GBA SP Game Changer - Why? 

Only a few of you saw yesterday’s video! I have found possibly a prototype GBC - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2ILf_tNZpd4.html

Funny you ask why that exists when you added two screens to the sp

“Is that a Gameboy Advance SP with Gamster Gamechanger in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”

Put an Everdrive in each side, one for GB, one for GBC and the last for GBA

I really wanted one of these back in the day. My mum told me it was pointless and a waste of money, and you know what, she was right.

I've ALWAYS WANTED to change between GBA Video SpongeBob Volume 2 and Pokemon Sapphire!!

Oh my god. If you don’t mod this thing to be able to have two games playing, one on each of the dual screens, I am going to blow up the earth.

"Switch games without removing cartridges" Ah, you mean a flash card?

Just a warning to anyone who uses these: do not put games with saves in them. I lost my Megaman Battle Network and Pokemon save data thanks to it. For other non-saving games this thing makes it convenient and comfortable to use the SP.

I want a 3rd screen for the SP

Imagine playing 2 different games on your 2 screens

I'm sure as a young 2003 child you would had cargo shorts. That would have definitely fit in those.

I used to walk around as a kid with that grip game changer on my gba sp in my pocket like a boss lol. I also used to break off pieces of plastic off a dvd case and would put it on the groove in order to press the switch in the gba sp to play gbc games lol. It actually worked.

He’s wearing the game watch thing he repaired

I thought it was a game charger at first 🤣🤣🤣

Moral of the story: It's 2020, buy a flash cart, they'll last longer, and they're smaller, and hold more games.

Honestly I would have loved this as a kid for going on long trips with the family. I had other means of storing games, but none as convenient as this. Would have been especially useful when I just got my SP, since I only had about 2-3 games.

"No capital letters anywhere." H: am I a joke to you?

when he was opening the packaging with his knife in his hand, i was starting to get a little nervous. one slip and... oof

Every Older Brother who had all 3 pokemon games had one of these.

I just realized, could you use this for like a "kirby tilt and tumble" to play it correctly? as the cartridge would now be facing the right way?

It’s still 2000’s cool. I remember the DS with an advanced slot was so cool because I could carry 2 games at once.

Imagine the pokemon shiny hunting on this thing

I did a pocket test once and my jeans can hold my new 3ds xl, my I phone X, and my switch.

I didn't like this video, then he added the dual screen SP. Now I like this video.

This was one of my most important accessories to have back in the day. Even as a kid the SP was too small for my hands so having this one made it more comfortable for long hours of gameplay. The fact that I didn’t have to worry about losing those tiny cartridges along the way when I went on vacation or long car rides and just switch anytime without taking out a cartridge made it very convenient.

"i just seems really pointless to me" says the guy who gave a gameboy two screens

I’m so glad you did a video on this! I had one of these when I was a kid and I had Pokémon Emerald, Sapphire, and LeafGreen at once. I went to the Pokémon Center in Rockefeller Plaza for a distribution (I think the Ho-oH/Lugia event) and the employee there said he never saw anything like it. Nowadays I use it for when I use the gameboy player, it’s a really great grip to use original gameboy controls on the GBP. The only problem I have is that it WILL scratch the living hell out of your gameboy after repeated use. Mine was already like that from when I was a kid. I would only use it on a scratched gameboy or an aftermarket shell.

Oh, it is literally a “game changer.” I wasn’t expecting that...

When you find out where Retro Future gets their games: 😳

This is puzzling my mind: It's called the game changer, yet doesn't seem like a game changing experience...

When i was a kid this was helpful on trips when i didn't want to lose a set of games for the trip.

that SP reminds me of the handheld game used in Johnny Test to warp himself to a royalty free version of Pokémon.

Next Video: i made a curvy game boy SP

The only advantage I could see in having this is you'd have two lose that gigantic chunk of a device which seems harder to do than loosing 3 little cartridges.

i love your sense of humour and your comedic approach. the scene where you dropped something and cutted the scene perfectly cracked me up. you are amazing :D

I love the way you do something that relates to the thing your doing that day. In the beginning of all videos

Thank you I needed to know about this

You should put 3 screens on the Gameboy and then hook up all 3 games too the different screens

'Gah' (cartridge flies off) 'oh shi-' GIVE THIS MAN MORE SUBS

This isn't super on topic but I just wanna say mate, I thoroughly enjoy all the wee acts and bits of personality you add to the videos cause it really makes it your own style and channel. Keep the vids coming!

You gave the GBA a second screen for no reason, now you should try it for the switch Clam-shell switch gang

Your next project now should be making a three screen gameboy with 3 separate motherboards, all wired to a single on/off switch and a single set of buttons. So, if you have 3 copies of tetris, you can play all three copies of tetris at the same time and try to avoid losing in any of them. Or, if you want to soft reset in pokemon, you can do it three games at a time.

I only discovered your channel 2 days ago and im very glad i found you xD

I totally had one of these growing up. Looking back at it now is pretty funny.

Put a ds into one of these dual screen things

Omg I had this as a kid. I’m so glad someone is finally covering it

Always liked your videos always a nice guide for retro console

This makes the 3.5mm minijack inaccessible so it's a no-go for me.

I watched just cause I was curious how it stopped you from switching games while on

Thank you for not having a loud obnoxious intro video. Quite refreshing!

I literally asked for this for Christmas 2 years ago. It's great because I only have like 3-4 gba games I play, and it makes it much easier to hold. I love it.

Mid 00's accessories in a nutshell.

I have a version of this that is just the grip no game changer

I have one of those. It was the best for road trips, and I like the added grip it gives

Aww man I remember having this! Loved it so much, having sonic advance 3, pokemon, and megaman zero 2 in my Sp at all times!

Make the Nintendo the DSi into an i for no reason

I've never seen a gba sp game changer until now. Thanks for this video!

Love your videos Elliot keep up the great work👍

As a kid I loved mine. It rarely left my GameBoy and was almost always in my backpack. Never had to worry about losing the small games. Always had three games with me. It lasted for years before the power switch was wore too smooth on the inside to turn it off and on reliably. But that was like...5+ years of use easy. Quite durable for third party. We're also talking about something kids would use. I lost a game while at another school during basketball games. Nearest I figure it had fell from my backpack while pulling out something else and I didn't notice it. Sooo yeah, knowing all three games were safe in the GameBoy brought peace of mind. Sure looking at it from an adult perspective can make it seem silly, but it was quite handy when I was young.

I have my Game Changer plugged into my NES edition GBA as well. I got it from Electronics Boutique (now Gamestop Canada) many years ago. It's for my multi-game carts, like Namco Museum. If the power switch stops working, clean it with alcohol. Otherwise, it's good for long trips, especially if you use a GBA to USB wire and a battery bank.

You’re the best and definitely my favorite RU-vidr! Thank you

YOOOOO! Sick Tetris game watch! I have one of those myself and it's super dope.

I had this too, it was a game changer for me for sure still would be if I still played my GBA and if I had not worn out the change switch on it lol. What I loved about it and still do, is the down side of it, it increases the side making it nicer to grip and hold the GBA, Usually had a pokemon game in 1 or 2 of them than a rpg id be playing in anther. As some one who has always loathed carring games around this was awsome to me. Still own it to this day haha, great video brought back some fond memories great video, also never tried putting that monster in my pocket always put it in my back pack.

Very intriguing, cool video mate.

I remember seeing this ages ago, when I first started “collecting” (I was like 12 and the SP was the only retro thing I owned) and I absolutely wanted one of these for on cartrips

Oh God that think reminded me of cd changers for cars. You could have 6 disc at once! They were in the trunk and basically had to go in there any time you wanted to change a disc.

If the form factor were a bit smaller, for sure I'd consider this myself, I like to take my SP to work with me when I'm on break and I don't like having the games just hang about in my pocket with the SP since I'm always worried they can just fall out. These days though it wouldn't be worth it, especially since cartridges that let you store your GBA games on a micro SD card exist.

I used to have an attachment for my SP that was a giant magnifying glass to make the screen look bigger. Also the surround sound speakers. Both were ridiculous but it was awesome when I was 7

I never knew I needed something so bad thanks Elliot!

I think I remember seeing one of these in the electronics section of Zellers (a store like TARGET that was popular in the 90's but closed down in 2011, RIP Zellers) but I can't remember how much it would have cost back when it was new. It doesn't matter anyways because as you pointed it out, it defeats the Game Boy Advance SP's main selling point; portability.

I suspect the top "stick out" cartridge slot is for the one off cartridges that were larger or extended past the standard game boy advance cartridge size such as Drill Dozer or Wario Ware Twisted. Kinda actually a good design to think of those.

Nice! Elliot, you make some awesome videos!!

I bought one of these a few years ago and I love it for road trips and stuff. I just put the games or games and video cart in that I'll play and go that way I don'tlose anything. Plus I personally find the grip allows me to play longer just because it beefs it up a bit

Hi I was trying to get into gameboy modding and have no idea what tools to get like a hood brand of soddering iron or were to go to for parts what screws and screw drives to get can you tell me what I use

Awesome video! I was enjoy your content!

As someone who had a Game Changer, (I still do, BTW) I think it’s best feature is the ergonomic grip. As for the large form factor making it hard to put the Gameboy AdvanceSP in your pocket, all kids in the early 2000s wore cargo pants/shorts. So that wasn’t a problem.

I feel like this would have been something that was good for like, when you had kids on a road trip and didn't want to pack them a ton of games. It's just all connected to one thing. A younger kid when these were coming out wouldn't really have game carts most likely.

I love how he has the big sp my friend has been making those for a bit now here in the states it’s kind of fun having it does it serve a purpose no but dam it’s still fun to have it just cause I say support this man with buying the kit not a bad deal or idea my friend has also a very insane one where he has a game boy and jammed a ds in it has the flip top screen of the sp it’s insane I hope creative ideas come from this it’s insane when people make new stuff

Love your content keep up the good work

I bought one new as a teenager for mine, and it fit my hands quite nice. I got rid of it (stupidly) some time ago, but in recent years I decided to buy a used one on ebay. It's perfect for my hand size, and if I want to play any non-gba carts I use a different hand-held.

It's like a MicroSD card to full size adapter, if you break one of those open you'll find traces just making the pens bigger because they are identical. In fact if you're unlucky you can buy a full-sized SD card that is just a microSD card glued inside a housing with a sticker on it

I kinda see a reason for this. Road trips. It helps not having loose cartridges if you are nervous of loosing them

Great video! What brand/type of electric screwdriver is that? Did you get it on Amazon?

As a kid I would have been frothing at the mouth at the sight of this thing. Even now, I get just a little bit of that tingeling "the future is now" feeling.

My brother and I used this grip. The big draw for us was the formfactor. The sp was just too small for our hands, especially if you were going to use those dinky shoulder buttons.

I love mine as a kid too. Eventually modified mine for use with my DS.

I had it back in the day, but I had big man hands that would cramp up with the little GBA SP. Baggy pants were also in style, so the extra heft didn't make a diff.

OMG i had one of those worked nice i liked it for the games holder and grip

Oh shit! I had one of these as a kid and was literally just thinking about it awhile ago. It was so dumb but I felt so cool having one.

I never knew there was a version of this that actually has a function. I have and still use a grip that is basically the same mold, the slots point inwards and are just storage

Do the games on standby power up? I’d be curious if they are powered up and “running in the background” and the switcher only switches the I/O pins for the game that’s selected

I had one of these when I was a kid, it was great for long car trips

I knew someone that had one of these when I was a kid, and it blew my freaking mind the first time I saw it.

I had one of these too, I liked it mostly for the extra grip. I don't remember ever putting a game in the top slot

Hey elliot, airplane again. I just got this agb gameboy and has a weird thing. There are three screw posts that wernt tapped! Two were on the cartrige protector, and one was supposed to secure the board! Do you happen to know why?

Im interested if its possible to "transfer" saves between cartridges by switching games while its running. (Especially interesting between different pokemon games...)

thank you for posting i was very bored before you posted the video

Carried one in my school backpack for years, very convenient way to carry multiple games and never felt like it was thst huge.

This makes sense for someone with mobility and coordination issues that might struggle swapping games on their own which also explains the back game sticking out a bit so they could have their fav games in the side slots then use the back one for games you might want to swap out every so often slightly easier. Not a great product for an average user but it would be a decent product for anyone with a kid with disabilities