Perhaps it was the inconspicuous design? The lack of any interesting logos or bulky lobes protruding from the GameCube to set it apart? I can’t be sure, but I totally appreciate its unobtrusive design.
The device functions near flawlessly, and it’s strange that it’s not a more well-known piece of hardware.
In fact, aside from multiplayer modes, one could experience all the joy and woes of Nintendo’s entire Game Boy line without ever needing an actual Game Boy. The add-on fit on the bottom of Nintendo’s GameCube with the intended purpose of playing game boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games on a regular TV screen and with the GameCube controller if desired. It hit North American shelves on June 24th, 2003 and enjoyed a 4 to 5 year commercial life. There is an eject switch on the left side of the GB Player to make changing games a little easier, although perhaps it is a bit too powerful - seeing how far you can shoot the cart across the room is a game by itself.The Game Boy Player is one of only a few add-ons that Nintendo has released to the American market.
Change Game: For some reason you need to select this to change the GBA game, otherwise the GB Player will instruct you to turn your Gamecube off and on again. Timer: You can set a parental timer between 1 and 60 minutes. The menus are in Japanese so I can't tell which is which, honestly there is absolutely no noticeable difference between these modes. Screen Filter: You can choose three graphic modes: sharp, normal and soft. The original GBA isn't much better, nothing replaces a Gamecube pad for comfort except perhaps a Hori pad. If you wish you can link-up a GBA to the Gamecube and use it as a controller, but playing GBA games on a TV really hits home how god-awful the GBA-SP is as a Joypad. Style 2: L&R as normal and X&Y as select. Control Setup: There are two control styles. The screen looks noticeably stretched when zoomed in so I use the zoomed out picture. Zoom: You can zoom in and almost completely eliminate the border. There's some awful camouflage and striped borders that I for one will never be using. A few of the borders look really terrible, almost like something that's been made in Animal Crossing. There's basic colors like indigo, orange, black and silver (to match the Gamecube colors) and there are several other themed borders like Tetris blocks, Gamecube/GBA link-up, Gamecube, saphire/ruby Pokémon and a space themed border. Border: There are 20 different borders to choose from. Whilst playing a Gameboy game you can press the Z button at any time to open up the GB Player menu to change the numerous settings. After the GameCube boot-up intro, the Gameboy game will start as normal. You can however still use Gameboy games from any region. To boot up the GB Player, you need to have the included boot-up disk inside the GameCube, so unfortunately you cannot use any GameCube link-up features with the GB Player.
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