There is a company who does 3DS hdmi output mods as well as GameCube controller add ones. I emailed them to see if they could do both to a 2DS and they said yes! Didn’t order it though.
At this point I'm convinced people are saying this specifically to piss me off. I shouldn't need to explain why that wouldn't work for a large portion, if not the _majority_ of DS games.
@@ZunaZurugi Who wants to play the OG Xbox library anyways? Like 95% of it is actual pure trash. Only reasons to have an Xbox is Panzer Dragoon Orta, and maybe to relive the two Halo games for a couple hours.
@@quibquatch3975 Well... the Xbox Community does :d for obv. Reasons. Xbox is nice because it got a punch of interessting and creative and often for consoles unique games. Of course many of them or not super widely known to casual people that dont care about the Console.
@@ZunaZurugi lol, what "obvious" reasons are those? Also just because they're unique OG Xbox exclusives that you can only play on that console doesn't make them good. Like seriously who wants to play trash like Stake Fortune Fighters or the Bruce Lee game? There are some that are passable like Gunvalkyrie or Breakdown, but the majority is horrible junk that no one wants to see in HD.
@@quibquatch3975 whats Wrong with you xD ? You posting something like that under a Retro Video Game Chanel. Well i like to play Otogi 1 and 2, Phantom Crash, Phantom Dust, Pirate of the caribbean(has nothing todo with the movie btw, its more of a Sim), MechAssault, Conkers (which salty Nintendo fans will call the censored version... even tho the N64 version was allready censored), Yaeger or Crimson Skys Also the Multiplat Games that are usaly better on the Xbox (especialy if the only other console that got those games was the Ps2 with its horrible Video output and Controller) Also Fable.... why Fable which is on PC and looks fantastic on PC, because it doesnt have Controller Support on PC and it plays horrible because of that. And the Anniversary Edition looks worse then the original on PC. I dont know mate it has enough to offer for me Personaly to be a Worthy Collectors Console and even more so for Gaming. I also have other Consoles... i also have the Sony Consoles and like them buuuut i dont like how PAL Region stuff runs 20% Slower just puts me off.
@@JamalTheTitan I imagine most enthusiasts can solder. If not, this hobby gets very expensive very fast. Heck, it gets very expensive even if you do know.
I'm amazed how all of your videos are interesting, entertaining and solid. I'm happy to wait for your videos so they can be polished, I hope you'll never rush your work. Thank you.
26:49 - Oh my god, thank you so much for including that. I was getting just a few weird sound effects in Link's Awakening, and it had me super bummed out as this was my first big soldering/wiring project and I figured I must have screwed something up. At least I eventually thought to check the headphone jack, which sounded fine, so I went digging online and now here I am hearing that it's a known issue. Phew!!
I also feel like the degree to which this alters the hardware/firmware undermines it's purpose. It's still a cool mod kit, but it gives the impression of an emulator rather than a "Consolizer" which should primarily replace the input and AV capabilities.
@@ArtumTsumia Yeah, you're better off just getting a old PC, Wii/Wii U, or a raspberry Pi setup for significantly cheaper. Saving the GBA for a more reasonable mod.
The makers of the GBA Consolizer just changed their design which makes installation significantly harder now. The soldering went from an intermediate level to a very advanced level. Keep this in mind if you are thinking about ordering one because most of the build videos online now don't show the new process.
There are new GBA consolizing kits that are coming out that are easier, though. There's one that uses pogo pins and screws in that looks promising. No soldering
I skimmed through the comments to see if anyone recognized the platformer at 18:30 - fortunately I was able to identify it as "Pinobee: Wings of Adventure" with a bit of searching elsewhere.
@@justanotheryoutubechannel I didn't get around to playing this although I did own it, this appears to be Sword of Mana, the 'enhanced remake' of Seiken Densetsu 1/Final Fantasy Adventure. Mobygames screenshot 15 "5 classes to choose from... upgrade in one or a combination" shows the same vendor sprite in a different location, and the same floorboards, as well as bits of the rug and wall clock.
24:40 This particular data-point could be extremely telling. Likely, the use of an in-line device, which adds its own signature to the signal, is giving your Denon receiver exactly what it wasn't getting from the GBA Consolizer itself. Your discovery not only points to a simple solution, but also to the issue's likely cause. If that's the case, this could potentially be something that firmware alone could solve. As adding a signature to a sent signal isn't really that hard to do. It can be done via hardware (like it is with most vintage electronics), but is just as easily done through firmware (as it is in pretty much every modern device). This was super exciting to see you mention. I bout fell out of my chair, while flailing for the spacebar to pause! xD
For people who don't have soldering skills, they should consider using pogo pins. How that works is: Pogo pins are spring loaded, gold plated pins that can be soldered directly to a PCB. The kit would come with custom PCBs that have pogo pins which align with the spots you'd have to solder to. You screw the board in and it presses the pins against the spots. From the custom PCB you have wires going to the daughter board. Zero soldering required. Modular and easy to repair in case one of the pins fails.
Raphnet tech makes an adapter to use SNES controllers on your gamecube. I'm currently using that as well as an 8bitdo wireless snes controller with gameboy interface and it works amazing
@@Supersayainpikmin The OSSC always outputs the original aspect and frame rate. I don't know if the GBI software has any options for that as a few GC games did have widescreen modes. But that usually required altering a setting on the TV (unless you always stretched everything to fill the screen anyway). Does your TV have the capability to force an aspect ratio?
No, it doesn't. I was actually thinking of routing it through my Framemeister since my TV apprently isn't compatible with the OSSC. While It works with 960p input, I'm not sure this oddball resolution will work. I'll find out myself next week when my OSSC arrives. Even if it doesn't, it's fine since the FM still looks really good to me for GB games.
@@Supersayainpikmin 360*3=1080 so the line height there shouldn't be weird. It's very unfortunate that your TV doesn't have scaling options. I've never used one that didn't, albeit it was very buried in a few of them.
Finally got mine in the mail! Can't wait to get it put together!!! I have never been this excited about a mod before, and I have just about every mod there is!
Using an SNES controller is genius. I modded my Super GameBoy yesterday to make it use the same speed as the GameBoy DMG-01, Pocket, and Color. Next will be installing the Game Link Port.
When I first saw this, I thought it would be useless to me as I’d just use a GameCube. But when watching this for fun, I realised that this could actually be really useful as I don’t own a GameCube or have space for one. If only it had 240p analogue output, as I would definitely buy this if it did...
@@guyverjay1289 Nope but I live in a UK house and my entire gaming setup is in my bedroom that also has to be a study room and has a lot of storage. I could easily fit one in storage but my gaming setup is full so I couldn’t keep one set up.
GBA games look so crisp on an actual handheld, Mario Pinball used such high quality compression for pre remdered assets that it actually looks like super advanced 3D graphics on a actual small screen, I had to di a double take because of how good it looked, it was unbelievable.
Gotta' hand it to the Super Game Boy 2 for still being the best way to play those SGB-compatible GB games on a big screen, though! But this definitely looks like the best way to play GBA games!
Nice showing of Ninja Five O in the background, I loved that game. Cant believe how much its worth now, wish mine didnt get stolen while I was in the Army.
If a video out were to exist for 3DS you'd have access to GBA (via CFW and custom GBA Virtual Console titles) and DS too. That's another set of three Nintendo handheld platforms on the big screen with no software emulation in sight.
@@Fattydeposit There is Citra for 3DS emulation, and _it works._ You do need a real 3DS though, and some files from the 3DS which a pre-built CIA for exists. After you homebrew it you can just grab those files and use them wholesale in Citra for making certain titles like Miitopia useful, which requires a Mii of your own to play.
As if the other reviews weren't a big enough tease, here comes the Granddaddy of them all to put me in even more of an envious stupor. I have mine preordered, have the money paid, and now I am just left waiting in sheer unadulterated anticipation for mine to arrive! I praise hard and I criticize hard, and when something is truly deserving of praise I gush over it, and this happens to be one of those things. The problem though is the wait. By the time I actually receive it my excitement may be all but dried up. That is why I love it when these things are already close to being stocked and ready to go. I really hate having to wait long stretches for such amazing products, only to be teased about it's greatness every couple weeks as I wait.
I'm surprised nobody has made something like this that just attaches to the top of a Game Boy Player yet. Like a Game Boy Player... Player. Since GBI exists I'm sure people understand the Gamecube's Parallel Port's signal by now. It'd be cool for those who don't have an HD gamecube setup or aren't willing to sacrifice a GBA for a consolizer. This is a really cool product though, and I'm really considering it. I had to pack my CRT setup due to a lack of room, and I -mostly- used my Gamecube for the GB Player anyways. I have a lot of GBA games and being able to play them on my HDTV without issues would be great.
Oh wow, I haven't seen anyone else ever talk about the J-Tech Digital audio extractor. I love mine since one of the monitors I use lacks an audio out port for some reason. I would definitely recommend it to anyone else in a similar situation.
Definitely plan on picking up a kit. Also for anyone who has played the PSP versions of Final Fantasy, Street Fighter or any game that was released on a Nintendo handheld, will understand why they made the PSP visual an option.
I really hope that some day they will be a 3DS Consolizer that uses real hardware with HDMI and USB so you can use any USB Controllers and use any TV even Dual Monitors upscaled in 1080p60hz
I imagine things like the Wii U and 3DS will be so much harder since they're more tied to online accounts (that are also likely to be long-gone in the future), but I mean, I'd love that as well.
[Try4ce] Hmm that is a very good question, maybe something else keeps them in sync? Honestly I basically never have need of them, so I didn't think of that.
It’s really cool, price is a killer for now but I can see where it comes from. Maybe one day. Between this and the polymega I got a lot of saving to do
Personally I don't think I'll ever get this as when I had a Gameboy Player I rarely used it in contrast to playing on a gba, alongside with my entire Gameboy library being too small to warrant this, still neat that this is an alternative.
Love the videos Coury and Try! I'd like to point out that you can put the joy con slide grip to make L and R bigger on the NES Joy con and it feels really comfortable. Keep up the great videos!
Yeah Nintendo did a great job on those controllers! I'll have to wait and see how it feels after extended play of games on the consolizer. Hopefully I will get my full case from the initial lottery soon! Can't wait!
Hey Try and Coury, I have some pretty great news for playing Gameboy Advance on HDTV! Recently they added some Low Pass filters to the Gameboy Advance Core on Mister in one of the updates. There is a Filter that I think changes the game on GBA's audio quality - I've been testing them out extensively and have come to the conclusion that the *_Arcade LPF 6khz 2nd_* Audio Filter provides strikingly excellent results without effecting the audio range or dynamics too much (effectively minimizing the audio buzz present on GBA consolizers thru most AV equipment). I'm sure this Filter COULD be added to the GBA consolizer itself aswell - but for Mister, this is a BIG break-thru for capturing and streaming GBA (and for those of us who still hear higher frequencies). Update you're Mister and give this filter a try and see what you think. The difference is best heard on headphones of a surround system - but can still be clearly discerned thru typical TV speakers. No More Annoying Hiss!
Another great, informative video. I'm hoping for some sort of collaboration between Woozle and Analogue. Having a actual Game Boy console seems like a great idea.
Certainly looks nice, but I'm still not sure how I feel about sacrificing original GBA hardware. I know there are still a ton of them, but it's still a finite source. Steep price too. I hope someday we might get an FPGA solution for it. Either through MiSTer or a stand alone system which does GB/GBC/GBA. I'd get behind that. For now I am happy playing Game Boy.* on a GameCube + GB Player running GBi software, via component outputs, and playing with a Hori GBP controller.
[Try4ce] I don't think anything about the mod is irreversible. The same could be said of any mod, it's just that most stay in the original shell (or cut the plastic of the original shell, which I'm pretty sure this does not).
In response to the 8bitdo snes controller options. Most of the issues are with “pro” models from what I’ve heard. The 8bitdo SN30 is a fantastic 2.4ghz controller which has the exact dimensions of the SNES controller and no lag on real consoles which has been great for casual and speedrunning games. It works on switch with a usb cable and it should work great on the consolizer. The buttons even use the same cutouts for the original controllers so if you get the transparent black version and want the OG purple or colored SFC buttons on it it’s an easy swap.
If only it could fix the insanely low quality audio of GBA entirely. It feels entirely like Nintendo never counted on anyone using the headphone jack or playing these games on something with more than a tiny mono speaker. There were someone who did disassembly of games and found out that all the samples are actually of a much better quality but they end up sounding terrible because of the bad CPU audio mixing, so they created a way to convert certain GBA games that used a particular sound driver into MIDI files that you'd play with a custom sound font and it sounds pretty good. But you need to switch the sound font per game, and it's sadly not yet possible do use with the actual games, only for listening to the music separately on Foobar. forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/high-quality-gba-osts-technically.29892/
I've been wondering about this. I figure it's inevitable that GB/GBC/GBA will eventually be an FPGA target, and then it should be possible to emulate two ARM CPUs. I think you could then either have a database of games or detect the most common sound mixing libraries so the mixing routine could be patched out of the ROM and replaced with a stub that throws commands to the second CPU, where it can be processed in HQ. As I understand, the reason for the poor quality is that mixing is done in software and it's a compromise between CPU time for the game and time for the audio routine. So giving full CPU to both in a dual core emulator should solve that nicely.
I just had a thought: The GameBoy Player is literally just a GameBoy Advance that replaced the screen, controls and power circuitry with a proprietary connector. Wouldn't that allow a Plug'n'Play version of the Consolizer for the Player? - obviously with additional engineering required since I don't assume that Nintendo literally just piped raw video from the GBP to the GameCube, and raw input data back, otherwise we'd likely have seen some sort of Third-Party DVD player or Famiclone add-on for the GameCube back in the day.
[Try4ce] I believe they are planing to make a version for the Game Boy Player eventually, but it never occurred to me if it might actually interface with the GameCube. In my head I was just thinking it would work independently.
@@mylifeingaming Well, I assume it wouldn't NEED a GameCube, unless Nintendo went crazy with securing the connection between the GBP and the Gamecube. Worst case they'd have to directly tap some of the GBA's chips, but I was wondering if they could "just" release a box that you plug into the Player instead of the Gamecube with no modding necessary. An added bonus could be rumble support for the few games that supported rumble through the GameCube Player.
It's so great to see your guys's passion for videogames, this one espcially since I grew up with the GBA. But no matter which platform you're talking about, be it Retro consoles and handhelds or modern ones, one can always tell that you're doing your best to deliver the best-quality videos you can. Thank you a lot for that! :)
For the gbi gamecube option. extrems was saying that the hdmi solutions have some issue's with some settings. IDK if 540p works with it. there are some other options. Normal settings work fine. So official component cables will give better results. 360p is good with the ossc, idk if it needs special firmware to accept such resolutions. I don't think he likes the hdmi solutions to much. Exrems was saying the hdmi consolizer is just as good as gbi hf with all the good settings on and more stable of course since it's read hardware. So your getting the best that can be offered with the consolizer. Some settings work fine and with default should work fine also with the hdmi solution. I don't own any hdmi solutions so idk for myself, it looks like you guys got it running fine. I just use s video with the framemiester with 240p setting which is alright, there is a tad of fuz id like to eliminate with a other solution. That audio problem is enough for me to think about getting og component cables thou, it's really tough with the high ebay prices. maybe it can be fixed in another rev.
Now just imagine a Nintendo DS consolizer....what a time to be alive 😭
1 step at a time. I started to get hype about Metroid fusion
A 3DS consolizer would be my ultimate fantasy. Let's give them some time and hope for it.
There is a company who does 3DS hdmi output mods as well as GameCube controller add ones. I emailed them to see if they could do both to a 2DS and they said yes! Didn’t order it though.
At this point I'm convinced people are saying this specifically to piss me off. I shouldn't need to explain why that wouldn't work for a large portion, if not the _majority_ of DS games.
A DS Consolizer would need a Custom “Controller” for the Touchscreen
Such a relaxing show. Information and joy is what I receive. What a Treasure My Life in Gaming truly is.
Im just sad that they ignore the OG Xbox
@@ZunaZurugi Who wants to play the OG Xbox library anyways? Like 95% of it is actual pure trash. Only reasons to have an Xbox is Panzer Dragoon Orta, and maybe to relive the two Halo games for a couple hours.
@@quibquatch3975 Well... the Xbox Community does :d for obv. Reasons. Xbox is nice because it got a punch of interessting and creative and often for consoles unique games. Of course many of them or not super widely known to casual people that dont care about the Console.
@@ZunaZurugi lol, what "obvious" reasons are those? Also just because they're unique OG Xbox exclusives that you can only play on that console doesn't make them good. Like seriously who wants to play trash like Stake Fortune Fighters or the Bruce Lee game? There are some that are passable like Gunvalkyrie or Breakdown, but the majority is horrible junk that no one wants to see in HD.
@@quibquatch3975 whats Wrong with you xD ? You posting something like that under a Retro Video Game Chanel.
Well i like to play Otogi 1 and 2, Phantom Crash, Phantom Dust, Pirate of the caribbean(has nothing todo with the movie btw, its more of a Sim), MechAssault, Conkers (which salty Nintendo fans will call the censored version... even tho the N64 version was allready censored), Yaeger or Crimson Skys
Also the Multiplat Games that are usaly better on the Xbox (especialy if the only other console that got those games was the Ps2 with its horrible Video output and Controller)
Also Fable.... why Fable which is on PC and looks fantastic on PC, because it doesnt have Controller Support on PC and it plays horrible because of that. And the Anniversary Edition looks worse then the original on PC.
I dont know mate it has enough to offer for me Personaly to be a Worthy Collectors Console and even more so for Gaming.
I also have other Consoles... i also have the Sony Consoles and like them buuuut i dont like how PAL Region stuff runs 20% Slower just puts me off.
This looks pretty co-
*Notices $350USD price tag*
Nevermind.
It's about half that cost.
@@Fattydeposit If you want it pre assembled, 350.
@@JamalTheTitan I imagine most enthusiasts can solder. If not, this hobby gets very expensive very fast. Heck, it gets very expensive even if you do know.
or, you can buy Retron 5 for $140 and it also play NES, SNES, and GENESIS too.
@@ErnestJay88 And it introduces lag and uses stolen code.
I'm amazed how all of your videos are interesting, entertaining and solid. I'm happy to wait for your videos so they can be polished, I hope you'll never rush your work. Thank you.
Great episode, as always!
26:49 - Oh my god, thank you so much for including that. I was getting just a few weird sound effects in Link's Awakening, and it had me super bummed out as this was my first big soldering/wiring project and I figured I must have screwed something up. At least I eventually thought to check the headphone jack, which sounded fine, so I went digging online and now here I am hearing that it's a known issue. Phew!!
I’d much rather put a IPS display in one of these GBAs then gut it for this.
I also feel like the degree to which this alters the hardware/firmware undermines it's purpose. It's still a cool mod kit, but it gives the impression of an emulator rather than a "Consolizer" which should primarily replace the input and AV capabilities.
@@ArtumTsumia Yeah, you're better off just getting a old PC, Wii/Wii U, or a raspberry Pi setup for significantly cheaper. Saving the GBA for a more reasonable mod.
@@piranhaplantX emulation is not the same as og hw or a fpga solution.
Well, I think I'm convinced. Gonna save up for this baby. Been wanting to play Astro Boy in great clarity for a long time.
The makers of the GBA Consolizer just changed their design which makes installation significantly harder now. The soldering went from an intermediate level to a very advanced level. Keep this in mind if you are thinking about ordering one because most of the build videos online now don't show the new process.
There are new GBA consolizing kits that are coming out that are easier, though. There's one that uses pogo pins and screws in that looks promising. No soldering
@@OrangeSheep14what’s it called?
I skimmed through the comments to see if anyone recognized the platformer at 18:30 - fortunately I was able to identify it as "Pinobee: Wings of Adventure" with a bit of searching elsewhere.
EddyB43 I don’t remember asking
@@trapsarentgay4195 I hate the toxic people who put replies like that/say things like that in real life
Thank you! I was wondering about that too. Do you have any idea what the game at 12:57-ish? It looks like a late snes RPG and I wanna try it out.
@@justanotheryoutubechannel I didn't get around to playing this although I did own it, this appears to be Sword of Mana, the 'enhanced remake' of Seiken Densetsu 1/Final Fantasy Adventure. Mobygames screenshot 15 "5 classes to choose from... upgrade in one or a combination" shows the same vendor sprite in a different location, and the same floorboards, as well as bits of the rug and wall clock.
24:40 This particular data-point could be extremely telling. Likely, the use of an in-line device, which adds its own signature to the signal, is giving your Denon receiver exactly what it wasn't getting from the GBA Consolizer itself. Your discovery not only points to a simple solution, but also to the issue's likely cause. If that's the case, this could potentially be something that firmware alone could solve. As adding a signature to a sent signal isn't really that hard to do. It can be done via hardware (like it is with most vintage electronics), but is just as easily done through firmware (as it is in pretty much every modern device). This was super exciting to see you mention. I bout fell out of my chair, while flailing for the spacebar to pause! xD
P.S. I just looked at the date on this video and laughed a second time. As, hopefully the developer has addressed this bug by now.
For people who don't have soldering skills, they should consider using pogo pins. How that works is: Pogo pins are spring loaded, gold plated pins that can be soldered directly to a PCB. The kit would come with custom PCBs that have pogo pins which align with the spots you'd have to solder to. You screw the board in and it presses the pins against the spots. From the custom PCB you have wires going to the daughter board. Zero soldering required. Modular and easy to repair in case one of the pins fails.
8bit do should remake the gamecube snes style controller in the future
Zeke Barrett they do
@@Adamsnadler214 not the gc Controller with snes shaped case.
Raphnet tech makes an adapter to use SNES controllers on your gamecube. I'm currently using that as well as an 8bitdo wireless snes controller with gameboy interface and it works amazing
If I didnt have gbi and gameboy player 360p line triple for ossc I would have been all over this. Mines flawless. Great video guys :)
When doing this, does the OSSC output a 1920x1080 image? (Or a resolution below 1920 pixels wide, just asking for my 1080p display)
@@Supersayainpikmin The OSSC always outputs the original aspect and frame rate. I don't know if the GBI software has any options for that as a few GC games did have widescreen modes. But that usually required altering a setting on the TV (unless you always stretched everything to fill the screen anyway). Does your TV have the capability to force an aspect ratio?
No, it doesn't. I was actually thinking of routing it through my Framemeister since my TV apprently isn't compatible with the OSSC. While It works with 960p input, I'm not sure this oddball resolution will work. I'll find out myself next week when my OSSC arrives. Even if it doesn't, it's fine since the FM still looks really good to me for GB games.
@@Supersayainpikmin 360*3=1080 so the line height there shouldn't be weird. It's very unfortunate that your TV doesn't have scaling options. I've never used one that didn't, albeit it was very buried in a few of them.
use retroarch
Finally got mine in the mail! Can't wait to get it put together!!! I have never been this excited about a mod before, and I have just about every mod there is!
The Framemeister has been officially discontinued... RIP to an absolute legend! One of my best purchases ever.
I thought it was discontinued a year or two ago. Was it just officially "out of stock" until now? Either way, rip
F
they ran out of chips
Thoughts on retrotink 2?
@@tedpeek76 there's gonna be a retrotink 2?
Using an SNES controller is genius. I modded my Super GameBoy yesterday to make it use the same speed as the GameBoy DMG-01, Pocket, and Color. Next will be installing the Game Link Port.
Just buy a Super Gameboy 2 from Japan it fixes both of these issues.
@@Peltonimo Overseas shipping requires a John Hancock (reference to Tommy Boy) every time and I work nights and sleep all afternoon until 4pm.
installing the clock mod was good practice for soldering and removing smd's. it's also nice to upgrade something I've owned since way back when.
When I first saw this, I thought it would be useless to me as I’d just use a GameCube. But when watching this for fun, I realised that this could actually be really useful as I don’t own a GameCube or have space for one. If only it had 240p analogue output, as I would definitely buy this if it did...
I'd really prefer 240p output as well so I can use it directly with my Sony PVM 20L5.
I find mednafen on wii does a pretty good job of this, especially considering the price!
Dont have space for a gamecube? What do you live in, a baked bean tin?
@@guyverjay1289 Nope but I live in a UK house and my entire gaming setup is in my bedroom that also has to be a study room and has a lot of storage. I could easily fit one in storage but my gaming setup is full so I couldn’t keep one set up.
GBA games look so crisp on an actual handheld, Mario Pinball used such high quality compression for pre remdered assets that it actually looks like super advanced 3D graphics on a actual small screen, I had to di a double take because of how good it looked, it was unbelievable.
The gba version that goes where the screen used to looks like some kind of Borg implant
WorfPls
Gotta' hand it to the Super Game Boy 2 for still being the best way to play those SGB-compatible GB games on a big screen, though!
But this definitely looks like the best way to play GBA games!
For €250 shipped I would buy it immediately. $350 + shipping + customs/tax is at least $100 too much for me - this would result in €400.
@@AlejandroAB Software emulation sucks.
@@AlejandroAB Nah, it actually does suck compared to the original hardware.
Try bargaining. It's not a crime!
Buy a gamecube and gameboy player(with gchd eon mkii if you have the money)
If I had a dollar for every "just use an emulator" comment in this comment section I could buy one of these without worry.
but only one... because thats how expensive it is.
Sounds as if it will involve the Wii U.
Kinda proves a point doesnt it.
Well, yeah? mainly because it's like 350 dollars cheaper and even my grandma nokia 3316 can run pokemon ruby at full speed
There are so many ways to play GBA in HD it's pretty nuts but some people will by this
Just got mine put together tonight and it's great! Was so worth the wait!
I love the idea of putting classic handheld games on my TV, I just wish these types of things were more mass produced to drop the price.
Shantae on GBC is just mindblowing, it looks like a GBA title.
well it's enhanced for GBA.. I think it's the only title that did that
Nice showing of Ninja Five O in the background, I loved that game. Cant believe how much its worth now, wish mine didnt get stolen while I was in the Army.
Wish something like this existed for 3DS.
If a video out were to exist for 3DS you'd have access to GBA (via CFW and custom GBA Virtual Console titles) and DS too. That's another set of three Nintendo handheld platforms on the big screen with no software emulation in sight.
@@Fattydeposit There is Citra for 3DS emulation, and _it works._ You do need a real 3DS though, and some files from the 3DS which a pre-built CIA for exists. After you homebrew it you can just grab those files and use them wholesale in Citra for making certain titles like Miitopia useful, which requires a Mii of your own to play.
@@Fattydeposit It's always a pain to map controls for newer Nintendo systems though. Motion controls don't map well.
As if the other reviews weren't a big enough tease, here comes the Granddaddy of them all to put me in even more of an envious stupor. I have mine preordered, have the money paid, and now I am just left waiting in sheer unadulterated anticipation for mine to arrive! I praise hard and I criticize hard, and when something is truly deserving of praise I gush over it, and this happens to be one of those things. The problem though is the wait. By the time I actually receive it my excitement may be all but dried up. That is why I love it when these things are already close to being stocked and ready to go. I really hate having to wait long stretches for such amazing products, only to be teased about it's greatness every couple weeks as I wait.
Glad you guys got to this one so quick!
YAY SOMEONE ELSE WHO KNOWS ABOUT IRIDION II!! THE MUSIC IN THAT GAME SLAPS!!
This opens up so much in terms of Let's Players and Streamers!
Just boy a jailbroken ps3 and boom hdmi gameplay
@@TheReptain Or just get an emulator on your pc... since most LP and Streamers have decent rigs.
PC emulators are better and free, this so cool don’t get me wrong but it’s not opening any doors
Never heard of emulators on pc?😂😂
Fantastic use of Boktai music, I freaking love that game soo much
It's therapeutic to watch that GameTech US guy soldering.
I'm surprised nobody has made something like this that just attaches to the top of a Game Boy Player yet. Like a Game Boy Player... Player. Since GBI exists I'm sure people understand the Gamecube's Parallel Port's signal by now. It'd be cool for those who don't have an HD gamecube setup or aren't willing to sacrifice a GBA for a consolizer.
This is a really cool product though, and I'm really considering it. I had to pack my CRT setup due to a lack of room, and I -mostly- used my Gamecube for the GB Player anyways. I have a lot of GBA games and being able to play them on my HDTV without issues would be great.
I enjoyed the opening intro you did for this toy better than metaljesus entire video. Mligs gba condolizer video rocks.
Oh wow, I haven't seen anyone else ever talk about the J-Tech Digital audio extractor. I love mine since one of the monitors I use lacks an audio out port for some reason. I would definitely recommend it to anyone else in a similar situation.
The intro song gives me chills every time
You can listen to it with lyrics too. Very strange to hear it that way.
ikr? it sounds so mesmerizing
Definitely plan on picking up a kit. Also for anyone who has played the PSP versions of Final Fantasy, Street Fighter or any game that was released on a Nintendo handheld, will understand why they made the PSP visual an option.
I really hope that some day they will be a 3DS Consolizer that uses real hardware with HDMI and USB so you can use any USB Controllers and use any TV even Dual Monitors upscaled in 1080p60hz
I imagine things like the Wii U and 3DS will be so much harder since they're more tied to online accounts (that are also likely to be long-gone in the future), but I mean, I'd love that as well.
Rip 3ds e-shop tho
This device looks fantastic. Thanks as always for the deep dive!
The concept of a consolizer is so genius!!
This video is the first ive ever heard of 8bitdo dpad issues. Mines worked like a dream since day one and hasnt had any problems watsoever
You guys are absolute legends. Best gaming channel for sure!
22:10 That was interesting
Man I'm jealous of the collection of Game Boy games on show here!
So wait if the consolizer is overclocked, even if its only slight what does that mean for link cables?
[Try4ce] Hmm that is a very good question, maybe something else keeps them in sync? Honestly I basically never have need of them, so I didn't think of that.
@@mylifeingaming Would be nice if you tried that out, aswell as the Gamecube-GBA link cable.
@@mylifeingaming it's a pretty important thing to test, especially if you want to enable multiplayer with the Consolizer.
Please test it!
It would make it go out of sync, I’m kinda shocked they didn’t include an option to toggle the speed just for that.
You guys are the Motorweek of videos games. Thank you!!
I'm really interested in the consolizer, but I already have a digital out cube with gcvideo and GBI and the gametech stuff is pretty expensive.
Great work, as always.
Some of this footage looks a little familiar, though... I wonder if some of it will turn up on my channel say... tomorrow.
Best video on this system so far.
Love all the hard work you put into these videos. Research, editing, etc. You guys rock so much!! Keep it up!!!
I really wanted to see Coury experience the true horror that is Sonic The Hedgehog Genesis (GBA) with the 8BitDuo Genesis pad
this is one of the only 30 minute videos i'd watch. subscribed :D
The Boktai track at 12:18 made me so happy.
11:27
*When interpolation is applied just right.*
It’s really cool, price is a killer for now but I can see where it comes from. Maybe one day. Between this and the polymega I got a lot of saving to do
Awesome the iridion Soundtrack in the background 🔥
Yess been looking forward to this video!
0:00 - Kirby's Pinball Land! 🥰 It and Link's Awakening are the first GameBoy games I remember playing a ton.
Personally I don't think I'll ever get this as when I had a Gameboy Player I rarely used it in contrast to playing on a gba, alongside with my entire Gameboy library being too small to warrant this, still neat that this is an alternative.
Buy a GBA Everdrive.
From France : thanks for the vidéo.
The amount of information and insight is tremendous.
Honestly the analog just seems to sound better and fuller imo
Can't wait to play Golden sun and Mario and Luigi superstar saga on the consolizer👍👍
My old eyes are getting excited over this.
Recently I have discovered that my DsLite screen is not as easy to see as it was when it was new...
i love your passion towards retro game, love you guys :)
Not gonna lie I kinda like how the psp gba emulator colors looked
Fantastic content and production, as always. This channel rocks!
Love the videos Coury and Try! I'd like to point out that you can put the joy con slide grip to make L and R bigger on the NES Joy con and it feels really comfortable. Keep up the great videos!
[Try4ce] I've tried that but still didn't care for them. But I love them for games that don't need many buttons otherwise!
Yeah Nintendo did a great job on those controllers! I'll have to wait and see how it feels after extended play of games on the consolizer. Hopefully I will get my full case from the initial lottery soon! Can't wait!
25:19 That is some nice audio :D
Amazing coverage as always, simply stellar. Thank you!
Hey, Coury. Just wanted to leave this really late comment saying that the ViewHD resolved my audio issues connecting to my LG CX. Thanks for the info!
These guy get so far in the weeds - i love it!
FINE RUclips, I’ll watch the dang video!
Hey Try and Coury, I have some pretty great news for playing Gameboy Advance on HDTV! Recently they added some Low Pass filters to the Gameboy Advance Core on Mister in one of the updates.
There is a Filter that I think changes the game on GBA's audio quality - I've been testing them out extensively and have come to the conclusion that the *_Arcade LPF 6khz 2nd_* Audio Filter provides strikingly excellent results without effecting the audio range or dynamics too much (effectively minimizing the audio buzz present on GBA consolizers thru most AV equipment).
I'm sure this Filter COULD be added to the GBA consolizer itself aswell - but for Mister, this is a BIG break-thru for capturing and streaming GBA (and for those of us who still hear higher frequencies). Update you're Mister and give this filter a try and see what you think.
The difference is best heard on headphones of a surround system - but can still be clearly discerned thru typical TV speakers. No More Annoying Hiss!
Yes,the hero we were waiting for.
Part of me wonders if unmodded wide GBAs will become a rarity in 20 year.
absolutely not.. there are literally millions of them out there
wide GBAs?
Hey, ALOT of people played most of the game boy/game boy color library on a modded PSP. it was many people's introduction to the system library.
So many great player interface options!
Very creative solutions here... I just play on emulators on my PC now...
That's a good way to save yourself $300 😅
Yeah
Amazing video as always guys!
Another great, informative video. I'm hoping for some sort of collaboration between Woozle and Analogue. Having a actual Game Boy console seems like a great idea.
Awesome comprehensive vid guys!!!....really want this thing GBA is one of my favorite library's. -Ben videogamedads.
I’m a simple man. I see a new MLIG video, I click.
Certainly looks nice, but I'm still not sure how I feel about sacrificing original GBA hardware. I know there are still a ton of them, but it's still a finite source. Steep price too. I hope someday we might get an FPGA solution for it. Either through MiSTer or a stand alone system which does GB/GBC/GBA. I'd get behind that. For now I am happy playing Game Boy.* on a GameCube + GB Player running GBi software, via component outputs, and playing with a Hori GBP controller.
[Try4ce] I don't think anything about the mod is irreversible. The same could be said of any mod, it's just that most stay in the original shell (or cut the plastic of the original shell, which I'm pretty sure this does not).
Yaaas Finally a review from you.
Cool! I was just thinking about buying one! Thanks guys!
Title music of your channel rocks.
In response to the 8bitdo snes controller options. Most of the issues are with “pro” models from what I’ve heard. The 8bitdo SN30 is a fantastic 2.4ghz controller which has the exact dimensions of the SNES controller and no lag on real consoles which has been great for casual and speedrunning games. It works on switch with a usb cable and it should work great on the consolizer. The buttons even use the same cutouts for the original controllers so if you get the transparent black version and want the OG purple or colored SFC buttons on it it’s an easy swap.
If only it could fix the insanely low quality audio of GBA entirely. It feels entirely like Nintendo never counted on anyone using the headphone jack or playing these games on something with more than a tiny mono speaker.
There were someone who did disassembly of games and found out that all the samples are actually of a much better quality but they end up sounding terrible because of the bad CPU audio mixing, so they created a way to convert certain GBA games that used a particular sound driver into MIDI files that you'd play with a custom sound font and it sounds pretty good. But you need to switch the sound font per game, and it's sadly not yet possible do use with the actual games, only for listening to the music separately on Foobar.
forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/high-quality-gba-osts-technically.29892/
I've been wondering about this. I figure it's inevitable that GB/GBC/GBA will eventually be an FPGA target, and then it should be possible to emulate two ARM CPUs. I think you could then either have a database of games or detect the most common sound mixing libraries so the mixing routine could be patched out of the ROM and replaced with a stub that throws commands to the second CPU, where it can be processed in HQ.
As I understand, the reason for the poor quality is that mixing is done in software and it's a compromise between CPU time for the game and time for the audio routine. So giving full CPU to both in a dual core emulator should solve that nicely.
13:40 - GBA Doom 2 🤣 Wasn't expecting to see that!
God, I love this channel .
Can’t wait to see what you guys think of this thing. I just wish I could afford one.😪
I just had a thought: The GameBoy Player is literally just a GameBoy Advance that replaced the screen, controls and power circuitry with a proprietary connector.
Wouldn't that allow a Plug'n'Play version of the Consolizer for the Player? - obviously with additional engineering required since I don't assume that Nintendo literally just piped raw video from the GBP to the GameCube, and raw input data back, otherwise we'd likely have seen some sort of Third-Party DVD player or Famiclone add-on for the GameCube back in the day.
[Try4ce] I believe they are planing to make a version for the Game Boy Player eventually, but it never occurred to me if it might actually interface with the GameCube. In my head I was just thinking it would work independently.
@@mylifeingaming Well, I assume it wouldn't NEED a GameCube, unless Nintendo went crazy with securing the connection between the GBP and the Gamecube. Worst case they'd have to directly tap some of the GBA's chips, but I was wondering if they could "just" release a box that you plug into the Player instead of the Gamecube with no modding necessary. An added bonus could be rumble support for the few games that supported rumble through the GameCube Player.
It's so great to see your guys's passion for videogames, this one espcially since I grew up with the GBA.
But no matter which platform you're talking about, be it Retro consoles and handhelds or modern ones, one can always tell that you're doing your best to deliver the best-quality videos you can.
Thank you a lot for that! :)
Love the video and content.. especially the intro :)
Woozle's interpolation seems to be on par with Kevtris's. Thats a good thing.
12:13 i literally jerked my neck upward as soon as i heard the first note of that music. i love boktai so much :c
For the gbi gamecube option. extrems was saying that the hdmi solutions have some issue's with some settings. IDK if 540p works with it. there are some other options.
Normal settings work fine. So official component cables will give better results. 360p is good with the ossc, idk if it needs special firmware to accept such resolutions. I don't think he likes the hdmi solutions to much. Exrems was saying the hdmi consolizer is just as good as gbi hf with all the good settings on and more stable of course since it's read hardware. So your getting the best that can be offered with the consolizer.
Some settings work fine and with default should work fine also with the hdmi solution. I don't own any hdmi solutions so idk for myself, it looks like you guys got it running fine. I just use s video with the framemiester with 240p setting which is alright, there is a tad of fuz id like to eliminate with a other solution.
That audio problem is enough for me to think about getting og component cables thou, it's really tough with the high ebay prices. maybe it can be fixed in another rev.
I don't think u need a upscaler if u use component with 540p and 1080i. The software will do it with the components.