/vr/ - Retro Games

erm, I think cringe

>>7715209
It depends on how it's modded. I disagree with case modding. I'm fine if it's modchipping, softmodding as games are often fucking expensive, especially PS1 games, just as long as it's reversible.

>>7715230
I dislike casemods too but I'd rather buy a chinkshit shell than try to clean and fix a mangy 20+ year old one

>>7715232
To be honest, I'm guilty of that. I had a case to a Sinclair ZX Spectrum which the aluminium keyboard cover you could call it was damaged, I just bought a new reproduction one

>>7715209
Who cares its just a fucking toy. Do what you get more enjoyment from

>>7715209
Absolutely based. GBC and especially regular GBA are literally unplayable nowadays without a proper screen mod. To this day I have no fucking idea how 12 yo me was able to beat COTM without suffering from eye damage.

judging how other people use their time and money.
based or cringe?

>>7715329
based

negative behaviour should be shamed and discouraged.

Absolute cringe.

>>7715307
AGS 101 is best way to play GBA, no mods required.

>>7715209
If you need to ask, cringe.

based.
i put the backlight kits in all my dmg gameboys about 7 years ago. Got me back into gameboy games, played all the time for years. Havent touched my dmg for way too long, guess the charm wore off. Now I see the awesome new led screens you can get, might try that out this winter when I have some time. Very cool to see the use of the color palettes on the dmg.

Based as fuck. Poorfags cringe.

>>7715863
Enjoy your ghosting, dead pixels and increasingly white borders from dying LCD panel.

>>7715209
What's based is doing whatever the fuck you want with your property. If this mea s modding it, that's cool. If it means leaving it as is, that's also cool.

Basically do what the fuck you want and stop looking for Approval from a userbase that will live with their parents until they turn 47.

>>7715334
>negative behaviour should be shamed and discouraged.
I agree wholeheartedly.

Therefore, stop making these threads, you brain damaged monkey.

just installed a Q5 screen in my gbc. it's so nice, literally perfect. it's even a little bigger than the original screen.

>>7716143
same. i played through links awakening and links awakening dx on a regular gbc. just installed the q5 ips in my gbc and am playing through DX again and its so much easier on my old man eyes

>>7716136
>seething when feeling criticised

definitely cringe

>>7716143
Wtf I thought devs didn't intend you to see each individual pixel...

>>7715209
It's a personal choice and no one else's opinion matters.

>>7716219
I don't mod my systems, kiddo.

>>7716143
not sure whether I'm a fan of the pixel clarity

>>7716358
what do you mean?

>>7716143
>>7716358
Same. Can you take a pic of it zoomed out a little more so we can see how it looks when you're playing it?

>>7716367
Each pixel seems to be more precisely bordered and evenly colored than on the original display, making sprites and backgrounds look more jagged and emulator-like. I remember the original display being a bit fuzzier. Or maybe it's just because the photo is so close up and sharp and the original display is similarly sharp and you just don't notice it from a normal viewing distance without magnification.

>>7716358
Agree, needs more scanlines, rounded edges with a convex look and more blur.

>>7716387
I think this one only has a backlight mod with the original LCD, and you can clearly see how much fuzzier and blended the pixels are, and that's how I remember the image quality.

>>7716387
I switched on my unmodified gbc to check this and no, its just the screen being brighter and the camera being so close to it that makes it look that way

Holding it at playing distance the individual pixels aren't as discernable, but bringing the screen closer and closer to my face in good light the individual squares in the dot matrix display are quite easy to make out if you concentrate on them, getting my eye as close to the screen as it is in that image it becomes quite difficult to focus on the unlit image because of how close it is and the reflections in the lens above it being much brighter and easier to see than it is.

I think its quite easy to forget how absurdly small the GB and GBC screens are, at comfortable playing distance its a tiny box you're looking at, which is what makes the image smooth out as it does

>>7716387
Frontlights still exist which preserve the original LCD.

>>7715209
Its cringe because people are only doing it because they saw a youtube video

>>7715209
Modchips are questionable. Anything that removes components from a functioning unit is cringe.

Damaged units with aftermarket parts IMO is fine.

I'd never rip apart a functioning GB/GBC screen from a unit to backlight mod it, but if I had one with a busted screen, I'd consider an aftermarket lit one.

>>7715209
Modding your own *can be* based.
Modding them just so you can flip them for more is cringe.

>>7716127
The ghosting is annoying but I have never seen a dead pixel and I have an LCD that is brighter than another but evenly.

>>7716126
Modders are the ones who can't afford original hardware and software.

Not a fan for GBC. The GBC stock reflective screen actually looks great in sunlight or with enough indoor lighting (lamp) IMO. You also get faithful colors and a real pixel grid. These LCDs oversaturate the hell out of games.

Modernized worm lights with stronger, more diffused lightning would have been nice.

>>7717281
>Modders are the ones who can't afford original hardware and software.
That literally makes zero sense.

>>7715209
Guess I'm the opposition here
I do not give two ducks what you do to your console. Fucking smash it to bits if you want idc. I'm certainly not going to complain if you drill a hole in the back for an extra video port, or snap the tabs on a super Nintendo. For most of these systems, there are literally millions of them out there. And chances are, if you care enough to do some sort of mod to it, you probably aren't going to put it back into the secondhand market anyway.

There is no situation where I'll end up with your mangled console, and we aren't going to run out of unmodified gameboy advances anytime soon.

On that note, why care at all if your snes tabs are snipped? That doesn't even effect how the thing looks, it's all internal. And it's only a good change in performance.

Are you trying to preserve your console as a museum quality reference artifact?? Because sorry to say but your dingy yellowed snes is not ever going to serve that purpose.

But in the same way that I don't care what you do to your toys, I also don't care what you don't do to your toys, so do whatever makes you happy

>>7717442
This. Why would I want a faggot backlit screen when I already have a wormlight aka my cock

It depends, I understand the purist perspective of not defiling a vintage system, but there are cases for modding damaged systems.

I've got an old launch model GBA which a broken screen and a missing battery cover, but everything else about it still works. It'd be a solid candidate for screen and case replacement with rechargeable battery pack mod.

>>7716465
>muh youtube boogeyman
For young people, YouTube has replaced TV & magazines as the primary source for dissemination of hobby ideas. I guarantee that you have wanted a video game or some type of clothes after seeing a commercial for it as a kid. I guarantee your parents have became interested or bought a product after seeing an article for it in a hobby magazine. YouTube is no more or less legitimate of a platform than cable TV. Get over yourself

>>7717281
>People who have money to buy mod kits more expensive than the actual console on top of the console's price are the poor ones

What

>>7717449
>>7717612
There are people who waste a lot of money on mods but most mods are done using the cheapest broken consoles and Chinese junk by people who can't afford an ags101. They all have flashcarts because they can't afford real carts.

>>7717485
>if you care enough to do some sort of mod to it, you probably aren't going to put it back into the secondhand market anyway.
If only you knew how bad things really are.

>>7717662
This still makes very little sense.

>>7717904
What's funny is the market used to be that poorfags were the ones who got real carts and the chad option was flash carts.

Since COVID fucked commodity prices on even the cheaper shit, it's now become the opposite.

>>7715307
>literally unplayable
I wish I could beat you to death or at least very close to death

>>7717917
>before
>flash carts are expensive but convenient
>now
>flash carts are cheaper and more convenient
Flashchads I kneel.

>>7715209
>Using based and cringe
No, delete thread.

>>7718639
Um, im thinking this post is notbased and cringepilled.

>>7718517
It's honestly pretty based

>>7717662
>but most mods are done using the cheapest broken consoles and Chinese junk by people who can't afford an ags101.
Only an animal would cut up a perfectly fine working console to mod it in the way these mods are being done.

>>7715209
>swapping out broken screens/cases to salvage a console instead of throwing it out
based
>replacing perfectly good OEM components with neon-colored chinkshit
cringe

>>7716143
I got the DMG IPS screen version prior to the current one with pixel grid.
Gotta say it really makes a huge difference, this actually looks pretty nice.

>>7717442
Yeah I think GB/GBC still look fine with a bit of light.
It's just the original GBA that's really bad.

>>7716127
Still preferable honestly, if IPS displays were native resolution there’d be no issues though probably

>>7719501
I have an ips and it looks great from a same viewing distance. The 2x integer scale looks fine IMO

No, the real issues are the fucked image retention and odd refresh rate inconsistencies. I get off stutters every once in awhile and I've never seen ghosting issues like what it produces before on an lcd. Probably has something to do with the odd refresh rate GBA games run at not playing nice with the panel

Screen replacement mods and backlights and such for old portable consoles are generally amazing. I need to pick up a newer one for a cheap ass DMG I bought a while back to get it usable, the screen was destroyed when I bought it.
I'm also loving the push for ODEs and very tempted to get a GC Loader since the laser on my Gamecube is dying along with the fact that I can use it to boot straight into the Melee hacks that are out and make my life easier for practicing tech there. Figure if I do it I might as well buy the Noctua fan and brace for it and replace that as well just to make sure everything stays good for another 20+ years.

>>7715209
I don't care either way but at some point I do wonder why not just buy some emulator console if you're going to change so much

>>7719501
>>7719519
From what I heard there is a new screen that is 4x but that retro pixel filter shit isnt added yet, it's not perfect but it seems like a decent tradeoff.

>>7719501
>soulless
>soul

>>7719802
I keep hearing this but no one has provided a source

>>7719054
I never understood people butchering perfect original shells when they could cut up a chinese copy.

>>7715209
people can do whatever they want with their property
the "cringe" thing is to work yourself into a shoot over somebody modifying something that they own, which is a new level of materialism

>>7718517
Scalpniggers will always pretend to be collectorchads and shill the stance that beating a game on flashcart doesn't count. Never let a scalpnigger change your mind.

>>7723392
How is it scalping when it's not available new?

>>7717926
cope retard

>>7723410
The person you are responding to has a single digit IQ.

You know what's "based"? Modding your gameboy but keeping the original shell and parts so you can restore it to stock at any time. Best of both worlds.

>>7715230
>especially PS1 games
Are PS1 games expensive in the west? I picked up Dino Crisis and Vagrant Story for 120 yen each just yesterday.

>>7716369

>>7725808
Looks great

>>7725808
based as fuck. call that bitch treeboy

>>7716237
No need to state the obvious, but a personal choice can still be stupid.
Sure it's your choice to suck dicks, and I'm not gonna tell you to stop, but you're still a stupid faggot and an embarrassment to your father.

>>7717485
>we aren't going to run out of unmodified gameboy advances anytime soon
That's the spirit that is turning the world to shit.
There's enough for now, so why should we care.

>>7725923
And just like how people got bored of the 2600 before they went through the remaining millions of stock, this fad will move on. There are only so many GBAs, but there are also so many people nostalgic for the GBA, and willing to go out of their way for original hardware, and care enough to mod it.

It's a niche of a niche of a niche. We aren't going to run out of GBAs

I just finished reshelling my childhood gba sp + a new battery. It was the red one prior. Sorta just winged it with the colors, wish I gave it more thought, but I also don’t hate the daily dose coloration. Haven’t tested it with a game (none on me atm), only possible issue is that the shoulder buttons feel a bit meh (they did in the last shell too).
Just wanted to experiment/try something new for once. was a nice little $30 project, only soured by a stripped screw on the old case making the removal hell.
I was thinking of cricuting a sticker/decal, but can’t think of much I’d be happy with for these colors (in green or white presumably)
What you anons think?

>>7725808
Beautiful. Enjoy anon

>>7727516

Looks good anon, you should install a USB c charger too, its a pretty simple mod and makes your life easier.

>>7715209
100% based. Even the most cringe mods represents a person who is willing to tinker with their devices and is thus better than a mere consoomer

>>7715209
It all depends on intent:
>modding retro console for better usability
Based
>modding retro consoles to look cool online
Cringe

>>7727516
Thanks Doc

>>7725645
Japanese games are always cheap

>>7727516
thanks doc

>>7727646
The ones buying chinkshit shilled by youtubers are the biggest consoomers. Everyone else is just buying obsolete used hardware.

>>7716219
NTA and not a modder.
This thread is cancer.

>>7725808
I saw the thumbnail and got scared, but looking at the full sized picture, that actually looks pretty damn nice

>>7727516
Pretty neat how you got the hinge to be vertical instead of horizontal. Button placement looks a bit whack too, what with the d-pad being under the buttons.

>>7719501
that IPS display looks like dogshit holy fuck