Game Boy Color Extravaganza | Ashens
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- ERROR: Turns out the Master System converter for the Mega Drive was actually just a pass-through adapter - the Mega Drive itself was fully backwards compatible. This blows my mind, mainly because the converter was so bloody expensive...
The GB Color always seemed oddly low-tech and outdated to me - I think it's because I had an Atari Lynx 8 years before the GBC was released. Mind you, that cost a fortune and had a battery life of 12 seconds so SWINGS AND ROUNDABOUTS INNIT MATE 
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the letters in color are each of the colors the unit was sold in. the transparent one is the u.
Cynacide Just noticed how clever the whole "u" thing was 😂
I came here to say this. Thank you, sir.
clever
Cynacide
Almost every english speaking country except for the US uses "Colour"
I remember that exact Harry Potter game. I have a cute story about it as well.
I was like 7 at the time when I won my Gameboy from a chip packet competition. Got Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone for Christmas later.
There was a part of the game - Charms Class - where you had to remember Professor Flitwick's movements as he levitated a variety of objects. According to Dad after I asked him for help, it was impossible to remember the number of moves you were expected to remember to progress. As a youngling, it was upsetting for me that I couldn't get past this seemingly simple puzzle.
So, my parents decided to help. Mum sat down with a notepad, while Dad watched the screen and helped me remember all the movements. Together, the three of us overcame charms class; Dad would call out the motions, Mum would transcribe them, then she'd read them back to us as I input the movements.
My parents were never a big fan of video games at all, so to this day it's a fond memory because they went to that trouble. Thanks Mum and Dad.
For anyone curious, the actual fight with Voldemort was easier than bloody charms class.
So wholesome
I have Chamber of Secrets for the GBC. It's very similar, although I never had trouble with Charms class (that I recall).
“Very far cough”
There was a similar ordeal with Final Fantasy X-2, if I remember correctly. In a side quest, in order to deactivate (or reactivate? so much time has passed) the lightning towers in the Thunder Plains or whatever, you had to input some fairly long button combinations, a lot of which were frankly impossible to remember without some sort of mnemonics, in which I am sort of bad. So I cheated: I prepared a sheet of paper and a pen, and transcribed the symbols as they were shown on screen. They were written kind of badly because I wasn't looking at what I actually wrote, but they were exact nonetheless. Then I had more than enough time to repeat the whole sequence (some of them were about 12 symbols or so).
And yeah, the final boss was much easier. (I don't even remember what it was.)
That's awesome. My parents are gamers, even today in their 70's🤣 so much so in 1996 when I was 18 and working, my mum would sneak upstairs and unplug my original PlayStation and bring it downstairs to play tombraider and res evil😂 I brought them their own unit as I owed them som money they lent me🤔😅
"This does suffer from difficult to see the fucking screen syndrome" Why is this such an underrated Ashens quote?
I use it every day what do you mean?
I like the way he says brittle.
They didn't change the spelling of colour because each letter of 'color' was supposed to represent a colour the system came in.
Good observation.
Did you know gaming?
Tenzin Tsering To be honest, I have no idea where I heard that. Probably DYKG, or some other trivia-related RUclips series, though.
I have a green one :)
they could have added an extra "u" and have it written in a purple outline
I always liked the clear ones, you can see the guts and as an engineer that pleases me.
Need repairs, and that tank is giving me odd looks.
SENTRY AHEAD
I do love some TF2.
Pootis pencer here
+TheEPROM poot dispencer here !
Nowadays backwards compatability just means "buy it again on the digital store or get the HD rereleased edition".
(Also I remember someone bringing to school a "non legit" copy of pokemon yellow long before it was meant to be out here, my mind was blown)
+Superiodity not neccessarily while id love hd remakes of some games most games are backwards compat sometimes backwards compat isnt possible like the structure of the ps4 is so fundamentally different from the ps3 itd be immensely tricky to have backwards compat without just making it download only(ps now is a fucking joke but istill use it since i can play infamous on it)
Flad Mast actually the original ds is the only one that plays gba games but nobody owns those anymore now they dont have BC anymore.
+Superiodity Kekekekekekek Console peasant...
*Sits back and waits for a bite*
JigglesVideos i think youll find we are not console peasants but more like console farmhands. get it right you racist.
Flad Mast the ds lite did your right im sorry i meant the ds' after that cause there was another ds before the 3ds i think. i may be confused or something it might of been only the 3ds that doesnt have the slot.
Never actually noticed "colour" is spelled the US way on them XD Looked it up and apparently it was actually a way to spot fakes, as fakes made for the UK market had it spelled the UK way.
Leave it to Nintendo to be weirdly paranoid over counterfeits and piracy.
They ruined the N64 and GameCube due to their stupid game media decisions, especially the GC, but also especially the N64 stupid expensive low storage cartridges. But hey! They saved 10 cents from all the piracy prevention, and scared away all the 3rd parties and 90% of multiplatform games were too big to fit on 64 MB frigging stupid stupid stupid cartridges. But hey, who needs 3rd party money anyway? 😮😂
@@Boogie_the_cat moron
@@Boogie_the_catoh my God it's boogie the cat spreading misinformation again
I knew an old man down our street that really loved minor willy... Never peg'd him as a game boy fan but you know.
Guess he must have been pirating cuz the police came to take him away.
You knew an old man down the road that loved minors willies?! Good god, did you ever phone the police?!
Thought that was going to be limerick.
@CAMZAB
There was an old man from Crilly
Who fancied some Minor Willy
The cops came that day
To take him away
And he was left feeling rather silly
@@silver47official r/whoosh
ThePhoneLad what?
god I miss translucent controllers. The only ones that exist now are dodgy third party controllers, for the most part.
+arbitor365 Same. I almost bought a 2DS last year just because they put out translucent ones.
+arbitor365 there's gonna be a translucent dualshock 4 ( they're calling it _crystal_ )
+arbitor365 Agreed! The translucent trend was so extremely 90s-early 2000s, but I love it. I still have my translucent Gameboy Advance (my Color is buried somewhere too but doesn't work). It still plays. It's almost 15 years old now, but it still works.
+arbitor365 there is a translucent ps4 controller coming up for xmas
www.ign.com/articles/2015/09/15/tgs-2015-sony-reveals-fresh-new-ps4-wireless-headset-controllers-hdd-bay-covers
Caldella I have a 26-year-old NES that still works. Meanwhile I've gone through two PS3s in the last five years.
Ashens, you make me feel so old by reviewing the game boy as if people have never seen one before e_e;
+Hyogail I never owned a gameboy, but i did get to play one everytime i went to the dentists and was sitting in the horror chair waiting to have needles stuck in every part of my mouth ( well thats what i feared that was going to happen as a child anyway hahah)
+Flad Mast You're overestimating how familiar people are with it. These videos are amazing because the GameBoy was not only ridiculously expensive, unaffordable and even unavailable here, but because almost nobody had them.
+Cosmic Spark have you seen the prices of consoles today?! XD The GBC was eighty quid mate. And people were way more likely to have a gameboy/GBC than any other console, it was the most popular console of its era. Just saying.
+Hyogail I felt similar when he did his joystick roundup.
+Hyogail 2015's crop of new adults where born the same year Pokemon Red and Blue came out.
2:29 WHY DOES ASHENS HAVE AN EXTRA THUMB???
Oh my god, what even is that?
no idea...
Its a pinky
but it really looks like someone is just reaching in under the camera just to put their thumb there haha XD
its the dick
Anybody else want to see a ds extravaganza?
I do, that's my childhood right there.
yeah same here
Headcrab220 Does It Have Any
It doesn't even have many accessories, though. Except for carrying cases, and for some odd reason actual cases to put on the thing(I didn't think the thing was that small, to begin with, to need one unless it's just a protective one). Now if only someone came out with a proper attachment for the SP or made a aftermarket repro gba with a light in it I'd be happy.
you could show off the keyboard, TV antenna thing, guitar grip and rock band drums
I still have and use that exact slime monster light.
why am i finding all the famous internet people here?
gameboy color hentai confirmed
+Freako I thought it was some playdough he used to hold the cartridge in. Lol
+Freako Ya know you could just play colour games on a SP or DS with a backlit screen. using that is kinda stupid.
+Walter White I wanted an SP, but I've never owned one.
Oh Lord, I have fond memories of Harry Potter on the GB color. The game wasn't that great and I got stuck a lot, but I used to play it all the time when I was a kid.
+YokusaHHart HP 1 and 2 on the GBC were okay for western developed JRPG-likes. They took the same route for Prisoner of Azkaban on the GBA because of how much better reception the GBC versions of the first two movie games received than their GBA counterparts, and it's all the better for taking that route as well, having a very Golden Sun-esque vibe.
+YokusaHHart I had the Chamber of Secrets and somehow got to the last boss before grinding was a concept in my young mind so I could never beat the game.
+YokusaHHart Me too! :D
+YokusaHHart I played the absolute shit out of the 2 HP games on the GBC. Still one of my favorite rpgs
+YokusaHHart I fuckin love that game. It had goddamn New Game+. I played the shit out of it before I lost my copy.
Hey that gameboy is more advanced than my phone because. It has a headphone jack
xDD
In the video he said headphone Socket
PokéSuFan it's basically the same thing
Salesman Spork just stating what he said
Get shit on, Apple.
"difficult to see the fucking screen syndrome" -Ashens 2015
Oh my god I never new that I started watching Ashens so early in his RUclips career. I've been subed since about 10,000 and now he is at one million. Wow I'm so happy for him and I I'm also happy that his work paid off 😀
I remember the blob, even had a hard case accessory for my gbc and a 6volt translucent plug for play without batteries. I really miss those days, thank you for reviewing this stuff.
Somehow, every single video of yours makes me laugh pretty damn hard. I've got no explanation except the fact that I love the way you speak.
The thumbnail looks like an eldritch hand-shaped sludge creature’s about to consume your Game Boy Colour from top to bottom.
"Recording from the radio is a really good way to get your channel kicked straight in the knackers" 😂 I don't know why but I found that sentence funny AF
Shantae is cool. I have Risky's Revenge. I'm really bad at it, but it's a really nice game.
Also I'm pretty sure those modding places also do backlight mods for Game Boys too. You don't need to go for a Chinese rip-off with an awful D-pad.
There are backlight mods for the GameBoy and GameBoy Pocket but the Colour's screen has to be front lit.
I have a GB Boy Colour and the D-pad is fine, it responds perfectly and feels positive, it just has a smooth surface and rounded ends which feels slightly different to the original.
Risky's Revenge is cool, but you should get Pirate's Curse. It's easily a 9/10. Half Genie Hero looks like it'll be GOTY material
+Senator Cthulu on 3DS or Wii U (or both?) I kind of dismissed it on 3DS because it looks like just another re-skinned SDK example?
+Nicholas Wilson I actually played it on PC. It is definitely worth checking out, it's one of the most satisfying games I've played in quitea while
+Senator Cthulu thanks, I will. :)
I loved the translucent colors. Kind of the unofficial colors of the N64 and GBC era. I notice the translucent purple has different buttons.
The UK version vs US version I mine.
TBrizzle01 it's modded
0:50 Did he just say "Whatever throats your boat?"
Ok i have to ask WHO THE FUCK is that guy that keeps flashing on screen?I see him on EVERY VIDEO!Who is this mysterious man?
+Ashuraman you. he has a hack that shows your profile pic, Look back again
GameToon yeah no
Daughter Mother Productions The hell is that?
He's some guy who does lets plays I think. I don't know the connection and I forget his name.. But it drove me crazy as well
+Ashuraman In one of the christmas specials he actually talks with a clip, so he is a person, not just a random image off the internet
The Harry Potter RPG series, while short lived, is an amazing one. The first is okay, but the second and third games, Chamber of Secrets for Game Boy Color, and Prisoner of Azkaban for GBA, are absolutely amazing.
Thanks for showing that stuff off, I think I want to play Shantae now at some point!
I used to have a fun little attachment for my GBC, it was a big magnifying glass with lights on both sides. It did a reasonable job lighting up the screen, but basically you still couldn't play Game Boy in the dark or in the bright sunlight.
My first game on the GBC was a Pokemon Gold & Silver 2-in-1 cartridge from Thailand. The translation was best described as "So Bad It's Good" and it's a miracle that kid me managed to beat it, too. (Or Gold at least).
So glad you're continuing this!
13:16 WTF was that?!
mellowandjello may or may not have been the camera quickly switching backwards or something. I can't think of anything else .-.
mellowandjello it happens at 4:20 too
It's a photo taken from a Gameboy Camera. (He is talking about terrible add-ons...)
It's a gameboy camera picture of fellow youtube person mentski
Huss!
Wow, I remember my days in elementary school when all the rich kids got a Game Boy Color. So beautiful, so futuristic... it was my dream to have one. A dream that never came true. Well, at least I've got a (currently broken) Nintendo DS now :D
The transparent purple model at the beginning doesn"t have its original buttons (unless there is a special model in the UK or somewhere else having these, but the original are black).
well done
Its funny, one of these Gameboy videos you did got me into your channel and now I'm watching your friend Elliot, TheRetroFutures channel and am into modding and collecting gameboys myself
I can remember sitting in the car using my iPod touch to light up my Gameboy Color
too bad the iPod touch didn't exist until 9 years after the GBC came out.
The light I remember everyone having looked more like one of those little reading lights, but rather than a battery tube with a blue on it, it plugged into the socket on the device. I guess it was called a Worm light.
I love you Stuart, both of your channels are awesome, This one and Barshens. Your videos are always enjoyable and interesting and I know no matter what it's about any video uploaded by you is worth a watch. Keep it up man!
Also who's face is it at 4:20 and 13:18? I hate to admit but it actually made me flinch.
I've had a gameboy color for 10 years and I had no idea you could change colors for gameboy games. Thanks, ashens.
Man, the aspect ratio is completely off on the GB Boy Colour. It's correct on the box image but the actual device itself seems to be 4:3 while a Gameboy is 10:9
+Emarrel Probably to use existing screens. They didn't have a special screen made for just this, it would drive the price up. I own one, It takes a little bit of getting used to but it is really nice. And the screen is bright and crisp.
+Emarrel Ahhh you're right as well, surprised I didn't notice that. I was gonna have a look for one but incorrect aspect ratios make me come out in spots.
+Emarrel
Grr. They could so easily have covered up the sides and run on the proper resolution.
Funnily enough, the Mega Drive's Master System converter had little to NO guts in it. The MD's chipset was 100% compatible with the SMS and the converter was nothing more than a passthru adaptor and a pause button.
that GBC display is so crisp it makes me moist
Difficult To See The Fucking Screen Syndrome
(DTSTFSS)
Didn't know a Gameboy could get that
GTAMasterPlayer GBA anyone.
I do like getting into old game consoles. The GameBoy, especially
Wario Land 3 was a pretty good gbc game
From seeing this videos Im going to dig through my garage to find all my gb games
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+Nice RUclipsr LIVERPOOL
I remember have like a magnifying glass with lights on the sides which worked perfectly fine at late car trips
+Cress Alvein Had one of those as well.
Did yours come with a crappy snap-on D-pad & A-B button too?
"is mixed" presuming the meant to say that it uses dithering to simulate more colours.
I imagine the reason why it's the "Game Boy Color" is due to trademark. That's literally the trademark name, with that spelling. Guess they didn't want to bother with an additional trademark when it was such a minor difference to the spelling.
Someone else almost certainly would have said this before (I'm slow to get to YT videos, way too many subscribed channels).
Or maybe because each letter in "color" represents one of the colors the handheld was released in. Or maybe because the majority of primary English speakers in the world spell it color.
+TheHitchslap If you were to add up the populations of all natively English speaking countries besides the U.S. it wouldn't even come close to the population of the U.S.. In millions; Canada:35, U.K.:64, Australia:23, Ireland:5, South Africa Native English speaking population:5.3, New Zealand 4.5. So in the aggregate there are 137 million people living in English speaking countries that use "colour" and 318 million in the U.S. using "color". So no, your claim that "the spelling color is almost certainly in the minority", is not correct.
It's because the US is dumb.
The power base converter actually didn't have any master system hardware in it at all. It was simply a cartridge form factor and pinout conversion. The Genesis actually was backwards compatible with the master system, and contained all the hardware needed to run the master system games other than the cartridge slot.
+Roger Sullivan while that's true, it's pointless if you still have to buy a pin converter to make it work.
+Thomas Jenkins The converter also had the bizarre Master System pause button and the card reader which the Genesis/MD didn't have as standard, so it wasn't JUST a pin converter in that sense.
MarurunLEB
that may be true, but it's still not completely backwards compatible if you have buy an accessory to make it work.
+Roger Sullivan
Didn't just contain the hardware. Actually contained pretty much the exact hardware. Its CPU was the same, just overclocked.
+Thomas Jenkins It meant the adaptor was considerably cheaper than if it had to have the Master System guts in it.
You didn't _need_ to buy it either. If you were willing, you could technically take the console apart and wire the cartridge directly into it and it would work.
Not exactly practical.
A better example for what Ashens is talking about would be the Super Gameboy for the SNES or Gameboy Advance Player for the Gamecube. Those units basically had the Gameboy hardware inside them.
Wait what? That was a year ago already?!
silly mortals.
+Do You Feel It? What is this? This is huge!
another amazing and halarious video by ashens 😀👍👏👏👏👏
"Around this time last year, we had a similar video..."
Up next in the RUclips list, that exact video. Nice.
Shantae on GBC. Amazing game. Amazing and fluid animation. It almost rivals an early gba game, ironically.
B and Left gives you the black and white style
@Reece OrtonThe original GameBoy was four shades of green. The grey screen was introduced with the GameBoy pocket. The default GBC palette is a reasonable choice, since it makes the sprites stand out from the background tiles.
Finishing this video is like finishing a hot pocket or an episode of rick and morty. It makes you feel so complete
That light was successful BECAUSE IT'S AMAZING. I want one for my Gameboy Color right now!
Duke Nukem, Spiderman 2 and Perfect Dark were some of my favorites on the Game Boy Color as a kid. Never heard anyone talk about any of these games lol
Wow Shantae looked a lot different back in the day.
I can't stop staring at your... suspicious... profile picture
I love these vids and your action figure videos
Thats awesome and to think at the time I missed all this because I was too younge thanks you ashens. :)
+ashens
Something to keep in mind on the Kongfeng GB Boy Colour is that even if the screen is nice and all with backlight and good contrast; it's still in the wrong resolution and aspect ratio. So you get mushy pixels and bit squished image.
Ive held that Gbboy because im the one who sold him it :P Was waiting on this review for a while. keep up the good work Ashens :)
The color on the GameBoy color is just magical how good the colors look to me it looks better than screens today
So many memories of that Harry Potter game came flooding back to me when that menu music started playing.
My science teacher gave me a lower grade on my homework because I accidentally wrote color instead of colour because I was playing on my gameboy color on the night I did it. He gave me a lower grade because I spelt it the American way. Thanks gameboy!
Color, the proper way.
You can say it's your way, but color could never be claimed to be the correct way because it is inherently a misspelled word that stuck
@@BodywiseMustard Words are made up. There is no one accepted spelling and anything that deviates is "inherently misspelled". People decided that's how you spell color, that's how they understood it, that was accepted as a spelling, and so it is. I can and will absolutely claim it is a correct way of spelling it.
Lol, I had those "18 in 1" cartridges as a kid. I swear I think DKC or a game like that was in German. That joke brought back some memories! :D
That "The Blob" thing or whatever you called it, I thought it looked pretty damn cool. XD
It looks like a Resident Evil type collectible thingy.
I can't believe it's already been a year it only feels like it's been a few months since you started these
No, the best way to play gbc games would be the GBA SP AGS-101.
Finally, someone who knows what they are talking about XD Only thing missing is the headphone adapter :)
+akawhut Or the Gameboy Player for the Gamecube through the extremely expensive component cables or Super Game Boy 2 through RGB Scart upscaled with a Framemeister.
The GBA SP AGS-101 is probably my second choice though albeit the lack of a headphone jack sucks. Back-lit OG GBA works well too despite the ass of a speaker it has.
+Dr. Steve Brule And while you're spending so much money on these cables, you might as well get the Hori Game Boy Player Controller. Too bad it's not as portable as a SP though
***** All up to preference. The consoles that use the cables are multi-faceted as in they play more than one platform of games, and if you're into those games as well then your investment is sound (unless it is the Gamecube component cables then you are just getting ripped off). Some do not care to carry a portable console around with them and play them on a 2.9"-4" screen.
I personally use either.
+Dr. Steve Brule You guys are heading into the territory of the best way to play being a cycle accurate emulator.
"Ruptured with Horror" sounds like a bad garage metal band.
Can't wait for the inevitable Virtual Boy review...
Hey Ashens,
The GameBoy Color was a total revelation to me as a kid. I was 10 when I first got one and got to play Pokemon Silver, DejaVU I &II, Legend of Zelda Oracle of Seasons, Army Men Sarge's Heroes, and more. I've found out that there is a whole library of amazing games for the color too in the way of Konami Compilations and original games like wario land 3!
who is that guy that flash on the screen at 13:17
also in 4:20
Thehyper 42
that's Ashens when he's bored.
Mentski or similar
Him
Subliminal imagery. Makes me think of the flashing images from the exorcist. Kinda eerie
the reason its spelled color is because every letter is one of the colors it came in
I have the L.
i have the first O.
I have the R
I got the C
i have the K as in Kiwi lmao
I had serious nostalgia watching this, the clicks of putting in the cartridge and turning it on and the little jingle, brought be back. Anyway, that cartridge with the SD card was so weird.
The purple GBC and Link's awakening were my main entertainment in the army.Highly recommend this combo.
Even as an American, I still think that "color" looks weirder than "colour".
PearlyWhites yeah me too
Nope, color is way better than colour so that way I don’t have to write more
harry potter and the philosopher stone??? has harry potter been doing HUMAN TRANSMUTATION?!
In the usa, i had a cover for my gameboy color, which lite it up, and made the screen seem bigger though a magnifying glass. It was awesome and worked great.
By the way, on those modern flash cartridges, couldn't you load just about every game ever made for the gameboy onto it due to it having a couple gigabytes on it?
Oh hey, I got the limited edition of that Yellow Gameboy Color. Well...
Had. Bastards stole it.
Yh feel you there, I had the purple translucent purple game boy color, stolen too.
The main reason for the Gameboy Color was the improved screen that nearly removed the blur that happened when ever things moved on the screen as the Original Gameboy suffered from.
The blur was removed on the Game Boy Pocket. The Game Boy Color having a colour screen is the main reason for its existence
Gameboy Pocket had reduced blur but it was no where near removed. It is the refresh rate that reduces the blur and the Pocket had the same refresh rate as the original Gameboy just better technology in the screen. Going from the pea soup to true black & white. the Gameboy Color had double the refresh rate having a huge effect on the blur. It wasn't till the Gameboy Advance that they completely removed the blur.
I had a green one. It was my first console ever and I was 10. I was pretty upset for what felt like a panicked hour because I couldn't figure out how to get out of my house in Pokémon because I had never played a JRPG before. The stairs we're obvious, but how was I to figure out that shadows or doormats or whatever meant exit?
Ah seeing that translucent purple Game Boy Color brings back memories. :)
Am I the only one who finds the GBC a pretty little beast?
It’s cool Eventhough It had a short lifespan
How could you make a video on the GameBoy Color and not mention Pokemon?
cus yo momma gheay
lmao *gheay*
Well he does things in a very ballsy way
Something something hey a youtuber something something
Oh I didn't expect to see you here Digby. Lmao
that blob light brings back alooottt of memories lol.
I never saw The Blob back in my GBC days, but I remember I did have another light that Nyko produced called the "Worm Light". It basically looked like a little, blue street lamp on a coiled-up wire. It was wicked cool at the time, and since it was adjustable, it was easy to angle it so that the reflection of the LED could be hidden.
When the GBA came out, though, I upgraded to the UFO Light. It was similar in concept, but instead of a coiled wire, it had a big, kinda blobby-looking tube thing, which bulged out at the connector port, and tapered up to the light. I think the light cover was interchangeable, as well.
13:16
+Dmitriy “Poot” Butuzov Not the only instance in this video.
Who was that?
+Bill Lane, it was himself
I was able to freeze the video at that exact spot and that is definitely not Ashens at all.
+Scott K yeah, I didn't think it was him! SPOOKY!!!! 👻👻👻👻👻👻💀💀💀
ashens you have to admit though for a pirated harry potter game it looks like its very playable and not boring. some gameboy games were boring and some were fun.
It's a legit Harry Potter game. Only the cartridge is a pirate.
I'm starting to think I have way too much time on my hands when I'm adding GBS conversions t play on my GB Everdrive, which I have without the front label. Also, the SGB can do much more than give games custom palettes and borders. Games like Space Invaders and A Bug's Life, Small Soldiers, Animaniacs, PooNyan, Beach Volleyball and Pro Mahjong Kiwame GB, and a few other games are worth looking into. I have also written some sample code to do things like jump to the SGB staff roll, access the unused SNES OBJ_TRN mode and fiddle with other impressive, underused features.
Are there any plans for a SGB Extravaganza?
what about the GBA SP? that was backlit, and it played GBC and GB games (except maybe 2 or 3 that didn't work for some reason.)
A lot of gaming channels use the Super Game Boy to record their Game Boy gameplay
Mostly because it's the only way to record footage on-screen without having to go to emulation. I don't feel that Ashens gave the super gameboy enough credit though it's quite a nifty thing. I found the screen too small to play something like zelda on so being able to get it up on the TV was great.
What about the gameboy player for gamecube?
The Meme Waker You know how rare the disc is for that? Seriously they are not easy to get ahold of.
I know game grumps use it. you can see them pause it on the fire-red series
BlaizeTheDragon Lol, what? You're over exaggerating. Twenty bucks is not "rare" or "hard to get a hold of" especially considering that the GameCube is really popular again. You can get both for 50, and that's more than worth it.
wasnt the master system convertor just a pass through as the megadrive had the master systems cpu?
+WillowAlchemist No. The Master System actually had a 3.7 MHz CPU, the same as the SNES.
+KillThad i mean it had the master systems cpu as well as its own kind of like how the ps2 had the ps1s cpu in it as well
+KillThad Actually, YES. The Genesis/Mega Drive utilized the original Master System 8-bit processor as its audio co-processor and had a lot of features geared toward backward compatibility built in from the get-go. The Power Base Converter was mostly just a cartridge adapter.
WillowAlchemist Oh, ok.
+Guerilla Grue Plays Spot on. The Master System had a Z80 cpu. The MD/Genesis had a Motorola 68000, with a Z80 co-processor. All the converter did was make the cartridge fit, and tell the MD to switch off the 68000 and let the Z80 run the show.
i feel like I'm too young to feel any nostalgia in ashens videos...i still enjoy them tho
I had the lime green GBC, and alongside it many purple accessories, including a rechargeable attachment for the batteries (plus speaker enhancement, I believe).
That must have been a godsend for my parents.
IIRC, Left+B played the games in black and white, which is what I always used.
I've never been able to try it because I don't own any original Game Boy games.
Fun tip that might piss you off if you used to own one of these. Alot of kids like myself didn't know that if you turned the game boy on while holding a number of combinations of buttons, you can change the colour pallet for black and white gameboy games so it doesnt default to that shitty green and blue. You can use up to 3or4 colours and you can pick a colour scheme that matches the game alot better.
Also you could put a gameboy colour game in a gameboy pocket and it would switch on. It even shows a screen telling you that the game doesn't work on this type of gameboy.
+Derpin Bird it's old news and it's in the manual
And you can get those error messages on a Game Boy Light and Super Game Boy as well, even the original Game Boy if you take the power switch cover off or load Game Boy Color games from an Everdrive or EMS-based flash cart etc
***** Im not talking about people who buy them off ebay and look them up online. I mean the ones who actually got one as a kid, honestly how many of those would have bothered to read the manual? Not me and neither did anyone i knew who had one, they just sold their game boy games to get the latest colours.
Derpin Bird I didn't know that. I read *game* manuals, after all, that's where the story was. Never read the device manual.
I love how you say Hello
"and they be whinin'"
so true.
Do what you want cause a pirate is free! YOU ARE A PIRATE!
I find the best way to play Game Boy games is on a Game Boy Advance SP.
It doesn't have a headphone jack though
***** I have never really liked using headphones when I play handheld consoles tbh. I will either listen to it through the normal speakers or if I am somewhere I cant listen then I just have the volume turned down.
+llpalm08 Fair enough. I always hated the buzzing sound the GBC made when using headphones, to the SP not having one always bugged me XD
+mario64remix use an adaptor that goes in the ext port
DeAthWaGer I know of it's existence yet I've never seen one in person.
They didn't change color to colour because the GBC only launched with 5 colors. Each launch color was represented with a letter in color. If they made it the UK spelling, it would have missed the correlation.
You can hold a D-pad direction (and optional buttons) at the ba-ding logo screen to choose a colour-scheme. As long as you're holding a direction you can cycle through them all until you're ready to let go making the game start with your choice.