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Game Boy Colors are pretty reviled in the chiptune community due to the poor sound. The original model is preferred, but failing that, anything else (including GBA) is better than a GBC. They've developed an enhanced sound mod for the GBC, but I can vouch for the fact that even with the mod, it still doesn't sound as good.Quote:
Originally Posted by kool kitty89
What in particular is bad? Is it a problem with the amps like bad MDs? (straining/distorted audio, or hiss -I've never noticed a significant hiss, and don't recall distortion, but I'm not sure I ever played that close attention with the GBC)Quote:
Originally Posted by j_factor
Newest episode:
Not the most exciting episode ever, but still great. I lol'd hard at the part about Dave and the "Ointment".:)
Turning down the volume for MK was a nice touch :D
As I said in the other thread, the original Game Boy's manual says that it should get 35 hours of battery life for a reason -- it gets ~35 hours of battery life. Not 5-8, not 15, 35+. See my post in the other thread though.
The GBC and GBA are the ones that might be able to get 15 (10-12 is the estimate, better with better batteries). The original GB can do more than twice what either of them can.
Oh, and as for controls, the original GB has the best d-pad and buttons. They're big, comfortable, and well designed. It has the worst screen though, that blurry thing is hard to make out sometimes...
Huh, you think? My experience is different, my original GB's screen isn't too badly scratched, but my GBC and GBA both got bad scratches. However, there is a whole bunch of stuff stuck under the original GB screen, which makes that blurry screen even harder to see, and is a real pain...Quote:
On another note: is the GBP/GBC/GBA screen more scratch-resistant than the brick's? It seems like the brick got scratched up a lot more easily. (mine has quite a lot of fine scratches vs almost none on the GBC and GBA which my little brother abused -especially the latter, which has much of the paint waring off and the battery door broken)
For battery life, obviously. And it's a very good reason.Quote:
I've seen a few topics on this, but it seemed like there weren't many successful backlight mods for the GBA (frontlighting being somewhat successful). The Game Gear and Nomad are far more straightforward as they were designed for backlighting already. (and lynx for that matter)
Actually, I wonder why Nintendo didn't at least offer basic diffuse frontlighting on the GBC (or at least on higher-end models), or for that matter on the older GBs. (with the B/W stuff, even cheap red LEDs would have been relatively effective -since it's monochrome anyway, which is very important since red LEDs were the only common/affordable ones in the early 90s -and even significant for the mid 90s -hence why the virtual boy was all red)
That wouldn't have been a problem in the context I listed . . . I was mainly talking about SP style side/frontlighting using LEDs+diffusers. (with the option to turn the light off -unlike true backlit screens which couldn't work without the light)Quote:
Originally Posted by A Black Falcon
Albeit, prior to the end of the 90s, white LEDs were really expensive (and basically non-existent at the beginning of the 90s), but for the grayscale models, generic red LEDs should have been quite usable. (and certainly much more convenient than the external lighting options)
There's the separate issue of true backlighting (at the expense of bulk and/or battery life), but that could have been a really nice option to cater to a "deluxe" market, or people who simply found the GB's unlit screen totally unacceptable. (and I have seen that quite often as the primary turn off over the GG or Lynx -not the color, not the graphics, but the hard to see screen that made games virtually unplayable -or at least no fun- for them)
That was fun! I agree with your choices. Hope to hear about more games you don't wanna talk about. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Redifer
I'll be honest here, I'm looking forward to the Halloween themed episode more, though this installment was pretty amusing to watch too. The others have already pointed out the funniest touches. :)
Originally we had planned to skip this week. But rather than do that, we thought we'd put together a short one. Also, I wanted to get Mortal Kombat out of the way.
I like how the random games you don't want to talk about were all Genesis games.
Well, not completely, they specifically mentioned Madden on the 3DO and made up excuses for a lack of SNES representation. :p
I actually LOL'd at work @ the "Mortal Kombat!" insertion. Nice job.
You forgot the SNES Madden & the MK Games
LOL. Me thinks you need to rewatch the episode.