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I never had a Game Boy as a kid meaning I missed out on an entire era of

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handheld gaming but that's okay there's

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time thanks to the funny playing fpga

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build your own Game Boy kit now the whole concept of this product is a

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little confusing to me since apparently it's so easy to build that you can just

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do it yourself and yet they don't want to do it they do not offer the option to

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pre-assemble it and ship it to you but realistically I'm pretty technical and

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I'm sure that I can figure out how

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to get the okay I I I I'm I'm Hamming it up I'm

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Hamming it up calm down I can open a bag oo this is a perfect opportunity to show

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off our upcoming Precision screwdriver kit for lonus coming soon to LTT

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store.com let's have a look at everything that's included in our kit

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we've got the Game Boy case which comes in clear or black or apparently a

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variety of other colors but those are the two that we got and I chose clear

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and obviously this is not a Game Boy this is a Game Boy Color shell but it

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will apparently play both Game Boy and Game Boy Color games got some Hardware

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got a funny playing 3.7 volt lithium battery this Pro is probably a screen

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apparently it is significantly brighter than the original not backlit Game Boy

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Color screen I'm actually going to save that peel until later these are the membranes and these are the buttons they

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apparently strongly recommend trying it out before assembly which I guess makes

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sense that's something we can do and then we've got the main board itself

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this is the star of the show featuring contact pads for all of our buttons on

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the face and coming around to the back

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an fpga processor that makes this not so

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much an emulation machine more of an actual Game Boy SL Game Boy Color

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because fpga is short for field programmable Gat array and on a hardware

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level this chip can mimic the functionality of those devices not

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emulating them in software but becoming

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them which is incredibly cool given the

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price that this comes in at a little over $80 for everything that you see in

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front of you uh not including the Precision driver kit honestly even if I

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had a game boy or a Game Boy Color this would be very attractive to me because

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all of a sudden I can charge with USBC not to mention apparently the

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speakers are quite a lot better where are they ah yes speaker sorry did I say

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speaker cuz I meant speaker now something to note is unlike a console

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console you're not going to get the same kind of standby battery life our friends

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over at retro gamecore found that they lost about 50% of the remaining battery

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being in standby for just 8 hours and their suspicion is that is because the

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game is still running in the background albeit at a lower power mode we've got a

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couple more ports here we've got our volume rocker as well as our EXT Port

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which I guess if you were one of the very few people I didn't know anyone who

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had one if you were one of the very few people that had one of those link cables

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you could could they use it for multiplayer games you could definitely

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share Pokemon with it and I never knew anyone who did that we got our power

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switch over here our game cartridge slot

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it takes both Game Boy and Game Boy Color modes and can emulate each of

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those consoles separately and that's worth noting because even though you

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could run Game Boy games in a Game Boy Color it would behave slightly differently in some cases and now I

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think it's time to go ahead and put this thing together I'm thinking I'll just like kind of what start at the front

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here and uh hopefully I don't screw this up too badly is this keyed oh yeah look

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at that it's keyed you can't you can't screw it up oh yeah look at that can

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only be assembled one way this is going great I hope now we're going to put the

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funny playing speaker in here any particular orientation they want for

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this or I'll figure it out don't tell me don't tell me is there a cover on this

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thing why'd you put a cover on there funny playing you guys funny playing

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with me I think I've got everything in it's time to screw this I've screwed it

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in oh yeah can he assemble the whole

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thing while it acts as a fidget spinner

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nope I'm going to need the spinny top oh that's kind of cool so the IR

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emitter is optional and I guess we don't have it right so I'll just I don't know

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I can put either one of them in it doesn't matter I'm going to put the clear one in why are some of these

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screws triwing dang it funny playing we

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don't like that about Nintendo don't copy that okay wait a second hold on

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whoo there are a lot of really different screws here what is this long Phillips

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head that I put in here oh dude did I just drive that through the

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entire oh boy okay now I got this i got

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this no it didn't drive all the way through it just left a mark let's just put the battery and what could go wrong

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right now so those two go through the shell I'm going to say the tri WIS go

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through the back of the chassis here and I'm going to say the three Phillips

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heads go anywhere where there isn't a hole in the back of the chassis we got

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good we good oh well that's fine cuz the

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battery just sits in here anyway there's even a little recessed thing for it this

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is totally fine oh man I was all oh no I'm going to have to like put the

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battery here and there's going to be a screw sticking into it no this is great

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yeah guys I mean okay yeah sure the instructions might be nice if they were

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a thing that existed but realistically if you're reasonably Savvy or if you

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watch this video you could probably put this together for yourself you guys believe that both Belle who's sitting

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here producing for this video and Andrew

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who's shooting it are skipping our land I bet if you

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worked here you wouldn't skip the land what kind of person is like that

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even our CEO tan is coming to the land

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you're not coming to the land what a dick that's the problem with

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Executives they think they're too good to mingle with us common people there we

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go tighten this boy up oh yeah okay make

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sure that switch is working there's our

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o makes sense that would uh make sense that that would power it on I just want

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to see this screen power on before I put in the rest of the screws and commit

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here ah okay cool you're the lift up at the back style the little uh little

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black part there you just give that a little lifty lift without touching the actual PCV with any metal and then this

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boy I already peeled the adhesive on it so I assume it's going to go in a little

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something like that I'm not going to lie I was kind of expecting it to um do some

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oh hey there was no game in it I figured

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it out and that's going to come off little something like that a s

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I just built a Game Boy I am qualified to work at Nintendo's Factory in the

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got for games o we got Super Mario Land not to be

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confused with Super Mario okay oh Kirby's Dreamland this is the one game

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boy game that I actually have hours in

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oh let's do this thing wow the um Game

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Boy to Game Boy Color experience uh leaves a lot to be desired doesn't it

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let's push the volume button to access

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ooh different display modes okay this is

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pretty cool you can adjust how it scales so right now we're using x 4 integer

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scaling but we can also stretch it if we

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don't want as uh true of a representation you know what I'm

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stretching it I'm I'm sorry I'm sorry purists out there uh we can just switch

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to the Game Boy core that's probably for the best right now okay backl oh man

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this is sick get all my little adjustments in here frame mix and GB

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color fix are apparently fixes if your game doesn't work properly then you can

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kind of try that and then the speed can be adjusted you can update the firmware

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just by plugging in Via USBC and just dragging a new firmware file over which

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is pretty freaking cool and I never showed you guys the headphone jack at the bottom before so let's go ahead I'm

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going to switch to Game Boy mode waa it's even

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green Ah that's so cool ah ah no no

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don't I'm going to die okay let's try Game Boy Color game and you want to

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compare to an actual Game Boy Color right wow I forgot how small and crappy

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that screen was H how's a d-pad compare

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I mean this poor thing is like 25 years old so so yeah it's pretty mushy this is

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definitely better AB buttons feel pretty similar start select buttons a little

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better on the original the ergonomics match very closely it's clear that

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Nintendo's Plastics are a little better even after all of these years just

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things match up a little bit better but man yeah USBC versus this stupid GC

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Barrel Port here do we have another Game Boy Color game yeah we got we got

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something let's just throw this in here just to just to show you guys cuz this

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was not even a backlit display like it's color but it's a reflective LCD like man

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you want to play your old Game Boy Color games ew no question this is awesome

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yeah let's go to I don't know world six sure I got this don't even trip dog

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speakers are pretty sick on this actually it's always a good sign when we

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get distracted playing video games compared to wa that's really loud the

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whole chassis vibrates man I'm going to

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beat one level okay that's all I ask what he moved

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up game over no no no I don't rage I

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don't Rage Quit

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ah all right let's have a look at a more premium option the analog pocket oh hey

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it's worth mentioning that compatibility with flash carts is somewhat limited on

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this one you got to make sure you get one that works with it uh what we

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suspect it's due to power constraints or something like that possibly I don't

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think we know exactly why that is but just watch out for that if you're

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planning to use Flash carts as opposed to to using actual games like a good

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little boy like we do this is a really nice display and it's nice to have the

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extra size whatever my wife might say it really does make a difference it's

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really heavy though really freaking heavy this is actually the first time

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I've used this thing it's like I know it's kind of like a big deal device and all that what we can all agree on is

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that this is terrible okay and either of these or

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basically anything is much better let's talk value the analog pocket is

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obviously our premium option it gets more battery life it's got a bigger

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screen the build quality feels noticeably more robust and it's more

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powerful not just playing game boy and Game Boy Color games but also playing

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other retro console games hence the uh four button layout compared to the two

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button layout of our funny playing however it costs now what's that work

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out too it costs well over twice the

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amount at over $200 compared to this thing being around 85 yeah you got to

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build it yourself but I think I just showed you guys you can probably do that in anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes

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depending on your level of skill now where the Game Boy Color comes in is

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around 60 around 60 us why would anybody ever buy this then okay so just don't do

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that yeah there's no way that I would consider this and honestly unless I

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really wanted the flexibility of playing those other consoles I just don't see

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how I would take a device that's this big and this heavy compared to how

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pocketable this is yeah this flipping awesome just make

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sure you get a compatible multi card if you're um a filthy pirate see you later

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