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The Enrichment Center reminds you that although circumstances may appear bleak, you are not alone. All Aperture Science personality constructs will remain functional in apocalyptic, low power environments of as few as 1.1 volts.
absolutely mad that the gameboy was still running at 1 volt, it's like that quote from portal where the announcer mentions all equipment will remain functional at as few as 1.1 volts
@@purpleneonshonestly that’s pretty impressive, since the TTL logic high threshold is 2V and the transition is usually ~1.5. But the actual hard-limit logic low threshold is 0.8, so I guess a lot of chips can just-about discriminate between low and high with just a 0.3V difference.
In a world of portable power banks and personal vehicles (and even some public transport in big cities) providing easy access to power on-the-go, this is truly the way to get the authentic "rushing through the level because the batteries are about to die" original GB experience.
Schoolyard Game Boy, when everyone’s batteries are already dead. So one kid sits on the rest to get a little more juice out, while someone else keeps swapping them in to try and finish their level before it dies again. (In my school at least, we did rock paper scissors tournaments to determine who got to slurp up the battery dregs in that manner!)
@@GuyDude-hk8uy technically speaking, it may have made a slightly measurable difference. Diodes and photovoltaic cells are the same, just specialized differently. If you supply any PV with its forward voltage, it will emit light. If you supply any diode with its forward voltage, it will emit light (whether visible or not) LEDs aren't good at turning light into current, but they definitely produce a small current from light.
I did the same experiment, ended up building a digital clock that ran off various fruits, or even some drinks, and used it for years. The best "battery" was actually regular coca-cola.
I think the issue with the charge rate wasn't so much the lemons, but the zinc strips. The zinc ions were being stripped from the steel, so you basically consumed most of the coating. At that point your galvanic potential was lower because it was just steel to copper instead of zinc. If you had solid zinc strips they might have charged at a similar rate for longer. A fun V2 could be 316 stainless steel and zinc. A lot more galvanic potential. It should charge a lot quicker.
@@Games_for_JamesJames, your channel is less than a year old, but has almost 150k subscribers!! How does it feel, mate?!?! Also, when will you show off your Silver Play Button??
I'm suddenly realizing that the experiments of Mr. James Channel are what happen when you have the drive of a mad scientist, but without the fatal flaw of unfiltered ambition.
I suspect this is the case. Motion clarity was never very good. But, last time I tried on my own childhood Game Boy, it was pretty much unplayable with platformers that regularly moved the screen. There's a difference between "a screen so bad you prayed your parents would drive under a street lamp so you could see" and 38-year-old lethargic liquid in the LCD.
@@nickwallette6201I had mega attachment called the *Handy Boy,* which was a square magnifying glass, two small lightbulbs on each side, and two fold out stereo speakers. 😁🤘 _(folded closed, they protected the mag glass, like window shutters)_ It also had a controls attachment, where for the D-Pad it was similar to the Analog Stick on N64. Then the A and B were just larger and closer together. It was *super* clunky and I _never_ used it. (it cliped on separately) I don't remember if the speakers were powered by the GameBoy, or if it has a small amplifier... But it's been over 30 years. Based on pictures, it looks to have a power switch for the speakers, so it likely does, and used the GameBoy's own volume dial to do handle the unit's volume control. But yea, its added lighting was the REAL hero! Which obviously meant my GameBoy now required 6 batteries. lol
@@DUKE_of_RAMBLEI had something similar but smaller, so no speakers. No convoluted folding mechanism. Just the magnifier and the light. Two incandescent bulbs, “grain of wheat” sized (because I guess millimetres would be too abstract? Gotta call em rice, wheat, barley, etc. Sure, whatever). It drained the one AAA battery it took in an hour, sometimes two. My brother had a more expensive one with a single, and still very new, warm-white LED. It was brighter and lasted over 10x as long. I was so jealous 😂
When life gives you lemons, Don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back. Get Mad! I don't want your DAMN lemons; What am I supposed to do with these!? Demand to see life's manager; Make life rue the day it thought it could give James Channel lemons!
@@l0kaltpsykf4ll34 Parts of the lemon without traces of zinc look delish. Honestly i would definetly feed them to the neighbours kids whom i appreciate for waking me up everyday at 5 AM. 😀
Theres something incredibly satisfying about seeing how slowly the voltmeter was ticking up when the bank was charging, and then seeing it tick down at almost two hertz as you're playing
i would love to see a comparison with the same amount of lemons would do with a game boy pocket! your channel always brings me such joy. it’s nice to see a retro game channel that isn’t just doing the same mods all the time!
Interesting fact about the original game boy!! The screens actually become blurrier over time. I believe it's because of UV exposure but I could be mistaken.
Did I just watch you power a Nintendo Gameboy with lemons? 😲 I am impressed! I have been binging your videos! I like your video editing! I also like that you celebrate your accomplishments and that you make the video feel like I am sitting right there with you! Keep up the good work!
Probably using a simpler game like Tetris would last some more as that contains a single chip, while Mario Land is a large enough game to require a mapper chip. Might not be a lot but hey, 5 minutes is 5 minutes! :D
In elementary school I did a science experiment for the fair. I found out that lemons are the second least efficient food item to produce power. The most efficient was the onion due to the chemical density and concentration. It produced over 3 volts!
This is very nostalgic, for everyone in my school playing through faded screens, and sitting on batteries to warm them up a little and get 5 more minutes of gameplay. I never expected that meant we were sitting on 1.2-1.5V though! Haha. This is also a fantastic example of how capacitors are useful for voltage boosting circuits. Without getting too technical, or into super-fast switching. So well done! Though it does make me wonder if automated switching would improve the charge rate, along with an actual piece of pure zinc. Maybe not enough to play live, but at least to extend the play time by making it drain slower? I bet a cheap electrolysis kit, one with too many impurities for actual chemists, could do the trick.
I'm honestly impressed you were able to play for over 10 minutes, considering how power hungry most electronics were back then! I remember Sega Game Gear needing approximately 812 AA batteries!
how on earth someone would get up and say: let's play a game boy out of power lemons! oh wait... james did that! what a thing, i didn't know any of this. you are a legendary creature mah boi
I think if you do more than 2 probes per lemon in parallel, and closer spacing for the probes, the performance will increase. Everyone always forgets probe distance has a large impact on max current possible due to the internal resistance of the lemon flesh and more surface area will give better reactivity.
I was there Friday to Tuesday visiting mates and family, and it had rained earlier on the day I arrived (so Friday daytime I think?) it would've been the first time it rained there in months, cuz that's Adelaide in the summer. Though this year's been a weird one and I moved to Melbourne years ago so who knows
What do the original Game Boy and the Aperture Science Enrichment Center have in common? “All Aperture Science personality constructs will remain functional in apocalyptic, low power environments of as few as 1.1 volts.”
