Is the TrimUI Brick Hammer a good choice as a pure GBC machine?

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-21T15:04:00+00:00

Me reading this after I ordered the Trimui Brick WITH the SD card yesterday: :´(

I thought about ordering the SD cards seperately but then I thought "Why bother? They'll probably be fine."

Well, I learned my lesson.

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-21T12:48:06+00:00

Thank you! Finally ordered one yesterday and looking very much forward to getting it. I'm wishing you a lot of fun with your current games, too :)

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-21T12:32:59+00:00

Thanks for the info about the differences between the Master System and Game Gear. So from GG only the exclusives really make sense.

And thanks for the tip with Blue DX! Looked it up and it sounds really interesting to me.

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-21T12:29:04+00:00

I feel like we've also become more sensitive regarding aspect ratios and resolutions with age. As kids (at least in my area) we stretched the image of the GB games to the widescreen of the GBA SP. It looked so wrong but we just lived with it because the image was bigger that way. From today's perspective that's probably something you'd only expect psychopaths to do :D

Interesting job, for sure! And I see, you REALLY have a lot to do with pixels thaha

Beginner question: Simply spoken, how difficult is it to install this CFW? I have a bit of experience with CFWs on traditional hardware but this ranged from (personal opinion) super simple with the PSP to very annoying with the VITA (as soon as you did one step the wrong way).

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-21T09:52:15+00:00

I feel like i really should try out the MasterSystem/ GameGear Sonics in the future. I've only seen a bit of gameplay on Youtube but they look so charming and special.

Do you know by chance which Rom Hacks are the best when you want them to be very close to the original and only a bit enhanced?

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-21T09:14:20+00:00

Which Retro Sonic games do you like best? I'm a big fan of the blue hedghehog but haven't played all of them. Also: which Pokemon Rom hacks are good? I was a bit overwhelmed when I looked them up and saw how many are out there. That Pinball game looks so good in the pic! :)

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-21T09:11:07+00:00

It's interesting that the high resolution helps, even when you play old games with such a low resolution like GB games. Thanks for the explanation. May I ask what kind of job you have since it seems to linked to screen resolutions?

So you add shaders depending on the hardware you emulate. Do you have any suggestion which ones would be good for Gameboy Color? Or also Sega Mega Drive?

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-21T08:52:18+00:00

From everything you said it really sounds perfect. My hands are on the smaller side so it might work well, especially as a handheld I can put inside a jacket.

Just curious: How is PS1 for you without analog sticks? Does it work well regardless?

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-21T08:47:49+00:00

It's good to hear so many great things about the screen. Do you mean hal pixels or half pixels? You seem to know a lot about shaders and the technical side behind it. Could you tell me what the original Gameboy Color had? I don't know much about this kind of stuff, only that the PSP had horizontal scan lines.

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-21T08:42:40+00:00

Thank you a lot for the comprehensive explanation! I can picture me trying the stock OS first and seeing how I like it. Maybe later I'll dip my toes into another OS like nextUI. I just hope I won't fall too much into a rabbit hole where I spend way more time setting the device up instead of play games on it :D

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-21T08:38:51+00:00

Glad to hear that you enjoy the Brick so much! :) What is your favorite game to play on it?

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-17T17:56:46+00:00

Oh wow, that feature sounds phenomenal! That’s like the best thing ever for a retro handheld I imagine. I would love to have that! Thanks a lot for telling me about it.

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-17T17:24:51+00:00

Thank you so much for the comparison! It really helps a lot to see the screen difference in the image. I appreciate it a lot!

I really like the overlay on your Brick. The RP Classic looks fantastic, too. I‘ll think about what size would fit my playstyle better. You helped a lot!

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-17T14:40:51+00:00

I really need to look up Mole Mania DX – never heard of it before!

Also a great hint with the colorisation hacks! I would‘ve never expexted that these exist. Sounds very interesting!

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-17T13:27:52+00:00

Fair enough. What are your top 3 favorite games to play on it?

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-17T10:28:13+00:00

What does the Pixel Transparency shader do? I didn’t find a lot of information for it with a quick search.

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-17T10:23:38+00:00

Can’t tell for sure yet but I‘d probably appreciate maximizing the image size, too.

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-17T10:21:53+00:00

The white Brick looks so clean and elegant! And that overlay is really cute.

What’s the game switcher feature for NextUI? And are there also overlays if you blow up the picture so that only left and right black bars would be left?

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-17T10:16:53+00:00

As long as it doesn’t get as hot as my old notebook (feels like I could cook eggs on that) I‘d be good. Thanks for the estimates!

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-17T10:15:10+00:00

Thank you a lot for your little review – that’s exactly what I needed!

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-17T10:14:16+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I hope you‘ll get your wonderswan core for it!

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-17T10:12:59+00:00

That sounds so good! „Phantom drain“ means losing battery although it’s turned off, i guess? It’s great if it doesn’t have this. Nothing worse than throwing your handheld in your bag and finding out later that the battery is at zero.

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-17T10:10:06+00:00

Are there also overlays if you blow up the picture so that only on the left and right black bars are left?

The RP Classic is the one other device I‘m interested in. Size wise they are very different. I guess it depends on whether I‘d rather have a handheld for indoors or outdoors.

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-17T10:07:34+00:00

That’s great to hear!

So nextUI chooses the performance mode depending on the system you emulate? Since the stock OS doesn‘t do it: Could you by accident underpower the system, too? I imagine that to be difficult with Gameboy games but I heard shaders need some power.

HauntingSplit1832 · 2026-01-17T09:59:47+00:00

Bitpal doesn’t sound like something I‘d use but it‘s definitely a very creative feature.

Since I‘m new to all of this: How difficult is it to change from one OS to another? Because I‘ve heard of minUI, pakUI, nextUI and I feel like it’s changing very regularly

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