It's been a while, hasn't it?
Well, since my most popular video so far is the Game Boy Accessories video by a wide margin
(and thanks for that, by the way),
why not celebrate my return with a sequel?
Jeez, look at that potato camera.
That BigT guy or whatever was such a noob...
I mean, lookit, nothing's even straight, and... *sighs*
Eh, whatever, I'm not even gonna worry about it.
Managed to get my hands on some new accessories in that almost-five-year hiatus,
so let's jump right in, shall we?
My name is H, and this is
I guess we should start with the ubiquitous original brick.
After all, it did revolutionize the portable video game market back in 1989.
Even with its shortcomings, like that awful, dim screen.
Nowadays, going back to look at something like this is daunting,
now that our eyes have been spoiled with bright and vibrant AMOLED panels.
But even back then, being unable to play with anything short of direct daylight was quite a hassle.
Gamers wanted to be able to play in the dark! Or at least after the evening hours.
Therefore NUBY, just one third party company,
released the, appropriately titled, NUBY Game Light.
They weren't the only ones; lighting up that thing's screen was a big business.
There were so many accessories out there to accomplish this simple task
that you would probably be looking at double the retail price of the Game Boy itself back in the day if you wanted them all.
I looked at the Brite Beam in the first GB Accessories video, and since then I've gotten my hands on the NUBY Game Light.
Two of them, in fact.
One is a Game Light, and one is a Game Light Plus,
the difference being that the Plus also has a magnifier.
I'm going to demo the regular ol' Game Light because I can't get the Game Light Plus to light up, unfortunately.
Even this one can be quite finnicky as well.
The first thing you have to do is put in the four... AA batteries. Four.
That means eight batteries total. Good grief.
These batteries are a pain in the neck to put in there, too. They just barely fit,
and then you have to deal with sliding this dumb thing back over the top.
This is just not a very pleasant experience.
Then you just snap this to the top of the Game Boy: probably the easiest part.
Pretty ingenious actually that it uses the grooves in the Game Boy for installation,
and once it snaps on there, it does not move.
In fact, it's quite difficult to get it back off.
The light actually does a pretty decent job at lighting up the screen, I'm kind of surprised.
But it does use incandescent bulbs,
which are prone to flickering if they have anything short of perfect battery contact.
Overall, meh...
Even though the light doesn't work, I'll just show the magnifier one, too.
This does help a little if you're farsighted or something,
but I would be just fine with the original screen.
Another very popular version of the light accessory is this here worm light.
This one I like much better.
It plugs right into the EXT port of the Game Boy Pocket or Color.
It also works with the Game Boy Light if you're a fan of redundancy.
This allows it to tap off the system's power so there's no extra batteries involved,
and you can move this around until it's in the perfect spot for you to avoid glare.
In the dark it's fairly effective,
and when you don't need it, it folds into a nice accordion and slips away into your pocket, or whatever.
Much better product.
Speaking of link cables, there's this thingy.
This is known as the Game Boy four-player adapter, or DMG-07.
You guessed it: four players... on Game Boy!
One end is hard-wired, and the other three ends you need to buy extra link cables.
Not a fan of this design cause you can't hook up anything other than an original brick to the first player end,
whereas if you had link cable adapters, like this one,
you could hook up any Game Boy except the Micro to the other player's slots.
It only works with some games that are compatible, like F-1 Race, Super R.C. Pro-Am, and Uno 2: Small World.
And one other link cable.
This one was made by Gamester, and is actually a 2-in-1 link cable.
This could either function as a Game Boy Advance to Game Boy Advance link cable,
or a GBA to GameCube link cable, simply by flicking the switch.
It's nice and long, too.
And, on the GBA SP, it doesn't cover up the charging port,
like the official GBA to GameCube one does.
It's an all-around good solution, and I like it.
Let's talk some power cables.
For starters, here is the original Game Boy rechargeable battery.
Yeah, a rechargeable battery, for the Game Boy!
It's... almost as big as the Game Boy, and you have to clip it to your stinkin' jeans and have a wire come up,
but hey, whatever compromise had to be made to have to buy less AAs was certainly welcome.
Amazingly, after twenty-nine years, it still holds a charge. Not bad!
Here's a look at an official Game Boy Pocket A/C Adapter.
This one also works with the Game Boy Light, and the Game Boy Color.
Nice long cord on it, and it makes for less battery waste if you're indoors.
Just, whatever you do, do not plug this in while there are also batteries inserted in the Game Boy.
This will not turn out pleasantly.
Of course, there were also A/C adapters for your car.
Yeah, not too much to say about this one;
it's a Game Boy SP power adapter that works... with... your... car...
The GBA SP was heavily criticized for having no standard headphone jack,
like a certain, recent device, maybe?
To use headphones, you had to get an adapter.
I happen to have two of these: one by Intec and one... unbranded one.
The downside is that you cannot charge and use headphones at the same time because they both use the same port,
but they do work quite well, so that's good.
We'll conclude the video by revisiting two accessories that I talked about in the previous one,
the GameShark Pro and the Brain Boy.
I've since found out what these do.
This is the GameShark Pro
Quite an iconic product; I'm surprised I didn't know what this was back then.
Just like any GameShark or Game Genie,
it allows cheat codes to be entered in to unlock game features,
such as infinite lives, invincibility to enemies, et cetera, et cetera...
What you do is you put a game cartridge on the back here,
insert this in the Game Boy, and... there you go.
This is the Brain Boy, and it's similar to a Game Genie, but it has some different enhancements.
It can add more custom palettes to original Game Boy games than the default profiles built right into the Game Boy Color,
speed up games to 2x, and back up save games.
But perhaps the best feature is its ability to completely break Pokémon Gold and Silver.
Attach a Gold or Silver cart to this thing, and it can unlock any Pokémon at any level.
We'll cover both of these in more detail in separate, future videos.
Well, that's all for the new Game Boy accessories video.
To all my subscribers, I want to thank you for sticking around so long waiting for more videos,
And to all the rest of you, thank you very much for watching, as always.
More videos to come soon!
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*Background music © Sega Games Co. Ltd.
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