RetroZone's RetroVision

[nintendodork]

http://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?cPath=30&products_id=87

I didn't know about this until I randomly decided to go to RetroUSB.com just now, but the RetroVision is a cartridge that lets you play original Game Boy games on your NES (and not ROMs either, actual carts.)  It also allows you to change the color palette of the game.  Frankly, I don't think this is worth the $125 pricetag because not only is it an exact copy of the Super Gameboy, it also doesn't support ROMs or anything else we haven't seen before.

[133MHz]

Awesome use of a CPLD, but not something particularly useful, at least for me.

[MS-DOS4]

Waste o' cash. I'd rather buy a PowerPak.

[petik1]

For $125, I could go out and buy a gamecube, gameboy player, and a whole ton of games. This is a case of "Because I can".   

[manuel]

For $125, I could go out and buy a gamecube, gameboy player, and a whole ton of games. This is a case of "Because I can".   

You could probably get a SNES and a Super Gameboy in addition, too. 
The product itself is awesome and everything, but there are so many (cheap) possibilities to play Gameboy games already...

[Jedi Master Baiter]

I'll stick with my already obsolete GBASP.

[petik1]

I'll stick with my already obsolete GBASP.

When it comes to Nintendo handhelds, they go obsolete every 5 minutes 

There should be a rating system on whether video game consoles are New, Classic, Vintage, and Other

[satoshi_matrix]

Jedi, you're not alone. I play my GBA SP almost daily.

It is the best Nintendo handheld of all in my opinion. Compact, good life, and plays somewhere around five thousand games.

[Jedi Master Baiter]

I would've probably bought a DS had it been completely backwards compatible with original GameBoy games.

[satoshi_matrix]

the DS is more than powerful enough to emulate though. There's a great GB and GBC emulator for the DS called Lameboy.

[Jedi Master Baiter]

True. True.

Speaking of emulation.  Has anyone here tried one of those flash carts for the GBA?  I want to get one to play NES games.  Not sure how good they are.

[UglyJoe]

Speaking of emulation.  Has anyone here tried one of those flash carts for the GBA?  I want to get one to play NES games.  Not sure how good they are.

The emulators themselves are fairly competent, but the big problem is that the GBA's screen resolution (240 x 160) is smaller than the NES's (256 x 240).  This means you end up with squished graphics.  Check the screenshots here to see what I mean:

http://www.pocketnes.org/screenshots.html
http://www.pocketnes.org/res.html

[satoshi_matrix]

I have an M3 "NDS & GBA Movie Player SD" which I bought quite a number of years ago for $95. It allows you to use standard SD cards to hold roms.

It plays PocketNES, which is an okay way to play some NES games on the go, but you're much, much better off with a PSP.

$95 seems like a lot, but consider most flashcards measure their size in megabits and you'll see the clear advantage of going with a 1 GB SD card.

The device plays GBA games in 1:1, it's realyl quite fantastic.

The device also has lameboy built in as well as emulators for the master system/gamegear. All you need to do is simply put roms for those systems on the card and they'll play.

Personally I think its incredibly silly that Gameboy and Gameboy color roms use the Gameboy hardware to run in an emulator rather than just using the hardware to play the games as they were designed for.

It's expensive, but this one flashcart is probably the best one out there for the GBA. It's fairly errelivent now, but with a Passme card, it can also run in DS mode and run DS roms. This is what I did before DS flashcards matured and exploded.

[MS-DOS4]

Yeah, I've been looking to turn my PSP 3000 I never used into a emulator paradise. Do I need to buy that Pandora Battery to crack it?

[UglyJoe]

Personally I think its incredibly silly that Gameboy and Gameboy color roms use the Gameboy hardware to run in an emulator rather than just using the hardware to play the games as they were designed for.

The flash carts only have access to the GBA hardware.  They cannot bootstrap or access the GB hardware, afaik.