On Sunday, April 01, 2001, 9:01:36 AM, someone wrote:

> Hi all,

> I got my GBA yesterday. I'm sure there's no need to tell you the games I've
> seen so far look superb :) Anyway, while testing my homebrew games (for GBC)
> on my new baby I noticed some strange things:

> First, as someone already pointed out, the colors look awfully darkish...
> but, what really puzzles me is the display screen *not being the same size*
> everytime I run the game. Sometimes there's a black border sorrounding the
> screen (which I think would be the right setting?) and sometimes the game
> starts with the screen stretched out covering the entire display.

> The funny thing is the screen also changed from "narrow" to "wide" while
> running the game. :-o

> Has anyone else noticed this behaviour? FYI, I'm using Bung carts and the
> game I was testing performed very tricky and tightly sync'd operations each
> HBL. Maybe this has something to do with it, don't know.

Are you aware that pressing L and R when running a GBC game switch
the game between having borders and being stretched to fill the
screen? It sounds like that is what is happening...

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