This is insane, a kid I went to middle school with claimed to be able to play GB games on his PS1 but I never believed him cause it sounded like nonsense. Drew if you happen to read this I'm sorry for doubting you.
The borders appear on Pokémon because Pokémon is a Super Game Boy enhanced game, which means that it has borders in the ROM that the Super Game Boy (An official SNES accessory that's basically the CPU, Memory and card slot from a Game Boy on a SNES cartridge to allow Game Boy on SNES, much like the Game Boy Player for GameCube except it only supports original Game Boy and not Game Boy Color or Game Boy Advance.) displays onscreen.
@melsbacksfriend no you didn't lol. You shouldn't have used it for that much you were going to add in. It made the parenthesis confusing and redundant, not to be disrespectful. I'm just pointing it out.
@@OmabatfartsbruhI guess, but those carts provide colors for use in the GBC system. So perhaps all they meant was to emphasize that this could use those colors also.
@@BlueSatoshithere are also games that run on the DMG but also have color for the CGB. Like Pokémon Gold and Silver, or Link’s Awakening DX. I wonder if this accessory is able to display the CGB colors for those, or if it just does SGB colors and the GameBoy Color support was a misunderstanding or lie.
@@kessiraye01it's about the aspect ratio. Think of the Gameboy as a 4x3 screen, and the N64 and PS1 as 16x12. The game screen that you see on the Gameboy would show the border too if it had a bigger aspect ratio
The borders around the game are a feature of the Super Game Boy, a similar accessory that let you play Game Boy games on the SNES. Probably why this is called _Super GB_ Booster. You could also do things like swap color palettes.
If I remember right, there was a better version released later on by a different side company that didn't have the erase data issue and worked with the full color ones. I believe that both of them worked with leaked devices from back when the PlayStation was going to be tied to the SNES as a disc drive expansion semi-similar to the SEGA-CD was for the Genesis, but the project fell through later in development in favor of the N64. Sony took what they had and improved it to make their own system, and there were several things tied to development tools that Nintendo had made for the prototype that disappeared in transit as it were, often with 3rd party developers who were read in to work on games for that system and were not happy when Nintendo pulled the plug there. So other party manufacturers got their hands on bits and pieces, letting things like that be developed and deployed.
@@LegendStormcrowthe super game boy is not an emulator it's real Gameboy hardware in an SNES cartridge the only issue is due to some of the modifications made to it it has a slight overclock compared to a real DMG-01 which makes it illegal to use in speed running
I had an external mod chip/GameShark combo on my IO port. You started with a real disc and then swapped to the burned one when it got to the GameShark menu.
Never had the gb attachment but when I was a kid in the late 90s dad bought me a mod chip for the playstation. It was awesome. You could burn games onto blank CDs and it would play them with the mod chip. Was totally worth the $50
When I was a kid, I helped my dad work on a project that turned one of the GameSharks they made that went into the parallel port into essentially a removable modchip by overwriting the gameshark with UniROM to play burned games on it without having to disc swap or physically mod it. Was very cool and inspired me as a kid to work on electronics and computers today as an adult. Very neat stuff!
Game Shark was hella fun. For all the young kids out there, it was basically modding but all you could get was infinite lives, invincibility, infinite ammo, that sort of thing. Sometimes, some games, you could unlock stuff for free and generally see things you might have never gotten to experience due to a lack of an excuse to experiment, skill limitations, ect. Once you could mess around in 2 player split screen and not hurt each other by being bad it relieved a lot of tension and you could have so much more fun.
It had a file browser which also let you see pictures and video files. Considering most families did not have a PC at home this was a big deal on seeing what's inside the disk.
Messing around in debug mode sometimes was cool, but would also mess with your games. Growing up with the Game Genie, it was kind of weird when accessories like these started to fade into obscurity.
@@mikemcgannvoiceover I assume there's still probably people able to do this sort of thing on the PC. But I miss being able to mess around with infinite health or consequence free gaming. What really gets my jollies is finding out how to 'make my own codes' via the ZSNES emulation. I was able to play True Lies (SNES) and have unlimited civilian kills. Accidentally finding secret code messages in Twisted Metal 2.
Much like using CheatEngine on PC games, except not quite as sophisticated. Most cheats just found the memory address where health or ammo was stored and froze it at a chosen value. I remember finding my own codes while following the “How to Hack Like a Pro” VHS tape that came with it. The N64 one even had a serial port where you could load cheats on or off the unit via some PC software. What a time.
I had a J-Tag PS1 as a kid. My dad knew an Indian guy who he would buy burned games for 4 bucks and is how I played so many games as a kid. It worked with a chip that plugged in that port and you had to install a spring that was always pressing down on the safety thing that told the PS1 the cover was closed. It also worked with Gameshark cheat codes and had a debug mode. I remember being absolutely freaked out running around in the FF7 debug room. Characters just standing in a line that said random things or did random things that I didn't understand what it did. I still remember thinking it was like Hell for the characters.
Black shelled Color games, not the clear ones. The black shell color games were compatible with the original and pocket/light gameboys whereas the clear shell ones only worked with the GB Color itself. That compatibility translates to this peripheral
If I remember correctly, the GBC had double the VRAM of the DMG. Crystal and all the other clear shelled games were optimized for the expanded memory bank
@@729MendicantTide Yep, 4x the system memory of the original GameBoy (32 Kbytes vs. 8 Kbytes), but the GameBoy Color also can run at a faster 8 MHz clock speed and uses a color TFT display (relatively new tech at the time) rather than a simpler dot-matrix LCD. Does make one wonder if you could somehow make a fancy adapter that would play GBC games in black&white on a original system... Perhaps by overclocking the original system, adding some additional ram to the cartridge, and using a custom memory bank controller chip.
@@djhowell5273 So the border is programmed into those old cartridges and utilized whenever the rom is being run on a resolution higher than the gameboys essentially?
@@FalseCode something like that, I'd love to see someone do a deep dive on it, Killer Instinct GB also has a unique screen so im sure a few others do as well! Im not sure how the game knows but your explanation sounds accurate!
that banner is programmed into the gameboy cartridge, its meant to be used when plugged into a Super Nintendo running a Super GameBoy. Pokemon Stadium re-used the banner from the Super Game Boy.
The absolute best thing about the original ps1 was that it had slammin audio quality. Im not kidding, plug it in to a halfway decent stereo and the sound quality rivals mamy other disc players.
The reason this happens is because the Booster wasnt made to hold data. Therefore whenever a cartridge that held save data was inserted it would get removed so the console could run the game. Foreign save data from another device doesnt mix well
Sending this to my nephews 😂 waaaaaaaah yeah my console didnt cost a car note and wasnt required the internet to work just some game cds(some yall dont know about discs too this day)...
You had to have one of the original early models to be able to enjoy this hack!!! I had the very first original model, which, for the components that it had on the back of it, was the best, but I ended up using game shark codes, (which also went in the same parallel I/O slot) to play as dark tooth from twisted metal two and while it worked, and was awesome, the codes, corrupted by PlayStation and I would have to take it apart and clean it out, laser, and everything just to get it to play some games again for a few minutes, but I ended up getting another one in 1999, the Dual shock version!! I’m surprised somebody finally made a video on this little peripheral, I always wanted one and used to see them in the back section of game magazines where they showed import stuff..
Im surprised everybody talks about this accessory and the Gameshark/Action Replay accessories but nobody talks about the VCD Player accessory. The VCD Player was the same height as the Playstation but long and not only did it plug into the expansion port but also plugged into the AV out, then you'd have to plug the AV cables into the back of the VCD Player and it would allow you to play movies on the Playstation, the quality of the movies was pretty crappy being VCD but it was pretty cool for the time.
Well shit, I had a feeling this was coming but that don’t mean it hurts less. Thank you Mat and Steph for all the years, this was not what I was expecting when I woke up
When i was a kid about 10 the year 2000. We had a big chunky plugin thing that allowed us to play Videocds like dvds but copied onto cd. it had a tonne of codes for alot of games aswel
With the game enhancer, thats what it was called. You would put a thumbtack in the button on the inside so the psx wouldnt know you opened the cover, turn the psx on with a real game, load the game enhancer, select cheats if you wanted, switch the disc out with the cd-r copy(that you copied from blockbuster using cdrwin at 1x speed) and press start. Ahhh memories
It might also only work with a few models of PlayStation. There were a lot of iterations. The 9000 models dropped the parallel port as well as the mini PSOne variant.
Was your dad in the military? My stepdad was in the Navy and he came back from Westpac one year with a bunch of copied games and a chip for my PS. I ended up selling it all a few years ago 😢
@@ih8suvz yup USAF he would go tdy to different countries and his buddies knew where all the black markets were to buy cds movies games, my favorite was a game boy game he got me with like 300 games on it. Way before hacking and loading your own Roms onto things. Good Ol days
tbh this is also on the parents part too. I grew up in the 90's and that's the start of console or computer gaming era. My parents set rules on which time and when we can play. They reward us by if we study hard, do our chores that we can play to our hearts content without interruption. They taught us to work hard since they are working hard to to provide us our need.
i have a "gamedoctor" for that port in the back that allows you to play burned games. got it in 98 or 99. ive never seen this gameboy player. thats cool. i have a supergameboy for the snes and a gamecube add on for the gbc/gba games, .. pretty cool knowing this exists though.
It's honestly kind of impressive that they got this to work without needing supporting software on a game disc. Clearly that port is far more than a mere parallel I/O port.
I remember when I was a kid I got a chance to go to Singapore where I bought a box like that to play all bootleg games. I was playing GTA 1 forever on that ps1
As most know the history, Sony used to work for Nintendo, and when they were developing the N64 Sony wanted to use discs (they made a "Nintendo Playstation" prototype) but Nintendo wanted to keep cartridges. Maybe the GB adapter thing is something from back then.
I still have a bootleg contraption, no idea what it’s called because it’s all in German. But you put it into the back of the PlayStation and keep the disk compartment open with something. You put a real game in, it spins and stops right when it knows it’s read a game, but not what game it read. Then you can put in any ripped game on a cd and play it perfectly normally.
I had a adapter back in like 2003-2004 I think that I ordered from Japan and used it to play a bunch of Japanese PlayStation games I would order when I realized they had all the good titles.
Ive been going through the comments and no one has mentioned this, so fun fact. Nintendo helped Sony create the ps1. They partnered with Sony to create a CD add on for the N64 but pulled out at the last second deciding instead to go with Phillips, Sony was already too far into development, so they decided to make their own game console, so in other words Nintendo created one of their biggest competitors.
The ironic part is that Nintendo is the whole reason PlayStation exists. Nintendo wanted to move away from cartridges and start using discs, so they hired Sony to develop a system that could read game data from a disc. Sony developed the system but Nintendo opted to continue using cartridges and canceled their deal with Sony. Then Sony decided to go ahead and use their new system in their own game console and hence the PlayStation was born
I remember my friend who used to see his family in the Philippines would bring back these boxes that would plug into that port and it had almost every ps1 game every made. That's when I learned that the Philippines is the land of the worlds best pirates if you catch my drift
For me the PS1 was the best game system ever made ....the library was fantastic....and you didn't need the internet to make a game a good one .... And the power up screen will never be matched
Wow. I did not know this. I had the one for SNES and it would also have a frame for Pokemon games and iirc you could edit the frame and change the color pallete for the game. And obviously everyone knew about the one for Gamecube.
Never ever knew this until now 11/26/2023😲 I used to have the old ps1 and if I knew this back then I would have bought the adapter to play Gameboy games and would have bought the adapter not only for myself but everyone else I knew that had a PS1😁👍
That Port could also be used for devices used to play games from other regions. One of the devices was called Dragon Hacker and looked and functioned very similar to a game shark. The device also had a feature for cheats like the gameshark. If memory serves the same codes would work for it too.
I played TF outta Pokemon with the N64 controller transfer pak. Pokemon Stadium would also even let you play the game at x3 speed. I can't tell you how many playthroughs I went through...
I had this and the game shark that plugged in. I used the game shark way more than this though because i preferred to play the game boy games on the game boy
This is insane, a kid I went to middle school with claimed to be able to play GB games on his PS1 but I never believed him cause it sounded like nonsense. Drew if you happen to read this I'm sorry for doubting you.
Drew I’m pinning this comment for you!
Drew better see this!
Never let em know your next move
HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE POLY STATION
Frfr
Is this Joe from NY?
I remember this thing and that's exactly what it did back then. Wiped all my games 😤
That sucks~!
no it didnt
YOU DID WHEN YOU USED IT
@@JayBoyModzhey GB version of Metroid ran just fine ,
You need a memory card to run with it as well.
I don't want to know how many friendships did this gadget destroy because of that quirk
The borders appear on Pokémon because Pokémon is a Super Game Boy enhanced game, which means that it has borders in the ROM that the Super Game Boy (An official SNES accessory that's basically the CPU, Memory and card slot from a Game Boy on a SNES cartridge to allow Game Boy on SNES, much like the Game Boy Player for GameCube except it only supports original Game Boy and not Game Boy Color or Game Boy Advance.) displays onscreen.
My super game boy goes into my supaboy portable snes so i can do the "nintenception"
You need to learn how to use parenthases properly.
@@jayhughes3843 I do lol
@melsbacksfriend no you didn't lol. You shouldn't have used it for that much you were going to add in. It made the parenthesis confusing and redundant, not to be disrespectful. I'm just pointing it out.
@@jesusrodriguez3728 I meant that I need to learn
GB color it means the black carts which were forwards compatible from GB to Color
so... dmg games
@@OmabatfartsbruhI guess, but those carts provide colors for use in the GBC system. So perhaps all they meant was to emphasize that this could use those colors also.
@@jnhartonThe GBC BIOS simply checks the ROM header against an internal database, and assigns a palette based on that.
Forward compatible
Think about that for a sec
@@BlueSatoshithere are also games that run on the DMG but also have color for the CGB. Like Pokémon Gold and Silver, or Link’s Awakening DX.
I wonder if this accessory is able to display the CGB colors for those, or if it just does SGB colors and the GameBoy Color support was a misunderstanding or lie.
It erased your Pokemon save? That feels like a crime
I wanna know why that happens even though there's a dedicated banner 🤔
@@kessiraye01because that banner was programmed onto the cartridge. It was able to be played in pokemon stadium on the N64 after all.
@@lightyagami3492 yeah but it bothering to access the banner even though it can't function with game saves is what confuses me
He needs to change the battery in that game
@@kessiraye01it's about the aspect ratio. Think of the Gameboy as a 4x3 screen, and the N64 and PS1 as 16x12. The game screen that you see on the Gameboy would show the border too if it had a bigger aspect ratio
The borders around the game are a feature of the Super Game Boy, a similar accessory that let you play Game Boy games on the SNES. Probably why this is called _Super GB_ Booster. You could also do things like swap color palettes.
I suspect it ran a GB emulator like the Super GB was.
you can also draw things mid game
If I remember right, there was a better version released later on by a different side company that didn't have the erase data issue and worked with the full color ones.
I believe that both of them worked with leaked devices from back when the PlayStation was going to be tied to the SNES as a disc drive expansion semi-similar to the SEGA-CD was for the Genesis, but the project fell through later in development in favor of the N64.
Sony took what they had and improved it to make their own system, and there were several things tied to development tools that Nintendo had made for the prototype that disappeared in transit as it were, often with 3rd party developers who were read in to work on games for that system and were not happy when Nintendo pulled the plug there.
So other party manufacturers got their hands on bits and pieces, letting things like that be developed and deployed.
@@LegendStormcrowthe super game boy is not an emulator it's real Gameboy hardware in an SNES cartridge the only issue is due to some of the modifications made to it it has a slight overclock compared to a real DMG-01 which makes it illegal to use in speed running
@@evileyeballThere's a modchip to fix the timing now, FWIW.
Just wait till Nintendo sues them as well 💀💀💀
This channel makes me want to save up and make a collection of all my fav old consoles and games.
Go for it Bro.
This is peak "because we can" mentality
I had an external mod chip/GameShark combo on my IO port.
You started with a real disc and then swapped to the burned one when it got to the GameShark menu.
I remember I had an Action Replay for my Nintendo DS Lite…..good times
Never had the gb attachment but when I was a kid in the late 90s dad bought me a mod chip for the playstation. It was awesome. You could burn games onto blank CDs and it would play them with the mod chip. Was totally worth the $50
When I was a kid, I helped my dad work on a project that turned one of the GameSharks they made that went into the parallel port into essentially a removable modchip by overwriting the gameshark with UniROM to play burned games on it without having to disc swap or physically mod it. Was very cool and inspired me as a kid to work on electronics and computers today as an adult. Very neat stuff!
I used that exact parallel IO port for my GameShark. Wow what a flashback I didn't know other accessories were used for it.
Game Shark was hella fun. For all the young kids out there, it was basically modding but all you could get was infinite lives, invincibility, infinite ammo, that sort of thing. Sometimes, some games, you could unlock stuff for free and generally see things you might have never gotten to experience due to a lack of an excuse to experiment, skill limitations, ect.
Once you could mess around in 2 player split screen and not hurt each other by being bad it relieved a lot of tension and you could have so much more fun.
It had a file browser which also let you see pictures and video files. Considering most families did not have a PC at home this was a big deal on seeing what's inside the disk.
Messing around in debug mode sometimes was cool, but would also mess with your games. Growing up with the Game Genie, it was kind of weird when accessories like these started to fade into obscurity.
@@mikemcgannvoiceover I assume there's still probably people able to do this sort of thing on the PC.
But I miss being able to mess around with infinite health or consequence free gaming.
What really gets my jollies is finding out how to 'make my own codes' via the ZSNES emulation.
I was able to play True Lies (SNES) and have unlimited civilian kills.
Accidentally finding secret code messages in Twisted Metal 2.
Much like using CheatEngine on PC games, except not quite as sophisticated. Most cheats just found the memory address where health or ammo was stored and froze it at a chosen value.
I remember finding my own codes while following the “How to Hack Like a Pro” VHS tape that came with it. The N64 one even had a serial port where you could load cheats on or off the unit via some PC software. What a time.
I had a J-Tag PS1 as a kid. My dad knew an Indian guy who he would buy burned games for 4 bucks and is how I played so many games as a kid. It worked with a chip that plugged in that port and you had to install a spring that was always pressing down on the safety thing that told the PS1 the cover was closed. It also worked with Gameshark cheat codes and had a debug mode. I remember being absolutely freaked out running around in the FF7 debug room. Characters just standing in a line that said random things or did random things that I didn't understand what it did. I still remember thinking it was like Hell for the characters.
I had a vcd player before dvd existed on a ps1 to watch movies , it was OP
I remember my dad had a gameshark he always had in that port. Memories
Black shelled Color games, not the clear ones. The black shell color games were compatible with the original and pocket/light gameboys whereas the clear shell ones only worked with the GB Color itself. That compatibility translates to this peripheral
If I remember correctly, the GBC had double the VRAM of the DMG.
Crystal and all the other clear shelled games were optimized for the expanded memory bank
@@729MendicantTide Yep, 4x the system memory of the original GameBoy (32 Kbytes vs. 8 Kbytes), but the GameBoy Color also can run at a faster 8 MHz clock speed and uses a color TFT display (relatively new tech at the time) rather than a simpler dot-matrix LCD.
Does make one wonder if you could somehow make a fancy adapter that would play GBC games in black&white on a original system... Perhaps by overclocking the original system, adding some additional ram to the cartridge, and using a custom memory bank controller chip.
Someone needs make an updated version of this that saves the game
A smartphone and RetroArch will do that.
Imagine the Super GB Booster Advance being a thing!
Dude that’s what that port was for in the back of my PS1 god the countless Saturdays wondering
I wish information was easily accessible back then so more of us could have tried things like this
It was only possible with first generation PS1, in late models the parallel port was removed.
Isn't that the exact same banner pokemon stadium had for playing gameboy pokemon? What the heck???
It was originally on the super game boy
@@djhowell5273 So the border is programmed into those old cartridges and utilized whenever the rom is being run on a resolution higher than the gameboys essentially?
@@FalseCode something like that, I'd love to see someone do a deep dive on it, Killer Instinct GB also has a unique screen so im sure a few others do as well! Im not sure how the game knows but your explanation sounds accurate!
that banner is programmed into the gameboy cartridge, its meant to be used when plugged into a Super Nintendo running a Super GameBoy. Pokemon Stadium re-used the banner from the Super Game Boy.
Imagine losing your precious save file to this thing 😨
The absolute best thing about the original ps1 was that it had slammin audio quality. Im not kidding, plug it in to a halfway decent stereo and the sound quality rivals mamy other disc players.
Well it was made by Sony in the 90s after all.
audiophile BS, it has the same sound quality as any CD player
@@OmegaLaser-xy4ip nope.
Absolutely false. Thing sounded awesome.
Try again in a double-blind test@@dougmasters4561
I still have mine when I got it as a kid!
They had a device called goldfinger that allowed backups and had cheat functions that attached to the IO port too
The reason this happens is because the Booster wasnt made to hold data. Therefore whenever a cartridge that held save data was inserted it would get removed so the console could run the game. Foreign save data from another device doesnt mix well
I remember when Rerez reviewed this, they could barely get their unit to play anything.
The art on the box is amazing it shows the product its silver and it has 7 grand-dad on it
the banner is the borders for the Super gameboy!
I knew they looked familiar!
Sending this to my nephews 😂 waaaaaaaah yeah my console didnt cost a car note and wasnt required the internet to work just some game cds(some yall dont know about discs too this day)...
You had to have one of the original early models to be able to enjoy this hack!!!
I had the very first original model, which, for the components that it had on the back of it, was the best, but I ended up using game shark codes, (which also went in the same parallel I/O slot) to play as dark tooth from twisted metal two and while it worked, and was awesome, the codes, corrupted by PlayStation and I would have to take it apart and clean it out, laser, and everything just to get it to play some games again for a few minutes, but I ended up getting another one in 1999, the Dual shock version!!
I’m surprised somebody finally made a video on this little peripheral, I always wanted one and used to see them in the back section of game magazines where they showed import stuff..
Im surprised everybody talks about this accessory and the Gameshark/Action Replay accessories but nobody talks about the VCD Player accessory.
The VCD Player was the same height as the Playstation but long and not only did it plug into the expansion port but also plugged into the AV out, then you'd have to plug the AV cables into the back of the VCD Player and it would allow you to play movies on the Playstation, the quality of the movies was pretty crappy being VCD but it was pretty cool for the time.
@@tolgahk84 I think I barely remember what you’re talking about but I never got to see one of them in person?
today I learned about the many consoles you can play Gameboy on
Well shit, I had a feeling this was coming but that don’t mean it hurts less. Thank you Mat and Steph for all the years, this was not what I was expecting when I woke up
When i was a kid about 10 the year 2000. We had a big chunky plugin thing that allowed us to play Videocds like dvds but copied onto cd. it had a tonne of codes for alot of games aswel
With the game enhancer, thats what it was called. You would put a thumbtack in the button on the inside so the psx wouldnt know you opened the cover, turn the psx on with a real game, load the game enhancer, select cheats if you wanted, switch the disc out with the cd-r copy(that you copied from blockbuster using cdrwin at 1x speed) and press start. Ahhh memories
The OG Playstation or as everybody else refers the original Playstation to as the PS1
It might also only work with a few models of PlayStation. There were a lot of iterations. The 9000 models dropped the parallel port as well as the mini PSOne variant.
Me with an scph 9001:
:(
Well I'll look out for that I really never knew that was a thing. Thanks for the info 👍
thx a lot to solve my childhood mystery
I used a black market add on so I could play games I rented and burnt and games my dad would buy me from Korea for a quarter a piece 😅
like i said we are millennials, we are the only ones who know this crap! puts a smile on my face that people remember this🥰
Was your dad in the military? My stepdad was in the Navy and he came back from Westpac one year with a bunch of copied games and a chip for my PS. I ended up selling it all a few years ago 😢
@@ih8suvz yup USAF he would go tdy to different countries and his buddies knew where all the black markets were to buy cds movies games, my favorite was a game boy game he got me with like 300 games on it. Way before hacking and loading your own Roms onto things. Good Ol days
Jack in the box guy
The way this stuff was like mind bogglingly cool when I was little tho 😅
Currently playing through MGS 1 for the first time ever on my Switch. I forgot how great this era of gaming was.
tbh this is also on the parents part too. I grew up in the 90's and that's the start of console or computer gaming era. My parents set rules on which time and when we can play. They reward us by if we study hard, do our chores that we can play to our hearts content without interruption. They taught us to work hard since they are working hard to to provide us our need.
PS has it's roots in Nintendo
Wow, dude just transformed donkey Kong land into Pokémon yellow by just putting it in the ps1 disc drive
i have a "gamedoctor" for that port in the back that allows you to play burned games. got it in 98 or 99. ive never seen this gameboy player. thats cool. i have a supergameboy for the snes and a gamecube add on for the gbc/gba games, .. pretty cool knowing this exists though.
Maybe they mean the black Gameboy cartridges
I had a GameShark Pro to plug in the back of my Playstation. 😎👍
That's neat. I think n64 has a mystery slot too.
I remember the super Gameboy for snes but thought the colors were lame.
had that as a kid, was amazing at the time
You could also use the parallel port and plug in a game shark to play japanese games
"erase my save files"
"Doesn't work with GBC games"
"That's what I call innovation"
It's honestly kind of impressive that they got this to work without needing supporting software on a game disc.
Clearly that port is far more than a mere parallel I/O port.
I remember when I was a kid I got a chance to go to Singapore where I bought a box like that to play all bootleg games. I was playing GTA 1 forever on that ps1
As most know the history, Sony used to work for Nintendo, and when they were developing the N64 Sony wanted to use discs (they made a "Nintendo Playstation" prototype) but Nintendo wanted to keep cartridges.
Maybe the GB adapter thing is something from back then.
PlayStation game shark worked with a disk, I still have one
DUDE I HAD THE SAME TV WITH MY PS1 SLIM! HAHAHHA
I still have a bootleg contraption, no idea what it’s called because it’s all in German. But you put it into the back of the PlayStation and keep the disk compartment open with something. You put a real game in, it spins and stops right when it knows it’s read a game, but not what game it read. Then you can put in any ripped game on a cd and play it perfectly normally.
I had a adapter back in like 2003-2004 I think that I ordered from Japan and used it to play a bunch of Japanese PlayStation games I would order when I realized they had all the good titles.
I thought you was gonna mess with us and troll us 😂😂😂
This is like the irl One Piece for the Nintendo Playstation
I’ve never seen this before, that is so cool
I never knew this....but I definitely knew about the N64 GameBoy Port....played Pokemon yellow to death....I had a level 97 Pickichu 😅
Ive been going through the comments and no one has mentioned this, so fun fact. Nintendo helped Sony create the ps1. They partnered with Sony to create a CD add on for the N64 but pulled out at the last second deciding instead to go with Phillips, Sony was already too far into development, so they decided to make their own game console, so in other words Nintendo created one of their biggest competitors.
Most Nintendo fans already know that
Oh my god I had that exact TV growing up 😭 brings back so many memories
The ironic part is that Nintendo is the whole reason PlayStation exists. Nintendo wanted to move away from cartridges and start using discs, so they hired Sony to develop a system that could read game data from a disc. Sony developed the system but Nintendo opted to continue using cartridges and canceled their deal with Sony. Then Sony decided to go ahead and use their new system in their own game console and hence the PlayStation was born
I remember my friend who used to see his family in the Philippines would bring back these boxes that would plug into that port and it had almost every ps1 game every made. That's when I learned that the Philippines is the land of the worlds best pirates if you catch my drift
Gaming Historian got a great vid on this
Some people modify ps1 consoles to be portable. With this they could play game boy games on the go. Could you imagine that kind of power?
I actually used to have one of those mini CDs they could play! The ones that were basically just a soundtrack! 😂
I never knew that wow after 20 years, I learned something thing new
I did not know that, but I certainly believe it considering that Nintendo and Sony at one point were going to partner up before the PS1 was created
For me the PS1 was the best game system ever made ....the library was fantastic....and you didn't need the internet to make a game a good one ....
And the power up screen will never be matched
Wow. I did not know this. I had the one for SNES and it would also have a frame for Pokemon games and iirc you could edit the frame and change the color pallete for the game. And obviously everyone knew about the one for Gamecube.
That port was also used for an adapter to play Japanese games
I have really good memories with my Super GameBoy 😊
One of the official uses for the serial port on the back of PS1s was for bigger multiplayer matches that only certain games supported.
Super Gameboy wiped my saves even, so you can't even blame this thing specifically.
Damn im glad that never once happened to me
@@djhowell5273 happened with links awakening DX, other games were fine
@@Valientlink i wanted to like your comment but losing save data makes me sad
My mind was blown until you told me that the save data doesn't stay 😂
Well..... well.... my Mega Drive had a purple reset button!!!! TAKE THAT!!!!
Never ever knew this until now 11/26/2023😲 I used to have the old ps1 and if I knew this back then I would have bought the adapter to play Gameboy games and would have bought the adapter not only for myself but everyone else I knew that had a PS1😁👍
Dude! I had no idea! That's cool!
I used to have the same t.v.
Cool too see.
That Port could also be used for devices used to play games from other regions. One of the devices was called Dragon Hacker and looked and functioned very similar to a game shark. The device also had a feature for cheats like the gameshark. If memory serves the same codes would work for it too.
Yo Super Mario Bros Delux!! Thats how I first played OG Mario.
The port at the back was how we played back up games
For a sec I thought this was an intented feature left over from when this console was Nintendo
At first I thought you were going to say " and also, I'm lying!" Then I realized it looked legit. I never knew that existed that's crazy
I still have my PS1 with my Goldfinger chip in that I/O port. I was playing burnt discs of pretty much any game I wanted.
I played TF outta Pokemon with the N64 controller transfer pak. Pokemon Stadium would also even let you play the game at x3 speed. I can't tell you how many playthroughs I went through...
Retro gaming was sick
PlayStation really been using the same cable since the PS1 thats crazy
Nintendo Super Game Boy❌️
Sony Playstation Gameboy Launcher✅️
I had this and the game shark that plugged in. I used the game shark way more than this though because i preferred to play the game boy games on the game boy
The port in the back was what allowed piracy 😂
You could also plug in a device that let you play games in a different language. I played a Japanese bdz game on it that was translated to English