Also use some second-hand pedal accesory with a hydraulic system that pushes the L button. I mean, sure, you can just solder a wire, but that would be less universal.
I can imagine this thing would only be usable with a screen lighting mod, because that bulky housing would surely prevent proper outside lighting from getting to the screen.
That's really clever engineering, thanks for the video too! I love seeing these old peripherals, there's so many diverse ideas out there and some of them can be really interesting!
@@ttwedell I've been to America and somehow our whetherspoons toilets are worse than a gas station bathroom. Hell the biker bars have better bathroom too.
The problem is that since it's still using the D-pad, you won't get the precision you would expect from a better steering wheel accessory, so something like this would work best if it connected to the extension cord, and even then, it would only work with games designed for it.
Lmao I actually had this as a kid, my parents bought it at Radio Shack and I don't think I even actually asked for it. The original GBA was already hard enough to see as it was, and adding this contraption didn't make things easier and I just chucked it in the closet lol
I'm trying to think of a console that doesn't have racing games lol the virtual boy I think? That shitty Mattel console that uses cards to choose characters forgot the name. Well I think that literally had only two games lol Magnovox Odyssey which only had different versions of pong lol
That makes for a unique display stand for a GBA, when not in use. Attach to mains power, put a game with demo mode on it, and presto, tiny conversational piece on your shelf. Heck, I have something called GBA movie player. Video from CF card. Record some gameplay from various games, and have it play on a loop. Instant art piece! :D
The easiest way to open clam shell packaging is with a can opener. You just clamp it in place, turn the crank, and let the blade do its job. I kind of want to see you play Metroid Fusion with this. That would be a crazy video.
That's absolutely amazing .. I thought of building such a device for myself but seeing this exists I will definitely search for that and buy one ... maybe even buy one on my next Italy vacation
this would be amusing with a gba game called spyhunter, there's a ps2 version but the gba is most memorable for having an inexplicable arcade mode where you have to run over as many chickens as you can within a time limit... yes i don't know either
Only now that the gba consolizer exists can I somewhat justify this… thing Edit: I just realized you wouldn’t be able to attach it, is there a snes wheel? That could work.
Wow! I bought a US branded one of these from Best Buy's clearance section for 1 penny about 15 years ago. I completely forgot about it until now. I spent a week trying to convince myself it was worth the single cent I paid.
You know the one eyed bird in Futurama? I reckon you could GBA up a forearm thingy so you can wear AND play your GBA a treat, bit of leather offcuts on ebay, some stretchy elastic to give it some grip to your forearm, dunno if you could curve a GBA screen but some screens can be curved a little. Get Vince on board to build up some super power hand trigger and motion sensor using sixteen different Chinese connectors and a handy output for making a cup of tea or mowing the lawn... :P
Just to have a laugh, how would the steering game perform while beating a zelda boss for example? Like how hard would it be to play non-racing games using the steering wheel?
@The Retro Future I don’t know if you’ll ever see this comment. But after seeing your previous video and watching you restore the TPS-L2 Walkman so well it made me remember my TPS-L2 Walkman. When I had bought it from someone two years ago the battery container was completely corroded. I was a lot younger back then and I had started to dismantle the Walkman and I had started cleaning it and got it to take power again and even run a little. But then disaster struck as I was cleaning one of the battery contacts two of the battery wires fell off. I tried asking a friend to re solder the wires back on but then he ended up disintegrating them also dropping a ball of solder into the Walkman. After that he tried to “fix“ the issue and he ended up hot glueing new but wrong wires back onto the contacts. It left me with a broken Walkman and I’ve never been able to find someone to fix it or fix it myself. I don’t know if you do this but have you ever repaired and restored something for a viewer? I would be willing to pay the costs to repair it and for whatever you needed for restoring it. It also has some of the wear your Walkman had in the video. I don’t know if you do that but maybe it could make a cool video. I’ve just never seen anyone who knows how to restore and repair this model like you. I hope this gets to you. Maybe I could send it via your PO Box if you would be interested in doing the repair and restore of it. I also commented this before on the Walkman video.
This could have been really neat, if the Game Boy Advanced had analog pressure sensitive directional buttons then you'd be to steer a little and get small amount of steering in game. Have on/off button hooked to a will must be a bit of a trip.
0:44 "The Gameboy Advance has shoulder buttons, which is not something we'd seen on the previous 4 generations." Wait what? 0_o hmm... DMG, pocket, color, ???. Umm What was the 4th one?
I imagine this being a really cool toy for a child at the time. Legit. But the lack of a solution for L and R kills it, Mario Kart and F-Zero are unplayable without them and were probably first and second racing games on the console.
@@IanC14 yeah, i mean first and second on popularity, i don´remember the GBA being a very racing games oriented platform, but still, these two games were very big.
I am not going to lie, probably half the software in the world is a the software equivalent of that steering wheel, it is a beautiful physical representation of abstraction.
The Rally Boy Steering Wheel claims to be "The world's first racing wheel for Game Boy Advance." It's compatible for every Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games.
I love your stuff brother! Would you be able to do an updated video with where you use a Gameboy player and the GBA as the controller. This way you can look at the TV screen and use the steering wheel below.
To be fair of you went OG and wore it like a Mercedes hood ornament around your neck, it'd be slightly more portable whilst making you look a total berk at the same time, that's a 2 for 1 win.
U might have got this alot but I appreciate that u are able to pst such entertaining vedios during this time,wish u could help me with my Gameboy but u seem to be ignoring my Dms .
Just found your channel today, also just found out there's another person with the name Elliot with one "t" (I don't actually have 3 t's in my name lol) so I had to subscribe.
Dear Retrofuture! I would like to ask you, to make a Digiblast review! Its a really cool competitor from the nintendo ds, Sony PSP ages, and its have many cool functions. And this console was have many licensed games, like spider men, Xmen, and Atari brands. I think this cool handheld deserve an episode in your channel! Thank you and have a nice day!
Why? Easy. In the early 2000s these things were basically EVERYWHERE. I remember piles of them in Toys R Us and Game Stop clearance bins for years. No one wanted them, but they made them for every device under the sun. There was probably one for your toaster if you looked hard enough.
I sense it. This is going to be used in one of those can you do _____ in ______ using ______. Like can you do a blj in Mario 64 using this steering wheel.
