>>7083873
>your destroying history
How is replacing a screen and cleaning everything destroying history?

[Anonymous No.7083924]

>>7076825
>Reversible
Unless you cut all the plastic in the inside for the retarded screen

[Anonymous No.7083972]

>>7083924
>Unless you cut all the plastic in the inside for the retarded screen
You usually only have to do that with chink replicas.

[Anonymous No.7084014]

>captures the specific touch nostalgia of holding a Game Boy Color
>modifying the console as a hobby for modifying a product with sautering tools and black and decker stuff so you feel manly while doing it
>creating something unique you can hold in your hands
I mean, this is just my perspective as a literal 30 year old but whatever, maybe zoomers want a nostalgia + feeling or something, want to experience something in a new way that most people don't know about.

[Anonymous No.7084125]

>>7083149
Well at least they match now

[Anonymous No.7084189]

>>7076453
SGB2 + CRT = Perfection

[Anonymous No.7084523]

>>7083789
You’re a selfish retarded faggot.

[Anonymous No.7085000]

>>7083873
>Replacing my gameboy screen is destroying history even though they are mass produced
It’s not like there are only 1000 gameboys, grow up

[Anonymous No.7085002]

>>7082624
Holy fuck those are ugly. is that glow in the dark or green or clear but the power led is somehow strong as fuck and making the entire thing throw-up green?

[Anonymous No.7085023]

>>7076453
It's almost like they're too young to be sentimentally attached to worse performing technology.
Since you're somebody who grew up with the Game Boy presumably, this would be like older people who grew up with Atari yelling at you for using a Genesis controller instead of the shitty Atari joystick that you had no personal connection with anyway.

[Anonymous No.7085114]

>>7085002
It’s just glow in the dark supercharged by a black light

[Anonymous No.7085195]

>>7081203
It's mostly why I hacked my 3DS.
I remember in highschool I carried around a GB pocket even when the DS was the thing because I still had shitloads of gameboy games. I picked up the pocket at a thrift store for like $5 and I wouldn't have been more upset that someone had stolen than because I lost the money.

Nowadays I'm more careful with my stuff so I can take my 3DS places. I emulate the old stuff because it's easier than carrying it around (admittedly I could get a flashcart) I get the form factor argument but that's why I'm using a 3DSXL

[Anonymous No.7085493]

>>7078178
these things cost far more than an 'aio' emulation device, and even more if you buy a modded one. for the price of a modded one, you could get a new 3ds xl, or one of them fancy pi based ones, which can play just about everything (including gameboy)

[Anonymous No.7085528]

>>7085114
is there a flash game emulator for gba now?

[Anonymous No.7085958]

>>7085114
What about those rubber dots that go over the screws? Doesn't your game make an uncomfortable 'clack' when you close it?

[Anonymous No.7086098]

>>7085958
I didn't want to put those in until I was sure everything was running smoothly

[Anonymous No.7086151]

>>7085493
I also have a 3DS XL. It's not as comfortable to hold as the old DMG. I also have an Analogue Pocket on pre-order, which I'm hoping will be similarly comfortable to use.

[Anonymous No.7086380]

>>7085528
That’s just a side effect from the fact that the pixels are twice as small

[Anonymous No.7086765]

>>7076453
>zoomers
I remember backlit game boys being a thing in the early 2000s. What are you on about?

[Anonymous No.7086783]

>>7083873
>destroying history
It's a child's plaything

[Anonymous No.7086938]

>>7086765
They're probably concerend that the technology has advanced beyond simply putting an led panel behind the original screens and into putting an entirely new screen harvested out of a smart phone of some sort into them.