A friend of mine messaged me and said he'd done a cleanout and had a bunch of untested or faulty extras I could have.

There's a bunch of gold in here, XBOX 360s, PS2s, some cheat devices, a bunch of bastardised Japanese Sega Mega Drive games (most seem to be games in the wrong cartridge shells with the original label torn off, but some look ok), plus random other devices.

That model 1 Atari Lynx is a score even if it's only good for parts. Mine has a broken cartridge door and this one doesn't for a start.

Apparently that white phone up the top with the tiny trackball is the first ever android phone. I don't know if either of us knew that when I picked up the lot. I sure didn't.

The tablet next to it is a Sansui LifePad, which is a janky garbage Android 4 tablet but it has the OG Angry Birds installed on it and works with a charger connected so I played that for longer than I'd expected to be testing it for lol. Shame the touch digitiser is very low res.

The mario question mark block cardboard box is what it was given to me in 😂 though it's not as big as the camera angle makes it look.

Duration: 22:49

This is a recent open source homebrew creation by someone in Ukraine. It allows transferring of photos from a Game Boy Camera to just about any modern device with USB and a web browser.

I originally thought it was DIY only but I managed to find them being sold on ebay by the creator.

I haven’t tried it yet but from what I’ve read the little box contains a tiny web server, you just put it’s IP address into your web browser and it brings up the interface.

Build your own: https://github.com/antoxa2584x/gameboy-camera-adapter

Buy on eBay: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/156372271675

This book looks like it's going to be a fantastic resource for my pre-filming console research.

It contains photos and information for over a hundred game consoles!

Duration: 25:26

I finally decided to play Undertale and discovered it is not available on the Australian Nintendo eShop for some reason.

luckily switch game regions are set by the region of your profile (as long as the game has your region programmed in), so buying the cheapest physical copy I could find from Japan is fine and it will still play in english.

Someone recently released a modern interface to transfer photos from a Game Boy Camera to your phone or computer or whatever. In researching that I discovered this device from 1999 to do the same thing via your windows 95/98 PC’s parallel port.

Of course I ordered both, this one just arrived first.

Duration: 25:10

This thing exists so you could play your PS2 without a TV. I am not expecting greatness from the tiny 25 year old lcd however.

This one was sold as having a non-working lcd, but no AC adaptor is included so hopefully they just didn’t know it needs one.

It also came in the metal case pictured, I thought it was just a random box someone put it in but there are a few google results with photos of others in the same type of box so maybe it’s what they came with!

I kept seeing videos of people playing non-racing games with these. Looked like a bad time so I bought one.

Duration: 01:58

Currently in Bali and came across this guy.

A 5 card booster for IDR 150,000 is a bit steep but I assume out of print here just like everywhere else. Current 5 card boosters were IDR 30,000-35,000.

I plan to post a quick unedited video here on floatplane opening it and inevitably getting zero hits.

Duration: 23:25

I got both the full VB recreation and the cardboard version!

One day late 😡

Video underway.

Duration: 27:07

I bet this plays exactly like a real ps1

This thing was on clearance at Big W. Pretty sure it’s a bad projector (720p) and I KNOW it’ll be a bad game console.

It’s not owning up to any particular operating system or anything about the games so it’s gonna be trash for sure.

Duration: 24:52

This came from the junk Christmas gift clearance section in Kmart.

I needed a game for my Kids Station controller so I just grabbed the cheapest one on ebay. I didn’t check all the photos properly though so I only discovered how faded the back was when it arrived 😂