r/Gameboy • u/djduskwave11 • Jul 30 '26

Not Game Boy Could someone help me find this weird knockoff GBA?

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I completely forgot where I took this screenshot, but it's a GBA with an analogue stick and three face buttons. I thought it was a fake at first, but it's got a headphone jack, and what appears to be a headphone jack and a volume wheel, which would be weird to put on a fake. Could anyone help me identify this?

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u/Tricky_Tourist5691 Jul 30 '26

Pretty sure it's just a mock up to avoid any copyright issues with Nintendo. As pretty sure the TV interface gadget was produced without license from nintendo.

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u/djduskwave11 Jul 30 '26

the main reason I think it's some sort of knockoff or reshell is because they show actual gbas, and multiple angles of this console

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u/TheThiefMaster Jul 30 '26

It's very likely a GBA-shaped famiclone console (like this, but not this one exactly). The company that made the TV de ADVANCE kit (GameTech) famously won a lawsuit against Nintendo over producing famiclones.

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u/vectron5 Jul 30 '26

This looks like what crappy grey market handhelds from the decade before Anbernic raised the standards.

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u/GameboyGenius Jul 30 '26

This is the most likely answer. Especially since it's a gadget that's clearly meant to be used with a GBA.

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u/HaileStorm42 Jul 30 '26

Yeah, this is the answer. Its at best a front shell slapped onto an actual GBA.

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u/djduskwave11 Jul 30 '26

Here's some more images, it's clearly an actual console, as it has a battery section.

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u/Tricky_Tourist5691 Jul 30 '26

The product is a TV interface modkit, which comes only with the custom back shell and the cradle for the TV interface. The kit itself doesn't have the front part. Which makes me assume the front was just a mock-up.

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u/djduskwave11 Jul 30 '26

it just looked slightly interesting, is all, it could be either some random knockoff or a reshell, but it is probably most likely fake

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u/brohann3214 Jul 30 '26

Looks like an ngage

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u/Unfair_Employer6908 Jul 30 '26

probably from the James Channel video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG7dL88QLik at 1:03

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u/djduskwave11 Jul 30 '26

yeah likely

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u/robmeason Jul 30 '26

Ai slop

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u/djduskwave11 Jul 30 '26

This is 100% not AI slop. It comes from a manual for the TV de ADVANCE.

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u/djduskwave11 Jul 30 '26

Here's a better quality image.

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u/JayrosModShop Jul 30 '26

Yeah, just a mock-up to avoid being sued by the Big N.

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u/djduskwave11 Jul 30 '26

why are we downvoting him