look I'm trying to pay off my mortgage
I've put my turnips up for sale can you
please just cut me some slack today
we're gonna be taking a look at a
product that takes the game out of game
boy and replaces it with music
today we're gonna be taking a look at
the music recorder mp3 I recently bought
a bunch of stuff off of sender Co and
this is one of the things I bought for
the grand total of 425 yen plus send
echoes 500 yen fee which brings it up to
around 10 pounds ten dollars ten euros
it's all around the same price okay it
doesn't really matter because this is a
bargain I don't know anything about this
I never saw one when I was younger I've
done as much research as I possibly can
on this thing which is very
underreported and documented and it
doesn't seem that they were ever
released outside of Japan it's made by
comedy called chem Co which have
actually made quite a few accessories in
the past but it is officially licensed
by Nintendo it says down in the bottom
corner they're licensed by Nintendo
besides that it doesn't really say
anything else in English we've also got
Game Boy Advance evolves into music
machine music recorder mp3 only for the
Game Boy Advance and also has a website
wwm Co Gamescom and it actually also
says for sale and use in Japan only and
commercial rental prohibited made in the
Philippines so yeah this is it it looks
really really cool we have a battery
which I'm hoping still has some battery
we have an 8 megabyte compact flash
which is actually licensed by chem Co
which is fairly interesting now what
this thing apparently allows you to do
is plug in the compact flash record some
stuff on it and then you can take out
the compact flash back on your computer
and listen to things back I believe it
has a microphone built into it I think
now I'm gonna be opening this thing
obviously because we need to see how it
works and it is currently sealed don't
worry it was only 10 pounds and I've
bought another one the seller
more than one so I bought another one so
I'll have that one for my collection so
let's go ahead and get the stuff out and
take a look at it and then we'll see on
the back of the box with a bit Google
Translate if we can understand anything
that is telling us okay so there is the
main thing okay well there's our little
compact flash cartridge that's cool now
we need to go for the headphones lovely
blimey look at that I mean this app is
absolutely fantastic so high quality
sound with easy and easy recording
playback to prepare recording connect
the AV device such as the TV the radio
there's this promoting piracy kind of is
playback is easier music recorder mp3 or
games simply connect headphone or
earphones to Boy Advance after that the
game boy easy operation according to the
guidance on the screen of advanced ok
anyone anywhere you can use it easily
you don't have to worry about skipping
even if you move a lot wow so this is
trying to compete against that it's like
a marketing ploy to compete against the
CD players that's kind of funny of
course you can play it alone
antisocial yay easy karaoke with voice
cancel of function
he used the voice cancel of function to
turn off the vocal sound during playback
the button 1 for karaoke you can wait
hang on you can remove the voice from a
song that's incredible right get that
out of here let's take a look for
ourselves so here is the actual little
thing now interestingly it's got a pause
it's got volume and a different source
track selects sort of thing on the
bottom as well as this big red thing
which which doesn't seem to be a button
don't think we've got our slot for the
compact flash a slot for the battery
let's
that in and what else have we got
we've got phones we've got our line in
we've got two little rubber no bleep
things here we've got a lanyard hole and
then here's the actual cartridge slot
connector thing presumably this cover is
so that if you want to use it like a
little portable mp3 player you can what
else have we got we've got what looks to
be a microphone there as well so
presumably you can do voice memos and
that is your lot in terms of build
quality it doesn't feel bad but it
doesn't quite feel like Nintendo's
plastic so the compact flash let's whack
that in here are the headphones which
feel yeah pretty low quality if I'm
honest with you but I mean not too bad
they've actually sort of got like a
little rubber cover on the end of the
headphones God knows how much it's
actually cost when it was retail so they
would go left and right pretty comfy
actually I'll take it I'll take it and
then this is the aux cable which is the
highest quality feeling cable I've ever
felt in my life
it's a really really nice cable actually
and it's nice and weighted down by these
ginormous things which seem to actually
have weights in them I don't know why
you'd want to weight that down but you
can and we've also got this little
manual thing which is great because it's
more Japanese that I can't read oh yeh
it's a big a three piece of paper with
loads of Japanese on it I think we're
gonna work it out for ourselves okay so
let's take this piece off and let's plug
it in to here after that we shall turn
the device on and increase the
brightness 2002 there we go
oh we've already got a red I think we're
gonna work it out for ourselves
okay alright so says that the battery
level could be low replacing the battery
has made this thing work now so
unfortunately obviously the back what
now
who's just telling us some warning signs
so there we go we're in and it looks
very simple so we've got clearly some
sort of music thing that must be a voice
memo and that must be the karaoke
version thing so we've got three
different things to select from and then
we've got a green button what does the
green button do I think we're going to
work it out for ourselves okay geez this
is a difficult video to record right
I've been trying for the last ten
minutes to get this thing to work and
I'm not having a lot of luck so we've
got new got which is presumably music
then we've got city death so I don't
know what that is and then we've got
Corrado which is clearly karaoke and
then at the bottom we've got option so
this translation on what's going on on
the screen is not really working so
let's try out the music record function
first I have my Walkman here with me not
gonna be able to play you much of the
music obviously in case this video gets
copyright claims so here is the little
music record application we'll click a
on that we've got play and we've got
record which I'll go to the record and
then it loads up the little screen for
recording stuff and then we take our aux
jack plug it into there and then into
the line-in on the back of the device
and then when we press play we can
actually hear it coming out of the
speaker so if we press a it will record
not gonna be able to replace more than
that and if we go back out of there and
then over to play and then we press a on
track - oh man that is actually rather
cool now it's really quiet so but it was
peaking when it shows you a little
limiter thing and it was peaking on
there so I wonder if it's just because
the speaker's not good I don't know but
let's try it on the headphones
ouch
maybe I recorded it too loud let's try
one more here we go let's give that a
listen back that's kind of decent you
know really really cool so there we go
so that's the first function of it now
I'm not sure yet how we're gonna then
unplug that and play it automatically
but let's just give it a try so we'll
plug the headphones into here and then I
shall plug that into my ear and when we
shall press play oh my goodness
wow that is actually working as a little
portable iPod thing is so good and it
just seems to play everything in a loop
so starting off of track one and two
track two then two track three and then
it goes back to the start again so it
seems to turn it off you just hold the
the play and pause button and then it
turns it off so that is pretty damn
exciting right now let's try out the
other option to go over to the middle
application l voice' it literally says
up in the corner there voice so let's
press record on that one and then we can
record our voice hello my name is Elliot
and welcome to the retro future and then
we go to play and it sounds awful so
that has not worked right let's try out
ping in the headphones again it just
seems that it works better with the
headphones so whatever reason it doesn't
sound very good through the speaker but
it sounds really good for the headphones
hello my name is Elliot and welcome to
the retro future so lastly we have the
karaoke one now I'm not sure how this is
gonna work ah okay so you have to record
something on the music and then select
the track
okay let's try this then okay let's give
that a try then yeah yeah well there we
go that is gonna wrap up this video I
just listened to everything back and the
recording of the music files did not
work on my laptop I think I need this go
into the options and change it to record
into mp3 we didn't even look at the
options but the other recordings did
work and you heard them the karaoke one
or the kara oh did actually slightly
work basically what it was just doing
was just lowering the audio of the music
it did from what I could tell it didn't
actually remove the singing it just made
it practically inaudible along with the
actual melody of the song but the voice
memo one worked very well I think my
problem was I probably needed to put it
closer to my mouth I didn't do that so
it sounded a little bit sort of distant
however the music recording
functionality did work very well which
at this era 2002 fairly certain that was
the year of the disc Mane's and stuff
like that which were really bulky
somewhat unported things would slam in
your backpack and you'd walk around and
as you're moving the track would skip
and it would pause and it would break up
and any dirt on the laser would it just
was never a great medium of portable
music but it works fantastic at home
there was obviously later CD players
like this one which is a really really
high-end Sony Walkman discman but for a
kid in 2002 or an early teen like a you
know an early adult this is really
really cool what a cool little way of
bringing some music with you and making
some little voice memos I know I would
have been fascinated with just talking
random stuff into this little things so
yeah I really like it no idea how much
it was
it obviously wasn't a big seller so
maybe it was extremely expensive and
that's why I didn't sell very well but I
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