Not a review of the Gameboy Advance, but GBA Video. The stupid thing letting you watch cartoons on Gameboy All Time Numbers Spongebob Video • Video Thanks to Whittler for letting me use their music whittler.bandcamp.com/
I remember in grade 3 someone in my school had a game boy video Shrek cartridge and about 30 kids all huddled around the gameboy would watch it. On a tiny ass screen. 30 kids.
Back when I was 11, I remember being to sent to bed to sleep, and playing my Gameboy under my bedsheets with the flashlight on. And when someone comes in the room, I just turn the flashlight off, pretending I'm sleeping. Works every time.
Ha. Stupid adults they think I'm getting 8 hours of sleep, but little do they know I'm getting the stone badge instead ! Bwahahahaaa! Yes ! Take that Brock, you can suck my pokeballs. Mom:Go to sleep Billy. Aaahh! please come in here... he he ... Stupid adults...
GBA video works on the Retron 5 console! We can finally watch poorly compressed video on our HD tv's! Time to invite your friends over to watch some Shrek!
Actually, Shrek may not work because the mappers don't support it. I think it is 64MB. The T.V. episodes are 32MB, which was the maximum ROM Size back in the day. I have tried it on the emulator. All of the T.V. episodes actually work, even on your phone!
You think the Shrek framerate is bad? I had/still have somewhere the Shrek/Shark Tale combo cartridge and DEAR LORD it is bitcrushed so bad it moves like tar.
TheGordo6984 Heck, I wouldn't mind sending it to him if he really wanted it. Besides being of considerably low quality, I also broke the hinges of my DS lite and have been meaning to upgrade for eons. XD Don't have much use for it now.
If there was some hacker that would actually shove the first episode of the Nutshack on one cartridge just for the sake of memes. My life would've been completed.
The main reason why Nintendo handhelds didn't have a backlight until years later is due to it both using more power which meant weaker battery life and making the systems slightly more expensive to manufacture at the time.
Actually this is untrue. After the GBA modding scene started and people started putting LCD mods on their old GBAs, it turns out that it didn't draw any additional power at all. In fact, regular alkaline batteries had a higher battery life with a backlit LCD mod on it than the battery life for the Li-ion battery on the GBA SP that had backlight on it.
@@mrlionX It can be implied that backlighting was a problem from contemporary examples. Competing systems such as the Lynx, Turboexpress, and Sega's Game Gear mentioned in the video all possessed backlighting years earlier, but failed to sell close to Gameboy numbers. While the Gameboy was weaker in many technical aspects such as backlighting, it succeeded through cost effectiveness. Presumably by removing those same features. The eventual Gameboy Light edition with a backlight demonstrated the capability to integrate a backlight, yet the product remained in Japan and the feature was not included in following Gameboy models for years afterwards. From the perspective of firsthand experience, I recall the Game Gear using 6 batteries to the Gameboy's 4, and not getting a great difference in play time. So while I am unaware of specific technical aspects of the problem, I would guess that modern modifications do not represent the solutions available at the time. An LED to light the screen is hardly a creative breakthrough, so I think it is reasonable to assume that the Gameboy would have been designed with one if it were an effective option.
@@Raig228 They use old sharp LCDs with backlight that are alarmingly going short in supply lol its not some kind of modern technology put into them. These are screens circa 2004, the technology was definitely there. Why they didn't get them we'll never know but to say they drained more power is incorrect. Search a video on it, see for yourself.
@@mrlionX Well, if what you say is true, and the modifications for LED back lights is coming from 2004, then that supports my argument: the Gameboy Advance SP (with back light) came out in 2003, which indicates that, at that time, LED technology was matured enough to use with little negative impact on a Gameboy product. If I look up a previous example of back lighting, like the Sega Game Gear, there is a tube used for the back light that seems much more like a cold-cathode fluorescent lamp, which would use much more power than an LED component (as well as probably having bulk, aging, and fragility issues). If Sega went for that, then I believe it is safe to assume that smaller and more efficient LED back lights were not an option for the Game Gear or the contemporary Gameboys. Game Gear internal reference to see the tube light: cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0689/3143/files/FAXWX0UI236Z6GG.LARGE_large.jpg?6469566436618420594 Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the switch from CCFL (or similar) to LED happened between the original Gameboy and the Advance SP. Since the normal Advance did not take advantage of the LED display, which is an obvious upgrade, it seems likely that the ability to use LEDs in such a capacity developed around or shortly after the Advance's original development. While I can't find much on a timeline of portable LED lit screens from a cursory search, it seems like other portable electronics, like laptops, also started to tout their LED displays in the 2005ish era.
@@Raig228 The original Game Boy Advance SP released in 2003 did not have a backlit display. Nintendo opted to use a frontlight; essentially they took an unilluminated LCD display and lined its perimeter with a light source. If you want to look at it pessimistically all Nintendo did was integrate the Game Boy Advance’s frontlight accessory to create the SP. The first handheld Nintendo console (with a worldwide release) to utilize an illuminated LCD display was the DS, but I guess they made up for lost time by giving us two backlit displays that were also slightly larger than the Game Boy Advance’s and its variants. Also, in 2005 Nintendo decided to release an updated model of the SP (distinguished by the new model number AGS-101) that FINALLY had a backlight which makes it the final handheld Nintendo system that was backwards compatible with Game Boy and Game Boy Color games. When comparing the original SP and the new model you can clearly see the benefit of the backlight as the newer model’s display was brighter on its low setting than the original with the backlight turned on. P. S. I have no idea why I am responding to a four year old comment but I have been reading about LCD displays and handheld Nintendo consoles for the last few hours and I refuse to let that time and knowledge go to waste.
2:55 There is a reason, battery life. The Sega Game Gear had both color AND a backlight, but sucked 6 batteries dry in TWO hours. The original Gameboy could play over 10 hours on four.
Jesus Christ. Most of the time when RU-vidrs talk nostalgia, they talk about 90's cartoons or some other thing I can't relate to (I was born in 1998) But for a 00's kid like me, every video you upload is pure nostalgia.
I'm a year younger than Pan and it is really cool to have a RU-vidr who grew up with the same stuff that I did. A lot of the others are a little older and while I did see a lot of 90's cartoons, they still discuss a lot of stuff that was just a little too early for me and ignore things that were right at my time.
+S H R 3 K B 0 Y Y 4.20 in my defense, it was 2007 and my computer was A) a desktop so no portability and B) a 2 minute RU-vid video took 15 minutes to load on 240p. so on road trips I had to do something.
I kid you not this actually happened to me: When I was 10 years old, my parents took me and my two siblings on a road trip from D.C. to Sacramento Cali to visit relatives. The only two games I had at the time were Warioware Touch and a Spongebob GBA video for my first generation DS. I 100% Warioware before we even reached Indiana, so I literally watched the same spongebob episode 23 times everyday for 2 days (Three 12 hour drives from D.C. to Cali). Those particular episodes are now forever fried into my brain.
I had a wormlight, and one of those weird magnifying screens with two little bulbs that gave off a warm color, which didn't quite go well with the games. And the car light! I always wished I could use the car light and forget all the nonsense. And my Dad was always like, "Then I can't see the road!" And as a kid, I'm sitting there thinking "Why did they even put these lights back here?"
AldentheBlue As a kid, I always wondered why they didn't put a light somewhere where it wouldn't tamper too much with the visibility, like in the back of the front seats or something
I remember having a Spiderman light for my gameboy. It hungover the screen and worked like a charm for me. Also I remember finding a Strawberry Shortcake Video cartridge abandoned in some building. Really weird.
Awwwwwwe. Pan's such a Shy-Guy™, he wont even let us see his hands naked. He has to wear oven mitts all the time like the wife I don't have does. Maybe they're robotic... Or just pasty as fuck.
Oh god, I remember this crap. There was even a device I saw in a toy store that played a spongebob episode on a tiny screen, IN GREY COLOR..........AWFUL.
Jeez, adding color would have only needed a 50% increase in bitrate to begin with. They must have been _deeeesperate_ for storage space. (Unless the 4:2:0 scheme is more recent than I realized)
Despite how useless it may be now, I honestly find this impressive for the GBA, especially the fact that they were able to fit such big sound waves in them yet still have them be relatively decent, considering how limited the soundchip was. I wonder how big the GBA Video cartridges usually were.
Apparently GBA cartridges capped out at 32MB. Which (assuming that's real Megabytes instead of marketerMegs) means that with a pair of 24min TV episodes, you are looking at a combined bitrate of about 93kbps. Which, given the timeframe and some optimism, was likely encoded in h.262, making this roughly equivalent to *_46kbps_* in now-standard h.264 Probably a bit less once you factor in the interface, and if the GBA didn't have the right codecs built-in. [Vomiting sounds]
Finally, a nostalgia video for me! Seriously, I'm not a 90's kid...I was born in '96 but I barely remember anything from it. I'm not afraid, and am proud to say I grew up in the early 2000's, it was fucking awesome. Why's everyone gotta be a part of the cool kid's club? Anyway, the games I grew up with were on the PC, PS2 and GBA. Oddly, I was introduced to classics like Yoshi's Island, Super Mario World and Super Mario Bros. 2 through their GBA remakes. In any case, I _never_ got the SP. I for some reason always stuck with the original model. I even still have that old thing. I somehow dealt with the crappy screen. In any case, I do very well remember GBA Video. I had the first 2 Sonic X episodes on it. I watched them over and over, I really wanted to watch more episodes but never got the DVDs sadly. I remember a bunch of other kids at school having things like the Fairly OddParents, SpongeBob and Shrek on the GBA. Good times. Shitty quality, yes, but they actually held up well for the time.
Well they kinda did but not the way that you expect it, It was a trailer for one of the Zelda games it was promotional and never sold in stores also the 3ds does it but it's only digital so nobody cares
I was only 9,000 years young. I hated Spongebob so little. I burnt none of the merchandise and one movie. I cursed Patrick every night, thanking him for cleaning my shit. Mrs. Puff is lo- I don't even know what I'm doing with my life.
Your kind of lucky in a way. While our generation can play at night we can't do anything during the day in the car. There's to much glare and reflection from the sun I have to put a blanket over my head just to play in my car lol
The only consoles that you can play anywhere are the gba sp (front lit) and the original ds when it's dark you turn the light on and when it's sunny you just turn it off and it's perfect
Oh man, Nostalgia overload!!!!!!! The first cartoon game I got was Codename: Kids Next Door. It only had 4 episodes. Wait, 20$ for 2 episodes of Sonic X? 13 episodes for 24.99$? I can watch this stuff on the internet for only 0.00$ The Future is now!
I never had these growing up. The most experience I had with them as a child was I watched a demo one (for some reason, I remember it was the Spongebob episode where they deliver pizza. I can remember that little piece of bullshit, but I can't remember to do fucking anything I need to do) for a few minutes in Walmart, once, while my mom needed something from the electronics department. None of my friends bothered getting these. Hell, even that loser, Brian, that nobody liked was too cool to waste his time with these. I was only able to get a new game once very few months, or so (sometimes fortune would smile upon me, and I could get one more often, but usually it was a long wait between games), so when that glorious day arrived when I would go into GameStop, and get to pick out a game, there's no way I was gonna waste my opportunity on getting reruns of shows I watched every day. I really didn't need to bring tv shows with me on car rides to my grandparents' house, since I would have to get a ton of them to entertain me for more than an 45 minutes out of a 6 hour car ride, while a game could hold me over for a long time, either through difficulty, my lack of skills, just fucking around, or them just being long games. The choice was obvious: new game. Now, some part of me wants to get some of these. They're actually pretty cheap, so I don't see the harm in buying a few. Could be fun. Besides, my collection would just end up growing.
+CurtisAlfeld If you can find them online for a cheap price, it's worth getting one or two, even just to see how laughable the quality is especially by today's standards (I bought like a dozen of them from the used game cabinet at Gamestop years ago).
Ahhhhh yes the memories are coming back. I only had one of these. I watched the same episode of Ed Edd n Eddy a million times on my SP. I can still repeat the episode word for word today.
I remember first getting the PSP and watching Spiderman 2 and Resident Evil Apocalypse. My mind was blown by the quality and being able to see those movies anywhere.
The Game Boy SP's back light was a blessing!!! As a kid growing up, my family took a lot of road trips. Playing my Game Boy Color or Game Boy Advance at night was a nightmare because I couldn't see anything on the screen. And of course, I would get scolded if I left the car light on for more the a couple of minutes.
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