I second this. I have the gameboy player for the GameCube, and while it is cool, its not worth 230 or even 65. Emulation is the most convenient answer here. Especially when it comes to backups.

I want to avoid the emulation aspect so i can use the link cable and get all 151 on my original red and blue carts. So need to stick to official hardware unfortunately. I have 2 gameboys, but want a more comfortable way to play them on a larger screen and also not damage these $80 carts by rubbing all the paint off holding them for hours in my GBA SP.

Oh yeah, zero intention of buying the disc for $120. I mod most of my consoles myself, so it's no big deal to mod one of my GameCubes. I have serial port 2, so I may go that route if I can find a nice and clean gameboy player for under $60

A lot of GameCube games are worth serious dough rn. Twilight Princess and Pokemon Colosseum are like $170 each, and Pokemon Box is like two grand or more for US version. It's nuts.

That is a decision only you can make. I worry about the possibility of disc rot/data rot in these mini discs. So i sold my expensive games years ago. I still have about 15 GC games, but most of them are only $40-80 each. But around here, gamecubes are highly desired and go for $120 all day at local gamestores, which are normally sold out.

Do you notice the "faster frame rate"? If anything i might appreciate it since i'm just playing Pokemon which frame rate doesn't matter anyway. Also i think pokemon red and blue get a nice border on the SGB.

I just replaced both batteries on my red cartridge and the new blue cartridge i just got. They both had original batteries with 2.2 and 2.6 volts remaining, so not too bad. But it would be nice to do save states if i screw up my game trying to get all 151.

How long have you had your GB operator and did you have any of those corrupted save issues others had years ago?