What is turbo? What is PC Engine? Lays screen side down? Takes cartridge and SD card out with device powered on? Doesn’t know what the Zelda menu is? WTF am I watching here?
£126.86 is $150 USD. The DIGI Retroboy has graphical glitches on many GBA games. Not to mention the aspect ratio is a bit off, and the sound is not perfect. Why spend this much on an inferior fake when you can get a genuine Nintendo GBA system w/AGS-101 replacement and a glass lens for under $90 shipped. Throw in an EZ-Flash Omega flashcart, and you'll have the ultimate setup on real hardware. You'll also be able to play all of your original GBA/GBC/GB carts as well. I also guarantee the build quality on those DIGI systems is not going to hold up. They are pretty flimsy from what I've read. GBA aftermarket parts are extremely cheap and easy to find. I dont expect the same of the DIGI Retroboy.
Thanks. I don't think posting URL links in the comments is permitted, but you should be able to get them on eBay. Just search for "AGS-101 modded GBA, and sort by price. It should be around $85-$90. Then search for "EZ-Flash Omega". This should be around $50, or less. Good luck.
Go to retromodding.com They have all you need. There is a process though. Find or buy an original gba, then find out which cable you need for the screen, then a glass screen and any other options you might need (like a shell or rubber pads if worn). You will need to get a hobby knife and trim the case a bit to fit the new screen and you will need the screwdrivers for it as well (triwing). And some verrrry small soldering is needed for a small wire off the ribbon cable. Its worth it though. I have 3 systems modded already and plan to do 3 more.
Bren Lowe: That place is expensive. It's $224.56 + shipping there. The seller I bought my pre-modded GBA w/ AGS-101 screen, dual colored plastic body, real glass lens, and dual brightness setting for only $86 shipped. The guy does excellent work too. The LCD was perfectly seated, and there wasn't a spec of dust between the LCD and lens. I've recommended him to about 50 people now and everyone has been extremely happy. It's a shame I don't get commission from him!
Here is the link: www.ebay.com/itm/Game-Boy-Advance-GBA-Console-w-AGS-101-Backlight-Backlit-Mod-Colorful-Buttons/182998281254?hash=item2a9b8c2c26:m:m4HISvVhly6XKARedNj_kgg It's currently $89-$95 depending on the colors of the unit + button combos.
2:44 "and what's really cool - (hold your breath guys) it has a headphone jack. That is nuts." WHOOOOOOA DUDE, HEADPHONES?! WHOAAAAA THA FUTURE IS HERE
@@erieriderschillingcorner1595 turbo used to be on old video game controllers. It sped up the gameplay. A guy this old reviewing video games should know what it is.
My heart broke when you said you had no idea what a PC Engine is. Also surprised that you didn't realise the name of the console is a play on the word "Digital"...
These Chinese knockoff systems are generally garbage anyway. People who say they are "better" than original hardware are not the most knowledgeable when it comes to retro game systems.
It's better than some others, but it's not as accurate an an original Nintendo GBA, if that matters to you. If hardware accuracy and owning an authentic piece of hardware doesn't matter as much, then you may want to just get a modded PSP. They are much cheaper, can play a ton of different emulated systems (NES/SMS/TG16/GEN/SNES/NeoGeo/MAME/Atari 2600/5200/7800/Colecovision/INTV/GB/GBC/GBA/CPS1/CPS2/NGPC/Wonderswan/NGCD/PCD CD/Sega CD/Some N64/ and of course PSP and PS1). Me? I own about 300 handheld and console systems, and around 5,000 games. I've been collecting this stuff since 1982, and have worked in the industry since 1991. So I have a bit of experience.
videogameobsession Actually honestly for even less. Just buy a DS lite with a broken top screen. Solder on 1 resistor and just chop out that screen and buy a cheap R4 and then you literally have exactly what they are showing here. Only difference is that You cant use a Link Port but You have the good screen, the gba compatibility, all the emulators, ect. In the end you got yourself a Gameboy for like $35-40 at most. Broken Ds Lite: $15-$20 sometimes even $10 Resistor: 10¢ at most if not free R4 cart: $15 Cheapest and easiest way to have a gameboy running Original Hardware too.
If you are going that route you might as well get a fully working DS Lite, and use a $10 Acekard 2i for DS roms + $10 EZFlash 3in1 for loading GBA roms from the Acekard to the slot2 cart. A 16GB SDmicro card should fit just about every worthwhile GBA and DS rom. The DS is fine. I have the original, Lite, DSi, DSi XL, but I still prefer playing GB/GBC/GBA games on the original model GBA without emulation. The best GB/GBC DS emulator, LameBoy, still isn't perfect yet, and I just like knowing that they are perfectly accurate.
Thought I recognized that voice in the background! Elliott looks like such a tourist lol Loving the flashback to the Blastoise GBA, need some more pimping videos
This was on my radar for quiet some time but I hesitated to buy it because it was only available in red on Amazon or in grey in one single Chinese shop. Thank you very much for both of your videos. I just bought one off GCW UK on eBay. There are only 7 left by now and I doubt they will be restocked so anyone who wants this should be quick ;)
You can play GB, GBC, GG, NES, PCE and master system games on any GBA flash cart. Just takes a little more work to convert the roms/emulators to GBA roms. Its a simple process, but not just putting files on a card.
You're never going to find that on these cheap knockoffs if you want pixel perfect you're going to have to wait for Nintendo to release an official re-release which may never happen
It's funny how those wider guy exhausted at reviewing those retro tech. "Oof, look at this, Pokemon, incredible!" And then guy from Retro Future comes and owns the show while tutoring him how to make show.
Let me guess, you play clan wars on your phone so you consider yourself a hardcore gamer. If you're gonna make a video on something, at least know your shit
You don't seem to know a whole lot about retro consoles or gaming in general. Which is weird considering your channel but each video I watch seems to confirm this. That's ok though, I still enjoy your videos. Cool product.
Looks the same as the Revo K101. A true hardware clone of the GBA, with its own proprietary flash cart just like the Revo. This just has a better shell.
My Vita can emulate all those systems. What I need is an aluminum gameboy color in gameboy pocket form factor, with OLED screen. have you any idea how good OG gameboy games would look inverted on OLED? 🤤
Very cool video! I'd love to see how it holds up. Battery life irl, how those shoulder button contact switches hold up, etc. Nice collab with The Retro Future
for awhile there people were chopping off the top of a ds lite and make something they were calling Gameboy Advance Neon. I'm guessing that is where the inspiration came from for this!
It plays the GBA games natively however the other systems are emulated. You WILL NOT be able to save pokemon gameboy and gameboy color games on it. The emulator goomba color allocates 64k to its emulation with 56k being used to store the emulators compressed files leaving 8k for saving gameboy game sram. That works great for several games but pokemon uses 32k of sram memory for saves so you will never actually have a save on it. This seems to be a clone of the RevoK101, mimicking the button layout, function, location of battery just in a slightly different outward appearance. Both cost the same but revo is out of china but they have a rather solid device. If anyone is wondering, if you have a GBA flashcart, you can load up these emulators on your flashcart to play the games on your GBA however I find the best for handheld emulation would be an R4 on a DS lite or even 3DS.
really cool bro. yeah that handheld looks cool. although i do my own mods but it is a nice handheld for the price. nice review and i enjoyed the humor brother. cheers!!!!
why is it that some people can make better looking fake systems, that tend to have a design that is actually better then the official ones nintendo puts out
7:45 of course you can load all of those same exact emulators with an EZFlash cart, or any GBA flashcart for that matter. In fact, I am using an EZFlashII GBA cart from 2004 which has emulators for NES/SMS/PCE/GBC/Wonderswan/Colecovision/NGPC/and even a SNES emulator, which admittedly doesn't work well due to the GBA not being powerful enough to emulate it.
Talisman218 I would just stick with the original hardware. i don't know anything about this clone console, but just go with the original. Probably'll save you money. I mean... How much will a GBA or GameBoy cost? 30-40 Euro? 50 pounds?
For the record, there should be no difference between playing via a flashcart or an original cartridge. It's not really playing directly from those GBA games, instead it's likely just ripping the ROM/save temporarily and playing from those.
I see the bad pixel scaling, and just wanted to know if there are settings to change it to integer scaling. I got hopeful when you showed the settings... then got mad when you just skipped past the graphics settings, like you didn't even know or care that it matters.
This is neat. It's a straight up hardware clone of a GBA. That's why it can play things like Game Gear and NES, the GBA cart it comes with is just a standard GBA flash cart. Sadly, being stuck playing GB/GBC games via the GBA flash cart means you're gonna be using an emulator on the flash cart. GB/GBC emulation on GBA flash carts ain't the best. It seems to handle original GB better than GBC. Original GB games play fine for the most part, though there tends to be some stuttering (especially noticeable on sidescrollers like Mario Land). GBC though, good luck. Some of 'em just crash at certain points, some won't load, and a lot of times the games have trouble saving. Even some of your popular games like Zelda Link's Awakening DX and Metal Gear Solid crash or break pretty early on. I'll admit, NES, Master System, and Game Gear games work surprisingly well through emulation on a flash cart. You'll have to deal with the screen being a bit squished on NES/MS though. And if you play rom hacks, don't expect every hack to work perfectly. I had a few Mario 3 hacks glitch out and crash on me. Just a heads up for anyone buying one of these, that's all. Don't expect it to be running GB/GBC through real hardware. It's still emulation. GBA games should be using real hardware though, even through the flash cart.
hey, i love your videos but I have to tell you a critic, when you try the systems you always let the background music mix with the music of the consoles, what doesnt let you know if the quality of the speakers its good enough or, if the emulation has any lag. Keep it up
Do you know that they are no more selling to USA? They already remove it so they can't shipping to USA from UK website. So how did you get it before they take it down?
It's unfortunately this guy is a fake gamer but I still think the important question is: Is this thing actually good? The guys knowledge has no effect on me, I'm just interested in buying one of these
The guy with the yellow shirt should have done the review. And the guy with black shirt should be holding the camera in my opinion the guy with yellow shirt is much more knowledgeable when it comes to tech.
It's pretty good. The issue with Sonic was actually my fault, the start button would pause the game, I just got confused. xD - I saw a little bit of frame rate drop on GG roms. Thanks for watching and commenting Roque!
That's like having a Gameboy Micro with emulators on it. Only plays GBA carts, an the rest are the same emulators that run roms like you can get for any old GBA flash kit. If you're getting weird performance issues on anything other than GBA it's down to the emulator as I've seen that. If the GBA games themselves have issues, than the handheld slightly sucks. You asked what is cheaper? If you wanted it, you can (USD) buy a EZ Flash Omega which can run all the stuff you mentioned and straight from the menu per game like your system there for $50USD (whcih is half the price of the everdrive and runs equally as well as they finally caught up to them.) The EZ kit doesn't have little lag spikes like the kit with your handheld. So if you already have a good GBA of some type and buy the kit, you're about even if you have a spare micro SD lying around.
You can totally get a card reader for the real GBA. I had one back in the day. It could also play GB and nes games (because people wrote emulators), and even read ebooks.
The other systems it plays are using the emulators you can get for the GBA anyway. I use the GameGear one. You have a PC tool that packs the emulator and ROMs into one big GBA ROM.
So it can't even do genesis/megadrive? So close! I'm considering an RS 97 handheld but this looks higher quality...but if it can't emulate as many things then...idk. At least I can change the firmware on the RS 97
This thing looks awsome, love the design! But for 100 bucks, I think I would stick to a modded GBA tbh. Why? Well, the main reason for me, because it can also play Gameboy and Gameboy Color cartridges, unlike this one. But if you dont give a poop about that, yea, would say this is a great alternative!!
I'd say the one major thing I would like to have is USB-C for charging. I can see why they didn't but it would be nice to have for no hassle charging. This thing is basically a Gameboy Micro. I like the SP for its portability, but the originally GBA does fit the hands better. I do like that you can at least swap out the battery, it is at least a good alternative.
Not only does he somehow not know what a turbo button is, despite being more than old enough, he's also too stupid to figure out what they might do from the words "quick fire" Quality content.
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Does it emulate gamecom? Specifically :D
Does it run the gba bios?
This UK link what about the Us
Brandon Salt do gameboy games and gameboy colour games and all that save properly my ez flash omega doesn’t
This video is so annoying mate. It's not BETTER. The dpad and buttons are terrible. Why don't you mention the negative points of the retroboy?...
"Even increase the speed if you want to speedrun"
That's how speedrunning works alright.
Lmfao
Yep
"Hurr durr, turbo button?"
"Hurr durr, PC Engine?"
Lol, yeah this channel is going places.
"Hurr durr, link cable?"
could you do a small amount of research before making a vid? djeeezzzz
What is turbo? What is PC Engine? Lays screen side down? Takes cartridge and SD card out with device powered on? Doesn’t know what the Zelda menu is?
WTF am I watching here?
£126.86 is $150 USD.
The DIGI Retroboy has graphical glitches on many GBA games. Not to mention the aspect ratio is a bit off, and the sound is not perfect.
Why spend this much on an inferior fake when you can get a genuine Nintendo GBA system w/AGS-101 replacement and a glass lens for under $90 shipped.
Throw in an EZ-Flash Omega flashcart, and you'll have the ultimate setup on real hardware. You'll also be able to play all of your original GBA/GBC/GB carts as well.
I also guarantee the build quality on those DIGI systems is not going to hold up. They are pretty flimsy from what I've read. GBA aftermarket parts are extremely cheap and easy to find. I dont expect the same of the DIGI Retroboy.
videogameobsession Great comment! Would you please provide some links to purchase these items please?
Thanks.
I don't think posting URL links in the comments is permitted, but you should be able to get them on eBay. Just search for "AGS-101 modded GBA, and sort by price. It should be around $85-$90.
Then search for "EZ-Flash Omega". This should be around $50, or less.
Good luck.
Go to retromodding.com
They have all you need.
There is a process though.
Find or buy an original gba, then find out which cable you need for the screen, then a glass screen and any other options you might need (like a shell or rubber pads if worn). You will need to get a hobby knife and trim the case a bit to fit the new screen and you will need the screwdrivers for it as well (triwing). And some verrrry small soldering is needed for a small wire off the ribbon cable.
Its worth it though. I have 3 systems modded already and plan to do 3 more.
Bren Lowe: That place is expensive. It's $224.56 + shipping there.
The seller I bought my pre-modded GBA w/ AGS-101 screen, dual colored plastic body, real glass lens, and dual brightness setting for only $86 shipped.
The guy does excellent work too. The LCD was perfectly seated, and there wasn't a spec of dust between the LCD and lens.
I've recommended him to about 50 people now and everyone has been extremely happy. It's a shame I don't get commission from him!
Here is the link:
www.ebay.com/itm/Game-Boy-Advance-GBA-Console-w-AGS-101-Backlight-Backlit-Mod-Colorful-Buttons/182998281254?hash=item2a9b8c2c26:m:m4HISvVhly6XKARedNj_kgg
It's currently $89-$95 depending on the colors of the unit + button combos.
Man..another video from you where you've spent negative anytime at all researching what you're talking about.
Your camera man knows more then you. Maybe you should be his camera man.
The camera man has a channel 'theretrofuture' and he does a far better job for sure
@@WiHL I know. His channel is very solid and he has good knowledge on the tech.
@@WiHL Thanks subscribing to him instead.
@@WiHL Big boy pretending this is a competition.
@@kenshiku a year has passed since the original comment. Retro Dodo has continued to get better and push out great content 👌
2:44 "and what's really cool - (hold your breath guys) it has a headphone jack. That is nuts."
WHOOOOOOA DUDE, HEADPHONES?! WHOAAAAA THA FUTURE IS HERE
You don't know what the turbo button is for? You kids ...
And reviewing video games. Seems legit to me.
That's what I was thinking!? How old is this guy that he doesn't know what turbo is 😂
Sorry i am a kid and i don't know what is it for. Can you tell me? Thx in advance.
@@erieriderschillingcorner1595 turbo used to be on old video game controllers. It sped up the gameplay. A guy this old reviewing video games should know what it is.
@@bluephoenix53 Oh. Ok.
Was a lot of fun making this video! Thanks for having me.
Anytime mah dude!
Yes.
Hi the Retro future
Look it's Elliot! Hey!
@@lazuardirinaldi7516 hi!
My heart broke when you said you had no idea what a PC Engine is. Also surprised that you didn't realise the name of the console is a play on the word "Digital"...
These Chinese knockoff systems are generally garbage anyway. People who say they are "better" than original hardware are not the most knowledgeable when it comes to retro game systems.
@@videogameobsessionyeah but this guy says most suck and how many have you held to compare? This thing looks legit
It's better than some others, but it's not as accurate an an original Nintendo GBA, if that matters to you.
If hardware accuracy and owning an authentic piece of hardware doesn't matter as much, then you may want to just get a modded PSP. They are much cheaper, can play a ton of different emulated systems (NES/SMS/TG16/GEN/SNES/NeoGeo/MAME/Atari 2600/5200/7800/Colecovision/INTV/GB/GBC/GBA/CPS1/CPS2/NGPC/Wonderswan/NGCD/PCD CD/Sega CD/Some N64/ and of course PSP and PS1).
Me? I own about 300 handheld and console systems, and around 5,000 games. I've been collecting this stuff since 1982, and have worked in the industry since 1991. So I have a bit of experience.
videogameobsession Actually honestly for even less. Just buy a DS lite with a broken top screen. Solder on 1 resistor and just chop out that screen and buy a cheap R4 and then you literally have exactly what they are showing here.
Only difference is that You cant use a Link Port but You have the good screen, the gba compatibility, all the emulators, ect.
In the end you got yourself a Gameboy for like $35-40 at most.
Broken Ds Lite: $15-$20 sometimes even $10
Resistor: 10¢ at most if not free
R4 cart: $15
Cheapest and easiest way to have a gameboy running Original Hardware too.
If you are going that route you might as well get a fully working DS Lite, and use a $10 Acekard 2i for DS roms + $10 EZFlash 3in1 for loading GBA roms from the Acekard to the slot2 cart. A 16GB SDmicro card should fit just about every worthwhile GBA and DS rom.
The DS is fine. I have the original, Lite, DSi, DSi XL, but I still prefer playing GB/GBC/GBA games on the original model GBA without emulation. The best GB/GBC DS emulator, LameBoy, still isn't perfect yet, and I just like knowing that they are perfectly accurate.
"I don't have two Pokemon games" - continues by showing Pokémon gold as a ROM and another real cardridge
M. Z. Rip
Lol.
the Pokémon roms on not original hardware don’t support the link cable
$100 is pretty expensive knowing you can buy un Nintendo DS for $30
lol this guy knows no shit about games or retro gaming, he just sees opportunity to make the vids and make money of it.
8:03 “I think this, for me is the best fake gba I’ve seen” this guy sounds like he’s never even used an official gba
Thought I recognized that voice in the background! Elliott looks like such a tourist lol
Loving the flashback to the Blastoise GBA, need some more pimping videos
True that James! Thanks for stopping by!
This was on my radar for quiet some time but I hesitated to buy it because it was only available in red on Amazon or in grey in one single Chinese shop. Thank you very much for both of your videos. I just bought one off GCW UK on eBay. There are only 7 left by now and I doubt they will be restocked so anyone who wants this should be quick ;)
You can play GB, GBC, GG, NES, PCE and master system games on any GBA flash cart. Just takes a little more work to convert the roms/emulators to GBA roms. Its a simple process, but not just putting files on a card.
No pixel-perfect or at least 4:1 scaling LCD is a no-go.
You're never going to find that on these cheap knockoffs if you want pixel perfect you're going to have to wait for Nintendo to release an official re-release which may never happen
Wait a second....
Oh! IT'S THE RETRO FUTURE!!!!
Wow supported by Retro Future, pleasure to see you guys in cooperation!
I noticed a link cable option. So that that mean it can be used to trade pokemon with a real GBA?
It's funny how those wider guy exhausted at reviewing those retro tech. "Oof, look at this, Pokemon, incredible!" And then guy from Retro Future comes and owns the show while tutoring him how to make show.
That is a super cool little gadget. Pricy, but it does a lot and doesn't look like bargain bin fodder. Cheers!
Let me guess, you play clan wars on your phone so you consider yourself a hardcore gamer. If you're gonna make a video on something, at least know your shit
You could just mod a DS Lite to become a Gameboy Micro and use an R4 card with emulators
Yeah I just wanted to use the cartridge slot
@@PureBloodedwolf For Gameboy and Color games
@@Timmymantwo nope, the nds plays ONLY gba games. Gb/gbc can't run
@@giuseppeamore1704 USING A R4 READ WHAT I SAID FIRST
@@ZippletTech but the dsi is the worst model
five seconds in and i immediately noticed how jacked up the pixel scaling on the screen of this thing is. how is that "better?"
You don't seem to know a whole lot about retro consoles or gaming in general. Which is weird considering your channel but each video I watch seems to confirm this. That's ok though, I still enjoy your videos. Cool product.
Looks the same as the Revo K101. A true hardware clone of the GBA, with its own proprietary flash cart just like the Revo. This just has a better shell.
Wouldn't say the DS as the DS was modelled on the SP...
I'd say it is more just going for the retro Nintendo aesthetic.
Fair comments Nick. Thanks for watching!
My Vita can emulate all those systems. What I need is an aluminum gameboy color in gameboy pocket form factor, with OLED screen. have you any idea how good OG gameboy games would look inverted on OLED? 🤤
Quick fire button whatever that means...
It's a button to quick fire 😐
He's kidding
I was so confused when Elliot just randomly showed up
Who is this guy and why has he no idea what he's doing? It's like it's the first time he ever seen och talked about anything game related. :(
He's joking
@@snake4322
He was dead serious about not knowing about the PC Engine.
Wow, maybe I should make a video about quantum physics since I know absolutely nothing about it.
My soul was crushed when I heard turbo what? And not know what the PC engine is ._. it's sad
Very cool video! I'd love to see how it holds up. Battery life irl, how those shoulder button contact switches hold up, etc. Nice collab with The Retro Future
why is the headphone jack so crazy
Nothing like wearing a hat indoors.
He’s hiding his new haircut.
I like hats.
Seriously, that was your problem with this video? Lol
If they got the price down to 50-60 they’d sell way more
The Retro Future brought me here - I liked and subscribed afterward. Good work!
Much appreciated! Thanks for stopping by! :)
for awhile there people were chopping off the top of a ds lite and make something they were calling Gameboy Advance Neon. I'm guessing that is where the inspiration came from for this!
Nice video as always, very interesting product 👍 I bought the retromini but this looks a bit better indeed. Pokemon Gold looks nice there!
It plays the GBA games natively however the other systems are emulated. You WILL NOT be able to save pokemon gameboy and gameboy color games on it. The emulator goomba color allocates 64k to its emulation with 56k being used to store the emulators compressed files leaving 8k for saving gameboy game sram. That works great for several games but pokemon uses 32k of sram memory for saves so you will never actually have a save on it. This seems to be a clone of the RevoK101, mimicking the button layout, function, location of battery just in a slightly different outward appearance. Both cost the same but revo is out of china but they have a rather solid device. If anyone is wondering, if you have a GBA flashcart, you can load up these emulators on your flashcart to play the games on your GBA however I find the best for handheld emulation would be an R4 on a DS lite or even 3DS.
really cool bro. yeah that handheld looks cool. although i do my own mods but it is a nice handheld for the price. nice review and i enjoyed the humor brother. cheers!!!!
Been watching since the start of you inbox info game boys
Nice, thanks for watching as usual man!
Your cameraman is The Retro Future. His RUclips channel is awesome.
To everyone who didn't get it, he is trying to emulate "Unbox Therapy" really, really hard.
Awesome product review as always
Must say, 100 dollar not bad at all, Bacause original GBA with LCD Screen cost around 100 dollar.
Wicked Gamer & Collector you got scammed then
Lassi Kinnunen playing the real thing is better also you could mod an original for cheap
Brandon: Oh, we're gonna do a teardown!
Me: OMG, The Retro Future's gonna love this.
why is it that some people can make better looking fake systems, that tend to have a design that is actually better then the official ones nintendo puts out
It's lovely, I ordered one on Amazon after watching this video. Hopefully an improvement over the Revo K101.
7:45 of course you can load all of those same exact emulators with an EZFlash cart, or any GBA flashcart for that matter.
In fact, I am using an EZFlashII GBA cart from 2004 which has emulators for NES/SMS/PCE/GBC/Wonderswan/Colecovision/NGPC/and even a SNES emulator, which admittedly doesn't work well due to the GBA not being powerful enough to emulate it.
I get from your accent that your from Narnia, but how do you not know what Turbo is on a video game?
Does it output a safe voltage for the official game carts?
So far so good!
@@RetroDodo You didn't answer the question.
Something tells me he doesn’t know what that means...I mean, the guy was clueless about so many aspects of this...
Talisman218 I would just stick with the original hardware. i don't know anything about this clone console, but just go with the original. Probably'll save you money. I mean... How much will a GBA or GameBoy cost? 30-40 Euro? 50 pounds?
Can you switch pokemon from the rom versions to real pokemon cartridge games. Example from red rom to blue cardridge ???
For the record, there should be no difference between playing via a flashcart or an original cartridge. It's not really playing directly from those GBA games, instead it's likely just ripping the ROM/save temporarily and playing from those.
I see the bad pixel scaling, and just wanted to know if there are settings to change it to integer scaling. I got hopeful when you showed the settings... then got mad when you just skipped past the graphics settings, like you didn't even know or care that it matters.
Can I Save the State?
When yes, where?
Great video! This looks awesome... wish I could get one in the US.
OMG this sucks when he had too ask about the link cable
This is neat. It's a straight up hardware clone of a GBA. That's why it can play things like Game Gear and NES, the GBA cart it comes with is just a standard GBA flash cart.
Sadly, being stuck playing GB/GBC games via the GBA flash cart means you're gonna be using an emulator on the flash cart. GB/GBC emulation on GBA flash carts ain't the best. It seems to handle original GB better than GBC. Original GB games play fine for the most part, though there tends to be some stuttering (especially noticeable on sidescrollers like Mario Land). GBC though, good luck. Some of 'em just crash at certain points, some won't load, and a lot of times the games have trouble saving. Even some of your popular games like Zelda Link's Awakening DX and Metal Gear Solid crash or break pretty early on.
I'll admit, NES, Master System, and Game Gear games work surprisingly well through emulation on a flash cart. You'll have to deal with the screen being a bit squished on NES/MS though. And if you play rom hacks, don't expect every hack to work perfectly. I had a few Mario 3 hacks glitch out and crash on me.
Just a heads up for anyone buying one of these, that's all. Don't expect it to be running GB/GBC through real hardware. It's still emulation. GBA games should be using real hardware though, even through the flash cart.
I can’t wait til they start making 3ds version of these
It’s actually a fake ps vita not psp, oh wait wrong video
hey, i love your videos but I have to tell you a critic, when you try the systems you always let the background music mix with the music of the consoles, what doesnt let you know if the quality of the speakers its good enough or, if the emulation has any lag. Keep it up
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It better be better for $100. That's a hundred dollars worth of dollars!
Do you know that they are no more selling to USA? They already remove it so they can't shipping to USA from UK website. So how did you get it before they take it down?
It's unfortunately this guy is a fake gamer but I still think the important question is: Is this thing actually good? The guys knowledge has no effect on me, I'm just interested in buying one of these
So I was looking at your pimp gba sp and thought maybe you could pimp a ds or something like that
The guy with the yellow shirt should have done the review. And the guy with black shirt should be holding the camera in my opinion the guy with yellow shirt is much more knowledgeable when it comes to tech.
Wow, he liked it to the bottom of the DS over the original entire game boy.
How well do the roms run? Seemed like there were some issues with Sonic. Would love to see if there is any lag or frame rate issues with the roms.
It's pretty good. The issue with Sonic was actually my fault, the start button would pause the game, I just got confused. xD - I saw a little bit of frame rate drop on GG roms. Thanks for watching and commenting Roque!
“Probably turn it on and off again” ad plays instantly.
Looks like a Gameboy Macro build !
Love the review
In my humble opinion a couple of days it's not enough to make a comprehensive review!
That's like having a Gameboy Micro with emulators on it. Only plays GBA carts, an the rest are the same emulators that run roms like you can get for any old GBA flash kit. If you're getting weird performance issues on anything other than GBA it's down to the emulator as I've seen that. If the GBA games themselves have issues, than the handheld slightly sucks. You asked what is cheaper? If you wanted it, you can (USD) buy a EZ Flash Omega which can run all the stuff you mentioned and straight from the menu per game like your system there for $50USD (whcih is half the price of the everdrive and runs equally as well as they finally caught up to them.) The EZ kit doesn't have little lag spikes like the kit with your handheld. So if you already have a good GBA of some type and buy the kit, you're about even if you have a spare micro SD lying around.
You can totally get a card reader for the real GBA. I had one back in the day. It could also play GB and nes games (because people wrote emulators), and even read ebooks.
The other systems it plays are using the emulators you can get for the GBA anyway. I use the GameGear one. You have a PC tool that packs the emulator and ROMs into one big GBA ROM.
if it did snes as well i would probably grab one, cheaper than everdrive carts for each system though :)
Ah yeah, a headphone jack. Thats a big thing nowadays.
So it can't even do genesis/megadrive? So close! I'm considering an RS 97 handheld but this looks higher quality...but if it can't emulate as many things then...idk. At least I can change the firmware on the RS 97
Just so you know they use the same software fake cartridges from 2006ish used for the Pokémon Yellow 2004 Editions etc. Just so you know
is there a GameCube Handheld out there? I am really looking for one.
Where is your accent from? I can hear at least two different accents there. One is Somerset or cornwall and the other US?
MajorJim! Bath (on his shirt) provides a clue... 🤔😉
can you use it to transfer Pokemon though?
How do the buttons feel? Is the sound good?
Wow, it has a head phone jack... just like the normal GBA
This thing looks awsome, love the design!
But for 100 bucks, I think I would stick to a modded GBA tbh.
Why? Well, the main reason for me, because it can also play Gameboy and Gameboy Color cartridges, unlike this one. But if you dont give a poop about that, yea, would say this is a great alternative!!
Thats fair enough Chris! Thanks for watching and commenting!
I'd say the one major thing I would like to have is USB-C for charging. I can see why they didn't but it would be nice to have for no hassle charging.
This thing is basically a Gameboy Micro. I like the SP for its portability, but the originally GBA does fit the hands better. I do like that you can at least swap out the battery, it is at least a good alternative.
Not only does he somehow not know what a turbo button is, despite being more than old enough, he's also too stupid to figure out what they might do from the words "quick fire"
Quality content.
Now, the big question... Does the included cart work on a real GBA?
It looks more like an Game & Watch System. But i'm assuming he don't know what this is either.
So this works with cartridges ?
They could have easily called it the RevoK101MAX.
does the card work in a regular GBA?
I find it funny that this is an genuinely interesting product, but I can't find any for sale.
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Looooooooool... u have a gazillion GB unit and can;t recognize the link plugg^^
keep up da good work
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