Just got a game boy pocket and noticed this ''pixel bleed'' where you get quite faint dark lines going across the screen vertically. Apparently this is not fixable and is a flaw of the panel itself unlike ones where you get dead pixels.I've heard this is common, but is this on all game boy pocket's or just a lot of them? It's noticeable on mario land 2 if you want to test your own one
Asking because I can return this one and just roll the lottery again until I get a good one if it's the case that not all game boy pockets suffer this issueHere's another example of it
Never seen a unit that didn't have it, but I've only seen three.
>>12839078>>12839086What battery are you using?
Sounds like the screen is slowly getting ready to die.
>>128391491.5v Panasonic AAAs>>12839141Thank you for the stats on these, anybody else with experience seeing multiple units i'd like to hear it
>>12839170Usually streaking like that is usually caused by voltagePerhaps capacitors if you're not using lower voltage batteries
>going across>vertically
>>12839078it's normal.i have a gb light (same screen, just backlit) and it looked the same. had to swap the screen because it died and still had it.the screen died again and just gave up and installed a good ips one because sourcing oem screens is harder and more expensive as time passes.the gb light is ideal for ips because it takes AA's instead of AAA's.i got a biverted brick for my original screen needs. they are more reliable and don't have the issue or is very faint.
>>12839449I did see some people on reddit suggest that they had seen units with none of this ghosting, but they could have been wrong of course
>>12839480I have a Japanese GB Pocket which I got as a teenager in the early-ish/mid 2000s (2002 to 2004? somewhere in there). I know the screen currently has the problem you're talking about. I'm not a huge fan of the Pocket, so I've never really used it much, but I want to say it had the same issue even back then. If I fine tune the contrast, I can find a decent balance between visibility of the rest of the image and those streaks being not as apparent.I also have a Light, and it too has those streaks, though I believe to a lesser degree than my Pocket. Will have to double check later. I think both of my two original GBs have some of this issue, but not to the extent that the Pocket does. I'll have to line them all up and photograph them.That said, I've noticed similar aberrations on my two GameGear screens, though there is a fairly stark difference between the two, one with a screen which barely has the issue, and another where the issue is hardly visible at all. I think the "good" screen is on a somewhat later US model which, iirc, is one of the less reliable screen connector types, and the "bad" screen is a Japanese model. Interestingly, even on old caps, the "good" screen looked good, and the "bad" screen looked bad, even with new caps, so it does not seem to be a capacitor issue.
>>12839603>two GameGear screens, though there is a fairly stark difference between the two, one with a screen which very obviously has the issue, and another where the issue is hardly visible at allOops. One GG has it bad, one barely has it. My guess is that it might just be luck of the draw.
>>12839603Apparently it's a panel flaw that shows up quite a bit on passive matrix displays so yeah not a cap thing
bumping before i go to sleep to see if there's anybody else with experience
help sirs
>>12842001Where is your contrast dial set? I'll photograph mine so you can compare
>tfw bought a Chromatic insteadWho's laughing now, fuckers?>inb4 the lack of pivotNot a problem on mine. I physically cannot make it register opposite directions simultaneously no matter how hard I try
>>12842116>>inb4 the lack of pivotThey have a mod kit that includes a dpad with a pivot
If it's anything like the original Gameboy, applying a soldering iron on low-heat across the ribbon cables attached to the screen will get rid of vertical lines.
>>12842160This is a different issue than what happens with original GB screens. On those, dead pixel columns/rows are caused by poor connection, which can indeed be fixed with a soldering iron or heat gun (the columns more easily than the rows). The consensus seems to be that the erroneously darkened pixel columns that line up with correctly darkened pixels on a GB Pocket screen is just an inherent issue with the display itself. I don't know if every display has it to some degree, if some develop it over time, if some were just better or worse out of the factory, or what.
>>12842003It's just at a sensible place in the middle which articulates all the 4 colors clearly, the vertical lines are quite visible on mario land 2 especially if you wanted an easy one
