No one should confuse the "voice" feature with the self destruct mode "city death". You don't want to accidentally level the city when you just want to make a reminder to buy milk.
It's a actually a popular vocal Death Metal subgenre in japan, much like Uigurian throatsinging. I assume that's where the "voice/city death" mixup came from, I lie through my teeth.
The "weights" are ferrite beads. Its used to avoid interference in the cables, PS1/2 controllers have them, many old USB cables too. There is a type of ferrite bead you can use on a PCB as well.
You will be having them on all of your cables if there is a ham radio operator nearby 😀 they are still very useful if you play around with radio equipment.
Knuckles the Echidna as a ham operator I very much know what you’re talking about. Started out with cb and the base station I had at the time would turn on touch lamps in my house. Very annoying putting ferrite beads on everything. My voice also went through perfectly on my mother’s computer speakers. Very annoying but was fun to mess with my brother lol.
There was some music software from Korg (a major keyboard/synth manufacturer) on the DS. Don't know how good it is; looks too complex for a music muggle like me.
You have to bear in mind that most kids didn't have phones when they had Gameboys. Especially in 2002. I definitely couldn't have afforded an MP3 player, so something like this would have been cool to have. I image the voice removal would be fairly simple. Have you ever accidentally pulled out your headphones and the voice disappears but you can still hear the song?
Well, in 2002 you would have had a separate MP3 player, I DID have a phone and I don't remember it being much use for mp3s, I had to have a separate device. Even the cheap ripoff stuff was easily 30£ back then(I paid about that for a Chinese mp3 player), so I can see the appeal, especially as a gift someone could get for a child.
yep, all they do on the voice removal thing is remove the sum of both channels, as it assumes the voice is all in the middle. Obviously, with mono sounds you hear nothing.
In 2007 you could get an mp3 player with a screen for $17 it also had an sd card for unlimited storage. I consider anyone who bought an ipod shuffle to be an idiot especially since they where over 70 bucks By screen i mean a clock or calculator type but at least you could see what music you where playing
Those "weights" on the aux chord are ferrite cores. There's powdered iron in there, which is used to reduce noise. They do this to older USB cables and such. You might find them as "tumors" attached to a USB cable!
@@flp322 whenever you pass electricity through a cable it generates a magnetic field, the magnetic cores help to keep the signal you want separated from the magnetic noise that you don't.
@@flp322 It's for noise isolation. The cable technology wasn't very shielded fro outside "bad signals", so they used an inductor like that to filter or "streamline" the signal. It supposedly helps with responsiveness and false inputs.
We have one of those, but it was sold in America, and it was called the GBA Jukebox; it also included the Compact Flash memory card, and has the same buttons as that one you have there; ours came in black, though.
There was another MP3 player made by Nintendo later on for GBA. The Play-Yan. It was made by Nintendo themselves and came out in 2005. There was even Mario 1 sprites animations in the menu. Barely bigger than a regular GBA cartridge and it worked with SD cards. I tried getting one on Ebay for some time but now they are getting rare and the price is just too high.
There's also another Official MP3 player by Nintendo as well, the Nintendo MP3 player. It is compatible with all GBA devices (despite nintendo lying on the box that it's incompatible with the original and SP models) and the DS and DS Lite
4:00 "you can remove the voice from a song?" kinda. i've seen those functions implemented, usually they hope that the various music instruments are spread out over the stereo but the vocals are exactly centered. then you can subtract one channel from the other, and it cancels out. also cancels out any instruments that happened to be on both channels tho. and it leaves you with mono output. 5:40 those weights are "ferrite cores" (pipes made out of an iron compound that interacts with magnetic fields), through which the cable is coiled one or two times, helps remove any radio interference the cable might pick up by "eating up" the magnetic field those create.
I like how you're reviewing all the gba accessories i used to want as a kid. There was also one called the game duck, that let you play your GBA in the rain... No reason why. It's hard to find it though
Found one for ya www.ebay.com/i/303736144814?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=303736144814&targetid=935083617747&device=m&mktype=pla&googleloc=9030106&poi=&campaignid=10829254299&mkgroupid=109161374840&rlsatarget=pla-935083617747&abcId=9300396&merchantid=6296724&gclid=Cj0KCQiAqdP9BRDVARIsAGSZ8An6L3uw7QHCPH_kKSOVD5nCoyQPqtc_ZSfTFuaR8I5BErK_r12NeGkaAulkEALw_wcB
There was a waterproof case for the DS too that claimed to protect it up to 50ft below. It looked thick and plastic, I can’t find it anywhere online though, I remember seeing it in a magazine in either the late 00’s or the early 10’s….
@@Darthblaker7474 Nice! I used mine with my SP and it was great, best way to carry multimedia in your pocket pre-smarphone days! I ended up selling it, which I regret now.
Crazy thing is, at the time Nintendo had the GBA SP released, Sony had either just released the PSP or was about to release it, and the PSP could play movies, read E-Books, and play MP3 files on top of playing games and surf the net.
Especially since they are often used for digital high speed cables so their effective bandstop frequency would likely be in the MHz, well above the audible range.
I believe this was actually sold in North America at some point, under the name GBA Jukebox. I think that they started selling them around 2003 outside of Japan, but I'm not sure if it was only a North America distribution, or if it was worldwide
It's just quite interesting because the way the Gameboy plays sound means that it wouldn't be able to play music normally, hence why it has its own headphone jack and speaker. It's pretty cool that they actually managed to make something like this.
@@jaolmu while the GB/GBC only have some wave/noise channels (just look up how they did the "pikachu" sound in pokemon yellow, it's really a pain :P), the GBA actually has PCM, but only in 8bit 32kHz and using a very small 16-byte buffer, so it's both bad quality and prone to buffer issues if you can't provide new data to it constantly (which with MP3 means you gotta decode in advance into a larger buffer and then dripfeed it to the GBA) this is probably why using the builtin GBA speaker sounds way worse than the headphone jack on the cartridge, they have a dedicated audio chip builtin for that (they needed one anyway for the recording, and many have both features in once).
@@nonchip yeah exactly, and yeah I saw the video of the Pikachu sound. It's pretty mad how innovative they had the be back then to get stuff to work which is so simple nowadays
I remember road trips being a pain in the ass as a kid because of all the separate electronics I had to bring with me. This would have been amazing to have so I could record the music from my cassettes and CDs and not have to worry about bringing a separate player.
0:57 - "It doesn't seem they were ever released outside of Japan." It was released in the USA as the Gamester GBA Jukebox distributed by Radica. Despite Radica's reputation as the purveyor of crappy TV games, it remained officially licensed. My local pawn shop has one presumably new in package for $35 USD. Been there a few years at least! I did notice that the compact flash card was 4x larger (32MB versus 8MB). The karaoke mode is also intact. The way it works is that the voice is often the same across both stereo channels where the music has more stereo separation so it cancels out frequencies that are the same on both channels. I remember a WinAMP plugin that did this over 20 years ago. :)
I'd love to see you do a comparison between the music recorder MP3, the Nintendo MP3 player brought out in 2006 here and the official play Yan micro from Japan. That would be awesome 😁
btw elliot, the live translation thingy isn't really good. Using the "scan" functionality in the app and highlighting the text gives you a much better, more accurate translation
Those “weights” on the auxiliary cable are to eliminate electromagnetic interference. That is probably the highest quality auxiliary cable you’ve ever seen.
This is when I was living in Japan. There it was more the era of Minidisc players, but you did see CD players occasionally. This would have been competing with MD recorders, but the price point would have been much, much lower. Good for kids. I like it.
keep in mind that the iPod in 2002 was selling well but need an iBook/iMac to connect to obtain music, and my guess that they made it as an affordable alternative (possibly since flash storage was super complicated to do) to play via the gameboy.
you do know mp3 players have been around since the 80's. and more popular 90's. apple didn't invent the mp3 player which is what the ipod is. i don't know why people act liek the ipod is this great thing when it does nothing new really compared to all the other mp3 players that been around.
I actually actively wanted something like this as a kid. I had one of those Sony portable CD players. "portable". it skipped if you some much as walked while listening. But I ended up winning an original iPod shuffle as a prize for a fundraiser during jr. high school and that was that.
The "weights" on the aux cable are ferrite beads for noise reduction. The same kind used for most DC power supplies (that weighted cilinder usually next to the end plug).
that weighted thing is a ferrite (magnetic) rings, over cables in order to suppress noise and filter out unwanted external interference. They are often placed over USB cables.
Vocal removers like that typically remove any mono audio (that's playing the same on both sides). Since lead vocals are typically in mono, it can work for a lot of songs. However, if there's any stereo separation at all, those bits will still be there. For instance, if there's any stereo reverb or chorus on the vocals, it'll remove the main mono audio but leave the stereo echos, etc. And if there's any vocal harmonies, those are typically separated in stereo as well, so those won't get removed either. Also, sometimes the drums (or other instruments) are recorded in mono, so you might lose those too.
That nes SP takes me back. I remember before he passed away my dad bought me that for my birthday. I loved that thing so much. I remember how heartbroken I was as a kid when I lost it in a move. To this day I miss that thing.
There's a GBA video player that only works on the GBA SP and the GBM since the GBA doesn't transfer enough energy through the cartidge slot, so because of that, the cartridge has a headphone jack. If you want to check that out, watch the DYKG where he talks about obscure GBA facts, right at the end of the video if I do remember Edit: After a bit of research, I saw that the cartridge is called Play Yan, it plays music and videos, it only works on GBA SP, GBM, DS and DS Lite. You should check it out! Thanks!
This came out the year after the first iPod was released. Pretty awesome to have an mp3 on your Gameboy that early! Trick kit! Thanks for the Sendico hookup too! My retirement fund is quickly dwindling.
For a second I thought you were playing One More Time by Daft Punk, then just realized the song was a sample in it. Really caught me off guard for a bit there!
5:41 Those weights are most likely ferrite beads. Any wire can act as a radio antenna, and this can add unwanted noise to your audio track, or even create transmissions that can be picked by other neighbouring devices. In some areas of the world, they are required to prevent the creation of electromagnetic interference. Very important in densely populated areas. In short, these ferrite beads make use of the properties of electromagnetism to take high frequency noise and convert it to heat.
@@lillyclarity9699 Yes, 2002. But system information leaks are well known before consoles are released. PSP was announced E3 2003 and released 2004. Before it's release, we already knew what to expect. TV Tuner for GBA was released towards end of 2002, unsure about this one. Maybe it was 2002, maybe it was after... Maybe I am wrong, but I'm pretty sure these companies knew what the PSP would have before their 2003 E3 announcement.
@@phunkymunky7210 This was at a time when anything that had to do with MP3 was super hyped. They didn't need to anticipate the PSP to release a product like this.
Yes!!!! I was excited to see this strange device now here it is. Also just wanted to say thanks Elliot for the recommendation of getting Solar Striker I bought a month ago and can't stop playing it's me new all time favorite
Hey there was an english release of this. It was call the gba Jukebox. Really hard to find tho. I can see there are alot of the Japanese ones going around. Great vids man keep it up!
Some suggestions for the next time you make a video about media players or similar: -Try to connect the device out (or the gameboy headphone out) to the camera. If your camera doesn't have that option, just connect it to the line in of your computer/laptop and use a good audio program like audacity to record the audio. -There are extremely cheap USB multi-card readers that have compactflash slots. You can use one to download the files to your computer. -It would have been fun and informative to know if you can put your onw MP3 files in it from a computer. -Also it would be interesting to know what are the technical specifications of the MP3 created with that (format, bitrate, frequency, stereo or mono, etc) -If you want to use music for testing this kind of stuff and you don't want your video to have copyright problems, just pick any music track from the "UA-cam audio library". All the stuff found on this library is to be used 100% free on UA-cam.
I had one of these when I lived in tenerife. The local vendors had a bunch of Ali express stuff and every game was a repro. Easiest way to tell was having an esrb rating on the box in a pal region. As for the product itself, it was before the ipod was as accessible or even known. So cheap mp3 players were the route to go if you wanted to listen to music in class. The radio tuner never really worked and it sounded mono if I remember correctly but you could place mp 3 files.
MP3 player are expensive back in the day, I remember buying a portable VCD player for playing it, and its only last about 3-4 hours of play time with doible AA batteries.
Karaoke used to be a common feature on some of the more expensive cassette decks. It basically just lowers the volume on the average frequencies of human singing.
In Japan at the time this was in stores, most people would've been using MiniDisc for portable music, so I have a hard time believing that very many people would have used this just as a music player. I wonder if the voice recording function was the main draw, as a kind of novelty.
making karaoke versions probably just means removing the central audio track. It doesn't work with all songs, but most. It depends on how the track is mixed.
Great video! Sorry I’m late but interesting little thing! You can still get the ones (not GBA though sadly) with line input for recording, Sony’s dictaphones maybe others brands can record like that and be used as music players and my Victor Reader Stream does it too, very nice for ‘personal’ use recording of Spotify and UA-cam videos!
I believe the “weights” on the AUX cable are actually to eliminate interference or something similar, I remember the PS2 AV cables had that where the wire has a loop on the outside of the plastic.
Today it sounds stupid but back in the day listen to your own music anywhere without internet was a real deal. Those gadgets were cool to mess around, so I think it was a great idea.
In 2002 I used a Sony MiniDisc to listen to music during breaking times at college. MP3 players were just about becoming mainstream, but they either had such small capacity that they almost weren't worth bothering with, or they cost a bomb like the ipod. In any case, I went back to my old cassette player in the end because I didn't like either technologies.
Wow Kemco bought the macventure games to the NES and made the crazy castle series, they're still around making JRPG games for mobile devices and modern consoles!
Those voice cancelling karaoke modes just take advantage of the fact music almost always has voices fully centred, but the instruments pan around the left and right channels. So it inverts the phase of one channel and combines it with the other, to make anything in the centre, like vocals (and sometimes, unfortunately, some instrumentation), get cancelled out of the resulting modified waveform. I think I'm remembering the details there correctly but at the same time my memory's bad enough that I'm very possibly getting some minor details wrong.
The music must be in stereo to make the karaoke feature work. I assume the Karaoke feature works by inverting either left or right channel and combining it with the other channel. What happens is that anything in the center channel gets cancelled off, it's where the vocals are usually placed in the mix but sometimes other instruments were placed in the center mix and also gets cancelled off.
Vocal remover is very hit-or-miss and depends on the main vocals coming out of both speakers evenly or in mono. The way it works is by inverting the phase so the vocals on each channel cancel each other out.
I have the Gameboy movie player. It plays mp3's plus you can create movie files that play on the Gameboy. Can watch a whole movie by converting movie file on pc and put on the compact flash card. It can also read ebooks and some emulators to play Gameboy, Sega master system and nes ROMs.
That actually looks like one of the things you'd find in the Sams Club electronics bin back in the day. They used to have an entire bin devoted entirely of Gameboy Advance rubbish... this shit takes me back.
Like your "アニメ" for a ファミコンとスーパーファミコン for one flash card(s) for any device and great for Xbox 360 for it's really ridiculous plastic glory. Of an 理由のための太ったXbox360 for no reason because 2. However... 私は気にしない私は気にしない私は気にしない🎶
This does not violate any copyright laws in Japan (due to them not existing, or at least in the same way as Europe and the US), therefore the message is not supporting piracy. They would likely remove that portion if it ever came to other regions, however lol
The weights are ferite cores. They nullify electromagnetic interference on the line. On a digital cables like USB or controllers, it's useful. On an analog cable like audio, I'm not sure it helps.
I recently purchased a boxed Innovation Gba mp3 player from Cheapgamestuff on eBay for 12.34 usd free shipping. It doesn't do as much but can display bmp pictures too. Same seller has a gba personal organizer from Innovation. I picked that up too for $8.54
For the karaoke mode I'm pretty sure it's a center channel dipper, or like a mid frequency dipper. I.e. it's just lowering the frequencies of where singing would usually be in, it's not the best method but it can work quite well for certain music.
When you use google translate, forfuture reference on the bottom after you take the picture click "scan" and you'll have an easier time and it also tends to be more accurate
The icons say "Music" "Voice" and "Karaoke" - not sure where city death came from, but that should definitely be an option on any music player.
No one should confuse the "voice" feature with the self destruct mode "city death". You don't want to accidentally level the city when you just want to make a reminder to buy milk.
I think he should just learn katakana it's not that hard. we got a week to start writing with it in lang school in tokyo :D
I think it read the katakana ホ as 市, which is "city". Idk where did the death come from though. Maybeit read デス？
It's a actually a popular vocal Death Metal subgenre in japan, much like Uigurian throatsinging. I assume that's where the "voice/city death" mixup came from, I lie through my teeth.
hehe
funne
The "weights" are ferrite beads. Its used to avoid interference in the cables, PS1/2 controllers have them, many old USB cables too. There is a type of ferrite bead you can use on a PCB as well.
You will be having them on all of your cables if there is a ham radio operator nearby 😀 they are still very useful if you play around with radio equipment.
Knuckles the Echidna as a ham operator I very much know what you’re talking about. Started out with cb and the base station I had at the time would turn on touch lamps in my house. Very annoying putting ferrite beads on everything. My voice also went through perfectly on my mother’s computer speakers. Very annoying but was fun to mess with my brother lol.
I have a PAL n64 controller with a ferret bead as well.
@@SproutyPottedPlant That's exactly why I was about to make that same comment telling him what ferrite chokes are. Lol
- WU2F
@@SproutyPottedPlant Hello, ham radio operator reporting for duty. Can confirm.... ferrite beads are awesome.
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somebody needs to produce an original song using nothing but this
I think that person is you.
This can be used to process audio thru a gameboy, so imagine sampling something thru this.
There was some music software from Korg (a major keyboard/synth manufacturer) on the DS. Don't know how good it is; looks too complex for a music muggle like me.
Lauro Moreno no all I smell is... no it can’t be
SMELLS LIKE BIOTCH IN HERE.
Toxophilite Rusticous I have a friend who has used the Korg DS10 in his production before, it’s fairly easy to pick up
You have to bear in mind that most kids didn't have phones when they had Gameboys. Especially in 2002. I definitely couldn't have afforded an MP3 player, so something like this would have been cool to have.
I image the voice removal would be fairly simple. Have you ever accidentally pulled out your headphones and the voice disappears but you can still hear the song?
Well, in 2002 you would have had a separate MP3 player, I DID have a phone and I don't remember it being much use for mp3s, I had to have a separate device. Even the cheap ripoff stuff was easily 30£ back then(I paid about that for a Chinese mp3 player), so I can see the appeal, especially as a gift someone could get for a child.
yep, all they do on the voice removal thing is remove the sum of both channels, as it assumes the voice is all in the middle.
Obviously, with mono sounds you hear nothing.
In 2007 you could get an mp3 player with a screen for $17 it also had an sd card for unlimited storage. I consider anyone who bought an ipod shuffle to be an idiot especially since they where over 70 bucks
By screen i mean a clock or calculator type but at least you could see what music you where playing
@@bland9876 5 years was a massive difference back then, tech was jumping like mad through the 2000s
@@melskunk still makes you an idiot for buying something for $70 just cuz it has an apple logo on it instead of buying a superior product for $17
Those "weights" on the aux chord are ferrite cores. There's powdered iron in there, which is used to reduce noise. They do this to older USB cables and such. You might find them as "tumors" attached to a USB cable!
I faintly remember seeing them on power cables... any idea why?
@@flp322 whenever you pass electricity through a cable it generates a magnetic field, the magnetic cores help to keep the signal you want separated from the magnetic noise that you don't.
They're on old ps1 controllers too
@@flp322 It's for noise isolation. The cable technology wasn't very shielded fro outside "bad signals", so they used an inductor like that to filter or "streamline" the signal. It supposedly helps with responsiveness and false inputs.
We have one of those, but it was sold in America, and it was called the GBA Jukebox; it also included the Compact Flash memory card, and has the same buttons as that one you have there; ours came in black, though.
Tom Nook has such a menacing aura
He *will* break your legs.
Nom Took all of the money.
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There was another MP3 player made by Nintendo later on for GBA. The Play-Yan. It was made by Nintendo themselves and came out in 2005. There was even Mario 1 sprites animations in the menu. Barely bigger than a regular GBA cartridge and it worked with SD cards. I tried getting one on Ebay for some time but now they are getting rare and the price is just too high.
Try the sendico
There's also another Official MP3 player by Nintendo as well, the Nintendo MP3 player. It is compatible with all GBA devices (despite nintendo lying on the box that it's incompatible with the original and SP models) and the DS and DS Lite
"Is this promoting piracy!?"
Everdrive: Exists
4:00 "you can remove the voice from a song?" kinda. i've seen those functions implemented, usually they hope that the various music instruments are spread out over the stereo but the vocals are exactly centered. then you can subtract one channel from the other, and it cancels out. also cancels out any instruments that happened to be on both channels tho. and it leaves you with mono output.
5:40 those weights are "ferrite cores" (pipes made out of an iron compound that interacts with magnetic fields), through which the cable is coiled one or two times, helps remove any radio interference the cable might pick up by "eating up" the magnetic field those create.
I like how you're reviewing all the gba accessories i used to want as a kid. There was also one called the game duck, that let you play your GBA in the rain... No reason why. It's hard to find it though
I need answers, i visited till page 3 on google and still found nothing, how did it look?
Found one for ya www.ebay.com/i/303736144814?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=303736144814&targetid=935083617747&device=m&mktype=pla&googleloc=9030106&poi=&campaignid=10829254299&mkgroupid=109161374840&rlsatarget=pla-935083617747&abcId=9300396&merchantid=6296724&gclid=Cj0KCQiAqdP9BRDVARIsAGSZ8An6L3uw7QHCPH_kKSOVD5nCoyQPqtc_ZSfTFuaR8I5BErK_r12NeGkaAulkEALw_wcB
@@BagilicousG yeah that's it
@@BagilicousG Pretty neat. Now the question is: is it actually waterproof?
There was a waterproof case for the DS too that claimed to protect it up to 50ft below. It looked thick and plastic, I can’t find it anywhere online though, I remember seeing it in a magazine in either the late 00’s or the early 10’s….
That thing is *hideous*. The Play-Yan was an official MP3 and video player for the GBA and it was superb. 👌
I have one of these, goes well with the Micro
@@Darthblaker7474 Nice! I used mine with my SP and it was great, best way to carry multimedia in your pocket pre-smarphone days! I ended up selling it, which I regret now.
Crazy thing is, at the time Nintendo had the GBA SP released, Sony had either just released the PSP or was about to release it, and the PSP could play movies, read E-Books, and play MP3 files on top of playing games and surf the net.
"For a grand total of 425... yen"
oh, almost had a heart attack there
Weights on the aux are magnetic noise filters, very odd thing to include with it.
Was just about to say. It's for noise canceling.
Electric noise canceling.
Especially since they are often used for digital high speed cables so their effective bandstop frequency would likely be in the MHz, well above the audible range.
Yes, a ferrite choke
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrite_bead
@@havarhen BINGO! they eliminate electrical noise :)
"For commercial use in Japan only"
"Made in the Phillipines"
Getting some confusing vibes here
xD
This is made in the Philippines but we Filipino Game Boy players have no idea about this stuff until now. Why?
They're only allowed to make it, not play it. If someone outside of Japan is caught using it, the Yakuza makes them vanish over night.
I believe this was actually sold in North America at some point, under the name GBA Jukebox. I think that they started selling them around 2003 outside of Japan, but I'm not sure if it was only a North America distribution, or if it was worldwide
Ahh yes my favorite settings: Mugot, City Death, and Carao.
Is it really an evolution, for something with graphics and audio to just play audio?
It's just quite interesting because the way the Gameboy plays sound means that it wouldn't be able to play music normally, hence why it has its own headphone jack and speaker. It's pretty cool that they actually managed to make something like this.
@@jaolmu while the GB/GBC only have some wave/noise channels (just look up how they did the "pikachu" sound in pokemon yellow, it's really a pain :P), the GBA actually has PCM, but only in 8bit 32kHz and using a very small 16-byte buffer, so it's both bad quality and prone to buffer issues if you can't provide new data to it constantly (which with MP3 means you gotta decode in advance into a larger buffer and then dripfeed it to the GBA)
this is probably why using the builtin GBA speaker sounds way worse than the headphone jack on the cartridge, they have a dedicated audio chip builtin for that (they needed one anyway for the recording, and many have both features in once).
@@nonchip yeah exactly, and yeah I saw the video of the Pikachu sound. It's pretty mad how innovative they had the be back then to get stuff to work which is so simple nowadays
Imagine having this in school. You would be the cool kid with that thing.
I remember road trips being a pain in the ass as a kid because of all the separate electronics I had to bring with me. This would have been amazing to have so I could record the music from my cassettes and CDs and not have to worry about bringing a separate player.
0:57 - "It doesn't seem they were ever released outside of Japan." It was released in the USA as the Gamester GBA Jukebox distributed by Radica. Despite Radica's reputation as the purveyor of crappy TV games, it remained officially licensed. My local pawn shop has one presumably new in package for $35 USD. Been there a few years at least! I did notice that the compact flash card was 4x larger (32MB versus 8MB). The karaoke mode is also intact. The way it works is that the voice is often the same across both stereo channels where the music has more stereo separation so it cancels out frequencies that are the same on both channels. I remember a WinAMP plugin that did this over 20 years ago. :)
This was, unironically, my first MP3 player. I recently found it in storage and am listening to music on it right now. Still works!
I'd love to see you do a comparison between the music recorder MP3, the Nintendo MP3 player brought out in 2006 here and the official play Yan micro from Japan. That would be awesome 😁
32 bit versions of all my favourite songs, SCOREEEEE
Hope Toto Africa 64 is revealed at E3.
btw elliot, the live translation thingy isn't really good. Using the "scan" functionality in the app and highlighting the text gives you a much better, more accurate translation
Those “weights” on the auxiliary cable are to eliminate electromagnetic interference. That is probably the highest quality auxiliary cable you’ve ever seen.
the weights on the AUX cord are probably ferrite beads.
This is when I was living in Japan. There it was more the era of Minidisc players, but you did see CD players occasionally. This would have been competing with MD recorders, but the price point would have been much, much lower. Good for kids. I like it.
keep in mind that the iPod in 2002 was selling well but need an iBook/iMac to connect to obtain music, and my guess that they made it as an affordable alternative (possibly since flash storage was super complicated to do) to play via the gameboy.
you do know mp3 players have been around since the 80's. and more popular 90's. apple didn't invent the mp3 player which is what the ipod is. i don't know why people act liek the ipod is this great thing when it does nothing new really compared to all the other mp3 players that been around.
I actually actively wanted something like this as a kid. I had one of those Sony portable CD players. "portable". it skipped if you some much as walked while listening. But I ended up winning an original iPod shuffle as a prize for a fundraiser during jr. high school and that was that.
The "weights" on the aux cable are ferrite beads for noise reduction.
The same kind used for most DC power supplies (that weighted cilinder usually next to the end plug).
This is actually pretty awesome. I would have loved something like this as a kid.
that weighted thing is a ferrite (magnetic) rings, over cables in order to suppress noise and filter out unwanted external interference. They are often placed over USB cables.
You have to show the Nintendo MP3 Player. An official MP3 and ASF Video Player for GBA. In Japan, the name is Play-Yan Micro.
I can't avoid to imagine techmoan with this device. Awesome video.
Vocal removers like that typically remove any mono audio (that's playing the same on both sides). Since lead vocals are typically in mono, it can work for a lot of songs. However, if there's any stereo separation at all, those bits will still be there. For instance, if there's any stereo reverb or chorus on the vocals, it'll remove the main mono audio but leave the stereo echos, etc. And if there's any vocal harmonies, those are typically separated in stereo as well, so those won't get removed either. Also, sometimes the drums (or other instruments) are recorded in mono, so you might lose those too.
So it’s literally just a phase inversion?
I can’t stop watching your videos they’re awesome my dude
That nes SP takes me back. I remember before he passed away my dad bought me that for my birthday. I loved that thing so much. I remember how heartbroken I was as a kid when I lost it in a move. To this day I miss that thing.
There's a GBA video player that only works on the GBA SP and the GBM since the GBA doesn't transfer enough energy through the cartidge slot, so because of that, the cartridge has a headphone jack. If you want to check that out, watch the DYKG where he talks about obscure GBA facts, right at the end of the video if I do remember
Edit: After a bit of research, I saw that the cartridge is called Play Yan, it plays music and videos, it only works on GBA SP, GBM, DS and DS Lite. You should check it out!
Thanks!
I used to have one of these! Could only hold a few songs, but made the long bus ride I had manageable!
Finally!!! I've been waiting, keep it up
Imagine if it has 'Never gonna give you up' included
Rick rolled!
This came out the year after the first iPod was released. Pretty awesome to have an mp3 on your Gameboy that early! Trick kit! Thanks for the Sendico hookup too! My retirement fund is quickly dwindling.
I remember buying this from a Best buy wayyyyy back then when I was a kid. Pretty cool to see an unboxing of this very nifty and obscure item
This device is actually really awesome :D Didn't expect it to have such a good interface either and all of that on a game boy!
For a second I thought you were playing One More Time by Daft Punk, then just realized the song was a sample in it. Really caught me off guard for a bit there!
5:41 Those weights are most likely ferrite beads. Any wire can act as a radio antenna, and this can add unwanted noise to your audio track, or even create transmissions that can be picked by other neighbouring devices. In some areas of the world, they are required to prevent the creation of electromagnetic interference. Very important in densely populated areas.
In short, these ferrite beads make use of the properties of electromagnetism to take high frequency noise and convert it to heat.
Gonna be honest, I like because of the beginning
To this day we still don’t know why this exists
Let me tell you about the TV tuner for GBA, it exists, it goes for 200 USD or more on Ebay. It does not work since most stuff is digital now.
Probably to compete with the PSP, since it had video and mp3 player.
@@phunkymunky7210 In 2002? when the PSP was released in 2004? lmao
@@lillyclarity9699 Yes, 2002. But system information leaks are well known before consoles are released. PSP was announced E3 2003 and released 2004. Before it's release, we already knew what to expect. TV Tuner for GBA was released towards end of 2002, unsure about this one.
Maybe it was 2002, maybe it was after...
Maybe I am wrong, but I'm pretty sure these companies knew what the PSP would have before their 2003 E3 announcement.
@@phunkymunky7210 This was at a time when anything that had to do with MP3 was super hyped. They didn't need to anticipate the PSP to release a product like this.
Yes!!!! I was excited to see this strange device now here it is. Also just wanted to say thanks Elliot for the recommendation of getting Solar Striker I bought a month ago and can't stop playing it's me new all time favorite
This still looks super cool to me even at 26 years old
On the 3DS sound app there is also a Karaoke option you can toggle on and off.
I could see my self rocking Linkin park on this.
Hey there was an english release of this. It was call the gba Jukebox. Really hard to find tho. I can see there are alot of the Japanese ones going around. Great vids man keep it up!
Those things at the end of the AUX cable aren’t weighs, those are ferrite noise chokes used to reduce high frequency noise in electrical signals.
There was a black version of this launched in the US. Same product if I'm not mistaken. Got mine from Best buy, but sold it a few years ago
GBA 1w speaker in mono "it doesn't sound too good through the speaker" about right.
I feel like there will be an eventual cross over with this channel, and Techmoan... I await that day.
Same
the "weights" are ferrite beads/rings which are used to reduce noise in a cable by mitigating static or other interference of the cable
Entertaining and informative. Great video, thanks for giving me free entertainment :)
Keep it up man
"Made in the Philippines"...wait what? Im a big fan of your videos. Hello Elliot from the Philippines.
Some suggestions for the next time you make a video about media players or similar:
-Try to connect the device out (or the gameboy headphone out) to the camera. If your camera doesn't have that option, just connect it to the line in of your computer/laptop and use a good audio program like audacity to record the audio.
-There are extremely cheap USB multi-card readers that have compactflash slots. You can use one to download the files to your computer.
-It would have been fun and informative to know if you can put your onw MP3 files in it from a computer.
-Also it would be interesting to know what are the technical specifications of the MP3 created with that (format, bitrate, frequency, stereo or mono, etc)
-If you want to use music for testing this kind of stuff and you don't want your video to have copyright problems, just pick any music track from the "UA-cam audio library". All the stuff found on this library is to be used 100% free on UA-cam.
I had one of these when I lived in tenerife. The local vendors had a bunch of Ali express stuff and every game was a repro. Easiest way to tell was having an esrb rating on the box in a pal region.
As for the product itself, it was before the ipod was as accessible or even known. So cheap mp3 players were the route to go if you wanted to listen to music in class.
The radio tuner never really worked and it sounded mono if I remember correctly but you could place mp 3 files.
MP3 player are expensive back in the day, I remember buying a portable VCD player for playing it, and its only last about 3-4 hours of play time with doible AA batteries.
ferrite chokes on each end to eliminiate electrical noise :)
Karaoke used to be a common feature on some of the more expensive cassette decks. It basically just lowers the volume on the average frequencies of human singing.
In Japan at the time this was in stores, most people would've been using MiniDisc for portable music, so I have a hard time believing that very many people would have used this just as a music player. I wonder if the voice recording function was the main draw, as a kind of novelty.
The "weights" are magnetic filters to prevent signal interference.
making karaoke versions probably just means removing the central audio track. It doesn't work with all songs, but most. It depends on how the track is mixed.
I used to have that. WHen i was 13-14. I also had the camera for the GBA. Damn that was sooo long ago.
Great video! Sorry I’m late but interesting little thing! You can still get the ones (not GBA though sadly) with line input for recording, Sony’s dictaphones maybe others brands can record like that and be used as music players and my Victor Reader Stream does it too, very nice for ‘personal’ use recording of Spotify and UA-cam videos!
I recognized the KEMCO logo instantly. Fond memories of that... Crazy Chase.
I believe the “weights” on the AUX cable are actually to eliminate interference or something similar, I remember the PS2 AV cables had that where the wire has a loop on the outside of the plastic.
Today it sounds stupid but back in the day listen to your own music anywhere without internet was a real deal. Those gadgets were cool to mess around, so I think it was a great idea.
In 2002 I used a Sony MiniDisc to listen to music during breaking times at college. MP3 players were just about becoming mainstream, but they either had such small capacity that they almost weren't worth bothering with, or they cost a bomb like the ipod. In any case, I went back to my old cassette player in the end because I didn't like either technologies.
I have one of these. Bought mine at Walmart back in the day. I used it for my Mp3 player for a while. I think I got it around 2003.
Wow Kemco bought the macventure games to the NES and made the crazy castle series, they're still around making JRPG games for mobile devices and modern consoles!
Those voice cancelling karaoke modes just take advantage of the fact music almost always has voices fully centred, but the instruments pan around the left and right channels. So it inverts the phase of one channel and combines it with the other, to make anything in the centre, like vocals (and sometimes, unfortunately, some instrumentation), get cancelled out of the resulting modified waveform. I think I'm remembering the details there correctly but at the same time my memory's bad enough that I'm very possibly getting some minor details wrong.
The music must be in stereo to make the karaoke feature work.
I assume the Karaoke feature works by inverting either left or right channel and combining it with the other channel. What happens is that anything in the center channel gets cancelled off, it's where the vocals are usually placed in the mix but sometimes other instruments were placed in the center mix and also gets cancelled off.
Another great video thanks again 👍
Vocal remover is very hit-or-miss and depends on the main vocals coming out of both speakers evenly or in mono. The way it works is by inverting the phase so the vocals on each channel cancel each other out.
I have the Gameboy movie player. It plays mp3's plus you can create movie files that play on the Gameboy. Can watch a whole movie by converting movie file on pc and put on the compact flash card. It can also read ebooks and some emulators to play Gameboy, Sega master system and nes ROMs.
That actually looks like one of the things you'd find in the Sams Club electronics bin back in the day. They used to have an entire bin devoted entirely of Gameboy Advance rubbish... this shit takes me back.
Yessss been waiting on this one 🤙🤙🤙🤙
We all love your videos
4:04 The 3DS Music Player also can do this.
thats amazing wish i had one back then would of used it all the time
Like your "アニメ" for a ファミコンとスーパーファミコン for one flash card(s) for any device and great for Xbox 360 for it's really ridiculous plastic glory. Of an 理由のための太ったXbox360 for no reason because 2. However...
私は気にしない私は気にしない私は気にしない🎶
That aux cable looks like it has two ferrite beads in it to reduce line noise and reduce feedback.
This does not violate any copyright laws in Japan (due to them not existing, or at least in the same way as Europe and the US), therefore the message is not supporting piracy. They would likely remove that portion if it ever came to other regions, however lol
Great video I loved it!
He should have a We will work it out for ourselves counter.
The weights are ferite cores. They nullify electromagnetic interference on the line. On a digital cables like USB or controllers, it's useful. On an analog cable like audio, I'm not sure it helps.
I had one of these! The US version was black if I remember correctly and the UI was a bit different, I don't remember a karaoke feature 🤔 cool stuff!
I recently purchased a boxed Innovation Gba mp3 player from Cheapgamestuff on eBay for 12.34 usd free shipping. It doesn't do as much but can display bmp pictures too. Same seller has a gba personal organizer from Innovation. I picked that up too for $8.54
I think those "weighs" on the aux cable are ferrite cores. Also I the Google Translate app has a live translation function by using the phone's camera
For the karaoke mode I'm pretty sure it's a center channel dipper, or like a mid frequency dipper. I.e. it's just lowering the frequencies of where singing would usually be in, it's not the best method but it can work quite well for certain music.
I gotta admit, back in 2002 I would have probably loved this thing and probably would have got a ton of use out of it.
When you use google translate, forfuture reference on the bottom after you take the picture click "scan" and you'll have an easier time and it also tends to be more accurate
*What do you call a factory that produces OK products?*
A SatisFactory.
"Weights"
Awesome review.