GBA Owners READ THIS

Well, there you go! Now your glorified 1" high color Pong contraption will REALLY own!

http://boards.ign.com/message.asp?topic=6974116&replies=12

And here's the text...

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Thats right just checked my email and nintendo has responded to me emailing them about the wondeful little hole found yesterday...here it is

"Hi!

The adjustment screw that you're talking about is the flicker
adjustment. Although it seems to affect the screen brightness, it's really
there to match the screen's chips timing to the timing of the display chips
on the Game Boy Advance main printed circuit board. This setting is
adjusted to optimum using a special cartridge called a flicker cartridge
under a special light. Adjusting the flicker setting from optimum won't
hurt the Game Boy Advance, but on certain games will cause the screen
to rapidly flicker (a very annoying effect). We recommend against
readjusting the flicker setting from the optimum factory setting. The
adjustment screw is much too tight to change during shipping or use. In
fact, many of the systems that are returned to us for repairs are due to
people trying to readjust the flicker setting using the wrong tools. A
special ceramic screwdriver, flicker cartridge and special light are
required to set the flicker back to its optimal setting.

Nintendo of America Inc.
Mike Chandler"

So is this the screw that makes GBA fun?

...Sorry, i had to say it

Where's the guy that took his GBA apart and tried to backlight the screen?

Oops! Time to buy another one! This time, use the screw on the back.

Thanks!

-Lex

Anybody want to screw my hidden hole?

I'm surprised in reading this forum and a few others how skeptical people are about the screw. On this forum, I'm guessing a lot of people are tech weenies who have had the case off their PC to install new memory, or a HD, or sound/video card.....this is a SCREW! It's not magic. (at least I don't think it is).

When someone says its for use with authorized dealers only....that makes it sound like an authorized dealer is some 210IQ genius who only understands the complex inner workings of a screw and what it does to a toy (that is what a GBA is right - a toy?). If you change your PC parts, you pretty much have the IQ to mess with a screw I'm guessing.

Has anyone freaked out lately over adjusting your monitors brightness knob? I mean, it IS a knob - who knows what a KNOB could do? It may destroy my PC if I tweak it left or right. (oh, and my PC only costs about ten times as much as a GBA).

I wish I had a GBA so I could take it apart and find out what this magic screw really does (I don't want Puff the magic dragon appearing if I turn it too far).

Let's get some *real* answers to this life's mystery!

should I get a gf3 or a gba with a game or two or three? Im thinking that my 1.333 and gf2mx will be able to handel games untill unreal warfare or doom 3 come out, and by then there will be a better gf3 or they will be cheaper, gba will probably never go down in price, atleast not anytime soon.

Read deeper into the comments to start seeing all the after effects people have been hacing with changing it such as this choice comment:

"allright i gotta it back to normal but now ive screwed my gba over forever *sigh* anyone who has messed with the screw has probobly done the same. put in a game and then shake the gba kinda...everytime you shake it it will cause the screen to fade (probobly cause the screw is a little loose and is moving around a little) so know everytime i move my gba (no matter how bright or dark it is) it fades."

ook. so people who opened up their GBAs to add backlights etc did not notice it before this?

oh? not l337 enough as you though, are ya? :)

Classic...somebody asked for before and after pictures....and the response is:

ferma, i tried but my scanner doesnt like the screen much

haw haw haw

Steve you should reword your post or atleast offer "a try at your on risk thing". The way you have it now, it seems like you know for sure what the screw is and that everyone should try it.

*laugh*

I would play wait and see about this. Many people who say it works sound like the type just saying it too get other ppl to do it and see what really happens.

Steve tell us in a week if everything is still fine. Also how much did you tweak it?

Also this voids those extended warrenties from bestbuy in case you think your safe...

This is the smartest stunt since the guy who thought up "leaked drivers."

(a) produce a feature which doesn't work right
(b) hide it
(c) let users "discover it"
(d) give them the choice between voiding their warranty, and having a better visual display
(e) let them buy a new one when they burn their screen out

People never flame nVidia for "leaked drivers" not working right, because they feel that they got some kind of privledged access.

If you flip it all around, and change the next to "beta drivers" or in the case of the GBA, just make that sticker a little less wide, and the public perception totally changes.

Silly humans.

j00 guys==dumb to do this...i was laughing my ass off at all the people screwing up their GBAs on the IGN boards....

It's not that dark regular, i have no prob seeing mine. (haven't got castlevania yet tho)

How yall didnt find this weeks ago...

The demo unit # eb had that btw

So this is just tightening a screw? I read the first few pages of the IGN boards...that's what it sounds like.

Yo sTeve, this doesn't make the games look all washed out or have any negative downsides to it, does it?

Why the hell was this hidden :(

I would wait a couple of days to see if anyone reports any adverse effects.

Warranty? What warranty?

ZOINK-ME-DO

Easter Egg'd?

zoik me do!