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Gameboy Advance Frontlight Success

Posted by Hemos on from the moving-ahead dept.

skirch writes: "Remember Portablemonopoly.com? Well, Adam finally has a great working prototype (with some great pics) that he was able to hack together for about $30. Not that $30 is bad, but he mentions a possible group order, and I'm sure that would bring the price down quite a bit. He estimates that it will only diminish the GBA's battery life by 25-30%. Original Slashdot post."

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  1. Am I the only one... by BIGJIMSLATE · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...who would rather just pay the $10 and get something like this:

    http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/categories/products/p ro duct.asp?pf_id=201208

    Cool mod, but I'm cheap. The $20 I'd save might let me buy some cool GBA game like "Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen's Big Adventure". :p

  2. How hard could it be? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    GBA emulator on a Palm m505...they are front lit and run for weeks on one charge. Expansion cards to save your game, etc.

    GBA emulator on an iBook...wow, music and internet....output to your TV and go big screen.

    Run the GB image to a HMD...5 ft. virtual floating image...now that's cool.

    1. Re:How hard could it be? by arbitrary+nickname · · Score: 2, Informative

      Current GBA emulators on the PC only get around 70% speed on a P3-667.

      They can probably all still be optimised... but I don't think there's much hope for a Palm, or even WinCE machine...

  3. Re:input by Kris_J · · Score: 3, Informative
    Go here and search for "keyboard";
  4. Back lit GBA! by �laC|n · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hmm.. check this out!
    According to this page, Nintendo is planning a japanese release of a new GBA WITH backlit screen in december!

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  5. GBC .LT. GBA by yerricde · · Score: 3, Informative

    but from experience with playing gbc games on my AMD k6-2 400 at home, and P3 500 at work, the speed of the emu is comparable to that of the hardware. [strong added by yerricde]

    You're comparing the Game Boy Color to the Game Boy Advance. Game Boy Color is about as complex as the old Nintendo Entertainment System to emulate, and LoopyNES (the most accurate NES emulator, available from Zophar.net's NES collection) runs at full speed on a P100. However, Super NES is about three or four times more complex as NES, and GBA is nearly twice as complex as Super NES, with two layers of Mode 7 and affine transformation (i.e. rotation/scaling) on every single sprite, but with two dumb but easy DMA channels for sound instead of a pain-in-the-ass SPC700 processor.

    Here's a comparison of GBA hardware to that of the Super NES:
    Read the rest of this comment...

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