/vr/ - Retro Games

Last time I used one was probably in 2003. I worked tech for the high school theater and me and a couple friends all linked our GBAs together to play Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland.

>19
Why would you own a GBC?
I can see now if you're trying to play older games. You got to be pretty determined to play how it was back then on a GBC instead of playing it on a SNES or GC. Neat that a younger person is trying play on a GBC.

Don't give up but that's going to be a continuing problem with these retro games. We're a small group. It's going to depend a lot on where you live.

That said all I ever used the link cable for was Pokemon.

>>2270351

Why wouldn't I own one? It's a great way to play GBC and GB games and I'm a collector

>>2270358
Well like I said, I can see now if you're trying to play older games. But when you were alive the GBA would had been the thing to have. Pokemon was just past its peak too.

If you want to multiplayer retro you basically either have to have everything necessary yourself or do it through emulation online.

>>2270295
The last time? Before third generation Pokemon was a thing. I think I only ever used my link cable to trade Pokemon in Crystal and other games.

>>2270371
GBC has an amazing screen. That is reason enough

>>2270406
If you like it that's all that matters. Personally I think the screens have always been a pain in the ass.

>>2270412
I'm a different guy 25 year old hahah. I grew up with a DMG then got a color once they came out. Colors have really clear easy to read screens

>>2270434
The little bungee cord lights were a necessary accessory.

>>2270371

I have a GBA but I would rather play GBC games on a GBC

3-4 years ago, I linked my two DCs together to play VOOT on a widescreen TV with split screen capability from 2 inputs.

Must have been with a old college buddy around.. 2000.
we linked up our old Atari Lynxes and played Warbirds.

Was fun, sadly we lost touch shortly after so that ended my Lynx linking.

>>2270295
I'm 20 and everyone I know owned a gameboy and subsequently a gameboy colour. What the fuck?

Anyway, you didn't miss out on anything. Link cables were fucking awful.

2002. My elementary school had this week-long summer school thing and the kids and I would link up and trade Pokemon during recess

My Gold team ended up being turned into a collaboration of Pokemon I acquired from various people. Makes me sad when I remember that the cartridge's battery died

>>2270549
Where the hell did you live that people still used GameBoys?

>>2270558
>tfw they banned pokemon from recess when I was in elementary school.

My buddy and I would sneak behind a tree and battle.

>>2270601
They banned Pokemon at my elementary school too.

At my university(in Alabama) there's like 10 people who are fairly active in 2nd gen pokemon competitively. I was pretty seriously into it when it was new and I was like 10. I paid someone like 50 bucks to get me some pokes so I could join in. When I joined them a year or so ago there were 6 people. we get like 4-6 random people too every time too. we all throw in $5 and winner and second place split it. Showdown and other stuff has kind of killed in-person Pokemon but it's good for kicks and I usually win and grab some cash so that's nice.

We've discussed moving to sims every couple of meetings for the past half a year though and I think we're headed that way based on popular opinion. I'm strongly in the staying on GB camp, but whatever.

Once we go sim I don't think I'll ever use a cable again.

>>2270562
I'm 22 and most people had either a GBC or GBA.
Upstate New York, large city.

>>2270616
Ya not Gameboys. I'm 25, soon as the GBC came out it was the hottest thing and Pokemon really helped that.
People born mid 90s and later would probably not of owned a GameBoy or Color.

>>2270632
I was born in 95 and about half the kids I knew had a color and game boy sp was fucking huge.

Playing Mario Bros. on Super Mario Advance

>>2270640
Surprising, my area there weren't many GBC left when the GBA came out. The last handheld I had was the Advance. Stopped with that.

I figure most people get into video gaming around 5 years old or so. Why I figure mid 90s and later didn't really have GBCs,

>>2270650
What was surprising to me is literally no one owned an gameboy advanced when it came out. I had an uncle who had one but no one in school bothered to upgrade till the sp came out.

>>2270651
Funny. I never owned a SP but I remember them being really popular.
I wish I kepted that stuff. Oh well. Maybe I'll buy a pair of modded GBC and GBA with backlight screens.

>>2270295
>When was the last time you've used a link cable with someone?

I don't even remember. Probably in 2002-2003? If it counts, it was around last year when I bought another GBA and a Link cable so that I could trade some Pogeymans from Blue to Crystal or vice versa, just to teach them generation exclusive TMs. I sent Gen 1 pokemon from Crystal to Blue and loaded them up with Protein/HP Up/etc, then traded them back.

>tfw link cabling with yourself ;_;

I did live in a small as fuck town though.

The last time I used a link cable was probably my sophomore year of high school, in 2009. A friend and I replayed Gold/Silver together, it was fun.
I'd like to collect for it but 90% of GBC games with link capability just rip on Pokemon anyways.

>>2270601
>>2270614
>tfw two kids battling/trading under a lunch table and a third kid keeping watch for authorities
Being a kid was sketchy shit sometimes.

I used my own link cable, two of my Pokemon games and a cousin's GBA to trade between FireRed, LeafGreen, Ruby and Sapphire.

>>2270295
Back around '06 I had a big NGPC collection and the system was so cheap I bought my best friend a camo blue system with Card Fighters Clash (Capcom ver, I had the SNK one) just so we could play each other once a year via link cable. We only played a few times but managed to exchange some super rare cards between the different versions. Good times.

>>2270632
Wut?
'94 here and I played the shit out of my weird green colored GBC. Most people I knew had a GBC. My bro had the badass see through one.

>>2271038
In general if you're born mid 90s (94-96) you would had been very young to have a GBC. Unless your parents got you one instead of a GBA for some reason.

>>2270295
I barely ever did it. Not because I didn't want to though. Every time I did it was for Pokemon games. I only did pokemon battles for Ruby and Sapphire. Would have loved to have tried battling with some of the older games. I only used to trade with the older games.

Once, back when Pokemon Red/Blue was the deal. I don't even remember what we traded, think it was those 4(?) ones that wouldn't evolve without being traded between people.

>>2271045
96 here, I had a GBC and most people my age that I know had one for Pokemon G/S/C.

Probably in 1999 or 2000, Pokémon exchange/battles I suppose.

>>2270295
I played a few days ago. Got a box full of multitaps and one was actually a 4 player adapter so checked it out.

I use link cables quite a lot. I grew up with retro games and so did all my friends and we all have kids. And I have a huge collection. So when I throw a party and 30 people show up there's a lot of gaming going on. There's a lot of modern stuff but most kids don't get a chance to play on old vidya and seem really tickled that games can actually be played over a wire.

Probably around in the early 00's when my family set up two PCs with a serial cable and played Doom and Duke3D deathmatches.

>>2270295
Probably 2002. Only for pokemon and stuff.

We had that one guy that had a relaxo lvl 130 or something made by a bug. It was insane.

Last year my friend and I did a pokemon competition with 1st gen. We had to use link cables to battle and such

>>2270549

A 1 or 2 year age difference can mean a lot. I'm 18 and no one my age had eithed, while my cousin who is 4 or 5 years older had a GBC

Last time I used one was probably more than 6 years ago. Even that was to dig up some old pokemon games to crush my friends line-up he thought for sure would beat mine.

But before that it was probably nearly 10 years earlier.

>>2270295
I'd honestly prefer having a link cable on handhelds nowadays than rely on local networking. I don't know about the Vita, but the 3DS local wireless is horrible. I think putting an ethernet port on a handheld, even if it was only through an adapter, would be swell.

>>2270532
Wow, I didn't know that was a thing.

I take it only special TVs can do it?

>>2271461
>relaxo
I guess this is what you called Snorlax. What region were you playing the game?

>>2270601
>>2270614
>>2270691

When I got an SP (a year before middle school I think) there was this pirate ship thing with various dark corners in it. If I didn't feel like typical playground fare, I would crawl into one of those corners and play whatever.

I only ever used link cables for pokemon and golf.

>>2271929
>but the 3DS local wireless is horrible
Mine lost signal while playing Four Swords no less than ten times, six of which were half an hour or more into that eight round dungeon for one of the sword skills. While the person was sitting two feet behind me with no obstructions or wireless interference. I don't understand how it happens.

>>2271929
I've never had problems with PSP wlan, so Vita probably has it down pretty good too.

>>2271947

One of the first dreams I remember is me finding a backpack full of white gameboy advances behind my house.

a few months ago to trade pokemon with myself.

I used the link cable with my GBA to play Super Mario Advance 4 with my little brother. Once I get a tri-wing screwdriver and replace the batteries in his copy of Emerald, we'll be playing that together.

It was actually a few days ago. Me and a friend were playing Mario tennis together at work during our lunch brake.

>>2272075
I haven't used a Vita for that so I don't know. It's just weird when there were never problems with the DS wireless being across a school cafeteria (for example) and suddenly the 3DS can't handle people being right next to each other. >>2271964 describes my own experiences to a T.

As stated, I'd really like to see a portable device that had ethernet cables for local and online play.

>>2272078
glacier is still the best color.

>>2271931
You know how some TVs have Picture-in-Picture capability? Same concept, except besides just having 2nd source inside a small window, the TV allows them side by side.

The last couple of TVs I got didn't have even basic PiP, but maybe it's still a feature in the more expensive models.

>>2270295
I am 19 and had a Link Cable bought for me just before GSC come out. It was fun, pretty sure I had the exact same purple wire if I can be assed rooting it out.

>>2270295
I think I once played that Mario Bros. Classic game that came with a lot of the GBA Mario games once, but that was it.

>>2274610
My tv will do PIP, but only from a digital source and analog, it won't do two analog at the same time.

Yeah I mad.

>>2270532
I used to do that but PIP/split screen on my new TV sucks hairy balls and only lets you do a few retarded combinations . So I got a quad which just solves that whole problem and, unlike the TV function, seems to have no lag. And the new TV is 3D so I can use dual play to avoid screen peeking. It's also great for 4 players teams of two so you can see your team mates screen but not the other teams. And it's passive 3D so you can sit real close for muh scanlines. huehue.

>>2270295
last time I used one was in 2010 or so, doing link battles in Pokemon Gold with a friend

that being said, that was also the first time I ever used one either, as a kid, I didn't have the cables (not when I got my GBC, and not when I got my GBA, and then the DS happened and I didn't need to get it)

>>2270295
>Being 19 and interested in retro vidya
Good for you man. At 27 it makes me feel better about the younger generation knowing some people still care about older games instead of playing MMOs and MOBAs like most ADD ridden kids do nowadays.

>>2270351
>>2270371
>>2270562
>>2270632

>what is having an older teenage brother who let you play his games

I remember one time my brother, sister and I were playing on that purple game boy color, but then as were mid level in some game, it was time for dinner. They tasked me with hiding it, but me being a dumb 6 year old left it on my person and dropped it mid dinner. Our dad then proceeded to throw a little bitch fit, calling the game boy a piece of shit before chucking it into the fucking trash! I felt so bad. Someone must have dug it out because I saw my brother dicking around with it some time later.

>pic related: the game we were probably playing

>>2270351
Damn. I probably haven't used a link cable for a GBA in over 15 or 16 years. I'm 21 now. The last time that I used one definitely was for Pokemon Blue with my sister or a friend of mine. I only used the link cable a few times.

>>2270295
Damn. I probably haven't used a link cable for a GBA in over 15 or 16 years. I'm 21 now. The last time that I used one definitely was for Pokemon Blue with my sister or a friend of mine. I only used the link cable a few times.

Not retro, but I've only been able to play GBA multiplayer by owning an original GBA, a GBA SP, the Game Boy Player for Gamecube, a third-party 4-way cable, owning single-cart multiplayer games like Mario Kart and Bomberman, and owning two copies of the multi-cart multiplayer Advance Guardian Heroes (spent $20 total for 2 CiB copies).

In other words, your best bet to playing link cable GB and GBC games is by owning multiple systems and multiple copies of certain games.

It's not possible to connect two GBAs playing a GBC game using a GBA link cable, is it? I was always of the understanding that you had to use a GB/GBC cable proper with GB/GBC games, even if you were using GBAs to do it.

Also, can a four-player arrangement of GBA link cables (like for four swords or mario advance) work as a 4-player adapter (for wave race and bomberman), or do you have to use the GB 4 player adapter?

>>2275808
also, advice on recording video directly from a GB screen?

>>2275826
>advice
Don't waste your time. If you must realhardware use something that can output A/V.

>>2275413
your dad is a faggot

At my local MtG Shop they hold link cable matches For the GBA pokemon games, sometimes they'll do Pokemon Gold or Yellow, but it's mostly Emerald or something/

>Be 19 and a poorfag
>I only touched a GBC once in my life
Fuck.
I just...
Fuck.
At least my computer is 2005 tier. I guess. XP is the better OS for gaming, anyway.
;_;

>>2270537
I was able to link my Lynx up once with a kid I only sorta knew but unfortunately the only carts we both had for co-op was Rampage. Whoooo what a party.