Only ever met one kid in my apartment complex with one. Sadly the wireless transfer speed was very slow and made it made it impractical to transfer games to play multiplayer. Had a few random blips notifying me of people nearby when I was out and about but never got any responses. It would have been nice if they had allowed a direct cybiko-to-cybiko wired serial connection for faster transfers (19,200 baud).
On the upside, the online communities were plentiful. Was cool finding homebrew people had made (e.g. Snake, Drug Wars) and reading about the mods people did, like adding a backlight. Also felt really cheated when I learned that people in the UK got twice the wireless range as we did in the US due to FCC regulation.
Before the forums shut down, some cool developments were made. Firefly made a patched Cybiko classic firmware that suppressed annoying battery nags, making it far easier to mod a cybiko to run off of lithium-ion batteries. There was also talk of the pins of the Xtreme expansion port allowing an SD card to be added directly without the elusive Xtreme MP3 player attachment
One of my big regrets was missing out on the chance to buy a CyWIG gateway for 50 bucks in the early 00s. One appeared on eBay, the only one I’ve sever seen, and someone scooped it up before I could get a chance. Stores in malls could set up a dedicated gateway that provided internet/email for Cybikos and they got a special CyWIG router that wasn’t made available to the public. For home use you were expected to use a second Cybiko attached to a PC as a dedicated CyWIG.
I would have loved to have anything like this in 5th grade. Of course our school had banned Gameboys because kids kept stealing them so I guess it wouldn’t last long…
No way, this thing was total ass just like the Game.com handheld.
I didn’t know anyone else who owned one, the wireless capabilities were only to message people nearby who also had one, you couldn’t really do much with them, and needed to hook it up to a pc with specific software to get anything worthwhile on it.
Maybe if you was Russian
That reminds me so much of a tow I had as a kid but now I can’t quite recall…
I haven’t seen one of these in years
I loved mine. Nobody else had one though 🙁
Only ever met one kid in my apartment complex with one. Sadly the wireless transfer speed was very slow and made it made it impractical to transfer games to play multiplayer. Had a few random blips notifying me of people nearby when I was out and about but never got any responses. It would have been nice if they had allowed a direct cybiko-to-cybiko wired serial connection for faster transfers (19,200 baud).
On the upside, the online communities were plentiful. Was cool finding homebrew people had made (e.g. Snake, Drug Wars) and reading about the mods people did, like adding a backlight. Also felt really cheated when I learned that people in the UK got twice the wireless range as we did in the US due to FCC regulation.
Before the forums shut down, some cool developments were made. Firefly made a patched Cybiko classic firmware that suppressed annoying battery nags, making it far easier to mod a cybiko to run off of lithium-ion batteries. There was also talk of the pins of the Xtreme expansion port allowing an SD card to be added directly without the elusive Xtreme MP3 player attachment
One of my big regrets was missing out on the chance to buy a CyWIG gateway for 50 bucks in the early 00s. One appeared on eBay, the only one I’ve sever seen, and someone scooped it up before I could get a chance. Stores in malls could set up a dedicated gateway that provided internet/email for Cybikos and they got a special CyWIG router that wasn’t made available to the public. For home use you were expected to use a second Cybiko attached to a PC as a dedicated CyWIG.
I would have loved to have anything like this in 5th grade. Of course our school had banned Gameboys because kids kept stealing them so I guess it wouldn’t last long…
No way, this thing was total ass just like the Game.com handheld.
I didn’t know anyone else who owned one, the wireless capabilities were only to message people nearby who also had one, you couldn’t really do much with them, and needed to hook it up to a pc with specific software to get anything worthwhile on it.
in 5th grade we had nes at home and my brother owned a gameboy but he was sent to a mental institution and took it with him