"This is a modded gameboy advance, and look at it" *doesn't turn on*

@simonemarconcini8648

3 жыл бұрын

My first experience at modding a GBA was exactly like that

"it is huge , there's no denying the fact that it's absolutely massive "

@naufal8887

3 жыл бұрын

That's what she said

@cynthia49ify

3 жыл бұрын

Lol 😂 yess that made me laugh every time like I will never not think of this when I see a gb advance. 😂😂😂

@robb1759

3 жыл бұрын

Please come out!

@unorthdoxcleric6953

3 жыл бұрын

@@naufal8887 I just want one girl to say that and I cam die happy.

@unorthdoxcleric6953

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnpisser1983 Sounds like a review of a Pocket Pussy.

I think elliot is actually living my childhood dream of owning all these wierd and wonderful accessories that blew my mind as a kid. Love this channel!

"And if we turn it off, you can't see anything" Autofocus: Okay bye

That flourescent light looks way better than the worm led lights I used to have for my gameboy

@xxdarkkrakenxx

3 жыл бұрын

I had one of those! it was dreadful and killed my batteries

Back in my day, we couldn't see the screens on our gaming devices... And we liked it!

@diarykeeper

3 жыл бұрын

We were so easy to please. Thank god I'm not part of nowadays gen that only complains about FPS, texture latency, etc. Entitled brats.

@NickDyers

3 жыл бұрын

@@diarykeeper okay then, entitled boomer ;)

@sybrstupidhead5526

3 жыл бұрын

@@NickDyers You millienials and your name calling.

@leonardoalvarenga7572

3 жыл бұрын

Laughs in Atari Lynx.

@bruhmoment4378

3 жыл бұрын

Except the game gear kids

The sheer excitement when it actually worked was priceless 😂

Todays kids will never know the struggle that was playing Gameboy in the dark.

@sakuraanime122

3 жыл бұрын

Mate I'm 18 with a gameboy color and I understand the struggle. I grew up with a Pokemon Gameboy color.

@petrescuework-difficultcas6581

3 жыл бұрын

@@sakuraanime122 With 18 years of age, you aren't a "today's kid" anymore

@sakuraanime122

3 жыл бұрын

@@petrescuework-difficultcas6581 I Just turned 18 this august. And Im a kid at heart ya know!

@LolitaLaceCotton

3 жыл бұрын

And playing it in the sun, while other people were in your way >:'c ..it was awful

@saltwatertoaster5842

3 жыл бұрын

Laughs in had a gameboy growing up as a hand down

Remember the IPS screen is bigger So if the images match it does work just not 40% bigger

I never got to see any of the wild accessories for the Game Boy in stores or on TV, but getting to see them now makes me remember a different time when kids could be easily swayed by those kind of things.

Tbh, if I was a kid, I would've loved to have it. I remember having to play with the light turned on and being annoyed at not getting the perfect angle.

"You're not getting a better experience with this." Well, yeah, but you didn't have to wait twenty years for it!

Hey Elliot, just stopping by the comments to say thanks for getting me addicted to the weird and wonderful world of Game Boy accessories, as well as reinvigorating my drive to collect and repair. The crown jewel is a Madcatz rechargeable battery grip for the GBA and the matching Madcatz magnifier/light to go with it. You're awesome and you keep on doing what you do best!

Neat. It has a little fluorescent bulb inside. Which means a potentially fairly high voltage supply inside, which would account for a lot of its size in addition to the batteries. Shame the lens came in kinda poor shape out of the box though, and it would've had some pretty poor battery life. Also, mercury.

I love these type of videos in which you look into old accessories for Nintendo devices

I can’t believe you hit 300k! I’ve been watching your videos for a while now and they are great. Keep up the good work.

joytech is purple - indeedy!

@gamingcat668

3 жыл бұрын

Wait a second how the videp came out 1h ago and you commented 6h ago

@estebanlorite

3 жыл бұрын

@@gamingcat668 lol its true

@TheStanHill

3 жыл бұрын

Patreon early release probably.

YES ANOTHER AMAZING TRF VIDEO! Thanks man ur filling my time in quarantine with useful-ish info. Thanks keep up the great work love ur videos and ur channels!

I’m so depressed at times and your videos have really kept me going man, keep up the good work!!

That's really cool. Congrats on hitting. 300k much deserved

Joy tech is purple like the Game Cube. Also congrats on 300k, I’ve been here since 150k and have loved all your videos, keep up the good work and find more weird tech.

it's a bad omen that the packaging needs retrobrite lol

I can say that i was already a subscriber ever since 180k I've always been entertained by your mods and fixes Thanks for making all these videos Elliot!!

Those old batteries that you had to charge for 8 hours before using it the first time. Oh the memories

This is what I actually wanted 20 years ago to replace my worm lights... joytechispurple

Congratulations on the 300k sunscribers!

congratulations on 300k!

300K woop, woop. Congrats man, you are awesome.

For the OG Gameboy there was a similar officially licensed product called a Handy Boy, it was the early 90s, so that was a lot less awkward. But it was a really pretty useful magnifier, a screen light, fold out nacels that had stereo speakers, and clip on arcade buttons that made the A and B buttons very large and turned the d pad into a joy stick. It was awesome. It devoured batteries and i owned one for a time.

Congrats on 300k

You just got 300K subscribers. Congratulations Eliot

Congratulations on 300k

Great channel! recently subscribed, greetings from El Salvador

Thank god I had an advance sp when I was young, can imagine the struggle many have been through :)

7:28 I have a Pelican Accessories rechargeable battery for my Gameboy Color, and it still works great, I have to recharge it like once a week after many hours of gaming. This is 2020 btw...

I absolutely love these strange accessories you find

The Ana game boy was cool

@hugonegrete6325

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely my favorite one.

@mr.smilesyt9977

3 жыл бұрын

Yay some one agrees

@mr.smilesyt9977

3 жыл бұрын

@@hugonegrete6325 thanks

@hugonegrete6325

3 жыл бұрын

@@mr.smilesyt9977 your welcome, I'm here trying to find a classmate to be on my team😊😭

I have this. I just bought it from a flea market. It is in basically perfect condition. No scratches on the lens and no yellowing plastic. And I must say that I'm quite impressed at how good the light is. I recommend this

Had one of these with my GBA in the early 2000s, was a godsend on motorway journeys at night when I was younger, better than only being able to play when you drive under a street light.

No way is he going to heart EVERY comment!

@lemming9984

3 жыл бұрын

O yes there is!!

Something about seeing you play it in the dark hit me with a massive wave of nostalgia , whoaa.

I LOVE your GBA dedicated videos !! 😍

This video 'brightened' up my day! ;)

“Joy Tech is Purple!” Wow that was neat to see an actual working light for those non backlit screens!

You should try your hand at making your own light for the GBA. I know there are all sorts of lighting solutions for the GBA screen but perhaps using one of your old crappy light adapters you can cobble together something that actually works better than this one.

Honestly with good rechargeable AAs the GBA lasts ages, and you can carry as many spares as you need

Love your videos, keep it up

This channel super cool and intersesting thank you for this

I remember having a magnifier for my purple GBA. That thing was pretty much unusable no matter what in the dark.

i did have one of these (not this one but very similar) and having a batteri is so awesome and bac in the day it was the ultimate flex to pull on the AA Peasants, mine used gba's power from the top conector instead of a second AA slot on the light

@4:22 White LED's weren't readily available when this was made, in the early 00's everyone was still busy being amazed by blue LEDs :) I suspect the name gives away that this is using a small cold cathode fluorescent tube.

I used to have something like that for my Gameboy Color. The magnifying glass was horrible, but I loved the light it came with.

This reminds me of playing on my original Gameboy when I was a kid, with the screen light, which was not where near as good as that Joytech one.

I used to have a worm light and this seems way better. Way bigger as well, yet better.

Love your vids

I remember having some monster of a magnifier for the original gameboy that seemed to work quite well. But never had a light that was as good as that, that’s truly impressive.

My brother and I had one of these for the gameboy color. Also had the worm light. Our older cousin always told us what new accessories were worth buying haha

Woah! This looks so cool! Used to have one

Besides an actual backlight, the best light was the bendy one that came out with the gbc. It plugged into the port that you used for the link cable and worked on gba too.

man, i remember having that type of concept to a screen lighting device aw, good times

i got one of these, back in the days, when i got my GBA dir Christmas 👍🏻 and i Loved it❤️

Sorry I was asleep I couldn’t get to see your content earlier

My uncle use to have a gameboy advanced and the magnifier. I remember i use to play super mario world on it whenever he'd bring over his gameboy advance cause that was like my favorite game when i was 3 lol. It feels so nostalgic watching these gameboy advance videos lol

I had such a thing. Worked as a workaround for dark night car drives home from relatives. Thanks GBA, for illuminating my childhood.

YEESSSSS Sorry i missed some of your vids soooo busy studying

Looks like a cold-cathode fluorescent lamp to me, similar to those used in flatbed scanners of the era. There will be some electronic components in that enormous back section, as they need to turn the DC battery power into high-voltage (usually around 200v) AC.

i had something very similar which had LEDs around the edge of the magnifying lens kind of thing, it even came with a rechargeable battery pack. It was really good cause u didn't get a refection from the LEDS the light just went through the sides of the acrylic lens

I actually had this one as a kid and I can confirm the battery pack did work at one point. The screenlight was also definitely better than any of the wormlight things I remember trying but the magnifier itself got pretty scratched up so it became kinda unusable after a time, also yes it was heavy and big so it wouldn't fit comfortably in your pocket or anything.

Very cool. I was fairly skeptical myself at first, but nope- this thing works just as sure as joytech is purple. Very cool. Definitely something I wish I had had for myself back in the day.

Is there a consensus on the best backlit screens and battery packs for something comparable to the GBA shown at the start? The only battery mods I've seen compromise in some way or are only available in the US, and every time the Funnyplaying IPS 2 comes up I've seen people saying how much better they think the AGS 101 is, even if it's much more expensive.

We need a gba screen dimmer, an attachment for the micro that makes it unusable unless the lighting is just right. Also need a gba sp that runs off of double A batteries.

@ImDannn

3 жыл бұрын

You want to see people suffer, don't you?

@socwyvern9745

3 жыл бұрын

GhostScythe I’m constantly suffering, why not pass it around a bit.

This review was very...illuminating? Ok ok! I'll leave (joytech is purple)

Well done Elliot

Woow that’s actually amezing, it makes me want to buy one.

My brother and I actually had this! Used it quite a bit when I was younger

You should make the Gameboy horror for spooktember

what video did he cover that custom retro future style gameboy with the Type C connector? I remember seeing that in the tv capture video too

I have a couple of power packs for the pocket and colour which actually still work great. I think it's because they use the round batteries instead of the flat ones?

I had that exact same thing. Used to play lots of Gameboy games at night before the sp came out

300k that's crazy, well done tho. (Joy Tech is purple)

I'm surprised that it did anything at all. Even more that it worked so good.

Busting out the fleece! Feeling a bit chilly Elliot?

I had this accessory. I don't miss it.

I love these add-ons that turn a GameBoy into a GameMan

From the name I thought this was going to be one of those external frontlights that came out after the afterburner became a thing.

From the days when magazine reviewers were beholden to the word “Behold”

I just purchased a GBA yesterday. I'm definitely thinking of getting the IPS v2 screen upgrade from RetroModding. My question is, do I need the rechargeable battery mod to help this run as well? I have seen that yes, the form factor of USB-C charging is nice, but it doesn't seem necessary compared to alkaline rechargeable batteries

@ToxoRetro

3 жыл бұрын

I've IPS modded without a rechargeable battery. On alkaline batteries and on minimum brightness, it's about as efficient as the stock screen whilst obviously being clear.

Joytech is purple. Congrats on 300K subs! You deserve it Elliot! -Brendan

I had one of those. Not sure if it was the same brand but had the magnifying and light part. I can’t remember having a rechargeable battery but I also don’t remember not having one.

@austinwilburn1772

3 жыл бұрын

Never mind, mine didn’t have the over head light. The lights were under the glass around its frame. That thing was godsend for those long roads trips at night. I remember having the gameboy color and would play my game as we past street lights.

It is hard to believe that with the exception of the Japanese only game boy light it took until the game boy SP to get a truly backlit or lit display in a game boy. These days we take things like back lit displays and rechargeable batteries for granted. the next time I stumble across one of my old broken Gameboys I'm going to try to fix it and upgrade it. For my younger self

JoyTech is purple. Pretty awesome that it worked

Hey question. I wanted to buy parts from handheld legends yet was going to mix and match colors for all my buttons ybitbit seems to expensive and they said I can't pick out special colors would you happen to know a place I could do that?

1:11 That yellowed blister packaging tho... LOL looks like someone wee'd all over it.

@Miller_Time

3 жыл бұрын

The sun eventually wees on all of us

Getting proper Goldie vibes from that fleece pal haha

The packaging on that thing is unreal.

The time of no backlit screens was actually pretty short it was only 18 months from the original GameBoy till the Sega Game Gear came out. (And only 6 months between the EU release dates) Oh the number of AA batteries I murdered to power that thing though.

I owned the Nintendo GameBoy Advance rechargeable battery pack for my GBA, but it of course had a proprietary cable for it.

The real OG one you got from blockbuster or another gameing store back in day was best, as it was not locked fully to frame of gameboy so you could just use the light instead, also was more slim and had a big ass light bar that floated above screen.

this is one way to make eliiot happy 😆

I got one of those Afterburner lights inside my GBA. Likely the rarest console I own, technically.