Rare ANA GameBoy Pocket FULL Restoration!
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- This is a very rare GameBoy Pocket which was made for Ana Airlines back in the day! In this video we take a look at some facts about this GameBoy as well as restore it! Enjoy.
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Wait, you're restoring a gameboy?
This is impossible, nothing bad could happen to a gameboy
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There was a bunch of bots here, I presume.
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I somehow lost the password. I love any assistance you can offer me
@Avi Connor instablaster =)
"Brazilian" is not a language, we speak portuguese, fun fact, chines is also not a language chinese people speak mandarin and cantonese
I think he means that it was a box from Brazil, a "Brazilian" box, or maybe i misunderstood haha but yes, Brazilian it's not a language:'c
Mandarin and Cantonese are forms of the Chinese language, so they are different kinds of Chinese
You big brain
@@bookishaxis123 I agree with you
in what he meant.
acho que ele tava falando que a caixa era brasileira e não o “preço especial” kkkkkkkk
"This is a European packaging, this one looks Brazilian" xD
Yes I just commented on that as well xD João Ramos that looks Portuguese. Certo?
engraçado... eles nunca pensão q possa ser português de Portugal.
The replaced motherboard does not affect the value, if the original motherboard is kept, and is sold along with the repaired unit.
Is that the same as Washington axe? Incase you you never heard the question if you had washingtons axe and replaced the handle or top is it still Washington axe?
The allure of these gameboys for me is, that they are a product of their time. When swapping the internals, it isn't the one from back then anymore. Obviously there are levels to how authentic it needs to be. Changing the polarizing foil is fine, swapping the motherboard with one from another ANA would probably also be ok.
Sure, the only thing custom is the front plate, but we don't collect front plates, but game boys, so the rest must have some significance as well, right?
@James Schappert What if all the ANA boards have a specific serial number on it? Like an A at the front or whatever. Would that change things for you?
Triggers broom
@@Michael_800 sorry michael didnt mean to like your comment, cos you are an idiot :)
"ANA" is not said like a name, but the individual letters, A N A. It's short for "All Nippon Airways."
Also, there is no Brazilian language... they speak Portuguese
In Japan it is pronounced ANA all as one word though.
@@bonehand87 You sure about that? In all the commercials I can find (both Japanese and English-language) they spell it out. ruclips.net/video/UVRrL-KY3qc/видео.html for example
fluffy it’s abbreviated in the commercials but typically people tend to just say ANA since it is easier and quicker to say in Japanese.
@@bonehand87 Interesting. But do they pronounce it like Elliot did or do they say it like "aynay" or something like that?
That is a thing of beauty. Love the colour.
No that’s a pocket, the color is a different product
Stupid he likes the color of it
Aide Fcv the real idiot is the one one who misunderstood the joke 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻
Aluminium*
@@BigMacSoss I don't understand your question. Try writing it in English. Thanks.
Now restore a gamecock
A what?!
@@cammie0105 You didn't watch his other videos, did you?
lol you said cock
Elliot, I genuinely love all your videos...
But, man, is it good to see a restoration vid again! By far my favorite videos you post. Thanks for the great content!
Thank you!
they’re so great. maybe it has to do with the feeling of “i fixed this gameboy, and you can too”
I’m a simple man. I see Retro Future video? I click
16:23 That Tetris gameplay gives me anxiety!
It seems Japanese companies loved making exclusive promotional products for company employees. Hell, Nintendo once made a special white version of their Color Game 6 for Toyota (I think)
@@gluttonousmaximus9048 He mentions it in the video, its the left most, and first one he names.
@@ionstorm66 the way it was explained to me was that the NES and the Game Boy were so ubiquitous in Japanese society that they were basically seen as "default" devices everyone had (like how today we assume everyone has a phone, laptop/computer, microwave, etc). So it was seen as something everyone would use and it was more fun than doing their own version of a camera or something.
@@ionstorm66 I think the Color Game 6 is a Pong type game system Nintendo made in the 70's.
This is legitimately some banging content - Big Up Eliott
Thanks dude!
Elliot makes another video, I end up buying another GameBoy.
You need to knock it off buddy I'm going broke.
10:53 so much corrosion still on that battery contact!
European packaging variants -> This one looks brazilian I think. *hmmmmmm*
1:03 it's Spanish. Also the language of Brazil is Portuguese.
I really love seeing all the different editions you keep finding, never imagined they made so many!
Use the glasses lens scratch repair kit "pencils" or "crayons" on the scratched screens. It'll "erase" 90% of those scratches...
Where were the nice Hard Cases when I was Playing with my Gameboy / Pocket?
I wish it wasnt just Japan that got really cool exclusive products...
Love your vids mate! I can’t believe that an airline company teamed up with Nintendo! The things they do huh...
Pretty sure they've teamed up with airlines several times, they've made systems specifically for plane ( i don't mean a brand new console, I mean versions of existing ones or controllers) wasnt the ique thing originally made for planes?
@Comrade i thought it was on planes too?
I guess you could say that the Retro Future is “ANA” roll lately 😂👍
You beat me to the joke. Congratulations.
Even though I'm 28, when I grow up I want to be like you :)
The box doesn't come from Brazil since 'precio especial' it's spanish so...
It's pronounced A N A (sometimes in Japanese you say ANA like you said but it's better to avoid it because it sounds like the word for 'hole' as in butthole) it's an abbreviation for All Nippon Airways or 全日空. Their callsign NH is Nippon Helicopter (they originated as a helicopter company)
Always nice to see another restoration video. Have you ever considered expanding into doing the same for consoles, as well?
For you, jersey must be the second most "gameboy per capita" after japan xD Now im thinking of getting a modded ags-101 with an everdrive, or brewing a switch lite? The latter is more frowned upon by nintendo but still generates some profit for them.... You sell any modded sps?
The story behind the water... someone throw it out of the air plane and it landed in the water...
Oh those crystal clear cases 🤤.... why hasn’t anyone made them yet for retro consoles?!
All nippon airlines did a lot of stuff with Nintendo latest thing they did with ANA was the Boeing 747-400 pokemon livery jets
I firmly believe before you're done you'll have one of every GameBoy, GBA, DS and 3DS variant ever made.
Great content as per, but like... you fixed the mobo and (mostly fixed the screen) I 100% get the screen reasoning but why did you put the OG motherboard in the hello kitty case rather than the one you ended up putting in the case in the vid xD
Because the motherboard’s silk screen was peeing off because it’s been corroded. And as this is a see through GameBoy I didn’t want to see it.
@@TheRetroFuture that's a fair comment thanks for the reply man
What happened to your hand
it has a huge line
Just like my screen BROKEN
The green one is from Spain. Greatings from Galicia, Spain
All Nippon Airways for anyone curious..
The US GB cleaner is virtually identical to the JPN one. Minus the US box being the same size as the US GB boxes. And the cart lable.
i litterally saw one like this for sale in a local buy and sell groupd cib for 600 bucks
I see you're wearing the Seiko Timemeter watch from you other video, nice!
Understand the display swap but should have left the original motherboard in it esp as it was working
Can anyone help me with finding ags 001 capacitors I accidentally unsoldered c48 and c67. I can’t find a place to buy those
Try asking makho, the dude's Frankenstein'd a ton of GBA's and SP's, he might know what they are, maybe even where to buy them
Ancient Chinese proverb: If you can't find the GameBoy answer from TRF or makho, it might not have an answer.
so why do gameboy screens seem to always be burned? is it just a poor quality screen or something?
My daily dosage of satisfying Gameboy refurbing
Gotta love those ultra close up shots during cleaning and restoration.
I have a GBC of ANA, it's also clear blue.
oh my gosh elliot we speak portuguese at brazil, not spanish! hahahahhahahah
the battery contact on the board, especially the spring is still pretty much corroded, you can see it at 10:53
I had a box of official NES cleaning kits, they were basically the same as a game boy one (well different cartridge obviouly) as in it had that stick with pads on both ends.
Hey Elliot, thanks for restoration videos, it's been useful for me, having restored my Game Boy Pocket and Colour back to a nice state.
Could you offer any advice on how to align the Pocket screens properly? I've found a lot of wiggle room in mine, maybe because it's an aftermarket case.
Plot twist: Elliot uses his personal toothbrush for the cleaning process 👀
Woah this looks nice
And nice in the internals and like the parts they look really nice to look at
I flew with them in 2017 and 2018 to Japan and Vietnam. I highly recommend them.
Dude another freaking amazing video! Dude keep up the phenomenal work and content!
The extended gameboy cart should of had two carts in it so you could flip it around for even more games
Happy pocket screens are finally popping up on ebay. i need a couple for my GameBoy Pockets but couldn't find any without harvesting them from other gameboys.
Antinuclear antibody Gameboy Pocket?
so where do you usually find these gameboys again? I can never seem to find anything on the Internet that isn't an extortionate price?
@Johnston Steiner haha I just never seem to find them
I saw the ANA Airlines one being sold for 500 at a retro games store
Lucky it came with the battery cover 😅
Sure was!
Wait if you fixed the motherboard why not put it back in the blue one....am I missing something?
It's still got a lot of visual damage so best to swap it with a Gameboy that isn't seethrough or else it will look ugly
But does it have airplane mode?
Japan loves making limited edition items. I would have such bad FOMO if I lived there.
I recently found your channel. Been binging your videos and today I decided to just go and buy a broken Gameboy pocket for 30€ and I'll try to restore it. Cheers.
You are good at showing people how to take things apart.
I've actually been wondering -- how well do the back stickers hold up in water? Whenever I go to clean any shell, I'm always worried that if I let it sit in soapy water for too long, it'll take off the sticker. Is that not the case?
It won't take the sticker out, but certainly will damage it, as it did in the video, the water entered on the sides.
That’s a Beautiful Gameboy
Anyone else get triggered when they saw the battery corrosion on the spring at 10:53?
I've thought about getting a TFT or IPS screen for my GameBoy Color to make it more playable, but the screens seem to cost more than the Chinese emulation machines. You have to have money you if want to get into modding. I can't even afford a Nintendo Switch. Maybe, the price will come down when the next console comes out, but then they become collectors items costing about the same or more as what the cost now being used. Collectors are the reason I can't get into retro gaming without piracy and emulation. Places like Game Stop don't help either. I remember when you could get a used Atari game at a garage sell for just 25 cents. Now, it's more like $25. I probably could auction off my old consoles and games for big money...maybe. I'm not sure why I would want to do that, though. It's seems sacrilegious. I mean, people just get these things to display on a shelf. That's not why these things were created in the first place.
I’ve been binging your repair videos on rare handhelds and I absolutely love them. Please keep doing this!! I will be watching
Classic. Youve done a hundred of these videos but theyre always super satisfying to watch.
I wish you would just replace the polizer instead of the screen. There is nothing wrong with the screen and not that hard to change the polizer. Hope you keep the screen since they still work. Ok good you said you fixed the old one.
What I do, which seems to work very well, is I will use a q-tip soaked with IPA and rub it onto the contacts of a random gameboy game (nothing super important) and will repeatedly insert it into the slot. It tends to clean up both the slot and the cartridge itself pretty well. Makes games that won’t read work just fine. This also works with Nintendo DS games
That thing is really nice, the blue is lovely. I bought for myself the GBC version a while back.
It is rather remarkable how many variations there are of not only the original game boy but the pocket, color etc.
Those cases at the beginning are awesome, but I have scavenged the depths of eBay looking for them and I have never found one. Am I doing something wrong or are they just really that hard to come by?
You are looking in the wrong place. These are sold in japan. Eliot uses sendico.com
@@CY1RG Elliot litterally says in this video that he gets them from eBay, and that the ones he has are from Europe, he mentions Spain and Italy specifically.
ANAs done a ton of promotional stuff with pokemon, made promo cards and airplanes complete with pokemon decals n such. i own a model plane from it. never knew they collabed on a gameboy tho super cool!
Hi so I decided to clean my gameboy pocket buttons and pads since they were a bit gross yesterday and I didn’t notice it until today that the casing by the power switch side had a little gap like half a millimeter but the rest of the top casing closed properly I am wondering if I did something wrong I placed everything in right tightened the screws right also
I want the hello kitty GBP!
What i really want is a GBC inside of GBP shell. With a larger IPS screen.
I get someone would probably have to make a custom board that would probably require desoldering the big chips from the GBC to put onto the new board, but that would be pretty cool. I could possibly do it if i had the the full board schematics and details from a GBC/GBpocket. So i can map everything around myself.
Or even a GBA inside of a gameboy pocket. I just love the gameboy pocket size and layout.
another universe
Eliot - Eli
The Retro Future - The Modern Future
Gameboy - PSP
Nintendo - PlayStation & Xbox
Hat - Bandana(cuz why not?)
On Air - On Ground (cuz why the fuck not? (2) )
1:02 as a brazilian i can tell you that this box is not from Brazil. The word “precio” (here it’s “preço”) looks like an italian or a spanish word
(btw the box says Special Price)
greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷❤️🇬🇧
Dude sendico sucks I can’t find game boy stuff like I do in just normal yahoo auctions you need to do an instruction video on how to get search results!
Great job. Having swapped the mother board shouldn't affect anything because it is an identical one. It is not an upgrade. Also there is no common serial number printed on the case, the mother board or the screen. What would happen if you had to replace a component on the motherboard? It shouldn't matter if you used an identical one. For info, in the airline industry, ANA is not pronounced Ana but A.N.A. It is the abbreviation for All Nippon Airways. In Japan it is referred as Zennikku which is the abbreviation of its Japanese translation Zen Nippon Kuyu.
European packaging.. That looks Brazilian?? As a Portuguese from Portugal I feel embarrassed xD Brazil is not from Europe mate. And Brazilian is not a language. We all speak Portuguese :p And yes that looks Spanish. :p
First com
Really wish Gameboys were still cheap. I loved refurbishing them, but I'm not willing to drop a hundred bucks in case I mess up and ruin it. Of course, this one is considerably more than regular models, but still. At least it's not as bad as other gaming stuff, Guitar hero guitars are absolutely ridiculous nowadays!
I think you mean Spendico, am I right? 😂
Actually, their fees are very reasonable, and DHL shipping can be reasonable, if you keep things at or below 2 kg.
I wish he did a video of his watch collection. He always seem to have an interesting watch on his wrist.
Hey Elliot, why don‘t you peel of the protective layer on the type-sticker? On my GB it was looking bad, but after removing it, it looks brand new. Here it was still on the sticker...
Personally the only time I'd have an issue with replacing original parts in a rare Gameboy, is if you were intending to flip it and were dishonest during sale, eg. "Perfect, all original parts" etc. But when it's for your own collection, its nice to have it working rather than in poor condition or dead MB, screen and so on.
"*This one looks Brazilian*"
Bought an original GBA with the same button problems a couple of years ago. Chrome cleaner does an amazing job at making even badly corroded contacts fully functional again.
You got a tetris
So Satisfying! Thanks Elliott! :-D
i bought a Gameboy pocket years ago that i packed away & forgot all about it. until i was looking thru my boxes of stuff & found it & it has the same burned-out screen as the one you showed
I hope you bought the Retroid Pocket 2 for review.... Is insane!!
1:02 this is not Brazilian Portuguese. Precio is probably spanish, if it were pt-br it would be "preço".
Where can I buy the boxes? .. you mentioned Ebay. you will have link. greetings from Mexico
hey Elliot. can you please post the ebay link with the gameboy pocket cases? thanks
So were these units sold at the airports that ANA landed and took off from? Otherwise I wouldn’t understand why these would be sold anywhere else.
People always blow on the connector of the cardridge, but that is not a good idea, because the moister from your breath can corrode the contacts of the game, so i always clean it with some alcohol and a paper towel
100 pounds, they seen you coming from a mile away, you paid way too much for a busted Gameboy.
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