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Re: To see the Afterburner's sucky diagonal glare lines... (Reply to this comment)
by jumperless
I agree, the Afterburner is not perfect, but much, much better in my opinion than any of the external light sources I tried, including the Flood Light. Because the Afterburner is an after market mod, it's not going to be as good as something designed with a back-lit screen, like the iPaq. On my GBA, the diagonal lines aren't really noticeable unless you're looking at the screen from an angle. Of course, the glare from external lighting is much worse.
Yeah, the installation is not easy, but you can buy pre-modified faceplates to make it easier, of just buy a GBA with it installed.
The light is fine, I don't find it too dim and really appreciate having no glare from an external light. Color wash out was also not a problem with either of my GBAs.
You're entitled to your opinion, but when I factor in the extra weight, glare and excessive battery usage of the Flood Light, I prefer the Afterburner.
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Dec 19 '02
7:12 pm PST
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To see the Afterburner's sucky diagonal glare lines... (Reply to this comment)
by c0d3h4x0r
Go here (http://www.tritonlabs.com/screenshots.html) to see very clear examples of the "diagonal glare lines" that appear on each side of the screen with an Afterburner. The pictures illustrate the problem but do not accurately portray the actual brightness (or annoyingness) of these glare lines during actual gameplay.
If you compare a properly-installed Afterburner to a real color self-lit PDA screen (such as the COMPAQ iPAQ screen), you'll notice that the PDA doesn't suffer from these diagonal edge defects. Know why? Two reasons: (1) in the PDA, the light guide is larger than the screen itself, so that there is an extra "margin" around the edge of the screen that allows the edge defects of the light guide to "die out" before reaching the screen real estate, and (2) the light source is along the side edge, not the bottom edge, which means that the diagonal edge defects are kept near the top and bottom of the screen (rather than the left/right sides), so that the typical user's viewing angle (slightly below perpendicular center, looking slightly "up" at the screen) helps to hide the glare lines. Neither approach is used with the Afterburner, so you get bad light distortion around the edges of the screen rather than a smooth even light.
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Dec 18 '02
5:16 am PST
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You're kidding, right? (Reply to this comment)
by c0d3h4x0r
You actually think the Afterburner is tolerable?!? The main issue isn't the difficulty of installation, but the P155-poor quality of the end result. The light is dim, and the so-called "light guide" is manufactured poorly (such that there are very annoying diagonal "glare lines" near each side of the screen -- a result of the "light guide" not being cut large enough to allow a margin around the edge of the screen for the awful edge defects to run themselves out before hitting the screen real estate). I wasted hours of my life installing two different Afterburners, even using a dimmer knob and getting all the details of the installation down to a fine art, and all I can conclude is that a perfectly-installed Afterburner simply sucks.
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Dec 18 '02
5:07 am PST
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