The NEW Gameboy Advance Mini

If you've ever found yourself wanting to make the GameBoy Advance smaller, then look no further. Personally I think the GameBoy advance could just do with being a bit wider.

#GameBoy #Nintendo #TheRetroFuture

[FunKeyProject]

Hi Eliot, FunKey S creators here, great video as usual.

If the creators see this comment, kudos to them, we do not blame people for using our OS or hardware, on the contrary, we encourage it.
The whole point of being open source and open hardware is for other people to benefit from our work and create new things with it (the powkiddy Q36 or the Anbenic Nano are great examples of this).

So well done guys, you made a great product and a lot of work must have gone into it, especially since it's handmade.

[cuddlequeen]

That completely original and definitely unmodified purple gameboy is pristine.

[allKnowingCraig]

"please avoid if you require perfection" is what I have on my Tinder profile.

[thomasstanley]

😂 I love the size comparison to a completely unmodified original GBA 😂

[versustherest]

"Here's an unmoded GBA..."

Shows a monstrosity that I have never seen before that makes me question if I woke up in a different dimension...
It seems that YOU are the one from a different dimension, thought you might like to know.

[fluffycritter]

These are super helpful for when you've been cursed by a witch and get turned into a mouse or frog.

[CaptainRex]

Imagine showing this to someone back when the nes was still selling in retail stores

[FoxMccloud]

9:55 The Allwinner V3s is a fascinating SoC. Most SoCs require ram, but there are some SoCs like this one that also has the ram in the package like a microcontroller, but they have an mmu and everything required to run an os like linux. The Allwinner V3s cost alround 5 dollar on LCSC.

[NintendoThumb]

1:11 looks like the King of Cosmos and the Prince

[ccricers]

This just gave me the idea of using the PCB of the Gameboy Micro and putting it in a mini version of the original GBA shell. It might be the sweet spot between this and original GBA in size.

[MegaManNeo]

Nice to see the FunKey S creator being so openminded.
Love the idea too albeit I would be scared about losing it :, D

[cossakrose]

Gameboy Micro: "Am I a joke to you...?"

[FerrariGTO]

0:51 i can imagine anyone who has just come here for their first video seeing this and thinking "what in the actual FUCK is going on?!?!"

[mardenkarden]

Haha The friggin' long GBA mod killed me 😂💀

[SianaGearz]

The Allwinner V3s processor is visibly hand soldered. This seems a little silly, since you can just use assembly service, but it just indicates what sort of a small manufacturing operation it is.

The LCD is an off the shelf unit, same as initially considered by Funkey according to documentation. However eventually Funkey had to order semi custom LCDs with a different flatflex which is way way longer and snakes off more to the side, so it can be rolled up in the hinge.

As such the rest are also off the shelf parts. So by all reason it's a clone, not a device made from Funkeys taken apart, or they would have kept the LCD.

The Funkey contains absolutely zero custom in-built firmware. The first stage bootloader is standard in this processor, which just goes through bootable ports in order, and the only thing connected to one of these ports is the SD-Card which contains the second stage bootloader and the operating system.

[zackrog]

Shrinkflation is real.. Back in my day, it took 3 people to move or operate a gameboy advance. Kids don't know how easy they got it today.

[kevandre]

I can't imagine playing on a screen even smaller than the micro

[Evercade_Effect]

I like that you've been doing more videos like this on your second channel. I enjoy content on both channels, of course. I may not comment on every video, but I do watch them all. 😀👍💯

[sorual]

Cool of FunKey to encourage this. That said, even if they didn't, I still see no issue with this. Even if these people are buying retail FunKey Ss and modding them by hand without telling FunKey, FunKey is still getting those donor console sales. They're still getting paid! I genuinely see no ethical issue with these sorts of mods even if the brand never verbally encouraged it.

[oudekrant]

Its really hard to look at the screen.
Elliot: looks up😂