The Oct 2019 - Oct 2021 Out?

[Ragnar]

Looks like the name of this Hangout was too generous

It's only been 8 months. I'm sure we're going to get a surge any day now to fill in the 3000 posts we need to go!

[deadlegion]

So I was looking at getting a Super Game Boy V1 for SFC, but then I stumbled across a Chinese adapter that also plays GBC carts It has an a/v out port on it like the MD adapter you can get.
Supports multi carts and flash carts too.

[Jackhammer]

I'm sure the Super Gameboy adaptor I used with my SNES played GBC carts. Might just be certain carts that worked. I played through Zelda: Link's Awakening DX using the SGA. It also worked with the flash cart I had at the time.

[deadlegion]

I'm sure the Super Gameboy adaptor I used with my SNES played GBC carts. Might just be certain carts that worked. I played through Zelda: Link's Awakening DX using the SGA. It also worked with the flash cart I had at the time.

Only GBC carts that are GB compatible will work on Super Game Boy V1&2.
Dedicated GBC carts won't work and neither will the roms via flash cart.

eg: Metal Gear Ghost Babel and Resident Evil Gaiden will not work on either SGB version. Neither of these game roms will work on EDGB via SGB.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...Game_Boy_games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...lor-only_games

[deadlegion]

Link's Awakening DX is a GBC game but it works on GB.

[deadlegion]

The Chinese GB/GBC extension adapter for SFC plays all carts including all roms on flash carts. It does not play GBA carts though.
Price is around $40aud brand new including av cable so it should be cheaper than a used loose SGB V2 (used loose V1 is cheaper though).

[Jazzmarazz]

The Chinese GB/GBC extension adapter for SFC plays all carts including all roms on flash carts. It does not play GBA carts though.
Price is around $40aud brand new including av cable so it should be cheaper than a used loose SGB V2 (used loose V1 is cheaper though).

Aren't those just emulators that use power and the address space for the controller registers?
The official SGB contains an improved DMG CPU.

[deadlegion]

Aren't those just emulators that use power and the address space for the controller registers?

How should I know? I've seen a pic of the pcb inside.

[deadlegion]

It works in that snes handheld you can get without needing the av cable. I think that is what it was designed for originally.
It does work on original console though. Possibly GBC carts that do work in GB don't need the av cable.

[deadlegion]

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[deadlegion]

The official SGB contains an improved DMG CPU.

V1 has wrong clock speed, the speed up is different for NTSC and PAL (PAL has less speed increase so closer to accurate).
V2 has the link port and correct speed iirc.
I think you can mod V1 to have correct speed.

There are some exclusive differences between 1 & 2 afaik...V2 you can't change some borders and both versions may have exclusive borders, color tools and palettes.

[Jackhammer]

Just installed Linux Mint in VMware Workstation to give it a look before deciding if it is worth trying to install it to an old Asus X553S laptop. The laptop has Win 10 on it, but it runs like a sack of shit. I don't fancy paying for a new SSD and RAM then having to completely tear the laptop down just to install them.

I've read that you don't need AV or a Firewall, can anyone confirm that? I've tried various versions of Linux in the past, but always go back to Windows.

Laptop spec:
Intel Celeron CPU N3050 @ 1.60GHz 4GB RAM.

[deadlegion]

What distro of win10 did you install?
I put win10 enterprise (64bit) on a netbook with atom 1.6 and only 2GB ram, it boots ok and works better than the win7 starter (32bit) that was on it previously.

Edit:
Actually, maybe it wasn't an atom. It might've been one of those tiny AMD dual core cpu's. It had radeon graphics.

[deadlegion]

You need a distro that has a heap of shit disabled/removed by default, it's better than installing and then trying to strip shit out.

Believe me, it took me a couple of days to install win10 on this lappy trying standard distros, too much junk and crap for low powered hardware.
AMD dual core 1.6, screen isn't full HD but it has radeon graphics, ram is currently 8GB but I installed with only 4GB.

[deadlegion]

Also, I didn't install SSD I used a recycled 500GB sata drive. Machine is getting close to 10 years old, runs better than win7 I had on it originally.
I've installed the same distro I have on several machines now, some are old desktops (more than 10 years) with only 2 or 4GB of ram, celerons and pentium D's. With the older stuff I had to look for vista 64bit drivers to get some hardware working.

But they all work better than win7 installs.