GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button

[roskelld]

I've missed Web buttons. I remember entire movements done using them back in the mid 90's. There were some boycotts where people would put the buttons on their site to show support.

I also remember the ones proudly showing that their web page was written in Notepad or even Edit instead of some bloat ridden Frontpage or other generator site.

This was a really fun read. Will sub to your rss!

[kristopolous]

https://9ol.es/buttons/index.html a while back I did some archival scraping for these (using things like last modified dates, looking for meta generator tags... I forget how I wrote it exactly, it's probably somewhere)

I did some research in icon packs but as far as I can find, a bunch of these are just independent creations.

Therefore, I believe this collection is the definitive source of all of them. I found no other modern effort at collecting them.

[jsheard]

I miss those 350x19 "userbar" images that people used to stack in their forum signatures. Can we get those on HN? I need everyone to know I use Dreamweaver.

http://tiptopglobe.com/free-forum-userbars

[zakhary]

Thanks so much! Hopefully I'll post more on my blog this year

[mysterydip]

I love the comeback of web buttons. And pages like this that go into great detail of such a niche thing.

[zakhary]

Thanks for the kind words! :)

[looperhacks]

Cool post!

The capture process sounds much more complicated than necessary. There are emulators that can capture the output as APNG/GIF/... If you really want to make sure that you have every frame, a good emulator also supports manual frame stepping without having to use the debugger.

[zakhary]

Thank you!

Yeah I definitely could have improved the capture method. It happens to be that I'm already familiar enough with GBZ80 assembly, but given how tedious taking the actual screenshots was I would opt for a less complicated solution in the future.

[pimlottc]

You could also use a screen recorder with a non-lossy codec and grab the frames from that

[jwrallie]

As a side effect of owning a GBC since I was 12, I can hear this gif!

Over 20 years later, the atomic purple now looks a bit yellowish, and I had to replace the polarizer at some point due to UV damage, otherwise still working perfectly fine.

[austinallegro]

Great work!

Also, Nintendo lawsuit incoming in 3...2...

[zakhary]

Thanks!

> Also, Nintendo lawsuit incoming in 3...2...

Lol I sure hope not

[0x00cl]

There is a big collection here: https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/

[catskull]

Very nicely done! Great blog as well, I’ve subbed to your RSS.

[zakhary]

Thank you! I don't post as often as I'd like to, but I'm hoping to blog more this year

[K2h]

Excellent writeup. Thank yiu for showing the details step by step.

[zakhary]

Thanks! I'm glad people appreciated seeing my process for this silly little project

[m00dy]

I really like the colorful animation on the button. I was actually close to using the same technique for the DeepWalker intro, just open it on desktop in a browser that supports 3D.

[0]: https://deepwalker.xyz

[orphea]

I feel like you're self-promoting a little bit too much.