The sound of the rain on the corregated iron roof actually gave the video a really cosy quality 😊

@endeav0r_49

3 ай бұрын

Oh shit I thought it was the Gameboy audio glitching out

@Crusader1089

3 ай бұрын

Nothing more ‘stralian than rain on a tin roof.

@NotColaTai

3 ай бұрын

Also sounds like as if your in a car while its raining, some times i just go outside to a car and chill

@ElectroNicko_

3 ай бұрын

Maybe I just have hearing loss and tinnitus but I can't hear what your talking about at all. I've heard it before but can't hear it in the video

@yeetboy88

3 ай бұрын

my mum would agree

This is alternative timeline where Cave Johnson decided to do this instead of making combustible lemons

@FlyingCIRCU175

3 ай бұрын

I would trust James with running Aperture AND Black Mesa.

@notanetcher

3 ай бұрын

dude I only am recently finishing that game and heard that line lol

@tomtrublu

3 ай бұрын

Lol

@YaSheNePrydumav

3 ай бұрын

Also now we know how many batteries we need to power Aperture facility

@clementpoon120

3 ай бұрын

​​@@YaSheNePrydumavwhen life gives you lemons, make lemon battrees

The speedrun world record for Super Mario Land is 12:21 so that's almost enough time to complete the game. Just need a couple more lemons.

@trikholit7064

3 ай бұрын

VitaminC%

@No_True_Scotsman

3 ай бұрын

Lemon%

@LBJshowedmehisJ

3 ай бұрын

I was going to say this should be a speenrun category.

@-Shinoray-

3 ай бұрын

@@No_True_Scotsman nice now i want a Lemon% from the Channel the Backlogs

@kaitlyn__L

3 ай бұрын

Or a bigger piece of zinc, rather than zinc plating. Then 14 lemons would absolutely suffice, or possibly even 7!

absolutely mad that the gameboy was still running at 1 volt, it's like that quote from portal where the announcer mentions all equipment will remain functional at as few as 1.1 volts

@purpleneons

3 ай бұрын

Because that is how electronics usually work, Xbox One controller's voltage cutoff is right around 1.1V for example.

@triggerhurt

3 ай бұрын

@@purpleneons yeah i know, it's pretty funny how it keeps showing up as a result. still really interesting to see it in action

@kaitlyn__L

3 ай бұрын

@@purpleneonshonestly that’s pretty impressive, since the TTL logic high threshold is 2V and the transition is usually ~1.5. But the actual hard-limit logic low threshold is 0.8, so I guess a lot of chips can just-about discriminate between low and high with just a 0.3V difference.

The Enrichment Center reminds you that although circumstances may appear bleak, you are not alone. All Aperture Science personality constructs will remain functional in apocalyptic, low power environments of as few as 1.1 volts.

You might think it's silly, but when Australia turns to Mad Max and you wanna play Gameboy, James is gonna have the last laugh

@JonasC22

3 ай бұрын

yea for about 10 minutes per week

@gluttonousmaximus9048

3 ай бұрын

A bicycle generator should probably be available somewhere...

@knifefght

3 ай бұрын

How are you going to grow lemons in a wasteland though??

@obsidianclorox

3 ай бұрын

@@knifefght Oasis

@propheinx2250

Ай бұрын

It'll cost so much for such a short play... he'll make a killing, lol.

I did the same experiment, ended up building a digital clock that ran off various fruits, or even some drinks, and used it for years. The best "battery" was actually regular coca-cola.

@nickwallette6201

3 ай бұрын

Takeaway: Coca-Cola is basically battery acid that you can drink. Can. Maybe shouldn't, but can.

@devinwg6777

3 ай бұрын

What happened to it?

@Zerbey

3 ай бұрын

@@devinwg6777 It was 30 years ago!

@jezusmylord

3 ай бұрын

every battery acid is drinkable but only once @@nickwallette6201

@DUKE_of_RAMBLE

3 ай бұрын

​@@devinwg6777World governments confiscated it, and silenced him. Expect this comment thread to be deleted within the next 2 or 3 hours.... 😒

When life gives you lemon you use them to power a gameboy ofcourse🍋🍋🍋💀💀

@jerrysanchez5453

2 ай бұрын

Better than what I've been doing with them anyway lol

In a world of portable power banks and personal vehicles (and even some public transport in big cities) providing easy access to power on-the-go, this is truly the way to get the authentic "rushing through the level because the batteries are about to die" original GB experience.

@kaitlyn__L

3 ай бұрын

Schoolyard Game Boy, when everyone’s batteries are already dead. So one kid sits on the rest to get a little more juice out, while someone else keeps swapping them in to try and finish their level before it dies again. (In my school at least, we did rock paper scissors tournaments to determine who got to slurp up the battery dregs in that manner!)

@GuyDude-hk8uy

3 ай бұрын

@@kaitlyn__L My friend used to tell me that if you held the GB up to the sun, the batteries would last longer - and I believed it! Simpler times :)

@MarioMonte13

Ай бұрын

​@@GuyDude-hk8uy technically speaking, it may have made a slightly measurable difference. Diodes and photovoltaic cells are the same, just specialized differently. If you supply any PV with its forward voltage, it will emit light. If you supply any diode with its forward voltage, it will emit light (whether visible or not) LEDs aren't good at turning light into current, but they definitely produce a small current from light.

Get a bunch of these with some link cables and you've got yourself a Lemon Party

@unnamedchannel1237

3 ай бұрын

Filthy just filthy

@ShankatsuForte

2 ай бұрын

that's an old one

"DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?! I'M THE MAN THAT'S GONNA POWER YOUR GAME BOY! WITH THE LEMONS!"

@medicalbeverage

Ай бұрын

“I’M GONNA GET MY ENGINEERS TO INVENT A COMBUSTIBLE BATTERY THAT BURNS YOUR GAMEBOY!”

Ah, so this is the Lemon Party I keep hearing about.

I think the issue with the charge rate wasn't so much the lemons, but the zinc strips. The zinc ions were being stripped from the steel, so you basically consumed most of the coating. At that point your galvanic potential was lower because it was just steel to copper instead of zinc. If you had solid zinc strips they might have charged at a similar rate for longer. A fun V2 could be 316 stainless steel and zinc. A lot more galvanic potential. It should charge a lot quicker.

@Games_for_James

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, pure zinc isn’t something I can just go out and buy though. Stainless also releases a poisonous chemical,I don’t need that in my life lol

@AB0BA_69

3 ай бұрын

@@Games_for_JamesJames, your channel is less than a year old, but has almost 150k subscribers!! How does it feel, mate?!?! Also, when will you show off your Silver Play Button??

@leonroscher860

3 ай бұрын

​@@Games_for_James zinc nails are working well and are availlable in most hardware stores. They are used for roofing.

I'm suddenly realizing that the experiments of Mr. James Channel are what happen when you have the drive of a mad scientist, but without the fatal flaw of unfiltered ambition.

When Life gives you Lemons, charge capacitors and play Super Mario Land for 10 minutes. Lemons well spent.

Damn, that's a great analogy for capacitors. Bucket you can fill with a trickle and dump all at once.

If Cave Johnson from the Portal series were real, this existing would either bring him back to life or kill him more haha.

"Thank goodness I still live in a world full of; Telephones! Handguns! Lemon powered GameBoys! ... ...And many things - made of Zinc! "

I think the Gameboy is both blurrier than you remember but the LCD is also very old and probably way more sluggish than it was in 1989

@nickwallette6201

3 ай бұрын

I suspect this is the case. Motion clarity was never very good. But, last time I tried on my own childhood Game Boy, it was pretty much unplayable with platformers that regularly moved the screen. There's a difference between "a screen so bad you prayed your parents would drive under a street lamp so you could see" and 38-year-old lethargic liquid in the LCD.

@DUKE_of_RAMBLE

3 ай бұрын

​@@nickwallette6201I had mega attachment called the *Handy Boy,* which was a square magnifying glass, two small lightbulbs on each side, and two fold out stereo speakers. 😁🤘 _(folded closed, they protected the mag glass, like window shutters)_ It also had a controls attachment, where for the D-Pad it was similar to the Analog Stick on N64. Then the A and B were just larger and closer together. It was *super* clunky and I _never_ used it. (it cliped on separately) I don't remember if the speakers were powered by the GameBoy, or if it has a small amplifier... But it's been over 30 years. Based on pictures, it looks to have a power switch for the speakers, so it likely does, and used the GameBoy's own volume dial to do handle the unit's volume control. But yea, its added lighting was the REAL hero! Which obviously meant my GameBoy now required 6 batteries. lol

@brandontechnerd

3 ай бұрын

Plus it's running below 2 volts with the contrast all the way up.

@TechnicalJimActual

3 ай бұрын

It could be just regular degradation of the screen components. These things are over 30 years old, after all.

@kaitlyn__L

3 ай бұрын

@@DUKE_of_RAMBLEI had something similar but smaller, so no speakers. No convoluted folding mechanism. Just the magnifier and the light. Two incandescent bulbs, “grain of wheat” sized (because I guess millimetres would be too abstract? Gotta call em rice, wheat, barley, etc. Sure, whatever). It drained the one AAA battery it took in an hour, sometimes two. My brother had a more expensive one with a single, and still very new, warm-white LED. It was brighter and lasted over 10x as long. I was so jealous 😂

When life gives you lemons, Don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back. Get Mad! I don't want your DAMN lemons; What am I supposed to do with these!? Demand to see life's manager; Make life rue the day it thought it could give James Channel lemons!

@DUKE_of_RAMBLE

3 ай бұрын

haha I remember this quote. A classic as classical as the GameBoy Classic! 🤘

So for every day you charge it, you can joyously play your game boy for just about 1.4 minutes.

Those old tech are made to last forever and are made to work forever. And seeing it run on almost nothing makes it better.

james do a potato powered virtual boy

I hope you had a nice black tea with those lemons afterwards. Can't let them go to waste!

@BullockDS

3 ай бұрын

Lemon black tea and Gameboy sounds like a grand time.

@l0kaltpsykf4ll34

3 ай бұрын

lemon with a hint of copper & zinc 💀

@BullockDS

3 ай бұрын

@@l0kaltpsykf4ll34 I already taste copper though, so no biggie.

@cool_bug_facts

3 ай бұрын

@@l0kaltpsykf4ll34 and quite possibly mold

@teinkasrkin4667

3 ай бұрын

@@l0kaltpsykf4ll34 Parts of the lemon without traces of zinc look delish. Honestly i would definetly feed them to the neighbours kids whom i appreciate for waking me up everyday at 5 AM. 😀

I came for the video game experiment, I stayed for the cat meow 😻

“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade, make it power your gameboy” -Cave Johnson (probably)

Make life rue the day it gave James lemons. Have your engineers invent a combustible lemon.

Ngl the portal screenshot made my heart happy

Wow! Thats quite the lemon party! :)

Speedrun category LEMON%

I'm happy you took the smart route and put all the other people who have attempted similar experiments, to absolute shame.

When life gives you lemmons you power a game boy

Interesting fact about the original game boy!! The screens actually become blurrier over time. I believe it's because of UV exposure but I could be mistaken.

Theres something incredibly satisfying about seeing how slowly the voltmeter was ticking up when the bank was charging, and then seeing it tick down at almost two hertz as you're playing

James truly is an engineer for the common man (psychos). Love the content big man.

Did you burn their house down? With the lemons?

@realflushed

3 ай бұрын

portal reference :D

Hope you didn't steal those lemons, James.

i would love to see a comparison with the same amount of lemons would do with a game boy pocket! your channel always brings me such joy. it’s nice to see a retro game channel that isn’t just doing the same mods all the time!

I'm pretty jealous that variable power supply that juicy resistance though

Average James channel video(at least in my opinion): Start: smart thing Middle: smart thing End: smart thing Last second: cat

Now I know what to bring to my lemon party

Wow! Looks like you're having a Lemon Party!

You know, the first video I watched here made me go, "Huh?" At this point, I'm fully invested in the weird...

Probably using a simpler game like Tetris would last some more as that contains a single chip, while Mario Land is a large enough game to require a mapper chip. Might not be a lot but hey, 5 minutes is 5 minutes! :D

Capacitors also charge slower the more you charge them so it makes sense that after a week you basically stopped charging.

James is REALLY charged up in this one

I'm honestly impressed you were able to play for over 10 minutes, considering how power hungry most electronics were back then! I remember Sega Game Gear needing approximately 812 AA batteries!

that first gameboy is probably one of the best human inventions ever

We’ve all played that brightness gamble, trying to squeeze every last bit from the batteries.

In elementary school I did a science experiment for the fair. I found out that lemons are the second least efficient food item to produce power. The most efficient was the onion due to the chemical density and concentration. It produced over 3 volts!

You could literally charge the Aperture Science Computer Aided Enrichment Center with 14 lemons.

I guess now you're playing with power. Lemon power.

It's weird how fruits and vegetables i.e. lemons, potatoes, and pickles, have the ability to keep a GameCube on life support

Now I can say my gameboy has run out of juice and be quite literal in the sense.

Genius. Thanks for another great lesson JAMES

Insert “Cave Johnson Portal Quote about lemons” here.

There's a lemon behind that rock! 🍋

the sequel to the potato-powered calculator with DOOM on it

This channel is like a way more complicated dankpods

When life gives you lemons, plug them into your game boy.

I very much enjoyed that Lemon% speedrun

This is probably something I would do to avoid using batteries. Nice to see it done.

when life gives you lemons, connect them to your game boy and play mario land for about 10 minutes

6:37 Your cat always makes me chuckle. What a talker!

Love that game and what a wild experiment! always love the mad science with James! PS that basement gaming cave is too awesome.

I forget that you have cats and each time I get to the end of your videos I audibly go "kitty!"

im gonna get my team of engineers to invent a game boy lemon

It looks like you've came up with a new speed running category. The lemon percent speed run, lol.

That's pretty cool. If you had 2 Game Boys and a link cable you could have a lemon party!

James encompasses the level of cromulent jank I aspire to once I get my engineering degree too

@Games_for_James

3 ай бұрын

Oh I dropped out of engineering.

@Khardankov

3 ай бұрын

@@Games_for_James not before learning the good stuff, apparently

capacity ticking down like old school mario seconds

When life gives you lemons, use it to power a Gameboy.

So when life gives you lemons, play Mario

I can't believe you didn't say, "He's dead Jim"

I remember guy that used potatoes to run Doom on a calculator. Similar energy.

James is so energetic this time

Wait, what? Since when is that experiment done with lemons, we've used potatoes!

This guy reminds me of DankPods I wonder if they know each other

I like your cat, and your game room makes me jealous lol

When life gives you lemons have a …. LAN party!

I was literally looking for Game Boy when this uploaded.

This was such a fun video James!

Impressed by both the videos and the lemons. Learnt about makign fruit batteries too. Thank you for making my potential apocalypse plans more fun.

6:22 “You can play gameboy for free” Except the lemons cost money

That "brightness" you are adjusting is actually the contrast.

What a lemon party!

James I love this! Please make more cursed content😂

Did I just watch you power a Nintendo Gameboy with lemons? 😲 I am impressed! I have been binging your videos! I like your video editing! I also like that you celebrate your accomplishments and that you make the video feel like I am sitting right there with you! Keep up the good work!

James answers the many, many gaming related questions we never had

another banger, thanks james

i love how dankpods is green and james is red

It’s like that Red Dwarf episode

So a Beatles Week of lemons = ten minutes of Gameboy

When life gives you lemons, play some Gameboy.

You have quite the party of lemons!

lemon boy and meee started to get along togetheeer

That’s some sour power but that the gameboy even ran off any power generated by the lemons for more than 30 secs is cool.

When life gives you lemons, power your GameBoy.

damn the internal resistance of a lemon is high

I was ready for everything exept lemons.