Unlicensed Game Boy Players
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- čas přidán 26. 04. 2018
- I've talked about the Super Game Boy, Super Game Boy 2, and the Game Boy Player. But now let's dive into 3rd party devices that played Game Boy games on your television! This episodes talks about the GB Hunter, Super GB Booster, Advanced Game Port, and the GBA TV Converter.
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Apologies in advance if my narration sounds a little...off. I was dealing with some serious congestion after being sick! The show must go on, as they say. Thanks, and hope you enjoy!
I can listen perfectly. Greetings from Colombia, your channel is awesome!!
Dont worry. You have one of the best voices i ever heard for narration.
Unnoticeable!
Probably cause you were so focused on making sure everyone saw your Doug Gameboy game.
you sounded the same as always.
1:33 "This Is The Kind Of Shit Is The Reason Why The Mute Button Was Invented" ~AVGN
An unliscenced add-on can't play unliscenced games. How ironic.
ThisIsLotso those same unlicensed games cannot be played on official GBA hardware either!
I found that ironic also.
That is ironic.
Lol
@@adultmoshifan87 Those games have much better copy protection than official GBA carts lol.
Chinese speaker here, Golden Finger is a literal translation of 金手指, which is an umbrella term for cheat devices (Game Genie, Action Replay etc.) here in Taiwan. Judging from this video, seems like Hong Kong gamers also called them by the same name. The name stems from the metal contacts on the cartridge looking like gold-colored fingers, but it only applies to the cheat devices and not the cartridges themselves.
Kevin Wang Are you Norman's Asian counterpart? You should collaborate. And now to my Asian correspondent, "Kevin Wang" and then you pop up in a little box in the upper corner of the screen. It would be hilarious.
@pizzamon 79 Haha, I wish! My only retro gaming cred is that I still have a working NES (not Famicom btw, back in the day in Taiwan we had the Japanese version and carts, I grew up in Canada so our family had a North American NES), and my mom only ever allowed me to buy four NES games aside from the SMB1/Duck Hunt bundled cart, but if Norman does want to run anything related to the East Asia market through me I'd be more than willing to help out! (on an entirely unrelated side note, I've been speedrunning SMB1 and SMB3 on original equipment, but I've only just begun for about a year)
Kevin Wang very interesting. I once had my hands on a Chinese Famiclone which came with a lot off rip-off games (original Famicom titles with some changed assets). It had some similar cheat code system. As a kid I never knew how to get it working, though. :P
Seems to be a common theme. Once when I was staying in a hostel in southern Taiwan, they also had a Famiclone that uses proper carts instead of having the games built in, and there also seemed to be some sort of mysterious cheat code system. Of course the games on the 70-in-1 cart were all ripoffs
funny enough, I think people just referred to any game genie/shark type device as a 金手指 ...its a term I heard up until the 2000s with other canto speakers too. Can confirm we say that too in canto.
I’d like to explain more about Golden finger. Golden finger is a straight translation from Chinese “金手指”. Basically, a golden finger includes two function. One is the same function as well as Game gene. Another is technologically a number detector. In mainland of China, it was pretty hard to have a real Nintendo licensed cartridge in 1990s and 2000s. In this case, most people use emulator. When the game was hard, people can use software to search specific number, then make the number change variously to make sure software does detect the number. Then the software will change the number. For this process there are two ways. One is by changing the save data , we used this way to cheat when we playing Pokémon. Another is by changing the actual game data when the game is running. I believe golden finger uses the second way.
Thanks :)
Very interesting. Thanks for explaining.
Thanks for explaining! I remember hearing about the golden finger as a kid and my friends thought it was this magical device that could translate Japanese games into English (I imported Pokemon Gold when it was first released which is how this came up at school). I guess it's more of a cheat device and not as magical as my 10-year-old mind made it seem back then. :)
Mandiness Entertainment That is pretty funny! I remember my friend thought Nintendo was a small company which was small enough that they could only wrote their game base on other game software (emulator). I got you feeling. When I saw Wind Waker on GameCube I just wanted hire someone to play game with me!
There was a cheat device on the PlayStation called Goldfinger, so I assumed it had something to do with that branding. Nice to have clarification.
"Or you have a strange love for the N64"
Those are fighting words
GB Hunter's music vs. Crazy Bus' music. A battle for the ages.
Don't forget about Hong Kong '97!
Nothing is worse than CrazyBus's music
I bought Crazybus partially for the awesome music.
I would like to sample and remix it.
GB Hunter wins since even though it hurts ears, at least it has an actual melody. Also it was originally a Jeroen Tel song called "That's The Way It Is".
Crazybus is me being drunk on my DAW and just randomly placing notes by wiggling the mouse up and down.
The main benefit of the Advance Game Port was that it was considerably cheaper than the GBP. I asked my parents for a GBP and got the game port instead because we were poor. In my opinion, it did the job!
Another benefit is that it can be played on the Wii.
@@albertnortononymous9020unless you mod your wii then no beacause a wii system software update blocked the disc
The music from the GB hunter sounds like an ice cream van being strangled
You made me laugh with this comment!
@@projectmayhem6898 My ears! That is actually worse than the GB hunter music.
Cant... like.
69... likes.
Or a sega master system with a busted sound chip playing though a crap av cable.
Explain how an ice cream van can be strangled??
I had the Advanced Game Port back in the day! I think I've since lost it or gotten rid of it (was probably in a huge flood back in '09) but I still have the discs.
If you still have the disk you should dump it!
That stock looping music for the GB HUNTER is horrendous, definitely seems like a worst to best in terms of the order all of these were shown :P
I have to agree, a strange, 3-channel, 4kHz sound chip playing one of the most obnoxious songs ever.
It's like the old cracks and keygens of yore - just via someone with no taste in tunes
Almost as bad as CrazyBus.
Remix the song please.
+EposVox Actually, it isn’t… Detel’s GBHunter (sorry, didn’t save the PAL region’s name; GBHunter wasn’t directly marketed by Detel) uses three channel, square wave only sound at a very low bitrate and with no real idea of what could have even been done with the completely lacklustre amount of playroom that gives you. Most of the keygens actually had decent music to them, even if it may not have been to your taste. About 90% of them actually use music from the demo scene back in the 8-bit era. Think about the famous c64 SID chip, or MOD- or StreamTracker modules from the Amiga, to name two of the main ‘providers’. Something that can definitely _NOT_ be said for whatever piece of junk has been used to compensate for the lack of audio support in Detel’s products. Speaking of audio, I actually was amazed to hear that absolutely _none_ of those devices even _tried_ to do anything with the original game’s audio in the first place. Apart from the GBA TV converter, that is…
Regarding the Super GB Booster for PlayStation, the Save Backup option backs up your save files for Gameboy games that have a save battery option. For example, the Pokemon games.
Tipster Yep. I had to figure this one out myself after my save file on Christmas Day wasn't retained.
So in order words unless you were say, one of those types of Pokemon players who were desperately hunting shinys or whatever and wanted a redundant save file, this was almost worthless.
James Kaplan Not exactly. I used to have a Gameboy memory card accessory with similar functionality and it was great for backing up save files. It saved my bacon quite a few times with the GBC Zelda titles when dead batteries fried my save file.
Tipster you know what? Fair enough. Never had a dead battery backup issue myself so it's not something I ever had to deal with.
James Kaplan In my experience, It wouldn't save at all unless you hit the save backup. I saved several times from the in-game menu but if you didn't use the backup function then they'd all be lost the next time you booted it up.
....you just had to throw in that doug game.
gillythekid lol
It was worth the $3 I spent to see it in this episode. Gotta make long term investments to succeed!
I only own the classics
My copy is dead I’m seriously about to go buy one on ebay
Gaming Historian qix is my gig so happy to see that
Hi Norm! Can you please enable English auto-subtitles? For some reason it's showing me Korean ones, but not English ones. I'm Deaf so I can't enjoy your excellent videos without them! :)
Lol. Apparently it thinks the original audio is in Korean. I clicked the cog icon, selected Auto-translate, and picked English, but it seems to still think the original audio is Korean. So it is trying to match the English audio to Korean words and then translate the Korean to English. The fact that it does this in real time is impressive and some of the results are funny.
YO PEOPLE LET'S NOT FORGET ABOUT OUR DEAF OR HEAR LOSS FRIENDS!
Wish I had a better internet connection, I might do some captions myself.
I am commenting and liking this just to help bump up the metrics. (More visibility to the creator)
Is it all videos, or just this one?
okay, I felt bad so I started to make captions for it, as there's an option to "add captions"
I think there's a couple of other ones, but almost all of Norm's videos have either good captions or the auto-captions.
Video Sync is a option that is used on a lot of modern gpus. Often called V-Sync, it just limits the framer are to that of what's compatible with your TV.
I feel like i'm STILL learning about gameboy items that existed. And I program my own games for the GBA!
Damn dude, I just checked out your channel, pretty cool stuff, the raycaster game looks awesome, do you have a website or something where we can either buy your games or download the roms? I'm always on the hunt for homebrew software, I think it's amazing how people are still making games for discontinued systems, and I have such a love for the GBA.
You're also still learning how the term is "Game Boy".
Andy Madden Pedantic much?
*NO BODY CARES*
@@111boy9 if you don't care why you reply
Totally correct, as usual. GB Player plus extrems' GB Interface software is the way to go. A viewer of mine hooked me up with a PAL GameCube and SCART cable, so it's become my Game Boy machine.
Always good to see another video from you my friend. I've been interested in checking these all out, but never had the chance to. Love seeing all the different ways companies went about creating these Gameboy players.
10:35: Could've also mentioned that up until System Menu 3.0 and the dawn of Wii homebrew, the Advance Game Port was the only way of playing GBA games on the wii, as the Game Boy Player was the only GC accessory incompatible with the Wii. System Menu 3.0 however prevented unofficial GC software from being used with the Wii, making the Advance Game Port unusable with the Wii.
I had the AGP as a kid. Even then, I was displeased with the quality. I didn't even know there were built-in games!
The Super GB Booster was my freaking Holy Grail when I was a kid. I spent years trying to find one. Some days I wondered if I had imagined hearing about this amazing device that let you play GB games on a Playstation. Thanks for clearing up a 20 year old mystery for me!
The one guy who disliked this bought the GB Hunter.
More like the 216 dislikes
Jesse Erwin 257 now
@@sleepydogz1022 275*
Awesome! I just binged the entire channel for the third time last night so a new episode is very much appreciated.
Really enjoyed seeing all of these and how they worked. Appreciate your time and hope you have a wonderful weekend.
God damn it Norman, your channel is one of the few that have remained intact over the years, with entertaining as hell content. Please don't sell out like so many others have, we love your videos, keep on going, you're doing a great job!
GOD DAMN IT NORMAN
GREAT WORK AS ALWAYS BROTHA!!!
Man, I'm always happy to see one of your video show up in my feed
I appreciate the amount of research that it must take to make these videos. Great Job!
I freaking love all the music in this video.
I had the InterAct HANDY BOY when I was kid. Inspector Gadget would be proud.
AVGN :-D
I'm sure you were having a lot of fun...
B R O W N B R I C K S
I L I K E T O B U I L D B R O W N B R I C K S I N M I N E C R A F T
It's the most fun you could possibly have while playing an app.
You seem to have a knack for picking interesting topcs for your videos Norman.
Keep it up! Love all you stuff!
I've been waiting for this for so long now! thank you for making it!
wow! I had no idea about the player for the Playstation.. that's pretty neat!
I like your videos before I watch them just to save time
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I love your contents Gaming Historian. The page barely loads and I already click the Like button. Keep up the good work!
I was searching information and a good review for the GameBooster for AGES, thank you!
Since the Advance Game Port only uses a disc and memory card slot could it work with the Wii?
Only if you use Nintendon’t.
yes it did, it was the reason i got it in the first place as the wii doesn't support the gameboy player.
It theoretically works on PAL Wiis (or NTSC Wiis modded to be region-free), but has severe audio glitches.
The AGP is the only way to play GBA games legally (and badly) on the Wii using original cartridges (You won't be able to play GB or GBC games or even GBA Video carts on it though).
Have you been working out?
Love your work mate and happy to support :)
My favorite part of this whole video is all the attention dedicated to the Game Boy port of Qix! That game is an absolute classic!
Doesn't the GBA have those weird non-standard screws too? So you not only have to do this dodgy mod-job to your beloved GBA, you have to get the right screwdriver to do it too
Be N S O N The bits are less than $10 on Amazon. Not too big a deal. And they give you the added bonus of being able to replace the batteries in your games.
benn454 Sure, but it's pretty darn far out of your way to go just to play GBA games on your TV when Nintendo has a peripheral to do it already.
That is, unless this thing actually came packaged with the right screw bits.
Just grab a pointy knife that the end has already snapped off of. 3 or 4 mm of flatness gets the job done
Great video, as always!
Every Game Boy player that uses emulation is pretty much terrible. I'd rather use a Game Boy Player instead. That last little add-on with composite output sounds great, if someone offered a service to solder it on. Other than that, I don't really care too much about playing them on a big screen. They're fine as handheld games on a backlit GBA SP.
Awesome video Norm! Great to see another one here!
The Super Gameboy for the SNES was way ahead of it's time. I loved that thing. I also used my Gameboy Camera in the SGB and was taking selfies in the 90s lol, and adding my face to those characters in the built in games.
I try to stay away from knock-off add-ons since they don"t work very well.
Hey, from where the music around 10:45 comes from?
Kirby's Dream Land
Almost a million subscribers! Congratulations!
These are some cool accessories! I think the Super Gameboy player, and GameCube player are amazing! I'm glad I was able to learn and experience different things on this channel! Great Content Norm! Keep it Brother! Many Blessings to you and your family!
were new here can any1 give us any tips ?
9:25Savestates generally just dump the entirety of the game's RAM into a file, so it doesn't really surprise me that the Advance Game Port takes up so much space.
Glad to see you’re back!
8:54 OMG I remember that pokemon gba video! I remember watching both episodes on long car rides. I wish I could remember where it was, those were good episodes!
Use the built in generatuh to create yor own video game cheat codes, guvnah!
What on earth is that at 2:01? I can't find anything about DKJr on Game Boy anywhere...
Is it a secret mode? I've completed Donkey Kong '94 more times than I can count, and I've never seen a mode with DK Jr. stomping on Goombas with Mario just standing there.
sarysa Game and Watch gallery.
Great content as always Norman, very enjoyable and informative video. I look forward to the next one
Love your channel dude, keep up the great work!
I never knew there were third party Game Boy Player adapters?
Dan EvilRobot they didn't advertise very well because I never heard of them either.
Good information thanks
These GameBoy console add-on videos have been some of my favorites.
Finally! You came around to make this video!
Newgrounds Flash Game: those were the memories!
I used Andkon arcade, M8.
"Unless you ABSOLUTELY love cheating"
OH I LOVE CHEATING! Especially with my 47 different girlfriends.
Was 47 just a random number or a specific number???
sup dude always look forward to your videos You Make Me Remember Pawn times and flea market Pawn Shop playing Nintendo when I was just old enough to barely see over the counter.
this is one of the best channels on youtube. we love you norman
What's the music that starts at 10:48?
"Float Islands" from Kirby's Dream Land on the original Game Boy
Kirby's Dream Land: Float Islands
just2good oh hey just2good i never knew you watch the gaming historian
Float islands from Kirby’s Dream Land.
Who in their right mind would dislike the Gaming Historian?
Seriously. It's one of the best video game channels by far.
Lazy troll?
One of my favorite channels on CZcams
Wow! It's finally here! Love the content. Great job.
*Insert joke about Doug game here*
Has everybody been eating their oats? They're quite rich in healthy nutrients!
My buddy Wilford Brimley and I always start our morning with a good, hearty bowl of oatmeal.
Quaker Oat Guy Not recently. I think the last time was a couple of months ago.
I saw you on Pat the nes punk's comment section today, You're the highlight of the thread! When you're called out you have to take full advantage since it probably almost never happens.
i dont think chucky finster ate his.
Yeah but not Quaker oats
Great video! I love this kind of stuff. It relaxes me, even if I don't plan on buying the product haha. You've earned yourself a subscriber.
Enjoyed the vid. Hope you get to feeling better.
Ah, Datel... Purveyors of trash, as seen in this episode. I wasn't aware of their Game Cube add-on. I did have the GBA TV Converter back when it was new and don't remember having major issues, but I picked one up recently and had an even worse image than you demonstrated in the video! Either I got lucky back in the day, or my eyes weren't working at the time. *shrugs*
Does S-video help out in any way?
10:29 sounds like an Australian accent, not British. ;)
sounds exactly like bear grylls lol
No, it doesn't. That's quite clearly an English accent, as any English person could tell you.
One of my favorite videos in existence
Always doing a fantastic job!
Hi! I have nothing to say, I will edit this when I come up with a comment.
2018 BITCHES!!!
Nice! I've been waiting for this. Thanks.
Great video as always!
Sega had like 1000rd Party add-ons for the genisis😂
Hey, don't dis Newgrounds Flash games!
Matt Roszak, Bullet Heaven 2 is shit. Repetitive and boring. Please make no more bullet-hells as you know nothing about them.
You came to CZcams
Awesome channel bro, been watching a few videos :)
PoWeFuL ChEaT CoDeS
Does anyone else hate when people call software "powerful". The commentator talking about "powerful cheat codes" made me laugh.
Blame the marketing department...
I remember when someone first told me that a software was "powerful" when they were explaining some super basic, crude software I had to learn. And I wanted to turn to them and say "it's not a nuclear weapon or a magic genie, it edits video. Fuckin relax."
Cold or no cold that was well narrated an enjoyable video to watch.
Always great work Norm!
You’re a pretty good looking guy
I may not have a golden finger but I do have a brown finger.
Dolan Trimp I almost made a "finger" joke, glad to see you got it covered.
This was a great idea for a video. Very interesting and I saw some new 90's era hardware :)
Ah another excellent episode watched keep it up Norm! Also I hope you do one on SNK soon.
Aww its the angry video game nerds' cousin, "The doughy soft spoken geek."
Needs more twerking
Great content as always!
Very interesting! Narration sounds perfectly good!
Remember The “It’s A me, Super Mario on the PlayStation 4” meme? Well, Super GB Booster Makes that meme reality.
Good Video and nice too see that someone made another Video about this "Things". I also made one Video about the Playstation Version and had a hard Time with the Research, but can say that there are a least 4 Verison of this Adapter. The first one is like the N64 Version (and as far as I could find, also the only Version for the N64), the Second one is a Version with no Sound at all and the Third one is the one with the Build in CD Player Funktion. The forth one is an Version with an Switch on the Side, where you could toggle bethween the GB Booster and an Action Replay (Gold FInger) for the Playstation itself.
The mysterious Save Backup Funktion is for the Gamesave. The Adapter is, like you sayd, an Software Emulator and dont uses the Module itself (you can unplug the Modul after the Game is loaded). The Save Backup Funktion writes the Savefile back to the GameBoy Game, if you dont do this, all Progress is gone.
Little Fun Fact on the SIde. The inbuild Game is a Bootleg. Rebound Mission is known als Pokemission 97 and was programmed by Anders Granlund in the Mid 90s.
8:13 Thats the soundtrack of one of my favourite GB games called „Die Maus“ (german TV Show for Kids), sounds like my childhood!
I own the GBA TV converter. I bought it 15+ years ago when I was living in Asia and this was new technology. This always worked just fine for me when connected to the TV. If only I knew where it was so I can break it out and play again.