One of these Game Boys contains no Nintendo Parts 🪛 

heyo, electronic engineering major here, with regards to the clock, not all clocks are made equal. Its very possible that the original gameboys have a clock speed tolerance, making them different from their datasheets by a noticeable margin, and potentially different from each other. I haven't seen testing between individual gameboys, but I assume they may also potentially have similair offsets. Rather, I trust that the modern recreations have lower tolerance and have clock speeds more similair to whatever the gameboy was designed to run at

Tempting, I’d buy it in a heartbeat if there was a gba version of this.

Since its an FPGA. I would love to see OpenFPGA in this, with a bunch cores of systems that have two buttons like NES, Master System, PC Engine along with bug fixes.

"Just shitty enough to grind your gears a little bit" is how I felt about my first 8bitdo SN30 controller... but they definitely were successful enough to ramp up the production quality and all the ones I bought after that, I've loved. Hopefully FunnyPlaying has the same kind of arc.

One of the first standalone DS Flashcarts, the DS-Xtreme, also used an FPGA, but they never really went as far as they could with it, and even quickly gave up on maintaining later DS game compatibility. Side Note: It had “Dancing LEDs” on the top edge of the cart as a novelty. The LEDs would rapidly change colors in reaction to music being played on the built in MP3 player (though not useable in games).

I'd love to see more of these "FPGA remake of a classic console" type products going into the future. They'll become more and more important as time goes on and original hardware gets harder and harder to find in working condition.

I love that companies are starting to follow in Analogues footsteps with this technology. I have been saying for years that Nintendo, or even Sony, could get in on the action with real "classic" consoles that play their original media. Its an instant cash cow, and im not sure why they dont. Especially since they have the original hardware designs. It *could* but 100% accurate. But oh well. Good video!

We collectively need to move beyond the "is it emulation" debate. The only difference between approaches is that FPGA emulates the architecture of a console at a hardware instead of a software level. They're both emulating something.

I've watched every video pretty much that this man has a put out and I'm not even intrested in handhelds or emulation. These videos are always such a nice watch. So thanx for that dude.

This is cool! It's always good to have more options, and I like that you can choose different colored shells/buttons to suit your taste. Also, love your ads. This one made me giggle. :D

This gameboy color would be great for my friend who wants me to do a shell swap, but this would be a nice simple upgrade for me to mod for him. Good video, Bob.

This seems up my alley! Especially since finding gameboys at a reasonable price can be difficult.

We need a channel of just Bob's ads lol! They're always just as good as the video itself lol!

Love your videos. SO many poser content creators who don't know anything about tech. Your one of the few real tinkerers that love retro content and make amazing videos like this. Also best ads on youtube hands down.

I imagine the slight speed difference exists to avoid screen tearing. The screen is probably 60hz and it needs the game to run SLIGHTLY faster to match the refresh rate.

I really want this but for a GBA that form factor is my favorite

I love when Bob geeks out on clockspeeds and other technojargin. This is the content I’m here for, data on these systems 📈

I'm back again to say thank you. I got one, assembled (had a bit of a difficult time connecting the battery as well), but it works great! I'm very happy!

1:09 "Dittoing" is my new tech word

I found your channel last year and your mod videos made me confident enough to do something I’d never done before, add an SSD to my PS5. Thanks for the confidence!

This seems like a great way to start for those interested in a DIY modding kit.

now someone needs to do this with a gba or an sp and it will be perfect. a ds would be over doing it mostly for the 3ds family but hey, people can do what they want

Son Two you’re a Gamer boy with no Nintendo parts ! #wulffdendad

I mess with the way you highlighted the screws you were referring to, nice lil touch for sure

Y'know what I want? A modern Gameboy Micro. Maybe even with GB, GBC support, top loading cart slot that takes a little off the shoulders. Would be nice considering how they're rarer than other models.

No need for certain type of certification, if it's not assemble.

I'm excited for this. I've dying to try and get a Analogue Pocket, but they're so expensive and low on supply. Sure you miss out on GBA with this, but 🤷🏽

Love your videos on this device, you have helped many of us. I love my device, but I am still building my ROM library and need to customize it, like add game box art.

Just ordered one. Can't wait!! D:

It mimicked a Gameboy and Gameboy advance. They are totally different systems. Having looked at the VHDL code of both systems there is huge difference between both handhelds. Honestly I don’t understand the gba builds in FPGA where the Gameboy implementation is, I can kinda get my head around. The chips make sense particularly on the audio front.

I just got mine. Can't wait to try it out

Zim should win a Cleo for his method acting! #wulffdendad

Built mine before I saw this review. I have to agree on all points. Hopefully some of the frustrations are fixed in firmwares but overall I'm extremely happy with the results.

Man I want this thing but I did just finish doing an IPS mod of a beat up GBC. Maybe in a month or two I'll grab this thing for kicks. I love how clean this looks.

I would love to see a GBA one of these.

I just picked one up and put it together. I've held on to a copy of Resident Evil: Giaden that I picked up form a shady vendor in Coney Island back in the day. Works perfect and suprisingly the battery in the game still works. My save was still there 20+ years later.

The skillshare commercial with your dog talking lololol

FunnyPlaying needs to do this with a GBA and I'm, happy for life.

Devices like this are good for game preservation, as it means people can still play older games, even when their old devices start failing, probably due to the batteries, thankfully i have all the nintendo consoles up to the 3DS, and thankfully they all still work, but i know how expensive vintage tech has become in recent years, so it's nice to see alternatives to play original cartridges coming out recently, instead of having to hunt for the Gameboy Advance SP with the IPS display.

I hope they can do an update that would allow you to play GBA (I know you need L and R buttons) but I'm sure they'd rather sell another separate GBA FPGA board. Also if they could make it in the GB Pocket form factor it would be amazing. Finally another killer app would be if you could use it to dump games/saves since it seems to allow data over the USB port since it is used for firmware updates.

I got my kit from funnyplaying on their 2nd round of stock. Should be here next week!

Nice work like always. Lmfao I literally just built mine yesterday and I used the same exact shell and buttons 😂

Thank you, that looks like a great hobby project.

Amazing dog commercial, love it ❤

Honestly that's pretty tempting, I have a silver pokemon edition gbc and I don't really want to take it apart, if this gets some fixes and the clock speed is corrected I might pick it up. At the same time I own an analogue pocket so I don't need it.

the clockspeed is changed in increments of .25 as they claim the max speed is "1.25x speed", when the bar is fully maxed out.

Would totally get one if they came pre assembled.

If this is still being sold by the end of the year it might be a good Christmas present for my kid. He can put it together and then play some of my games.

I am so happy that people are finally learning that the analogue marketing of "no emulation" is a complete lie. The advantage of it being "accurate" is imprecise wording. the advantage is timing and parallel operations. able to be designed much easier and with hardware much cheaper than the power one would need if done in software emulation. Behaviour bugs are just as common as software emulation. timing edge cases is where FPGA shines. and just like software emulation, it's only as good as the programmer. I am so happy this thing came out just as I was thinking of getting a modded GBC. saved me a lot of money.

I have this, and mine was absolute crap. Wish I could just return it. Will likely just give it away for free to a friend who has no gameboy at all. At least it will get them by for a time. The motherboard bricked during my first firmware update and they had to send me a replacement. The replacement worked, but I did have to wait forever after having ordered, waited, built, then sent out for replacement, waited longer, and then rebuilt. Just pathetic. Funnyplaying always seems to have QC issues. My screen has these awful looking spots on it that look like bad lamination or something and are an extreme eyesore, so much so that I hate it and refuse to play it. They take up about 30% of the display, and it's just bad. It's not noticeable on a really bright white screen, but stands out so bad on a black part of screen. Great example of this is when you go into a house in a Pokemon game such as Pokemon Crystal. The out of bounds area around the house you're in is just straight black, and that's where these terrible screen lamination issues stick out. Again, I can't stress enough how absolutely TERRIBLE my display looks. It's absolute TRASH. The clockspeed is wrong, too slow. I've tried every setting and it's just never perfect. It stands out too much to me and I just can't get past it. And lastly when booting up Dragon Warrior 3 for GBC using the GBC core, it boots, runs for a few seconds, and then crashes, giving me a jumbled up pixel mess of the screen that is supposed to say "this game can only be played on a gameboy color." Again, this is using the correct GBC core, which is unacceptable. On a positive note, it's very easy to build, the screen size and brightness is great, and the volume is incredible. This thing gets LOUD and I love that. But all of my cons listed above totally negate these pros unfortunately. This thing is hot garbage. Just get an Analogue Pocket. Despite the higher price, you will have a much much better experience as I have had, and the Analogue Pocket's display is just unmatched. That thing is an absolute beauty.

Literally had a confused 4th wall moment when Bob woke me up from that later technically talk...

It's the IKEA effect, when people have assembled something themselves, they place a higher value on it.

Hello yes to the Ditto reference! My Xerox and ditto copy childhood has been seen!

They probably don't sell it assembled for copyright reasons

kinda troll move to sell everything except the power button

The clock speed differences is because the FPG isn't exact enough to get the actual GB clock speed of 4.194MHz(/8.388MHz for GBC). So maybe two ticks below max is 4MHz (and 8MHz for GBC). Kind like how the SuperGameBoy in the west didn't have a crystal, so it downclocked the SNES which came close, but didn't exactly meet the GB speed.

Wow okay. I was looking at doing the whole process of buying a gameboy color, modding. The whole shabang. This is perfect and it’s cheaper.

"Just shitty enough to grind your gears a bit" is right. Had a funnyplaying ips gba screen on my gba, tossed the gba in my bag like I had with my stock one 100 times, get home, oh cool it doesn't work anymore, just getting sound and rainbow static. Probably just knocked the cable loose. I pop it open, carefully reseat each ribbon cable, button it back up... now the screen doesn't even turn on, the tiny-ass cheap-ass ribbon cable must have torn.

Not being able to turn down the volume until the system is on has only been a problem twice as far as I'm aware on Nintendo systems once on the Game boy micro and then the Switch. Even the Wii U gamepad has a volume slider.

Very interesting. Thanks for this video. I was just about to buy another GBC for IPS modding (already did it several times), but this kit is REALLY interesting because it's significantly cheaper than buying a GBC + IPS kit, especially if you also add a battery kit. You're easily >200€ with this mod. The small differences in speed are not really relevant I would say. The biggest disadvantage is that it doesn't work with every Rom-Cartridge. Don't know if it will work with mine. If not, this is a NoGo unfortunately. Nobody wants to play with original cartridges anymore these days. And there's another big "BUT" for Europeans: It's seems to be not available in Europe. And ordering from funnyplaying in the US is quite uncomfortable and will cause additional taxes.

That Mother 3 soundtrack before the ad.. *chefs kiss*😗

I must admit it looks absolutely perfect for people on a budget, so the majority of them. Also great when all genuine GBC boards inevitably dies. Otherwise, go full mods from a genuine board or prebuilt : the end result is much more satisfying if you're an enthusiast.

I finally have the answer to the question: "Can capacitive touch screens detects dog pows?". Thanks.

My guess to why they don’t assemble is the demand it would require. They can keep up with the orders currently but I feel like adding assembly would add more labor and more demand. Both of which they might not want. This way they can keep costs low on the kit and still provide a brand new gameboy for relatively cheap. They look amazing for the price I have to say

dog looks so scared, hes shaking

Is no one gonna talk about his amaazing advertising 😂

I got one the moment I saw this video on my lunch break 😂 let’s hope it lives up to my hype 🎉

I do love how you can make your own customized gameboy

Thanks for the video❤

I didn't know i wanted it. But now i do. The model kit builder in me is shaking hands with the gamer in me.

I modded my childhood GBC two months ago (with heavy help from my dad) and I'm glad I didn't know about this. I would have been too tempted, but multiple things makes this feel a bit fake. This video doesn't even talk about link cable support, and the first thing I wanted to do on the GameBoy was to complete the Gen 1 pokedex. Also, Bob says that this is cheaper than modding your GameBoy, but I disagree. I guess he's adding the price of a second hand GameBoy, which I didn't have to do.

Funnyplaying is killing it.

I'm only giving a thumbs up for your dog. They deserve extra treats for this video.

if they make something like this for the GBA i will buy it immediately

Wow, not often you see a Ghost Babel in the wild

That damn Game Boy “ding” on power up has busted me multiple times in work Zoom calls. I always tell them it’s my phone text tone…. Suckers

Aside from the novelty factor of building it I assume they went the DIY route to save costs on paying people to do it in house.

I just purchased one for all the reasons you said at the end.

Are there any videos testing link cable 2 player games? My worry is that the different clock speeds between a GBC and FPGBC will create issues.

My bet is there will be an upgraded gba variant in the works. I’d love to have an original gba shaped fpga device. The analogue pocket gets cramped after a bit.

hey, could you please check the speed difference with an OG GBC and the Analogue Pocket? never seen that comparison in any review yet.

I'm guessing it comes disassembled so it's not subject to some fees and/or taxes which keeps the cost down.

I can't believe how much easier this is than a mod

Dope love the color and kit. The kids got so many options these days. Hate i all my gameboy shit few years ago.

if I have to buy a GBC,screen, case, lenses, speaker, battery and charging circuit I’m spending way more than this. Definitely a great option for holiday gifts as well!!

Cannot believe bobs budget had to go up by 1200 just to hold zims paw

this in a gameboy pocket form factor would be tops

i bought one and didnt realize that the estimated delivery time with free shipping was 4-6 WEEKS. if i had known, i would have just paid for shipping. hopefully it gets here faster than the estimation

I would love to make some chiptune music with it (coupled with an everdrive) instead of modding an original gameboy.. so I want to ask you: does your fpgc have an hiss in background when connected to head phones? How does it sound?

I love this video about Bobs dog

This is so much cheaper than my local retro store selling modded gbc. its so over priced. orderd my self a kit. lucky they have em in stock now. thanks for the heads up.

Just a heads up, you're not supposed to use the middle screw hole on the motherboard. It can cause the case to crack over time

Nobody mentioned it but I believe that if something is a kit then way less certification is required to sell it to europe, which means cheaper

I assume they sale this as a kit, in order to bypass copyright laws, as this could technically count as producing and saling a GameBoy which is copyrighted

Are those the Opal buttons from Lab Fifteen (formerly known as Jellybelly Customs)?

John Wick, is that you?

That sonic shell is awesome! Where can I find it?

Do trades and battles work over link cable on Pokemon games?

Zim is such a good boy! 😂

It's good when it works XD but mine comes with a malfunction screen so I can't test anything because never turns on (except the led light) so at the moment I'm not happy