NRP88 t1_iwjbtcy wrote
Reply to comment by gochesse in Hobbyist adds a hinge to the Game Boy Pocket, delighting everyone | No, it's not a Game Boy Advance SP. This is the monochrome Pocket with hinge. by chrisdh79
Because the GBA/SP has automatic colorization for original GB games. Fans of the original GB prefer the game remain monochrome.
xyifer12 t1_iwjubcj wrote
You can skip the colorization, it's optional on GBA. Playing GB games in monochrome has always been possible.
grundlebuster t1_iwk27h2 wrote
how... How do you change it? I tried holding buttons on launch
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.
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
nephelokokkygia t1_iwkcxmk wrote
Alternate symbols because the directions showed up as rectangles on my phone:
| PRESS | COLOUR |
|---|---|
| â–² | Brown |
| ▲+🅰 | Red |
| ▲+🅱 | Dark Brown |
| â–¼ | Pastel Mix |
| ▼+🅰 | Orange |
| ▼+🅱 | Yellow |
| â—€ | Blue |
| ◀+🅰 | Dark Blue |
| ◀+🅱 | Gray/Monochrome |
| â–¶ | Green |
| ▶+🅰 | Dark Green |
| ▶+🅱 | Inverted/Reverse |
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?
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
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Be huge
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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.
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.
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
beatenwithjoy t1_iwk7rjw wrote
I remember making Pokemon Red have a negative pallette, it was pretty cool.
phayke2 t1_iwkyds2 wrote
I imagine it would look like Omari or something
2020pythonchallenge t1_iwlbcef wrote
Welp, bout to fire up blue version and let you know.
beatenwithjoy t1_iwlcc70 wrote
Iirc its right+b to reverse the colors
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.
gochesse t1_iwjbz7i wrote
Oh cool TIL
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?
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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