GBA Games on the 3DS unnaturally dark?

[casterofdreams]

I don't know of someone can check for me on this. I was part of the ambassador program where I netted those 10 Nes and 10 GBA games. I had these games on the original 3DS and the GBA games were dark on the 4th brightness setting. I mean really dark while 3DS software were fine or blinding.

I went and got the 3DS XL, transferred everything over, took forever mind you and tried it again after awhile since I had the system and still very dark on the 4th setting, power saving mode off. On the 5th setting it isn't brighter than the lowest setting of the 2 on the brighter GBA SP model.

Now I have no real problem putting it on 5 brightness but its annoying that I have to charge it more often and adjust it for the 3DS games everytime.

I going to assume that's the way it is but can someone confirm for me if they are that dark or if I'm "brightness" blind?

[bacteria]

It's quite plausible that Nintendo made it so that GBA games are darker on that system, to make people prefer to splash out on 3DS games.

I can't remember the format of another system that was done on; but I remember also reading about DVD's on HDMI too.

[AppleQueso]

They might be overcompensating for the fact that most GBA games had really over-brightened color palettes to make up for its lack of a backlight.

Dunno why they'd do that when they didn't have a problem leaving them as is on say, the GBPlayer, but eh. Just a guess.

[casterofdreams]

I could be wrong but I think they must have modified it through emulation on the 3ds while being true to the original on the GB player.

[Cronozilla]

They look more vibrant toned to me. My GBA really washes everything out and is pretty dim.

I took a side by side of Metroid Fusion, the 3DS is on level 5, I forgot to turn it down, but the difference between 4 and 5 isn't larger than the difference between the SP (1), and 3DS here, keep in mind the 3DS is a lot brighter than the GBA, so the camera is adding some saturation to the brighter colors: