Hyperkin Retron SQ

33:45 To give Hyperkin the benefit of the doubt, I think the weights were to keep it from moving, so it won't slide around when using a wired controller. But holy crap, what a cheap hunk of plastic. For $80 USD too. If it was $30 or $40, it'd be acceptable with all these issues. But $80? C'mon.

Also, did you manage to find that GBC homebrew for the scrapped extra features? Cool joycons btw.

Honestly, the fact that it can't write saves to the cart just ruins the entire deal. Also how you can't remove the cartridge when the game is running (even though you know the whole thing is already dumped and loaded) feels like a useless limitation. The reason people buy/build "consolized" handhelds is so they can swap the game between their TV and handheld at any time, much like the appeal of the Nintendo Switch. If it doesn't let you use the same save, might as well just get an emulation machine instead. For me, I'll just stick to my Super Game Boy

There is a custom firmware that auto sets frameskip to zero. No need for a keyboard.

Makho, could you do a video on voltage regulators? Also, do you think that the GBC needs a different Voltage regulator if a FunnyPlaying IPS is installed?

11:00 "I see you are a man of culture."

18:10 I know this is not vid related, I already knew this thing was… Meh but anyway I wanted to see your opinion, that SP shell tough, where did you get it ? 😀

This thing is just running Retroarch. Retroarch is amazing, but they didn't take advantage of that, at all. No fast forward and rewind, no save/load states, no shaders, no image borders, or cheats, no loading .ips files for rom hacks. This does literally the bare minimum of just….running a game. This is worth $20, at most. Not the $75 they want.

This little device looks cool BUT that it is emulation based rather then being fpga ,is absolutely LAME, and looking at the internals, it looks very cheapass made,
The only real interesting thing is the way it detects GB & GBA games, instead of implementing a physical switch(wich will wear off overtime within 15 years), i guess it detect detects a GB or GBA game by looking into it’s header to determine if it is a GBA or GB game and then apply the correct voltage to it, then it reads the title of the game to determine wich emulation setting to use,
Am also interested to see wich type processor is used and were and how small it is,otherwise am very happy with my gameboyplayer.

Btw none of OBS’ default upscaling modes are very good for low res games like these, they make everything just look blurry. I forgot the name of the best one they have (I think it’s called near? Or point?) but it is still not perfect and sometimes messes up the size of pixels. Dunno what capture card you are using but there might be a way to choose what upscaler you want to use in the preview window of its software and you can add its preview window as a source instead of directly adding the video capture device to OBS

Wait!! Is that an unhinged GB advance SP on a clear shell??? Are out there unhinged plastic shell? Where?????

That translucent blue and the hot pink looks so tasty though