Building A Brand New FPGA Game Boy Color In 2024 - The FPGBC!

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The FunnyPlaying FPGBC kit is a complete FPGA based Gameboy Color console that you can build in 2024! But is it any good? Unboxing, build process and testing within!

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:15 Unboxing
04:18 Building
09:39 First Power On & FPGA Menu
13:09 Firmware Update Process
16:28 Testing Some Games & Gameboy Camera
23:24 Final Conclusions

[enthused]

Yeah, whether FPGA is fancy specialty emulation or not, it READS cartridges and plays them back so accurately, I don't care WHAT it's called. Watching it work in real time with your Game Boy camera really impressed me. This is the coolest console released in a decade for us retro gamers.

[RyanMercer]

The display cable frustarted me to no end, I kept thinking I had the lever up all the way and would slide the ribbon in, lever down, go to adhere the adhesive to hte case and it'd slide out. Sure wish I'd had the microscope I do now when I put mine together, would have saved me almost a dozen attempts.

[flibblesan]

I wanted to pick one of these up and now I'm convinced! Thanks for the video!

[NeilGrevitt]

Brilliant timing. A friend of mine, only last week, recommended an Analogue Pocket to me. This seems like a good compromise cost-wise. Plus a new project to build!

[enthused]

This is the best video I've seen on this system so far. Pretty pumped, just ordered one in. For the money, I'm debating ordering a few more in in different color schemes since there are so many options. I just think it's such a good deal for what you get included, especially with all the ridiculous inflation as of late.

[leecollins]

cant go wrong with the price.i bought mine direct from funnyplaying and everything i neededccame to £65 delivered.i went old school with atonic purplewith black button.not had any issues with mine so far and im itchubg to start a new zelda game on mine now i have finished links awakening dx

[krazyjdizzle]

Fantastic video, I'd love to know if you ever found a screen protector for the unit it self I've been searching still to no avail.

[warrenjenkins]

Yeah I have the OG bennvenn Gameboy colour screen mod as well fantastic screen in its day I just waiting on my fpgbc

[FTB]

Did you have to get this in the US I'm in the UK

[bll]

Mine arrived with a broken panel after waiting about a month and a half for all the parts to arrive.. just lines on the panel and solid colour across the screen very frustrating. All gone in the bin now.

[thepirategamerboy]

idk what it is but for me I've literally never owned a single GBC game, let alone the system itself. Always just been original GB and GBA for me.

[kurbeco]

I keep nearly buying one of these.. but then closing the tab. I don't need another Game Boy.. but look at it, and it's FPGA!

[erfanaticfromnm]

Are the user adjusted GBC color modes for original Gameboy games just not available? The FPGBC lets you input the color modes (up, down, left, right + combinations with B or A) but it won't load the game. You just get a corrupted FP GBC logo and Gameboy "ding" constantly coming on and off.

Anyone else get it working?

[wonderdog]

ORdered one myself - it was significantly cheaper direct from funnyplaying than from your linked UK (really US?) supplier!

[retrongamewu]

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[BeyondWorldOne]

Game boy color is too small for me, I wonder if they'll do a bigger size version. DMG has always been a perfect size for me, but think I'd like something different, like a analog pocket, but none of those weird extra buttons that aren't suitable for gameboy.