Thread 11944626

What are the best experiences you can get on this thing?
And I'm talking about on an actual pea-green ghosting DMG screen too, there are lots of games that you can only play on a pocket or better

I'd argue Donkey Kong '94 plays into the strengths of the system more than any other

Some games used the ghosting for transparency effects.

>>11944626 (OP)
Pokemon

>>11944635
interesting. any good examples?

>>11944626 (OP)
Tetris

Link's Awakening

>>11944626 (OP)
I like Catrap and Avenging Spirit.

I got a DMG gameboy with a few problems, but i managed to fix most of them cleaning and resoldering some points on the PCB. But the screen still has a dead vertical line.
And i have to say: the original screen is fucking terrible. Like its only acceptable from a nostalgic value, because you cant see shit on it.
My problem is that not only if you want to replace the screen, you also have to replace the power board, and those 2 things are above 60-70USD together. And i will be stuck only to play GB games. Damn.

>>11944992
To fix the vertical lines heat up the ribbon cable directly below the screen where the lines are with a soldering iron. You can do it while the screen is on to see live if it's working.

>>11945030

yeah, i tried that but i got no results. Probably if i did it harder i might be able to fix, but at this point im just happy that the console even turns on. I will probably just replace the screen eventually.

>>11945091
Bivert + backlight eliminates all screen problems and it saves you from being a basedjak who guts the og hardware for an inauthentic chinkshit display with the wrong aspect ratio

>>11944626 (OP)
The best Gameboy experience is plugging a Super Gameboy 2 (has to be 2) into a SNES and playing with a wireless controller. Fight me.

>>11944992
I'm almost sure these displays had better contrast back when they were new, but I remember thinking it was hard to see anything on my DMG back in the 90's too. Maybe it was always this way.
The DMG is alright when outside in the sun and playing non-action games, but the GBC display is far less eye-straining and doesn't require quite as much light.

>>11945360
>wireless controller
actually why tho

>>11945390
Because 8ditdo makes a helluva product. Perfectly acceptable to use an OEM one, however.

>>11944626 (OP)
first get a gameboy pocket and mod the hell out of it. Then a flash cart. You got a thousand games, literally, to choose from.

Why not just get a ModRetro?

Cave Noir

>>11945405
>mod
There are less and less of these around, getting more and more expensive. If you want a backlit screen, just get an emulation handheld, preserve the real thing.

>>11944626 (OP)
Warioland 2

>>11944626 (OP)
i had the grey dmg, ran it until the batteries finally exploded in it killing it dead.
then a gbp, then finally a gbc.
eventually a gba but it was years after launch...
>best experiences
>mario land, tetris, the chiptunes
>staying up late into the night grinding in pokemon red and yellow, shining a tiny keychain flashlight under the bedsheets to see the screen
>the shitty "worm" light that we knew sucked balls even then
>getting carsick trying to navigate victory road on long cartrips
>meeting with other elementary school students before and after class to make trades
>trading\battling in secret at recess in the bathrooms
>the rumors of "mew"

as an adult i enjoy being pleasantly surprised by deepcuts and newer releases on the aging hardware.
>>11945405
>GBP
the battery life would be SO shitty its pointless.
all the AAA style devices are dead in 40-120 minutes with the sound off at max brightness (no fuck you i wont turn it down)

>>11945305
basedo
those china screens are fucking horrible
as soon as i got my analogue pocket i sold all cheap trash as fast as possible

you literally cannot even walk in any of the zelda games the screens have "retention issues" and cause literal glitch garbage graphics on screen repeatedly

It's impossible to talk about Game Boy games on /vr/. Every single thread those fags ruin it with their chinese mods and bootlegs bullshit even though they have a containment, I mean general thread for it.

I don't believe they even play games since they never talk about games, they just jack off to poorly made chinese clones because the marketing from the trendy youtubers told them it's the cool thing to do.

>>11944626 (OP)
As a kid I always wondered if the A and B buttons tasted like Advils.

>>11946805
those skittles hittin different

>>11944626 (OP)

As a big story game:
Mole Mania
Chase H.Q.

As a fun puzzle game:
Nontan to Issho
Elevator Action

>>11948383
oh, also, Game and Watch Gallery 3, what a trip that game is - it took me months before I gave it a real chance, I played it out of boredom for a few hours and didn't like it.
...but then it sinks its hooks into you and you get the COMPLETIONIST FEVER and then it's over

>>11944626 (OP)
it's 2025, why the hell would you bother with the terrible original GB screen when the colour and various cheap chinese handhelds exist that provide an infinitely better gaming experience?

liking retro games doesn't mean you have to pretend its still 1995, there are objectively better options now

>>11944626 (OP)
I just de-yellowed mine recently. The screen never bothered me, it adds charm.

>>11944676
Castlevania 2

>>11949123
Someone posted their classic PC setup yesterday and I was surprised it wasn't yellowed to fuk. I didn't know people de-yellowed things.

>>11944970
>Avenging Spirit
Hell yea. That was one of the very few GB games I bought for my silver pocket.

>>11948485
The GameBoy Color's screen is worse.

>>11949260
It's called oxyclean, aka hydrogen peroxide, chump.

>>11949260
Not all plastics yellow. If the formulation was correct it shouldn't yellow at all unless it was left in direct sunlight for ages.

>>11945390
so you can take it on a car trip like the original Game Boy (you'll need a cellphone too so you can communicate with a partner who will watch the screen for you and tell you what you're doing in the game)

>>11945405
OP is asking which games work best the original screen.

>>11949278
No, it's way better. It's much more reflective, has much better contrast, no motion blur, and is colour. It's actually a very good screen, just doesn't have a light.

>>11944992
Mine has lines missing on either side. I would try fixing it with a soldering iron but apparently it can be risky and I hardly use my DMG.

>>11944676
I think Gun Zas is generally considered one of the most impressive examples. It rapidly alternates two background tiles to create a transparent paralax effect. Screenshot doesn’t really convey it, but definitely one of the most complicated visual effects you will get on a DMG.

>>11949573
I don't agree with the color's screen having more contrast.

>>11949586
It does. Put a monochrome game into black and white on a Color and see.

>>11949586
I also don’t agree with the sky being blue.

>>11949602
You know anon. The dmg has a contrast wheel. So objectively it has “more contrast”. The total amount of available contrast is greater.

>>11950250
The Color also has a contrast control but it's hidden

>>11949343
just like the developers intended

>>11944626 (OP)
>What are the best experiences you can get on this thing?
Playing it on an 8 hour road trip in 1990, changing games every hour

>>11949583
>one of the most complicated visual effects you will get on a DMG
Maybe "complicated" is the wrong word, seeing as it's a really easy effect to pull off.

>>11950372
>the semantics chud found the gameboy thread.
Well it was fun while it lasted

>>11950250
okay, measure the peak contrast between clear and black with the dial about the mid point. Measure it again with the dial all the way towards "dark." Tell me what the difference is other than you losing all contrast between gray levels.

>>11949260
Yeah. I bought this "Retro Brite" spray and managed to deyellow my Sega Dreamcast, Sega Saturn, the plastic on my controller port of the Nintendo Gamecube and of course my Nintendo Game Boy. It's been fun deyellowing plastic.

>>11945030
I found that a hot air station works well.
>>11944992
I suspect there could be some variability in screen quality from manufacture time. My childhood US GB looks OK, but my Japanese one has a slightly better looking display.

>>11950307
>The Color also has a contrast control but it's hidden
I could hope in one hand and shit in the other and judge which one is heavier.

>>11949573
Now that I'm thinking about it. I didn't have a DMG. I had a Gameboy Pocket. So really I'm comparing a Gameboy Pocket's screen to the GameBoy Color's. So from that I'm saying I think the GameBoy Pocket's screen looks better.

>>11944626 (OP)
Did you know the whole reason it exists was nintendo decided to rip off the MB Microvision?
(pic related)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdv5CgXAVQw


"According to Satoru Okada, the former head of Nintendo's R&D1 Department, the Microvision inspired the Game Boy, the follow-up to Game & Watch, after Nintendo designed around Microvision's limitations."

>>11952354
There was also the Epoch Game Pocket Computer from 1984, made by the guys behind the Casette Vision and Super Casette Vision. This was more comparable to a Game Boy in power, and even came with some puzzle and art firmware. Unfortunately, only 5 cartridges were released for it.

>DMG

Just stop. You call it the Game Boy, GB or the brick. Also acceptable: the Nintendium handheld system. "DMG" make you sound like a giant tryhard (as is trying to pretend that some games used "DMG effects" that don't workr on other Game Boys)

>>11944626 (OP)
>What are the best experiences you can get on this thing?
None really, its more a collectable display item and that's the way the majority of its current day fanbase use it, it was not great in its own time and hovers on that line between sad childrens toy and actual game machine, its not even as good as the early colour LED grandstand machines kids 'home arcade' toys. A lot of the fixation with it and general fixation with nintendo comes from reddit hipsterism mainly perople who where not even born at the time.
>>11944660
>Pokemon
Garbage version of Top Trumps
>>11944737
>Tetris
Out on other systems years before the gameboy released and in colour
>>11944863
>Link's Awakening
One of the worst jokes on 'I'm a hipster and I like nintendo crowd', even for an 8 bit game it was spectacularly ugly and the gameplay was monotonous and trite.

>>11952730
I have an MB microvision, it's best described as a portable 2600 decent breakout clone etc

>>11952297
the fuck does that mean

>>11952301
>moving the goal posts
Color's screen is still better. Cope harder, retard.

>>11952739
It's the DMG because it's model DMG-01. People have been calling it that for ages.

>>11952769
lost me at the last sentence of first paragraph.

>>11952889
>Color's screen is still better.
It's not though. And I didn't move the goal posts I just forgot that my GameBoy was a Pocket. The Pocket's screen is certainly better than the DMG. And I think it's way better than the Color's.

>>11952739
Or you could just not be retarded.

>>11952769
Oh, look. Its the same fag from the last gameboy discussion thread trying to be contrarian again.

>>11953414
>>11952891

Hey what's up guys what's your favourite game for the SCPH ???!! Mine's Crash Bandicoot it really plays on the system's strengths, Sega's MK-80000 couldn't even compete

This is what you sound like

>>11953485
3 characters is the optimum composition for nickname acronyms.
PS is too short, SCPH is too long, PSX and PS1 are just right.
GB is too short, DMG is just right.

>>11953485
see
>>11953414

>>11945405
If you're going to mod it just go ahead and play on an iphone, you're stripping the soul away anyway.

>>11949583
That's why emulators now have the frame blending feature.

i didnt have a lot of games for it, but the games we did have, i played the FUCK out of them. (except the star wars one. that one was weird and kind of dumb. i didnt have fun with it.)
tetris
tetris 2
wario blast (honestly an incredibly easy game, but at least it wasnt endlessly gay and faggy like bomberman became)
kirby pinball
mario land 2
i had endless hours of fun in all of those.