30th March 2003, 12:52 PM
Wow...
Anyway, I too have both. It's not JUST the quality of the light guide, the screen itself, even with the light off, seems sharper and less reflective than the original's. The quality of the guide is better I'd say than the Afterburner, but maybe not WAY better. As I've said, the fact that there's no dust in the screen (with it being sealed now, as opposed to breaking the internal foam seal when installing an afterburner, thus allowing dust creepage) is a huge plus. Artifacts like that, as a glasses wearer, are AWAYS pure annoyance. The trapezoid effect is also much less noticable. You only notice it at extreme angles you shouldn't be looking at the screen in anyway. The light is mostly evenly spread across the screen. It's just a tad dim at the left and right sides, but nothing noticable. I was just paying WAY too much attention at the time. They are equally as bright and can both be used as a flash light at night. Oh, as far as blue tinting, I never really noticed it before, I mean like, at all. However, with all the insisting OB1 did I started comparing and contrasting and low and behold, there DOES seem to be a little blue tintage. However, at this level of paying attention I must add there is grey tinting when the light is off, everything all dull like that, so it doesn't really matter. If I don't pay attention, I don't see it. I guess the same is so for the SP's screen, though probably less of it. Wash out? Never saw any at all, on either screen. Anyway, yes LL, I'm shocked that a company with millions of dollars to spend on research and people who's entire job is to make this product actually managed to outdo a kid with some connections and a dream... Well, anyway, one could say that it was this kid who got Nintendo to actually put a light in their system. It's likely not just by chance that Nintendo used the exact same style of light solution. This was the afterburner kid's main intention anyway, for Nintendo to put a light in from the start, so it's been accomplished. Now I'll just give my afterburned GBA to my little sister and it'll all be fine.
Anyway, I too have both. It's not JUST the quality of the light guide, the screen itself, even with the light off, seems sharper and less reflective than the original's. The quality of the guide is better I'd say than the Afterburner, but maybe not WAY better. As I've said, the fact that there's no dust in the screen (with it being sealed now, as opposed to breaking the internal foam seal when installing an afterburner, thus allowing dust creepage) is a huge plus. Artifacts like that, as a glasses wearer, are AWAYS pure annoyance. The trapezoid effect is also much less noticable. You only notice it at extreme angles you shouldn't be looking at the screen in anyway. The light is mostly evenly spread across the screen. It's just a tad dim at the left and right sides, but nothing noticable. I was just paying WAY too much attention at the time. They are equally as bright and can both be used as a flash light at night. Oh, as far as blue tinting, I never really noticed it before, I mean like, at all. However, with all the insisting OB1 did I started comparing and contrasting and low and behold, there DOES seem to be a little blue tintage. However, at this level of paying attention I must add there is grey tinting when the light is off, everything all dull like that, so it doesn't really matter. If I don't pay attention, I don't see it. I guess the same is so for the SP's screen, though probably less of it. Wash out? Never saw any at all, on either screen. Anyway, yes LL, I'm shocked that a company with millions of dollars to spend on research and people who's entire job is to make this product actually managed to outdo a kid with some connections and a dream... Well, anyway, one could say that it was this kid who got Nintendo to actually put a light in their system. It's likely not just by chance that Nintendo used the exact same style of light solution. This was the afterburner kid's main intention anyway, for Nintendo to put a light in from the start, so it's been accomplished. Now I'll just give my afterburned GBA to my little sister and it'll all be fine.
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