What were the differences between SGB 1 and 2 again? Is 2 worth it, in other words? Also, what can one expect to pay for a SGB 2 -- what's its going rate? Thanks.
So wait, Super GameBoy 2 DOES exist right?
What were the differences between SGB 1 and 2 again? Is 2 worth it, in other words? Also, what can one expect to pay for a SGB 2 -- what's its going rate? Thanks.
In Japan, yes. The SGB2 was offered through QVC in the US but I don't believe it was ever produced / shipped out. Back then QVC was very much in the business of advance ordering video games such as Illusion of Gaia.
What does the SGB2 do differently than a SGB1? Maybe color games?
It has a link port for 2 players via another GameBoy and an infared light on it to look more like a real gameboy. Plus the first frame looks like a GameBoy Pocket now. Other then that, not much different I thinkOriginally Posted by JWKobayashi
What does the SGB2 do differently than a SGB1? Maybe color games?
Look here:
http://www.superfamicom.de/H/3.htm
Super Game Boy 2 had a GB connector.
Very limited release in Japan only, I've only seen the SGB 2 once in the UK in an import shop
Super Gameboy 2 also has a transparent cartridge, the PAL and US versions are grey. It was available through the Nintendo catalog in the US but not in retail shops. A link port can be added to the US version somewhat easily. BTW it's probably not worth more than $30, everytime I see one it goes from $5 around $30-$35.
I've got one. Only played it a few times though. I believe it adds some new backgrounds to games for another things. It's also much more cooler looking than a SGB1
figures you got one, haha. What color is it? If you don't mind me asking, how much did you pay for it?I've got one. Only played it a few times though. I believe it adds some new backgrounds to games for another things. It's also much more cooler looking than a SGB1
Here are a few pics of MY ACTUAL Super Boy 2. Found it at a flee market for 13$.figures you got one, haha. What color is it? If you don't mind me asking, how much did you pay for it?I've got one. Only played it a few times though. I believe it adds some new backgrounds to games for another things. It's also much more cooler looking than a SGB1
If you look closely, someone melted the ends of the cart so it would fit in a SNES which hasn't been region modded.
Wow the SG2 does look much sharper than a regular SG.
I'm impressed
I've heard this QVC story before, but I'm dying to see the US packaging as proof that it was released here. I mean, if they were just the Japanese ones, then some folks must have bought them here in the US and were pissed when they realized they had to mod their system for them to fit.In Japan, yes. The SGB2 was offered through QVC in the US but I don't believe it was ever produced / shipped out. Back then QVC was very much in the business of advance ordering video games such as Illusion of Gaia.
-Rob
The moral is, don't **** with Uncle Tim when he's been drinking!
Indeed, though if it was simply an import, there wouldn't be any way to "prove" it unless you kept the shipping box or receipts.
Soh, Can you play SGB2 (japanese) in your SNES wich is Europe-region..?
Think i would buy it.. ^.^
And it looks very cool,.. blue.. like the sky.. ^.^
Thanks, Captain Qb.
As I said, I don't believe that it was ever actually sent out. When QVC would sell video games (which they did a lot of in the late 90's) most of them would be advance orders - sometimes as much as 3-4 months before the actual release. Illusion of Gaia and the Tyco Power Plug were like this, but we know both of those were actually released. I know for CERTAIN that no Japanese SGB2's were sent out by QVC to fill US orders. When a vendor can't meet their obligations for one reason or another (which still happens to this day) they simply issue refunds and an apology. There's no hidden conspiracy, no "10 slipped out", QVC is huge, it was then as well. It's not some public access level run shopping channel like HSN, if ANY were sent out by QVC then there would have been tens of thousands of them out there.
Thanks for the clarification! I thought you meant that, but wasn't exactly sure.
I would like to have seen the QVC program these were advertised on. When they did a demonstration of the unit, if it was just an import, then they would have had to have played it on a SFC, not a SNES.As I said, I don't believe that it was ever actually sent out. When QVC would sell video games (which they did a lot of in the late 90's) most of them would be advance orders - sometimes as much as 3-4 months before the actual release. Illusion of Gaia and the Tyco Power Plug were like this, but we know both of those were actually released. I know for CERTAIN that no Japanese SGB2's were sent out by QVC to fill US orders. When a vendor can't meet their obligations for one reason or another (which still happens to this day) they simply issue refunds and an apology. There's no hidden conspiracy, no "10 slipped out", QVC is huge, it was then as well. It's not some public access level run shopping channel like HSN, if ANY were sent out by QVC then there would have been tens of thousands of them out there.
Now, you say you know for a fact, but I'm not sure how this is. How is that provable? Do we know a refund or apology went out (anybody got their's still?)? Do you have a contact at QVC that backerd this up?
Now, I just reread your phrasing....you said you know for certain no JAPANESE sgb2s shipped out. So are you saying there were USA sgb2 models? Or did you mean you know for certain no SGB2s, period shipped out?
-Rob
The moral is, don't **** with Uncle Tim when he's been drinking!
No SGB2's in the US period. If they were shipped out I would have had one. The family member that ordered it for me those years ago has since passed away and just the same that's not something you're going to recall verbatim 10 or so years later. (well, I would, but it was my younger days and I was at school) Nintendo could have easily been using either a prototype shelled unit or a Super Famicom SGB2 in a circumcised Super Nintendo. Like they wouldn't know the retainer tab trick, they put them in there in the first place.If QVC was the only source offering them then they never were produced / shipped or myself and hundreds of thousands of others would have them sitting on our shelves.
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