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gochesse t1_iwjari8 wrote

Why not just use an advance sp tho in that case? I’m not sure I understand why

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double_turd t1_iwk0m30 wrote

DELIGHTING EVERYONE

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TiredgeekTG t1_iwk3yvh wrote

Yo we gotta DELIGHT

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Peace-D t1_iwkeg9b wrote

DELIGHT in the sense of removing the light!

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GoldenWizard t1_iwl1hy2 wrote

Everyone is delighted! If you say you’re not delighted then you’re a liar!

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NRP88 t1_iwjbtcy wrote

Because the GBA/SP has automatic colorization for original GB games. Fans of the original GB prefer the game remain monochrome.

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xyifer12 t1_iwjubcj wrote

You can skip the colorization, it's optional on GBA. Playing GB games in monochrome has always been possible.

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grundlebuster t1_iwk27h2 wrote

how... How do you change it? I tried holding buttons on launch

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i5-2520M t1_iwk2yvx wrote

You have to hold the dpad and AB while the gb color logo is up there is a grey monochrome palette.

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I_Do_Not_Abbreviate t1_iwk9kko wrote

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PRESS COLOUR
🡹 Brown
🡹+A Red
🡹+B Dark Brown
🡻 Pastel Mix
🡻+A Orange
🡻+B Yellow
🡰 Blue
🡰+A Dark Blue
🡰+B Gray/Monochrome
🡲 Green
🡲+A Dark Green
🡲+B Inverted/Reverse

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/299717/Nintendo-Game-Boy-Advance-Sp.html?page=2#manual

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nephelokokkygia t1_iwkcxmk wrote

Alternate symbols because the directions showed up as rectangles on my phone:

PRESS COLOUR
▲ Brown
▲+🅰 Red
▲+🅱 Dark Brown
▼ Pastel Mix
▼+🅰 Orange
▼+🅱 Yellow
◀ Blue
◀+🅰 Dark Blue
◀+🅱 Gray/Monochrome
▶ Green
▶+🅰 Dark Green
▶+🅱 Inverted/Reverse
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low-ki199999 t1_iwl6jn5 wrote

This was helpful! Not that I’m going to be booting up a gba anytime soon haha, but the symbols were also rectangles for me.

Out of curiosity, can you explain what they typed and what you typed and why one works in my phone and one doesn’t?

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nephelokokkygia t1_iwldnk9 wrote

Generally speaking, text online is encoded in a giant huge enormous standard called Unicode. Unicode is cool because it definitionally encodes every possible character in every language in one standard. Uni = single, code = code. However, Unicode is not quite so cool because to do this, it needs to

  1. Be huge

  2. Get updates from time to time to add new characters people might want to encode

The person I replied to probably copy+pasted the best-looking arrows they saw off some webpage online. This would have been fine, except that the arrows they happened to choose were relatively new to Unicode (from 2014), with relatively little support in fonts. That, by the way, is the other, other issue with Unicode — just because it theoretically supports a character, doesn't mean the specific font you're using on your computer/phone/smart fridge does too. Your font could have been created before the character was added to Unicode, or you could be using a version of the font released before that character was added, or the font creator might just not care about that random arrow you want to stare at with your eyes. So, to support more devices, I chose old symbols for the arrows (technically not even arrows in my case, they're just triangles — from all the way back in 1993!) and old emoji for the A and B (because most devices these days support emoji and I thought they looked neat here). Fun bonus fact, those A and B symbols aren't even designed to represent buttons — they're for blood type, which Japanese people (Japan being the origin of emoji) have historically been obsessed with. It's kind of like the Chinese zodiac, or star signs. But I digress.

This is probably more info than you wanted, but sometimes answers just be like that.

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low-ki199999 t1_iwlekin wrote

Ahaha definitely more info than I expected to receive, but all of it interesting, especially the bit about the cultural fascination with blood types. That’s super interesting, as it represents an interesting blend of superstitions and modern science/tech, which I’d have to imagine is a pretty specific combination to Japanese culture. It makes sense that some cultures would look at blood types like horoscopes or whatever, I’d just never seen it come up before.

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EvengerX t1_iwk30ts wrote

Non-color GBA games can have their pallette swapped by holding A or B and pressing a D-Pad direction. One of these is a monochrome pallette

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beatenwithjoy t1_iwk7rjw wrote

I remember making Pokemon Red have a negative pallette, it was pretty cool.

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phayke2 t1_iwkyds2 wrote

I imagine it would look like Omari or something

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asdaaaaaaaa t1_iwpje4z wrote

Press D-pad and other buttons when it's launching. IIRC you hold certain buttons and press D-pad for different options. So just pressing "left" on the D-pad will give you a different result than holding "B" and pressing "left". Just from memory, so could be wrong on the specifics.

The screen will instantly change to whatever filter you want. It was pretty cool when I randomly discovered this, a bunch of kids got confused and thought scratching the IR cover did it somehow.

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WhydYouKillMeDogJack t1_iwk2c7a wrote

They're anal enough to object to the colour but would be ok with a hing in the middle of the GB?

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sigh_riss t1_iwl4i72 wrote

It's been a while, but weren't gb games displayed as black and white by default and the colorization was only done when you held the buttons?
I only had the original gba, did they change it for the gba-sp?

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Sufficient-Crab-1982 t1_iwk498k wrote

Its a cool/fun project for people to do, i mean why does anyone do one of those lit screen mods for game boys. Why dont they just play on a ds or gameboy advance, its because its fun and cool.

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2eanimation t1_iwl0nwd wrote

> its because its fun and cool

Yes, but there is more! Different GameBoys have different sound chips, which is why some musicians(Chiptune) insist on using the original DMG over a modern GB for the OG sound.

LSDJ, Nanoloop and Chiptune for more information :)

Edit: also this old masterpiece to understand why screen modding is important

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Hasky620 t1_iwlwgzb wrote

Could you not switch the sound chips then? Instead of using the otherwise worse machine?

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2eanimation t1_iwm43xt wrote

I just read up on that a little and as far as I can tell it is either not possible at all or requires lots of modifications besides switching the chips. I couldn’t find a single article so my assumptions are based on the looks of internals. The first backlit GB is the GB Advance SP(I think?) whose internals are far more sophisticated than those of older GBs(especially GBC and DMG). The chips themselves seem to have more pins / chip and are smaller overall.

I also learned that some chiptuners prefer the GBC despite a somewhat worse sound quality as it is more crash-resistant when playing complicated songs. None of them have mentioned a chip switch as the ultimate solution. So I guess that confirms my assumptions.

Regarding your second sentence… other than a backlit panel(which can be added), there is not much to call „worse“ in older machines, at least regarding music production. They are thicker, comparing the size to other DJ equipment, even the DMG looks rather small, shouldn’t be a problem. Batteries can be changed to rechargeable ones, there are mods which make it possible to charge your GB with USB C. The only issue I can see is screen size, but that’s something a musician can live with I think. My stepdad plays Tetris on his DMG while taking no 2 in spite of bad eyesight lol

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Miguelonchox t1_iwk0984 wrote

The screen has a different aspect ratio and thus has black bars in the sides when playing game boy games. Also Game Boy cartridges stick out quite a bit because Game boy Advance cartridges are smaller.

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OwyJoey t1_iwkesk6 wrote

It would have been better to Redesign the sp, so the old cardridges won‘t Stick out

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045675327 t1_iwm6g07 wrote

Add a hinge to a device that already has a hinge?

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1080Pizza t1_iwkeqnx wrote

Because now you should still have a headphone jack

Or maybe not.

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