Hobie-wan wrote:fuctfuct wrote:Maybe i'll fire it up later today and try again. I do have a better CRT TV since the last time i tried and an HD LCD i could try it on. *shrugs*
The GB player actually contains the GBA hardware in it, so it shouldn't be laggy. I guess you just got a dud version.
Yea i knew there was full hardware inside. It has something to do about how its displayed by the cube on a standard tv instead of the GBA's proprietary lcd. Like i said when i first got it i did a lot of looking around and found quite a few people experiencing the same thing. So i just packed it away and never thought about it again. Sucks because it is such a cool idea.
This is all i could find right now with a quick google.
Ok, on to the gameplay. Personally, I wasn't wowed by what the GBP accomplished. It most certainly does what Nintendo intended it to do: it allows you to play Game Boy games on your TV. However, the results vary widely from game to game. Some problems can be fixed easily through the Screen Filter option. That is, the journey from Game Boy screen to TV is marred by some annoying jitter effects, particularly in games that utilize Mode 7 effects (scaling and rotation, commonly seen in overworld maps in RPG's and the like). By setting the filter to Normal or Soft display modes, the jitters clear right up. There are games out there that I encountered, however, where these graphical glitches don't quite go away no matter what I did.
Some games use special tricks designed specifically for the LCD display on the GBA. Some of those tricks don’t translate over well to the TV and end up making certain parts of the picture scrambled, flicker, and jitter. In these instances, use of the different filter mode may fix all problems.
I didn't have time to play around with it last night but i will try again. Mess around with the filters again. I remember Mario Land 1 being really annoying and Minish Cap being slightly anoying.
