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TARGETING THE
NICHES
Narrowcast marketing in extremis.
Viewers! Do you use
the excellent Game Boy Advance emulator
Visual Boy Advance?
If not, leave now.
Is your desktop
display commonly set to the resolution 1280x1024?
If not, leave now.
Do you find it dull
and/or depressing to use the emulator in its default window,
surrounded by all manner of distracting desktop clutter (below)?
If not, leave now.
Would you prefer to
use the emulator against a screen-filling backdrop taken from the
popular miniature-racing game Micro Machines, giving the impression
that you were, rudely, playing with your GBA SP at the breakfast
table, next to a rather small satsuma and an unusually diminutive
waffle?
If not, leave now.
If you'd rather
play with Visual Boy Advance in an environment like the extravagant
and stylish one pictured
at the bottom of this page (go on, have a quick peek), then take the following steps:
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1. Download the "skin" file created by your courageous reporter,
from here.
2. Unzip it into your Visual
Boy Advance folder.
3. In the emulator's
Options>>Video>>Render Method menu, ensure you've chosen "Direct
Draw".
4. In the same menu, check the
"Use Skin" option, then go to "Select Skin" and
navigate to the file in your VBA folder called "spmm.ini". At
this point you may have to drag the picture into the correct
position on your screen.
5. To ensure the file doesn't
affect the emu's smooth operation, go to the Options>>Priority
menu and select "Above Normal".
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The emulator in
operation should now look as below (use right-click on the mouse to
access the options), and will automatically boot up in such a style,
in the correct screen position, every time you run the emulator from
then on, causing great joy and contentment to all in the immediate
vicinity.
Feel free to edit
the picture surround in entertaining and clever ways of your own
devising, (using any standard graphics program, and leaving only the
actual game-screen area untouched) and, ideally, send them in to
WoS for the enjoyment and edification of
your reporter and other viewers.
Regardless of your
earlier choices, you should leave now.
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