Oh hey y’all.
I love modded Game Boy systems, and I seem to have found out something somewhat subjective that might be useful for folk to know
Diagonals are kinda shit on modded Game Boy Color systems.
Here’s what the buttons of a modded Game Boy DMG look like
Here’s what the buttons of a modded Game Boy Color look like
In addition to being larger, internally the d-pad for the DMG is a full circle.
The d-pad for GBC has a little indent on one side, and for modded systems opposite of that indent there also has to be a part of the circle cut off to accommodate the larger size of the modded screen.
There is probably some variance from unit to unit but,
My modded DMG has smooth diagonal movement. Works great for everything including shooters like Aerostar in which reliable and frequent diagonal movement is required.
My modded GBC almost feels like it has a four way gate. It’s difficult to make diagonal movements and it doesn’t reliably register them. It works great for four way movement games like RPGs and actually a lot of the Megaman like action platformers, it even works ‘okay’ for games that require some diagonal movement such as Operation C, but Aerostar and presumably most shooters become totally unplayable.
I haven’t seen/heard this mentioned anywhere, probably because shooters aren’t very popular.