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Not mine, but I always enjoy seeing these monstrosities.

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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 102 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You can almost hear the batteries draining in mere minutes.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

Imagine a stock game gear

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

26 min running time per battery pack.

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[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] MycarHolmes@quokk.au 80 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That Gameboy watch really sells it.

[–] tyr0sine@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“THIS ISN’T EVEN MY FINAL FORM!”

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[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Gaming in the 90's was so glorious.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (6 children)

How many minutes do the batteries last?

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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:

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:

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

[–] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

About tree fiddy.

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[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month ago
[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Imagine the shits you could take with that thing

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

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

[–] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

[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

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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.

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[–] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is what many Steam Deck users seem to pursue.

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[–] Deadeyegai@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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).

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[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] PolarKraken@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago

spits

Filthy casual.

[–] houndeyes@toast.ooo 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always enjoy seeing these monstrosities.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Remember when we all dressed like that 10 years ago?

[–] houndeyes@toast.ooo 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Remember when we all dressed like that 10 years ago?

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[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago

Cool watch.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well yeah! My uncle works for Nintendo!

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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Batteries drained in 5 minutes

[–] aksdb@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

"So I have this ultra portable gaming device..."

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Transformers.. Robots in disguise

[–] calavera@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

That's glorious

[–] M137@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] Mist101@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Good game choice, too.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Where’s the camera?

[–] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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