Unlicensed Game Boy Players
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- I've talked about the Super Game Boy, Super Game Boy 2, and the Game Boy Player. But now let's dive into 3rd party devices that played Game Boy games on your television! This episodes talks about the GB Hunter, Super GB Booster, Advanced Game Port, and the GBA TV Converter.
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Apologies in advance if my narration sounds a little...off. I was dealing with some serious congestion after being sick! The show must go on, as they say. Thanks, and hope you enjoy!
I can listen perfectly. Greetings from Colombia, your channel is awesome!!
Dont worry. You have one of the best voices i ever heard for narration.
Unnoticeable!
Probably cause you were so focused on making sure everyone saw your Doug Gameboy game.
you sounded the same as always.
Chinese speaker here, Golden Finger is a literal translation of 金手指, which is an umbrella term for cheat devices (Game Genie, Action Replay etc.) here in Taiwan. Judging from this video, seems like Hong Kong gamers also called them by the same name. The name stems from the metal contacts on the cartridge looking like gold-colored fingers, but it only applies to the cheat devices and not the cartridges themselves.
Kevin Wang Are you Norman's Asian counterpart? You should collaborate. And now to my Asian correspondent, "Kevin Wang" and then you pop up in a little box in the upper corner of the screen. It would be hilarious.
@pizzamon 79 Haha, I wish! My only retro gaming cred is that I still have a working NES (not Famicom btw, back in the day in Taiwan we had the Japanese version and carts, I grew up in Canada so our family had a North American NES), and my mom only ever allowed me to buy four NES games aside from the SMB1/Duck Hunt bundled cart, but if Norman does want to run anything related to the East Asia market through me I'd be more than willing to help out! (on an entirely unrelated side note, I've been speedrunning SMB1 and SMB3 on original equipment, but I've only just begun for about a year)
Kevin Wang very interesting. I once had my hands on a Chinese Famiclone which came with a lot off rip-off games (original Famicom titles with some changed assets). It had some similar cheat code system. As a kid I never knew how to get it working, though. :P
Seems to be a common theme. Once when I was staying in a hostel in southern Taiwan, they also had a Famiclone that uses proper carts instead of having the games built in, and there also seemed to be some sort of mysterious cheat code system. Of course the games on the 70-in-1 cart were all ripoffs
funny enough, I think people just referred to any game genie/shark type device as a 金手指 ...its a term I heard up until the 2000s with other canto speakers too. Can confirm we say that too in canto.
1:33 "This Is The Kind Of Shit Is The Reason Why The Mute Button Was Invented" ~AVGN
An unliscenced add-on can't play unliscenced games. How ironic.
ThisIsLotso those same unlicensed games cannot be played on official GBA hardware either!
I found that ironic also.
That is ironic.
Lol
@@adultmoshifan87 Those games have much better copy protection than official GBA carts lol.
I’d like to explain more about Golden finger. Golden finger is a straight translation from Chinese “金手指”. Basically, a golden finger includes two function. One is the same function as well as Game gene. Another is technologically a number detector. In mainland of China, it was pretty hard to have a real Nintendo licensed cartridge in 1990s and 2000s. In this case, most people use emulator. When the game was hard, people can use software to search specific number, then make the number change variously to make sure software does detect the number. Then the software will change the number. For this process there are two ways. One is by changing the save data , we used this way to cheat when we playing Pokémon. Another is by changing the actual game data when the game is running. I believe golden finger uses the second way.
Thanks :)
Very interesting. Thanks for explaining.
Thanks for explaining! I remember hearing about the golden finger as a kid and my friends thought it was this magical device that could translate Japanese games into English (I imported Pokemon Gold when it was first released which is how this came up at school). I guess it's more of a cheat device and not as magical as my 10-year-old mind made it seem back then. :)
Mandiness Entertainment That is pretty funny! I remember my friend thought Nintendo was a small company which was small enough that they could only wrote their game base on other game software (emulator). I got you feeling. When I saw Wind Waker on GameCube I just wanted hire someone to play game with me!
There was a cheat device on the PlayStation called Goldfinger, so I assumed it had something to do with that branding. Nice to have clarification.
"Or you have a strange love for the N64"
Those are fighting words
The main benefit of the Advance Game Port was that it was considerably cheaper than the GBP. I asked my parents for a GBP and got the game port instead because we were poor. In my opinion, it did the job!
Another benefit is that it can be played on the Wii.
@@albertnortononymous9020unless you mod your wii then no beacause a wii system software update blocked the disc
GB Hunter's music vs. Crazy Bus' music. A battle for the ages.
Don't forget about Hong Kong '97!
Nothing is worse than CrazyBus's music
I bought Crazybus partially for the awesome music.
I would like to sample and remix it.
GB Hunter wins since even though it hurts ears, at least it has an actual melody. Also it was originally a Jeroen Tel song called "That's The Way It Is".
Crazybus is me being drunk on my DAW and just randomly placing notes by wiggling the mouse up and down.
I had the Advanced Game Port back in the day! I think I've since lost it or gotten rid of it (was probably in a huge flood back in '09) but I still have the discs.
If you still have the disk you should dump it!
That stock looping music for the GB HUNTER is horrendous, definitely seems like a worst to best in terms of the order all of these were shown :P
I have to agree, a strange, 3-channel, 4kHz sound chip playing one of the most obnoxious songs ever.
It's like the old cracks and keygens of yore - just via someone with no taste in tunes
Almost as bad as CrazyBus.
Remix the song please.
+EposVox Actually, it isn’t… Detel’s GBHunter (sorry, didn’t save the PAL region’s name; GBHunter wasn’t directly marketed by Detel) uses three channel, square wave only sound at a very low bitrate and with no real idea of what could have even been done with the completely lacklustre amount of playroom that gives you. Most of the keygens actually had decent music to them, even if it may not have been to your taste. About 90% of them actually use music from the demo scene back in the 8-bit era. Think about the famous c64 SID chip, or MOD- or StreamTracker modules from the Amiga, to name two of the main ‘providers’. Something that can definitely _NOT_ be said for whatever piece of junk has been used to compensate for the lack of audio support in Detel’s products. Speaking of audio, I actually was amazed to hear that absolutely _none_ of those devices even _tried_ to do anything with the original game’s audio in the first place. Apart from the GBA TV converter, that is…
The music from the GB hunter sounds like an ice cream van being strangled
You made me laugh with this comment!
@@projectmayhem6898 My ears! That is actually worse than the GB hunter music.
Cant... like.
69... likes.
Or a sega master system with a busted sound chip playing though a crap av cable.
Explain how an ice cream van can be strangled??
Regarding the Super GB Booster for PlayStation, the Save Backup option backs up your save files for Gameboy games that have a save battery option. For example, the Pokemon games.
Tipster Yep. I had to figure this one out myself after my save file on Christmas Day wasn't retained.
So in order words unless you were say, one of those types of Pokemon players who were desperately hunting shinys or whatever and wanted a redundant save file, this was almost worthless.
James Kaplan Not exactly. I used to have a Gameboy memory card accessory with similar functionality and it was great for backing up save files. It saved my bacon quite a few times with the GBC Zelda titles when dead batteries fried my save file.
Tipster you know what? Fair enough. Never had a dead battery backup issue myself so it's not something I ever had to deal with.
James Kaplan In my experience, It wouldn't save at all unless you hit the save backup. I saved several times from the in-game menu but if you didn't use the backup function then they'd all be lost the next time you booted it up.
I feel like i'm STILL learning about gameboy items that existed. And I program my own games for the GBA!
Damn dude, I just checked out your channel, pretty cool stuff, the raycaster game looks awesome, do you have a website or something where we can either buy your games or download the roms? I'm always on the hunt for homebrew software, I think it's amazing how people are still making games for discontinued systems, and I have such a love for the GBA.
You're also still learning how the term is "Game Boy".
Andy Madden Pedantic much?
*NO BODY CARES*
@@111boy9 if you don't care why you reply
Hi Norm! Can you please enable English auto-subtitles? For some reason it's showing me Korean ones, but not English ones. I'm Deaf so I can't enjoy your excellent videos without them! :)
Lol. Apparently it thinks the original audio is in Korean. I clicked the cog icon, selected Auto-translate, and picked English, but it seems to still think the original audio is Korean. So it is trying to match the English audio to Korean words and then translate the Korean to English. The fact that it does this in real time is impressive and some of the results are funny.
YO PEOPLE LET'S NOT FORGET ABOUT OUR DEAF OR HEAR LOSS FRIENDS!
Wish I had a better internet connection, I might do some captions myself.
I am commenting and liking this just to help bump up the metrics. (More visibility to the creator)
Is it all videos, or just this one?
okay, I felt bad so I started to make captions for it, as there's an option to "add captions"
I think there's a couple of other ones, but almost all of Norm's videos have either good captions or the auto-captions.
....you just had to throw in that doug game.
gillythekid lol
It was worth the $3 I spent to see it in this episode. Gotta make long term investments to succeed!
I only own the classics
My copy is dead I’m seriously about to go buy one on ebay
Gaming Historian qix is my gig so happy to see that
Totally correct, as usual. GB Player plus extrems' GB Interface software is the way to go. A viewer of mine hooked me up with a PAL GameCube and SCART cable, so it's become my Game Boy machine.
Video Sync is a option that is used on a lot of modern gpus. Often called V-Sync, it just limits the framer are to that of what's compatible with your TV.
The Super GB Booster was my freaking Holy Grail when I was a kid. I spent years trying to find one. Some days I wondered if I had imagined hearing about this amazing device that let you play GB games on a Playstation. Thanks for clearing up a 20 year old mystery for me!
Remember The “It’s A me, Super Mario on the PlayStation 4” meme? Well, Super GB Booster Makes that meme reality.
Just barely
God damn it Norman, your channel is one of the few that have remained intact over the years, with entertaining as hell content. Please don't sell out like so many others have, we love your videos, keep on going, you're doing a great job!
GOD DAMN IT NORMAN
Always good to see another video from you my friend. I've been interested in checking these all out, but never had the chance to. Love seeing all the different ways companies went about creating these Gameboy players.
I had the AGP as a kid. Even then, I was displeased with the quality. I didn't even know there were built-in games!
10:35: Could've also mentioned that up until System Menu 3.0 and the dawn of Wii homebrew, the Advance Game Port was the only way of playing GBA games on the wii, as the Game Boy Player was the only GC accessory incompatible with the Wii. System Menu 3.0 however prevented unofficial GC software from being used with the Wii, making the Advance Game Port unusable with the Wii.
Okay, being able to play a Gameboy game while simultaneously utilizing the PS1's CD feature is honestly kinda cool. I dunno, I'm pretty easily impressed by features in older consoles.
The one guy who disliked this bought the GB Hunter.
More like the 216 dislikes
Jesse Erwin 257 now
@@ASDArtistry 275*
I had the InterAct HANDY BOY when I was kid. Inspector Gadget would be proud.
AVGN :-D
I'm sure you were having a lot of fun...
B R O W N B R I C K S
I L I K E T O B U I L D B R O W N B R I C K S I N M I N E C R A F T
It's the most fun you could possibly have while playing an app.
I had only heard of the GB Hunter way back when, and had no idea any of these other devices existed. I really liked the GBA "mod" unit - what a crazy idea for a commercial product! As always, thanks Norm!
6:50
Weird that you don't know what V-sync means. It's a really common thing in gaming. It means the frames will be rounded down to what your monitor can display. With V-sync it slows it down slightly to make sure it won't push an image if the monitor isn't yet ready to display it. Without that you can get screen tearing where you have two halves of an image and you can see the seam because they are not identical.
I freaking love all the music in this video.
wow! I had no idea about the player for the Playstation.. that's pretty neat!
Nobody's mentioned the etymology of "gold finger" yet, so here's what I managed to find out:
There is no clear origin of the term. Although, supposedly, in Hong Kong, it referred to a criminal who would betray their partners for personal gain or to get lighter sentences, but using "gold finger" to mean a snitch has fallen out of use. When the James Bond movie Goldfinger was released, it came back into use and has gained several meanings, including "to cheat" or in the context of literature, a "mary sue".
When video game cheat devices were starting to be more available to the consumer, a company made a cheat device for the original Playstation (very similar to the Gameshark), named it "Gold Finger" (the metal contacts on a cartridge look like golden fingers, incidentally), and the name has stuck since.
The Super Gameboy for the SNES was way ahead of it's time. I loved that thing. I also used my Gameboy Camera in the SGB and was taking selfies in the 90s lol, and adding my face to those characters in the built in games.
I like your videos before I watch them just to save time
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GREAT WORK AS ALWAYS BROTHA!!!
Man, I'm always happy to see one of your video show up in my feed
I own the GBA TV converter. I bought it 15+ years ago when I was living in Asia and this was new technology. This always worked just fine for me when connected to the TV. If only I knew where it was so I can break it out and play again.
Good information thanks
Since the Advance Game Port only uses a disc and memory card slot could it work with the Wii?
Only if you use Nintendon’t.
yes it did, it was the reason i got it in the first place as the wii doesn't support the gameboy player.
It theoretically works on PAL Wiis (or NTSC Wiis modded to be region-free), but has severe audio glitches.
The AGP is the only way to play GBA games legally (and badly) on the Wii using original cartridges (You won't be able to play GB or GBC games or even GBA Video carts on it though).
The GB operator is a nice 3rd party Game Boy Player for PC. Not only does it play GB, GBC, and GBA games, but it also has emulation features like cheat codes and controller support. It has no dealbreakers at all, nothing that makes it worse than a Game Boy Player. It can be used on a smart TV with screen sharing tools if you don't like playing on your monitor. It also has support for features like putting your GB camera photos on your computer (and maybe you'll be able to use your GB camera as a webcam soon) and backing up your saves in case you need to replace a dead battery.
(I know this video was made 3 years before the release of the GB operator, but it was relevant to this video)
Really enjoyed seeing all of these and how they worked. Appreciate your time and hope you have a wonderful weekend.
9:25Savestates generally just dump the entirety of the game's RAM into a file, so it doesn't really surprise me that the Advance Game Port takes up so much space.
Have you been working out?
The GB Hunter music already plays on a constant loop in the background of my life. So we’re good.
My favorite part of this whole video is all the attention dedicated to the Game Boy port of Qix! That game is an absolute classic!
What's the music that starts at 10:48?
"Float Islands" from Kirby's Dream Land on the original Game Boy
Kirby's Dream Land: Float Islands
just2good oh hey just2good i never knew you watch the gaming historian
Float islands from Kirby’s Dream Land.
If the Game Boy Player exists, why does the Advanced Game Port exist?!?!?!?!
I love your contents Gaming Historian. The page barely loads and I already click the Like button. Keep up the good work!
The Super GB Booster CD player can be useful, if you have the soundtrack for the game you are playing, you can kinda get music
Use the built in generatuh to create yor own video game cheat codes, guvnah!
were new here can any1 give us any tips ?
I have a GBA tv converter and never had an issue with the ribbon. Honestly, gave it to my dad who liked playing on the TV as it was easier to see. Still works today!
nostalgia is one hell of a drug
Great video, as always!
Every Game Boy player that uses emulation is pretty much terrible. I'd rather use a Game Boy Player instead. That last little add-on with composite output sounds great, if someone offered a service to solder it on. Other than that, I don't really care too much about playing them on a big screen. They're fine as handheld games on a backlit GBA SP.
What on earth is that at 2:01? I can't find anything about DKJr on Game Boy anywhere...
Is it a secret mode? I've completed Donkey Kong '94 more times than I can count, and I've never seen a mode with DK Jr. stomping on Goombas with Mario just standing there.
sarysa Game and Watch gallery.
8:54 OMG I remember that pokemon gba video! I remember watching both episodes on long car rides. I wish I could remember where it was, those were good episodes!
The GB Hunter's whole vibe feels so eerie and uncomfortable to me. The drowned out, staticky music loop trying desperately to clear the dead air of silence, only adding insult to injury on one of its primary faults as an emulator for a system that didn't even have complex sound capabilities for its time, especially. But also its _tiny_ screen window paired with the GameBOY's black and white color scheme, the strange warping text of its startup splash, its cheap-looking menus with the bright-red all caps impact font text...
It's so strange, and I pity anyone who bought it to play GameBOY games back in the day, whether they had any other way to play it, or didn't and just wasted their money.
As much as it does, though, I find it hilarious that they called action replay codes "Golden Finger Codes". I'm just imagining some kind of annual event show, where they give out the 'Golden Finger' award to the best cheats or something.
I try to stay away from knock-off add-ons since they don"t work very well.
I never knew there were third party Game Boy Player adapters?
Dan EvilRobot they didn't advertise very well because I never heard of them either.
There's also the Super Retro Advance Adapter by Retrobit, that plugs into an SNES. Sure, you need separate video cables to get picture and sound, but if you have a Super Retro Trio, you don't need them. The compatibility is quite strong, I've played around 30 or so games on it, and haven't had a single issue with it. But it only played GBA games.
These GameBoy console add-on videos have been some of my favorites.
Ah, Datel... Purveyors of trash, as seen in this episode. I wasn't aware of their Game Cube add-on. I did have the GBA TV Converter back when it was new and don't remember having major issues, but I picked one up recently and had an even worse image than you demonstrated in the video! Either I got lucky back in the day, or my eyes weren't working at the time. *shrugs*
Does S-video help out in any way?
"Unless you ABSOLUTELY love cheating"
OH I LOVE CHEATING! Especially with my 47 different girlfriends.
Was 47 just a random number or a specific number???
I was searching information and a good review for the GameBooster for AGES, thank you!
I've been waiting for this for so long now! thank you for making it!
Doesn't the GBA have those weird non-standard screws too? So you not only have to do this dodgy mod-job to your beloved GBA, you have to get the right screwdriver to do it too
Be N S O N The bits are less than $10 on Amazon. Not too big a deal. And they give you the added bonus of being able to replace the batteries in your games.
benn454 Sure, but it's pretty darn far out of your way to go just to play GBA games on your TV when Nintendo has a peripheral to do it already.
That is, unless this thing actually came packaged with the right screw bits.
Just grab a pointy knife that the end has already snapped off of. 3 or 4 mm of flatness gets the job done
Newgrounds Flash Game: those were the memories!
I used Andkon arcade, M8.
I appreciate the amount of research that it must take to make these videos. Great Job!
Good Video and nice too see that someone made another Video about this "Things". I also made one Video about the Playstation Version and had a hard Time with the Research, but can say that there are a least 4 Verison of this Adapter. The first one is like the N64 Version (and as far as I could find, also the only Version for the N64), the Second one is a Version with no Sound at all and the Third one is the one with the Build in CD Player Funktion. The forth one is an Version with an Switch on the Side, where you could toggle bethween the GB Booster and an Action Replay (Gold FInger) for the Playstation itself.
The mysterious Save Backup Funktion is for the Gamesave. The Adapter is, like you sayd, an Software Emulator and dont uses the Module itself (you can unplug the Modul after the Game is loaded). The Save Backup Funktion writes the Savefile back to the GameBoy Game, if you dont do this, all Progress is gone.
Little Fun Fact on the SIde. The inbuild Game is a Bootleg. Rebound Mission is known als Pokemission 97 and was programmed by Anders Granlund in the Mid 90s.
Has everybody been eating their oats? They're quite rich in healthy nutrients!
My buddy Wilford Brimley and I always start our morning with a good, hearty bowl of oatmeal.
Quaker Oat Guy Not recently. I think the last time was a couple of months ago.
I saw you on Pat the nes punk's comment section today, You're the highlight of the thread! When you're called out you have to take full advantage since it probably almost never happens.
i dont think chucky finster ate his.
Yeah but not Quaker oats
Who in their right mind would dislike the Gaming Historian?
Seriously. It's one of the best video game channels by far.
Lazy troll?
What I think is kind of funny is that on the box for the Advanced Game Port is that it's supposed to work by plugging it into the second memory card slot, but the box shows it plugged into the first slot.
These are some cool accessories! I think the Super Gameboy player, and GameCube player are amazing! I'm glad I was able to learn and experience different things on this channel! Great Content Norm! Keep it Brother! Many Blessings to you and your family!
Hey, from where the music around 10:45 comes from?
Kirby's Dream Land
*Insert joke about Doug game here*
I live in the middle east and we get so many weird games and things, I remember geting a Sega Master CD for PS2 that have over 80 games, and Game Boy CD also for PS2, you need to research those CD
There's also an adapter called the Super Retro Advance, which allows you to play Game Boy Advance games on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It works with the SNES and the Super Retro Trio 3.
10:29 sounds like an Australian accent, not British. ;)
sounds exactly like bear grylls lol
No, it doesn't. That's quite clearly an English accent, as any English person could tell you.
Hi! I have nothing to say, I will edit this when I come up with a comment.
I had the Advance Game Port as a kid, and none of the cheat, zoom, save states, built in games, or really any extra options were available. My disc only provided shoddy emulation, and the sound was often hilarious. Monsters Inc for the GBA, a game with normally a pretty alright soundtrack, becomes an orgy of loud sporadic brass instruments and it's kind of amazing. The games also ran typically in a really choppy manner.
So, even if you got the AGP, you couldn't count on having really any of the things mentioned in this video. The AGP shown here looks INCREDIBLE in comparison to the one I had.
Not to mention, I lost my disc and AGP for quite a while and I replaced it years later to relive these amusing and bewildering memories and the same applies to my second unit.
0:00 to 0:12. He is showing the back drop. His collection. I feel like he is flexing his muscle and teasing hardcore Nintendo fans and new gamers.
Sega had like 1000rd Party add-ons for the genisis😂
Hey, don't dis Newgrounds Flash games!
Matt Roszak, Bullet Heaven 2 is shit. Repetitive and boring. Please make no more bullet-hells as you know nothing about them.
Great video as usual! I was hoping to see some Innovation products covered here, as I have a strange fascination with their products.
Datel really loved licensing out their stuff out to, well, anyone lol.
I may not have a golden finger but I do have a brown finger.
Dolan Trimp I almost made a "finger" joke, glad to see you got it covered.
PoWeFuL ChEaT CoDeS
You seem to have a knack for picking interesting topcs for your videos Norman.
Keep it up! Love all you stuff!
So neat. I had no idea these even existed. This was before the internet was so main stream.
You’re a pretty good looking guy
Does anyone else hate when people call software "powerful". The commentator talking about "powerful cheat codes" made me laugh.
Blame the marketing department...
I remember when someone first told me that a software was "powerful" when they were explaining some super basic, crude software I had to learn. And I wanted to turn to them and say "it's not a nuclear weapon or a magic genie, it edits video. Fuckin relax."
Norm! Taking a stab at flash games, after that ending of your April Fools video? For shame! /s
Great video! Always love it when you upload. I think I’ll stick with my GB Player though!
It always struck me as odd that Nintendo never launched an N64 cartridge that would work with the Transfer Pack and let people play their games through that. The closest we got was a very limited set of N64 games (Pokémon Stadium) that would work with an equally limited set of GameBoy games (Pokémon R/B/Y/G/S). Even then, your GameBoy game needed to be saved in a Pokémon Centre to get to work.
I heard rumours that Perfect Dark 64 would work with Perfect Dark GB and GameBoy Camera through the Transfer Pack, but apparently never materialized.
2018 BITCHES!!!
Aww its the angry video game nerds' cousin, "The doughy soft spoken geek."
2:23 I will say- the control stick really works for me playing Mario Kart: Super Circuit in switch online! problem is, the Z button isn’t mapped as L, so using items is a pain…
this is one of the best channels on youtube. we love you norman
Needs more twerking
8:13 Thats the soundtrack of one of my favourite GB games called „Die Maus“ (german TV Show for Kids), sounds like my childhood!
One of my favorite channels on UA-cam
Those 10 built in games in the Advance Game Port were also available as a seperate software title for the Gamecube and PS2 called “Max Play volume 1”
Although impossible to find, Datel also released Game Studio for the PS2 which allows your PS2 to play Game Boy and Game Boy Color games, has a cheat function and 8 built in games you can load onto the included Games To Go cartridge for play on actual GBC/GBA hardware!
Finally! You came around to make this video!