Making Rom Dumping/Direct Reading easy is what emulations needs the most. It's an Open Secret that 99% of people just pirate the roms. Being able to do itself closes that issue, also incentives actual collecting, which is kinda cool since many of these old systems will start failing soon.
@@TheAmazingDolph Physical cartridge are going to decompose and harder to repair every year. Also no shade, but actually wanting to “own” your entertainment is getting more and more outdated every year. Young people like Netflix, Steam and Spotify more than they like physical discs. Same thing with games. Only the most enthusiast of people will want to actually physically collect their games. Also collecting became more popular the game would be even more expensive and less people would bother.
@@TheAmazingDolph It would incentivize collecting, but thanks to a-holes like WATA inflating the market for physical retro games, it really doesn't. I would buy a device like this and use it to play GB and GBA games I already have, and for everything else I'd download a ROM and put it on an Everdrive because screw the used prices. Used sales don't give the company any money anyway, so I'm not taking from the companies by downloading a ROM instead of buying from a scumbag scalper.
@@nhngzz_ I’m starting to think the days of CD’s, game cartridges, and low definition TV’s, and buttons were much happier than our current ways. Thoughts?
This seems like a cool decorative but also streamlined way to do emulation. It looks nice; it gives you a reason to be a collector of physical carts. It wont be for everyone, but I am glad it exists
The FBI interrogator: So why did you download **checks notes** 2 terabytes of Gameboy games...? Me: Wood Hawker from the RUclips channel BeatEmUps told me to.
@MenaceInc no idea if severity goes up with the amount of games one pirated but "Person sentenced to life in prison for 2 terabytes of gameboy roms" would be an upsetting yet histerical headline
@MenaceInc A big part of it also is the GBA had a LOT of duplicates that weren't just region variants but actual official multicarts so some 1G1R collections like No-Intro still include them. Also Gameboy Video roms take up 1GB, which if you have the GBA Video roms, why? There are better ways to watch Shrek.
regardless of the flaws, I think stuff like this _really_ needs to be more common. Emulation itself isn't illegal, but it's the ROMs that cause problems, so why not have more little emulation machines that use the actual cartridge or disk? I something like this is dope as hell, and I'd love to see them do something like this for other consoles in the future. And yeah, great stuff as always Bob.
@@swide2750 yes but you need a device like this to get the roms, downloading off of the internet is never legal even if you own the game elsewhere. I won't deny the fact I have downloaded literally hundreds of roms though because I'm poor, but it is nice to see perfectly legal options for those who want it.
@@swide2750 actually technically not. If you have your copy of the game, that doesn't make any rom you download legal, the only legal rom would be the one ripped from your physical/digital game, and I know they're the same, but technically the one you didn't get the proper way still would be illegal
Hey Bob, for oversized save files, you should be able to simply cut the extra bytes off of the file and upload the first 32KB of it. Use your favorite hex editor or other tools to copy out the first 32768 bytes and save them to a new file.
@@WulffDen No problem! What's happening is that the emulator you used made a bad guess on the size/has the wrong size in its DB that the game actually uses/needs. The actual save content is within the first 32KB and the rest was probably all zeroes. ^_^
I've had the GB01 and also been curious why people were so hyped about the Operator, and can't stand that they tried to backpack on Analogue with the name Epilogue. Great video, thanks!
I died when you said to tell the cops Wood said it was okay. I like the device and want one. I've got physical pokemon games that I'd like to complete pokedexes on but can't without messing with the save file. I also like the ability to play on your computer then push the save back to the cartridge. It's just a convenient product for someone who isn't too into the rom/emulation scene and just has a gameboy and some games.
Joey Jr is the best one of these I have seen. It works with GB/GBC/GBA games and as far as I can tell has no issues with any official games. It dumps and writes from the built in memory, so it's literally just like moving files from a usb and since it dumps saves on them bring changed, you can run a emulator directly from the Joey for a seemless way to load and dump to cart when your playing. I mostly like it because it nice to be able to play Pokémon games at 10x speed from the cart.
Yeah ive had my eye on the Joey JR for a couple days now. The operator seems abit too pricey for me plus especially cuz of the US postage cost. I dont think i need the gb operator software at all.
Honestly, I wanna see one with a link-cable slot if possible, that could be so much fun! Or even a PCI-E one, but that's just for the goof. It'd be a really fun to plug a cartridge into the back of your PC. It'd feel more like an old console!
I believe that I saw some Google Play applications that had link trade functionality in it. I forgot the names, and what the icons of them looked like though.
Basically, you would be going so far out of your way, which is overkill, just to get a garbage image which wasn't worth the overkill effort to get it to work 🤣
I have one on order and excited to play some carts I have found over the last couple years. Still love the feeling of slipping a physical item into a slot!
Been on the fence about sharing that same unique problem, so i'm glad to finally see a video with both GB Operator and Submodel. The guy from epilogue worked on the submodel as well so the similarities initially turned me off from it, good to see that there will hopefully be more improvements/updates though. Also if you have any GBA SP shells laying around they make a nice housing for the submodel. Though some minor shell trimming for the usb-c slot is required. Made mine into a submodel sp not long after I got it and threw a dead screen inside for weight. Totally unnecessary but would recommend. (Clear shell if you still wanna see the crashing wave)
I was an early adopter for the GB Operator! Tbh I don't have any complaints apart from the drip feed of features. Honestly a great product and the team are super friendly!
I got my GB Operator a few days ago and love the looks of it. I didn't know there was another device out there that could do this, but it's competitor doesn't look very polished compared to this. I like that I can stand the cart vertically. Don't like the bright LED shining though.
You can jailbreak a 3DS and use it to transfer saves from an emulator to a DS cart etc. So if anyone wants to be able to rip DS games or backup saves, you can already do that with a hacked 3ds :3
I first heard about this as a way to save your file to computer if you needed to change the battery in your cartridge so you don’t lose all your progress
I ordered the GB Operator in September still waiting for availability but I am looking forward testing the unit. My intention was to play GBA games on the pc but do like the backup and legit functionality. I was not aware of the GBO1 Cart Reader. Keep those cool videos coming.
I was aware of the casing issue that the company has with the device for some strange and bizarre reason. They have quotes talking about never even planning to make a case for the product ever. I thought the product might have been made already, but I could not find any evidence of it back then for some strange reason.
At this point the problem isn't the hardware but the cardridges. I have plenty devices to play GB/GBC/GBA on but getting those gems I still really want in my collection would cost me a fortune and I refuse to reward those cuttthroats that keep inflating the prices.
I've been dumping/restoring GB saves and extracting GB Camera pictures since the late 90s. Back then I used a GBC GameShark that came with a parallel port to linkport cable and a Windows 98 program to use it. I'd take an out-of-game snapshot in the GameShark, transfer it to the PC, and then use an emulator that can import/export GameShark snapshots to convert to standard sav files. For GB Camera, I would then open the sav file in a program called Tile Layer Pro (typically used to extract/insert graphics for NES and GB romhacks), resize it to the right width and scroll until I started seeing pictures. In more modern times, now that computers don't have parallel ports, I can use the GameShark to take a snapshot, restore it onto a GB flashcart, and then read it off the flashcart into a computer. Neither of these methods extract the ROM though, but every game's ROM is readily available for download so that won't be a problem unless I get ahold of some prototype cartridge. The GBOperator is definitely quicker and easier though.
Just found your channel the other day, subscribed. Idk what it is about you, but you seem like a fun guy to hang out with. Looking forward to continuing our long-distance friendship well into the future.
Thanks for posting this, I'm just now seeing this video haha. It was a card on your Emulation isn't Piracy video. This is a COOL devices! I'm with you on the fact that it has an enclosure! I'll be getting this next paycheck!
Thank you. I was having a near panic attack trying figure out what game I knew that from. Damn nostalgia hit me like a brick wall, but I couldn't for the life of me remember why.
For the record, you could transfer saves to and from real carts dating back to the old Gameshark for GBA. At the very least. It had a USB connection to the PC as well, to upload codes, and one thing it did was let you download and upload saves to the carts. Not discounting that feature here, it's a good feature to have. Just that it's a feature that has been accessible for more than a decade already.
The GB Operator seems amazing for me. I've been trying to get a working copy of Robot Wars for GBC for ages now, but the roms never work for me and I can't find my original copy. Ripping the rom directly from an original cart to play on my PC or send to a phone would be genuinely fantastic. This thing seems cool as hell.
"I buy things to make videos about them, then I just forget about them until they show up at the door" Meanwhile my broke ass is still waiting for that $3 wish scam I purchased 5 months ago
I got this thing to use with my Pocket and it works so effortlessly. Took me about ten minutes, maybe less to archive my 40 GB/GBC/GBA physical collection. Plus I backed up my childhood saves from all my GBA games. Sadly, wasn’t able to save my Yellow file, but what’re you gonna do? 🤷♂️ I’ve never been one to be a fan of emulators, but being able to use my own ROMs is extremely appealing to me. Especially since I can transfer my emulator or Pocket Open FPGA file over anytime I want. It’s like the convenience afforded by something like a switch, but retrofitted to work with old hardware. Even if it isn’t anywhere near as convenient as just plopping the switch in the dock, it’s still pretty easy, and worth it for someone who loves collecting physical media. Plus anything that can put to bed any of the legal gray area regarding piracy is great. It’s fully legal to use your own ROMs, and hopefully it’ll make emulation and preservation easier in the long run for anyone who wants to try these games. It’s not like Nintendo is gonna do it. And frankly, Nintendo has no room to be angry about us “pirating” their retro games. “How can one steal an item from a shop that doesn’t sell that item?” I can’t just go onto a modern console and buy a copy of Pokémon Ruby, so in my honest opinion, it’s 100% ethically correct to pirate the game if it’s not available in any other way.
this is actually really useful for me because I don't have the tools or knowhow of how to replace the batteries inside the GBA carts for some events in Pokémon and this will let me upload my save and continue on an emulator so yeah this is actually incredibly useful
Just to let you know, for the air hockey mini game; you only need to buy one card to make it run. We bought 2 of them thinking that it needed both of them.
You actually could have done the training and lessons yourself prior to the pandemic. That is what the sellers on Ebay did. There was a seller was buying the individual Berry eReader cards online building them up to ultimately sell as a bundle option of choices for the consumer. We could have done the same thing, there was enough duplicates being sold at the time. We just did not want to hoard them without not being used. We also did not have the E-reader that we have now to actually use them. It is the Original EReader, not a copy like the one that you likely have. There is actually one specific ereader card that has to be scanned with the original ereader. The other variety will not work with it at all. The specific ereader card was a Isabelle animal crossing card if I am recalling correctly. It even listed in the description of the product with all caps on the emphasis on the original ereader only.
07:14 I thought it was funny that you commented on this, because I used to play flash games all the time just like this before ever really becoming a PC gamer and getting used to WASD for movement. My brother always thought I looked like an idiot, but controlling movement with my left hand always felt natural to me.
@@skycloud4802 I like it. I'm in grad school, so I haven't had a lot of time to play with it, but I put it through its paces. The software is extremely user friendly and my eventual plan it to backup all of my GBA games to my computer. I still need to figure out the controller. Ideally I want to use an NSO SNES controller, but worst case I think an 8BitDo will do just fine.
Introduced my daughter to Pokemon and we've been playing for a week or so. I just got my first retro handheld (RG35XX) and I want to move my save file from my classic hardware to it. This is a perfect unit and I can't wait for it to come it. Plus I can backup all my games and save files whenever I need to replace batteries or want to start new games without losing progress of the old saves. The playing on computer is just a huge bonus.
I love this! Make a version of it for every console ever conceived!! Do it! Take my money!!! I want to be able to play ALL my hard copies and play literally everything on a Steam Deck, and for it to be perfectly legal as well!!!
I love those guys! I live in Canada and they shipped with USPS to me at my request. It wasn't an option and DHL has been so awful to me in the past so they used me as a guinea pig and it went great! Thanks epilogue!
Personally I got the GBxCart because you can buy a cheap GBA cart shell, trim it a little, and use that as a case for it. It's pretty neat and only mildly disturbing to use a cartridge to read another cartridge.
I think you glazed over the official cartridge tag. That is super nice to have if you want to be buying cartridges to collect and want to ensure it’s real
I'm glad devices like this exist, but for me personally, I'm not really interested unless it's running my games straight off the cart, not through emulation. (Of course, IDK how possible that is.) I also tend to feel that this kind of thing doesn't really help piracy much. I don't think anything will short of making game roms for older games legally available to purchase.
The Analogue Pocket is a portable console that's coming out that plays GB(A) game cartridges without emulation. You can also buy an optional dock to play it on your TV. It's compatible with 8BitDo controllers.
Thank you Wood from the channel BeatEmUps for allowing me to play gameboy games on my pc. The cops just got here tho so guys I'll have to refer them to you
I love the Rumble feature. I have been playing Legend of the River King 2 with Rumble after Running the game through the Gameboy ROM Analyzer for Windows. I changed the cartridge type to 1EH and fixed the header. Rumble was programmed into the Japanese version and just needs to be opened on the English version. The Earthquake at the beginning will let you know if you did it right. I am playing on the USB Smartcard but plan on getting a couple of Flashcarts from ETSY that save without a battery. Nushi Tsuri Adventure-Kite no Bouken English patch also has Rumble. You just need to go to settings in your Epilogue GB Operator and set it to Rumble and have a Rumble controller. Great Fishing games that work way better with Rumble. I am catching fish way more often now. This also worked for me on the Pow Kiddy V90 with the Pocket Go Firmware Update. Have Fun !!!🙂
I had no idea you could buy new hardware to play your old games, I love this! I would much rather get out my old games and actually have a way to play them than have to pirate them to be able to play them again, I am so getting one of these after xmas!
Dam, feeling old seeing you and thinking I was playing my brand new GB in 1989 on the way to school. I still have it secured in a case and still works perfectly. I’ll wait for Analogues pocket to arrive to relive the enjoyment without messing with my original hardware I bought with my paper route money and all those lawns I cut :)
The website was definitely around before everyone noticed it. I definitely saw it around back then and thought nothing of since I literally had no idea what the item even was at the time. Back then when I found it, it could get shipped out and arrive as soon as the next few days. They definitely had stock of the product back then as well.
OMG I always looked at you as a big brother showing cool gaming stuffs and painfully realized that I am 2 years older than you.. suddenly feeling so old.
For the same price, the GB Operator is leaps and bounds better. The better design and software support makes it a device that is LESS niche and I think that is where the hype comes from. I personally plan to buy one as it excites me to get to interact with physical cartridges in this way.
Yes but Bob makes comparisons to another cart reading device (GB01 Cart Reader) throughout the video, that he says is basically the same or only slightly worse. That is what I’m referring to here.
It would be so awesome for Nintendo to make their own version of this and to re-release a bunch of Gameboy carts to go along side it with a unique a unique controller for $50
Making Rom Dumping/Direct Reading easy is what emulations needs the most. It's an Open Secret that 99% of people just pirate the roms. Being able to do itself closes that issue, also incentives actual collecting, which is kinda cool since many of these old systems will start failing soon.
yeah but cartridges are expensive and give no money to the developers. Piracy doesn't hurt them at all.
@@nhngzz_ This still incentives collecting, which helps physical preservation
@@TheAmazingDolph Physical cartridge are going to decompose and harder to repair every year. Also no shade, but actually wanting to “own” your entertainment is getting more and more outdated every year. Young people like Netflix, Steam and Spotify more than they like physical discs. Same thing with games. Only the most enthusiast of people will want to actually physically collect their games. Also collecting became more popular the game would be even more expensive and less people would bother.
@@TheAmazingDolph It would incentivize collecting, but thanks to a-holes like WATA inflating the market for physical retro games, it really doesn't. I would buy a device like this and use it to play GB and GBA games I already have, and for everything else I'd download a ROM and put it on an Everdrive because screw the used prices. Used sales don't give the company any money anyway, so I'm not taking from the companies by downloading a ROM instead of buying from a scumbag scalper.
@@nhngzz_ I’m starting to think the days of CD’s, game cartridges, and low definition TV’s, and buttons were much happier than our current ways. Thoughts?
This seems like a cool decorative but also streamlined way to do emulation. It looks nice; it gives you a reason to be a collector of physical carts. It wont be for everyone, but I am glad it exists
Too bad there's a lot of fakes
Couldntve have said it better. Its 100% unnecessary to own this thing but ... why not? Definitely a nice thing to have
It makes the whole emulation thing seem a lot more legit.
yes
also, complete legality!
The FBI interrogator: So why did you download **checks notes** 2 terabytes of Gameboy games...?
Me: Wood Hawker from the RUclips channel BeatEmUps told me to.
@MenaceInc It's just what Wood Hawker from BeatEmUps told me to do. I didn't ask questions.
@MenaceInc no idea if severity goes up with the amount of games one pirated but "Person sentenced to life in prison for 2 terabytes of gameboy roms" would be an upsetting yet histerical headline
@MenaceInc lol
@@34disorder84 They'd sentence Wood Hawker, from the RUclips channel BeatEmUps, right? He's the one who told me to do it, sooo....
@MenaceInc A big part of it also is the GBA had a LOT of duplicates that weren't just region variants but actual official multicarts so some 1G1R collections like No-Intro still include them. Also Gameboy Video roms take up 1GB, which if you have the GBA Video roms, why? There are better ways to watch Shrek.
regardless of the flaws, I think stuff like this _really_ needs to be more common.
Emulation itself isn't illegal, but it's the ROMs that cause problems, so why not have more little emulation machines that use the actual cartridge or disk?
I something like this is dope as hell, and I'd love to see them do something like this for other consoles in the future.
And yeah, great stuff as always Bob.
*Wood
roms are legal if you own the game pyschically maybe digitally too
@@swide2750 yes but you need a device like this to get the roms, downloading off of the internet is never legal even if you own the game elsewhere.
I won't deny the fact I have downloaded literally hundreds of roms though because I'm poor, but it is nice to see perfectly legal options for those who want it.
nobody cares about rom-sets from 90’s consoles. not even Nintendo. if it’s not being sold anymore, download it.
@@swide2750 actually technically not. If you have your copy of the game, that doesn't make any rom you download legal, the only legal rom would be the one ripped from your physical/digital game, and I know they're the same, but technically the one you didn't get the proper way still would be illegal
Thanks Wood Hawker! I knew I needed someone’s permission to play roms, just couldn’t remember who.
That made me laugh.
Hey Bob, for oversized save files, you should be able to simply cut the extra bytes off of the file and upload the first 32KB of it. Use your favorite hex editor or other tools to copy out the first 32768 bytes and save them to a new file.
very interesting. I will be trying this
OMG IT WORKED TYSM
@@WulffDen No problem! What's happening is that the emulator you used made a bad guess on the size/has the wrong size in its DB that the game actually uses/needs. The actual save content is within the first 32KB and the rest was probably all zeroes. ^_^
@@IcySon55 just wanted to say that is so cool. Great advice.
The word you're looking for is "Truncate".
I've had the GB01 and also been curious why people were so hyped about the Operator, and can't stand that they tried to backpack on Analogue with the name Epilogue. Great video, thanks!
Alright, ProSpeedRunnerBobTM, when is the hands-reversed-on-the-keyboard stream?
I died when you said to tell the cops Wood said it was okay.
I like the device and want one. I've got physical pokemon games that I'd like to complete pokedexes on but can't without messing with the save file. I also like the ability to play on your computer then push the save back to the cartridge. It's just a convenient product for someone who isn't too into the rom/emulation scene and just has a gameboy and some games.
I order one for getting my collection going with old GB games. This is what i was looking for! Cheers for showing this one Wulff Den!
I also have this! It really makes me want to play my physical games. And backing up my old saves is dope.
Joey Jr is the best one of these I have seen.
It works with GB/GBC/GBA games and as far as I can tell has no issues with any official games.
It dumps and writes from the built in memory, so it's literally just like moving files from a usb and since it dumps saves on them bring changed, you can run a emulator directly from the Joey for a seemless way to load and dump to cart when your playing.
I mostly like it because it nice to be able to play Pokémon games at 10x speed from the cart.
Yeah ive had my eye on the Joey JR for a couple days now. The operator seems abit too pricey for me plus especially cuz of the US postage cost. I dont think i need the gb operator software at all.
Yeah 10x speed is a requirement of mine for emulating Pokemon, I may have to look into this Joey Jr, or whatever is being sold right now.
Honestly, I wanna see one with a link-cable slot if possible, that could be so much fun!
Or even a PCI-E one, but that's just for the goof. It'd be a really fun to plug a cartridge into the back of your PC. It'd feel more like an old console!
I loved playing ps1 disks on my computer and tried putting all disks in the disk drive
I believe that I saw some Google Play applications that had link trade functionality in it. I forgot the names, and what the icons of them looked like though.
@@joshernsteen2066 If you are on Android, the My Boy! emulator has link functionality over both Bluetooth and local Wifi.
It wouldn't be hard to mount this to a modified PCI slot bracket. Then, you can use an internal USB header with an adapter to plug the cable in.
i feel a 3.5" bay attachment would be more suitable for this, front loading
I don't know a lot about the Gameboy Camera, but I feel like it would be hilarious overkill to use it as a webcam.
wouldnt that be the exact opposite of overkill? More like... underkill?
@@thorstenthorben196 So under it's over
@@thorstenthorben196 Overkill to get it working for an underwhelming picture.
Basically, you would be going so far out of your way, which is overkill, just to get a garbage image which wasn't worth the overkill effort to get it to work 🤣
“Tell them I said it’s okay”
*gives friend’s name and channel*
😂
"Friend"
Thanks wood, always appreciate your videos and input
I ordered one of these around 2 months ago, can’t wait for it to ship
I have one on order and excited to play some carts I have found over the last couple years. Still love the feeling of slipping a physical item into a slot!
Been on the fence about sharing that same unique problem, so i'm glad to finally see a video with both GB Operator and Submodel.
The guy from epilogue worked on the submodel as well so the similarities initially turned me off from it, good to see that there will hopefully be more improvements/updates though.
Also if you have any GBA SP shells laying around they make a nice housing for the submodel. Though some minor shell trimming for the usb-c slot is required. Made mine into a submodel sp not long after I got it and threw a dead screen inside for weight. Totally unnecessary but would recommend.
(Clear shell if you still wanna see the crashing wave)
I was an early adopter for the GB Operator! Tbh I don't have any complaints apart from the drip feed of features. Honestly a great product and the team are super friendly!
I got my GB Operator a few days ago and love the looks of it. I didn't know there was another device out there that could do this, but it's competitor doesn't look very polished compared to this. I like that I can stand the cart vertically. Don't like the bright LED shining though.
I love the design. It's very clean and simple. I like the Retrode 2 though. A lot of options there if you get the cartridge adapters with it.
I would kill to see more of these for ds, 3ds, snes, and the others. That would slap
ESPECIALLY the First Two
@@jadetealaaron2003 the 3ds would be difficult since the data is stored on the actual ds instead of the cartridge but ds absoloutedly
You can jailbreak a 3DS and use it to transfer saves from an emulator to a DS cart etc.
So if anyone wants to be able to rip DS games or backup saves, you can already do that with a hacked 3ds :3
@@ludvigstorm3972not always, a lot of games save to the cartridge and only store things like updates and DLC on the console
I first heard about this as a way to save your file to computer if you needed to change the battery in your cartridge so you don’t lose all your progress
You not saving in the beginning of this triggered me a lot more than it needed to lol great video
I ordered the GB Operator in September still waiting for availability but I am looking forward testing the unit. My intention was to play GBA games on the pc but do like the backup and legit functionality. I was not aware of the GBO1 Cart Reader. Keep those cool videos coming.
I was aware of the casing issue that the company has with the device for some strange and bizarre reason. They have quotes talking about never even planning to make a case for the product ever. I thought the product might have been made already, but I could not find any evidence of it back then for some strange reason.
I'd love it if other cartridge based systems did something similar to this I would have no problem collecting them then.
I love mine so much. A lot of my cartridges are worse for wear, so I’ve used it to back up all my games and pop them into Everdrives.
So what actually is breaking down in your carts? A lot of these old carts can last theoretically more than our lifetimes combined.
@@chronology556 Exactly. Wear and tear isn't even worth mentioning for the games. It's the old consoles that people worry about in the long-term.
@@cencil6497 replace the capacitors.
How much?
Oh I got a good chuckle from that, good video Wood from BeatEmUps
This is the first time I already have a gaming peripheral before Bob made a video about it. I love this thing!
Definitely worth it for me! With my eyes getting bad I will definitely be picking this up to replay my Game Boy games, Thanks for the video.
Sonic Advance music at the start? Classy.
Recently learned about this device. Will definitely be picking one up!
At this point the problem isn't the hardware but the cardridges. I have plenty devices to play GB/GBC/GBA on but getting those gems I still really want in my collection would cost me a fortune and I refuse to reward those cuttthroats that keep inflating the prices.
yup. consider emulation, it doesn’t really hurt nintendo as they can’t earn money from those resold cartridges
I've been dumping/restoring GB saves and extracting GB Camera pictures since the late 90s. Back then I used a GBC GameShark that came with a parallel port to linkport cable and a Windows 98 program to use it. I'd take an out-of-game snapshot in the GameShark, transfer it to the PC, and then use an emulator that can import/export GameShark snapshots to convert to standard sav files. For GB Camera, I would then open the sav file in a program called Tile Layer Pro (typically used to extract/insert graphics for NES and GB romhacks), resize it to the right width and scroll until I started seeing pictures.
In more modern times, now that computers don't have parallel ports, I can use the GameShark to take a snapshot, restore it onto a GB flashcart, and then read it off the flashcart into a computer.
Neither of these methods extract the ROM though, but every game's ROM is readily available for download so that won't be a problem unless I get ahold of some prototype cartridge. The GBOperator is definitely quicker and easier though.
Just found your channel the other day, subscribed.
Idk what it is about you, but you seem like a fun guy to hang out with. Looking forward to continuing our long-distance friendship well into the future.
Thanks for posting this, I'm just now seeing this video haha. It was a card on your Emulation isn't Piracy video. This is a COOL devices! I'm with you on the fact that it has an enclosure! I'll be getting this next paycheck!
When that Sonic Advance music kicked in my Nostalgia appeared
Thank you. I was having a near panic attack trying figure out what game I knew that from. Damn nostalgia hit me like a brick wall, but I couldn't for the life of me remember why.
It threw me for an extreme loop
@@HeroG9000 So, you could say, you were rolling around, at the speed of sound.
@@chuzzle44 Of course! When you have places to go, you gotta follow your rainbow.
For the record, you could transfer saves to and from real carts dating back to the old Gameshark for GBA. At the very least. It had a USB connection to the PC as well, to upload codes, and one thing it did was let you download and upload saves to the carts. Not discounting that feature here, it's a good feature to have. Just that it's a feature that has been accessible for more than a decade already.
Sure, this ain't anything new. It's just a lot more accessible to people by making it this easy
I love this thing. Sleek in design and easy to use.
And if the cops come it was me , Wood Hawker ! I’m dead hahah
honestly, anything that helps game preservation is more than welcome. this looks pretty simple and effective.
Seeing Bob playing with his hands swapped took me back to when I played the older pc version of Cave Story the same way from start to finish
The GB Operator seems amazing for me. I've been trying to get a working copy of Robot Wars for GBC for ages now, but the roms never work for me and I can't find my original copy. Ripping the rom directly from an original cart to play on my PC or send to a phone would be genuinely fantastic. This thing seems cool as hell.
"I buy things to make videos about them, then I just forget about them until they show up at the door"
Meanwhile my broke ass is still waiting for that $3 wish scam I purchased 5 months ago
RUclips, we want to hear about retro stuff.
There, fixed the problem.
I got this thing to use with my Pocket and it works so effortlessly.
Took me about ten minutes, maybe less to archive my 40 GB/GBC/GBA physical collection.
Plus I backed up my childhood saves from all my GBA games. Sadly, wasn’t able to save my Yellow file, but what’re you gonna do? 🤷♂️
I’ve never been one to be a fan of emulators, but being able to use my own ROMs is extremely appealing to me. Especially since I can transfer my emulator or Pocket Open FPGA file over anytime I want. It’s like the convenience afforded by something like a switch, but retrofitted to work with old hardware. Even if it isn’t anywhere near as convenient as just plopping the switch in the dock, it’s still pretty easy, and worth it for someone who loves collecting physical media.
Plus anything that can put to bed any of the legal gray area regarding piracy is great. It’s fully legal to use your own ROMs, and hopefully it’ll make emulation and preservation easier in the long run for anyone who wants to try these games.
It’s not like Nintendo is gonna do it. And frankly, Nintendo has no room to be angry about us “pirating” their retro games.
“How can one steal an item from a shop that doesn’t sell that item?”
I can’t just go onto a modern console and buy a copy of Pokémon Ruby, so in my honest opinion, it’s 100% ethically correct to pirate the game if it’s not available in any other way.
this is actually really useful for me because I don't have the tools or knowhow of how to replace the batteries inside the GBA carts for some events in Pokémon and this will let me upload my save and continue on an emulator so yeah this is actually incredibly useful
Just to let you know, for the air hockey mini game; you only need to buy one card to make it run. We bought 2 of them thinking that it needed both of them.
You actually could have done the training and lessons yourself prior to the pandemic. That is what the sellers on Ebay did. There was a seller was buying the individual Berry eReader cards online building them up to ultimately sell as a bundle option of choices for the consumer. We could have done the same thing, there was enough duplicates being sold at the time. We just did not want to hoard them without not being used. We also did not have the E-reader that we have now to actually use them. It is the Original EReader, not a copy like the one that you likely have. There is actually one specific ereader card that has to be scanned with the original ereader. The other variety will not work with it at all. The specific ereader card was a Isabelle animal crossing card if I am recalling correctly. It even listed in the description of the product with all caps on the emphasis on the original ereader only.
07:14 I thought it was funny that you commented on this, because I used to play flash games all the time just like this before ever really becoming a PC gamer and getting used to WASD for movement. My brother always thought I looked like an idiot, but controlling movement with my left hand always felt natural to me.
Thank goodness this is the content I always want so RUclips has given in and been like “Fine! Fine! We will put Bob’s videos on your home page.”
I have one of these coming. Looking forward to it. I've been getting nervous about putting many more miles on my old handhelds.
Is it any good? Mine is on the way too.
@@skycloud4802 I like it. I'm in grad school, so I haven't had a lot of time to play with it, but I put it through its paces. The software is extremely user friendly and my eventual plan it to backup all of my GBA games to my computer. I still need to figure out the controller. Ideally I want to use an NSO SNES controller, but worst case I think an 8BitDo will do just fine.
Yeeees. I love that you review everything I’m thinking about buying. Even the stuff I wouldn’t think people would want
Easy save back-up is a great feature. Especially with battery powered saves in certain GB games. RIP my nearly completed Pokemon Gold Dex
Introduced my daughter to Pokemon and we've been playing for a week or so. I just got my first retro handheld (RG35XX) and I want to move my save file from my classic hardware to it. This is a perfect unit and I can't wait for it to come it. Plus I can backup all my games and save files whenever I need to replace batteries or want to start new games without losing progress of the old saves. The playing on computer is just a huge bonus.
Bob wasn’t born he was R E L E A S E D
Nice touch including all the other Gamer folks in your photo export!
I can't wait to get mine, I ordered one a few weeks ago & hoping it arrives in a decent time!
I love this! Make a version of it for every console ever conceived!! Do it! Take my money!!!
I want to be able to play ALL my hard copies and play literally everything on a Steam Deck, and for it to be perfectly legal as well!!!
It would only be necessary for the cartridge based systems. Computers can read disc games through their regular old hard drive.
I love those guys! I live in Canada and they shipped with USPS to me at my request. It wasn't an option and DHL has been so awful to me in the past so they used me as a guinea pig and it went great! Thanks epilogue!
Love your channel bro…easily one of my favorite influencers on the site
GB01 is no longer on sale, GB Operator is still available as of 8/17/23
Thanks Wood Hawker, from the Beatemups channel owned by Wood Hawker. Great video!
Oh man, that Sonic Advance tune at the beginning… nostalgia rush
I'm so glad someone else felt that the same way I did.
That opening gag made me spit my coffee all over my phone. Thanks Bob!
I just saw this video today and i bought the device! Can't wait! Thanks for the video
When Nintendo is on PC
Nintendo: WTF DID YOU JUST SAY
Sega does what Nintendon’t!!!
Nice to see the vid man, nice work 👌
Think I'm probably good just sticking with the GB01 I already have though
If Nintendo asks I totally own this thing and that's definitely where I got all these roms don't even worry about it
Personally I got the GBxCart because you can buy a cheap GBA cart shell, trim it a little, and use that as a case for it. It's pretty neat and only mildly disturbing to use a cartridge to read another cartridge.
bloody hell bob your content is superb!
I think you glazed over the official cartridge tag. That is super nice to have if you want to be buying cartridges to collect and want to ensure it’s real
Thanks, Wood!
I too was released in September of 1989. Hi five, sir!
Same. Sept 6 '89. Good times.
I didn't know about either product but I think it's awesome that we have stuff like this now
Thanks Wood!
Hey, stumbled upon your videos through the algorithm, love your content! :D
I'm glad devices like this exist, but for me personally, I'm not really interested unless it's running my games straight off the cart, not through emulation. (Of course, IDK how possible that is.)
I also tend to feel that this kind of thing doesn't really help piracy much. I don't think anything will short of making game roms for older games legally available to purchase.
The Analogue Pocket is a portable console that's coming out that plays GB(A) game cartridges without emulation. You can also buy an optional dock to play it on your TV. It's compatible with 8BitDo controllers.
Starting the video with Sonic music is a huge plus
Thank you Wood Hawker from BeatEmUps. Very cool
I was almost convinced he was Beatemups when he said he was Wood
One of my favorite retrogaming items. I've been following epilogue since before they started taking pre-orders.
I was released in September of 1989 as well. The 20th to be exact.
I would love a version of this for all classic games.
I want a SNES collection
I know that this is nearly 2 years old, and I'm not sure if you know this or not, but they did announce that they're making one for the SNES!
THAT SONIC ADVANCE OST IN THE INTRO THO!! HAVING FLASHBACKS!!!
Thank you Wood from the channel BeatEmUps for allowing me to play gameboy games on my pc. The cops just got here tho so guys I'll have to refer them to you
I love the Rumble feature. I have been playing Legend of the River King 2 with Rumble after Running the game through the Gameboy ROM Analyzer for Windows. I changed the cartridge type to 1EH and fixed the header. Rumble was programmed into the Japanese version and just needs to be opened on the English version. The Earthquake at the beginning will let you know if you did it right. I am playing on the USB Smartcard but plan on getting a couple of Flashcarts from ETSY that save without a battery. Nushi Tsuri Adventure-Kite no Bouken English patch also has Rumble. You just need to go to settings in your Epilogue GB Operator and set it to Rumble and have a Rumble controller. Great Fishing games that work way better with Rumble. I am catching fish way more often now. This also worked for me on the Pow Kiddy V90 with the Pocket Go Firmware Update. Have Fun !!!🙂
Can't wait to get it. It definitely will be a really cool side- accessory for the analogue pocket. Especially for pokemon.
The exact reason why I'm getting one 💀
I had no idea you could buy new hardware to play your old games, I love this! I would much rather get out my old games and actually have a way to play them than have to pirate them to be able to play them again, I am so getting one of these after xmas!
Dam, feeling old seeing you and thinking I was playing my brand new GB in 1989 on the way to school. I still have it secured in a case and still works perfectly. I’ll wait for Analogues pocket to arrive to relive the enjoyment without messing with my original hardware I bought with my paper route money and all those lawns I cut :)
cool
I already ordered one of these the day they restocked in September. Can’t wait to get mine in December!
Just purchased. I'm pretty excited
Another Wulff Den video? Today is gonna be a good day.
That’s my boy, Wood right there!
Can’t wait to receive my pre order, would definitely love to back up save files
The website was definitely around before everyone noticed it. I definitely saw it around back then and thought nothing of since I literally had no idea what the item even was at the time. Back then when I found it, it could get shipped out and arrive as soon as the next few days. They definitely had stock of the product back then as well.
OMG I always looked at you as a big brother showing cool gaming stuffs and painfully realized that I am 2 years older than you.. suddenly feeling so old.
For the same price, the GB Operator is leaps and bounds better. The better design and software support makes it a device that is LESS niche and I think that is where the hype comes from. I personally plan to buy one as it excites me to get to interact with physical cartridges in this way.
Ummmm.... I'm pretty sure this is the GB operator
Yes but Bob makes comparisons to another cart reading device (GB01 Cart Reader) throughout the video, that he says is basically the same or only slightly worse. That is what I’m referring to here.
It would be so awesome for Nintendo to make their own version of this and to re-release a bunch of Gameboy carts to go along side it with a unique a unique controller for $50
I think the plastic casing and being able to swap and edit save files is worth it for me
I love how they still keep up the joke of him and wood look alike xD
I was also released in September 1989 and I was surprised to hear a random guy on there internet I happen to watch was too.
He's four years older than me