The super GB booster you have is defective. Ive seen ones that work properly with gameboy games. ALSO the trainer mode DOES work if you know how to use it. The way it works is you have to narrow down the cheat search by giving the variable change you want to affect. For example if you want an extra lives cheat you have to die in the game and immediately after you die go to the trainer menu. Do this over and iver and it will eventually give you a code for extra lives or infinite lives.

The Nintendo PlayStation strikes back!

The trainer is actually a cheat searcher, like Cheat Engine for Windows. You search for values that go lower/greater until you find the address you want, then you can give yourself infinite lives etc. Too complex for any kid to work out anyways.

I think your one is defective. I’ve seen some working copies of this. They are still garbage, but they play the games much better without anywhere near as many issues, I’ve also seen versions where the games you tested work, and where the trainer mode works. Also, the Super Game Boy literally has a Game Boy inside of it. This thing doesn’t. So a working copy of this is actually a decent technical achievement, as it emulates Game Boy games through software on a fairly weak console, and does a decent job of it, aside from the audio.

Now you have to play PS4 games on the Magnavox Odyssey it only seems fair.

You do know that the Super Game Boy actually had the basic guts of a modified Game Boy inside, right? The SNES didn't have the horsepower to run GB games in emulation either. MAYBE, the PlayStation could have handled it in the hands of more capable devs, but that's obviously not Innovation.

Well, put killer instinct in there. Put the Killer Cuts cd in. There, PERFECT.

I'm pretty sure if it had sound it would murder it. I saw it from the Gaming Historian. Consider yourself lucky Papa Rerez.

I still can’t believe it

The Trainer menu does work, if you have a working device. The Gaming Historian explains it brilliantly, but it generates new codes based off of what you do in game, e.g. you die, and it comes up with codes that can affect the lives counter.

1:45 - "What I'm interested in is playing actual Nintendo games on a Sony console." *Laughs in PSP*

*rebound mission*

You're supposed to use the trainer to search for cheats by tracking a value and telling the trainer if it's changed, increased, decreased, or stayed the same. So for example, if you're trying to find an infinite lives cheat, you periodically keep telling the trainer that the number of lives you have is the same. When you lose a life, you tell the trainer the number has decreased. When you gain a life, you tell the trainer that the number has increased. Eventually the trainer will narrow down which memory address stores "number of lives", then you can just set that number permanently to 99 or 255 or whatever the highest number is.

I should mention that the GB Booster on the N64 plays its own music instead of the game's audio, and you can't turn it off.

actually, the gaming historian made a video talking about some of this super gameboy clones and there he explained how the trainer option works. (pd: see it plz, that channel is awesome!)

6:40 They used comic sans for that menu, just lmao.

So I can play Pokemon with a Playstion controller?

Rerez, the code menu worked fine you just didn't research. Also the reason it wasn't good was because it was software emulation while the sgb was hardware emulation.

I think this device deserves a second review with a unit that isn't defective... I know its really hard to check to see if these rare and off brand devices are working as intended but this is 10 minutes plus of miss-information.

I remember seeing these in some of those import/liquidation ads in older magazines, but have never seen one play before. I'm sure since they were cheaply made, you might have one that's broken, either that or your games aren't sitting properly. But it's still cool to actually see one in action.

The trainer actually detects values that went up or down. So you have to keep doing that to narrow down the list.

It *did* work well. Your copy of this player is broken as all those games worked fine on mine. The trainer works perfectly fine and you didn't understand how it works. Ditto with the palette creation tool. The two issues that it had were the slow speed and the lack of audio. I played through Pokemon Blue this way without issue though.

The "Trainer" section appears to be a Cheat Search, it's asking if the value increased, decreased, is equal, or is not equal.

A Controversial peice of hardware that followed the same fate as Bleem.

The trainer is a code generator similar to that in the GameShark/Action Replay. It looks for values higher or lower from the last time it was run until it narrows down to the code you want. For example; fire your gun then search for a lower value, fire it again, search for a lower value, reload it then search for a higher value and so on.

Never take 10 minutes to say what could be said in 4.

The Gaming Historian covered this in a video (3rd Party Game Boy Players) and explained how the Trainer option works.

I love your videos, but please take a little more time and do your research next time. You failed to check if yours was defective or not (which it is; the compatibility normally isn't nearly that bad, and I don't recall the visuals being that flickery), wrote off the trainer as an unusable code list of sorts without making an attempt to research what it might actually be, and failed to try any Game Boy Color games despite going out of your way to point it out earlier in the video.

I already know of this from the Gaming Historian

Worst Plug and Play ever 4?

Before you throw it out, on the box, it said “Works with GB Color games!”

Rerez.If you read the box,it says it works with GB colour games.Maybe try it them.

Who remembers this from The Gaming Historian?

Wow wasted potential for an accessory like this :(

gaming historian explained how trainer worked pretty well

What a damn coincidence. I was watching Gaming Historian's video about this earlier.

The way trainer is supposed to work is by making true value you wanna change either go up or down, and press the corresponding arrow, and repeat until it narrows it down to just few cheat codes.

I believe it was the SCPH-9000 model onwards that removed the parallel port. I recall a friend of mine had an Xploder cheat device, he actually managed to no-life together a [nearly working] playable Sephiroth in FF7.

Nice tool :D Would have been the shit with N64 Cartridges back then

I still remember when you guys came to my school, I subed to you right after school ❤️

This item got to have been released under different names. I have one with the exact same UI. They do have one really neat thing though. You can insert gameshark codes! Though it really is only useful for games that let you save. Most games do work but you have to try them about a billion times before they decide to work.

I keep hearing "Super Chibi Booster"

Trainer lets you compare values in memory to isolate the addresses that represent things like lives or health. It lets you MAKE your own cheats.

Oh man I love the copy of Mario Land with Adam's name on it. Like, that has to be from when he was a kid or something. It's so cool to see that sort of stuff.

Don't forget that Pokémon Stadium 1 and 2 adder the ability to play Pokémon on the N64, and with a gameshark code you could play any game that wasn't Pokémon as well.

The parallel port was the reason why, when the laser drive died in my PS1, I bought a PS One and had the drive transplanted into my old console. It did need some extra work and cables, but it works perfectly fine nearly 20 years later.

Correction, the "Trainer" option works as follows: Let's say you want infinite lives, you must purphosefully die. This will tell the GB Booster that a value has gone down. You go to trainer, it will list less codes. If it still can't find them, die again. Luckly, after a while, it will find codes that are related to that value. Yeah, I watch The Gaming Historian. :)

I know it was said already but I'm going to be part of the crowd to ensure people see it. The Gaming Historian did a video on this and he explained how the Trainer worked. It's not pointless, Shane doesn't know how to use it. Which is fair as there's no documentation it seems, but still...

Trainer only works if a value rises or decreases. For example if you died in super mario, then went into trainer and click the down arrow icon and repeated a few times, then it might give you some cheat codes

I found one of these a year or so ago and couldn’t find any information on it. Nice to see it covered! A mystery solved for me!

i remember these, the plan was to have disks come out that would have updated lists of codes and emulator updates, it never happened, but a few devices had this kind of fate, the idea is kinda cool but, i would rather get a dreamcast and mod it to use sd cards personally...since it can also emulate alot of older systems very well, hell the only real reason it failed, wasnt piracy, it was the lack of dvd playback support when both sony and ms where bringing out their units that, both had dvd drives. the ps3 sold better then the xbox 360 at least in part, due to the fact that MS backed the wrong horse with hd-dvd, however, i liked the idea of just having hybrid drives hd-dvd and bluray in one unit...sounds good to me, but then, i was hoping to see HVD or even see them use MagnetoOptical disks, that would be much harder for average people to copy, but also allow for higher capacities

I bet the trainer was similar to game sharks pro feature where it allows you to make your own codes. It looks up values in memory and it allows you to change the ones you want. The ones relative to health ammo ect

The original gameboy ran at 60fps, this gameboy player for playstation looks like a real piece of work.

One of the key reasons why the super GameBoy worked so well was because the cartridge had all the inner workings of a GameBoy safe for the screen, and speakers. And there is a way of playing GameBoy games on the 64 using the game for a reader pack that hooks to the back of the controller. (I remember being able to play Pokémon red using it and Pokémon Stadium I do not remember if I tried other GameBoy games using this method but I think it would work.)

The Nintendo Playstation is complete my bois.

the trainer actually looks for values that increased/decreased recently, so you can lose a life and then search for lower and repeat until it lists the cheat for lives

Playing N64 games on a 32 bit psx is impossible.

I think Gaming Historian explained this in better detail, he knew what he was talking about at the very least

To be fair, the Super Game Boy has actual Game Boy hardware in it.

I still use mine to play Pokemon every weekend! Like this if you're watching this from Dreamcast web browser!

1:27 Nintendo actually made a peripheral that allowed Gameboy (and Gameboy Advance) games to be played on the N64, but it was for game developers, publishers of gaming magazines and contestants on some Canadian kids’ gameshow.

no good sir,i don't think being able to play gameboy games on n64 would have done that much. i worked for pokemon. but thats because its pokemon. it was huge at the time.

that Rerez guy is pretty funny, he should have a youtube channel

"Playstation is a registered Tarde Mark" I'm sure it is.

Sony: Wait, that’s illegal!

I remember the *Official* PlayStaiton Magazine in Italy talked about it in the '90 ... but hey, they also used to publish spots for local stores that used to mod PS1 consoles and they talked about weird stuff (like an article about FFVII Hentai for some reason) those where wild times here. lol Anyway playing Nintendo games on PlayStation is not that weird to me, I'm used to emulate Nintendo stuff on the PSP, PS2 and the PSVita since Igot my day one PSP, and the first time I ever saw Mario was on a NES Emulator for PS1 around the 2000 in a friend's house.

I've heard (don't quote me on this) that the limits of the gb ram is 8192. So it looks defective to me as the cheats list goes up to 8192 then says it can't display.

somebody worked in this ..... thing.... feel the pain..... feel the anger......

I used to work in a computer shop. This was a raging success, not because of the crap emulation of GB games but there was a workaround that allowed you to play burned Ps1 games!!

First time watching Rerez in like 2 years and at 1:00 it shows my favourite Mario game with my name written on it. That's some illuminati shit

I also have seen this in action and it was so Unreal to see. Great video like always

Actually there was a legitimate way to play game boy games on n64 called the wideboy but it was not commercially available

Less time editing and shooting. More time doing research. It's just a bad unit. Purely anecdotal.

Lol. I love how there's a 8192 for trainer because that's the odds of finding shinies from gen 2 to 5

The reason the Super Gameboy worked so well despite being older and running through the SNES is that the Super Gameboy is actually real Gameboy hardware shoved inside of the cartridge. It draws power from the SNES and uses its controller and display output, but it does not run off the SNES hardware at all. It is not emulation. This thing, however, seems to be an emulator, and a very bad one at that. This obviously should never have been released as a finished product to consumers. Aside from the obvious legal reasons that would have prevented Nintendo or Sony from ever authorizing or licensing this thing, there's also the shoddy quality of it which would not have received a Nintendo seal of quality. That seal of quality actually meant something back in those days. If you bought a product with that seal on it, you knew it would at the very least work. But when it came to these shoddy unlicensed products, there was no quality control at all.

I never used the trainer that most cheat devices came with one, but I know that it has nothing to do with the game number and more to do with altering number values in a game, like the lives, score and ammo. For instance say you have 3 lives, you put the number 3 in the trainer and it will search for that number, but it will probably have 1000's of results. So you need to lose a life or get one to alter the number. The more times you do this the results will narrow down until you are left with a few results.

I think you could play with that thing with Killer Instinct for Game Boy and the Killer Cuts CD in it

What's weird is, this makes some sense. I knew many people who had a ps1 and a gamboy, there is logic.

Did _everyone_ forget that AtGames have been putting out mini-consoles with a bunch of games included on them, for almost a decade? Calling it "Classic" isn't "doing whatever Nintendo does," as I've heard, from many KZfaq Nintendo fanboys, _including Mike Matei,_ nor is it a "full-on response to the NES Classic. Yeah, "Whatever. It's a hundred bucks." Also, they did a _killer job, with the buttons, especially with the disc open button being a switch disc button. Very cool.

Never owned a PSone at the time to get that device, but I did own a N64 and got myself the Game Booster. Its pretty much the same thing as the PSone version you have (ReBound Mission game on it and all), though mine copy had a annoying music tune played throughout which was maddening. Not to mention, needing a N64 cartridge inserted on the rear of the machine to bypass the lock out chip. I was around 12 at the time I got it and naturally, I was disappointed.

0:55 "even n64 games" n64 is... stronger than the ps1

Even back in the late 90s, people shouldn't have thrown out their SNES because the Super Game Boy was supreme and superior to anything else for portable games blown up on a TV screen until the Gamecube Game Boy Player.

The cheat codes work. Gaming historian explains the oddly complicated process of them working.

I think the Cheats Menu can detect, what Cheat you need. Examle: you die in Mario land, you Tell the menue that Something went down, and after doing this a few times it will detect that you mean lifes, so it will give you an infinit live Code

It says on the box that it could play "GB Colour Games" would game boy colour games work in it?

I noticed in the box says "Works with GB Color games!" Not "GB and GB Color games". Just makes me think it works only with gameboy color games

The "Trainer" would detect what values changed recently and you would narrow down what piece of code you'd change. If you wanted infinite health in Metroid II, you'd start the Trainer, go back into the game, grab a health pickup or take damage, go back into the Trainer and the Trainer would say, "Okay, I found that the Health value changed, but your Position value and your Missile value did too. Keep narrowing down options?" Eventually, through trial and error, you'd pin down the exact value you'd change, and it would either tell you the code to put in the "Cheats" menu, or do it itself.

That's um, not how the trainer mode is supposed to work. You're supposed to use the up and down arrows and click them corresponding to values changing in the game. In other words, say you're playing Mario land, and you get a one up. The value for your life counter would have just gone up. So then, go into the trainer menu and press the up arrow. This will then tell the software to make cheat codes for every value in the code that just went up. (There are usually too many to display by this point though) So then what you do, is you would go back into the game, and get another one-up making the value go up once more. Then go to the trainer and press the up arrow again. It will look at all of the new values that were raised this time, and compare them to what changed before. Then any codes that change a value that didn't happen every time you pressed the arrow, are removed from the list; making it smaller. So, continue doing this until your list is small enough to display on screen, and then you can try some out to see if it ups your life counter. You may want to keep narrowing down the list by continuing to raise your life counter. Eventually, you can get the list down to just a few codes and try them out until you find one that gives you a one up when used. That's just a basic explanation of how it works though

I actually remember when Gamepro reported on this, so yep, this happened.

DUDE THE GAMING HISTORIAN SHOWED HOW TO GET THE TRAINER TO WORK ON ALL VERSION OF THIS

I remember something like this was sold in the mall in United States back in the day. It was in EB games. It had that but the cover art of the box had Metroid 2 cartridge on it. Next to that product, I saw Floppy disk reader for memory card slot for PS1. Claiming it could store many more games for fraction of the price. But the whole unit was being sold for $100 lol.

Probably explains why there was no Nintendo lawsuit. They saw it, took one look at it, fell over laughing then 20 hours later finally picked themselves up and went "Yeah, no, it's far too crap. They'll go bust even before papers get served. We can leave them to it."

8:45 Nintendo couldn't make that work either. The Super game boy doesn't use the SNES at all. It basically contains a gameboy inside which does everything. The SNES only transforms the signal to something a TV can use. It might sound surprising that the Super Gameboy has all the hardware but most of a gameboy is not circuit board. Most of the space is taken up by the buttons, screen and battery.

I had every 3rd party peripheral for the ps1. At least the versions that actually worked

Gaming Historia made an episode about this kind of devices. In Trainer, you have to look for some of the values to change (like loosing a live in Super Mario). Then, you select the down arrow and it will look for that exact value and it will find some codes

I wish you could still get this. It's the closest to the super gameboy I could get today. That and having a playstation mini (those tiny ones) means you could literally take all your gameboy games in a small carry case with system as well. Sure it's not in your pocket, but for the time it was a good alternative. Pity the problems are just too big :s

Not all Grey PS1s have the parallel port. The SCPH-9000 series consoles do not have the parallel port on the back. Any other model, except for the slim PSOne and you're good to go.

I really would like to see a Rerez video on something like Bleem or the Connectix Virtual Game Station. They’ve got an interesting history and I think it would be cool to hear Shane talk about them.

I wish the thing actually worked like the way I hoped it would.

I still have mine. I bought mine at a game crazy.