@@RisingRevengeance I was going to say the same thing. Though the type c has the bonus of being able to be plugged in either way, but still not as robust as the mini type.
@@thumbbandit1628 Yeah type c has grown on me over the years but I havent had a good time with cable quality. I mostly use magnetic contacts in my devices nowadays, it's worth the added cost to me.
apparently British people have decided that they didn't go far enough when they changed the spelling from "color" to "colour", and now decided to change it to "console".
@@Stroggoii Of course they can keep the price down, because Nintendo and Zilog/TI/whoever did all the hard R&D and design work for them already and they can just ignore the licensing and other parts of the deal :-)
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 Yeppers, in fact our country's whole gaming culture owes a lot to those "jackie chan" famiclones (Dendy) or it would have not really even existed. But at face value, it's what it is - piracy, aka reusing someone's R&D without permission, because even factoring in an IC design cost, it costs pennies if you're gonna bulk it out in billions, pair it with a mask ROM of stolen games and shove it everywhere almost at-cost, whereas the original developers have to go through the whole creative process of the game development. Not really trying to hit on the moral aspect of piracy here -- just explaining how they keep the prices so low.
It's called "amortization strategy". When tech components are too obsolete...they just find a fast way to integrate them in something easily and quickly buildable. They haven't any profit in selling them. They just "amortize" losses (storage and inventory costs)
@@sambas9257 yea exactly. They buy old components sold at a loss, mold a plastic, steal roms and designs, and bam I'd be surprised if this costs a dollar to make even
I believe that wobble could be screen flickering, it happens when the game's resolution doesn't match up with the screen's resolution, causing the game's pixels to constantly change size as you move.
This seems like a perfect game console to give to a little child. I mean, if my parents had given me a system like that when I was a kid, I would be so happy!
Well aside from the fact I hate that the trend died out and wished we still had electronics doing that on a mainstream level, I say it's ballsy for them to do that... "Let's make this cheap AF NES-on-a-chip console, but despite how low quality we're making this, we'll let them see inside"
Why does Nintendo wouldn't produce remakes of older consoles?! Like a newer GBC, with a real backlit screen, in stead of letting competitors (KongFeng, and other independant producers) making their own products? They always want to attract new clients, with new titles and 3D screens, and think it's outdated, but the GBC/GBA is still interesting people, even children. They're losing so much for 10 years! Gosh, it's like dropping a briefcase full of gold ingots. And say that they publish retro games, why not retro consoles? ...
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 I get the fact that they won't spend loads of money making retro looking consoles, but I suspect Nintendo resting on their achievements, and not making further experiments. Maybe because they only experiment things thru their R&D, and not hearing direct advices, but Lord, they lost so much money by letting the GB Boy and other clones grow.
Hi, great channel! I'm quite familiar with the retro handhelds as of lately, and I would say that the "wobble" is just because of the game not being pixel perfect; probably that screen is 3:2 like the original GBA, while the original game is outputting a 4:3 signal with more pixels than in the display, which causes that ugly effect (if you had control over your emulator, this could be solved very easily with a shader or integer scaling).
If your capture card has the standard yellow, white, and red AV connectors, try the red in the white port as it's mono sound. They mismatched the colors, it would seem, as red is generally for stereo audio. The colour is quite slim indeed.
It looks pretty decent for the price. The output video reminds me a video that is quite old, nostalgic actually. What I'm really curious about is the inside of the unit, so how about you tear that Game Boys apart? :D
For $5 you can't really complain. This would be something to buy a few of and toss in the back seat of your car for your kids if you are going on a road trip, and maybe leave in the bathroom for playing Mario while you poop lol
Thank you for your content, i love seeing what you do and even if your not completely experienced with everything you cover, its nice knowing someone whos honest and reliable is reviewing it.
That shell and screen surely cost more on their own than the whole package. It would actually make a nice aftermarket shell for a GBA if it had all the right cuts. I would love to see if the screen could be salvaged for a GBA backlit mod.
Would be interessting, how this thing looks inside. Maybe ppl can go and use this screen instead of hunting 101 GBA SPs down to make it harder to get GBA SPs for normal prices.
So..as a follow up to my post, yes..I bought one and was not disappointed at all. Said red on the box...was smoky transparent black. Runs really well, has tons of NES games, only about 100 games, rest duplicated. Sound is okay, screen clear. Hes right about the dpad. Pacman is a little unresponsive in turning. For the price, very impressed. Looks like a gba with a backlight that is running a NES emulator.
The wobble is screen tearing, as someone already pointed out, but it's DIAGONAL screen tearing which is why it looks different from normal tearing. You can also see it when the screen blacks out for a moment going from the menu to a game. I've got an "X350" handheld that does the same thing and results in an almost jello-looking effect when games scroll.
The wobbling comes from non-integer scaling. The way some emulators or handhelds solve it is by blurring the image slightly which is almost just as bad IMO. But since older consoles used rather strange resolutions you can't really get screens that are an exact match so they either have to waste some of the screen area by just having borders, or scale the image in unoptimal ways. DS games on the 3DS support either playing with borders or with the image slightly blurred and neither option is ideal but at least you have the option to disable the scaling if you really hate that blur.
That wiggle will be from non-integer scaling. The resolution of the display isn’t an even multiple of the resolution of the game, so some columns and rows will be doubled. You’ll see it’s most obvious on text. Things come up looking kind of lumpy as some letters are stretched out and others aren’t by the non-integer scaling. Other than that, this might be one of the better handheld Famiclones you’ve reviewed. Solid gameplay, good TV out with out any major interference. Not bad quality at all. Part of me wonders why these famiclone makers haven’t progressed to Gameboy or Gameboy Color clones, by now, because they’re so well understood you could emulate them on a well carved block of cheese. Obviously the old GB Boy exists, a hardware clone you could even use with real cartridges, but I’m more surprised that didn’t take. Where are all the Gameboy clones?
The emulation is good, because it's not emulation. It's a NOAC (NES On A Chip), so there's an entire miniaturized NES motherboard under an epoxy blob. The screen tear is probably because it still outputs an analog signal to that tiny LCD, and the connection probably isn't great.
In a batch of broken consoles I received what I thought was a gba sp with a cheap aftermarket shell, but once I opened it I realized that it was a clone... A hardware clone, complete with the original splashscreen (although slowed down) cartridges slot that reads the original games and nintendo logo on the shell... If shipping to England didn't cost me a fortune I'd love to send it to you.
The names for generic gameboys are so hilarious. It may just be me but does anyone else find the knock off and generic brands names funny? For example i saw the generic name for crispix on a target cereal and they called it "crispy hexagons". Lol.
So looking on ebay for one of these, found instead a gameboy colour clone with a full tft screen etc and 168 games... £4! Still haven't reviewed my Chinomatic mini NES with 500 games but now I got something decent handheld. Going to upgrade my RP+3 NESPi with something like an Odroid board which opens up the later consoles like PS2, Xbox 360 and Wii.
The “screen wobble” is likely just the way TFT screens refresh. Laptops from 20 years ago were plagued with this, as all laptop screens at the time were TFT.
Have you ordered an Anbernic RG351V yet mate? Probably not due to your money sapping house renovation! It's the best original Gameboy style handheld for 2021 IMO.
Great video. Be interesting to see what the console's innards look like and whether there's any scope to use the shell and screen for other modding projects.
That wobble probably means it's just straight up a composite signal from the NOAC and the screen is a barely-functional miniaturized version of those composite input TFT things.
I bought a 10 euro gameboy-shaped (not GBA) console a couple years ago, for fun. The menu looked EXACTLY like this one, as did the screen. TV Out worked, but the signal was way too hot (high voltage) causing the colors to get distorted. The thing about it, is that the mini-USB connector is fake. It's not actually USB related, but instead the other pins are used for the data pins of what amounts to a NES controller with a microusb connector, which is used for player 2 in 2-player games. The version I got had this player 2 controller, which is shaped like a Famicom controller, and I can say, with confidence, it's by far the WORST controller I have ever had my hands on. The buttons are extremely sticky and mushy and hard to press, with no clicky action AT ALL.
Man, I had the most interesting idea for a display piece. It would look like the 3DS Virtual Console Icons for the gameboy games, pretty much a cut down gameboy with just the screen and game in the back.
I've got to give them credit for one thing that usually pisses me off with these knockoffs: they didn't just use the cheapest 16:9 screen they could find (contrary to their own advertising, admittedly) and just stretch the image. So that's at least something
The wobble is because the screen isn't the same resolution and/or shape. If you've heard them say "shimmering" on Game Sack, this is what they are talking about.
Idk about straight up recommending something like this. The company is taking the work of emulator programmers and video game preservationists and using it for profit, creating e-waste and paying terrible wages in the process. It's a way to experience games that everyone should be able to experience, but there's a price to it being cheap and people should be made aware of that.
Since the Shell is so close to the original, maybe there is a chance to repair the broken Shoulder Button with one of the Gameboy Advance replacements? I really like the idea, that you can use Battery Pack or Standard Batteries in this device. And the repeat in the Game List might be because of the Region Bindings of some of the games. So that they slapped on the EU/US Version and the Asian Version of the game
One of the other comments might have said already, but I wonder if you could harvest any parts from an existing GBA to fix the problems with the controls. I also wish it were feasible to hack around with the system to change the games. Being able to pick your selection would be cool.
~There's likely 104 games, three repeats of that gets you up to 312, with the first repeat starting at 313 and cutting short. 104 also divides nicely by 8, which explains why the repeat happens on the top of a new screen of games.~ Hm, watching the rest, game 105 isn't a repeat, so maybe there's 152 games?
I so wanna see a transplant of a real gb advance in that. If for no other reason than to get rid of the wobble. Which could flickering, or the onset of Parkinson’s.
Thank you so much for watching! Will heart every comment posted till I go to sleep. Enjoy!
Do a collab with dankpods like a ipod game boy combo
Thanks for the new video!
@@BoxInThisLapVR46 agreed!
Your welcome
try and put that screen on an OG Gameboy 😅
If there's anything I've learned from Dankpods' videos it's that mini-usb is the official cable of knock off products.
Honestly prefer it over micro and usb c. It has been far more reliable to me.
@@RisingRevengeance I was going to say the same thing. Though the type c has the bonus of being able to be plugged in either way, but still not as robust as the mini type.
@@thumbbandit1628 Yeah type c has grown on me over the years but I havent had a good time with cable quality. I mostly use magnetic contacts in my devices nowadays, it's worth the added cost to me.
Well at least this had an actual device inside it unlike one of the MP3 players he’s recently gotten lol.
I mean it beats micro, USB-C seems alright, though I upgrade stuff so rarely the only USB-C thing I have is the switch
“The color is slim” - The Retro Future 2021
Whoops
@@TheRetroFuture Whoops
Certain colors can be slimming.
apparently British people have decided that they didn't go far enough when they changed the spelling from "color" to "colour", and now decided to change it to "console".
@@TheRetroFuture Any other place to purchase this? because on the Amazon provided link says "currently unavailable"
Imagine if they could just make a after market GBA that actually plays GBA with a backlit screen. But nope. NES.
Of course, NES on-a-chip clones are just so much cheaper to do. it seems cheap console cloning really stopped at NES.
@@DoubleMonoLR but they want one that plays physical cartridges
Why dont you do what I did and mod the gameboy advance with the ips v2 screen kit?!
So, the Revo K101 Plus? :) I still prefer my Game Boy Micro, though.
@@DoubleMonoLR lol I just modded my actual psp for emulation
there must be a factory somewhere that just, takes consoles, somehow devalues them by about £40, then puts them on the open market
If they can sell this and profit imagine the absurd profit margins of the average Apple product.
@@Stroggoii Of course they can keep the price down, because Nintendo and Zilog/TI/whoever did all the hard R&D and design work for them already and they can just ignore the licensing and other parts of the deal :-)
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 Yeppers, in fact our country's whole gaming culture owes a lot to those "jackie chan" famiclones (Dendy) or it would have not really even existed. But at face value, it's what it is - piracy, aka reusing someone's R&D without permission, because even factoring in an IC design cost, it costs pennies if you're gonna bulk it out in billions, pair it with a mask ROM of stolen games and shove it everywhere almost at-cost, whereas the original developers have to go through the whole creative process of the game development.
Not really trying to hit on the moral aspect of piracy here -- just explaining how they keep the prices so low.
It's called "amortization strategy". When tech components are too obsolete...they just find a fast way to integrate them in something easily and quickly buildable. They haven't any profit in selling them. They just "amortize" losses (storage and inventory costs)
@@sambas9257 yea exactly. They buy old components sold at a loss, mold a plastic, steal roms and designs, and bam
I'd be surprised if this costs a dollar to make even
I believe that wobble could be screen flickering, it happens when the game's resolution doesn't match up with the screen's resolution, causing the game's pixels to constantly change size as you move.
Could it also be screen tearing? I'm feeling like it might be a retropi clone with a bad screen compositor.
@@Ironpants57 could be, we don't really get a good look at the shimmering/flickering
@@Ironpants57 it's definitely a Famiclone, but unfortunately many of these have a bad scaler that doesn't scale the resolution properly.
"It's shi- ... It's actually really not that bad at all!" Great moment right there :')
This seems like a perfect game console to give to a little child. I mean, if my parents had given me a system like that when I was a kid, I would be so happy!
I love that these clones are either behind enough to use translucent shells or ahead of the curve enough to use translucent shells….
Well aside from the fact I hate that the trend died out and wished we still had electronics doing that on a mainstream level, I say it's ballsy for them to do that... "Let's make this cheap AF NES-on-a-chip console, but despite how low quality we're making this, we'll let them see inside"
@@RiderLeangle2
maybe the translucent shells cost less to manufacture.. probably
For that price , even just the screen is a steal :D
Open it up, put a Raspberry Pi in there , and we have a killer machine :D
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that's such a fun idea and very tempting. Get a raspeberry pi Zero, costs €10 and can pretty much play anything up to ps1
Wait no tear down? Thought you was going to bust out the ifixit kit 😔
He actually bought one of these in 2019 and did a teardown then. Might not be the exact same console but it looks pretty damn similar.
@@RizzLegend916 calm down dear it's only a comment
@@RizzLegend916 triggered much?
@@RizzLegend916 weeaboo
@@RizzLegend916 you spelled zoro wronged
The price will definitely not be 5 pounds anymore after your video 😭
Box : "Console is slim"
Elliot : Read's twice "The Color is slim"..
One of the few instances where ive heard Elliot say a potty word, made me James Spec Belly laugh lol
Nintendo starting to get some serious competition...
They need to watch out ey!
Huh who knew Sid had a nice second cousin.
Why does Nintendo wouldn't produce remakes of older consoles?! Like a newer GBC, with a real backlit screen, in stead of letting competitors (KongFeng, and other independant producers) making their own products? They always want to attract new clients, with new titles and 3D screens, and think it's outdated, but the GBC/GBA is still interesting people, even children. They're losing so much for 10 years! Gosh, it's like dropping a briefcase full of gold ingots. And say that they publish retro games, why not retro consoles? ...
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 Oh okay. Yes, I've heard of that. And also, I've heard that the Nintendo Club did have some Game and Watch releases?
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 I get the fact that they won't spend loads of money making retro looking consoles, but I suspect Nintendo resting on their achievements, and not making further experiments.
Maybe because they only experiment things thru their R&D, and not hearing direct advices, but Lord, they lost so much money by letting the GB Boy and other clones grow.
Hi, great channel! I'm quite familiar with the retro handhelds as of lately, and I would say that the "wobble" is just because of the game not being pixel perfect; probably that screen is 3:2 like the original GBA, while the original game is outputting a 4:3 signal with more pixels than in the display, which causes that ugly effect (if you had control over your emulator, this could be solved very easily with a shader or integer scaling).
can confirm elliots tetris skills are definitely improving
Amazon really has everything
@@toy4tao you're thinking of wish 🤣
Aliexpress
If your capture card has the standard yellow, white, and red AV connectors, try the red in the white port as it's mono sound. They mismatched the colors, it would seem, as red is generally for stereo audio. The colour is quite slim indeed.
It looks pretty decent for the price. The output video reminds me a video that is quite old, nostalgic actually. What I'm really curious about is the inside of the unit, so how about you tear that Game Boys apart? :D
For $5 you can't really complain. This would be something to buy a few of and toss in the back seat of your car for your kids if you are going on a road trip, and maybe leave in the bathroom for playing Mario while you poop lol
I am deeply impressed with that quality!
“That doesn’t look bad at all” - Retro future
What he didn’t mention is how it sounds.
Me hearing only in my left ear: O👄O
Thank you for your content, i love seeing what you do and even if your not completely experienced with everything you cover, its nice knowing someone whos honest and reliable is reviewing it.
They really committed to the "retro" with the mini-usb
Often thought of these GBA clones and wondered if the screens could be swapped with a genuine GBA. Would be a lot cheaper that a screen kit for one
That shell and screen surely cost more on their own than the whole package. It would actually make a nice aftermarket shell for a GBA if it had all the right cuts. I would love to see if the screen could be salvaged for a GBA backlit mod.
The holes are nothing that a dremel couldn't solve tbh
After this video it might become more expensive than the original
Would be interessting, how this thing looks inside. Maybe ppl can go and use this screen instead of hunting 101 GBA SPs down to make it harder to get GBA SPs for normal prices.
With the new wave of IPS displays it's become way less common to harvest AGS-101 displays.
@@AnvilSP Yeah, I got one for $60 and it was an easy install. Not much point in using 101 screens.
For the price, that thing seems well worth it.
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My right ear enjoied that :)
So..as a follow up to my post, yes..I bought one and was not disappointed at all.
Said red on the box...was smoky transparent black.
Runs really well, has tons of NES games, only about 100 games, rest duplicated.
Sound is okay, screen clear. Hes right about the dpad. Pacman is a little unresponsive in turning.
For the price, very impressed. Looks like a gba with a backlight that is running a NES emulator.
Did see and review these before ... and GBA models are coming in so many different versions 🤣
The shell is probably straight up made in the same factories that make aftermarket gba shells
"On Amazon for £4.49"
"Currently unavailable, we don't know when it will be back in stock"
Translation "we will never, ever have them again"
“Mom, I want a GameBoy advance for Christmas”
We have a gameboy advance at home
@@Robbnlinzi game boy advance at home:
The wobble is screen tearing, as someone already pointed out, but it's DIAGONAL screen tearing which is why it looks different from normal tearing. You can also see it when the screen blacks out for a moment going from the menu to a game. I've got an "X350" handheld that does the same thing and results in an almost jello-looking effect when games scroll.
I love your channel, it revives the ilusion I had for consoles
The wobbling comes from non-integer scaling. The way some emulators or handhelds solve it is by blurring the image slightly which is almost just as bad IMO. But since older consoles used rather strange resolutions you can't really get screens that are an exact match so they either have to waste some of the screen area by just having borders, or scale the image in unoptimal ways. DS games on the 3DS support either playing with borders or with the image slightly blurred and neither option is ideal but at least you have the option to disable the scaling if you really hate that blur.
You know its a gonna be a good day watching TheRetroFuture to kick it off.
Console is already "no longer available"! That was fast! :D
This is an interesting console. I would like to see the inside. May have to get my own. This is a really good value.
That wiggle will be from non-integer scaling. The resolution of the display isn’t an even multiple of the resolution of the game, so some columns and rows will be doubled. You’ll see it’s most obvious on text. Things come up looking kind of lumpy as some letters are stretched out and others aren’t by the non-integer scaling.
Other than that, this might be one of the better handheld Famiclones you’ve reviewed. Solid gameplay, good TV out with out any major interference. Not bad quality at all. Part of me wonders why these famiclone makers haven’t progressed to Gameboy or Gameboy Color clones, by now, because they’re so well understood you could emulate them on a well carved block of cheese. Obviously the old GB Boy exists, a hardware clone you could even use with real cartridges, but I’m more surprised that didn’t take. Where are all the Gameboy clones?
Me: *clicks on the link*
“Currently Unavailable” 💀
The emulation is good, because it's not emulation. It's a NOAC (NES On A Chip), so there's an entire miniaturized NES motherboard under an epoxy blob. The screen tear is probably because it still outputs an analog signal to that tiny LCD, and the connection probably isn't great.
nice seeing you just have some fun with it
In a batch of broken consoles I received what I thought was a gba sp with a cheap aftermarket shell, but once I opened it I realized that it was a clone... A hardware clone, complete with the original splashscreen (although slowed down) cartridges slot that reads the original games and nintendo logo on the shell... If shipping to England didn't cost me a fortune I'd love to send it to you.
The names for generic gameboys are so hilarious. It may just be me but does anyone else find the knock off and generic brands names funny? For example i saw the generic name for crispix on a target cereal and they called it "crispy hexagons".
Lol.
Always a pleasure to see these fantastic videos. Well done!
I like your name
Just buy a ton of those cheap units and harvest the screens. Helluva lot cheaper than buying the IPS screens from
Handheld legend.
So looking on ebay for one of these, found instead a gameboy colour clone with a full tft screen etc and 168 games... £4! Still haven't reviewed my Chinomatic mini NES with 500 games but now I got something decent handheld. Going to upgrade my RP+3 NESPi with something like an Odroid board which opens up the later consoles like PS2, Xbox 360 and Wii.
Love your videos Elliot!
COOL GUY ELLIOT WITH THE HAT BACKWARDS. Love the videos. Keep them up!
The “screen wobble” is likely just the way TFT screens refresh. Laptops from 20 years ago were plagued with this, as all laptop screens at the time were TFT.
Have you ordered an Anbernic RG351V yet mate? Probably not due to your money sapping house renovation! It's the best original Gameboy style handheld for 2021 IMO.
Great video. Be interesting to see what the console's innards look like and whether there's any scope to use the shell and screen for other modding projects.
Havent watched the video yet but I don’t imagine it could actually run gba games. Would be really cool though!
4 pounds? Man, that thing sure is heavy!
Love these unboxing vids m8
I like the GBA look, but if it doesn't play them somehow, it can sod off!
That wobble probably means it's just straight up a composite signal from the NOAC and the screen is a barely-functional miniaturized version of those composite input TFT things.
I might be weird, but I prefer the old mini USB over micro USB. Just never have issues with the connector becoming nonfunctional after some use.
Yeah, mini was more durable. Never liked micro much. I look forward to when type C becomes prevalent.
ME: Mom can we have gameboy
Mom: No we have gameboy at home
Gameboy at home: G A M E B O Y S
> Broken shoulder button
> Plays NES games
Welp, looks like we won't be needing that replacement...
TFT displays usually have a framerate of around 10-20fps without being modified, that explains the massive screen tears and low fps.
I hope you have a house update soon, I am very curious on how that is going. I hope it goes as smooth as possible. 🤞
I bought a 10 euro gameboy-shaped (not GBA) console a couple years ago, for fun.
The menu looked EXACTLY like this one, as did the screen. TV Out worked, but the signal was way too hot (high voltage) causing the colors to get distorted.
The thing about it, is that the mini-USB connector is fake. It's not actually USB related, but instead the other pins are used for the data pins of what amounts to a NES controller with a microusb connector, which is used for player 2 in 2-player games.
The version I got had this player 2 controller, which is shaped like a Famicom controller, and I can say, with confidence, it's by far the WORST controller I have ever had my hands on. The buttons are extremely sticky and mushy and hard to press, with no clicky action AT ALL.
Amazon really does have everything
Greetings from The Philippines mate!
Dude, you look way better with your hat in your videos xD
Man, I had the most interesting idea for a display piece. It would look like the 3DS Virtual Console Icons for the gameboy games, pretty much a cut down gameboy with just the screen and game in the back.
The title is like saying "Amazon's playstation 4 game".. but it's just them selling GTA 5...
I’m surprised Amazon get away with selling these. You’d think nintendo would be on them like a white on rice
Interesting how more modern words get changed from different parts of the world. knock-ia vs. no-kia
It is already sold out. That was fast
I've got to give them credit for one thing that usually pisses me off with these knockoffs: they didn't just use the cheapest 16:9 screen they could find (contrary to their own advertising, admittedly) and just stretch the image. So that's at least something
Elliot got to the end of the mario level! He is improving!
The wobble is screen tearing. It manifests more as a wobble than a tear at super high framerates. A vsync option would solve it entirely.
The wobble is because the screen isn't the same resolution and/or shape. If you've heard them say "shimmering" on Game Sack, this is what they are talking about.
Holy crap, even watching this at 2x on UA-cam I saw the screen wobble around 6:30 - 6:32 during the SMB 1-2 run.
What I’m curious about is if you can rip the screen outta this and put it in a original gba. It would be a super cheap screen mod if so
I’ve thought about that as well but I feel like the screen would break quite quickly
@@okayboomer7546 not all knock off products are shit quality. I’ve had a gb boy Color for more then a year now and it still works amazing
Wow, That's a good little 90s inspired party gift to toss around honestly. Crazy value for 5 bucks.
I've bought the Games Power (red version) and thought it was not bad at all, for the price. But here's another gold nugget.
Hey Elliot, thanks for the video. How are you doing?
Oh, I see the wobble - don't you worry about that Elliot.
Currently unavailable.
Not available for US buyers. Bummer! Great vid!
Idk about straight up recommending something like this. The company is taking the work of emulator programmers and video game preservationists and using it for profit, creating e-waste and paying terrible wages in the process. It's a way to experience games that everyone should be able to experience, but there's a price to it being cheap and people should be made aware of that.
exactly my thoughts
Great video Elliot!
Since the Shell is so close to the original, maybe there is a chance to repair the broken Shoulder Button with one of the Gameboy Advance replacements? I really like the idea, that you can use Battery Pack or Standard Batteries in this device.
And the repeat in the Game List might be because of the Region Bindings of some of the games. So that they slapped on the EU/US Version and the Asian Version of the game
It seems like that company sells tech in the UK, but pretty much only 'Personal Wand Massagers' in the US. Interesting choice.
Was wearing headphones watching this video and was not expecting the capture card audio to only be on the right channel…
One of the other comments might have said already, but I wonder if you could harvest any parts from an existing GBA to fix the problems with the controls. I also wish it were feasible to hack around with the system to change the games. Being able to pick your selection would be cool.
Love you work mate, inspiring as always and will continue to watch your great content! P.S Can you do a video on a USB C GBC install?
Would be interesting to see you open it up, possibly repair the L trigger and replace the buttons/dpad with some better ones.
~There's likely 104 games, three repeats of that gets you up to 312, with the first repeat starting at 313 and cutting short. 104 also divides nicely by 8, which explains why the repeat happens on the top of a new screen of games.~
Hm, watching the rest, game 105 isn't a repeat, so maybe there's 152 games?
"Sorry it's a bit of a short one." - Elliot, 2021
I so wanna see a transplant of a real gb advance in that. If for no other reason than to get rid of the wobble. Which could flickering, or the onset of Parkinson’s.
if you do a repair and upgrate on it it will be ultimate
the wobble is from the screen they used. it's perfect for cameras but horrible for games due to the offset subpixels