GBAtemp Quiz #3 Open!

[golden]

Am I allowed to post the entire answers I got? Or will I get in trouble? It's fine now right cuz it ended?

 

[leinad]

mainly aimed never to open wiki, so looked at gbatek.... BAM- 32k x_x That was the only question I wasnt 100% sure

 

[golden]

mainly aimed never to open wiki, so looked at gbatek.... BAM- 32k x_x That was the only question I wasnt 100% sure

It's a good thing they are going to take that out.

 

[Destructobot]

16 bit (65k) color doesn't make sense for the total palette. That would mean that one color component has 6 bits assigned to it while the others have 5. This in turn would mean that the GBA doesn't have any true gray colors. It's possible that they did this, but it would make games look worse than 15 bit color.

Anyway, all of the choices for that question were wrong IIRC. 16 bit color is 65536 colors, not 65535.

 

[jink84]

how long after closing are the winners usually announced?

 

[golden]

The answers I got:

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[Bullshirt]

The answers I got:

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[golden]

The answers I got:

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[alex]

I'll put in the quiz tomorrow but I just want to salute the GBAtemp staff in producing relatively easy basically random contests that are realistic to win and do not take much effort in the way of sigining up for stuff. For those of us who are broke it gives us a chance to obtain slot-2 cards.

It's a Slot 1.

Yeah, I should know that there are no Flashcarts in stores, but for me I can't order online often. So I hope I can so I can get a good Flashcart, I want to win so badly, but I guessed on like two, the others took some quick research. Good luck to all though!

 

[999roy999]

Here's where I found the answer to number 7 about the colours...... http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gameboy1.htm

YAY!

Now I hope they don't remove it. It was a tricky question, but I'm sure at least 30 people got it right.
If not, then I have to rely on luck that my name gets drawn.

 

[leinad]

The answers I got:

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[golden]

Here's where I found the answer to number 7 about the colours...... http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gameboy1.htm

YAY!

Now I hope they don't remove it. It was a tricky question, but I'm sure at least 30 people got it right.
If not, then I have to rely on luck that my name gets drawn.

They will remove it. I believe the staff member that already confirmed it was Thuglife back in page 11(can't remember the page# well).

 

[Holaitsme]

its been 4 hrs since it ended whats with the hub bub

 

[golden]

its been 4 hrs since it ended whats with the hub bub

lol be moar patient? xD

I know I didn't win but I just want to see what the winners will say bout the quiz. That's the interesting part.

 

[raypou]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monoc...ttes#15-bit_RGB

Although there are technically 16 bits to define a color on the GBA, the 3 color channels, red, green, and blue only have 5 bits a piece, for a total of 15 bits. This leads to a possible 2^15 colors, or 32768. The upper bit is not used

I still expect it will be thrown out though

 

[Ryukouki]

o wow dude i got the same answers as you had trouble on 25 and the gba color palette too

 

[NeSchn]

JPH said the results were coming soon at 8PM its going for 11PM now!

 

[thieves like us]

now that the contest is officially over, these are the questions that I had issues with and brought up with the moderators:

question 1:
neither game requires anything additional to play. they both feature something inside of the cartridge, but nothing external or what would be considered a peripheral.

question 5:
grammar. it should read "how many GBAs", not "GBA's". additionally, it is not clear as to the maximum number of GBA systems that can be connected at once or how many with a single communication cable.

question 6:
which company developer the eReader card scanning techology?
again, based on wording this is a difficult question to answer. Olympus Optical Co., Ltd. created the "dot code techology" (as well as a way to read them) that is used by the e-reader. the question would have made more sense to have it stated "which company created the technology used by the e-reader?" anyone thinking that the answer is indeed nintendo is incorrect, considering that NCL licensed the technology made by Olympus to manufacture the e-reader.

question 7:
the correct answer is 32,768, which is 15-bit rgb.
note: 65,535 is the maximum value for a 16-bit register, but the gameboy advance only has color support for 15-bits.

question 15:
grammar. it should really read "what was the name of the development house", since the answers refer to companies rather than individuals.

question 25:
grammer and spelling. it should read "which group was" and not "were" (the subject is singular) and eurasia is mis-spelled. in addition, after thug's comments, this question will probably be tossed out as well considering that many japanese releases have been posted by their [english] titles. so, truthfully, the eurasia (spelled correctly) release should have been the correct answer.

we'll see what happens when they post the results.

 

[tinymonkeyt]

the results are probably coming out tomorrow anyway. be patient

 

[Ryukouki]

nvm ignore me