**The Ultimate Portable Game Boy: A Reality Check**

In a surprising turn of events, I found myself in a hotel room with my parents who had left me to gamble in Atlantic City. My best friend? The battery and screen for the ultimate portable Game Boy! As it turns out, the battery was a relatively affordable $30, but the screen was a whopping $250 due to its advanced packaging.

As I began to assemble the device, I realized that someone had already done the hard work for me. The screen nicely folded on top of my GameCube, and it even had an AV port, allowing me to watch videos or play games from other consoles like the PS2 (yes, you read that right – PS2).

I was excited to see if I could run the Game Boy Player and battery simultaneously, but unfortunately, my 20-year-old battery wasn't enough to power the system. Despite this setback, I decided to take a closer look at what we had.

The startup disk was essentially the software that ran the game, emulating the Game Boy experience on the GameCube. The Game Boy Player itself contained an entire Game Boy Advance, complete with the guts of an original Game Boy. This meant that even weirder accessories like the e-Reader would fit perfectly.

I was determined to make this thing work, so I carefully locked the Game Boy Player into place and inserted the disk. To my surprise, the system sprang to life, and I was able to play original Game Boy games on my GameCube. It was a great way to relive old memories.

As I continued to experiment with the device, I realized that it might be slightly larger than the original Game Boy. However, I was thrilled with how well it worked, despite some minor issues with power supply.

In conclusion, while this ultimate portable Game Boy didn't quite live up to its name (due to battery limitations), it was still a fantastic way to play classic games on my GameCube. If you're feeling nostalgic for the good old days of gaming, this might just be the thing for you.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Huh, huh, huh.Huh, huh, huh.(box knocks on table)Whoa!Hello my friends and welcometo a very special momentousoccasion because in front of meI have one of if not the greatestgame consoles of all time,the Nintendo GameCube.Where did you buy this?What is all this?It's just like an eBay thing?- Yeah.- Okay, well it smells like an eBay thing.I get the GameCube justa little bath here.A little TLC for this little buddy.(blower revving)- Whoever taped those(tape rustling)cables in packing tape deservesto be shot in the face.- Tell me how you really feel Matt.- I was pretty clearon how I really felt there.- Oh ok.Ken how much was theultimate Nintendo GameCube?(tape rustling)- This was about $130.(cables knocking on table)- $130?Are you trying to tellme that like fine winethe GameCube has appreciated in valueover the last almost 20 years?As this was for a timeavailable for only 99.99.What a bargain?(package knocks on table)(speaker smacks lips)Oh, I was about to plug in our controller,but we have a WaveBird.So the GameCube was one ofif not the very first consoleto have a wireless controller option.This was well before the PS3, the Wii--- First party.- Oh, okay.Sure there was someweird third party things.But the WaveBird was really cooland I sadly was never cool enoughto actually have a WaveBird.Ken you had a WaveBird, right?- I had two.- You had two WaveBirds?(Matt speaking faintly)What?- Yeah.- Richy McRich over here.- So essentially the WaveBirdis just a standard GameCube controller,but with all the wirelessstuff built on the bottom.This is actually in pretty good shape.How much was a newish in box WaveBird?- So with the packaging,which is a probably hugepart of this pricingit was about $175.(Matt laughing)If you wanted it completelyunopened it'd be 350,but this one has a littlebit of a slit in the plastic.So...- You trying to tell methat I could have bought abrand new Xbox Elite controllerinstead of a Gamecube WaveBird?- No.- Seems like a great idea.I'm much more in favor of the WaveBird.(package knocks on table)(speaker smacks lips)Okay, so this is somethingI actually did have.This is the Game Boy Player.So on the bottom of the GameCubethere are a couple of little portsthat you can take advantage ofwhich could give you variousdifferent accessories.And the Game Boy Player isthe one that I really liked.So essentially this is afull Game Boy built inside.Ken this looks...Wait.This isn’t a new in box is it?- It is new in box.(package knocks on table)- Look I miss my Game Boy Player.This thing is great.But this thing being new in box,how much was a Game BoyPlayer new in box in 2020?- So this was $360.- Look I actuallylegitimately feel really badabout trying to open this,coz not only is thissomething which is really rareand very expensive, but thispackaging is like flawless.Like this looks like I couldhave straight got it offthe bargain bin at BigLots for $35 in 2004.I'm still gonna keep this over here.I don't want to open thisunless we really have tocoz it's still nice.I’m like dead serious,I don't want to openup the Game Boy Player.That's so nice.(package knocks on table)(speaker laughing)It even has the “Toys R US” on it!So this is the Intecrechargeable battery pakto take your GameCube anywhere.Obviously as a veryadvanced modern consolewith a carrying handle,you could actually make thisthing somewhat portable.But with this you couldactually take it on the go.Wait, so this actually wecan do all of these together.So we would have to do the battery pakinstead of the Game Boy Player.I don't want to open the Game Boy Playeris what I'm trying to say.It's okay, we'll do that later.We still gonna try to be a little carefulwith the packaging.(package rustling)- So these things are like,(knife knocks on table)oh Jesus Christ.- What was that?What?- You were not socareful with the packaging.(soft music)- Whoo, that's heavy.That's an old-school battery right there.So it's really pretty straightforward.So just has charging on or off.Which is weird I guess for the battery.It uses the actual GameCubepower adapter to juice up.Oh, look at all these other things.So we could have gottenthe GeForce controller.We could have gottenthe GeForce2.- I had one of thoseGeForce controllers actually.- Really?- Yeah.- Ah, so we have the game screen.We also have the game sound systemwhich is a pair of speakersthat go beside your GameCube.Memory card, video cables,(package knocks on table)GameCube link.Oh, and a screen. (smacks lips)Well, how convenient for me?So this is the IntecGameCube color game screen.Now I know this was reallypopular back in the day.In fact I feel like youwanted to buy one of thesefor a Mystery Tech a few years ago.We didn't end up picking it up.But essentially just likewith the original PS1,not the PlayStation One,there was a first party alittle attachment screenthat you could get for it.Well, while this wasn't aofficial licensed GameCube screenfrom Nintendo, Intecactually did make this.And it sort of color matchesalongside the battery.- I also owned one of those too.- I know you were a rich kid Ken.I know you had all the cool fun toys.Look, not all of us were asfancy as Mr. Bolido over here.- When my parents weregambling in Atlantic Cityand left me in the hotelroom, this is my best friend.- You know I never mind.I'm sorry for your childhood Ken.So, how much was the batteryand how much was the screen?- The battery was $30.- Wait, so the battery actually was $30?Basically MSRP.- Yeah.- Okay, what about the screen?I bet that was expensive.- It was $250 becauseof the whole packagingand everything that it came with.- Well, at least someonedid the work for meand it's already kind of open.So I can just sort of slide it out.Wait, what is going on here?Oh, it's got like a weirdlike adapter on the back.So essentially we just take this like soand just slide in, huh?Yeah, there we go.Little bit back heavy.But now we have a screenwhich just nicely foldson top of our GameCube.Oh, this is actually really cool.You know actually suddenly I just realizedthis screen has an AV in.So if you didn't wantto just use this screenfor your GameCube, you couldalso watch videos on it.- I played my PS2 on it too.- You played your PS2on a GameCube screen?- I did.I brought my PS2 with me tothe hotel too just in case.- Okay boomer.(polythene bag rustling)- I have a feelingthat you might be able to runthe Game Boy Player and thebattery at the same time.- Ooh.Do I really have to openup the Game Boy Player?This is so nice Ken.(beeping)(slow music)(speaker gasps)- It's not Simba.(speaker smacks lips)(slow music)(package rustling)- Okay, that's not gonna workthe way I thought it was gonna work.I've to rethink that a little bit.Now that I've ruined myfuture retirement fund,let's take a look and see what we've got.So first of all we have the startup disk.This is essentially whatruns the game, the software.That will then...I almost said emulate.It’s not really emulate though.It's actually running GameBoy games on the GameCube.Okay.(package rustling)We have our Game Boy Player.So inside this innocuous little black boxis essentially an entire Game Boy Advance,including the guts ofan original Game Boy.So you can see we're gonnahave our little card slot here.But interestingly thisis the same configurationas the standard Game Boy, which meantthat even for weirderaccessories like the e-Reader,that actually would fit in here.No problem.And of course you have the link cable port.So theoretically, if you werelike me and had no friends,you could take your GameBoy and trade Pokemonwith your Game Boy Playeron a different game.I definitely did that a lot.So this is actuallyreally straightforward.So there's just a little porton the bottom of the GameCube.And I want you to do isjust lock it in here.Now if I can get this to allwork together on the batterywhich it will ish.Not a perfect fit.You know what? That's fine.That's fine.We're building our Tower of Powerif this was the correct company.Which is not. (clears throat)Our Tower of Nintendo,our Tower of Pokemon.I gotta say I'm feeling pretty goodabout our ultimate GameCube right now.So theoretically if I put this disc in,we're ready to fire this up, right?Yeah, all right.That's on.Here goes nothing.(button clicks)(gentle music)(speaker gasps)- That screen mightbe a little broken though.(slow happy music)- Dude this thing is pretty good.Like it's loud.(soft ringtone)What a great way to playoriginal Game Boy games.- It's only slightly largerthan the original Game Boy.- So the next step really isgoing to be can we unplug this?Do you think it will work?Right.Here goes nothing.Three, two, one.(screen clicks)No, well that didn’t work. (laughs)Okay.There's a little bit of power.It's not enough toactually run the GameCube.So our 20 year old batteryis sadly not enough to be portable.So we can't call this theultimate portable Game Boy.We just call it the ultimate Game Boy.- To be fair, it saidyou charge it for four hours,we gave it about 15 minutes.(soft cool music)(drums knocking on table)(soft cool music)- (smacks lips) That's not for a Game Boy.(package knocks on table and floor)"Donkey Konga" is the rhythm and you...Oh, we're about to find out.(drums crackling)(computer singing faintly)(Ken and Austin clapping and laughing)(drums crackling)(Ken and Austin clapping and laughing)(drums crackling)(Ken and Austin clapping)(Austin laughing)(Ken clapping)(drums crackling)(Ken and Austin clapping)(drums crackling)(drums crackling)(Ken and Austin clapping)(Ken and Austin clapping and laughing)(drums crackling)(Ken and Austin clapping)- Aah.- This is the greatestthing we've ever donein the entire history of the channel.- I like how we having--- What?- fun with this(Austin laughing)so many years later.(Austin laughing)As we do it like the Switch.(Austin laughing)Like this game is kind of timeless it’s awesome.(Austin laughing)- That's a lot of stuff.(packages knocking on table)So this is the mClassic.Now this is essentially you can runvarious different older consolesto HDMI with this, right?So essentially it's processingoff, upscale, anti-aliasand sharpness or retromode for retro games.What is this?This looks 3D printed.(polythene bag rustling)- So that is a 3D printedadapter.- GC plug?- Yeah.- So essentially you plug itinto the GameCubeand then it gives you anHDMI directly out of it.- Yes.- Oh,that's super interesting.Plug this directly in here.(smacks lips) Eeh, we double dongling.Look at that.Double dongling.So 660 by 448i.That actually is not a badlooking picture though.So now that we're doubledongling, let's triple dongleand see if we can really getthe cleanest HDMI pictureout of our double dongle GameCube.Switch again carefully.Dongle.Well, I'm trying to dock the dongle.The dongle has landed. (laughs and speaks faintly.)That looks like a fire hazard.The dongle actually weighs so much.It is literally pulling itout of the GameCube right now.We're just gonna mount thison the back of the Kongato keep it from falling. (gasps)Okay, I'm gonna unplugthe dongle for a secondand see if I can re-dongle my dongle.Not sure what seems to be the problem here.(Austin laughs and speaks faintly).It all seems to be in order.I'll hold the dongle.- Alright, we're good.- Okay, I'm holding the dongles.So there we go.- Oh, there we go.Oh, works.- It looks like,look how great our donglechain of dongle town is.- So it said it was...- No.No.- Oh, no.- Okay right.Okay, I'll hold it. Fine.- There you go.We good.- Does it look good guys?I'm on upscale mode.I can switch modes.- You know what?That actually looks really good.- Okay, so this is normal mode.- Okay.- So that's not upscale.- That's not.Yeah.- I see a noticeabledifference in the text.(screen clicks)- Go.- Okay,so this is upscale mode.- Oh, that is definitely sharper.- And this is retro mode.(slow cool music)- Definitely not.- No.We're gonna do upscale mode.- Upscale mode is where it's at.- So through extreme precisionand craftsmanship here at Overclock Media,we've constructed the ultimate GameCube.So now that we have the GameCubeitself with this screen...(Ken speaking faintly)- It's not.- Excuse me Ken.I'm talking right now.- I cannot see anythingthat you're doing.- Well, I'll show itto you in a minute.With our extreme precision,we have our GameCube withour display, our WaveBird,our Game Boy Player, our battery,and then if you come around,well, I'll get out of the way.Come around to the back,you'll see that we have avery expert chain of dongles.So we have the GC Plug going into HDMI,going into HDMI male to male,into the mClassic via USBthrough HDMI, into theTV and it looks great.Thank you very much forwatching this episode.No, so we're not done yet.We have to play some games now.Do we have another game?- Smash.(button clicks)- My body is ready.- But are your nipples ready?- You wanna see my nipples Matt?Another thing I've neverplayed Melee before. (laughs)(game pad controls clicking)- The C-Stick does, wait.(game pad controls clicking)The C-Stick is your Smash- The C-Stick does not work on this.Wow, that C-Stick is really(beep) delayed, why? (laughs)- That sounds like someonewho is blaming the tools.- Well, I mean when--- Like you when you play F1.(game pad controls clicking)(computer beeps)(Ken speaking faintly)(Austin laughing)- Realize I’m up two stock right now, right?- I know, yeah.Coz I'm like trying to figure outhow to use this (beep) C-Stick.Coz it's not working properly. (laughs)(game pad controls clicking)- Okay, let's rematch.That one doesn't count.(Ken speaks faintly)- Maybe you guysswitch controllers?- Yeah, actually though.- That's fine.- Yeah. (laughs)- I don't use the C-Stick.I'm a real professional.(Ken speaks faintly)Time to "Donkey Konga."- There we go.Okay yeah, this is workingway better. (laughs)- Oh, you know what? You're right.This control is actually a little sticky.- Yeah, it's not working properly. (laughs)- No, you don't.(Ken laughs)No.(Ken laughing)(game pad controls clicking)Aah.- Yeah. (laughs)- Alright, well played.(pad knocks on table)(Ken gasps)- Best of three?- (gasps) Sure.- Alright, let's go.(game pad controls clicking)- Okay, there we go.That's what I don't like.(game pad controls clicking)Oh.(computer beeps)(game pad controls clicking)- Whoo- hoo.- Oh, yeah. I forgot you can steal my moves.(Ken laughing)- No, no, no, no, no, no.Go, go, go, go, go.The bomb, the bomb!(game pad controls clicking)(Ken laughing)Aaah.No.- That was your own fault.- That was mine.- Oh, damn.- Aah, you know you got me.You got me by one stock.- Yeah.(game pad controls clicking)- Come on, no. (laughs)(Ken laughs)Aah.(Ken knocking table)So what have we learned today?We have learned that the ultimate GameCubeis truly a masterpiece to behold.How much do we spend onthe ultimate GameCube?I don't know.Probably several hundred dollarsmore than we should have.Ooh, I shouldn’t have laid backon the GameCube controller.Ooh. (smacks lips)- But can you put a priceon friendship and nostalgia?I don't think so.(drums crackling)(speaker claps)