8th October 2019, 6:46 PM
(7th October 2019, 11:19 AM)Dark Jaguar Wrote: The audio quality of the Gameboy line is another rabbit hole. I found a site that covers everything from audio glitches in early model GBCs to which ones suffer from the most interference. The GBA also has a few odd audio issues. If you pause the game in Link's Awakening, there's some odd audio artifacts in the notes on the menu that aren't present on older systems.Interesting, I didn't know about that stuff, I don't think. Other than volume, I don't think I've ever noticed differences in audio between different GB models, though I'm far from an audiophile. It is pretty interesting that they have small differences like that.
https://aquellex.ws/goodies/tutorial/gam...omparison/
Quote:I'd say the flicker effect starts to become noticable starting with the Gameboy pocket, but it really stands out from the Gameboy Color onward. Oh, and on the Super Gameboy it also becomes very apparent, since that video is being fed into CRTs which don't blur in that way. (For clarity, I don't mean a side to side or vertical blur, but rather a blur THROUGH TIME!... from one frame to the next...
Hmm, do you mean all of the flicker effects? If so, I guess I'm just not noticing it on any of the actual Game Boys; as I said, I thought those Gradius: The Interstellar Assault bombs and shield and such looked just fine on my GBA SP, unlike the flicker of emulators or the SGB. Or maybe I'm just not noticing it? I mean, I do rarely actually notice the difference between 30 and 60 fps, and such...
So, though, I got a bunch of stuff today... how about I start with the most interesting? One of the places I went today had gotten a bunch of pretty interesting complete in box Game Boy games in, and I got a couple. It's always kind of shocking how expensive GB games with the boxes are, but they're valuable -- the prices I paid are actually good, getting these on ebay would have cost even more! These two games, like many GB titles, are somewhat uncommon complete in box; most people threw away their Game Boy boxes, sadly. They had more than this, but I got these two because I don't own the games and they looked like the most interesting of the bunch. (The guy there said that he was going to ebay a few particularly valuable ones, such as some wrestling game that is expensive for some reason... huh.) I may get a few more whenever I'm there next, but that'll be a bit.
Game Boy
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Castelian - complete in box (with poster), $25. This is a port of a puzzle-platformer game also known as Tower Toppler, also released on other consoles such as the Atari 7800 and more. It's a pretty frustrating game that relies on memorization, but has some ideas...
Solomon's Club - complete in box, $40. This game is the GB spinoff of Taito's Solomon's Key.
Switch
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Daemon X Machina - $40, used (but complete). I wasn't going to get this one so soon, but after seeing it on for this price I decided to go for it because I liked the demo and have wanted to play more of the game.
Game Gear
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RoboCop 3 - $7, cart only
NES
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Swords & Serpents - $5, cart only
Also for $7, I got an almost complete in box copy of StarTropics, one of my favorite NES games. Previously I only had a loose cart, but this copy has the box and manual. It's only missing that letter that's supposed to be attached to the back of the manual, but oh well, this is pretty cool as is.
And these last four games were $9 total, buy 4 $5 games for $10 at Gamestop (these is the only things here I got there.)
Xbox 360
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Fuse - complete
Mafia II - complete Greatest Hits edition, with a second disc with all the DLC addons on it
Wii
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Carnival Games Minigolf - complete
DS
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Theme Park - cart only
(and not in that deal)
COP: The Recruit - $4, card only. This Ubisoft game has fairly impressive polygonal 3d environments for the DS.
Also I got a few digital games that are on sale recently. These first two I got today.
Wii U DD
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Vektor War - $0.79
Switch DD
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Anodyne - $1 - This is supposed to be good and is on sale for really cheap.
PC DD
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Age of Empires: Definitive Edition - $10, Windows Store. This remaster of AoE 1 has a pretty nice graphical overhaul, but I didn't want to pay full price for it, particularly not on the Windows Store. This was affordable enough that I went for it.
Civilization VI & its first expansion The Gathering Storm - $20 and $15, respectively. This sale finally got me to get this game, though there is also a second expansion that I'll get another time, when its on sale for cheaper.