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Christiaan Kras@candle recently tried out my old wormlight for the GBA and I wonder how I was ever able to game with that. It only lids a part of the screen and does a poor job at that.
@Htbaa i was wondering if these were actually LED or incandescent. i remembering it using so much battery but if it's LED i can't imagine how
@candle no clue to be honest. We did have LEDs back then. Maybe the port itself draws a certain amount of power regardless what’s connected to it?
Nentuaby@Htbaa @candle The original Nyko worm light was one of the very first commercial devices ever to contain a white LED! (LEDs were commercialized in the '60s but the problem of getting them to make white light was only cracked in '96, two years before the original worm light released.)
It was mainly just hard on your batteries by comparison-- Game Boys are *incredibly* low-power. Any flashlight, even an LED flashlight, is a comparatively high-draw device!
Fuzz-RaWeirdly, the key to making white LEDs was making the impossible blue, to up-shift with phosphors.
One day we will get beyond hardware designers thinking we want every device we own to have a harsh blue standby light.
Edit: AA cells were so much worse back then, weren't they? A modern no-name provides more.