GBA SP Game Changer - Why?
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Hate carrying 2 additional small games around with you? Too lazy to switch your games out? Struggle to grip onto the GBA SP? Well heres your solution.
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Only a few of you saw yesterday’s video! I have found possibly a prototype GBC - ruclips.net/video/2ILf_tNZpd4/видео.html
I like to watch and comment on your videos because you actually like my/there comments 😂😂😂 so anyways like the vid 😎😎😎
the good part is,now one of the slots are good for gyro games
I saw it!
For the dual screen GBA SP you should put the screens back to back instead of above it.
Hi
Put an Everdrive in each side, one for GB, one for GBC and the last for GBA
This man knows what he’s doing.
YOU'RE A GENIUS!
Gg
but there should be 2 everdrives one for gb/gbc and one for gba
He's speaking the language of the gods, such as Chad Linus.
Funny you ask why that exists when you added two screens to the sp
*added one screen to the SP.
Ge didn't add 2.
@@shocknawe Yet* SSSP when TRF?
@Beasty ro try the 3 screen DMG that plays all gameboy games and DS. @haihaisb
Lmaaoo
This would be the the comment where he says "touché"
I've ALWAYS WANTED to change between GBA Video SpongeBob Volume 2 and Pokemon Sapphire!!
Now you can!
You could have all three Pokemon GBA games!
What about gba video Shrek, gba video shark tale and gba video Shrek 2?
Saaammee bruhh
Wow the possiblities are ENDLESSS!!!!
I really wanted one of these back in the day. My mum told me it was pointless and a waste of money, and you know what, she was right.
back then you cursed her for being mean but now... now you know she was the wise one.
No
Funny how often that happens
Well yeah sp is a waste
@@adamant2166 ?
“Is that a Gameboy Advance SP with Gamster Gamechanger in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”
Both
Take my like
oh no
😳 i hope this wont (GAME)change the way you think about me
I get what this is referencing nice one(this is referencing a cracktro on the GBA btw)
Oh my god. If you don’t mod this thing to be able to have two games playing, one on each of the dual screens, I am going to blow up the earth.
is that a threat or a teaser for what's to come in 2020?
Please don't.
Benny it’s not a threat, it’s a promise
@@JumpyKaput well, i do love the sound of impending doom
But only one set of controls. And he has to beat two different generations of Pokemon at the same time
I want a 3rd screen for the SP
Same
What about a double Advance?🤔
Better idea: put a DS in too, 2 screens GBA, 4 screens NDS
4 screens. 2 besides each other and another set on top.
Hell make it a "GameCube SP" and make 6 screens arranged in a cube
I thought it was a game charger at first 🤣🤣🤣
BUT PROTO!
I'm embarrassed to admit I did too.
I'm sick of seeing your goddamn comments everywhere.. are you the new Justin Y.? Or just utilizing your check mark to hopefully get new viewers to click on your name? Sorry if you're a nice guy I just wanted to let off some quick steam
@@tripleo4255 I haven't heard Justin Y. In a while a long while
Sex.
Just a warning to anyone who uses these: do not put games with saves in them. I lost my Megaman Battle Network and Pokemon save data thanks to it. For other non-saving games this thing makes it convenient and comfortable to use the SP.
My brother and I purchased these from Blockbuster back in the day, and I do vaguely remember him having save troubles with Pokemon.
Third party + Nintendo hardware = corrupted saves :(
I'm sure as a young 2003 child you would had cargo shorts. That would have definitely fit in those.
Oh god I remember those days. You could look like a Kingdom Hearts character AND carry all the GBA games you were sure to not play the entire time.
Yeah, kids don't care about fashion or looking good, they just wear whatever their mum buys for them. I kinda wish cargo shorts didn't look terrible and immature, because they're really useful.
I was thinking it would fit nicely into my army trousers.
He’s wearing the game watch thing he repaired
That's dedication
"Switch games without removing cartridges"
Ah, you mean a flash card?
😂😂😂
Imagine playing 2 different games on your 2 screens
And then change which screen is using the buttons using with a switch
You can do it with to motherboards and interconecting the buttons. What you can do is a siamese twin.
pokemon sapphire on one, pokemon ruby on the other. same inputs from one motherboard. shiny hunting machine
@@RamenCupBMG Lmao that'll be awesome
Better... 3 gameboys and one input.
And the switches can be manipulated just on the border's gbas.
All buttons interconnected you can use the d-pad on the left and the a b of the right GBA.
If you just want to play a game you can leave the cardige empty. And if you want you can play the same game introducing the same copy.
The problem is when random events on games happen...
I used to walk around as a kid with that grip game changer on my gba sp in my pocket like a boss lol.
I also used to break off pieces of plastic off a dvd case and would put it on the groove in order to press the switch in the gba sp to play gbc games lol. It actually worked.
What do you mean? Doesn't the GBA SP play GBC games naively? I know the Micro didn't but I thought the SP did.
@@No_True_Scotsman I know, but as a kid, I wanted to play kirby's Tilt N Tumble which needs the game to be facing up, but the Gba sp holds games upside down, reversing the controls. It also gives it a better grip.
@@sojannedos Ah sorry yeah I get it now, hadn't finished the video yet
@@sojannedos I'm amazed someone else mentioned this, the thought of this is actually why I came to the video.
@@No_True_Scotsman the gba does play gbc and older natively, but the cartridge is a different shape and when loaded, pushes a small switch to tell it to boot to gbc mode. It won't play them in gba mode.
Every Older Brother who had all 3 pokemon games had one of these.
And he wouldn't let you play on or with any of his stuff
@@queenbiscuit311 I was the older brother, and I was forced to share. It made me a better person lol.
My older brother never let me play with his, and it inspired the grind to afford my own, it made me a better person 💚
Yeah. No he didnt. This wiped my pokemon saves lol. I returned it immediately.
Honestly I would have loved this as a kid for going on long trips with the family. I had other means of storing games, but none as convenient as this. Would have been especially useful when I just got my SP, since I only had about 2-3 games.
Walty Ramone but I bet you'd rather have had 1/2 of another game than this...
@@amuzulo Half of a game lol
"No capital letters anywhere."
H: am I a joke to you?
Hahaha good spot
Mind Milk D20 HaHaHa
Time?
when he was opening the packaging with his knife in his hand, i was starting to get a little nervous. one slip and... oof
Reminds me of the Mailbag videos on EEVblog, he used (dunno if still uses) a gigantic knife to open it, like something straight out of movies
Moral of the story: It's 2020, buy a flash cart, they'll last longer, and they're smaller, and hold more games.
I'd get a better deal, but I like the feeling of having the real cartridges. But I only have a few games anyways so bringing them around isn't really a problem.
Buy three everdrives, put on the entirety of the GB, GBC, and GBA's libraries onto each of the everdrives, put them into the game switcher in your GBA, and boom.
You move, sherlock.
@@TeamBelmont91 holy shit
I have a bunch of gba cartridges, I like to collect games, I use my psvita for emulation but some games are nice to have physically.
Not everyone wants a trash card.
Imagine the pokemon shiny hunting on this thing
Thatd be sick. Imagine if you could have 2 games on 2 screens, and flip a switch to change between which game you're controlling.
Rip cpu and all that but yknow. Lol
If there is a mod for that dual screen sp that let's you play diferent games on diferent screens
Do you mean the game changer? Because that doesn't give you any advantage, the games don't run simultaneously
It’s still 2000’s cool. I remember the DS with an advanced slot was so cool because I could carry 2 games at once.
I did a pocket test once and my jeans can hold my new 3ds xl, my I phone X, and my switch.
Mens pants?
@@alolanpikachu7330 woman don't have pocket's, that's just simply ilegal!
@@ylondes9927 it's just assumed they carry purses all the time it seems, and then comes mom and asks me to get something from her purse. Problems:
A) Which one... There's like 5 of them she uses frequently enough and you can bet what she wants is on the 8th one. When asked, something like "the black one"...OK, down to 3;
B) The thing is a damn warp hole. You can find anything in there, in any quantity, and;
C) Having that much stuff inside, on the many divisions of it, prepare for quite a search.
All at once?
Yesss
When i was a kid this was helpful on trips when i didn't want to lose a set of games for the trip.
Oh, it is literally a “game changer.” I wasn’t expecting that...
When you find out where Retro Future gets their games: 😳
Where?
@@Ouch.3 if you look at the back of the cartridges, it has a price and a Facebook page on it
@boppin jap 9:37
I didn't like this video, then he added the dual screen SP. Now I like this video.
I’m so glad you did a video on this! I had one of these when I was a kid and I had Pokémon Emerald, Sapphire, and LeafGreen at once. I went to the Pokémon Center in Rockefeller Plaza for a distribution (I think the Ho-oH/Lugia event) and the employee there said he never saw anything like it. Nowadays I use it for when I use the gameboy player, it’s a really great grip to use original gameboy controls on the GBP. The only problem I have is that it WILL scratch the living hell out of your gameboy after repeated use. Mine was already like that from when I was a kid. I would only use it on a scratched gameboy or an aftermarket shell.
I just realized, could you use this for like a "kirby tilt and tumble" to play it correctly? as the cartridge would now be facing the right way?
I had that exact same thought
Next Video: i made a curvy game boy SP
demonetized
;)
*EXTRA THICK*
T H I C C
This is puzzling my mind:
It's called the game changer, yet doesn't seem like a game changing experience...
I think they called it the game changer because it allows you to change the game your playing.
"i just seems really pointless to me" says the guy who gave a gameboy two screens
This was one of my most important accessories to have back in the day. Even as a kid the SP was too small for my hands so having this one made it more comfortable for long hours of gameplay. The fact that I didn’t have to worry about losing those tiny cartridges along the way when I went on vacation or long car rides and just switch anytime without taking out a cartridge made it very convenient.
that SP reminds me of the handheld game used in Johnny Test to warp himself to a royalty free version of Pokémon.
I looked it up, and it's basically just a GBA SP. I don't know what makes it look more like that than any other GBA SP.
The only advantage I could see in having this is you'd have two lose that gigantic chunk of a device which seems harder to do than loosing 3 little cartridges.
I've seen some of those game holding cases for the SP that you just put the cart inside the case, way smaller but honestly, way less cool as well. BUT does the job on less volume.
Have to
'Gah' (cartridge flies off) 'oh shi-'
GIVE THIS MAN MORE SUBS
Perfectly cut screams
You should put 3 screens on the Gameboy and then hook up all 3 games too the different screens
This would be a crazy pokemon setup. Reminds me of when i played both x and y on two different 3ds units at the same time. Grinding was definitely a thing.
I watched just cause I was curious how it stopped you from switching games while on
Don’t think it does
Your next project now should be making a three screen gameboy with 3 separate motherboards, all wired to a single on/off switch and a single set of buttons. So, if you have 3 copies of tetris, you can play all three copies of tetris at the same time and try to avoid losing in any of them. Or, if you want to soft reset in pokemon, you can do it three games at a time.
i love your sense of humour and your comedic approach. the scene where you dropped something and cutted the scene perfectly cracked me up. you are amazing :D
You gave the GBA a second screen for no reason, now you should try it for the switch
Clam-shell switch gang
Put a ds into one of these dual screen things
A doubleDS!
Wouldn't fit
He seems to be good at making things fit
Thank you I needed to know about this
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Retro Future in Quarantine: "Hold my screwdriver."
I love the way you do something that relates to the thing your doing that day. In the beginning of all videos
I have a version of this that is just the grip no game changer
10 months with no replys on a verified person THATS A SIN
Mid 00's accessories in a nutshell.
6:40 "I caught a pokémon!"
7:32 Elliot:Arggh Ooh Shi
This makes the 3.5mm minijack inaccessible so it's a no-go for me.
Make the Nintendo the DSi into an i for no reason
Thank you for not having a loud obnoxious intro video. Quite refreshing!
I only discovered your channel 2 days ago and im very glad i found you xD
I kinda see a reason for this. Road trips. It helps not having loose cartridges if you are nervous of loosing them
This isn't super on topic but I just wanna say mate, I thoroughly enjoy all the wee acts and bits of personality you add to the videos cause it really makes it your own style and channel. Keep the vids coming!
Thank you!
@7:46 “you have more meat to grab onto” 😂😂
I actually had this thing as a kid. I had to save up for every game I got so for awhile I only had like 2 or 3 games so this thing was perfect for me and made sure I didn't lose them. Plus I thought the bigger grip was more comfortable.
"Waitor ,a cup of liquid warm shit please...ah...tasty..." this is what I hear in a loop for 8 minutes and 03 seconds.
I literally asked for this for Christmas 2 years ago. It's great because I only have like 3-4 gba games I play, and it makes it much easier to hold. I love it.
As a kid I loved mine. It rarely left my GameBoy and was almost always in my backpack. Never had to worry about losing the small games. Always had three games with me. It lasted for years before the power switch was wore too smooth on the inside to turn it off and on reliably. But that was like...5+ years of use easy. Quite durable for third party.
We're also talking about something kids would use. I lost a game while at another school during basketball games. Nearest I figure it had fell from my backpack while pulling out something else and I didn't notice it. Sooo yeah, knowing all three games were safe in the GameBoy brought peace of mind.
Sure looking at it from an adult perspective can make it seem silly, but it was quite handy when I was young.
I feel like this would have been something that was good for like, when you had kids on a road trip and didn't want to pack them a ton of games. It's just all connected to one thing. A younger kid when these were coming out wouldn't really have game carts most likely.
Stack 3 bottom GBA SP shells and mount this thing's slots on each one of them. Multicart GBA SP.
I can see the appeal from back in the day. If you were a kid with 2000's cargo shorts, went on a long road trip and didn't want to lose your games, you bring your 3 best and bundle them up together. It was easier to misplace 2 games just bouncing in your pocket.
Elliot trying to stuff the game boy into his pocket took 8 years off my lifespan
😂😂😂
As a kid I would have been frothing at the mouth at the sight of this thing. Even now, I get just a little bit of that tingeling "the future is now" feeling.
I knew this existed & wasn’t losing my mind!
Get three everdrives & the highest microsd cards you become god of GBA games
If the form factor were a bit smaller, for sure I'd consider this myself, I like to take my SP to work with me when I'm on break and I don't like having the games just hang about in my pocket with the SP since I'm always worried they can just fall out. These days though it wouldn't be worth it, especially since cartridges that let you store your GBA games on a micro SD card exist.
**Places all three Donkey Kong Country ports into it**
"FINALLY, I CAN NOW ACHIEVE MAXIMUM DONG!!!"
“Kit you can buy”
Me: when and where, sir? I need this dumb idea in my life
Omg I had this as a kid. I’m so glad someone is finally covering it
As someone who had a Game Changer, (I still do, BTW) I think it’s best feature is the ergonomic grip. As for the large form factor making it hard to put the Gameboy AdvanceSP in your pocket, all kids in the early 2000s wore cargo pants/shorts. So that wasn’t a problem.
I've never seen a gba sp game changer until now. Thanks for this video!
I knew someone that had one of these when I was a kid, and it blew my freaking mind the first time I saw it.
I was wondering where those grunting noises at the start were going. 😂
I love your MADCATZ attitude towards older tech gems
Always liked your videos always a nice guide for retro console
Imagine if you added a gameboy link cable + a gameboy advance game that’s bigger than normal like that one yoshi game + an e reader
It's like a MicroSD card to full size adapter, if you break one of those open you'll find traces just making the pens bigger because they are identical.
In fact if you're unlucky you can buy a full-sized SD card that is just a microSD card glued inside a housing with a sticker on it
I have one of those. It was the best for road trips, and I like the added grip it gives
You are slowly becoming the DankPods of Gameboys
Carried one in my school backpack for years, very convenient way to carry multiple games and never felt like it was thst huge.
6:40 "I caught a pokemon" love it haha!
I think it'd be neat if you could integrate the Game changer into a standard Gameboy shell, to maintain form-factor and retain functionality of multiple cart slots.
It's way more convenient to have one Ridgid package then it is to have one game in your system and two flouting around your backpack
I still have mine from when i was a kid. It's a little beat up now but still works like a champ!
My brother and I used this grip. The big draw for us was the formfactor. The sp was just too small for our hands, especially if you were going to use those dinky shoulder buttons.
The production value increases every video, fucking nice
6:40 What's interesting is that seems to just be a crash noise in general and I noticed a couple things based on the many, *many* times I've crashed GBA games while corrupting them with the RTC.
1: Each game has a unique crash screech. Worms World Party GBA has a very particular "Squeak-squeak-BZZZZZZZZZZ" noise.
2: It plays in both channels but they slowly start to screech out of sync with each other.
I have my Game Changer plugged into my NES edition GBA as well. I got it from Electronics Boutique (now Gamestop Canada) many years ago. It's for my multi-game carts, like Namco Museum. If the power switch stops working, clean it with alcohol. Otherwise, it's good for long trips, especially if you use a GBA to USB wire and a battery bank.
This makes sense for someone with mobility and coordination issues that might struggle swapping games on their own which also explains the back game sticking out a bit so they could have their fav games in the side slots then use the back one for games you might want to swap out every so often slightly easier. Not a great product for an average user but it would be a decent product for anyone with a kid with disabilities
I think I remember seeing one of these in the electronics section of Zellers (a store like TARGET that was popular in the 90's but closed down in 2011, RIP Zellers) but I can't remember how much it would have cost back when it was new. It doesn't matter anyways because as you pointed it out, it defeats the Game Boy Advance SP's main selling point; portability.
that screwdriver you used that was chrome and electronic was effing awesome
I totally had one of these growing up. Looking back at it now is pretty funny.
When he said I’m bored in my head I heard “welcome to I am bored with lazarbeam”
That might've been a nice accessory for people with limited motion functions back in the day, who had a hard time removing carts. Nowadays a multicart is a much better option.
I actually had one of these. I don't remember paying a lot for it, but it was pretty freaking awesome being able to switch games easily.
I bought one new as a teenager for mine, and it fit my hands quite nice. I got rid of it (stupidly) some time ago, but in recent years I decided to buy a used one on ebay. It's perfect for my hand size, and if I want to play any non-gba carts I use a different hand-held.
Love your videos Elliot keep up the great work👍
6:43 ''I caught a Pokemon'' 😂😂😂
When you made all those weird sounds at the beginning, my mom walked into the room and said "what's wrong" 😂
Hahah