Not mine, but I always enjoy seeing these monstrosities.
AVGN is about to meet his match
This is the ideal Gameboy body. You might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like (just be sure to have all the batteries nearby).
8AAs, right?
You can almost hear the batteries draining in mere minutes.
If you think that’s bad, imagine an equivalently-accessorized Game Gear.
Imagine a stock game gear
Ah game gear TV. Battery life meant nothing to you.
I loved that TV tuner cartridge.
Had a pair of NiCad battery packs in the end - folks got sick of buying the ‘good’ alkaline batteries for it. Always had one on boil while the other was draining.
“one on boil” is such a good expression for charging batteries. Stealing that.
See Derek of Vice Grip Garage on YouTube, picked it up from him :)
26 min running time per battery pack.
This was our screen time limit in the 80s.
…my game gear case carried an automotive-sized external rechargeable battery…
Like a 30lb lead acid?
I could see using like a powerwheels sized 1980s battery. Or a couple of lantern batteries even.
…two-stroke honda generator…
I think one of those attachments are actually for a 12V 70Ah car battery
Minutes? Hah, amateur!
That Gameboy watch really sells it.
Noticing it only after parsing the rest of the setup made me giggle a little bit.
Noticing it after reading their comment gave me a hearty chuckle
How many minutes do the batteries last?
I had the GameBoy Color version of the magnifying glass/speaker/fake joystick combo. It ran the speakers and the light off of its own pair of batteries. The speakers were an upgrade (especially for the stereo sound) but everything else was a gimmick. The incandescent bulb was too dim and housing around the screen made it darker and even more difficult to see:
Later on in early 2000s we got the worm light. LED and was powered from the link cable port. It was considerably brighter and hardly affected battery life from what I remember:
We also eventually got magnifying glasses that didn’t have the housing around the screen to darken it:
I miss the worm lights. My cousin had one, and even though I had the Advance SP, I thought the worm LED was super neat.
Those worm lights were the first time I ever saw an LED. It was crazy to me that it was so bright it was blue.
Same but I was 12 at the time so I didn’t think much about the bulb tech nor it’s color temperature. I was just like “wow that’s a bright bulb”.
Later on around 2005 I got my first piece of tech with an OLED screen: a Kenwood car stereo. It wouldn’t be for nearly another 20 years when I finally got my first OLED TV.
no
Yes.
About tree fiddy.
Still longer than the GameGear :(
seconds
You have a GameShark plugged into a game genie? The hells the point of that.
spits
Filthy casual.
You’ve never sharked a genie? What a prude!
Cool watch.
This is what many Steam Deck users seem to pursue.
Can confirm. So far I’ve gotten an external monitor, keyboard, mouse, docking station and a stand for it so it can be used as a laptop as well while traveling.
It certainly has issues but it’s an impressive device.
Game Man
“THIS ISN’T EVEN MY FINAL FORM!”
Final Freeza did look like a pair of Airpods, ngl
Gaming in the 90’s was so glorious.
Rockin’ the little watch too, that’s legit.
Pretty sure that’s the biggest watch I’ve seen
Yeah, it’s huge compared to other watches!
WHO downvoted this, and why do you hate amazing things???
I actually got that kit from a friend as a kid, I used it all the time when playing at home, the fake analog was legit, and I think there’s a light on the magnifier too.
What would actually happen if you used an action replay and a game genie at the same time? Would it not even be able to boot up? Would it work and just one supercedes the other? I only ever had game genie so I couldn’t test it. Does anyone know?
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Based on further research (read: exactly one DDG query) It appears the Action Replay is actually significantly more complex than I had guessed and functions differently enough from the Game Genie that they quite often simply cannot operate in tandem like this and can cause serious issues.
Read on if you’d like a cool story that has little to do with reality, or would like to imagine how chaining game genies might work if that was feasible :3
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Based on my (admittedly not incredible) knowledge of how those devices both work, they intercept reads for specific memory addresses from the CPU and insert their own values. As long as they both weren’t set up with codes to modify the same address very little would happen, it would behave as you might expect.
If the two both had codes that modified the same address the Game Genie would “win” here since it is physically closer to CPU in the chain. It would see the address matching one of its codes and spit back its value, neither the cartridge nor the Action Replay would see the memory read occur.
Thanks for that. Do you know would the serious issue be like hardware damage or just like corrupted gameplay? I’ve seen some videos of game corruption and I’m wondering if that’s something people could use or would it just fry the game or console.
There’s always a chance for hardware damage chaining devices together that were not designed to be used as such. To keep your hardware safe don’t use it in ways that violate the manufacturer’s guides and recommendations.
In this case? Probably just wouldn’t really work, might corrupt save game data.
