By the way there’s a huge party going on over at twitter.com/elliot_coll and you’re invited. Yes, you.

@adamhenry6793

4 жыл бұрын

Yay!

@glaciiz

4 жыл бұрын

Yay you is invited!!! who's that?

@adamhenry6793

4 жыл бұрын

@@glaciiz Link?

@hatrisfan

4 жыл бұрын

Why does your pfp look like untitled goose game

@popcornbucket5537

4 жыл бұрын

YoshiBoy_64 Game reviews I think he meant yu, remember, yu

"Please tell me no one bought this" - well one person did :)

@TheRetroFuture

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha I love it really though. Thanks Oli :)

I had no idea the GBC had color changing features.

@StarmenRock

4 жыл бұрын

That's the perfect product for you then lol

@user-ub2km3yy6i

4 жыл бұрын

same

@callmescooter

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@ruegore

4 жыл бұрын

Features like this are written in the user manual. Does no one make a effort to read how to use the things they bought anymore? Seriously RTFM....

@Heymrk

4 жыл бұрын

@@ruegore I never had a Color. I never knew anyone with a Color. STFU.

I think its mean to be like GAME-EC-TRIC like electric.

Anybody else want to see what actually happens when you turn on that monstrosity?

@nathanmead140

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@ShapeShifter499

4 жыл бұрын

Heck yea

@scottcurrall

4 жыл бұрын

yes

@MCAlexisYT

4 жыл бұрын

YESSSS!!!!

To be fair mildly changing the colours is the sort of thing that would blown me away in the 90'S....I AM SOLD

@Mobin92

4 жыл бұрын

I remember when I randomly found out that you could do that... amazing!

@immortallix

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mobin92 same. I actually thought I broke it

Just a random thought, I have not looked it up at all. Is it possible that the Japanese GBC lacked that color changing feature?

@Metalwario64

4 жыл бұрын

No. It's identical to the US model, just with different serial codes on the back of the shell. The hardware is identical between regions.

I believe that it’s pronounce Gamectric

@TheRetroFuture

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@Littlerolz

4 жыл бұрын

The Retro Future glad I could help

@KnakuanaRka

3 жыл бұрын

The Retro Future I think it’s Game-ectric, like “electric”.

@Blubbstock

3 жыл бұрын

@@KnakuanaRka I think its G-ame-ctr-ic

What happens when you put a color changing cart into a black and white gameboy? 50 shades of grey

@TheCustomFHD

4 жыл бұрын

Rimuru!!!

@Caolan114

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheCustomFHD I'm not a bad slime slurp!

@TheCustomFHD

4 жыл бұрын

@@Caolan114 i know! I heard because of c.o.r.o.n.a you cant do any newer animes?!? Will it really get out next year? XD

@Caolan114

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheCustomFHD I would guess early next year as it is hard to get things going with social distancing and safety but people are adjusting to this new way of life and next year is a long way off

@TheCustomFHD

4 жыл бұрын

@@Caolan114 nah its not a long time... Time is really flying

I got such a rush of nostalgia seeing the Baby Pink SP. I didn’t own it but I wanted it. My dad took me to Gamestop when I was six to get a Gameboy. He refused to buy me the pink SP because it was “very scratched”. Not gonna lie, I probably whined about that. But I did get my see-through pink Advance that day and eventually got a dark blue SP as a hand-me-down. I love my Advance but I really wanted the backlit one. 😂 My first game was Kim Possible.

@TheRetroFuture

4 жыл бұрын

Lovely memories!

@claytonblevins5960

4 жыл бұрын

I got a GBA when they first released for Christmas when I was 7 or 8 and the first game I got was monsters inc. I recently bought a backlit GBA and it's beautiful how they should have made it to begin with.

The obvious concept of this device was to have the colour customisation from the Super Gameboy cartridge useable on a Gameboy Color, good idea in theory, not in execution

"What is this?" It's a scam, obviously.

I think I know what's going on. On boot the GBC bios reads the cart header and if it finds a DMG cart it preloads a greyscale palette for the game to use. The builtin feature for changing colors actually changes that palette. This thing does the same thing: boots as a GBC game, loads the palette you pick, sets the gameboy up to run DMG games, remaps its controller to act as a passthrough for the real cart and restarts the gameboy (by jumping at the cart entrypoint). The reason it doesn't work with Color-enabled games is that the game detects they're running on a GBC (there's a flag the game can check on boot), and if that's the case they overwrite the palette for their own use (this is how colors work on all gameboys up to the GBA, that one is different). Same reason Color-only games won't work on the pocket: the Magic Card leaves the GBC flag as it is, and the game still detects it as a DMG/MGB. In theory it could be possible for the Magic Card to trick the game into thinking it's running on a GBC. Any chance you would be able to dump the rom? It might be interesting to see if this is how it actually works!

It’s always good to have a friend who can read and write

... only friends are oliver and alex? ... I though we had something special ... *runs away while crying* (also I rate this video 100/10 for the special effects at the end)

@TheRetroFuture

4 жыл бұрын

We are THE friends Shawn, there’s a difference.

@sjm4306

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheRetroFuture aww, I'm tearing up bro rofl

This is obviously a must have for any Gameboy collector and enthusiast. Simply Amazing....

That ending lmao lol

@gummiknietschi

4 жыл бұрын

*hihihi* 😄

7:05 At least you got a gameboy accesory that can tear the fabric of spacetime and reality!

@epsileth

4 жыл бұрын

Or at least tear the cart loading slot of your case lol

Who else made the boom sound when he turned all of them on at the same time?

I LOVE stuff like the explosion at the end. Please more subtle edits like that lol. Love the channel

I was always a 'Left and B' person when playing B&W Game Boy games on a Game Boy Color. Good old greyscale.

@PLATESWEEPER

4 жыл бұрын

I was a left A guy i love my dark blue and red

6:49 -- apparently this Oliver guy did or else he wouldn't have sent you that unit for you to show off on the channel lol

@olicon3463

4 жыл бұрын

Haha perfect

@jayswtch8587

4 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏

"Oliver and Alex are the only friends I have" _Sad Monty noises_

@TheRetroFuture

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahah nah he’s a very good friend too!

Despite what the packaging, could it have been for clone systems that didn't have the option?

@mackjeez

4 жыл бұрын

Nope, it just increased the color pallet by 10, it may seem dumb in today's standard but it seems it was meant for people that wanted to mess around with their original gameboy game colors even more, seems it didn't sell very well lol.

My guess is that it was for people who couldn't easily use the built in pallet swapping. I dunno, maybe, maybe not? Probably just a con job worthy of Arthur from Minder.

I remember lusting after a passthrough like this back in the Bung/Lik-Sang era that was a similar idea, except you could actually set custom GBC colors for the background + 2 sprite palettes of normal GB games...I have -0- idea what Engrish name it went under :(

@tsian7328

4 жыл бұрын

Was it the Super Game Boy adapter for the SNES?

I wonder if some of the pallets were designed for specific games in mind that would look better than the built in ones?

Tetris is in color when you play on the game boy color from the getgo.

0:55 bruh it clearly says "gay mech trick"

@brigganator17

4 жыл бұрын

I can’t read so thanks! : )

@broderickclayburn

4 жыл бұрын

@BS STW No it’s like Ga makes the sound gay and Mec would sound the same as mech and tric would make the same sound as trick. ga,mec,tric

@broderickclayburn

4 жыл бұрын

Djinn Zhad LOL Blue removes Rumano coupled with guava good Google Google Google Google Google Google boo-boo Google Google boo-boo The microphone did not work well oh well lol

@NimhLabs

4 жыл бұрын

So... it is an Gundam then?

@KnakuanaRka

3 жыл бұрын

Like “game” and “electric”.

to be fair i was today years old when i found out you can change the color pallete on a gameboy colour. but i did start out with a regular gamebody advance tho.

@MattiKoopa

3 жыл бұрын

It works on an Advance as well

Would be something with a minimal interest if you could change the color palette ingame (using a button on the cartridge for instance).

Superb ending. FLAWLESS VICTORY!

I thought you could change the colour palate at the gameboy startup screen. I know it worked on gba sp for gameboy colour games

It changes the palette of colors that the game uses, you kept just turning it off and not looking at it in any detail and the different palette you chose was very similar to the original. The other effect of adding the colors to the non color games is unrelated. You just used it wrong the whole time. I’m curious to see it used correctly even though it’s a pretty dumb device.

I actually wanted to find out what would happen at the end....

Should try it with the Gameboy camera, and printer!

Its kind of makes sense to me, if you think about it without this the GBC still has 12 colour options. 1 for each direction held on the dpad while you switch it on, and another 4 each for holding A or B with either direction. These where mostly basic choices that enabled 4-5 colors on screen of which includes white and black. So in most cases you would have 3 actual colors, one for background, one for character and another for character 2 and/or items. Thing is not all games was compatible with adding colors from what I've read, I assume the majority of the incompatible games would be Japanese releases only hence why this is a Japanese product, would of been much more useful over in the country it was produced than it would over here. The main use it would have over here I would imagine is that a small number of GBC titles had a special feature called hi color mode. This enabled like 10 times more amount of colours on screen than most games would allow or could handle so I guess more than anything this is a device that enabled every game to use the rare but obviously much better and more impressive hi color mode.

It could be good depending on the color choices. The ones in the GBC are hit or miss. Some work for some games but not perfect for all. I think you should try finding the very best color palette you can get for a simple game like Mario land. Compare the result of the best normal and best on this device. Can you actually get red Mario and green grass on either device?

I think this may have added 12 additional color options that the gameboy didn't provide so now you have 24 colors to chose from.

Did you play the Tetris side-by-side with and without that cart? To me it looks like it's actually doing something pretty neat that I would have loved as a kid. The GBA only applies a single color to the background, and a different one to certain sprites. This device looks like it applies different colors to each different sprite/layer/dithering effect/whatever, so you get a lot more color and variability in the screen.

if it offers _different_ color selections to that of the GBC, then I can see some value. Still hard to beat the Super Gameboy's customization ability (or modern emulation).

I recommend the Monster Brain. It changes the color pallet, backs up save files, and lets you mess with the code of the game. Mostly Pokémon games but ye.

I had no idea you could do that with Gameboy games in a Gameboy Color.

lmfao 7:12 (actually it more than likely would either work as intended or not turn on at all) I've never heard of 'Game-metric' nor this product, and to be fair, probably for the better since of course I know all about the built-in color palettes of the GBC... lolz

Can you change the “colors” of a black and white game on a black and white gameboy and switch around the shades of grey?

@TheRetroFuture

4 жыл бұрын

We tried that!

Oh and also it makes sense for the fact that with such a limited color pallet and choices not every game would have an option that fit it perfect, I can imagine some games for instance you might end up with brown clouds, yellow grass and a salmon character when he is supposed to be blue. But so are the clouds, so choose one you want in the correct colour and the other one will still be wrong. You can't always have both the same colour, but wait. You can actually have both the same colour but those options will make everything red and yellow with some black and white. Still not correct or very ideal, also this magic card also is just very convenient. Instead of constantly switching the GBC off an on to try the different colour pallet options until you find one that you think is OK you can instead cycle through and see all the choices plus any extra it offers in real time to see what is available instead of turning it on and off constantly waiting for the game to load and start each time until you get it right.

maybe is for something related to daltonism problems (just speculation)

Anyone else here see that ending coming? (I sure did)

Does it even provide _more_ pallets or are they all the same as the built-ins?

Well the advance sp could choose 4 diffrent color selections

I always chose the orange everytime I played gb games on the gbc...it just felt natural

So it exploded at end? 🤔

If this device provides more or different color schemes that the GBC hasn't, it's not entirely useless.

tbh, if you needed more color palletes, just use a Gameboy Player on SNES

There was two different types of games for the original Game Boy, basically called type 1 and 2. Type 1 used in a Gameboy Color was the only one you could change the color. Type 2 on the other hand had more color in a Gameboy Color and didn't let you change the color pallet. Pokemon red and blue were the only pokemon versions that were type 1and yellow, gold, and silver were type 2. Type 3 were gbc games and 4 were for gba and so on.

Was this intended for the original gameboy or perhaps gameboy mini

Damn nice finale!

Wowwww... just wow

The gameboy advance didn't have a color changing pallet for original gameboy games. So that's what it's for

@TooFurious4

4 жыл бұрын

But the instructions say to only use on Gameboy Color.

@nathanmead140

4 жыл бұрын

It does and i have used it on a 40 pin original GBA

@ruegore

4 жыл бұрын

Yes it does.

@trivie

4 жыл бұрын

ruegore how do you activate it? I can’t figure it out on my og and sp advances

@ruegore

4 жыл бұрын

@@trivie When you plug in a non-color GB game into your GBA console and turn it on, just press and hold any direction key with either the A or B buttons. Depending on direction and action button used, it will change the built in color pallette that's applied. You have to do this at the "gameboy" bootup screen, before it launches into the game.

you have to be a certain kind of special to think a cart will magically make your monochrome screen able to produce colour

When you’re about to comment about the ad.

If it let you choose them completely by custom, a la the BGB emulator, and had a bettet form factor, I'd actually be interested.

I swear I had a revision that didnt let you select at all prior to a game.

The colors Duke, the colors!!

you can do this on the gameboy advanced sp in super mario land 6 golden coins

I bought the gb boy colour *knowing it was a bootleg* and it changes color the same way as this

how did you paint that color scheme bro ? awesome vid been watching for a bit now

I was today years old before I learned you could adjust the presented colors on older GB carts on a GBC. So... I learned something. And didn't need a peripheral. XD

I wonder if the intent was to be able to use more colors than the 4/7/10 color palettes available for original GB games, since GBC only carts could display a lot more color. That would be pretty interesting. Otherwise, it may just use more vivid colors than the preset palettes, which is dumb.

R.I.P. in peace

The simple reason why this device exists is because you can costumize your own colorpallet for old GB games wich you cannot do on the gameboycolor because you can only choose netween 12 different colorpallets,with this device you can create your own colorpallet,( not sure if you can save it but on the brainboy adaptor you can save your colorpallet per game) Now if nintendo also used start & select then you would,ve a combination of 18 colorpallets and if you could,ve use both button combinations then you could,ve had 36 colorpallets to choose from but sadly nintendo just didn’t think that far out of the box. But still trough i love my gameboycolor and brainboy adaptor and that magic card definitely makes me curious as well.

What happens when you put the device in and change the pallet first with B + Digipad and after that change the pallet also with the device? Instead of 12 you probably get even more pallets when the one on the cartridge are different from the Nintendo ones.

@TheRetroFuture

4 жыл бұрын

You can’t!

@dr_j0nes

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheRetroFuture okay that means that the cartridge gets recognized as a GBC game? That's strange because on the GBP the warning/error message that you are trying to play a GBC game on a GB appears after the cartridges Menu and not immediately. Hmmm is there some fancy stuff going on or am I missing a point?

More colors in the game like mega man or pokemon red/blue would be nice to view in a gbc

While this obviously won't work, I'm still curious of what would happen if you put in a GBA cartridge in the Magic Card, because it does seem small enough to fit

Maybe uhm... it can change the green colours on a Original Game Boy or a Pocket? XD idk...

I have a question: i droped my gameboy advanced sp while it had a game in it the gameboy is fine but for some reason the game inside wont play in any of my gameboy adavces. The game looks fine the contacts look intact but idk what to do to fix it

@9000888sora

4 жыл бұрын

Something was broken off the game PCB

If you install the Google Translate app on your smartphone, it can translate text from foreign languages like Chinese and Japanese in real-time using the camera, and show you it in real-time in English (or whatever language) on the screen. You can translate things like this yourself from now on. Not as good as a native speaker, but good enough for many uses.

Honestly I didn't know the gameboy color had that feature until watching your videos. The difference is I didn't start a company based on my ignorance.

Pronounce it like "electric" but with a 'gam' at the beginning.

That ending though....

Eliot, you're a madman. MAD I SAY!

Fun fact, you can only change the colours on pokemon games after you have captured missingno.

Game-eck-trick. Like Game and Electric mashed together

😂😂😂😂 the end is pure gold!

if you only press buttons in the intro of this console, all time u can change the color

how do you turn off color pallets on a gameboy color?

It might just be me but the reasons stated in both of my comments make this seem like it would of been quite a nice little device to have owned for your GBC back in the day. Obviously it depends on how much it would of cost you back then of course, if it was priced the same as a brand new full individual game then its probably not worth it but if it was in the price range of some of the accessories like the snake light or something and could find it for 10-15 pounds or something then would definitely be worth it. I think the best way to think of it is that it is kind of a simple primitive graphics card to enhance your handheld a little bit. These days someone might spend 3-4 hundred on a graphics card for there computer and for that price what they will get out of it is games that play 52fps instead of 45fps. Not much difference and is something that wouldn't bother most people and most wouldn't even really notice the difference anyway unless you are really in to that kind of thing. Same with the magic card, if you are really in to that kind of thing then those kinds of people it would probably make a really big difference on screen for them.

7:10 "Tactical nuke incoming!!!"

game plus electric = gamectric?

Could you play GBC on a DS Lite Egito this as an adaption?

kind of reminds me of a rewinding dvd devise lol

Best ending ever!! 😂

The Retro Future Is Here

R.I.P. Retrofuture...and half of London.

i have something called a Pelican that does this way better and with more options, also it lets you backup save files you should review it!

Wear do youget tge backlight tgat cganers co!our like that for the gbc cheers.

Please do a TXMAXX hunt. It might surprise you, honestly.

When I saw the title I thought it was a memory card

If this allowed you to fully customize the color palette for Game Boy games like the Super Game Boy could do, it would’ve been somewhat of a seller. But it just turned out to be a useless piece of technology.

Awe man I was gonna put it in my super Dendy with a super gameboy while a toddler pours Fiji water on it.