Not mine, but I always enjoy seeing these monstrosities.
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).
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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.
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.
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
About tree fiddy.
Still longer than the GameGear :(
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I tried to find a photo of this janky Game Gear peripheral I had, but came across this angelfire website instead: https://www.angelfire.com/games4/icecoldatari/Gamegear.html
I feel like this website may actually be from the 90s... It's literally just a person talking about the cool shit they have for their Game Gear, and the only email address is @aol.com. Made me very nostalgic.
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.
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Game Man
This is like the Thanos glove with the stones (can't remember the actual names) but for Nintendo in the 80s and 90s. The only thing missing is a power glove which it's all mounted on, and an NES Zapper somehow integrated into it all.
Where’s the camera?
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
WHO downvoted this, and why do you hate amazing things???
"So I have this ultra portable gaming device..."
Batteries drained in 5 minutes
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.
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All this and no Nyko shock and rock?
Gaming in the 90's was so glorious.
“THIS ISN’T EVEN MY FINAL FORM!”
Final Freeza did look like a pair of Airpods, ngl
I always enjoy seeing these monstrosities.
Remember when we all dressed like that 10 years ago?
No, you do not mix AR and game genie but there is a distinct absence of anything Gameboy camera/printer attachment so it's clearly incomplete. I'd also suggest the attachment reading lamp, but I think if that magnifying attachment comes with a light that works, too. Not sure if that particular one does, though.
Rockin' the little watch too, that's legit.
A game genie and action replay on one unit? I seem to recall that being a very bad idea.
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How heavy is that?
3 grams off from collapsing into a black hole
Cassette Dystopianism
You're probably thinking ew! Who would ever want that? They must have worked hard on the marketing side!
Well there was nothing better and everyone had a TV. So they had normal TV commercials for it.
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