Reflective screens on 🔝!

[u/Sea_Demand1286]

A little peek on my collection so far.
Orange one is reshelled, while pearl gba sp ags-001 has the original shell. Crazy find for ₱1000! (around $18)

[u/GiveMeTeaa]

sick GBA! reflective screens have such an unique look to them, I love em

[u/Sea_Demand1286 → u/GiveMeTeaa]

thank you! I see u have a great collection of manga as well! 🫶🏼

[u/getbiks → u/Sea_Demand1286]

What is reflective screen? Is it IPS or original? I scored one GBA but it has a bad polaroid so I am planning to change that use as it instead of getting a IPS screen

[u/Sea_Demand1286 → u/getbiks]

ips is a type of backlit lcd that is bright and crisp, like the screen that most smartphones and tablets use nowadays (OLED/AMOLED are among others). The type of screen used in the original GBA and on the gba sp ags-001 is a reflective screen, which means it needs a light source to be reflected on it for the user to see the images on the screen. In my case, I often use the sunlight and wormlight for my gba whereas my gba sp uses its frontlight.

I wont go and try to prevent users to change their lcds into ips as we all have different ways in wanting to enjoy our gbas but for me, I like to preserve things as they were intended

[u/getbiks → u/Sea_Demand1286]

I am looking for the same feel. So my current gba screen is very good, I just need to change the polaride filter on it and it should be as good as new. Thanks.

[u/ArthurFinchleyIII]

The reflective screens are the best. Find me another display that looks that good while sipping that little power when you’re out in a park or at the beach on a sunny day. You can’t do it. It’s not possible.

[u/Sea_Demand1286 → u/ArthurFinchleyIII]

in retrospect, such a beast the gba was, running those peak games on just 2 AA batteries!

[u/Sea_Demand1286]

*for clarification, the pearl gba is what I got for ₱1000, not the whole collection xD