The Game Boy Printer's Pokémon Secrets 

Im super impressed by you forethought to have planned these from the early 90s and nit missed any event specials

8:29 that "Gold, Silver, and Crystal" sequence was very nice to watch

Making those framed wall hangings is about the best possible use you could get out of the printer! Bravo!

Despite being a grown adult who owns an actual printer, that work just fine, I am just as enamored with the gameboy printer as I was as a child. My heart still yearns to print lil Pokemon receipts.

The year the GameBoy Camera came out, my brother and I came back home from the Easter vacations to find one each in our rooms. The following weeks were spent running around with the cameras taking photos of everyone and everything we came across, decorating the pictures in the game, and playing the minigames. Eventually we also got a GB printer. I think we pooled our allowances together to buy one. When I found out I could print stuff from the Pokemon games, there was no stopping me! To this day, on the door to my old room at my parent's house, you can clearly see where the glue from the GB printer cable has stained the paint.

It never occurred to me that the strange machine in the Pokémon yellow beach house had anything to do with the printer. I learned something today. Thank you.

Oh, another small fun printer fact- the unreleased Pokémon Picross for GBC was also intended to work with the printer to print solved puzzles, as seen in promotional materials. This function works as intended in the prototype rom, too.

Those wall decorations are awesome. Now I kinda want to get a Game Boy Printer to make my own.

I think Nintendo missed an opportunity to add printer functionality by the way of outputting the document as an image file in the DSi / 3DS gallery. For some, it'd be nice to transfer the image to a computer, then print it out on a modern printer or even a modern thermal printer if you want to go old-school)

Man, your Pokemon videos always knock it out of the park. The dedication and research is completely absurd. And the little jokes you throw in always make me laugh. Truly the GOAT of niche Pokemon features.

The dedication put into this 12-minute video is incredible. I’m so fascinated by these little bits of obscure hardware and software from Pokémon’s history. Thanks for showing all this off!

That wall decoration is crazy amazing. What an awesome idea.

8:24 Can we take a second to appreciate how clever this shot was??

3:11 my son Votlor he has every disease

If anyone is curious on what the two unknown prints say in the video: one is just the full Alphabet printed out, and the other is "SirToastyToes"

I have that Pikachu printer too! Used it to print out my diploma in Pokemon Yellow and some other stuff in other games.

that edit with the pokewalker theme into the go transfer theme was CLEAN AS FUCK btw

I was really hoping you wound up displaying some of your prints and was very pleased to see that awesome wall art. 10/10 instant sub

When I was a kid, I had a strategy guide to pokemon red/blue/yellow. It said that if you have the yellow version, you can do the surfing with pikachu mini game. I played my yellow version and searched far and wide on the beach, went into all houses, talked to all the NPCs, performing various random actions for hours, but nothing worked (also the whole game was in English so I couldn't understand anything). I felt so scammed. But today it finally all makes sense. After 20 years I finally learned how to play the surfing pikachu minigame and that it never was possible for me to achieve as a kid with the limited tech available in the first place. Thank you

The framed wall decor looks amazing

Those are great wall decorations you've got there. I hope they eventually end up in a museum.

i appreciate your efforts to historically and accurately show what was possible to print.

damn that was a huge ammount of effort for a video, thanks for the documentation 💕💕💕💕

This was a really interesting look at a somewhat obscure peripheral! As an aside, I was weirdly happy to see the Buyee sponsorship. XD Buyee is how I've gotten most of my merch for Osomatsu-san since it's not popular in the west and all the merch is Japan-exclusive. It's a great service. C:

That wall art at the end is badass

I’d love a video about the Pokémon Pocket Pikachu. The commercials burned into my child brain and haunt me to this day.

That irl wall pokedex of gen 1 and 2 prints is so cool

Sick vid bro, going in my nightly rotation for sleep aid

I just came across your channel and I'm hooked! That gameboy printer poked collage is rad!!

The Voltorb @ 3:09 has such chaotic energy

Your Pokemon videos are always top quality Toast. I was delighted when I saw this video in my recommendations today and watched it instantly! I've had a Gameboy Printer lying around for a while but I've not been able to use it since my paper is too old. However I think this video has inspired me to find new paper and print things out with my own games. Keep up the great work! :) P.S. Your Ribbon Master video got me interested in making my own RM as well. I picked a shiny Suicune whom I caught from Venus in Colosseum. Nearly done with Gen 4 atm!

I had a surfing pikachu on my childhood copy of yellow I received second hand from a GameCube. I had zero clue how rare it was at the time to have had it and played the surfing pikachu game so much!!

Love the wall deco at the end

I never owned a printer as a kid but the more I look back I really wish I would have printed the certificate. Would of been an excellent piece to add to the collection.

I think I still have my old Game Boy Printer, that thing was such a neat and bizarre novelty, but man did I love it.

There was once a cable (a bit of googling tells me it was called the Mad Catz Camera Link) that could connect between a Game Boy Pocket/Color link port (it had the smaller connector, so no GB brick) and a PC parallel port, allowing you to capture prints into image files, but it worked only with the Game Boy Camera. Would have been awesome if it worked with any GBP-compatible game.

With Yellow, there's an additional variation for a 151 pokedex, and Johto games have variants for 250 and 251. If I remember right, Cianwood also has something additional there

Alright, well I guess I’m buying a gameboy printer and digging out my old copy of Pokémon Stadium.

I really didn't know a lot about the game boy printer, I have only recently saw stuff about it. Really enjoyed what you had to share in this video!

Super interesting video, I completely forgot about this thing. So sick hearing such an indepth dive into something like this! really high quality content

3ds games not letting you 'print' is so silly; the machine comes with a camea and SD card! Just export the 'photo' to that!!!!

I've wanted this thing so bad as a kid! It's nice to at least see what it could do in video.

I did print the Diploma back in the day. Fun times.

i had no idea getting a pikachu with surf was such an ordeal 😆

3:10 Mom: We have Voltorb at home.

The funest fact is all the paper manufactured for the game boy printer deteriorates over time and will produce a weak print however you can still buy thermal paper and trim it to fit inside or there is a certain type produced by seiko (which if I remember correctly is for a stopwatch that lets you print out times) which is the right size and still good.

great work! I really appreciate the work that went into this. fascinating stuff!

Would really like to know where to get Gameboy printer paper nowadays. You can also mention the Pokemon overlays and stamps for photos in Gameboy Camera.

This was a truly lovely video. The Game Boy Printer is, despite its limited usage, absolutely charming! I understand why it received no more support, being as niche as it is, but I would have loved to see more possibilities explored with the concept of a handheld printer.

Now someone needs to mod a real printer to hook up to a game boy and print a 40" by 60" picture of pikachu.

10:35 The Game Boy Printer is fully compatible with the Game Boy Advance/SP They reuse the Game Boy Color/Game Boy Printer's link cable port

Wow. Im impressed that there is a pikachu surf sprite while surfing

Amazing!! Loved to know more about this thing. Thank you!

Such fantastic content bro. Really enjoying it!

The artwork is really cute! I wonder who drew them.

That surfing game reminds me of excitebike

"all pokemon are shiny in greyscale" *mimikyu has entered the chat*

wow! i never knew the game boy player could do that. so glad this video was recommened to me.

I've learned so much in these 12 minutes. Amazing job, thank you=)

Wow. I never realized it was such an ordeal to get a surfing pikachu. I didn’t remember any of that, but I enjoyed the minigame… I guess I must have used a game shark!

That decoration is 🔥

I cannot believe I've been trying to complete the Pokedex on Pokémon Red to print out the diploma only to find out it's only possible in Yellow...

I had a GameBoy Printer and I stopped playing Pokemon entirely because I couldn't get all of the Unknown to unlock the print feature. That frustrated me to no end.

Now I wonder if it can print glitched Pokemon boxes...

That example of the diploma Pokédex is accurate at 8:02, I have Mew and just need Omastar to have 151.

The amount of research and commitment needed to collect all the information for this video is insane. What an amazing video. Adding to my personal list of best Pokémon videos of all time

8:41 lugia's nickname is luigi

Hermoso video Agradezco haber descubierto tu canal, me encantan los vídeos de este estilo Sigue así, te admiro Saludos desde Chile

Your videos keep making me buy vintage Pokémon stuff this is getting expensive D:

Took me way too long to read SirToastyToes in Unknown

Great video! It brings me endless joy that all these years into the future, there are still little gems of information to be found and talked about. Thanks so much for posting this!

it was the gb printer that inspired me to print my scarlet and violet diploma and frame it

Yo, I've literally just today booted an emulator of the Pokemon Trading Card Game, and in that I saw an option to use a game boy printer, which I've never even known about. Algorithm, you've done it again.

Huh, so many years of knowing Toasty through NL and these videos are kind of refreshing. I enjoyed the content Toasty, keep it up 🥳

Great stuff!

3:10 why’d they do Voltorb so dirty in his art 😂

I once had a whole shoe box full of prints but over time they faded away. At least I still have my memories.

wonderful as always

The Pikachus beach mini game in pokemon yellow is designed after the nes game excite bike

What took the most time to do? Finishing the Pokedex in 4 different games or getting the high score in Yellow?

Great Video man!!!!

I really wish that there was one of these for the switch / 3DS

If I had the option to print with Unknown....I'd spell farts.

What paper do you buy for your game boy printer? I have some original paper, but it has all gone bad.

Apparently you make good videos. I've not watched this yet, but I've subscribed. You better be as good as people say ;)

Another weirdly obscure pokemon video lets goo

The framed dex is so cool

Please scan the Printer box! :)

As others have said, really fascinating!

Every time I think I know all there is to know about something in Pokémon, you create a video that shows me something completely unexpected! Fantastic work 💕

Love this

i actually had beaten that score 4 years ago at 7,650 points with every combo

Will the prints stay on good shape behind the glass?

We should bring back printers for game consoles. Playstation 5 Printer when, Sony?!

Unown ! and Unown ? were introduced in gen 4's DPPt games, not gen 3 FRLG ; ;

Sir toasty toes

1:02 Ah yes… Charizard…

love it!

9:35 Shut up and take my like and subscribe lmao

Is the japanese pokemon printer compatible with the english games?