The Game Boy Color IR Sensor Was Weird and Underused

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The Game Boy Color was a good system. There's no denying that.
But, it was also arguably just a stopgap between the Game Boy Pocket and Game Boy Advance. That said, it still had some neat tricks up its sleeve. One of the coolest (and most under-utilized) of these was the IR Sensor, a feature that was built into every single GBC and allowed for wireless communication between systems, pre-dating the Nintendo DS by five years!
Thus, let's take a look at the GBC Infrared Sensor and go over how it works, before diving into all 29 games (that I know of at the time of making this video) that support IR stuff on the GameBoy Color! Today on Stuff We Play: The GameBoy Color IR Sensor Was Weird and Underused!
Time Stamps:
Intro and Background Info: 00:00
How the IR Sensor Works: 01:53
Robopon: 03:18
Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal Versions: 04:25
Bomberman MAX: 06:36
Chee Chai Alien: 07:29
Donkey Kong Country for GameBoy Color: 09:01
Mission Impossible's Weird GBC Game: 09:17
Rare's Racing Games: 09:30
Ubi Key Games: 09:44
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe: 11:07
Pokémon Pinball: 11:32
The Final GBC Game and the IR Sensor: 11:42
Warlocked: 12:08
Pokémon Trading Card Game/TCG GB2: 12:25
Extra Bits: 13:45
Conclusion: 14:32
Correction: One game that I failed to mention in this video was Dancing Furby, a Japanese-exclusive title that communicates over IR with actual Furby toys! Legit, I might have to track that down for a video of its own someday!
In addition, both the Xena: Warrior Princess GBC game and the GBC port of Lego Island 2 apparently have basic IR support, though I have yet to test this.
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@StuffWePlay 3 жыл бұрын

I hope you all enjoyed this video! I have a big project in the works for May, along with a big video I promised a while back that I'm finally getting out for April! In the meantime, if you'd like some early content and exclusive content, then definitely consider backing me on Patreon or becoming a channel member: www.patreon.com/stuffweplay

@theclovercross 2 жыл бұрын

really good video! one question though, what is the ,usic playing aprox 10-11:30 in the video?

@Gohan1138 2 жыл бұрын

Taco Bell i choose u!

@someexistance9841 2 жыл бұрын

Why the ir sensor wasn't utilized to make it a functioning controller for a bigger system I don't know

@thatonecookie242 Жыл бұрын

what was the big video they're talking about?

@StuffWePlay Жыл бұрын

@@thatonecookie242 Just saw this! So, this video was last year. The big April video was the Google Stadia collab I did with a friend. The big May project was Mega May '21, which kicked out with this hour long behemoth of a vid: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z8uUa9N81LDZc3k.html

@Dreamwriter4242 2 жыл бұрын

I was a GBC programmer back in the day, and we supported the IR port. Thing was a real pain, it was only truly reliable if the two systems are straight across from each other and like 2 to 4 inches apart. And there was tons of interference, we had to include a lot of error checking and validation, if it failed we just had to try sending the data again. Which made it slow.

@ekojar3047 2 жыл бұрын

This should be a top comment. First, I want to thank you for your service to my childhood trophy that was the Gameboy Color! We as kids growing up, always wondered what the little black screen was for on the top of our GBCs, and It always reminded me of what is possible in the future, my friends told me that new games being worked on would use it. this little black box and it's future had me and all my friends excited for what's in store in the future! I'm sure there was big plans for this mysterious black screen back then, but in order to make the GBC affordable, im also sure some corners where cut. And It did leave us all wondering what this thing was actually for, I remember trying to trade Pokémon with it and it didn't work we was confused and said ahh it was worth a try. We thought there was a new smart feature that we just was not doing correctly. Do not blame yourself for the IR being a pain to work with, and all the noise & interference that was the road block. If the tech wasn't solid, they should have left it off of the gbc. With that. I can only now imagine the impact that the IR sensor could have made if we could trade Pokémon via the IR sensor. How much different would today be if IR was the money maker and all the research & Development at Nintendo shifted focus to IR on this? I still believe it is possible, like it still works on TVs everyday, I think IR needs more attention. Maybe there still is a future. We have AI and arduino's now !

@AckzaTV 7 ай бұрын

a plastic shell or sticks to keep them aligned defeats the point but maybe u could have released an ir calibration STICKER to put on your table or the ground ... and it would help you line up the gameboys perfectly ;)

@AckzaTV 7 ай бұрын

if you had access to gb studio back when u were a gbc coder , how much easier would it have been? or did being an actual programmer and nor having easyer toold of roday make you better and able ro troubleshoot more and more flexible?

@fourteen00 5 ай бұрын

Yeah this was pretty common. When i was a kid i had bought a laptop with IR built in and it could connect to an old pda and another laptop that had IR. You had to align it just right for it to work and it's data rate was really really slow.

@TheWax70 3 жыл бұрын

I use to have the mission impossible cart. It was neat that it could clone your TV remote, thus turn the gbc into one. But since it didn't save the settings it would forget the IR codes soon as you turn it off; so it was kind of pointless. Anyways, good vid.👍

@StuffWePlay 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you tons!

@Nelsea7190 2 жыл бұрын

i have/had that game. probably stashed it somewhere. it was a cool feature but it was very short-lived for enjoyment.

@joe_schmoe_420 2 жыл бұрын

Used to use a universal remote to change the channel on the TVs in school Drove the teachers nuts Hahaha Would have really messed with them if I used a game boy color

@peterhammes8321 2 жыл бұрын

Those pokewalkers definitely were built to that oldschool Nintendo quality. I lent mine to my friend and he lost it. we found it 3 years later when he sucked it up in his lawn mower. The thing still worked!

@philreed1605 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think I ever used the Game Boy Color IR sensor once, back in the day. I did occasionally transfer contacts from my laptop to my Nokia with IR. That was as slow and flaky as you’d expect!

@joniivee 3 жыл бұрын

I legit didn't even know this was a thing at all. Thanks a ton for the in depth look!

@StuffWePlay 3 жыл бұрын

I'm way glad you enjoyed it!

@undergroundmonorail 2 жыл бұрын

out of the blue dunk on jkr upgraded the video from "oh i enjoy this, i should check out more" to windmill slamming the sub button lmao

@scottishcomedian1769 3 жыл бұрын

It is an absolute CRIME that you don't have more subs, keep up the good work man. i loved this vid!

@StuffWePlay 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so so much! I'm having weekly content out now, so hopefully that'll get the view counts rising again after my unexpected break last year

@CI254 3 жыл бұрын

The Pokemon TCG game is the only time I ever used this thing. Was actually pretty helpful.

@StuffWePlay 3 жыл бұрын

Card Pop was way cool!

@RetroGameNova 3 жыл бұрын

I remember my friends and I tried using that sensor during recess to trade Pokémon. Needless to say we used the link cable lol Great video dude

@StuffWePlay 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you tons!

@KimFareseed 2 жыл бұрын

6:27 Holding it in my hand right now, ready to walk to work. Feels nice to in a sense, take my starter with me for a walk.

@ThePutosaure 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video, here are a few omissions: There are two more games that support Ubi Key, the adaptations of the French movies "Taxi 2" and "Les Visiteurs". More importantly, the two Looney Tunes games by Infogrames "Martian Alert" and "Martian Revenge", had support for multiplayer through IR. That's right, if you didn't have any Link Cable, you could play 1v1 mini-games wirelessly as long as you kept the two consoles fairly stable in front of each other (honestly, it didn't work that well as you might expect). But it's a pretty big thing as it's not only about wireless trading but the first steps of wireless multiplayer :)

@ekojar3047 2 жыл бұрын

What i miss the most about this IR time with the Gameboy, is that being connected was an option and a Luxury. It was a fancy thing back then. It was a feature that I looked forward to using if I ever got the opportunity! And I always thought of it as a high tech part that just wasn't figured out yet. I dreamed of me an my neighbor friend both buying a chat cartridge game so we could message each other!

@StanSmithMarket 2 жыл бұрын

Just found this channel. You're gaining a sub because I liked the video, but mostly because I wanna see that Pokemon TCG deep dive. Loved those games soooo much. The music is ***chef's kiss***

@StuffWePlay 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you tons! I may dive into it soon - once I'm done with a few big vids I have in the works

@QueenCheetah 2 жыл бұрын

I played Pokémon TCG so much when I was a kid- I, too, recommend anyone interested in the TCG try out the fan-translation of the sequel! It's awesome!!

@jayRbee 3 жыл бұрын

Great video... I remember getting my GBC back around '98-99 when it came out and loved it but was hugely disappointed that the IR never seemed to work with other friends who had the same GBC... we always had to breakout the cable but mostly gave up on it... Seemed like technology too early/too soon for that time period because if it had worked it would have been amazing. We already started thinking about player vs player battles for games outside just Pokemon.. but never got it. Then the GBA came out and I stopped trying to keep up with the handheld consoles.

@jackmcslay 2 жыл бұрын

Back in technical school, a bunch of people had HP calculators (I didn't, I found them too expensive to bother) and used the IR sensor to copy games to each other. The only way they could make it work reliably enough was by having the sensor windows touch each other

@flutterdrive4286 2 жыл бұрын

little correction for the harry potter game, the TWO harry potter games on gbc let you trade the cards with the IR sensor. and they even let you trade with each other since they had the same cards.

@XYZCBA50 2 жыл бұрын

Those games was classic some of my favorite games growing up

@lachlanharris9330 Жыл бұрын

Rugrats: Totally Angelica had IR support. A weird game if there ever was one. A series of mini games to collect dress up items then you would compete in fashion shows to get points. The fashion show items were tradable over the IR sensor. IR was the easiest way to get things between my Palm Pilot and Nokia 6280. I only used in on my Acer TravelMate 2500 laptop. As everyone who has ever used it says... It was slow. Bluetooth 2.0 was faster and that would now be considered insufferable in terms of speed.

@paperchazz 2 жыл бұрын

Hey there! At 7:30 you show 「ちっちゃいエイリアン」ちっちゃい is a colloquialism meaning little, small, or wee. I think a more accurate translation might be "Lil' Alien." 🙇 Great video!

@skyevlyn 9 ай бұрын

Oh my goodness what a wonderful video!! IR in games is one of my favourite topics because it's almost always pointless silly stuff and I just love it ;u; thank you so much for covering this! I checked over my personal list of IR GBC games and compared it to the video and the description and the only thing you're missing is Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters II: Dark duel Stories Which according to Yugipedia "Players can connect to each other via infrared and receive a card each time they do so." Hope this helps!! ^^ thank you again so much, I loved seeing all these in action!

@S0larisPrime 2 жыл бұрын

The 3DS also had an infrared port. To my knowledge, its only use was communication with the Circle Pad Pro accessory, but the new!3DS still kept it! The Wii U gamepad also had IR for universal remote functionality, which I used a LOT

@StuffWePlay 2 жыл бұрын

Out of curiosity, was the Circle Pad Pro still technically compatible, even though there's no real need for it on the New 3DS? I always wanted to test this myself, but I had issues finding one even when they were new!

@S0larisPrime 2 жыл бұрын

@@StuffWePlay doesn't physically fit on the new!3DS, or at least the CPPXL doesn't fit the n3DSXL. The n3DS IR Blaster is still used for the Skylanders portal and as an option for multiplayer handshakes in Gen 6 Pokemon games.

@kylehazachode 3 жыл бұрын

I loved using Mission Impossible for GBC to change TV channels at school and McDonald’s

@patrickmcloughlin2954 2 жыл бұрын

9:43 lol why's Mickey so big compared to the house and so well animated

@thatguyfromthere8834 3 жыл бұрын

I always wondered what the sensor was for. I’ve noticed it on my gameboy colour before but I just shrugged it off since I’ve never used it for anything

@StuffWePlay 3 жыл бұрын

It's way cool! Perhaps I'll track do a full Chee Chai Alien showcase vid someday!

@Shadownnico 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know much about how the IR sensor on this works, but if I had to guess, it probably didn't allow wireless Pokemon trading bc of how huge Pokemon data is compared to the other wireless trading examples here. You'd basically have to create a system that can send through ALL of the pokemon's data (name, OT, moveset, exp, stat exp, IVs, and so on) without messing up a single byte of data, that's also able to double and triple check with the other console for a successful trade (dont want pokemon cloning!) AND can do this all in a reasonable timeframe. Battling is a similar problem, as in order for a pokemon battle to work correctly you need to first receive the data for all 6 opposing pokemon, meaning its about 6x the data transfer. Very interesting video btw! I always find niche console stuff like this to be very interesting :3

@StuffWePlay 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so so much!

@bryansierra0909 2 жыл бұрын

Bro when I was in second grade I had my GBC at school and me and a friend both had pokemon and we were trying to figure out what the IR sensor does, so both of us tried to battle each other by putting the IR sensors right in front of each other and at some point they touched, and I shit you not, both of our games recognized each other and the players went into the battle room and as soon as they did the game kinda soft locked. We couldn’t battle or get in or out of the battle room.

@TarksGauntlet 3 жыл бұрын

There's a port of VIP on gameboy? I have some more research to do.

@StuffWePlay 3 жыл бұрын

You down to do a collab on Pamela Anderson games?

@BabusGameRoom 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! No idea if it actually uses the IR feature, but I'd recommend looking into the later Harvest Moon games and Legend of the River King games...they had a lot of neat features, so I wouldn't be surprised if they snuck IR support in!

@StuffWePlay 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

@ACheapLemon 2 жыл бұрын

Surprisingly enough, you can actually use the 3DS IR when playing Virtual Console Pokemon games and it'll actually work just like it did on the originals. You can't connect 3DS to GBC, but 3DS to 3DS works great. I actually used it in hopes of trying to speed up the GSC Living Dex I was going for a couple years back

@justcamille8299 3 жыл бұрын

Somehow I never realized the gameboy colour even had an IR sensor... Guess now I have to get some of this games, if only for the novelty factor

@StuffWePlay 3 жыл бұрын

Card Pop especially is worth checking out!

@MichaelF267 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. I never had the gbc but my niece had one and we always wondered what that censor was for

@StuffWePlay 3 жыл бұрын

I'm way glad you enjoyed it!

@vhsmemories504 2 жыл бұрын

I was gonna mention robopon. But you actually mentioned it! Nice! I think it's the most unique cartridge I own

@shadhog0187 3 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised you don't have that many views. You're really good at making videos and this one was fun to watch. Keep up the good work! I think a video on Nintendo Labo compatible games would be interesting.

@StuffWePlay 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you tons and tons! If I can get my hands on some Labo kits, I'd love to do that as a vid sometime!

@Nelsea7190 2 жыл бұрын

the GBC 007 james bond game had a feature you can program the GBC to function as a remote control. it was quite weird though it was very directional in aiming.

@GianfrancoLaRotta 3 жыл бұрын

Lego Island 2 for the GBC also has an IR feature.

@StuffWePlay 3 жыл бұрын

Added to the list!

@-Digital-Reality- Жыл бұрын

Back in 2000 I was a coder working at Crawfish Interactive during the development of Lego Island 2. I was tasked with programming the IR system for this game - to allow card trading between Gameboys. The GBC IR hardware was a complete pain - very sensitive to distance between units, sunlight vs indoor lighting, timing between units and so on. I ended up including several convoluted routines to try and make the comms as robust as possible. These included a crude threshold filter (to help with varying lighting conditions), CRC error checking on the data packets and Hamming error correction too. It still proved to be somewhat unreliable! 😂

@SnepStuff 2 жыл бұрын

Wonder if different brands of VCR/TV remotes speak differently with compatible games due to variations in IR signal.

@Ehal256 Жыл бұрын

Minor correction, Chee Chai (ちっちゃい) Alien just means small alien.

@governmentandmediadivideth8889 2 жыл бұрын

Pokémon mystery trade with the IR sensor was awesome!!!

@cuatromilreggaeton 2 жыл бұрын

Great video

@sentientricecake3125 3 жыл бұрын

Nobody ever talks about this! Thank you!!! Great video!!

@StuffWePlay 3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

@davidmcgill1000 2 жыл бұрын

Forgot to include Austin Powers: Welcome to My Underground Lair and Austin Powers: Oh, Behave.

@kravenLaw1 2 жыл бұрын

I had the original Game Boy and you'd never see it having same brand batteries. Each battery was a different brand 😅. Always. Lol A Panasonic, Energizer, Duracell, & a generic battery.

@riaz8783 2 жыл бұрын

I'd say the reason Pokémon didn't support IR is simply to sell more link cables. No technical reason it couldn't be done, simply a profit decision.

@Dave01Rhodes 2 жыл бұрын

IR can be flaky. You don't want to use it to send a lot of data.

@jordicoma 2 жыл бұрын

About IR sensor, you could also make a videos of the IR sensor of 3ds, wii/u, switch. It's not that extent, but something could be said.

@StuffWePlay 2 жыл бұрын

I'll see what I can do

@jackmcslay 2 жыл бұрын

Unlocking levels with the IR sensor is a neat feature, how? That's just putting an artificial lock on content that have no reason not to be accessible through other means, It's like those Dreamcast games where you have to log in to Seganet to unlock levels even though they can be played offline just fine, so part of them are inaccessible today unless you find a way to hack the game (and, coincidence or not, one of them is Pod speedzone by Ubisoft). Quite honestly the use on Super Mario Bros is pretty interesting, if you had the game back then along a few friends you could sync up every once in a while so that you challenge each others' scores It's quite a shame they didn't implement trading pokémons through the IR sensor; in fact it would be perfectly possible to battle using it as the game being turn-based it isn't a big issue to have a protocol with low bandwidth.

@TheSonicsean 2 жыл бұрын

TIL that the Pokémon TCG game got a sequel.

@davidzcomputer3303 2 жыл бұрын

I got a purple Gameboy color, pokemon blue, and pokemon yellow for my 6th birthday in 1999...God talk about good memories. I still remember sitting on my front porch, my neighbors Mookie (for some reason his family nicknamed him after the main char from that Spike Lee Joint) and Rachel (Who sadly died a few years back of a drug overdose) would come by and we'd all sit and play...I helped half my street get through Rock Tunnel, as many of them werent that good at the game and hadnt gotten Flash, luckily I had figured out how to get through without it...Actually thinking back i think i skipped flash most of the time lol kind of useless esp in 1st gen...Those were the days

@flatlaanderskateco 2 жыл бұрын

I just unlocked a memory I forgot I had about The Road to El Dorado.. never thought about it since I set the game down 15+ years ago...... Wow... That was wild.. thanks dude. I'm gonna get that game real soon. ❤️

@xz5685 2 жыл бұрын

I remember hearing about people changing traffic lights with the Mission Impossible GBC game, guess that was just an urban legend.

@anokata-kd8oc 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the mention of Robopon, I never heard of it in Europe before. Fuuuuuuuun ^_____________________^

@willywally5997 3 жыл бұрын

Mission impossible had an IR tv remote utilizing the gbc ir censor

@Jdbye 2 жыл бұрын

1:14 "WIth the only difference being the color of them" And the lack of a notch in the corner on GBC-only games, that's an important feature, since it prevents you from trying to use them in an original Game Boy.

@VictorHernandez-nj2lo Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised KZfaq channel stop skeletons from fighting hasn't done a video on this yet

@jordandupuis1249 3 жыл бұрын

The game boy color sure is cool

@StuffWePlay 3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely agree!

@AckzaTV 7 ай бұрын

ya i remember a teacher in school told me how its not the link cabke and that it was an ir sensor like a remote control snd he said it would maybe be used as a tv remote and i showed him my casio tv remote watch i got for easter lol

@tigmil8116 3 жыл бұрын

I bought a kit that made my gameboy color have a back lit lcd screen and my infrared sensor is now a touch sensor to adjust brightness. Find it more useful that way....the sensor and the gameboy. Otherwise I'd have to be playing it under a lamp, and be struggling to use lsdj and audrinoboy to make electronic music with it.

@StuffWePlay 3 жыл бұрын

Oh that sounds like a way cool mod! Out of curiosity, where did you find that kit from?

@tigmil8116 3 жыл бұрын

@@StuffWePlay handheld legends. My mod was solder free and they have plenty of replacement parts like shells, and buttons

@tigmil8116 3 жыл бұрын

@@StuffWePlay to make music you can buy a flash cart and put the sd card in with nano loop or lsdj roms on there. Audrinoboy is like a thing that makes it to were you can use a midi keyboard to play sounds from your gameboy manually or use outside midi music gear to sequence it

@cyanrazorCel Жыл бұрын

Cross platform link compatibility wasted. I remember being shocked as a kid when I learned that pokemon TCG on GBC had wireless battle connectivity, esp. considering the GBA was already out and it still couldn't (until later releasing the adapter with Firered/leafgreen).

@NERDSAUCE 2 жыл бұрын

IR is just a wavelength of light we can't see

@m1k3l1f3 3 жыл бұрын

I love my Gameboy Color, currently playing through War Locked (a RTS!) Oh wait..its mentioned in the video haha I didn't know about the IR feature tho

@piercerose8374 2 ай бұрын

Mission impossible also offered the ability to program the gbc as a tv remote!

@Jdbye 2 жыл бұрын

Pokemon TCG on Game Boy was great. I enjoy it more than the mainline series and I wish they kept making them. There's just something about being rewarded with cards after each battle that makes you want to grind so you can build the ultimate deck, I find that way more rewarding than just getting a little bit of exp at the end of each battle. I actually enjoy grinding in TCG, even more so because of the kickass music. I've never enjoyed grinding in any mainline Pokemon game, though I beat every trainer, my brain is on snooze the whole time and I am basically just spamming A while doing other things. TCG takes more strategizing than that, you can't win just by spamming A, you actually have to pay attention and use your head, which keeps battles from getting boring. Even battling the same person multiple times, each battle plays out differently due to the cards you're dealt.

@dblibruary 2 жыл бұрын

Who else was kind of gutted that the IR feature only worked for the Pokémon TCG Card Pop feature once in it's lifetime meaning you could never card pop with the same cart that was already done before, not even giving you 24hrs till you could do it again with the same one... worst off the sequel used the same gimmick that made it fail bad on these games. I could only imagine if it was locked on the G/S games where you could mystery gift every day and get something new but thankfully this wasn't the case which is where the next gen Pokémon games back then had a better IR feature that could be used once per day if I recall so you could get stuff like Pokedolls and wallpapers and stuff... if the TCG allowed you to card pop again after 24hrs of doing it before then I think the IR would have worked so much better for the spin off game too!

@CassiDS 3 жыл бұрын

Doesn't Tetris DX let you use the IR sensor to transfer high scores?

@StuffWePlay 3 жыл бұрын

Upon checking the manual and a copy of the game, it seems like high score transfer is only possible through the link cable. No IR support there! That said, in looking into this, I found out that the Xena: Warrior Princess game apparently also has IR support!

@GreatGabriel11 2 жыл бұрын

I put a Growlithe on my pokewalker day 1 of getting pokemon heart gold. I have never taken him off. The things in storage right now but I wonder if the battery is still alive and what would happen to Growlithe if the battery died?

@rickster008 3 жыл бұрын

robopon was one of the games i wanted to play as a kid there is a GBA version

@StuffWePlay 3 жыл бұрын

I need to try out Robopon 2 someday!!

@vivimannequin 2 жыл бұрын

I've been wanting to play an emulator of that but couldn't find it anywhere

@Satoriga 3 жыл бұрын

Yo, projared is doing a ptcg2 playthrough atm. Mon, Tues Thursdays, and Friday. He released episode 4 today. Please show card pop. I'm use an emulator and haven't seen this feature.

@StuffWePlay 3 жыл бұрын

Legit, I'm going to try to track down another Game Boy Color just so I can show it off! If I'm going to do a PTCG retrospective, I better go all out!

@PghGameFix 2 жыл бұрын

I have the Mary Kate and Ashley cart in my collection because... it has printer support. (have all the printer games)

@haruhisuzumiya6650 2 жыл бұрын

Mystery gift

@cosmocosmoton 3 жыл бұрын

In a few years you’ll be making a video like this for the switch. Remember during the switch announcement trailer the host shook the joy on and it sounded/felt like there were ice cubes inside? I can’t remember the name of it, but that piece of hardware is incredibly underutilized.

@vivimannequin 2 жыл бұрын

Idk

@ZEDNANREHIGH Жыл бұрын

I have always wondered what that thing was until today years old 🤦‍♂️

@imark7777777 2 жыл бұрын

There really should've been like a Hardware mode like Sony did with the CD playing ability Boot Up without a game and have at least a TV remote. Apparently I had the wrong games apart from Mario brothers that was the only thing that I really had to take vantage of the functions. I always wished as a kid it had some capability to interact with Computer like hey why wouldn't you be able to transfer your score data to the computer?

@pinkipromise 5 ай бұрын

how about the port on og vita?

@Acecard-jl2py 2 жыл бұрын

Wait that strip was an ir sensor?

@Vadermods 11 ай бұрын

mission impossible for gbc supports the IR sunsor by letting you coppy any IR buttons you hold up to it lets say the remote, i used to bring my copy to school and hope for substitute teachers in middle school after i had control of our TV in our class!🤣

@Jdbye 2 жыл бұрын

5:56 Are you telling me most people don't talk to every single NPC in Pokemon games in the hopes of getting free stuff? I always talked to every single NPC ever since R/B/Y even if I didn't necessarily read everything since my English was not that good yet.

@jordandupuis1249 3 жыл бұрын

Awe I love me some Pokémon tcg on game boy color

@StuffWePlay 3 жыл бұрын

The sequel is fantastic, too!

@jordandupuis1249 3 жыл бұрын

@@StuffWePlay I’ve never played the sequel but I should definitely look into it

@uhhh_adam 2 жыл бұрын

Me and my friend accidentally swapped our data on Super Mario Bros Deluxe and I was pretty salty about it ha but you unlock an image for doing it

@Jdbye 2 жыл бұрын

I could've sworn you could trade Pokemon over IR In G/S/C. It's been like 20 years, but still, I thought my memory of that was pretty clear.

@willissudweeks1050 2 жыл бұрын

It’s funny how that works. I remember it being so hard to know what was true or not because of how many rumors there always were and on top of it sometimes you don’t remember things right either.

@Jdbye 2 жыл бұрын

Wireless multiplayer with IR was a dumb idea. It could barely be used for anything more than Pokemon trades. If you've ever used it you probably noticed that it was very particular about the two GBCs being parallel to eachother, and held at a certain distance, you couldn't move them at all. That would be awful for actually playing games together, especially since holding them at a horizontal angle would make all the glare from any light above you make it impossible to see the screen.

@IndohNintendo 2 жыл бұрын

Chamber of Secrets was pretty solid, I thought. About a 7.9/10 as far as gbc rpg's go. Easily an 8.5/10 if you're a Harry Potter fan.

@Just.A.T-Rex 2 жыл бұрын

I still have the original trading card game cart and play it from time to time. I’ll have to look into this AI glitching and hacks. Sounds interesting

@davless152000 2 жыл бұрын

The gameboy colors ir well it did connect myster gift for pokemon it also was used for pokemon lil gigapets but from what I remembered nintendo had plans to scrap the link cable then i also heard Nintendo had plans for it

@HistoryandReviews 2 жыл бұрын

I used it for pocket pikachu

@MrScottyTay 2 жыл бұрын

ubisoft made great platformers on the GBC, the donald duck one is S-Tier in gameplay in graphics IMO

@JustIn-sr1xe 2 жыл бұрын

I think I only used it a couple times for a pokemon transfer or two.

@jimmywoo7875 2 жыл бұрын

This makes me want to buy a GB color or an Advance SP to play pokemon red

@cyanrazorCel Жыл бұрын

Ubisoft gets a bad rap.

@OREGONGAMER503 2 жыл бұрын

You seem to be missing the fact that in order to play a game on the original gb you had to have the notch on the top of the game. The power switch was on top of the game boy and it locked the game in. The gamboy color games were flush with no notch. The power switch being on the side. So you could not play gb color games on the origonal gb. Also most of the cases were transparent.

@RedMilkproductions 2 жыл бұрын

I really liked the Harry Potter GBC games.

@anthony92399 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if you couldn't trick a GBC with an IR transmitter/receiver wired up to send the same data as a another GBC would send for the Pokemon TCG's Card Pop

@killersentra 2 жыл бұрын

Not many people had game boy color to begin. It was never as big as the original gameboy. I thought it was revolutionary as a heavy gameboy user though.

@geoffreymanor7605 2 жыл бұрын

The Japanese furby game actually communicated with a furby through IR

@randomnerd4600 2 жыл бұрын

gbc also features VRAM DMA

@paulblart5358 2 жыл бұрын

The pokemon trading card game was very amazing. I made a BS deck of articunos and was unbeatable.

@Kinkajou1015 2 жыл бұрын

Just a comment on Game Boy cart colors. GB carts are Gray. GBC enhanced games have a Black cart. GBC Exclusive games have a translucent cart. Obviously there are some exceptions like Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow/Gold/Silver (the first three being Super Game Boy enhanced and the latter two being meant mainly for GBC but compatible with older GB).

@slanderpanda 2 жыл бұрын

Love for TCG what a game

@sam_64 3 жыл бұрын

There is a reason why it was underused tho. IR is slow and is a bad way of transfering data

@hobbified 2 жыл бұрын

It's not that bad. And nothing running on the GB could possibly have that much data to send anyway. IrDA/IrOBEX was pretty great before Bluetooth caught on.

@sam_64 2 жыл бұрын

@@hobbified good point . I was a bit harsh saying that