GB Boy Color clone -- any good?

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  • Bort License PlateBort License Plate
    Wow. I want one  
  • meta-markmeta-mark
    Interesting, 66 built in games. It'd be cool if you could add more roms
  • GuntzGuntz
    The only problem is the screen is too wide, so games look horizontally stretched. It works well enough besides that.
  • captainolimarcaptainolimar
    Looks great I would be into this sort of thing but the list of games doesn't seem all that great...
  • QuazeQuaze
    Mintenbo stuff is always cringe-worthy for me to even look at.
  • DefaultGenDefaultGen
    These would be cool if you could fix the aspect ratio (which as far as I've looked up, you can't). I'd never play it as a result.
  • Bort License PlateBort License Plate
    Originally posted by: captainolimar

    Looks great I would be into this sort of thing but the list of games doesn't seem all that great...



    it appears to have a cartridge slot, unless I'm looking wrong
  • GuntzGuntz
    Yes it does. It's a fully-functional GBC clone with a backlit screen that's too wide.
  • AsmikAceAsmikAce
    I bet the buttons are really terrible on that thing.
  • Hoddy KrishnuhHoddy Krishnuh
    I have the same concerns. I'd rather have a real GBC with a frontlit mod. Both backwards compatibility modes on GBA/SP and NDS/Lite reduce the original screen sizes more or less than the original systems they were made for. But in regards to how GBA/SP plays GB/C, it looks more bothersome than the reduction you see when playing GBA on DS.
  • nintendo9649nintendo9649
    i have the GB Boy which is the monochrome one. it is actually a really nice quality unit, the screen is quite nice. they do indeed have a cartridge slot, however i dont believe they have built in games and the GB Boy does not. the 66 included games are most likely on a multicart included with the system.
  • rcorporonrcorporon
    I don't mind the one I got but yeah, the image is stretched.
  • Boosted52405Boosted52405
    I got one of these years ago and if I remember correctly, the games were built-in, you'd just turn it on without a cartridge in for a little GUI menu. Pretty neat. Plus you get the game "Trump Boy" - woohoo!!!
  • Hoddy KrishnuhHoddy Krishnuh
    Thing about clone systems is there are often issues in them here and there, not as strong quality assurance. I noticed that the ones which have the manufacturer's name explicitly written on the system as well as other details tend to have higher build quality, much like this one, which tends to get praise for that specifically.
  • darkchylde28darkchylde28
    Here are a good review and a good teardown video of that specific system. It's been a little bit since I've watched both videos, but I recall Colin being relatively pleasantly surprised by the overall quality of the system and lamented that it was just different enough to not be able to swap parts over to an actual Game Boy Color. Hope this gives some more insight.







  • Thunderblaze16Thunderblaze16
    I know there's a high viewed review of this thing I saw somewhere. Apart from the screen stretch, maybe the buttons. It's just as good as an original, hell even if the screen is stretched, it still has a freaking backlight. That alone makes it superior in my book.







    Dam, there's a review where someone review GB clone of an original gameboy and the screen was actually 'WORST'.
  • rcorporonrcorporon
    The backlight is pretty glorious. My old eyes have issues with regular GB / GBC's
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