Seller's other items. Sell one like this. Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. Item specifics. Very good: An item that is used but still in very good condition. No damage to the jewellery case or Read more about the condition Very good: An item that is used but still in very good condition. No damage to the jewellery case or item cover, no scuffs, scratches, cracks, or holes. The cover art and liner notes are included.
Seller's other items. Sell one like this. Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. Item specifics. Very Good: An item that is used but still in very good condition. No damage to the jewel case or Read more about the condition Very Good: An item that is used but still in very good condition. No damage to the jewel case or item cover, no scuffs, scratches, cracks, or holes. I really had to mash down the buttons to make a good connection.
It was most obvious navigating menus, where I could sit there tapping A lightly over and over and nothing would happen. Also the power switch wiggled a little bit and made a click noise whenever I touched it.
Rather than go through the hassle of sending it back, I decided to pop it open. Ultimately, several fit and finish issues were causing the innards to not close together snugly and so the buttons didn't hit all of the time.
Here's what I had to fix: 1. The power wires for the front-light were getting pinched by the replacement shell, so that the front of the shell was being pushed out, lifting the buttons a mm or two higher than they should be.
I fixed it by shaving the plastic where the wires were passing through so the shell would rest flush where it wanted to. Part of installing the front-light means removing the normal padding behind the screen to make room.
There were still a couple globs of padding and adhesive goo behind the screen maybe 3mm thick on one edge, causing the screen to torque slightly and again push the front of the shell out. I scraped off the globs and everything fit much nicer after that. The rubber membranes under the problematic B and A buttons felt fine, but they were a little dirty, so I cleaned them. The other membranes under the other buttons were fine. Part of the problem is the replacement buttons themselves.
I compared them with real GBC buttons, and the replacements are in fact about 1mm shorter overall and are molded slightly different on the inside where they touch the membranes. So turns out they are a little more sensitive to the gaps caused by the issues I identified above.
The external power switch has two little nubs that reach in and move the "actual" switch on the circuit board. The molding of the replacement external switch is close, but not a perfect match to a real one.
When the shell was being pressed outward, the switch was just loose enough that the little nubs weren't aligned and would "click" against the internal switch. Fixing the issues above stopped the clicking.
Ultimately the GBC works great. It was a little annoying to have to fix things myself but I can see how it would have passed a quick "turn on, game starts, press some buttons" test. If I didn't have another GBC to compare with I might not have noticed and just got used to pressing harder.
I'm still glad that I didn't have to to the light-mod myself, though in the future I'd probably stick to original buttons and shells. Verified purchase: Yes Condition: pre-owned Sold by: thegodofgaming. It worked. I was able to satisfy some nostalgia. No other issues. Verified purchase: Yes Condition: pre-owned Sold by: primotv.
The Gameboy Color portable The Nintendo Gameboy was, by far, the most popular of any handheld console at the time. The Gameboy Color marked a turning point for the console, ushering in an era of full-color gaming for Nintendo. Far from the first color handhelds had been out since the release of the original Gameboy , it featured a very disappointingly difficult to see, transflective LCD screen.
If you were not directly lighting the screen, it was uselessly dark and hard to see. The choice by Nintendo to stay with a very primitive screen technology was not without it's reasons, however. In addition to being vastly cheaper to produce, it also allowed a much more simple LCD section, negating bulky CCFL lights, reflectors, polarizers, and the bulky inverter circuitry to drive the lighting.
This is the reason that all the color, backlit portables Sega's Gamegear, Nomad, Atari's Lynx mk1 and mk2, and NEC's TurboExpress required more batteries, of which only lasted about 10 hours at best, and added substantial weight, in addition to the bulky LCD lighting components. Nintendo's LCD choice allowed the console to run for at least 30 hours on fresh batteries, made the console small enough to fit in your pocket, and kept costs down.
Nearly 20 years later, since its release, the screen technology does NOT hold up to modern standards. With bight, beautiful and calibrated cell-phone screens everywhere, the dismal, slow, transflective screen of the Gameboy color just Get a frontlight! Overall, if you're a nostalgic collector looking for original, actual hardware to play your games on, you need one of these. Protip: when you first power-on the console, if you're playing a non-color game, hold LEFT and B, then flick the power switch ON; it'll put the console into monochrome mode.
There are many, many more button combos to change the pallet of mono games in the GBC. A very good system with an extremly large library of games. It's comfortable to hold in your hands, it can use rechargeable batteries, so you don't need to bother about a built-in battery to lose its capacity. But there is one big issue: the screen is NOT backlit. If there is no good light in the place you play it - you don't see anything.
There are some workarounds, but none of them gets it right. But otherwise, this model is a very good collector's item. Bought this product the other week as I am a huge gaming fan, growing up in the 80s when it all started and 90s when GB Color was released it was very cool to be able to get my hands on a piece of gaming history. May not ship to Germany - Read item description or contact seller for shipping options. See details. Located in:. Ships to:. Canada, United States See exclusions.
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