Why does Wikipedia have the AGS-101 screen listed as 50hz?

[Pickle_Rick]

It's listed as 50hz on Wikipedia. When you check the source it's some random free literally who book that doesn't even say where it got that information from. I can't find a single other source that says the screen is 50hz. It doesn't even really make sense. For the screen to run at 50hz the games would have to run significantly slower or simply drop the extra frames resulting in stuttering. We can obviously see it's not doing either of these. So what's up with this? Remember, GB(C/A) games aren't like PC games. They're not designed to run at any framerate. Something's off here.

This is what they're using as a source BTW: https://books.google.com/books?id=J1aAAwAAQBAJ&q=nintendo+ds+refresh+rate&pg=PT799#v=snippet&q=nintendo ds refresh rate&f=false

This is the only place I can find this information...

 

[The Real Jdbye]

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It's listed as 50hz on Wikipedia. When you check the source it's some random free literally who book that doesn't even say where it got that information from. I can't find a single other source that says the screen is 50hz. It doesn't even really make sense. For the screen to run at 50hz the games would have to run significantly slower or simply drop the extra frames resulting in stuttering. We can obviously see it's not doing either of these. So what's up with this? Remember, GB(C/A) games aren't like PC games. They're not designed to run at any framerate. Something's off here.

This is what they're using as a source BTW: https://books.google.com/books?id=J1aAAwAAQBAJ&q=nintendo+ds+refresh+rate&pg=PT799#v=snippet&q=nintendo ds refresh rate&f=false

This is the only place I can find this information...

Almost definitely false. Don't know how this information ended up in a book, but it's a well known fact that Wikipedia is not always accurate.

 

[Pickle_Rick]

Almost definitely false. Don't know how this information ended up in a book, but it's a well known fact that Wikipedia is not always accurate.

I can't even tell what the book is even supposed to be. It's just filled with random video game related info. It even has cheat codes in it.

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OK, I'm back. This gets even better.

The "AGS-101 runs at 50Hz" meme is really old, I remember seeing it like 10 years ago and I don't know where it comes from. But the frame rate in the GBA is determined by CPU cycles, not the display, and all of them run at 59.725ish hz except for the Game Boy Player which duplicates a frame every few seconds to run at 59.94Hz (which gives it it's awful stutter)

First of all, Wikipedia is written by people. All other encyclopedias are written by people, too, they don't appear out of thin air in finished form. The process is known and can be understood.

Let's see what we got here. The “book” is free to read and download:
https://books.google.com/books?id=J1aAAwAAQBAJ
It's clearly some kind of cheap digital print-on-demand publication with a mismatching template. The “publisher” site lists a nonsensical collection of similar works, so I'm not even sure that the author is a real person. Despite the 2021 copyright year, most of the text is semi-automatically copied from old ass Wikipedia articles. The one in the beginning hasn't been existing for a long time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Artistic_computer_game_modification&action=history
This one in the end was quite different back in the days:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Konami_Code&oldid=35584877

However, the reviews, like the Game Boy one, came from a different source. The website mentions translation from French and Romanian, that can explain the lack of other copies of English phrase. Maybe someone else can find the original articles.

The original author, some journalist in the 2000s, could naturally make a mistake and consider the discussion of longer response times of a brighter screen a symptom of a lower refresh rate.

F*** me this one's a wild ride.
So the 800-page book listed as a source was written by a former Romanian *****.
>The book is made by organizing Telework articles (main sources: my own articles, Wikipedia
>under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license adapted by Nicolae Sfetcu, and other sources).
Among other things it has the following stuff
>Speculation in regards to the upcoming Halo 3
>Gizmondo Halo is rumoured and definitely coming
>Entire sections copy-pasted from Wikipedia with complete with citations[4]
>Mention of an unlicensed Nintendo franchisee in the Philippinies (they finally got a legit deal in 2022 apparently)
And I found a direct source for some of the text from the GBA SP section. It's directly copy-pasted from a Japanese site hosted on Tripod
This is a fascinating book that's basically useless due to being a collection of unsourced rumours and complete bullshit.

OK, it is stooopid. Everything with “Home | Up” etc. in the end was simply copy-pasted from (mobile) Wikipedia articles.

It was added in December 2005
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Game_Boy_Advance_SP&diff=prev&oldid=33293442

and removed in January 2006
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Game_Boy_Advance_SP&diff=prev&oldid=36483830

We have completed the circle. Wikipedia article references incorrect version of itself from 2006.

It's literally random BS.