The NEW GameBoy Mini
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- If Nintendo made a GameBoy Classic Mini, would it look like this? I was just scrolling around on Aliexpress looking for tat and I stumbled across this tiny little GameBoy and I just had to buy it!
#Nintendo #GameBoy #TheRetroFuture
Oh snap that sd card cartridge slot is God tier micro game design
Seriously, that elevated this thing from "neat little novelty" to "freaking cool passion project".
@@Dargonhuman The unusable nature of it took it right back to neat little novelty. Fans of the original gameboy are getting up there in years. The oldest being around 45. Your eyes are not what they once were at 45 for most people. That screen would just be a blurry mess for my eyes, being 54.
@@christo930if you really want to play game boy games theres a million better and cheaper options, this is just a neat gimmick, it's a cool thing to have and that's it
@@christo930No shit that its not usable as a normal gameboy with the size, that doesn't take away from it being a really cool passion project.
@@zhell No, it's just an overpriced gimmick
"It's just for people who like things" - well said.
Why not include a link to where you bought this?
"Who is it for?" it's for you!! :D
Ive relapsed into my lanyard hole addiction… thanks a lot
Make it a watch !!! Take My Money 😂
Mini sounds bigger than Micro, this should be called the Gameboy Macro.
i would buy if it was a bit bigger with gameboy color game
Change the .GBC file extension to .GB will show up but no idea if it will play ?
Drinking game anyone? Take a shot every time Elliot says "absolutely".
😂 bye bye liver 😂
A worthy opponent.
Absolutely a fun idea!
Still better than drink for everytime mutahar says "ladies and gentlemen"
bro i don't wanna die
I keep an anbernic rg35xx in my uniform pocket for time between calls or waiting at a hospital as a medic. It's such a fun thing to do, people lose their minds at it. I prefer the vertical form factor so I can play it one handed. Old ps1 rpg's, pokemon games, it's amazing
I have an Amberic 35xx too, playing Harry Potter Chamber of secrets using the gameboy advance feature, I absolutely love the device!
i love these new frequent videos
Oh man. That menu button combo for Link’s Awakening. It sucked even back then because when you finished and moved onto the Oracle games? THAT SAME COMBO SOFT RESETS THE GAME.
Discovered that the hard way, long ago…
Meanwhile, I'm one of the people who got Link's Awakening second-hand (i.e. without a manual) and today I learned that I was missing that button combination this whole time as a kid... 😭🤦♂😅
this combo actually will soft reset most gameboy games. Its kinda a random whether itll work
@DJBillyQ I also just learned this today. I actually got the game new, but I never read manuals. I think it's likely I tore apart the box to get the game out and then threw everything out.
I thought in Links Awakening you only had to hold down the start and select buttons at the same time to open the menu lots of games use pressing all the buttons at once to reset the game It's like a standard thing kind of white how pressing LR plus select wakes the system back up when it goes to sleep.
That is super cool. If it was 20-30$ like it should be. Id buy a couple. But 80$ just for one. Thats a hard pass.
Can‘t find anyone of these..
Got one for $45
I paid £28
I paid £31
I would totally purchase this if it was around the $30 price point but not for the listed price you said.
@RandoLePerson I'm just saying at that price, you might as well just get a lcd screen mod for a used gb or gbc. Rather than this gimic.
Because the shipping cost is expensive, I order this from Hong Kong and it only cost me around $23
in my country its around 34 dollars, but don't know where it was made.
Give US a Link
Is that it?
Search: mini game console. Then filter price to $60-70. There are several to choose from.
I ordered a gray one, it's listed as "MINI GB". As a retro fan I think it's so cool!
Do you happen to have the link??? I'm having trouble finding it 🙄🤦🏻♀️
@@TeeDohJackson I couldn't find it searching "mini gb" but when I searched "gb mini" it comes right up as "mini gb", picture is of a bunch of different colors on a green mat.
@@TeeDohJackson I tried. Links are automatically deleted. It's item 1005006297888312
@@RyanMercerthank you! ❤❤❤
@@RyanMercer could you send me the link please? It doesn't show up no matter what I type
Imagine if Nintendo put something out like this? Load it up with 20+ officially licensed GBA/GBC roms.
They could just put out a full sized one and charge $100+ and people would buy it
@@TheMysteryDriver You are talking about me! I would buy it!
FYI there's a rom hack for Link's Awakening that changes the button combination used for the save menu!
Do you have a link? (no pun intended)
@@seanocansey2956 it looks like I can't post the link, it's called "Link's Awakening Redux", the readme didn't say it but it's there.
@@seanocansey2956 I tried to reply twice, but it just disappears...
Peel the screen plastic off. It hurts to see it haha. But I love seeing you so excited. Thank you
Gameboy for ants
Sorry for the long comment. My 7yo daughter got hers yesterday (ordered from one of the AliExpress' vendors that stock them - seem identical listings).
Few early impressions: It definitely has a handmade look & feel with the 3d printed shell hand sanded in places and spray painted (not perfect). However, this makes it even more special in my opinion and gives off a cool "makers feel". While ours doesn't have the Nintendo or Gameboy labels anywhere on the shell, the lens and Start/Select/A/B button labels are awesome. The cartridge is a really cool detail as well. It pops out and holds a noname 1GB microSD card (FAT32). When switched on ours doesn't show Nintendo logo but Mini GB. Now my daughter's one came with I think only 5 roms. It had a homebrew Snake on it which made me all excited but that rom would just hang/crashes the Mini GB so it has to be power cycled.
We popped out the microSD card and populated an older Sandisk 4GB card with quite a few of our own roms (all legit) and noticed few things: Most GB roms play fine but few just hang/crash the Mini GB. Some roms load the initial screens but none of the buttons actually starts the game play. We tried to rename extension of GBC roms as suggested and that indeed makes them appear in the list. However, some would crash the Mini GB good and proper (i.e. it completely switched off rather than just froze/hang). Some would display a screen that the game is for Gameboy Color (Duke Nukem) and some, would play OK (Tetris DX). So your mileage might vary. Tetris, Super Mario Land, Metroid II, Donkey Kong etc are all highly playable - especially for a 7yo child with good eyesight and small hands/fingers. :)
Speaking of list of games, initially we thought we have a faulty unit as it would display only the first 9 games. It took us a while to figure out that while you can scroll through the first page of 9 games with the down/up d-pad buttons, it won't scroll to the next page. For that you have to use the left/right d-pad buttons to flip between pages. All the other key combinations Elliot mentioned work on ours as well. We also discovered that pressing and holding down Start & Select at the same time switches to screen alignment mode where you can use the d-pad to change the position of display area - ours was perfectly centered but it is really cool. Also when in the list of roms, pressing Start button starts again your last game - not the game you are on in the list (for that it is the A button). Looking at the SD card after playing with it for a while, it seems the Mini GB creates a file for each game played but I think these are not saves but config files to remember which screen mode was selected for the rom (yes - the screen mode config is configurable per rom and is persisted).
Screen is nice and obviously colour but we still didn't manage to find a GBC rom that would play with all its colours (for now we play mostly the OG pea green or B&W - funnily enough original Tetris can play in the Red/Yellow colour scheme like when played on an AGS). Battery life seems OK. The unit charges via USB-C and there is a separate charging light next to the port - it took us a while to find it and initially we thought it was not charging. When connected to a laptop and switched on, it connects as Pico device but says Driver is unavailable. In the Device Manager it shows up as "Reset" under "Other devices" - I can't update driver from there either. It doesn't show up as storage device. Will need to look into it more - any suggestions are welcome.
Anyway, that's all for our initial observations. I think it is a cool little dollhouse DMG - looks way better than Thumby or PocketSprite - not as powerful as Anbernic Nano. It is not for everyone but as a curiosity/collector item it's fine. Ours came to £58.37 including VAT and shipping. I personally think it is worth it; my daughter loves it and all the interest and tinkering she is trying to do with it is great and worth the £60. You might feel otherwise and that is OK. :)
Sorry again for the brain dump. Any questions, let me know and I will do my best to answer them.
Looks like it's running on a RP2040 microcontroller, same as on a Raspberry Pi Pico.
So it’s not a GameBoy Mini. It’s a GameBoy Pico!
Crazy because that means total build price was probably ~$10.
What a markup!
@@Sleth0theoriginal0 not a crazy markup at all. This is probably a single person doin these and there goes a lot of work into building them. The shell looks like its 3D printed with a resin printer, needs to be designed first, then they need a lot of post processing after printing, sanding, painting, applying decals etc. Designing the PCB, developing a GB emulator for the RP2040 or modifying an existing open source project that works for its needs, sourcing all the parts in low quantities which makes them more expensive, assemble everything, do the packaging, shipping and so on. These are produced and sold in really small numbers.
No body is going to even talk about the Thumby. Litterally an Rp2040 and also done way earlier.
i own 2 thumbys, and the 2-player link cable. spent 2 hours playing pong with my lady@@steelplasma256
Can you post a link to purchase?
Can I have a link to Aliexpress? I also want to order one for myself and can't find it myself.
Search: mini game console. Then filter price to $60-70. There are several to choose from.
I couldn't stand looking at a tiny screen like that.... I would prefer playing gameboy games on a cinema screen any day
If the sd card is formatted as fat 32 there is a limit to how many items can be displayed in a folder think it's 250. Try creating a new sub folder and adding the gameboy color game there and 1 of the original games so you get around the display limit and try again.
I need one of these haha, I had fun with the thumby earlier this year but this running actual gameboy software, the itch to buy is strong.
It would be sick if you could 3d print some of the attachments like the magnifier, etc.
That would be crazy 🤣
gonna need a pretty good magnifier
Microscope lens
This looks very similar to the Pico-GB by YouMakeTech, except that was the same size as a real Gameboy and this is tiny. That looks like a Raspberry logo on the main chip, so it could be a RP2040. If it is, some things to know: the Peanut-GB/2040-GB emulator that is used loads the game ROM into the flash memory of the microcontroller. Flash has a limited number of erase/write cycles, so eventually the darn thing will stop working. The Peanut-GB only emulates original DMG games, so Gameboy Color games will not work, although they can work if they're one of those dual carts that works on the original DMG, like Tetris DX, apparently. Also, Peanut-GB sacrifices accuracy for speed. So some games that take advantage of hardware quirks to make effects on the screen will not work right. e.g. Prehistoic Man which uses programming trickery to produce paralax scrolling won't work right on the Pico-GB.
All of that assuming I'm correct in how this thing works and identifying that chip.
Yeah I thought so, I made a custom RP2040 gameboy with Peanut GB's software.
A guy made a version that can run GBC with the same hardware, it is called PicoPal v2 and it's pretty cool.
I'd love to see if this has design files available somewhere.
I think they removed it already, can't find it anymore.
Do you have by any chance the ITEM-ID [string of numbers in the URL]
Link I posted got taken down, but here is that item ID: 3256806111573560
@@RameshAyyr Thank you, trough the ID I could find it, as on WEB you can search ID's and it will go straight to the listing page.
Might be UA-cam that doesn't like links to devices like that
I did find a different one that is slightly bigger and has more buttons for more games:
ID: 1005006325294698
@@RameshAyyr Oh thank you GOD, I was just getting crazy
Just ordered a gray one. Thank you so much for showing us!
can you link me? cant find it
Where can I get one?
@@digifanpt9466 look at the listing in the video
@@Knobelbernd the title of the listing and where to go is in the video
Why not just get that tiny ambernic one?
Luckily the average size of human hands shrunk by 85% compared to 35 years ago. We're good, folks.
I'd recommend just getting a RGB30 or X55 for handheld gaming.
I remember as a kid how cool the original gameboy was. Look how far we've come.
The original Gameboy was cool. Not this thing. This thing is a joke.
I have a Thumby and a FunKey S but this little homemade tiny Game Boy might be the cutest. Actually tempted if it's durable enough to actually be a keyring.
I have 3 Funkey S lol they are fun.
Man, for $85 you could get the Anbernic RG35XX-H instead. I will say this thing is super nifty, though. Lol. That removable cartridge as part of the detail/aesthetic is cute, though.
Or a Miyoo Mini
@@Setzer777bruh thats not the point why somebody would buy a micro device.
@@Cheesicle_ who are you responding to?
@@Setzer777 are you serious rn?
@@Cheesicle_ Yeah I am because my response was to @ilovemonkeyos who was talking about the RG35XX-H WHICH IS NOT A MICRO DEVICE!
If I recall correctly, Links Awakening also saves every time you transition between overworld and indoors. You can lose quite a bit of progress if you forget about it, but you don't need that button combo. In fact, I didn't know about this to this day, and I finished the game as a kid
You recall wrongly. LA only saves when pressing A+B+Start+Select or when selecting the option on game over. The doors create checkpoints from where you start once you reload a saved game. However, you need to save it beforehand...
@@kyx5631yes it seems you are right. I played through the game on a single death eventually, so I must have known about the mechanic and forgot
So clever! The sd card slot was a great idea and the brightness/color settings are lit
Reminds me of those little Game Boys you'd get in gacha machines in the 90s with a little viewing lens that showed pictures of Nintendo characters.....anyone???
Well to me it reminds me of the mister gaming watch game boy , key chains that you could collect when I was a kid in the 80s
Just buy an RG Nano. Same price and you can load your own roms and it’s 10x better quality.
I'd love to see all the handhelds done in mini format. So cute!
Same
If you're in the UK, don't forget to add 20% VAT to the list price - meaning that thing will cost you £81 which personally...no. A really big no! Cute thing tho.
Isn't VAT already in the price in the UK?
@@AlexRonai Normally yes, but not on AliExpress - they only add it at checkout, which can come as a bit of a surprise the first time.
What a horrible finish on the case. Hate to see those sloppy 3dprint finished stuff.
It may sound like a stretch, but it may be the menu system is only looking for ".gb" files and not ".gbc". Maybe changing the file extension would make it show up? I remember back in the day kids would cut of the bit of plastic that stopped you putting a gbc cart in a gb, and the game would run perfectly in black and green. Not all games worked, those "enhanced for gbc" didnt, but a lot of them did, as they shared almost identical hardware.
Not true?
Unless there's some edge case I don't know about if the game could run on both it had the notch and if it couldn't it didn't. There were plenty of games with specifically tailored GBC and GB modes but they all had a notch.
Game Boy Pocket didn't have the cartridge lock and you could easily plop in a GBC only game.
The second half of this comment is not true. The only cases of GBC games working on the original Game Boy are with games which have the original cartridge design. Many of them have a black coloured cartridge, like Link's Awakening DX, Tetris DX, Rampage, etc. however they were not sold as GBC games. They were explicitly advertised as Game Boy games with enhanced visuals when played on a GBC.
@@ungratefulmango There are very few games (especially unlicensed ones) that came in GBC cartridges that were actually fully compatible with the original Game Boy.
Do you have a link for the mini game boy? very good video by the way I'm a fan of your channel!! :)
item/1005006297888312.html
Yea, good video. I feel like this would be a great companion to that weird compartment in my wallet that I never use.
That is wild! I remember getting a little gameboy keychain about the same size as this free on the front of a nintendo magazine, which just displayed the time, so to get to the point where it can actually play gameboy games is nuts!
This needs to be about $10 American dollars. Shipping included!
Why because it's small?
No it shouldn't. Milk, eggs, and a loaf of bread costs $10 in America. A Big Mac with fries is $10. This is a gaming device. I'm surprised it isn't $235 in American dollars.
I think it's justified that this device should be cheap.
It's built with the RP2040 microcontroller, and likely the W25Q16JV flash ic, filtering capacitors, resistors etc etc...
I made a custom PCB of this, half a year ago, but with the ili9225 screen, and that was by far the most expensive component, (which was ~£9) that screen is likely cheaper.
Other than that, all of the components are actually very inexpensive, including PCB costs and 3D print filament.
I doubt the owner of this device designed this from scratch as others built this with similar hardware before them, so what justifies the insane mark up?
Maybe not $10, but definitely under $50
@@seanocansey2956 You have to make a profit somehow but I agree with you. A little under $50 seems reasonable.
Make one yourself
Link for buy man!
where TF is the link ?!
I love how this gameboy came up on my Ali feed the other day and now this came up on my UA-cam feed, we’ve come full circle ❤
No tv output, no wifi, no Bluetooth.... Come on they could have made one of those things work
It has a USB-c port. I'll check if it has data lines when I got it.
@@gersonl love to know
$85? I can buy a real game boy for that, maybe even a miyoo mini!
While you couldn't see the GBC rom after you added it to the SD card, what if you just added a non-color GB rom--would it appear?
I'm too old now to play GameBoy games on the screen the size of a postage stamp. If anything, I need a screen twice the size of the original GameBoy. The tiny controls would make my hands still. I mean, I was a teenager in the 1990s. I'm friggin' middle aged, now. I suppose it would be good for, like, a six year old. I'm not sure if you'd want to give a six year old a 80 Pound device. American keyboards don't have the Pound symbol, and you'd likely want to smack me if I used the pound symbol we use with is #, the hashtag symbol. It's probably around $135.
Get a Miyoo Mini Plus. About the same price as this with a bigger screen than the original GameBoy and still small enough to fit in your pocket. I'm 50 and I love playing games on it.
Wow id be super interested in this for like 20 bucks
Cute but e-waste
Tiny gameboy for the smurfs🤣🤣
A save state fix method you can try is making a (.sav) save file for the gb rom. Sometimes you can get this from a patching software on pc. Iv even taken one from a gba game retitled it to a gbc game and it let me save the game like normal while running a flash cart on my gba micro.
Nice find Eliot. Any chance of a link for the product, for us lazy folks? :)
Because I am who I am, I'd have to come up with a way to shrink the original rear stickers and put them on. Great video 🤘
Funkey S is the same price.
Cool!
I can only find 1 on Ali and it's around $100
Is that the one?
Yes
The way you were like who's it for though? I Guess it's for people like things while looking off was funny to me
what is this ? a gameboy for ants ?
That is just the neatest little thing. But you know what they need for it? A miniature "Handyboy". I used to have one of those, it had the fold out speakers and the magnifying lens, which would definitely be a welcomed addition on this little guy. Lol
Nice to see, but glad it was you £67!
In my opinion the screen looks great , i might have to consider spending the $85 dollars on it , the size is good to take on the go or even to attach to your keys
Cool but way to expensive
Tetris DX is the best Tetris there is.
Cool, but pointless :)
Super rad.. but $85?!?!
Interesting thing is the use of a raspberry pi rp2040 processor to emulate gameboy games. It doesn't use the standard linux emulation system most emulators use. I'd be really curious to see how they could do GBA games on similar hardware.
It's for me and I want it NOW!!! 😂
Where link?
My micro is better ;)
I think I have one of these from the original maker. I think this is a Chinese IP thief version. That's why it looks like phone pictures of a screen image. They just lifted them off of the original site.
gotta link to the original?
Tải về làm của...chơi game khác on-line..do hoa ngon😅để dành cúp wifi,điện...đem ra dọc 😅
Goddamnit why do people produce these things? Its like the game gear micro, but in green.
This is just e-waste.
Disgusting.
Take that timagotchi
A link or listing name would be nice...
I remember this doing a kick starter some years ago.
Probably thinking of the pocket sprite. This is an extremely well done knock-off
Very nice. Much bigger than the Thumby but actually plays Game Boy ROMs unlike the Thumby.
I’m excited to see so much new content! good job elliot! also good job with those muffins
just a curious nerdy gurl, but, have you tried renaming the gbc rom extension to dot gb? just wondering ^^
There sort of is a GBA equivalent. Have a look for the Funkey S. It plays a lot more than Gameboy and GBA though, there's 8 bit,16 bit and even Playstation cores for it!
7:55 A Gameboy Color ROM is the same as a Gameboy ROM.
Rename the extension from gbc to gb and you should be good to go.
The difference is only in the header and the supported registers.
As you can physically insert a GBC cartrdige into a GB, the games are required to report at runtime, if the hardware is just not supported at all.
(Which the hardware knows best).
Long story short, just rename it and try again.
OK, imagine you were 9 when the GB came out. That would make you 44 today. At age 45 is when I got the old guy eyes that make this screen entirely unusable. It's too expensive to be a gimmick. I was 19 when the gameboy was released, so I really don't have much gaming experience with it. The gameboy had a horrible screen. Motion blur was a major problem with screens back then.
it's like the opposite of drake 🥹
Great for LSDJ on a small stage
"If Nintendo made a GameBoy Classic Mini" Lines like this make me hope nintendo never makes another classic edition console because nobody can even get the name right.
More than half of the people who talk about the NES Classic or any other classic console, call it the "Classic mini" or just "mini". If it was called the NES Mini, it would say it on the box, now what does the NES classic edition's box say? CLASSIC EDITION!
at first i was like bruh 80 usd is like 150aud atm u got ripped UNTIL YOU TURNED IT ON- thats awesome and i need one now.
Oh my god.
I absolutely love tiny consoles and have a huge collection, but good god $164aud is just far too much for something I'd only ever play for one minute when showing it off to someone
edit: But also it IS very cute...
You should try renaming the GBC rom. Probably, it just filters the file extensions, but the emulator might support it.
Just get an Anbernic RG Nano with that price. Better screen & sound, emulate more system up to PS1, same tiny form factor with metal excellent build.
Too expensive compared to Funkey S or RG Nano.. and those can play up to PS1
"Ship to Germany
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FUUUUCK
Don't buy this for small children. They may eat it! It is neat to see it fully functional I must say. How large is that SD card? I ask because every NES game released in the USA and Europe is less than 700MB, which fits on one CD.
LED should have been red. Why blue? And I find it funny that the cartridge says "GAME" like many bootlegs did.
I found the Aliexpress product but it costs like 150 bucks in Brazil plus some 200 of taxation. Hell nah