Amazon's $5 Fake GameBoy!
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- čas přidán 29. 05. 2021
- $5... Surely this can't be good??? WRONG.
Amazon: amzn.to/34zgc33
I cannot for the life of me find the link to the US Amazon listing... I searched high and low. If anyone finds it please tweet it to me and I will update description! Sorry and thank you!
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Thank you so much for watching! Will heart every comment posted till I go to sleep. Enjoy!
Do a collab with dankpods like a ipod game boy combo
Thanks for the new video!
@@BoxInThisLapVR46 agreed!
Your welcome
try and put that screen on an OG Gameboy 😅
If there's anything I've learned from Dankpods' videos it's that mini-usb is the official cable of knock off products.
Honestly prefer it over micro and usb c. It has been far more reliable to me.
@@RisingRevengeance I was going to say the same thing. Though the type c has the bonus of being able to be plugged in either way, but still not as robust as the mini type.
@@thumbbandit1628 Yeah type c has grown on me over the years but I havent had a good time with cable quality. I mostly use magnetic contacts in my devices nowadays, it's worth the added cost to me.
Well at least this had an actual device inside it unlike one of the MP3 players he’s recently gotten lol.
I mean it beats micro, USB-C seems alright, though I upgrade stuff so rarely the only USB-C thing I have is the switch
“The color is slim” - The Retro Future 2021
Whoops
@@TheRetroFuture Whoops
Certain colors can be slimming.
apparently British people have decided that they didn't go far enough when they changed the spelling from "color" to "colour", and now decided to change it to "console".
@@TheRetroFuture Any other place to purchase this? because on the Amazon provided link says "currently unavailable"
Imagine if they could just make a after market GBA that actually plays GBA with a backlit screen. But nope. NES.
Of course, NES on-a-chip clones are just so much cheaper to do. it seems cheap console cloning really stopped at NES.
@@DoubleMonoLR but they want one that plays physical cartridges
Why dont you do what I did and mod the gameboy advance with the ips v2 screen kit?!
So, the Revo K101 Plus? :) I still prefer my Game Boy Micro, though.
@@DoubleMonoLR lol I just modded my actual psp for emulation
there must be a factory somewhere that just, takes consoles, somehow devalues them by about £40, then puts them on the open market
If they can sell this and profit imagine the absurd profit margins of the average Apple product.
@@Stroggoii Of course they can keep the price down, because Nintendo and Zilog/TI/whoever did all the hard R&D and design work for them already and they can just ignore the licensing and other parts of the deal :-)
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 Yeppers, in fact our country's whole gaming culture owes a lot to those "jackie chan" famiclones (Dendy) or it would have not really even existed. But at face value, it's what it is - piracy, aka reusing someone's R&D without permission, because even factoring in an IC design cost, it costs pennies if you're gonna bulk it out in billions, pair it with a mask ROM of stolen games and shove it everywhere almost at-cost, whereas the original developers have to go through the whole creative process of the game development.
Not really trying to hit on the moral aspect of piracy here -- just explaining how they keep the prices so low.
It's called "amortization strategy". When tech components are too obsolete...they just find a fast way to integrate them in something easily and quickly buildable. They haven't any profit in selling them. They just "amortize" losses (storage and inventory costs)
@@sambas9257 yea exactly. They buy old components sold at a loss, mold a plastic, steal roms and designs, and bam
I'd be surprised if this costs a dollar to make even
This seems like a perfect game console to give to a little child. I mean, if my parents had given me a system like that when I was a kid, I would be so happy!
I believe that wobble could be screen flickering, it happens when the game's resolution doesn't match up with the screen's resolution, causing the game's pixels to constantly change size as you move.
Could it also be screen tearing? I'm feeling like it might be a retropi clone with a bad screen compositor.
@@Ironpants57 could be, we don't really get a good look at the shimmering/flickering
@@Ironpants57 it's definitely a Famiclone, but unfortunately many of these have a bad scaler that doesn't scale the resolution properly.
Wait no tear down? Thought you was going to bust out the ifixit kit 😔
He actually bought one of these in 2019 and did a teardown then. Might not be the exact same console but it looks pretty damn similar.
@@RizzLegend916 calm down dear it's only a comment
@@RizzLegend916 triggered much?
@@RizzLegend916 weeaboo
@@RizzLegend916 you spelled zoro wronged
"It's shi- ... It's actually really not that bad at all!" Great moment right there :')
I love that these clones are either behind enough to use translucent shells or ahead of the curve enough to use translucent shells….
Well aside from the fact I hate that the trend died out and wished we still had electronics doing that on a mainstream level, I say it's ballsy for them to do that... "Let's make this cheap AF NES-on-a-chip console, but despite how low quality we're making this, we'll let them see inside"
@@RiderLeangle2
maybe the translucent shells cost less to manufacture.. probably
Box : "Console is slim"
Elliot : Read's twice "The Color is slim"..
For that price , even just the screen is a steal :D
Open it up, put a Raspberry Pi in there , and we have a killer machine :D
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that's such a fun idea and very tempting. Get a raspeberry pi Zero, costs €10 and can pretty much play anything up to ps1
The price will definitely not be 5 pounds anymore after your video 😭
Amazon really has everything
@@toy4tao you're thinking of wish 🤣
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For the price, that thing seems well worth it.
Thank you for your content, i love seeing what you do and even if your not completely experienced with everything you cover, its nice knowing someone whos honest and reliable is reviewing it.
For $5 you can't really complain. This would be something to buy a few of and toss in the back seat of your car for your kids if you are going on a road trip, and maybe leave in the bathroom for playing Mario while you poop lol
can confirm elliots tetris skills are definitely improving
After this video it might become more expensive than the original
If your capture card has the standard yellow, white, and red AV connectors, try the red in the white port as it's mono sound. They mismatched the colors, it would seem, as red is generally for stereo audio. The colour is quite slim indeed.
They really committed to the "retro" with the mini-usb
Hi, great channel! I'm quite familiar with the retro handhelds as of lately, and I would say that the "wobble" is just because of the game not being pixel perfect; probably that screen is 3:2 like the original GBA, while the original game is outputting a 4:3 signal with more pixels than in the display, which causes that ugly effect (if you had control over your emulator, this could be solved very easily with a shader or integer scaling).
I am deeply impressed with that quality!
Love these unboxing vids m8
“That doesn’t look bad at all” - Retro future
What he didn’t mention is how it sounds.
Me hearing only in my left ear: O👄O
One of the few instances where ive heard Elliot say a potty word, made me James Spec Belly laugh lol
COOL GUY ELLIOT WITH THE HAT BACKWARDS. Love the videos. Keep them up!
Great video. Be interesting to see what the console's innards look like and whether there's any scope to use the shell and screen for other modding projects.
Nintendo starting to get some serious competition...
They need to watch out ey!
Huh who knew Sid had a nice second cousin.
Why does Nintendo wouldn't produce remakes of older consoles?! Like a newer GBC, with a real backlit screen, in stead of letting competitors (KongFeng, and other independant producers) making their own products? They always want to attract new clients, with new titles and 3D screens, and think it's outdated, but the GBC/GBA is still interesting people, even children. They're losing so much for 10 years! Gosh, it's like dropping a briefcase full of gold ingots. And say that they publish retro games, why not retro consoles? ...
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 Oh okay. Yes, I've heard of that. And also, I've heard that the Nintendo Club did have some Game and Watch releases?
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 I get the fact that they won't spend loads of money making retro looking consoles, but I suspect Nintendo resting on their achievements, and not making further experiments.
Maybe because they only experiment things thru their R&D, and not hearing direct advices, but Lord, they lost so much money by letting the GB Boy and other clones grow.
nice seeing you just have some fun with it
Often thought of these GBA clones and wondered if the screens could be swapped with a genuine GBA. Would be a lot cheaper that a screen kit for one
Love your videos Elliot!
That wobble probably means it's just straight up a composite signal from the NOAC and the screen is a barely-functional miniaturized version of those composite input TFT things.
The shell is probably straight up made in the same factories that make aftermarket gba shells
I love your channel, it revives the ilusion I had for consoles
It looks pretty decent for the price. The output video reminds me a video that is quite old, nostalgic actually. What I'm really curious about is the inside of the unit, so how about you tear that Game Boys apart? :D
I hope you have a house update soon, I am very curious on how that is going. I hope it goes as smooth as possible. 🤞
Hey Elliot, thanks for the video. How are you doing?
Always a pleasure to see these fantastic videos. Well done!
I like your name
Thought you might have taken it apart. Would like to see the inside.
TFT displays usually have a framerate of around 10-20fps without being modified, that explains the massive screen tears and low fps.
The wobble is screen tearing, as someone already pointed out, but it's DIAGONAL screen tearing which is why it looks different from normal tearing. You can also see it when the screen blacks out for a moment going from the menu to a game. I've got an "X350" handheld that does the same thing and results in an almost jello-looking effect when games scroll.
The “screen wobble” is likely just the way TFT screens refresh. Laptops from 20 years ago were plagued with this, as all laptop screens at the time were TFT.
4 pounds? Man, that thing sure is heavy!
This is an interesting console. I would like to see the inside. May have to get my own. This is a really good value.
"On Amazon for £4.49"
"Currently unavailable, we don't know when it will be back in stock"
Translation "we will never, ever have them again"
Console is already "no longer available"! That was fast! :D
Great video Elliot!
Sorry for not asking about the video, but I was wondering, did you get a preorder for the Analogue Pocket? if so, are you planning to make a video of it?
Wow, That's a good little 90s inspired party gift to toss around honestly. Crazy value for 5 bucks.
Love you work mate, inspiring as always and will continue to watch your great content! P.S Can you do a video on a USB C GBC install?
Elliot got to the end of the mario level! He is improving!
Man, I had the most interesting idea for a display piece. It would look like the 3DS Virtual Console Icons for the gameboy games, pretty much a cut down gameboy with just the screen and game in the back.
The wobbling comes from non-integer scaling. The way some emulators or handhelds solve it is by blurring the image slightly which is almost just as bad IMO. But since older consoles used rather strange resolutions you can't really get screens that are an exact match so they either have to waste some of the screen area by just having borders, or scale the image in unoptimal ways. DS games on the 3DS support either playing with borders or with the image slightly blurred and neither option is ideal but at least you have the option to disable the scaling if you really hate that blur.
the wobble is from the screen they used. it's perfect for cameras but horrible for games due to the offset subpixels
Oh, I see the wobble - don't you worry about that Elliot.
Greetings from The Philippines mate!
I wonder if there is any way to put that screen in a gba. Swap it out so to speak. Awesome find. Looking forward to the next video.
That "wobble" looks like screen shimmer that is a result of the emulator changing the aspect ratio in a sloppy way. It could be fixed in software but the easy way would leave black bars somewhere, maybe on all four sides of the screen.
08:20
My right ear enjoied that :)
One of the other comments might have said already, but I wonder if you could harvest any parts from an existing GBA to fix the problems with the controls. I also wish it were feasible to hack around with the system to change the games. Being able to pick your selection would be cool.
Was wearing headphones watching this video and was not expecting the capture card audio to only be on the right channel…
Would love to buy it but amazon says its no longer available
What was the name of that lovely small soldering iron you use?
The shell on the fake game boy looks nice
Did see and review these before ... and GBA models are coming in so many different versions 🤣
Nice. I’d like to find out if the system supports re-flashing or sD cards
The "wobble" is screen tearing because the emulator is not vertically synced
you was so surprised and then you just said oh its bad for a moment
Is there a way to change or add the games on it? Would be a wonderful cheap and alternative way to carry your collection of games
Reckon you could mod it? So that you can use a genuine gameboy motherboard but use the rechargeable battery part?
Havent watched the video yet but I don’t imagine it could actually run gba games. Would be really cool though!
Holy crap, even watching this at 2x on CZcams I saw the screen wobble around 6:30 - 6:32 during the SMB 1-2 run.
I actually had to buy a mini usb cable from best buy the other day. The dude didn't even know what I was talking about at first.
was about to buy it but it seems like your little review got their sales up xD theyre selling it for round about 30 pounds now
So looking on ebay for one of these, found instead a gameboy colour clone with a full tft screen etc and 168 games... £4! Still haven't reviewed my Chinomatic mini NES with 500 games but now I got something decent handheld. Going to upgrade my RP+3 NESPi with something like an Odroid board which opens up the later consoles like PS2, Xbox 360 and Wii.
It seems like that company sells tech in the UK, but pretty much only 'Personal Wand Massagers' in the US. Interesting choice.
That shell and screen surely cost more on their own than the whole package. It would actually make a nice aftermarket shell for a GBA if it had all the right cuts. I would love to see if the screen could be salvaged for a GBA backlit mod.
The holes are nothing that a dremel couldn't solve tbh
This is the first famiclone i saw which got correct sound in Mario
The wobble is because the screen isn't the same resolution and/or shape. If you've heard them say "shimmering" on Game Sack, this is what they are talking about.
You should open it up. Curious what's inside
Well done! Play the latest adventures of Donkey ballz on your new $5 GameBoyPutz🤣
In a batch of broken consoles I received what I thought was a gba sp with a cheap aftermarket shell, but once I opened it I realized that it was a clone... A hardware clone, complete with the original splashscreen (although slowed down) cartridges slot that reads the original games and nintendo logo on the shell... If shipping to England didn't cost me a fortune I'd love to send it to you.
The wobble is screen tearing. It manifests more as a wobble than a tear at super high framerates. A vsync option would solve it entirely.
I so wanna see a transplant of a real gb advance in that. If for no other reason than to get rid of the wobble. Which could flickering, or the onset of Parkinson’s.
Not available for US buyers. Bummer! Great vid!
I have one that is identical but themed like a game boy/game boy color
Darn missed this one. Out of stock :)
Would be interesting to see you open it up, possibly repair the L trigger and replace the buttons/dpad with some better ones.
A wild question appears from the abyss of my brain. Can we use the shell on an original gameboy advance by any chance / modding ?
Dude, you look way better with your hat in your videos xD
How much is it again Elliot? I think I missed that detail
Oh my god “the collie is slim.”
I want to watch a video of someone modding one of these cheap gameboys and give it a fix up in areas
The emulation is good, because it's not emulation. It's a NOAC (NES On A Chip), so there's an entire miniaturized NES motherboard under an epoxy blob. The screen tear is probably because it still outputs an analog signal to that tiny LCD, and the connection probably isn't great.
I was expecting you to take it apart
Can you do a video about making the ultimate gameboy color?
Would the front pcb work for a replacement for an original gba front pcb?
if you do a repair and upgrate on it it will be ultimate
Me: *clicks on the link*
“Currently Unavailable” 💀