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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. GBA is a handheld, and he made it better. by Maul · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The only big thing lacking on it was a lighted screen, from my POV, and this guy solved the problem. I'm very interested in this hardware hack for my own GBA.

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    "You spoony bard!" -Tellah

  2. Adam good. Nintendo bad. by motherhead · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I love that new commercial where the kid is playing with his GBA while at church (never mind all the class inferred by that... marketing weasels...). That is just absolute bullshit. I can barely play Tony Hawk 2 in my kitchen much less a room with low amounts of ambient lighting. They had to be filming that commercial looking at each other like... "Hey, it's not my lawsuit".

    Adam is a deity. Nintendo owes every damn one of us an apology.

    He (Adam) says it best when he comments that the glass covering the Worlds Most Useless Display is more like a mirror then anything else. So all the lame "Shark Lights, Wiggie Lights, PokoLights, Very Happy Joy Fun Lights" or whatever does nothing more then throw glare over the entire screen.

    I'd pay thirty bucks to take something useless and render it otherwise.

    1. Re:Adam good. Nintendo bad. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      OK, am I the only GBA owner on the face of the planet that doesn't mind the display? Under the proper lighting, it's amazingly vibrant. Under slightly less perfect conditions, it's still usable!!!

      I can use it in my basement under a potlight and it's an amazingly crisp picture. I can use it on the train to and from work and only fret in tunnels. I can use it under the flourescents at work. I can use it outside during the day.

      Seriously, what is people's problems with this unit? Oh, no, I can't use my GBA in the dark! Waaah, waaah! Whatever will I do?
      Nintendo has delivered a worthy successor to the GB, backwards compatible, freaking powerful, affordable and with one amazing battery life. Not to mention the ability to multiplay single cartriges. Don't sell 'em short dammit!

  3. Petition? by NitsujTPU · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Our ultimate goal with this Web site is to measure the amount of dissatisfaction with the Game Boy Advance in the form of a petition. The results will be published on this site and, of course, sent to Nintendo and many other media entities.

    If you're dissatisfied with the Game Boy Advance... Why did you buy one?

    Fight the power that... uhh... provides you with video games...damn it!

    Come on, this is along the lines of people who petitioned Prodigy to switch to the IP protocol suite (I hate when people call it TCP/IP)... Why not just change providers to one that gives you what you want?