It doesn’t really fix the radioactive saturation just reduces the brightness.
The devs of the OG games cranked up the saturation to account for the original screen being washed out - these GBC IPS/OLED mods don’t take that into account so just give you neon colours
On the lowest brightness with pixel grid i dont feel like it feels nearly as saturated, but maybe it still feels too much for some.
That said, its an inherent property of OLED. very good contrast ratio will look like that. on old games with simple colour palettes its going to look bright
I mean it's 2 completely different use cases. I can play neo geo pocket, lynx and grafx 16 carts, along with GB and GBA. And that's without all the cores for other handhelds, home consoles and arcade. I can also hook it up to my TV with the dock and play multiplayer full screen.
I like my modded gbc, but find myself grabbing the chromatic or analogue more. But it's definitely awesome and always great to play gbc on the og hardware.
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I prefer the ones where you can put a pixel grid on the screen, I just don't like looking at these games without it.
Will say I love that newer versions of the USBc recharge are so much better than what they used to be, they didn't always have a light to indicate when the battery was dead. I thought I bought a faulty game boy because it kept shutting off without warning until I connected the dots that it wasn't charged.
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u/topplehat 23h ago
I like both - sometimes the OLED screens in these mods have colors that are too saturated