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Game Boy Advance RGB LCD Project

Posted by timothy on from the if-you-have-to-ask-why dept.

JohnHegarty writes: "Ever wanted a large backlit screen for the GBA, or even watching it on a 28" TV? Here is a project to use a GBA on a PlayStation screen." Another example of the lengths people will go to to mock the term "pocket sized."

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  1. Playstation screen? by ComaVN · · Score: 2, Funny

    Otherwise known as a television

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    1. Re:Playstation screen? by Your_Mom · · Score: 5, Funny
      Honestly, this mod would kill pretty much all battery life in the GBA.

      Well, I also ran into this problem. so to combat this you may want to check out my Gameboy Advanced Backpack Diesel Generator Mod.
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    2. Re:Playstation screen? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      excuse me sir, but the link that you have graciously provided seems to be incorrect. please post the correct link. thanks in advance.

    3. Re:Playstation screen? by moonbender · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, there certainly is irony in faaaz saying an AC is not getting a joke while not seeing that that AC is quite obviously joking himself. That said, maybe faaaz is joking too, who knows.

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  2. Whoopee... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I've always wanted to play low resolution games on a large screen TV - wow!

  3. I saw it before it was /.'ed by burgburgburg · · Score: 2, Funny
    I can't believe I actually saw something referenced here without having to google cache trawl for it. I feel ... priveledged.

    The mod itself is interesting. I think that pressure on Nintendo to improve the screen situation is probably a longterm better course of action, but folks around here like to take things into their own hands (and disassemble them, modify the hell out of them and make them do things that nobody else had even imagined).