Comment on Play GB games
any1th3r3@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Many options exist, depending on your budget:
- IPS screen mod for your GB, these are usually not too costly iirc ($60 USD?)
- GBA or GBA SP, you’ll get a backlit screen as well (around the same budget?)
- Open source cartreader to dump your carts and saves (and play ROMs wherever you want) - no idea about the budget tbh
- Analogue Pocket, it’s great but very likely overkill if all you want to do is play some GB games ($220 USD)
- Depending on how comfortable you are with downloading ROMs (and how ethical you feel that is, given you already have the games), you could just do that without spending a penny since GB games have been preserved and are easily accessible.
There’s also a handful of other options (GameCube GB Player, SNES Super GameBoy, etc), but that’s likely more consoles and accessories for you to purchase so I didn’t mention those in detail.
Redkey@programming.dev 7 months ago
Careful! The original (landscape) GBA had a similar, unlit, reflective screen to the Gameboy Colour, and even the GBA SP was frontlit for most of its run. Only the later GBA SPs had the bright, backlit screens.
I modded an original GBA with an aftermarket frontlighting kit back in the day. I didn’t like the GBA SP as it made my hands start to cramp up after only a few minutes.
any1th3r3@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
You’re absolutely right, only the AGS 101 is backlit, my mistake!