A video on a new 'hidden feature' on a very popular Casio, published on April first.

Yes... nothing wrong can happen 😉

 

Well it’s been on reddit for 5yrs so hardly April 1st joke

 

Very interesting and for a couple of reasons, I believe it works.

The Royale has basically the same feature set as some G-Shocks (like my GD-100 and GD-400) and at least another Casio (the DW-291). The G-Shocks have both the flash alert and auto backlight. The Casios don’t.

For industrial production reasons, it’d make no sense for Casio to re-draw all the circuitry for each specific model. For market placement reasons, it makes very good sense to reserve some features for the more expensive Gs while keeping the “lesser” Casios less feature-rich.

Try the LCD screen test procedure. On the last screen you get what many claim is the firmware number, which sometimes coincides with the module number, but oftentimes doesn’t. That, in my opinion, “proves” the circuitry is the same. So connecting something that is unconnected activates features Casio decided to reserve for other models.

I don’t have a Royale anymore, but I did and I can confirm it has the same firmware number as the the GD-100, GD-400 and DW-291 show in the pic below:

 

It does work, thus proving not everything on the internet is BS and arm chair experts are wrong.

 

It does work

Is there a corresponding option to turn it off and on which comes up as well? I don't see the little symbol for it on the LCD I've seen on some models.

 

Cool! I'm going to have to keep an eagle eye open when I disassemble modules in future; see if anything else turns up. There's another thread floating around where we speculate on the difference between module 510 and 560; one shows elevation in feet and the other metres, and there's a jumper which is shorted on one and not the other...

 

Yes it’s in settings FL on or off…

 

You got me, had my mouth open and everything. Spent a half hour doing this, and bubcus, nothing, just a waste of time, what a sucker I am.

 

Hmm, I haven't tried it on mine yet but other people seem to say it works.

 

Of course it works. Guy f…. up and instead of assuming he did, he’s laying blame. Shrugs