You can use a Serial To USB converter They are really cheap www.amazon.com/-/es/TRENDnet-Converter-Installation-Universal-TU-S9/dp/B0007T27H8?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_1
if you want to test something, set a baseline with hardware actually suited for it, you dont start off opening shit up connecting it to other hardware without knowing it actually works... and then start wondering if you broke something... serious facepalm.
I believe the camera is tricking the GBA into believing it's using some kind of downloaded application, like how the tingle tuner worked in the wind waker, or the usage of the gba in four swords adventures
Yep, behaves identically to a GBA playing one cartridge multiplayer through the link cable. Makes me wonder why they bothered with that plastic piece bellow instead of just using the anchoring points on the sides on top of the GBA, would even make it SP compatible without changes, and probably cheaper because of less plastic... I dunno...
Elliot, the gba has a single pack multiplayer mode that allows the bootstrapping of about 256k with a transfer rate of about 2kbps over the link cable (to be clear that's slower than most dial up modem's) it is the only way to load playable data over the link cable. This is most likely what is happening here.
@@Saber_Nico True, probably was. Guess they just took the opportunity to drop the circuit boards on the leftover space of the cartridge slot and thus make it cheaper (let's face it that we all know that's always their goal), they wouldn't have done it if the SP was at least coming up.
I owned the worm cam as a child. These came out when digital cameras were in their inception when most cameras were 1-2 megapixel and cost about $400. These things were a bargain. You couldn't keep an elaborate library of photos but it is great fun when you're 10 years old. It even had a polarized filter for day time shots.
They seem to circumvent Nintendo‘s licensing by using the „One Game Required“ mode of the GBA. A few games had those, as example Donkey Kong King of Swing, where you only needed one game and all others could connect up via Link cables to play with you. Basically the grandfather of the Nintendo DS Download Mode.
@@thiefrules it is! Some GameCube games even distributed GBA minigames that way, and PocketNES emulator is able to take advantage of it with a special cable so you wouldn't need to use a flashcart :P
4:15 The GBA can use the link port not only for connecring multiple GBAs. External devices can also use it to provide an user interface via this port. The official Wireless Adapter sold with Pokémon Fire Red, Leaf Green and Emerald also used this method when no cartridge was inserted. Also this enabled multiplayer with only one cartridge either by link cable or Wireless Adapter.
I used to have the WormCam. I loved it. The images were fairly washed out, unless you were outdoors. You could add text and connect to PC, and I felt like the coolest lil photographer in school. While everyone else had chunky Sony Mavicas, and a backpack full of floppy discs, I was trolling around the halls taking low quality selfies and playing Duke Nukem.
It works because it uses the Game Boy Advance single-cart multiplayer system, to boot up the software. The reason it does this is because of the license / security protection on the cartridge port, that is actually bypassed when booting over the serial port. It is a way for this third party to make this an unlicensed accessory and Nintendo can't really block its usage.
The GBA E-reader used the link port to download content into the GBA. Manhole, for example, was loaded entirely into RAM from the card. I imagine the Wormcam is doing the same thing.
I bought this Wormcam when it was brand new years ago, and I gotta say, you aren't missing much. It was abysmal. It was about the same quality of the actual Gameboy Camera, but in (a small amount of) color.
I had the same reaction when I found a new-old-stock GBA "Wireless Messenger" from Majesco. The device has no cartridge contacts yet it's able to run the software via the link cable port. The Wireless Messenger I have is designed for the GBA SP and was a way to send text messages to other GBA users with the same accessory, claiming a 1-mile range. If you can find two of these, maybe you can do a video on this odd texting device.
The reason why that thing works over just the link port, it's probably using the same mode that the Gamecube link cable used. Especially since it has that loading screen with a progress bar. Presumably it has to load the software over the low speed serial connection of the link port. It was probably also a clever way of getting around Nintendo licensing. Suggestion about the camera not working, just because you didn't mention it on video....did you try changing the coin cell that is in the camera?
Worst review, he says. I had a great time watching you tear it apart. Laughed the whole time. Thumbs up incoming! Edit: The bonus accessory did not disappoint for entertainment either.
How the Worm Camera works without using the cartridge and only the link port? The same way you can play some GBA multiplayer games with only one game cartridge, one device stream the data and the other boot on it, this Worm Cam passes itself as another device sending data to your GBA.
Yeah, that's the multiboot function that Nintendo introduced in the GBA. You can hold start and select while booting any GBA with a game in to enable it (the console will hang from there unless you have a game ready to load via the link port) or just boot the console with no game. This is how one cart multiplayer games like Mario Kart work. This is also how a lot of NGC games communicate with the GBA and how a few Pokemon distributions are done. On Pokemon Emerald (or Fire Red and Leaf Green), you can hit Select + B on the title screen to enable Berry Fix mode for Ruby and Sapphire and this fix is distributed to the other games via multiboot: www.serebii.net/rubysapphire/berryglitch.shtml Related, all Game Boy Advance hardware supports this, including the DS and Game Boy Micro. The DS, unfortunately, has only partial support as there is no link port. You can still boot holding Start and Select and it will switch to multiboot mode but you can never actually boot anything that way on the DS. The Micro on the other hand needs a small adapter. I've published the files on the adapter here: github.com/makhowastaken/OXY-Dongler There is also a seller on taobao that sells premade adapters (of a slightly different design) but I'm sure that if I post a link, my comment will just get trapped in youtube's spam filter.
@@TheRetroFuture Elliot, the multiboot mode allowed connection with simplified single-pak multiplayer such as Mario Kart Super Circuit, the use as a second controller and screen on the GameCube for Zelda Four Swords Adventures and PacMan VS, borrowing temporary ROMs onto the GBA from GameCube games such as the NES Metroid from Metroid Prime, as well as character data transfer between the GBA and GameCube Mario Golf titles. I'm sure there are other games with similar features too. Sadly this GBA feature was often overlooked and forgotten, but is pretty cool. Shame the camera didn't work. Appreciate the honest review video that many wouldn't have dared upload. Cheers. 😄
Could the camera be emulating some kind of Gamecube connector? Maybe? I know that hooking the GBA up the Gamecube allowed you to do stuff on the GBA, and as long as you didn't turn the GBA off, you could disconnect it from the Gamecube and still play whatever you loaded into the GBA (Like the Tiny Chao Garden.)
Just got an Ascii controller for the gamecube now about to do a refurb! Hopefully ive watched enough episodes to have some sort of idea on what to do! i have my mr sheen and isopropyl alcohol ready!
That spin you did with the worm cam was so awesome and perfectly timed. That worked out perfectly for you.... and then nothing else worked out for you. Sorry for the disappointment but your video is still awesome. Lemonade out of lemons? XD
ah, so that uses the link port to activate it. The only GBA peripheral that actually does that from what I know was the GBA wireless adapter when you don’t have a game in.
All the Super Mario Advance games used it for Mario Bros mode too. You can use download mode while a game is in by holding start+select when turning on the GBA.
Any game that supports Nintendos "one game required mode" used it. It allowed three others to play on only one copy of the game. Zelda four swords adventures probably made most famous use of it. Also the tingle tuner works the same way, plugging into the link port.
I lagit was cracking up laughing when you snaped that Slug-Rex onto the GB color and it's hands were directly over the screen! Please don't apologize the video was worth it!
imagine being the only witness to a murder scene and you were on your gba. Me: OFFICER I SWEAR THESE ARENT DOCTORED! ITS ELLIOT'S FAULT! HE MADE ME SO EAGER TO BUY ONE!!
4:00 That's "Link Mode", the GBA boots automatically into it when it has a GBA Link Cable or something like an e-Reader attached. Or, y'know, if you know the right button combo.
The camera is using a feature on the Gameboy Advance called "Multiboot" which boots code over the link port. It allows certain multiplayer games when only one person has a cartridge.
I was laughing my ass off that was a good video sorry that the cam and light didn't work but you entertained me so you did something right keep up the good work
The camera is using the same function that multi-player, single cart games used via the link cable. The GBA can send/receive software through the ext port.
In the future when you open these packages the instructions and any software that may be contained it inside of it will usually be sandwiched between the cardboard that you left in the pack. Tkz for the video bro. Entertaining as always.
It's 2024 and I can only find videos of this camera where they don't work. I'm curious if it's just the button battery dying, or if there is a capacitor in the device that needs to be replaced.
@4:00 That chime and Pink Nintendo logo color indicates a game has been sent via ext. just like playing a shared game with a 2nd GBA running without a cart. Its like it dumps the game to memory temporarily.
This uses the same mechanism as the gamecube-to-GBA adapter or games that only needed one cart for multiplayer. It sends a program down the extension port, which is loaded into RAM and run . Why are you so surprised? A lot of games used this functionality. Even some official Nintendo accessories used it, albeit manually triggered via start+select (the wireless link adapter provided with Pokemon Emerald being one)
For the WormCam it's possible the included battery is dead, just because it had the corrosion prevention tab doesn't mean the alkaline inside the battery didn't just dry up or whatever. I have no explanation for the T-Rex... thingy... had one little LED that was probably poor quality anyway, it blocked the screen, even if it worked I don't know if it... "worked"...
If you push both start and select in boot, the gba starts looking for an external boot from the cable port. If there's something usable, It displays the Red Nintendo logo. Played a lot of multiplayer Dr. Mario with two GBA s and only a cartridge, both with wireless adapters
I had one of these growing up and it worked right out of the box! the dial focus adjuster was an absolute pain though, yours seems to be missing the getto "sunglass" attachment that you put over the lens if it was too bright which did not work at all. It was better to use that to get leverage on the lens adjuster
My brother had a Worm Camera for his GBA back when they were being still sold in stores. They were on clearance, but still being sold at stores. The thing took terrible pictures. I think the original Gameboy camera took better pictures then the worm camera. The battery in it was only to save the pictures until you could download them to a PC. So once the battery dies you pictures were gone. Assuming they were any good. One more thing, we could never get the thing to connect to the PC to transfer the pictures. The software that came with it was awful and the drivers never worked, and the internet wasn't really a thing we had at the time to check for a better version.
Word of advice, get yourself an RS232 serial to USB converter, preferably one with an FTDI chipset on board. I have to use one for my work, a lot of networking gear has to be configured via a serial console interface, and the converter I use works wonders for that. There's some now that even come with a Type C connector on the end as well.
It's possible that it may have been developed on a previous version of a GBA mother board. Kinda like when you used to have to know what model of mother board you had when doing the first back light mods, like the AGS-101
8:38 ive gotten more than one of these things but for the gba. I have a 99 cent store in town that just has a ton of these. They work but they are somewhat fragile, especially the arms.
Dude. You saw the button cell battery in the slot. It stores the pictures using that, the same as any other game boy save. You just needed to change the battery.
I've seen the red "Nintendo" logo before. You can see it when you boot up a GBA without a game in the slot and a Wireless Adapter in the GBA link port as well.
As a child, even if that T-Rex light never worked, I would have kept it as an accessory just because I would have thought it'd be awesome to have a purple dinosaur.
Hey, I have a gameboy FIAT edition for more then 18 years now. I read online that only 100 were made and you could only win them. does anyone know how much this gameboy is worth?
If you can't find a market for it, you make the market for it. I'd probably go around the 400 - 500 mark, depending on any damage or wear. A lot of the value for these limited edition consoles is less on the rarity and more on popularity.
Soft Kitty the outside condition is perfect, but the inside isn’t. If I turn it on the red power indicator works but no screen or sound. So there is some work to do😅
How about replacing the battery maybe it isn't only for the real time clock but the photos get stored in volatile memory and saved by the button cell which could be empty after all those years
I bought the a Gameboy Advance in gold with the Pokemon Layout for only 30€ on ebay. It is in a very good condition and even the screen hasnt 1 scratch. But the brightness of the screen is so awful, I have to light with my phone flashlight to see something on the screen. Is it normal? And is the Pokemon shelf something official from gameboy or can you just buy it and change the shelf of the gameboy?
With the battery out you only got the message "Busy" then you put the battery in and got the messages "Busy" and "Saving". This indicates to me the battery is needed to save the photo. Since it's and old battery just replace it and the thing should work.
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Imagine using this for an iPhone 11 camera
Check your motherboard manual. You might had a Serial pinout on the board, you just need to buy a physical port.
Ever play a One Cart multiplayer game on GBA? I think this thing sends software to the GBA via the link port.
The battery might be dead, you should replace it and see if that gets the camera working again.
You can use a Serial To USB converter
They are really cheap
www.amazon.com/-/es/TRENDnet-Converter-Installation-Universal-TU-S9/dp/B0007T27H8?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_1
Couldn't the battery have just been dead? It's been sitting in there for like 20 years almost, I think it's worth trying getting a new one
That's what I was thinking ... I'm surprised he didn't think of it himself
if you want to test something, set a baseline with hardware actually suited for it, you dont start off opening shit up connecting it to other hardware without knowing it actually works... and then start wondering if you broke something... serious facepalm.
Darkfiberke very well put!
The second one als straight up said battery not included.... Yet you don't see him putting one in. But the thing still would cover the screen
@@Dante1282 The second one straight up said "No Batteries Required". At least read / listen before you try to bash someone. 8:25
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I believe the camera is tricking the GBA into believing it's using some kind of downloaded application, like how the tingle tuner worked in the wind waker, or the usage of the gba in four swords adventures
Yep, behaves identically to a GBA playing one cartridge multiplayer through the link cable. Makes me wonder why they bothered with that plastic piece bellow instead of just using the anchoring points on the sides on top of the GBA, would even make it SP compatible without changes, and probably cheaper because of less plastic... I dunno...
Elliot, the gba has a single pack multiplayer mode that allows the bootstrapping of about 256k with a transfer rate of about 2kbps over the link cable (to be clear that's slower than most dial up modem's) it is the only way to load playable data over the link cable. This is most likely what is happening here.
@@Kalvinjj was most likely made before the SP was a thing
@@Saber_Nico True, probably was. Guess they just took the opportunity to drop the circuit boards on the leftover space of the cartridge slot and thus make it cheaper (let's face it that we all know that's always their goal), they wouldn't have done it if the SP was at least coming up.
@@davecollins195 Hey, that's faster than my internet!
Could you imagine James Bond Pulling out this out as his spy camera.
oh my god...
Only for it to not even work!
Maybe, Johnny English would do it better.... XD
I owned the worm cam as a child. These came out when digital cameras were in their inception when most cameras were 1-2 megapixel and cost about $400. These things were a bargain. You couldn't keep an elaborate library of photos but it is great fun when you're 10 years old. It even had a polarized filter for day time shots.
They seem to circumvent Nintendo‘s licensing by using the „One Game Required“ mode of the GBA. A few games had those, as example Donkey Kong King of Swing, where you only needed one game and all others could connect up via Link cables to play with you. Basically the grandfather of the Nintendo DS Download Mode.
Ah, yes! I knew I had heard that sound before. It's from playing Super Mario Land multiplayer with my brother and sister!
i think it’s called multiboot mode, it’s what you have to boot into to go into distribution mode on a pokemon distribution cartridge
@@thiefrules it is! Some GameCube games even distributed GBA minigames that way, and PocketNES emulator is able to take advantage of it with a special cable so you wouldn't need to use a flashcart :P
plot twist both pictures he took was his white table
Who needs 4k cameras when you can have the wormcam
Who needs something that works when you can have something that doesn't work. Amirite?
who needs money, when you can buy the wormcam
Laughed so hard at the placement of the purple monster slug, truly these are some of the greatest accessories of all time
This cam is probably better than the most security cameras
I have one, it's not.
This is where I really wish the DSi had a gba slot.
imagine modding the DSi with a GBA slot
@@yuseiyamoto I need to see Eliott do that now
Only problem is it doesn't have a GBA link cable slot, so it wouldn't work.
@@chich-ai actually the DS and 3DS models all have a GBA inside, as they all descend from the GBA tech-wise
The DS Lite has one.
It seems to use the GBA's little-known ability to boot from the link port. Another great project that uses it is the GBA MIDI synth.
LOL you had to take the entire thing apart for the SP 😂
That t-Rex is glorious, and I mean that in the worst way
😂
Horribly glorious?
Or Gloriously horrible?
4:15 The GBA can use the link port not only for connecring multiple GBAs. External devices can also use it to provide an user interface via this port. The official Wireless Adapter sold with Pokémon Fire Red, Leaf Green and Emerald also used this method when no cartridge was inserted. Also this enabled multiplayer with only one cartridge either by link cable or Wireless Adapter.
Please try replacing the battery in the camera, its god knows how old...
Keep up the great content 👍
Yes this kind of crap camera usually need power to store things ( flash memory was small, slow or cost to much so they used dram to store things)
I used to have the WormCam. I loved it. The images were fairly washed out, unless you were outdoors. You could add text and connect to PC, and I felt like the coolest lil photographer in school. While everyone else had chunky Sony Mavicas, and a backpack full of floppy discs, I was trolling around the halls taking low quality selfies and playing Duke Nukem.
These episodes are the most entertaining... when absolutely NOTHING goes your way! :)
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It works because it uses the Game Boy Advance single-cart multiplayer system, to boot up the software.
The reason it does this is because of the license / security protection on the cartridge port, that is actually bypassed when booting over the serial port.
It is a way for this third party to make this an unlicensed accessory and Nintendo can't really block its usage.
The GBA E-reader used the link port to download content into the GBA. Manhole, for example, was loaded entirely into RAM from the card. I imagine the Wormcam is doing the same thing.
I bought this Wormcam when it was brand new years ago, and I gotta say, you aren't missing much. It was abysmal. It was about the same quality of the actual Gameboy Camera, but in (a small amount of) color.
Try putting a new battery coz thats how games are saved in GB cartridges...and maybe thats why its not saving in worm cam as well!!
I had the same reaction when I found a new-old-stock GBA "Wireless Messenger" from Majesco. The device has no cartridge contacts yet it's able to run the software via the link cable port. The Wireless Messenger I have is designed for the GBA SP and was a way to send text messages to other GBA users with the same accessory, claiming a 1-mile range. If you can find two of these, maybe you can do a video on this odd texting device.
You can get USB to Serial/Parallel adaptors on ebay for next to nothing. Might be worth picking something up if you want to do deeper stuff in future.
The reason why that thing works over just the link port, it's probably using the same mode that the Gamecube link cable used. Especially since it has that loading screen with a progress bar. Presumably it has to load the software over the low speed serial connection of the link port. It was probably also a clever way of getting around Nintendo licensing.
Suggestion about the camera not working, just because you didn't mention it on video....did you try changing the coin cell that is in the camera?
Hey, The Retro Future
I had one of these and I think I remember getting it to work on the Gamecube Game Boy Player.
Even your bad videos are good videos . That damn British accent makes everything smooth .
Worst review, he says. I had a great time watching you tear it apart. Laughed the whole time. Thumbs up incoming!
Edit: The bonus accessory did not disappoint for entertainment either.
Battery might have aged over time and not giving enough to power the cam
How the Worm Camera works without using the cartridge and only the link port?
The same way you can play some GBA multiplayer games with only one game cartridge, one device stream the data and the other boot on it, this Worm Cam passes itself as another device sending data to your GBA.
Yeah, that's the multiboot function that Nintendo introduced in the GBA. You can hold start and select while booting any GBA with a game in to enable it (the console will hang from there unless you have a game ready to load via the link port) or just boot the console with no game. This is how one cart multiplayer games like Mario Kart work. This is also how a lot of NGC games communicate with the GBA and how a few Pokemon distributions are done. On Pokemon Emerald (or Fire Red and Leaf Green), you can hit Select + B on the title screen to enable Berry Fix mode for Ruby and Sapphire and this fix is distributed to the other games via multiboot: www.serebii.net/rubysapphire/berryglitch.shtml
Related, all Game Boy Advance hardware supports this, including the DS and Game Boy Micro. The DS, unfortunately, has only partial support as there is no link port. You can still boot holding Start and Select and it will switch to multiboot mode but you can never actually boot anything that way on the DS. The Micro on the other hand needs a small adapter. I've published the files on the adapter here: github.com/makhowastaken/OXY-Dongler
There is also a seller on taobao that sells premade adapters (of a slightly different design) but I'm sure that if I post a link, my comment will just get trapped in youtube's spam filter.
You know so much. Thank you!
@@TheRetroFuture Elliot, the multiboot mode allowed connection with simplified single-pak multiplayer such as Mario Kart Super Circuit, the use as a second controller and screen on the GameCube for Zelda Four Swords Adventures and PacMan VS, borrowing temporary ROMs onto the GBA from GameCube games such as the NES Metroid from Metroid Prime, as well as character data transfer between the GBA and GameCube Mario Golf titles. I'm sure there are other games with similar features too. Sadly this GBA feature was often overlooked and forgotten, but is pretty cool.
Shame the camera didn't work. Appreciate the honest review video that many wouldn't have dared upload. Cheers. 😄
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Game boy advance can transfer ROM data via the cable. That's how it work. It is useful for match game when you have one and others don't.
Could the camera be emulating some kind of Gamecube connector? Maybe? I know that hooking the GBA up the Gamecube allowed you to do stuff on the GBA, and as long as you didn't turn the GBA off, you could disconnect it from the Gamecube and still play whatever you loaded into the GBA (Like the Tiny Chao Garden.)
Yeah it makes that sound when you download mini game from gamecube with link cable.
Just got an Ascii controller for the gamecube now about to do a refurb! Hopefully ive watched enough episodes to have some sort of idea on what to do! i have my mr sheen and isopropyl alcohol ready!
That spin you did with the worm cam was so awesome and perfectly timed. That worked out perfectly for you.... and then nothing else worked out for you. Sorry for the disappointment but your video is still awesome. Lemonade out of lemons? XD
ah, so that uses the link port to activate it. The only GBA peripheral that actually does that from what I know was the GBA wireless adapter when you don’t have a game in.
A few games do it as well for basic multiplayer. I think Mario Kart did, but I may be mistaken.
All the Super Mario Advance games used it for Mario Bros mode too. You can use download mode while a game is in by holding start+select when turning on the GBA.
Any game that supports Nintendos "one game required mode" used it. It allowed three others to play on only one copy of the game. Zelda four swords adventures probably made most famous use of it.
Also the tingle tuner works the same way, plugging into the link port.
I lagit was cracking up laughing when you snaped that Slug-Rex onto the GB color and it's hands were directly over the screen! Please don't apologize the video was worth it!
😂
imagine being the only witness to a murder scene and you were on your gba.
Me: OFFICER I SWEAR THESE ARENT DOCTORED! ITS ELLIOT'S FAULT! HE MADE ME SO EAGER TO BUY ONE!!
@theretrofuture you could try connecting to Gameboy Player on Gamecube and capture from there.
4:00 That's "Link Mode", the GBA boots automatically into it when it has a GBA Link Cable or something like an e-Reader attached. Or, y'know, if you know the right button combo.
The 8-Bit Guy did a review on this a while back, his didn't work either. Seems like most of these units were faulty.
Mine worked, way back when they were new. I don't have it anymore though, probably gave it away sometime after I got a GBA SP.
it likely just needed a new button cell battery. I doubt the link port could give enough power and transfer that much data at the same time
Did he replace the battery though?
@@Jdbye i believe he broke it in little pieces instead
Don’t worry Elliot, it is equally as entertaining to see you review failure products... AND get excited for WormCam stickers
The camera is using a feature on the Gameboy Advance called "Multiboot" which boots code over the link port. It allows certain multiplayer games when only one person has a cartridge.
Imagine getting two ineffective products in one video, good job with working with it😂. Love your content keep doing what you’re doing🙏
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I was laughing my ass off that was a good video sorry that the cam and light didn't work but you entertained me so you did something right keep up the good work
Elliott, it's because some GBA games had support for single cartridge play.
To the creators of worm cam,
Will work with GBA SP. Just some disassembly required.
Sincerely,
Elliott
I wonder if that battery was toast...
The camera is using the same function that multi-player, single cart games used via the link cable. The GBA can send/receive software through the ext port.
In the future when you open these packages the instructions and any software that may be contained it inside of it will usually be sandwiched between the cardboard that you left in the pack. Tkz for the video bro. Entertaining as always.
It's 2024 and I can only find videos of this camera where they don't work. I'm curious if it's just the button battery dying, or if there is a capacitor in the device that needs to be replaced.
I for one love this video, I'd watch more vids on you messing with vintage/out dated equipment that may or may work.
@4:00 That chime and Pink Nintendo logo color indicates a game has been sent via ext. just like playing a shared game with a 2nd GBA running without a cart. Its like it dumps the game to memory temporarily.
4:26 it does seem to work just through that. Not a huge surprise though, considering the Tingle Tuner for Wind Waker did basically the same thing
This uses the same mechanism as the gamecube-to-GBA adapter or games that only needed one cart for multiplayer. It sends a program down the extension port, which is loaded into RAM and run . Why are you so surprised? A lot of games used this functionality. Even some official Nintendo accessories used it, albeit manually triggered via start+select (the wireless link adapter provided with Pokemon Emerald being one)
The GBA also makes that sound while showing the Nintendo logo afterwards when connecting with a Gamecube which is via the link cable port
Speaking of cams, what camera do you use to shoot your main intro shot? And why is you depth of field so narrow?
Oh and now that i got through the whole video, best upload ever! :D
For the WormCam it's possible the included battery is dead, just because it had the corrosion prevention tab doesn't mean the alkaline inside the battery didn't just dry up or whatever. I have no explanation for the T-Rex... thingy... had one little LED that was probably poor quality anyway, it blocked the screen, even if it worked I don't know if it... "worked"...
Videos like these are why I watch your vids. Thank you for the entertainment.
Even your fail videos are super entertaining!!! 🤣
If you push both start and select in boot, the gba starts looking for an external boot from the cable port. If there's something usable, It displays the Red Nintendo logo. Played a lot of multiplayer Dr. Mario with two GBA s and only a cartridge, both with wireless adapters
Interesting. So it uses the link cable download feature. You probably forgot that even existed lol
This is the same with The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker and the Link Cable and the Tingle Tuner - That's old :D
I had one of these growing up and it worked right out of the box! the dial focus adjuster was an absolute pain though, yours seems to be missing the getto "sunglass" attachment that you put over the lens if it was too bright which did not work at all. It was better to use that to get leverage on the lens adjuster
My brother had a Worm Camera for his GBA back when they were being still sold in stores. They were on clearance, but still being sold at stores. The thing took terrible pictures. I think the original Gameboy camera took better pictures then the worm camera. The battery in it was only to save the pictures until you could download them to a PC. So once the battery dies you pictures were gone. Assuming they were any good. One more thing, we could never get the thing to connect to the PC to transfer the pictures. The software that came with it was awful and the drivers never worked, and the internet wasn't really a thing we had at the time to check for a better version.
Is it possible that the button cell battery inside the WormCam is completely dead and needs to be replaced for it to work?
Did you try replacing the coin cell battery in the WormCam? Even though it had the plastic tab still in, it will be way past its best before date.
I had the WormCam growing up. I forgot all about it until this video. I'll have to try to find it as it's probably still around the house somewhere.
That cut at the very end was a thing of beauty.
I had one of these as a kid back with the original GBA and could never get it to take a single picture
I had one of those when it came out and I remember using the right shoulder button to take a pic
I LITERALLY SAW AN INSTALLATION DISC IN THE INSTEUCTION MANUAL OF THE WORM CAMERA DID YOU REALLY MISS THAT
Word of advice, get yourself an RS232 serial to USB converter, preferably one with an FTDI chipset on board. I have to use one for my work, a lot of networking gear has to be configured via a serial console interface, and the converter I use works wonders for that. There's some now that even come with a Type C connector on the end as well.
It's possible that it may have been developed on a previous version of a GBA mother board. Kinda like when you used to have to know what model of mother board you had when doing the first back light mods, like the AGS-101
8:38 ive gotten more than one of these things but for the gba. I have a 99 cent store in town that just has a ton of these. They work but they are somewhat fragile, especially the arms.
Have you ordered the Analogue Pocket, and if so are you going to do an unboxing and review?
Hi. Maybe the button cell on the WormCam is empty. She is very old. That could be the reason why the cam is not working.
Of course it works, it's like the Link cable for the GameCube mate
Maybe Mr Slug T Rex only worked on the gameboy light? At least that is what I heard both times you read out the instructions.
Dude. You saw the button cell battery in the slot.
It stores the pictures using that, the same as any other game boy save.
You just needed to change the battery.
I've seen the red "Nintendo" logo before. You can see it when you boot up a GBA without a game in the slot and a Wireless Adapter in the GBA link port as well.
As a child, even if that T-Rex light never worked, I would have kept it as an accessory just because I would have thought it'd be awesome to have a purple dinosaur.
Bruh you’re lucky I was up at 4:30 am lol...... to see nothing working well that sucks
lmao i was up at nearly 6 am :,)
It's 11:30 a.m. here
He was so lucky. Not for winning the lottery. Or for having a succesful RUclips channel. No, he was lucky for you being awake at 4:30 am.
Intern Creamery yeah he’s lucky I was even awake to give this nothing video a view
Hey,
I have a gameboy FIAT edition for more then 18 years now. I read online that only 100 were made and you could only win them. does anyone know how much this gameboy is worth?
If you can't find a market for it, you make the market for it. I'd probably go around the 400 - 500 mark, depending on any damage or wear. A lot of the value for these limited edition consoles is less on the rarity and more on popularity.
Soft Kitty the outside condition is perfect, but the inside isn’t. If I turn it on the red power indicator works but no screen or sound. So there is some work to do😅
Hey everyone, hope you're having an amazing day :)
Edit:imagine streaming off this camera 😂
Hope your having a amazing day too!
Streaming with this Thing is my worst nightmare
I kinda want to now
How about replacing the battery maybe it isn't only for the real time clock but the photos get stored in volatile memory and saved by the button cell which could be empty after all those years
haha this by far the best video I've seen.. nothing works.. hilarious. Great Video.
Woah, I gotta ask, where'd you get that amazing green game boy color shell?
Ah cool. It runs software through the link port. Wonder if there's an extension cable for that.
GBA was able to boot from the link cable for use as an accessory to the GCN.
I bought the a Gameboy Advance in gold with the Pokemon Layout for only 30€ on ebay. It is in a very good condition and even the screen hasnt 1 scratch. But the brightness of the screen is so awful, I have to light with my phone flashlight to see something on the screen. Is it normal? And is the Pokemon shelf something official from gameboy or can you just buy it and change the shelf of the gameboy?
That trex slug light was hilariously bad, hope you can find out how to get that thing working eventually!
Is Intec not a thing over there, it's a common budget brand in North america
are you sure the included button cell battery wasn't dead?
With the battery out you only got the message "Busy" then you put the battery in and got the messages "Busy" and "Saving". This indicates to me the battery is needed to save the photo. Since it's and old battery just replace it and the thing should work.
What about the cell battery for the camera?
You can see the light come on at 12:22, it's just super super super dim
I kinda like to see the Gamester Men In Black 2 Agent Pack For Gameboy Advance,
how that set is like. and also got a light for the GBA?