If there were such a thing as FREE BEER (in Heaven, I hope), I don't think the absence of FREE SPEECH would be a problem, because we'd all be in jail for public intoxication already...
On a related note: Ooooh... Ikea... you're so naughty!
First off, games sharing the same engine don't nessisarily result in games of equal quality (i.e. Q3A & KISS).
Secondly, Mother/Earthbound and Pokemon's engines are completely different; the fact that Ness and Ash's sprites look similar has no baring. Mother/Earthbound uses a 3/4 isometric perspective, while Pokemon sports the RPG-standard top-down birds eye perspective. I won't even get into the battle engine differences. Confusing the two games is, well I used to think, impossible...
Ken Soto (the creator of the now infamous GBA color mod) posted the omega results of his ill-fated experiment on a message board today (and conveniently forgot to add any update about it on his site).
Result post #1:
KenSoto
Posts: 806
Registered: Apr 01
Date Posted: 6:33am
*cue the fallen soldier trumpet/horn music*
Well, I can tell you this - I was successful in dying my GBA's case... but that's about it. May my GBA's poor sacrifice soul rest in peace.
Actually it's not that I got impatient and upped the heat - the front piece of the GBA wasn't completely clean to begin with, I guess, so what happened was that there were streaks that appeared on the front shell of the GBA. I tried cleaning it and then re-dyeing the case, but I think the excessive amount of time in the hot water eventually warped it. It wasn't severly warped - it looks good, but it's warped just a little bit too much and THERE in lies the problem.
As of now, I have put the GBA back together again - COMPLETELY back together again, though unfortunately I won't be able to put up any screenshots of it until I get home later on this evening. My wife and I stayed up pretty late reassembling that thing, and I passed out before my head even hit the pillow.
So was the project successful? Yes and no. Yes- in that, the GBA was dyed completely black. The dye took hold, and it looks pretty damn good. It's almost exactly like Mpolle's mock up and I say, "almost" because a little of the dye came off when we were toying with the front shell piece in hot water. But a GBA shell CAN be dyed - Zap's experience proved that already, but now it's official.
No- in that the GBA's shell was warped. The back shell (with the battery compartment) couldn't have come out better. it's a sleek and shiny black, and looks like it's factory quality. The battery case is perfectly dyed and says, "GameBoy Advance" on it still - it's breath taking. The front on the other hand went through so much dyeing, I think that's what did the whole project in. First it was bent in the middle forward so that it wouldn't line up with the back case. Ok, so what we did was heat up the front plastic shell in hot water, match it up once it was flexible, and voila, everything's fixed, right? Wrong.
We tried putting in the front plastic screen (that says "GameBoy Advance" on the bottom" but it didn't fit anymore. Aye-yeeeee! Ok, so I was getting a little concerned at this point, but that part could be adjusted to fit. What I was worried about was the LCD screen fitting... and it didn't. The casing hadn't been shrunk, but rather bent in such a way that it didn't have space for the screen pieces anymore. So we heated up the case once again several times until we had it good enough for the LCD screen to fit back in. After that, we then attempted to put it back together. Surprisingly, all of the screws and metal plates fit back (though one metal plate was giving me some trouble). The buttons, however, weren't as good as they were originally. Because the front case took a tremendous warping, the select and start buttons didn't quite come out as much as they were supposed to. The B and A buttons were fixed perfectly, though, and so was the control pad. Then we screwed on the mother board (which was difficult because of the frontal warped part of the shell). Then we line up the grey side plastic pieces, screwed on the back shell, place the R & L buttons back in place (and they still clicked just like they always did), and finally screwed in the battery compartment. Problem was that two of the outter shell screws on the back (the very DEEP ones) wouldn't fit. I don't think it was aligned 100% because of the warped front part of the shell). The biggest problem was the power on/off switch. We tried lining it up with the little on/off switch in the GBA, but the plastic was warped so much, it didn't hold right... I knew right then that my GBA was basically dead. All the molding in the world probably couldn't get that fixed back right.
Still, we tried popping in some batteries and I guess the GBA was in the "on" position already because I heard the GameBoy's patented "Ding". So then I flipped up the GBA and turned it off, but right before it did, it had that Tetris "game over" noise and never turned back on again... when my wife and I heard that noise we were like, "Oh Sh!+". I think the on/off switch is out of alignment.
So now, my GBA is back together again, but for display purposes only. It looks great, but won't work... so this model will never see the light of day. So with this in mind, I say to you: Try it on a GameBoy Color or old Gameboy first before you try it on your pride and joy. The whole warping problem CAN be avoided, you just have to be EXTREMELY careful with the heat control. I never once raised the heat, but I should have turned it off and on every so often to keep it from getting too hot. I had the flame so low it blew out sometimes, but that was still too much for the case for a period of time that exceeds 2 hours.
This technique CAN work, it's just very difficult... I don't regret trying it. I just regret that I wasn't more careful, but oh well... next GBA, I'm gonna go with spray paint and see what happens there. -lol- At least then I know that all of the pieces will still FIT!
I don't know when I'll get to putting up all of the results and what I did on my page. My wife took pictures of everything, so you guys'll have that at least. The "stove top" dyeing method is definitely the most effective though.
When I get home I'll put up the pictures of my lifeless GBA. Looks good... looks great actually, it just doesn't work anymore. And if it doesn't work, well... kinda defeats the whole purpose.:/
Result post #2:
KenSoto
Posts: 806
Registered: Apr 01
Date Posted: 6:50am - Date Edited: 6:51am (1 edits total) Edited By: KenSoto
I killed a white boy! A white GAME boy Advance that is. -lol-
Yeah, my GBA is pretty much dead, but I was thinking about that hair dryer thing. Yeah, I guess there's nothin to lose if the GBA becomes completely unrecoverable, might as well try at them buttons and provide some pictures.
Interesting about that spray paint. This weekend, my friend and I were gonna look for some spray paint, but since the GBA is pretty much DEAD, I guess we'll be skippin that for right now. Next GBA, though, Spraypaint will be the way to go.
*yawn* I'm sooooooo tired, though. My wife and I were working together last night trying to put the GBA back together and it took a looong time, but that's 'cause the plastic was warped. Dounia's funny. She was like, "Look at our thread, it's still on page one! We're famous!"
MOS - I sure hope so. Come ooooon replacement shells.
So what if he's sexier than 99% of us? He has the gift of creating entertaining articles that will probably never get a chance at mass media's level of notoriety...
Slashdot Mirror
Manned Ballistic Projectile...
Seriously, there is enough "space junk" out there, without it being nuclear...
Remember SkyLab falling? Yea, imagine that, but radioactive...
*pst*
I hear they play games, too. But that's between you and me.
and open your eyes to general news...
this is, like, seriously old news... shi, it's in this months EGM; anything in print is seriously old...
Soldier #1: ph33r m1 l337 5k1llz!
Soldier #2: Damnit... they forgot haxor!
Just as the kids growing up with Centurions in the 80's become scientists, we get this...
Ooo-wee-ooo...
So young... so stupid...
I wonder what the percentage of 13 to 17-year-old computer geeks that use 1337 as their password...
Category #6 should be "\/\/4|\||\|4 83 |-|4X0r"
Thanks(?), I guess...
Chalk it up to being a gamer...
As if a woman would try to pick up anyone who would have one of these in their pocket...
If there were such a thing as FREE BEER (in Heaven, I hope), I don't think the absence of FREE SPEECH would be a problem, because we'd all be in jail for public intoxication already...
On a related note: Ooooh... Ikea... you're so naughty!
Nice iMac, jhill... is that your computer or a beautiful bouquet of flowers? Oh, it's your computer... ingenious!
Really trying for that "Informative," arn't you?
Have you seen the Linux script kids @ MIT? This is the way to go:
CerfCube(TM): Part Computer, Part Hackisack, All Linux
Small and inexpensive enough that there will soon be people gutting it and boiling it's casing in RIT dye...
First off, games sharing the same engine don't nessisarily result in games of equal quality (i.e. Q3A & KISS).
Secondly, Mother/Earthbound and Pokemon's engines are completely different; the fact that Ness and Ash's sprites look similar has no baring. Mother/Earthbound uses a 3/4 isometric perspective, while Pokemon sports the RPG-standard top-down birds eye perspective. I won't even get into the battle engine differences. Confusing the two games is, well I used to think, impossible...
Ken Soto (the creator of the now infamous GBA color mod) posted the omega results of his ill-fated experiment on a message board today (and conveniently forgot to add any update about it on his site).
:/
/. readers are psychic!!!
Result post #1:
KenSoto
Posts: 806
Registered: Apr 01
Date Posted: 6:33am
*cue the fallen soldier trumpet/horn music*
Well, I can tell you this - I was successful in dying my GBA's case... but that's about it. May my GBA's poor sacrifice soul rest in peace.
Actually it's not that I got impatient and upped the heat - the front piece of the GBA wasn't completely clean to begin with, I guess, so what happened was that there were streaks that appeared on the front shell of the GBA. I tried cleaning it and then re-dyeing the case, but I think the excessive amount of time in the hot water eventually warped it. It wasn't severly warped - it looks good, but it's warped just a little bit too much and THERE in lies the problem.
As of now, I have put the GBA back together again - COMPLETELY back together again, though unfortunately I won't be able to put up any screenshots of it until I get home later on this evening. My wife and I stayed up pretty late reassembling that thing, and I passed out before my head even hit the pillow.
So was the project successful? Yes and no. Yes- in that, the GBA was dyed completely black. The dye took hold, and it looks pretty damn good. It's almost exactly like Mpolle's mock up and I say, "almost" because a little of the dye came off when we were toying with the front shell piece in hot water. But a GBA shell CAN be dyed - Zap's experience proved that already, but now it's official.
No- in that the GBA's shell was warped. The back shell (with the battery compartment) couldn't have come out better. it's a sleek and shiny black, and looks like it's factory quality. The battery case is perfectly dyed and says, "GameBoy Advance" on it still - it's breath taking. The front on the other hand went through so much dyeing, I think that's what did the whole project in. First it was bent in the middle forward so that it wouldn't line up with the back case. Ok, so what we did was heat up the front plastic shell in hot water, match it up once it was flexible, and voila, everything's fixed, right? Wrong.
We tried putting in the front plastic screen (that says "GameBoy Advance" on the bottom" but it didn't fit anymore. Aye-yeeeee! Ok, so I was getting a little concerned at this point, but that part could be adjusted to fit. What I was worried about was the LCD screen fitting... and it didn't. The casing hadn't been shrunk, but rather bent in such a way that it didn't have space for the screen pieces anymore. So we heated up the case once again several times until we had it good enough for the LCD screen to fit back in. After that, we then attempted to put it back together. Surprisingly, all of the screws and metal plates fit back (though one metal plate was giving me some trouble). The buttons, however, weren't as good as they were originally. Because the front case took a tremendous warping, the select and start buttons didn't quite come out as much as they were supposed to. The B and A buttons were fixed perfectly, though, and so was the control pad. Then we screwed on the mother board (which was difficult because of the frontal warped part of the shell). Then we line up the grey side plastic pieces, screwed on the back shell, place the R & L buttons back in place (and they still clicked just like they always did), and finally screwed in the battery compartment. Problem was that two of the outter shell screws on the back (the very DEEP ones) wouldn't fit. I don't think it was aligned 100% because of the warped front part of the shell). The biggest problem was the power on/off switch. We tried lining it up with the little on/off switch in the GBA, but the plastic was warped so much, it didn't hold right... I knew right then that my GBA was basically dead. All the molding in the world probably couldn't get that fixed back right.
Still, we tried popping in some batteries and I guess the GBA was in the "on" position already because I heard the GameBoy's patented "Ding". So then I flipped up the GBA and turned it off, but right before it did, it had that Tetris "game over" noise and never turned back on again... when my wife and I heard that noise we were like, "Oh Sh!+". I think the on/off switch is out of alignment.
So now, my GBA is back together again, but for display purposes only. It looks great, but won't work... so this model will never see the light of day. So with this in mind, I say to you: Try it on a GameBoy Color or old Gameboy first before you try it on your pride and joy. The whole warping problem CAN be avoided, you just have to be EXTREMELY careful with the heat control. I never once raised the heat, but I should have turned it off and on every so often to keep it from getting too hot. I had the flame so low it blew out sometimes, but that was still too much for the case for a period of time that exceeds 2 hours.
This technique CAN work, it's just very difficult... I don't regret trying it. I just regret that I wasn't more careful, but oh well... next GBA, I'm gonna go with spray paint and see what happens there. -lol- At least then I know that all of the pieces will still FIT!
I don't know when I'll get to putting up all of the results and what I did on my page. My wife took pictures of everything, so you guys'll have that at least. The "stove top" dyeing method is definitely the most effective though.
When I get home I'll put up the pictures of my lifeless GBA. Looks good... looks great actually, it just doesn't work anymore. And if it doesn't work, well... kinda defeats the whole purpose.
Result post #2:
KenSoto
Posts: 806
Registered: Apr 01
Date Posted: 6:50am - Date Edited: 6:51am (1 edits total) Edited By: KenSoto
I killed a white boy! A white GAME boy Advance that is. -lol-
Yeah, my GBA is pretty much dead, but I was thinking about that hair dryer thing. Yeah, I guess there's nothin to lose if the GBA becomes completely unrecoverable, might as well try at them buttons and provide some pictures.
Interesting about that spray paint. This weekend, my friend and I were gonna look for some spray paint, but since the GBA is pretty much DEAD, I guess we'll be skippin that for right now. Next GBA, though, Spraypaint will be the way to go.
*yawn* I'm sooooooo tired, though. My wife and I were working together last night trying to put the GBA back together and it took a looong time, but that's 'cause the plastic was warped. Dounia's funny. She was like, "Look at our thread, it's still on page one! We're famous!"
MOS - I sure hope so. Come ooooon replacement shells.
All I can say is...
or just not dumb...
See the underlined text? Here... I'll point it out to you:
"buy a Blank Slate"
Stop this world, I wanna get off...
Speaking of Tommy Hilfiger and Gameboys...
Click here to bid on the fusion of the two...
The Paris runways didn't see that coming ^_^
I think it's obvious that it did work
Why do people always have to put innovation and creativity down? He had an idea, and he was good enough to share it with us...
Get over yourself, and leave the cynicism in the real world.
I'd suggest to whoever gave him an Informative to check your head...
Gotta give it to Gabe... He's always one step ahead of tha' game...
I'm slightly less than pleased with the fluff-happy "Final Fantasy 21 is gonna rule" comment...
::Sigh::
Because Hironobu Sakaguchi's storylines fall to the wayside...
I curse the day PC gamers were given Final Fantasy.
So what if he's sexier than 99% of us? He has the gift of creating entertaining articles that will probably never get a chance at mass media's level of notoriety...
Parents Sue Video Games... AGAIN
Flesh Eating Robots Want to Eat Your Flesh