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Posted: Mar 29th 2007 10:38AM (Unverified) said

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"Warm, bassy feel"? More like "Electronica-flavored fingernails on chalkbaord".
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Posted: Mar 29th 2007 11:08AM (Unverified) said

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Don't hate on the GB, that synth was unbelievable for the time, and this article is pretty awesome in detailing it. 8 bit forever. :)
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Posted: Mar 29th 2007 11:11AM (Unverified) said

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I have an original Gameboy Light from Japan that was never released in the states.

Time to fire it up.
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Posted: Mar 29th 2007 11:47AM (Unverified) said

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I went to a rave...I mean 'party' and the DJ was using a gb to get cool retro sounds. It was really cool.
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Posted: Mar 29th 2007 12:03PM aforty said

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The Gameboy Advance SP has the best display? I beg to differ... the backlight on the SP washed out all the colors into a blueish grey. My GBA games look a lot better on the top half of my DS.
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Posted: Mar 29th 2007 12:45PM (Unverified) said

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Interesting that someone took the time to investigate that so thoroughly. You would think all Game Boys were created equal, but apparently not -- at least from the perspective of chiptune musicians.

It looks like as the circuitry was shrunk, it suffered more and more from electromagnetic interference. Hence the humming and hiss. The problems with bass response are probably by design though, with the oldest models skimping on a high-pass filter near the terminal output. Some clever hackers could probably swap a capacitor somewhere and get more body out of their Pocket or Color models.
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Posted: Mar 29th 2007 4:19PM Al Cowlings said

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I always thought the old gray brick Gameboy had better sound than any of its pre-Advance redesigns. I always thought I was crazy but hey, here's the evidence to back it up.
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Posted: Mar 29th 2007 5:12PM (Unverified) said

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Yo FranktheCrank, I have a Game Boy Light too. It's my favorite Game Boy.

Now I just need an SP Lite aka SPMk2 or whatever it's called and my collection is complete. Then I'm going to have naked sex with it.
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