This came in today. New screen and shit, and I've never owned a Pocket before, just a Color...

sa ga 3
for the frog the bell tolls
kirby block ball
avenging spirit
donkey kong 96
gargoyle quest 2
mole fucking mania

Your Pokemon are gone.
But you can take the cartridge apart and install a new battery by soldering it in. I think they just take a standard battery type, might even be a fucking 2032. Then you can have a new Pokemon dynasty. I actually bought my copy of Gold and Yellow with a new battery already installed.

Kirby's Dream Land
Tetris
Metroid 2
Mario land
Mario Land 2
Wario Land
Link's awakening
Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow
Pokemon Gold/silver
Thats it, really. Original game boy's library was mediocre.

dumb niger

Damn that's sad. My dad's level 100 Raichu from Pokemon Yellow was in there. Might get a new battery tho cause it feels way better to play it on the actual gameboy than using an emulator.

Original gameboy library is awesome you pleb

Have you considered getting an everdrive? It can easily hold the entire gb/gbc library and you'd also be able to play all the japan only games.

Forgot to add to this post: How long do the batteries usually last? A couple of years or less than that?

If you can't into soldering I'm sure you could find some computer repair place nearby that could do it for you for $10.

The sunsoft Batman game

It was 99% trash just like the nes.

Maybe like 5 years or so. I know the default batteries could and did last even as far as ten years later. When it gets down to the wire you can just throw all the Pokemon onto one of the Stadium games and retrieve them after replacing the battery.

about 10 years

Is there an Everdrive specifically for original Game Boy? Not sure on that one. Besides that, I think I'm at the point where I'd prefer to just collect games rather than have them all in an Everdrive. They seem more special, and when I get a thousand games I can never stay focused on just one because I have ADD.

>All I have right now is Pokemon
try Get A Life. its great

I dont understand why people dont just play this shit on an emulator.

It feels better to play on the actual hardware.

Zoomers will never understand.

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Emulator's don't perfectly replicate the sound or displays you'd have on original Hardware. Neither do they replicate the tactile feel of the console or the controls. And some people like collecting the physical cartridges If none of that matters to you, emulation is obviously better..

shut up

Seriously my favorite game for the system. I wish there were more like it. I played another similar to it, with the screen split down the middle instead of top/bottom, and it had an interesting gimmick with drawing your path to move around before each fight, but it just wasn't as fun.

You can't trade with friends or to another one of your games on an emulator so you can't keep your Pokemon. It feels way better to play it with the actual Gameboy controls than using your keyboard.

>You can't trade on emu
Lmfao, aight bud

Try reading the whole sentence next time you fucking faggot
>You can't trade with friends or to another one of your games

What's the point if you can't take the game out of your Game Boy Pocket, put it into the Transfer Pak, and play some Pokemon Stadium Dodrio Mode? Kino.

I heard that you can replace the screen since they get quite bad over time. Also you don't need to solder anything in the game boy cartridges when you replace the batteries youtube.com/watch?v=RsROHA7RUCQ

More pressing question: what is the best video game playable on one of these things? I think I'd go with Gold/Silver. Dozens of hours of content, lots to do, and it even has Kanto.

The ocular strain headaches are a core part of the experience you fucking zoomer scum

Maybe if you have tiny child hands and can deal with the shitty display
I had a pocket, it was shit tier compared to the colour but I wouldn't bother with either
Lol

Can't reply with anything except for Lol cause i'm right. Off yourself you fucking retard.

"I-I'm not a zoomer, I-I swear!"
Lol

>reflective screen
>need to be in in the sun to seen the best
>being out in the sun makes the screen too hot

nice design

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You never owned a worm light or any kind of light that could light the screen?

I thought you were my nigga who got the crystal model but instead you're a pleb who got the atomic purple one. Tetris is still pretty rad after all these years but the lack of a save feature kills it. I've been playing Kirby's Pinball Land a fair bit myself recently, the copy I got still had the original battery and saves from 1993, I just recently trashed those guys and took first place in what may be the only time in my life I ever cared about a high score but damn it felt good.
Don't bother with a flashcart for the Pocket, just don't.

>I thought you were my nigga who got the crystal model but instead you're a pleb who got the atomic purple one.
By crystal do you mean the regular clear one? My fiancee picked out the atomic purple one. Hey, it was Japan-exclusive, that's gotta count for something, right? I know atomic purple was a very popular variant for the Color, but I didn't even know there was a Pocket version until she pointed it out.

Oh, and I should totally get Kirby's Pinball Land. I have it for 3DS VC but it would be a good get for the Pocket.

Well that's funny now that you mention it. Atomic purple was Japan exclusive for the Pocket but Japan and the west got the crystal model while the opposite was true for the Color. I want a Color but they never sold them in crystal except in a few ultra rare Japanese exclusive variants so I'm a little hesitant because I like clear things for some reason but not clear-purple, just clear. Either way Kirby's Pinball Land is probably the best pinball game on the GB if that incredibly specific category was something you had wondered about. Pokemon Pinball has dual compatibility with the GB and GBC but some features are limited when used on a regular Game Boy but it might be worth considering if you really like pinball.

What's limited for Pokemon Pinball on the Pocket? I already own Pokemon Pinball but didn't even think it was playable on older hardware.

Also, Pokemon Pinball isn't exactly the best pinball game for enthusiasts, as the ball physics are so weird, it's more for Pokemon fans than pinball fans. Wouldn't really call myself a pinball enthusiast but I can get down every once and awhile with a pinball version especially if it's developed by HAL.

All black cartridge games are playable on GB and GBC, even the weird ones like Pokemon Pinball which has the rumble pack built in. As for the limitations, I'm not even sure anymore. Obviously there's no color and I had figured the GB wouldn't support the rumble feature since AFAIK there were zero rumble capable games exclusively for the GB but I checked the manual and the rumble does in fact work even on the previous system so that's cool.

Pokemon r/b/y, wario land, links awakening

Thats literally it

You wasted your money fag

Thanks for coming by, zoomer

>my dads lvl 100 raichu

thats the most boomer thing Ive heard today

I can just imagine him getting the pikachu and just using it nonstop until it gets to 100

Nah he just didn't have anything better to do after he beat the game

There was this kid at school once who had like a level 40 or so Charizard before beating the 3rd Gym because he either couldn't find Cut or didn't know how to use it, so he just grinded in the grass near Vermillion instead. I think it was the only Pokemon he had too. In retrospect it's possible he wanted to use the Charizard in Pokemon Stadium or something.

give me one good reason why you'd buy one of these and not just use an SP

The cart juts out horribly and ruins any degree of portability over the Pocket. The video output is inaccurate to both the Game Boy and the Color, as is the sound. The battery also doesn't last as long although it is rechargable. The buttons on the SP are tiny and barely stick out from the front of the system in order to accommodate the folding screen. I personally prefer the Pocket because while the SP is smaller in many ways it's also thicker when folded which makes a big square bulge in your pants whereas the Pocket is thinner and more rounded along the back so it doesn't print so easily. For most people though it's just a chance to relive their childhoods.

>The video output is inaccurate to both the Game Boy and the Color, as is the sound
Citation needed

>GBA SP
>higher resolution backlit TFT LCD

>Pocket
>lower resolution reflective STN LCD
I don't see how that's hard to follow, a different screen is going to look different visually just like a CRT monitor versus a modern OLED. I don't have any real evidence for the sound though, it's just something you have discover by ear when your DMG starts making a permanent shrill whine.