*Now you're playing with power!*
from The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 13:29
https://lemmy.world/post/32558365

Not mine, but I always enjoy seeing these monstrosities.

#retrogaming

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aeronmelon@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 13:57 next collapse

“THIS ISN’T EVEN MY FINAL FORM!”

dalekcaan@feddit.nl on 06 Jul 23:29 collapse

Final Freeza did look like a pair of Airpods, ngl

technomad@slrpnk.net on 06 Jul 13:57 next collapse

Rockin’ the little watch too, that’s legit.

datavoid@lemmy.ml on 06 Jul 14:02 collapse

Pretty sure that’s the biggest watch I’ve seen

technomad@slrpnk.net on 06 Jul 14:09 collapse

Yeah, it’s huge compared to other watches!

MycarHolmes@quokk.au on 06 Jul 13:57 next collapse

That Gameboy watch really sells it.

tyr0sine@mander.xyz on 06 Jul 20:48 collapse

Noticing it only after parsing the rest of the setup made me giggle a little bit.

Kalothar@lemmy.ca on 06 Jul 23:09 collapse

Noticing it after reading their comment gave me a hearty chuckle

datavoid@lemmy.ml on 06 Jul 14:02 next collapse

Imagine the shits you could take with that thing

ramble81@lemmy.zip on 06 Jul 15:39 collapse

You’d have maybe 5 minutes before it’d suck the battery dry.

CryptoKitten@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jul 14:06 next collapse

Neither the gamegenie nor the action replay look like the are in use, this is probably why it is not powered on.

BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca on 06 Jul 14:31 next collapse

Imagine showing up in school with that in the 90s!

IllNess@infosec.pub on 06 Jul 16:14 collapse

Well yeah! My uncle works for Nintendo!

everett@lemmy.ml on 06 Jul 21:14 collapse

Uncle Nintendo: “This is a disownable offense.”

JoeKrogan@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 14:40 next collapse

Transformers… Robots in disguise

Mist101@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 14:48 next collapse

Good game choice, too.

SolidShake@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 14:52 next collapse

My gba was like this lol.

jol@discuss.tchncs.de on 06 Jul 15:03 next collapse

You can almost hear the batteries draining in mere minutes.

grue@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 16:50 next collapse

If you think that’s bad, imagine an equivalently-accessorized Game Gear.

killeronthecorner@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 16:52 next collapse

Ah game gear TV. Battery life meant nothing to you.

swizzlestick@lemmy.zip on 06 Jul 17:00 collapse

I loved that TV tuner cartridge.

Had a pair of NiCad battery packs in the end - folks got sick of buying the ‘good’ alkaline batteries for it. Always had one on boil while the other was draining.

directive0@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 17:46 collapse

“one on boil” is such a good expression for charging batteries. Stealing that.

swizzlestick@lemmy.zip on 06 Jul 21:15 collapse

See Derek of Vice Grip Garage on YouTube, picked it up from him :)

the_tab_key@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 16:55 next collapse

Imagine a stock game gear

myrrh@ttrpg.network on 06 Jul 18:01 next collapse

…my game gear case carried an automotive-sized external rechargeable battery…

anomnom@sh.itjust.works on 07 Jul 12:24 collapse

Like a 30lb lead acid?

I could see using like a powerwheels sized 1980s battery. Or a couple of lantern batteries even.

myrrh@ttrpg.network on 07 Jul 13:05 collapse

…two-stroke honda generator…

MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca on 06 Jul 19:11 collapse

26 min running time per battery pack.

anomnom@sh.itjust.works on 07 Jul 12:25 collapse

This was our screen time limit in the 80s.

BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jul 17:38 next collapse

I think one of those attachments are actually for a 12V 70Ah car battery

M137@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 22:07 collapse

Minutes? Hah, amateur!

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 15:18 next collapse

Gaming in the 90’s was so glorious.

Mycroft@meow.social on 06 Jul 15:30 next collapse

@The_Picard_Maneuver I had most of this monstrosity! No Action Replay because the Game Genie was enough, and no bottom set of speakers because the side speakers were enough. Not visible was the big heavy rechargable nicad battery that clipped onto the back.

I also had a backup device, that only backed up the battery backed save data not the whole ROM. But it was useful for overwriting the save data from Pokemon Red over Blue, catching some Blue-exclusive mons, then writing the save data back onto Red. It had the same form factor as the AR shown.

The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 15:35 next collapse

What a legend.

I remember having a light, magnifying glass (but not this one), and a battery pack, but I can’t remember which attachments were for the original Gameboy vs the Gameboy Color.

Mycroft@meow.social on 06 Jul 15:41 next collapse

@The_Picard_Maneuver Oh and I remember those two little tabs on the top of the magnifying glass part were for a neck strap, as all these attachments nearly doubled the machine's weight and made it really top-heavy. The strap was to help you hold its overall weight.

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Jul 16:59 collapse

I also have most of this, sans the bottom speakers! I also have a GameShark. I do not have the watch.

You can’t use the bottom speakers with the side speakers anyway, since both use the aux jack. If you plug in an aux splitter, the bottom speakers don’t fit on.

SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jul 15:43 next collapse

I like this

calavera@lemmy.zip on 06 Jul 15:44 next collapse

That’s glorious

loomy@lemy.lol on 06 Jul 16:11 next collapse

god damn, forgot about this

Hjalamanger@feddit.nu on 06 Jul 16:23 next collapse

Could someone explain? Can one do this? What evil spells have to be cast for this to work?

Nutteman@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 16:47 collapse

Back then? Money. Now? Lots and lots of money.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 18:01 collapse

Not to mention your parental units had to be on board with the whole idea. They were not. :/

Nutteman@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 19:31 collapse

Begging mom to please buy me the gba headphone jack adapter so I can play my games with the sound on in the car without annoying her 😭

Alaik@lemmy.zip on 06 Jul 16:52 next collapse

A game genie and action replay on one unit? I seem to recall that being a very bad idea.

JcbAzPx@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 19:50 collapse

You might brick your game, but that’s a small price to pay for electronic gaming dominance.

houndeyes@toast.ooo on 06 Jul 17:13 next collapse

I always enjoy seeing these monstrosities.

<img alt="" src="https://y.yarn.co/9e7a79bc-2fb9-4f69-b64c-1a7976483f91_text.gif">

The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 17:18 collapse

Remember when we all dressed like that 10 years ago?

houndeyes@toast.ooo on 06 Jul 17:32 collapse

Remember when we all dressed like that 10 years ago?

<img alt="" src="https://y.yarn.co/e79eb922-f73f-431d-b16b-6e865705b620_text.gif">

bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jul 18:31 collapse

No, that was last year.

BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jul 17:38 next collapse

Rad!

taiyang@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 17:47 next collapse

No, you do not mix AR and game genie but there is a distinct absence of anything Gameboy camera/printer attachment so it’s clearly incomplete. I’d also suggest the attachment reading lamp, but I think if that magnifying attachment comes with a light that works, too. Not sure if that particular one does, though.

you_are_dust@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 18:04 next collapse

What would actually happen if you used an action replay and a game genie at the same time? Would it not even be able to boot up? Would it work and just one supercedes the other? I only ever had game genie so I couldn’t test it. Does anyone know?

Metype@pawb.social on 06 Jul 19:00 collapse

[EDIT]

Based on further research (read: exactly one DDG query) It appears the Action Replay is actually significantly more complex than I had guessed and functions differently enough from the Game Genie that they quite often simply cannot operate in tandem like this and can cause serious issues.

Read on if you’d like a cool story that has little to do with reality, or would like to imagine how chaining game genies might work if that was feasible :3

[/EDIT]

Based on my (admittedly not incredible) knowledge of how those devices both work, they intercept reads for specific memory addresses from the CPU and insert their own values. As long as they both weren’t set up with codes to modify the same address very little would happen, it would behave as you might expect.

If the two both had codes that modified the same address the Game Genie would “win” here since it is physically closer to CPU in the chain. It would see the address matching one of its codes and spit back its value, neither the cartridge nor the Action Replay would see the memory read occur.

you_are_dust@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 21:49 collapse

Thanks for that. Do you know would the serious issue be like hardware damage or just like corrupted gameplay? I’ve seen some videos of game corruption and I’m wondering if that’s something people could use or would it just fry the game or console.

Metype@pawb.social on 06 Jul 22:41 collapse

There’s always a chance for hardware damage chaining devices together that were not designed to be used as such. To keep your hardware safe don’t use it in ways that violate the manufacturer’s guides and recommendations.

In this case? Probably just wouldn’t really work, might corrupt save game data.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 18:38 next collapse

WHO downvoted this, and why do you hate amazing things???

swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Jul 19:05 next collapse

Game Man

pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Jul 19:24 next collapse

How heavy is that?

Natanael@infosec.pub on 06 Jul 20:44 collapse

3 grams off from collapsing into a black hole

beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com on 06 Jul 19:49 next collapse

You’re probably thinking ew! Who would ever want that? They must have worked hard on the marketing side!

Well there was nothing better and everyone had a TV. So they had normal TV commercials for it.

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 20:23 next collapse

Batteries drained in 5 minutes

Alenalda@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 20:37 next collapse

this guys dad works for nintendo

tehn00bi@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 20:49 next collapse

How many minutes do the batteries last?

everett@lemmy.ml on 06 Jul 21:11 next collapse

Yes.

RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 21:21 next collapse

About tree fiddy.

toxicbubble@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 21:26 next collapse

seconds

pyre@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 22:29 next collapse

no

Psythik@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 22:41 next collapse

I had the GameBoy Color version of the magnifying glass/speaker/fake joystick combo. It ran the speakers and the light off of its own pair of batteries. The speakers were an upgrade (especially for the stereo sound) but everything else was a gimmick. The incandescent bulb was too dim and housing around the screen made it darker and even more difficult to see:

<img alt="" src="https://i.imgur.com/emPBXV4.jpeg">

Later on in early 2000s we got the worm light. LED and was powered from the link cable port. It was considerably brighter and hardly affected battery life from what I remember:

<img alt="" src="https://i.imgur.com/vhgiHnP.jpeg">

We also eventually got magnifying glasses that didn’t have the housing around the screen to darken it:

<img alt="" src="https://i.imgur.com/QTkJREr.jpeg">

PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 23:01 next collapse

Those worm lights were the first time I ever saw an LED. It was crazy to me that it was so bright it was blue.

Psythik@lemmy.world on 07 Jul 00:00 collapse

Same but I was 12 at the time so I didn’t think much about the bulb tech nor it’s color temperature. I was just like “wow that’s a bright bulb”.

Later on around 2005 I got my first piece of tech with an OLED screen: a Kenwood car stereo. It wouldn’t be for nearly another 20 years when I finally got my first OLED TV.

Wahots@pawb.social on 07 Jul 06:25 collapse

I miss the worm lights. My cousin had one, and even though I had the Advance SP, I thought the worm LED was super neat.

AceBridge@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 23:05 collapse

Still longer than the GameGear :(

aksdb@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 21:02 next collapse

“So I have this ultra portable gaming device…”

Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 21:20 next collapse

Cassette Dystopianism

M137@lemmy.world on 06 Jul 22:11 next collapse

This is like the Thanos glove with the stones (can’t remember the actual names) but for Nintendo in the 80s and 90s. The only thing missing is a power glove which it’s all mounted on, and an NES Zapper somehow integrated into it all.

Squirrel@thelemmy.club on 06 Jul 22:38 next collapse

This is what many Steam Deck users seem to pursue.

Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de on 07 Jul 05:34 collapse

Can confirm. So far I’ve gotten an external monitor, keyboard, mouse, docking station and a stand for it so it can be used as a laptop as well while traveling.

It certainly has issues but it’s an impressive device.

hperrin@lemmy.ca on 06 Jul 22:47 next collapse

Where’s the camera?

TwinTitans@lemmy.world on 07 Jul 00:10 next collapse

You have a GameShark plugged into a game genie? The hells the point of that.

PolarKraken@programming.dev on 07 Jul 06:08 next collapse

You’ve never sharked a genie? What a prude!

INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone on 07 Jul 08:34 collapse

spits

Filthy casual.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 07 Jul 00:35 next collapse

Cool watch.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 07 Jul 00:38 next collapse

I tried to find a photo of this janky Game Gear peripheral I had, but came across this angelfire website instead: www.angelfire.com/games4/…/Gamegear.html

I feel like this website may actually be from the 90s… It’s literally just a person talking about the cool shit they have for their Game Gear, and the only email address is @aol.com. Made me very nostalgic.

buzz86us@lemmy.world on 07 Jul 00:58 next collapse

All this and no Nyko shock and rock?

kender242@lemmy.world on 07 Jul 01:15 next collapse

Keith Apicary’s Classics Gaming Wiz

arararagi@ani.social on 07 Jul 04:57 next collapse

I actually got that kit from a friend as a kid, I used it all the time when playing at home, the fake analog was legit, and I think there’s a light on the magnifier too.

Deadeyegai@lemmy.world on 07 Jul 06:22 next collapse

This is the ideal Gameboy body. You might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like (just be sure to have all the batteries nearby).

ICastFist@programming.dev on 07 Jul 16:11 collapse

8AAs, right?

ICastFist@programming.dev on 07 Jul 16:13 collapse

AVGN is about to meet his match