Family Photo -- All Four Link's Awakening Cartridge Variants ~~ Finally Together as One! ~~
In the spirit of all of the Link's Awakening posts, I'm finally posting a gallery of the 4 LoZ:LA variants I have. Here's the imgur gallery with individual photos of each game and boards, front to back. Sorry that rev-3 is roached. It's very hard to find and this is the best copy I've managed to find so far.
https://imgur.com/gallery/45hsWOT
And, for the lazy, here's the images of the four grouped together and their grouped board images.
https://imgur.com/gallery/45hsWOT
And, for the lazy, here's the images of the four grouped together and their grouped board images.
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No DX?
Yeah, GBC games aren't a priority and I don't even own it yet because of that. Once I complete my GB set, I'll likely look to get all of those variants. But, anyway, since my main focus is on the complete OG GB set, that's what I'm focusing on.
What do those resistors do on the earlier board that wasn't needed on the later boards?
I had the same question. My educated guess is they used a different ram or rom chip and the voltages were slightly different. Considering that the holes are on the board for the resistors, I assume those may have been populated depending on which chips were in stock in the manufacturing facility at the time. In other words, if RAM chips had a large lead time, the could have used two different chips that were basically the same except for a difference in voltage. By populating the resistors, they could switch between what was available. That's just a guess. I'm not an electrician.
Fair enough! Too bad there's no cardboard, but I understand why you'd not bother.
Interesting enough, the "cardboard" for rev-2 is supposedly a specific variant of Game Boy Pocket that had that game specifically packed in with it. I don't think it has a retail box, otherwise. I have no clue where rev-3 came from.
Nevermind... sorry for the bump.
What do those resistors do on the earlier board that wasn't needed on the later boards?
I had the same question. My educated guess is they used a different ram or rom chip and the voltages were slightly different. Considering that the holes are on the board for the resistors, I assume those may have been populated depending on which chips were in stock in the manufacturing facility at the time. In other words, if RAM chips had a large lead time, the could have used two different chips that were basically the same except for a difference in voltage. By populating the resistors, they could switch between what was available. That's just a guess. I'm not an electrician.
If you notice, they were replaced with surface mounted ones. Three of those are ceramic capacitors, one is a resistor. They are probably bypass caps. I suppose it was whatever was cheaper at the time.
What do those resistors do on the earlier board that wasn't needed on the later boards?
I had the same question. My educated guess is they used a different ram or rom chip and the voltages were slightly different. Considering that the holes are on the board for the resistors, I assume those may have been populated depending on which chips were in stock in the manufacturing facility at the time. In other words, if RAM chips had a large lead time, the could have used two different chips that were basically the same except for a difference in voltage. By populating the resistors, they could switch between what was available. That's just a guess. I'm not an electrician.
If you notice, they were replaced with surface mounted ones. Three of those are ceramic capacitors, one is a resistor. They are probably bypass caps. I suppose it was whatever was cheaper at the time.
Ah! I see that now.
That rev-0 and rev-1 look like you just took them out of the box. Super clean!
Originally posted by: rlh
Originally posted by: Gloves
Fair enough! Too bad there's no cardboard, but I understand why you'd not bother.
Interesting enough, the "cardboard" for rev-2 is supposedly a specific variant of Game Boy Pocket that had that game specifically packed in with it. I don't think it has a retail box, otherwise. I have no clue where rev-3 came from.
yep:
how's that