Hyperkin SmartBoy Mobile Device for Game Boy/ Game Boy Color (Android USB Type-C Version)

Easy installation and the buttons feel quite good, except for the L and R buttons, but luckily those buttons aren't that important for most GBA games. Seen way too many negative reviews and had to give this product 5 stars. For the price this product is an easy 5/5. Very happy.It really was an easy setup. I used the wired c cable and attached the smartboy to my phone. Took a minute and then it started working. I use the MyBoy app on my android with it. I went into the settings and configured to keybinds to the Hyperkin. Works perfectly now.

Updated (2018/12/24)Hi, Keep you guys updated.In order to use Smart Boy as a "physical controller" for your games, you must first install (Floating Apps).Then, open Floating Apps, and you will see a "floating folder" icon near top of your smartphone screen.Now, connect your phone to Smartboy.After (Smartboy App) is launched, you can press the "floating folder" icon to open (Floating Multitasking),go to Launcher and open one of the following emulators - My Oldboy (GB/GBC), JohnGBA (GBA), or RetroNES/NES.emu(NES/FC games).Now, you can use Smartboy and play the backup ROMs of the game cartridges that you own.**************************************Great, I received my SMARTBOY today. Very easy to set it up.*It basically dump the ROM from the cartridge into the internal memory of the SMARTBOY device. Once you disconnects your phone from the SMARTBOY, the ROM is erased.*For GB/GBC emulator, you can launch MyOldBoy/MyOldBoy free" and then do some keymapping (while connecting to SMARTBOY) and you can run MyOldBoy directly.*For GBA emulator, SMARTBOY does not run GBA cartridges, you only can use it to run "John GBA emulator" (paid version removed the ads on top ). *same thing as MyOldBoy, you can do some keymapping and play GBA games via John GBA emulator.REMARK: always play games that you own.

So... this looked like it would have been endlessly entertaining for any retro game lover, however, this thing is extremely far from being a good product. First off, it is nothing more than a CONTROLLER you put your phone in as a screen. The SmartBoy is NOT a Game Boy player in any way. It won't even work unless you have the John GBC or My Old Boy GB emulator apps.2. While it requires actual GB/GBC carts to play, it DOES NOT PLAY FROM THEM. All it does is dumps the ROM file from the cart onto the phone TEMPORARILY and creates a new save file in the emulator you have. NO PROGRESS IS SAVED TO THE ACTUAL CARTRIDGE!3. While it fits many phones, it will NOT fit any phone with a case one, despite claiming to. I have a Samsung Galaxy Note9.4. At $45, you can (and really instead should) buy a REAL Nintendo Game Boy Color for $45-50. Or even better, the Chinese GB Boy Colour GBC clone. It costs about $35-40, is backlit, and has 60 games built-in if turned on with no cart inserted. Only downside is a slightly squished (vertically) aspect ratio and slightly jittery framerate.Don't waste your money on this. It looks amazing, but doesn't live up to expectations.

Set up is a little difficult but totally works!!! If you aren't an idiot like most of the people leaving reviews, you would know this doesn't work for regular port Android phones. But if you actually researched the product you would see what the connection is. So those people should not be leaving reviews because of their own faults. Anyways stepping off my soap box, it is so fun to see my Gameboy games in color! I had the original Green GB and I still play it but can't really see the screen. With this I can see everything and it is amazing having a bigger screen.Read your instructions!! Do your research on the product, if the red image shows up disconnect your phone and reload. And boom it's gone, don't get mad and leave a bad review because you don't have the brains to do a one minute fix.

but there are better options than this of course, honestly i'd say just get a gameboy.the big draw to this of course is running it on a nice high quality screen which is great, the games look great and sound is good too depending on the phone. the buttons and feel are all fine as long as your phone fits in which most should, i have a 10 + and there's still more room than needed.the biggest issue with this is that set up is tedious, you have to install 2 different programs to get it started and while using them and having the adapter you can't access all of the menu options as you can't see them and the screen doesn't adjust to fit them in the usable space so you'll have to take off the unit to make sure you select the right options.and here comes the big one, it doesn't save the game data on the cartridge. while it does allow you to play the game from a cartridge, basically what it is doing is dumping the ROM, pulling it in to the emulator and then allowing you to play. if you want to save you have to do it on your phone but you won't be able to transfer it to an actual cartridge for use on a proper gameboy after the fact.it's a nice novelty item, but again, there's better options.