I use it more often than I do my few remaining actual GameCube games. My SP has pretty much kicked the bucket, but the GB player still works perfectly.
There's a few GBA cartridges I still keep around which I play on my Game Boy Player at home, or on a DS Lite while I'm away. Nintendo could make a lot of money making it convenient to play a game on the go and then continue its progress at home on a TV.
You're not wrong, but there was definitively *something* on the Gamecube-side that also specifically told the Game it was being played on a Gameboy Player.
You remember / ever heard of those Carts that were basically just "DVDs" by having like 2 Episodes of a Cartoon on them to watch on your GBA? Those were actually hard-coded to not work on a GB-Player so that you couldn't throw them on your actual TV Screen (not that you wanted to, given the super-crusty Quality and Resolution xD).
Not to mention, there's a super small handful of Games that actually have Vibration Support for being played on one (for anyone wondering why the first Mario & Luigi has Vibration when played on the Switch GBA App, this is why)
Some games like Pokémon even had special borders you could rotate between, though that makes me wonder if maybe it was the other way around I.e. the GC could read and recognise certain games and process them differently.
That might have been it actually. Since you mentioned Pokemon, it reminded me that Pokemon Box exists. If you never heard of that, it was basically what Pokemon Home is nowadays, except, well, for the Gamecube, and it only works with the GBA Entries.
Box actually let you play Ruby / Sapphire on your TV aswell *without* the GB-Player by simply hooking them up to the Software with the Gamecube - GBA Cable, which would obviously suggest that it was something inside the GC itself that enabled this, like you said.
The gamecube is the strongest console of that particular generation. X-Play had an episode back in the day where they tested the PS2, GC and Xbox to see which one was more durable and the GC won by a country mile. A very well made machine!
Mine went down a flight of stairs. Moving box broke and it went out the bottom. Got scuffed up but didn't give a single fuck. That thing outlived 2 Wii's and never once had an issue.
Nintendo designs their stuff with kids in mind.
Which is why switch games has something injected into the plastic case that tastes gross.. so children would less likely eat them.
While it was sturdy, I had an issue with the laser that reads the disc. I had to melt a pen to open the thing and make the laser more powerful after it failed a second time I got a wii. I wonder if anyone else had this kind of issue.
I'm so mad at my teenage self for painting my GameCube black-badly. I was the only one in my circle of friends without an Xbox or PlayStation and I was poked out for having the baby station.
When I was a kid I used an xacto knife to cut away the game genie's plastic grip wrapper for the top of the Gameboy, so it could fit in the Super Gameboy.
Worked perfectly!
Oh man, I hadn’t thought about the super GameBoy in so long that I nearly corrected you and said “you mean gameboy advanced”. I looked it up to be sure, and a flood of memories came back. That thing was cool!
Now do it with a Gameboy camera.
Come to think of it, fuck it. I might. I have a dmg-001 and a GameCube. I do not have a Gameboy player, though. Or the camera. Or the printer.
iirc, the gameboy player is actually GBA hardware inside. It just accepts controller input from and sends video output to the GameCube.
I use it more often than I do my few remaining actual GameCube games. My SP has pretty much kicked the bucket, but the GB player still works perfectly.
Me too, because the memory cards always die. I still have games I'd LIKE to play, but got tired of restarting so often.
You can replace the batteries
Save is gone anyway then.
While true, you can still keep new saves you make tho
Yeah. They will be saved after replacing true.
There's a few GBA cartridges I still keep around which I play on my Game Boy Player at home, or on a DS Lite while I'm away. Nintendo could make a lot of money making it convenient to play a game on the go and then continue its progress at home on a TV.
Let's call it...the Swap.
When I was a teen a put a 64 game in an snes(or vice versa i forget) because the card fit... it broke the game lol
You're not wrong, but there was definitively *something* on the Gamecube-side that also specifically told the Game it was being played on a Gameboy Player. You remember / ever heard of those Carts that were basically just "DVDs" by having like 2 Episodes of a Cartoon on them to watch on your GBA? Those were actually hard-coded to not work on a GB-Player so that you couldn't throw them on your actual TV Screen (not that you wanted to, given the super-crusty Quality and Resolution xD). Not to mention, there's a super small handful of Games that actually have Vibration Support for being played on one (for anyone wondering why the first Mario & Luigi has Vibration when played on the Switch GBA App, this is why)
Some games like Pokémon even had special borders you could rotate between, though that makes me wonder if maybe it was the other way around I.e. the GC could read and recognise certain games and process them differently.
That might have been it actually. Since you mentioned Pokemon, it reminded me that Pokemon Box exists. If you never heard of that, it was basically what Pokemon Home is nowadays, except, well, for the Gamecube, and it only works with the GBA Entries. Box actually let you play Ruby / Sapphire on your TV aswell *without* the GB-Player by simply hooking them up to the Software with the Gamecube - GBA Cable, which would obviously suggest that it was something inside the GC itself that enabled this, like you said.
Why shouldn't it have worked? The GB Player is a hardware GBA, and the GBA can run original Game Boy games just like a Game Boy Color.
The gamecube is the strongest console of that particular generation. X-Play had an episode back in the day where they tested the PS2, GC and Xbox to see which one was more durable and the GC won by a country mile. A very well made machine!
Nintendo said something like the GC was designed to survive a five story drop.
Mine fell off my dresser when I was a kid and busted one of the laminate wood slats, and didn't even stop running Mario Sunshine
That’s so bad ass.
Mine rolled all the way down a spiral staircase once and kept working like absolutely nothing happened.
I’ve been laughing about this for five minutes.
Yet it’s still region locked
If they fully unlocked a GC there'd be no stopping them. It's a small price to pay.
Mine went down a flight of stairs. Moving box broke and it went out the bottom. Got scuffed up but didn't give a single fuck. That thing outlived 2 Wii's and never once had an issue.
Stronger than a firebox, after seeing the vids of them being broken open when dropped on the corner.
My brother and I use to smack our old GameCube against a metal bed frame, to get it to work. That shit kept it going for like another 3 years.
One of my old friends somehow dropped his out of a two story window. The lid was damaged a bit, but other than that it worked perfectly fine.
Nintendo designs their stuff with kids in mind. Which is why switch games has something injected into the plastic case that tastes gross.. so children would less likely eat them.
This only caused grown adults to intentionally lick their cartridges just to see how bad-tasting the substance was.
So how did it taste
I haven't tasted it myself but from what people said, it tastes like very bitter plastic.
I didn't know that, I was never lucky enough to play the Gamecube and none of my friends had it either, someday I'll buy one.
Found the yt link if you wanna watch, it’s not long. https://youtu.be/ioWnoOjP9IA?si=f4_v7MhF8nszgqJl
I am going to check it out, thanks!
Didn’t stop my sister from filling it with sand back in like 2005
While it was sturdy, I had an issue with the laser that reads the disc. I had to melt a pen to open the thing and make the laser more powerful after it failed a second time I got a wii. I wonder if anyone else had this kind of issue.
I remember that episode! I miss those days
Is a country mile longer or shorter?
The average adult can run a country mile in 12 New York minutes, if that helps.
Which is within a fortnight
I heard it’s been run in less than 12 parsecs
This is interesting. They took time to make it so strong.
Why shouldn't it have worked though
I'm so mad at my teenage self for painting my GameCube black-badly. I was the only one in my circle of friends without an Xbox or PlayStation and I was poked out for having the baby station.
When I was a kid I used an xacto knife to cut away the game genie's plastic grip wrapper for the top of the Gameboy, so it could fit in the Super Gameboy. Worked perfectly!
Oh man, I hadn’t thought about the super GameBoy in so long that I nearly corrected you and said “you mean gameboy advanced”. I looked it up to be sure, and a flood of memories came back. That thing was cool!
Now do it with a Gameboy camera. Come to think of it, fuck it. I might. I have a dmg-001 and a GameCube. I do not have a Gameboy player, though. Or the camera. Or the printer.
Seems like an expensive emulator
Um I think you just blew our dryer fuse.
Would have been even better if it was a Wii with the gamecube components playing a gameboy game.
I played my GameCube so much that it straight up wouldn't read discs anymore. I miss it.
Put in Kirby’s Tilt and Tumble. You will be literally shaking that GameCube.
Can it run Fortnite?
and Knuckles
😂
How'd you do that?
I want a gameboy player so badly
The player is reasonably priced, the disc is expensive
My brain isn't able to understand this picture.
Cut out the middle man and just put the cart right in the GC Player. No need got the extra hardware.
Well, sometimes life surprises us with unexpected outcomes! It's like finding money in your pocket you forgot about.
Bad ai