/vr/ - Retro Games

not retro

>>3182810
playing gameboy games on a gba is retro :^)

>>3182810
There, now everyone is happy and the thread can continue, just like when people use their PS2 as a retro PS1 game player.

>>3182840
Thats one of the older SPs with frontllight instead of backlight isn't it?

Anyone else sad that Nintendo killed off the GB line for the much worse DS line?

Fuck two screens desu

>>3182847
Yeah it's the one I bought when I was a teenager. I'm going to be getting an AGS screen AGB 001 sometime soon, but I have no idea where any of my GBA games are right now. On the one hand I'm somewhat saddened that I ditched my original AGB-001 when I bought the SP, but on the other hand I got a much better return on it back then than what it goes for on eBay now, and I never would have used it after getting the SP because the non-lit screen was absolute garbage for playing games with. It the old reflective screen tech barely worked with the Game Boy Color, and the GBA pushed it way harder than it was ever intended to go. It was basically a glorified calculator screen trying to display Super Nintendo games.

>>3182859
I am. I never bought a DS. I held out thinking Nintendo would make good on their promise of the DS being a separate pillar from the Game Boy, and that a powerful, 3D-gaming ready Game Boy was right around the corner. I waited and waited, but it soon became clear that the Game Boy was a thing of the past and the DS was its replacement.

I ended up buying a PSP because in my mind, that was the next logical evolution of the Game Boy concept. It was a nice big screen with some buttons and a joystick, it could play nice looking 2D and 3D games, movies, and music on the go. That's basically what I wanted. I ended up missing my Nintendo games so much though, that I put CFW on it so I could play emulators. I played emulators on that thing at least as much as any official game discs that I may have had.

I will always have a soft spot for Nintendo even though I haven't bought a new system from them since the Gameboy Advance SP. I still just want a new Game Boy-- no flappy clamshell designs, just a simple, elegant brick of gaming goodness that I can fit in my pocket, and says "Nintendo" on the front.

>>3182804
I've been playing a shit load of gameboy games lately. Right now I'm working my way through Wario Land 2, Pokemon Gold and Bart's Escape from Camp Deadly.

I've also been playing a lot of F-1 Race, Q-billion, Tetris, Golf, Qix, Batman, Hieyankyo Alien, and others.

I'm also thinking about modding my DMG with a Bivert, Backlight, and adding a new faceplate.

>>3182810
fuck off faggot

Haven't played any recently, anyone able to suggest some nice shooter for the Color? Something relatively easy going.
I liked Duke Nukem

>>3182810
Go take a hit from your inhaler you fucking nerd.

>>3182812
Or using it to emulate games.

>>3182840
Y'know, those really remain supremely compact even with the old square carts inserted.

>>3182905
>Wario Land 2
Good shit, probably my favorite Color title.

Obviously the GBA can be used play /vr/ games, but it'd be nicer to use something less baity next time for the OP image to start a GB/GBC thread.

>>3183001
Triggering "not muh" faggots is so much fun though.

>>3183001
I was gonna say it would be nice to have a GBA shaped like a Color, but backlit, because it would be such a comfy way to play Color and OG games, but then I remembered the shoulder buttons.
I guess they could be fitted on a raised shelf on the bottom (at the cost of a less flat system), or turned into face buttons above A and B (at the cost of less practicality).

I guess it ought to have a recessed port, so square carts fit flush, but then Advance carts would leave a gap.

I guess it's just easier with the SP.

Say, are there ways to emulate Sega games on a GBA? Would D-Pad, A+B, L+R then Select & Start be enough for Genesis games?
It's two buttons short for SNES

>>3182859
I thought it was ok.
They really wanted to force the touch screen early on, when it's mainly suited for menial tasks, not gameplay, so that could fuck right off, but other than that it was nice.

>>3183001
My brother had one of those original massive gray bricks, I had a red Pocket.
Somehow it always felt like the Pocket went through batteries faster.

>>3182810
ur mum is though

Been playing wario land on a super game boy, i liked the virtual boy version better but its the same game more or less

>>3182840
Spoiler that shit friendo, this is a blue board.

This was a pretty good action sidescroller.

For the past month I've been playing so many GB games, I'm now considering playing only GB games this year and try to play every single title out there, in full or partially.

Last night I played Maru's Mission and found it enjoyable.

>>3183047
They have fun having a chance to shitpost. In the end what you have is a shit thread and everybody loses.

>>3182804
I'm gonna mod my dmg gameboy later on today, if all goes well, I'll post the results here.

been playing wario land 2, kwirk, and castlevania: the adventure lately. i also recently bought dragon warrior i+ii, as well as iii. I tried iii as a child and just didn't understand rpg's i guess, so i'm gonna give it another go.

currently awaiting a flashcart and a new spice-colored shell for my AGB-001, which i bought the day it released. once it comes, i'm gonna take the screen from an old AGS-101 and make my AGB-001 into a little slice of heaven

It's nice seeing love for Wario Land 2 around here.

>>3182883
>I ended up buying a PSP because in my mind, that was the next logical evolution of the Game Boy concept
The PSP is almost a text-book example of doing absolutely everything wrong you can do wrong on a handheld

>>3183712
The analog ain't that bad. What else is wrong with it?

>>3183712
Like what?

>>3183715
having analog on a handheld is questionable. Can't do reliable input in a shaking bus

>>3183716
* sacrificing battery life for visuals that are not necessary on such a small screen
* using discs
* straight up copying the old gba layout instead of working with the ability of a system held in your hand (DS showed how it's done, Vita later had a comment or two on that subject as well)
* backlit display

>>3183723
>having analog on a handheld is questionable.
No it's not, they can be useful depending on what you're doing.

>Can't do reliable input in a shaking bus
I don't play when in a motor vehicle, makes me sick, I take a handheld with me so that if I have some free time somewhere, I can sit down and play.

>sacrificing battery life for visuals that are not necessary on such a small screen
I guess?

>using discs
I'll give you that they're more sensitive, and that it's preferable that a handheld/portable uses a format that can take a bit of abuse, but on the other hand, discs can store a lot of data, and small ones have very short tracking time.

>straight up copying the old gba layout
Well, it works.

>instead of working with the ability of a system held in your hand (DS showed how it's done, Vita later had a comment or two on that subject as well)
I'll give you that, there are more ideal ways to shape your handheld.

>backlit display
I like a lit screen, I loved my early GBA but the screen was not easy to see, the SP was a godsend.

>>3183738
>I don't play when in a motor vehicle
you're not the arbiter of what works. For every you there's a kid trying to play in the bus, and having a really rough time.

>they're more sensitive
who gives a damn? They're SLOW. Downtime is almost the worst thing you can have on a system purpose built for "pick up and play", not "pick up ... .... .... ... and .... ... .... p... a fuck it, there's the ride I've been waiting for, and tried to play a game while waiting"

>can store a lot of data
which is very useless on a low resolution, low quality sound system like a handheld

>very short tracking time
a chip is faster

>I like a lit screen
All GBs since the very first one are very reliably front lit

To be fair I never used my psp outside anyway so that didn't affect me.

>>3183747
>All GBs since the very first one are very reliably front lit
I should add, the problem with backlighting is that it competes with ambient lighting. The better your ambient light is, the more a backlight struggles. You got a 0,something Watts light in your handheld, fighting with the billions of Watts from the gas ball in the sky, it makes no sense. It also requires constant illumination, under all conditions.
Meanwhile a reflective display uses ambient light for itself. Only when ambient light is low an additional light source is required, which can be a peripheral or integrated.

>>3183758
>To be fair I never used my psp outside anyway so that didn't affect me.
That's the thing. The PSP introduced a handheld culture that encourages sitting on the couch. Low battery life, allergic to light, you practically had to sit next to the outlet. It's eating up everything that makes a handheld a handheld, and just turns the system into a portable living room system.

>>3183761
It was the game gear of its generation.

>>3183768
only, unlike the Game Gear it was successful. So successful that Nintendo felt like doing the same mistakes in form of backlighting their displays (DSlite is fucking bright ... except when you're playing it outside when the weather is overcast or better, then you can't see shit) and sacrificing battery for visuals (3DS).

>>3183146
your brother was better at turning his off when he wasn't using it

>>3183771
>sacrificing battery for visuals (3DS)
But 3DS visuals are shit for its time.
>>3183723
>Can't do reliable input in a shaking bus
You never played PSP in bus, did you?

>* using discs
It wasn't the issue since everyone CFW'ed their PSPs.

Wario Land 2 is a beautiful game and everyone should play it.

>>3183831
I agree!

Marathoned the R&D1 WL games not too long ago, here's how I would rank them:

II > 3 > VB > 4 > 1

>>3183831
>>3183843
What is your opinion on Wario Land 3?

Who /GBA/ here?
>tfw skipping lectures and playing Wario Land 4 and drinking iced tea

>>3184117
I never got into it so I couldn't give you a worthwhile opinion of it, but I've been told it's supposed to be good.

>>3184117
Shitty at first, gets better after you unlock the abilities (so about 50% through). Replay value is great, and has some of the deepest level designs in the franchise. Golf minigame was also cool.

I'm a about to buy my first GBC and I really want to know what good games can I play in it.
I'll buy pokemon gold but I need at least 2 more games. What do you think?
Pikachu edition for 28 euro with pokemon gold.
It's almost new. It's from a good friend, he bought it but got the GBA and didn't play with the color.

not retro. reported

Shit thread

>>3184713
>>3184750
looks like the underage just got let out of school and decided to come shit up /vr/

>>3182840
People are going to see that OP and think that GBA GAMES are allowed to be talked about.

>>3184768
Obvious troll. Thread is full of faggots. Hopefully they stay contained here.

So I picked up Golden Sun and Tetris today. I got Tetris for free because I bought a Darth Vader Atari 2600, and any console purchase comes with a free game worth $6 or less.

>>3185083
better luck next time

>>3185087
They also had a copy of Street Fighter Alpha 3 but it was in shit condition. I figured I'd be better off trying eBay.

>>3185083
Golden Sun has way too many words. Shining the Holy Ark is the better RPG.

>>3183698
Every Wario game was god-tier. Virtual Boy Wario Land was the pinnacle. Then it went all downhill...

Sometimes I phantasize about a Wario game on the super nintendo. And I don't mean "Mario & Wario", I'm talking about a serious platformer like SMW.

>>3185396
>plays rpg
>"ugh, I have to read?!"

>>3185467
Go read a book, nigger.

>>3184671
Wario Land 2
Wario Land 3
Super Mario Deluxe
Hunter X Hunter
Duke Nukem
Metal Gear Solid
Shantae (if you can find it and want to pay for it)
The Legend of Zelda, whichever one.

>>3185083
Can never go wrong with Tetris
Never played Golden Sun

>>3185472
How the fuck can you be so dense that you don't see the blatant sarcasm in his post, christ

>>3183146
The pocket gets about 5-10 hours, whereas the fat gameboy gets 15-30.

If you think about it, it's the exact same per power consumption, but two AAA batteries vs. four AA batteries.

>>3185467
Show, don't tell. It applies to games as well

>>3186052
Shut up, faggot. Films aren't games, games aren't books. One "rule" doesn't necessarily work or need to work with the other.

>>3185694
Thanks!

Wario Land 2 is cheap in my city, and legend of zelda is a fucking classic

>>3186052
Ok, how do you explain visual novels then?

Not retro, but like Phoenix Wright. Great game, mostly text.]

>>3187082
They're not games

>>3187203
Point and clicks?
Text adventures?
Rouge-likes?

>>3185083
You forgot the first golden sun anon, you need both

>>3187229
>Point and clicks?
Choose-your-own-adventure books with art.
>Text adventures?
Choose-your-own-adventure books with no art.
>Rouge-likes?
ASCII graphics != reading a book

>>3187082
The concept of "show, don't tell" originates in books or novels, which are entirely text. It's not about simply avoiding text, it's more about using the abilities of the medium at hand, to actually show to the audience what you want to express, instead of telling them. In a novel this would mean, for example, having a character act a certain way, instead of telling the audience a character has that personality trait. In a game this would mean letting the player act out things, or show them in a cut scene (avoid this, cut scenes are anti-game), instead of reading about them. A visual novel is obviously a game with a very strong basis in a written novel. It would be pretty dumb to cut off its text. That's not what "show, don't tell" is for. It merely suggests how the text should be written. The more you move away from a novel and into a game territory though, the more the meaning of the phrase shifts. It even applies to movies, where it's considered more helpful to actually show what's happening, put the emotions into pictures and motions, instead of having a narrator. So, "show, don't tell" does apply across many media, but it expresses itself in different forms, and in particular it never means "text bad". It's far more nuanced.

>>3187783
>cut scenes are anti-game
Pardon?

>>3188419
Games are an interactive medium. They rely on player input, and ideally a large share of the responses they evoke, are from the interactivity, from the player not being an audience, but an active actor. A cutscene is at its very core the opposite of interactivity. Not only are they not interactive, they can not ever be interactive, or they would stop being cutscenes. So cutscenes are the moment when the player relinquishes their actor role, returns into an audience state. The one aspect that distinguishes games from all other media, is gone. As such, a cutscene is a last resort, a solution to go to when all other forms of interactive narrative fail, and a passive narrative needs to be put up. A stupid non-/vr/ example that pops into my head is Warcraft 3. The chain of events that turns Arthas from hero to villain does have some cutscenes, but very important actions like the mass slaughter are performed by the player themselves. I'm quite confident it's intentional that throughout that mission the player thinks "that does not feel right, at all", because it's the player performing the action, they are directly "responsible" for what's going on. The interactivity adds layers to the actions, that a cutscene can not do.

>>3189075
Fair enough, and that's actually a pretty good example, but I don't think a cutscene has to be bad.

>>3188419
Watching/reading breaks immersion. Videogames are about immersing yourself.

>>3182804
Generals belong on /vg/.

>>3189075
>>3189314
What do you think about the Half-Life method of exposition? No cutscenes, no camera cuts, everything told directly to the player's face by an NPC?

>>3189367
In general, there are plenty of not-really-interactive sections in HL. Even if you can move the character, the game drones on. It's like a cutscene with minor camera control. What HL did really well was let you take over at the initial test chamber incident. That's a good example, and I think it left quite an impression with the players, as they felt directly responsible and involved in the shit hitting the fan. Likewise, encounters with the army later on, are much more powerful than introducing the army through a plain cutscene. The player experiences first hand that something is up, and can identify much closer with the role of Gordon. I have to say, I personally I don't like HL. I found it dull, and despite attempting more than a handful of times, I never finished it. Regardless though, its approach to narrative, especially in terms of avoiding non-interactive sequences, or at least disguising them, was good.

I've been trying to finish Super Mario Land on the gameboy
its a really cool game despite the limited hardware

>>3189568

Are you stuck in it?

How do you store your loose cartridges?
I'm thinking about getting empty cases of cassette tapes.

>>3191364
I only have three loose carts at the moment so I put them in a Nyko Game Tote™

>>3191424
4 games per case is really pretty, much better than the single game cases I have. What I'm still looking for is anything that allows me to store a game and its manual, together. Or two games and their manuals, or any number of games and their manuals. The "and their manuals" bit is what's so tricky. Even your 2x2 case, as pretty as it is, can't hold the manuals inside, so they just kind of sit on the side, or in the boxes, or I don't know, untidy

>>3182810
>GB
>Not retro

>>3185694
Shantae is ridiculously expensive. Right now a copy on eBay is going for $350. You're seriously best off just buying an Everdrive to play it on. It was one of the last Gameboy Color games ever released and they hardly put out any copies of it. Which is a shame, because it was also one of the most technically impressive games ever released for the system.

>>3187238
Yeah I kind of realized that at the register, but I figured I might as well snag #2 now and have both once I find a copy of #1.

Ironically I ended up getting a free copy of Banjo Tooie a few years ago and never played it, because I didn't have the first Banjo Kazooie. I finally bought a copy about a year ago and have been inching my way through it. I will probably binge through it once I RGB mod my N64.

>>3195623
>they hardly put out any copies of it
the alternative was putting out no copies at all, which was very close to reality for Shantae. Wayforward was publisher-hopping for a good year before Capcom finally gave in and did a tiny run. I think publishers were the biggest issue for the GBC. So many cool games never made it, because publishers were afraid of doing their job

>>3195629
Yeah I'm not really saying it's anyone's fault. It's just a shame more people didn't get to play the game. I remember reading about the game in Nintendo Power and never being able to find a copy at any local stores, and it wasn't until years later I found out why.

>>3191364
The clamshell cases really aren't that hard to find on eBay for cheap. They used to include them with every game and would sell them in packs, and since there were over a thousand Gameboy games published there's not really a shortage of them.

>>3195632
>I'm not really saying it's anyone's fault
I am. I blame the publishers. We could have had Tyrannosaurus Tex, Drymouth, another Warlocked, so much cool shit. Publishers were reluctant to publish anything without big IP backing it. Even high quality finished games, that only needed to be published, not paid for, they'd refuse to do it. It was madness

>>3195635
Well yeah, if you're gonna blame anyone the publishers are definitely the ones who deserve it. They were especially dumb when it came to cartridges because they were more expensive than CDs to publish games for, and that made them extra risk-averse. And back in those days, pre-ordering actually meant something because it could sometimes be the difference between getting a game catridge and not getting to play it at all.

To anyone out there who was smart enough to pre-order Shantae back in the day though, feel glad in knowing that you own an expensive piece of Gameboy history, and that Shantae loves you.

>>3193787
Gameboy threads trigger some people's autism because sometimes people talk about "the wrong Gameboy."

>>3195646
TYPE '*TRIGGER WARNING*' THIS DONT BE AN ASSHOLE

>>3195643
I didn't pre-order, but bought it shortly afterwards. Still have it. Awesome game. Also, your pic there is not GBC Shantae

>>3195646
OP was shitposting. It's not difficult to find on-topic pics, yet they decided to use bait

>>3195658
It is on topic though

Its an aesthetically pleasing image he didnt mean to trigger the people who can't stand even the image of it

It's the ultimate threat to /vr/ right? that a 15 year old system with a library that is mainly snes ports.
Thats the fucking ultimate trigger

>>3195681
> /vr/s obsession with the rules is well known
and?
>gba is bad stuff
obligatory fuck off

>>3195702
>gba is bad stuff
your reading comprehension sucks. I am not surprised

So I'm kind of curious about Survival Kids, how does it compare to Link's Awakening in terms of gameplay?

>>3195681
>>3195658
>has lots of ports of 3rd and 4th gen console games (as well as remakes)
>can play 3rd and 4th gen handheld games
>has ports of arcade classics
>can be used to emulate 3rd and 4th gen console and handheld games and frequently is

It's fine by proxy, now shut up, you're getting aspergers all over the place.

>>3196023
>how does it compare to Link's Awakening in terms of gameplay?
it doesn't

>>3195681
>/vr/s obsession with the rules is well known

The Wonderswan Color came out a full year after the cut off date, and no one bats an eye when it gets posted, yet the GBA, which was released just 3 months later, causes massive shitstorms.

>>3196034
Because the WSC didn't get any Sega games on it. You can bet if Sega hadn't gone third-party in gen 6 that the other systems would be allowed.

>>3196536
What?

I'm not sure I follow that logic.

>>3197316
There's a very vocal minority here on /vr/ that get upset that Sega started making games on Nintendo systems.

>>3197335
Console Warriors should be launched into the sun.

>>3196030
Is it a good game at all?

>>3198837
very much so

>>3191364
Once I got around 50 games I started using a binder with baseball card sleeves. They work for GBA games too.

>>3197335
>>3197370
I was a Nintendo kid during the console wars. While I'm not at all upset about Sega games on Nintendo systems, I do still find it a bit weird.

>>3199078
where do you put the manuals? And how dust-protected are these games?

>>3199085
I have all my game manuals - for all my systems - in a drawer in my desk. It's a somewhat snug fit to put a GB card into those card sleeves, so I'd say they're pretty well protected from dust.

>>3199089
my search goes on then, I guess. Thanks anyway

>>3199097
Why? What specifically are you looking for?

>>3199114
something I can store (and present) the games and manuals together in. Bonus points if it can include a camera, light, and/or the GBC itself.
At the moment it's per-game cases, with the manuals on a stack on the side. Been thinking about DS-style cases, but that's gonna be expensive as fuck. Your baseball cards variant is not ideal, but a good idea. Maybe I'll put the plastic cases I have in a 3x3 grid on some solid sheet of some material, and the manuals on the other "page". Just shopping around for ideas at the moment

>>3199078
>I started using a binder with baseball card sleeves. They work for GBA games too.
That's actually pretty damn nifty for collecting physical cartridges.

>>3199128
Get a custom outfitter to make a foam cutout case for you?
They'll do it for guns, so I don't see why they wouldn't do it for games too.

>>3189339
This, I always took a piss during cutscenes

>>3182883
You are missing a lot, DS is probably the best Nintendo handheld, coming from a huge fan of handhelds (I even have a Vita, fuck the guy that said that psp sucked btw) you should try one anon, you are missing a lot of great games.

>>3200413
>fuck the guy that said that psp sucked
I'm always a little puzzled by the excessive black and white fanboy thinking. What do you guys have to gain from that?

>>3200510
Some people never grow out of their 12 year old phase, see /v/ and Neogaf.

Bampu

What's the best gba to use if you want some flash cart action? Also, best flash cart?

I've had awful luck with SP shoulder buttons but can't into hardware modding. Would original gbas with backlights cost jewbux?

>>3202093
I personally felt the SP had excellent shoulder buttons, but maybe that's just me.

I have never modded a Gameboy, but I figure it shouldn't be TOO expensive to kit out an old GBA with some lights

>>3195681
>and I report that kind of shitposting without a hint of remorse

The mods don't give a shit. In fact, reporting people for posting post Y2K games makes the mods less inclined to delete the content than if you just didn't say anything.

>>3200413
I keep telling myself I'll get a DSi and a DStwo Supercard eventually, but then my mind always drifts back to how I want to finish modding all of my Gameboys and my Gamegear, and how I want to replace my PSP that broke a few years ago.

>>3196220
Sweet custom. I'm planning to mod a DMG with a green backlight.

>>3203451
>DSi

For all those exclusive games, right?

>>3203627
No, because the D-pad is slightly less shitty than the DS Lite's.

>>3204083
It's a DS, you're not supposed to touch the buttons. Just make noises for the microphone and smear your fingers over the lower screen. If you don't like the smearing, just scratch it with the included plastic stick

>>3204091
yeah okay you can stfu now idiot.

>>3204091
What kind of spastic mongoloid do you have to be to scratch the screen with the stylus?

Don't play it in the sandbox and don't apply the same force like you're carving your name into it.

picked one up a month ago or so for €35, rec me some games
i saw a copy of carmageddon for it in the retro vidya store i was in lol

>>3204446
Wario Land
Pokémon

>>3204446
Pocket Bomberman and Donkey Kong '94.

>>3204446
Metal gear solid
Kirby tilt n tumble
Links awakening

>>3204663
>Links awakening
The Oracle games are better tbqh

>>3204690
It's still good though.

>>3204446
Mystic Quest (Final Fantasy Legend / Seiken Densetsu)

>>3205815
I wish I could make my gameboy games orange like that

>>3182804
Tetris
what else?
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>>3206674
TETRIS?!

>>3206668
You can if you emulate, I played Link's Awakening in blue and it looks great.

Here's this weeks Gameboy pickups. Zelda: Oracle of Ages, Donkey Kong, Mario Land 2 and Wario Land. I also picked up an official cleaning kit but that's not super interesting.

I actually owned Donkey Kong when I was a kind but I either lost it or sold it for some dumb reason because I can't find it anywhere. I think being a foolish youngster I sold all of my black and white GB games when the GBC came out, because I simply wasn't playing them anymore.

I also have a bunch of mods in the mail. Full AGS 101 screen conversion kit for my GBA, front light kit + loca + glass lens for my GBC, and a glass screen, backlight, and bivert chip for a DMG. I am still looking for another DMG and am not quite ready to resort to eBay yet.

So I bought an aftermarket replacement Gameboy Color shell, but I wasn't really that impressed with the quality. Visually it looked great when it was put together, although there were some major annoyances I had.

First of all, the "infrared port" it comes with is made out of opaque plastic, which makes it literally useless since it disables all IR features. Secondly, and more importantly, the plastic feels a lot cheaper than the original from Nintendo, and it's actually ever so slightly smaller, something you don't notice until you screw it together. The replacement lens it came with also looked like knockoff crap so I just used my original even with its scratches.

It definitely makes the system feel more like a cheap chinese knockoff when you hold it in your hands even though the plastic is pristine looking and feeling. The size difference is most immediately apparent if you try to put an authentic battery cover on it, because it won't fit, and the case flexes together in such a way that if you flick the plastic with your finger, it sounds like a spring. The difference in shape / size also screws with the D-pad and buttons during gameplay, seemingly adding a tiny dead zone between the click and actual activation.

I'd say it's an okay way to spend $10 if all you want is a brand-new looking display piece, but I wouldn't recommend it overall. If you have a really beat up GBC that no amount of cleaning will save (which was the case for mine), you're better off going on eBay and buying a used shell salvaged from a broken GBC, because I'm pretty sure the third party replacement shell makes the system itself less valuable due to the lower quality.

It was ultimately a waste of a few bucks but it was a good learning experience, and it pointed me in the right direction (buying a used authentic shell). The whole point of this endeavor was to put new life in my childhood GBC that "someone" half destroyed, and you can't really put a price tag on that.

>>3182810
>15 year old hand-held
>not retro
It should count now, it's been long enough

>>3208209
Don't even try to argue with them. Until a moderator updates the sticky, there's always going to be that guy who throws a bitchfit if anything sold after December 31 1999 gets mentioned on this board and announces that they've reported you. The moderators really don't give a shit as long as whatever console you're discussing is 15 years old, so you're best off just ignoring them and letting them have their little meme.

>>3208209
>15 year old hand-held
>it's been long enough

Says you kid

Rad shit.

I kinda wanna get a Gameboy Color in a digital camo pattern, and get it a lit screen.

>>3182804
Is that GBA on the image old electronics beige? Looks really nice. Anyone here collect for handhelds? Is it cheaper than consoles? I want to get into handhelds first because I have fond memories of my game boy color.

>>3182883
2DS and GBA Micro is what you wanna look for if you want non clamshell Nintendo handhelds.

>>3182804
Metroid Fusion on my phone using a GBA emu

>>3209772
Great game, one of the best on it's system.
Though not really retro,yet.

Non-ebay prices for Gameboys/Pockets/Lites/Colors, where should they be at? Looking for the sold listings on ebay for gameboy colors I'm finding 20-40 dollar sold listings. Should I go hunting for one all across the pawn shops and get one for 10-15? What is fair these days? I'm looking to get a color and a gba so I can play the gameboy lineup. Don't wanna start collecting consoles because so many people are buying up the games. Need some idea or great site I need to be looking at to know what prices I should be paying for things all gameboy related.

>>3210620
>What is fair these days?
any amount you feel fine with parting for getting a GB in exchange. For some people that's not even $1, for others even $1000 is being cheap. That's how prices work

>>3210625
But where do other anons usually see them priced at online? If it's common to get them 5-10 bucks at flea markets/pawn shops then I don't want to spend 20-40 bucks on one on ebay. Less money spent on handheld, the more I got for games. Which is what it's all about to me. Trying to find me some Monster Rancher on the GBC and Pokemon TCG on GBC as well.

>>3210651
so it's not worth $20-40 to you? Fair enough. Keep shopping around for a lower price then, or don't. It's not rocket science

Red Alarm for the Virtual Boy was pretty damn fun to me. Some might not like the vector graphics, though.
The soundtrack was pretty good too.
https://youtu.be/VzsKceldpz0

How come there are threads for an entire line of handhelds, from a monochrome 8-bit machine all the way up to a 32bit arm based true color monster and troll bait?
We don't have "Nintendo home console" threads, where NES, SNES, N64 and GCN are all lumped in together, do we?

>>3210689
>We don't have "Nintendo home console" threads, where NES, SNES, N64 and GCN are all lumped in together, do we?
No, but you've just given me a great idea...

>>3210689
because gameboys fucking rock

>>3210689
Mainly the fact that they're all compatible with the previous handheld in their line, have multiple revisions, and they all share a common name.

The consoles do not share that level of similarity to each other, and are only compatible with the previous gen at best.

V.I.P on Gba and Little Nicky on gbc. still playing still laughing

Mega Man V
Lufia: The Legend Returns

Highly recommend both. They're both on the 3DS eShop, too.

>>3182905
Is that Hyankyo alien? thats my fucking shit maine

>>3210683
The general consensus with the Virtual Boy is that most of the games range from decent to very good, but that they're held back by the system itself.

Teleroboxer and Wario Land seem like they'd be among the most fun to play.

bump

>>3182905
>F1 Race

Nice, I always want to find a way to play this and Super RC Pro-Am with 3 other people but no one I know plays Game Boys.

What's a Bivert?

>>3183090
I've contemplated this before. You could make shoulders work but as you said, it may give a bump underneath, unless they were recessed or something.

I would use a spacer for GBA carts myself, just a passthrough that made it tall as a GB cart.

>>3183760
This is one thing I hope to see in future handhelds, backlit screens that play nice with the sun. I'd rather have backlit screens then go back to non-lit or front-lit screens though.

Should I go ahead and get a DMG, Pocket, Light, and Color now beforecollectorfags start to ruin the prices? I'm looking even at ebay prices and it's not too bad, I definitely believe I could get a lot of this locally on the cheap. Already going to get a gba or gba sp to play gameboy/gbc games because I miss the memories of playing amazing gameboy games back in my childhood.

>>3212359
I can't speak for the Light or DMG, but they made so goddamn many Pockets and Colors we're yet to see anything impact that.

To put a it in perspective, the Mosin Nagant was the standard service rifle of Russia from 1891 (Imperial Russia), to the end of WW2 (Soviet Russia), they made like over 40 million of them.

Decades after this, and with some warmer relations between East and West, Russia started to offload a bunch of their obsolete shit to whoever was buying, Americans were happy to take them, they were old and dated, and there were so goddamn many of them, that in the 1980's, you'd see the basic WW2 ones in gunstores, in barrels, tagged 79USD each, the ammo was cheap too, because they still used that caliber, and would sell off surplus of that, it was mediocre in every way, but as an entrylevel or beater gun, it was popular

In the 2000's and early 2010's, you could still buy them for like 100USD, and ammo was still silly cheap, it's not until recently, when importation of the guns and the ammo has slowed down (due to various political and economical reasons), that they've begun creeping up in price, and even then you can find them for 150-200USD.

Now let's look at the Gameboy, the basic model alone sold 114 Million units, which is ludicrous for any consumer product of any kind, there's enough Gameboys in existence to provide every third American with one. You could build an apartment building using them as bricks and it wouldn't put a dent in the supply

There's no legalities regarding their sale and transport, and it's easy to get a flashcart and have the entire library of the system on one little cartridge, then there's also the Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance, to boot (which most people would settle for, rather than going back to the old green Dot Matrix screens), which will also play it.

I would seriously doubt that you'd see a shortage or significant price-hike of the original model ones in decades, especially with a niche market interest.

>>3212385
Sometimes people charge some silly things for items because they see Nintendo and it's old. The GBA SP is going for 60 bucks used on ebay. The backlit version came out to market for like 80 bucks. And they sold a lot so I have no clue why internet sellers sell for so high...

>>3210914
bruh that game is sweet af

>>3212425
I think that's just because of a trend, that people think they're worth more than they are.

Though on the flip side you could argue that they just hold their value well (also take inflation into account I guess).

The OG Gameboy was always affordable (what was it, 50USD?), you'd be hard pressed to find someone trying to hawk that on you for even that price,

>>3212282
>backlit screens that play nice with the sun
can not exist, thanks to basic physics. At best you can try transflective displays, or combine two independent displays

>I'd rather have backlit screens then go back to non-lit
If you're retarded that's your thing, but please don't ruin shit for sane people

This game may just have my most favorite OST of all time.

>>3212501
>lit screens are insane
Pardon?

>>3213371
backlit screens are insane

>>3213373
You're using a backlit screen right now, anon.

>>3213398
I'm also indoors and not on a portable device

>>3213398
that does not change one bit that the concept is insane. There's just a lack of devices not doing it, because too many idiots think that backlighting is the way it's supposed to be, with all the issues it brings with it

I am looking for a (presumably) fighting game I played once/twice as a kid for GBA.

All I remember is that there was a guy who I played a lot, he never used his hands, and only did kicks and jumps. Had a snowboarder theme going on.

The fighting levels weren't like in the classic fighting games, but more like a platformer, think super smash bros.
Appreciate your help.

I have a dslite with a nds flash cart and a gba flash cart. Going to play some old games i never finished as a kid. Mostly gb gbc and gba. Give me a list of must play games. Please

So I am getting ever so closer to modding my ultimate Gameboy Color. This is my childhood GBC, although it was originally in a very beaten and battered purple case, and then a "new" purple case that I wasn't terribly impressed with.

I picked up this authentic kiwi green shell on eBay, and it was in decent shape aside from discolored scuff marks on the front and top, which I sanded away with my fine grit hobby sandpaper. There's a world of difference between a real GBA shell and one of those crappy knockoffs in terms of how solid it feels and how well it fits together.

The plan for the mod is to have an LCD frontlight install + LOCA, a glass screen lens, and a GBAmp3 to make the speaker louder. I'm also going to give the shell a good washing and polish it up with some Pledge.

>>3212686
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxi3tbFnW5U
I agree. Too bad it had to be on the gba's shit soundchip : '(

>>3215248
The GBA didn't have a sound chip. All the music was handled by its ARM processor.

Also I can't get these songs out of my head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATuPu9472qA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytuiy4O8Ik8

>>3214123
>GBA

NOT RETRO

>>3215248
>>3215264
I seriously don't know why Nintendo didn't think the GBA needed a sound chip. It should have just had the same one as the SNES. Maybe they didn't want to buy the sound chip from Sony again because they were still buttmad about the Playstation.

Seriously though, comparing Super Mario World on the SNES to the GBA is kind of sad. It's a great port but the music and sound just plain are not as good as the SNES version, and the GBA is supposed to be more powerful. The GBA's better processor is somewhat squandered by the fact that it needs to do double duty for the system's audio.

>>3215316
There are tons of good SNES ports on it though.

>>3214756
Final Fantasy Adventure (aka Mystic Quest aka Seiken Densetsu)

>>3215323
NES, Genesis and Arcade ones too.

>>3215802
>aka Mystic Quest aka Seiken Densetsu
My first and so far only contact with FF was 7 and it was off-putting to the point of me avoiding all other FF games. If it wasn't /vr/ clarifying that FFA isn't an FF, and, unlike FF, actually good, I never would have given it a second thought.

>>3215825
>Ff7 is bad
Watch out we got a badass over here

>>3215889
shall we play "spot the FFtard"? Of all the things said in that post, the comment that FF(7) was boring is the least important passing remark in it. Yet it's the only thing you saw. How terrified are you in your daily life of people having an opinion other than your own?

>>3215135
Good luck on the LOCA glue mod. I watched that done recently. I didn't know about the GBAmp3 mod, I'm going to look that up. My plans for gameboys is to get a gameboy light and a gameboy color and a flash cart so I can play all the games. (Don't care to buy all the games because some games get way too ridiculous in price and no dev is getting paid for sales anymore anyhow...)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Q-Transparent-Blue-Housing-Shell-Case-Cover-Parts-for-Nintendo-Gameboy-Color-GBC-/321894179350
Is this a good replacement housing? I'm tempted to get a GBC off of someone but the shell's quite a bit beat up and the screen lens is a mess (intend to get a glass lens)

What's it like modifying/rebuilding a Gameboy (Color/Advance) ?
I figure you need to do soldering and fitting, but is it as easy as building a gun from parts?

You probably can't just go to a common store and pick parts from a shelf, but there's like an aftermarket, right?

>>3216251
Reno k101

>>3216251
>gameboy aftermarket

>>3216281
*Revo

>>3216251
It's easy. It's one of the most moddable handheld lineup there is.

>>3215910
I opted to spring for the more expensive LOCA. Supposedly it's less likely to produce bubbles, and it supposedly cures softer so you can peel it off if you need to do it over. The cheap stuff is basically like superglue and isn't ever coming undone once it's cured. The site also promises "superior clarity" but I'm a bit dubious to that, just because the cheap Loca is already extremely clear from what I understand, but if it is clearer I'll certainly take it.

>>3183723
The PSP's battery was fine. It was the disc drive that tended to eat up the battery, but if you either bought the expanded battery or played games off of the card rather than the disc drive the system would last a great many hours, and each successive iteration improved the battery life as well.

"The visuals were not necessary for such a small screen" is entirely subjective. Every 3D DS game I saw always looked ugly as sin to me, and I never understood how people could tolerate anything other than 2D games and games with very simple 3D effects in addition to sprites.

>the GBA's form factor is poo poo and Sony should have copied the DS

The GBA was the best form factor for a handheld, so Sony was smart to copy it. Many people ended up breaking their DS screens by accident, so the supposed benefit of protecting the screens was kind of null at that point.

>backlit display

On what planet is this a bad thing? NIntendo ended up copying sony and putting one on the DS Lite and DSI. The old TFT calculator-style displays from the original GBA SP and DS Phat were less battery efficient than a modern LCD with a backlight. A modded GBA with an AGS screen gets about 50% more battery life than an unmodded one with no light at all, not to mention that playing without a backlight sucks ass.

If you think the DS was perfect, that's fine, but the PSP was made for people who didn't necessarily like the DS, like me.

>>3183747
The PSP was designed to be played with headphones. The DS was not. Nintendo didn't even think anyone was using headphones on handhelds which is why they took the jack away from the SP, and why they didn't even think to include a sound chip on the GBA. The PSP was the first handheld to offer truly CD-quality sound, and therefore it was actually worth using headphones.

Everything you've said about the PSP has basically been "it should have been the DS." We get it that you love your DS. That doesn't mean the PSP should have been a Sony-branded DS. The PSP was for the high-end user who wanted a higher-fidelity gaming experience when they were away from home, and that's exactly what it offered. The DS was designed to be affordable and simple. That doesn't make either of them "wrong," it just means that there was a section of the market that Nintendo was not satisfying, and Sony capitalized on it in a way that Nintendo didn't think was worth their time or money.

>>3212282
The OLED screen on the Vita does this. It's not quite as visible as a non-illuminated TFT, but if the choice is between a slightly washed out image while playing in the sun, or an impossible to see image while indoors, I will take the former and find some shade when I'm outdoors if I'm not happy with the image.

It's a lot easier to put shade over a backlit screen than it is to illuminate a dark screen, and most people are either in the shade or indoors when they are playing games. Contrary to what marketers wanted people to believe, none of the light peripherals for any of the Gameboys worked well.

The closest thing to a "good" light peripheral was the worm light, and that would always leave a big white spot on the screen that just just plain had to ignore, not to mention that it left the corners of the screen looking dark. And the inherent problem with all front illumination is that it will always make the colors look dull and washed out, even if you are playing in the sun. Only a real backlight can give you the kind of vivid colors that you are used to seeing on your TV screen.

Besides all that, I'd rather sit in the shade while I'm gaming than under the sun anyway.

>>3217018
>Many people ended up breaking their DS screens by accident
Took me 12+ years for that to happen.
Honestly, I like having a second screen, there's games where it makes sense.
Thankfully, Nintendo has stopped trying to force it as much as an action feature, and logically relegated it to a screen where you have map, inventory, etc.

In A Link Between Worlds, the touch screen is literally only used to handle your inventory and map, it's a basic convenience, and that's how I like the touch screen being used.

>>3216960
The bubbles isn't just the main issue. It's when you're gonna flip over the screen with the runny LOCA glue that's tricky. Gotta keep reseating it by squirming it around a lot till it takes place in the right spot.

>>3217191
I think the more expensive Loca is supposed to be a little less runny, too.

I guess I'll find out soon enough because my stuff is supposed to arrive tomorrow, although moist of the week is supposed to be cloudy and cold / wet. Friday might be my only chance within the next 2 weeks to actually get enough sun to cure the stuff with, so maybe I'm best off just buying a UV oven. They're only $27 on Prime and just the right size for a Gameboy.

>>3217186
Personally I'd rather have just one high quality screen than two low resolution ones, but the second screen was useful in some games. It was at its best when it was used as a quick access inventory / status menu screen, and at its worst when it was being used as a replacement for an analog stick or action buttons. Most action-based uses for the touch controls were somewhat reminiscent of modern phone games, except worse.

How do the GBA SNES ports hold up compared to the originals? Stuff like Super Mario World, DKC2, ALTTP, Contra III, FF6. I'd really just like a pocket SNES with a backlit screen.

>inb4 not retro
Ports of retro games are allowed.

>>3217249
How is the more expensive less runny? Is it how they make it or different compounds? I don't know much about chemistry or manufacturing adhesives. If that is true then you will do fine anon.

>>3217297
worse sound but it's gonna play similar to the old games.
>>3217252
you ever played metroid hunters? i used to play that game online. had to aim with the fucking touch screen and use awkward holding of the ds. game cramped my hands really bad till i got used to it.

>>3217297
Generally speaking, the gameplay, graphics and control are almost always ported over very well. There's often times additional content or features that weren't in the original, too. The downside is that since the Gameboy Advance has no sound chip, they had to compress the audio to hell and back and make other alterations to keep it from draining the GBA's CPU resources. It's kind of a game by game basis, because some games sound better than others.

Generally speaking, SNES ports are a pretty safe bet on the system.

Here are my two latest purchases.
Quarth and Cosmotank

Also handlebars are the best accessory. There not the most portable, but still the best.

>>3217745
Comfy

>>3217745
>>3217869
I don't understand.
Why do your Gameboys hade double-ended dildos on them?

>>3217018
>the GBA's form factor is poo poo
I said Sony just went with an uninspired design instead of using their head. I made no statement on GBA or DS being better form factors, or wanting Sony to copy the DS. The copying is the problem, not the source. It looks lazy.

>On what planet is this a bad thing?
Earth, the one with a couple trillion watts outdoor lighting

>NIntendo ended up putting one on the DS Lite and DSI
I consider it one of their biggest mistakes in recent dev. Makes the DS fairly useless in many situations.

>If you think the DS was perfect
I don't

>the PSP was made for people who didn't necessarily like the DS
No problem with that. It's not a handheld though. It's a living room console for your pocket, and that's a huge problem.

>>3217037
>Everything you've said about the PSP has basically been "it should have been the DS."
If that's what you take from it, you're not a very creative person.

>the PSP should have been a Sony-branded DS
Would have been nice if it was a handheld though

>high-end user
graphics whore that can't grasp the difference between a handheld and a console

>That doesn't make either of them "wrong"
moving drive in a handheld is wrong, no exception. A display that can not handle direct sunlight is wrong. That includes the DS. A battery life below a day is wrong. Hell, below a week is questionable. Loading times are wrong.

>there was a section of the market that Nintendo was not satisfying
yeah, blithering idiots that don't get handheld gaming. They ended up destroying handhelds for everybody. Fuck them.

>>3217060
>It's a lot easier to put shade over a backlit screen than it is to illuminate a dark screen
You have no idea how much energy the sun puts out. And you still rely in that pissy little gadget in your hand to do more than that. That's simply insane.

>most people are either in the shade or indoors when they are playing
cause and effect are mixed up here. You can't play the new shitboxes outside, because they broke them

>that would always leave a big white spot on the screen
We now have plenty of anti-glare options, and front light wedges

>the inherent problem with all front illumination is that it will always make the colors look dull and washed out
questionable

>even if you are playing in the sun
You're not trying to say these two decades old displays are for some reason the pinnacle of frontlit display technology?

>Only a real backlight can give you the kind of vivid colors that you are used to seeing on your TV screen
it also gives you a nice black rectangle in normal lighting conditions

>real backlight
just how retarded are you? There's a couple dozen display technologies out there, so let's use the one most ill-fitted for outdoors ... for outdoors?

>I'd rather sit in the shade while I'm gaming than under the sun anyway
The GBC's display works best on an overcast day. Direct sunlight makes the screen too bright

>>3217959
>the PSP is not a handheld because I can't see the screen when I'm standing in the middle of the Arizona Desert

Bullshit. It fits in your pocket and is small and light enough to hold in your hand. I could understand you making this argument for the Sega Nomad but the PSP is objectively a handheld and is roughly the same size as the DS. I played mine everywhere-- in between classes at school, on lunch break from work, on car, plane, and train rides, in the park, etc.

Maybe if you live in the middle of the desert and there are no trees or buildings I could see why the presence of a backlight would seem like a legitimate complaint, but for 90% of the first world this is a non-issue. Why do you think a backlight is the most popular mod for the Gameboy and Gameboy Pocket? Do you think that the people doing those mods are just a bunch of masochists who want to ruin a "perfectly good" handheld by turning it into "a home console that fits in their pocket?"

Your arguments are just plain stupid and are extremely specific to your particular tastes. 99% of customers would rather have a fully backlit screen than a TFT reflective screen, which is why Nintendo has completely abandoned TFT.

>>3217980
>it also gives you a nice black rectangle in normal lighting conditions
At this point I'm convinced you are a sandnigger. Are you with ISIS?

Can anyone explain to me why both the Gameshark and Action Replay for the Gameboy Advance are so expensive on eBay? I've never had to pay more than $15 for a used cheat cartridge before but with the GBA, you're lucky to get one for $50.

>tfw had a gamelink cable with GB/CGB links on both ends
>even matched the color of my CGB (teal)
>let a kid at school borrow it for a weekend
>never got it back
>gave me a shitty trasparent yellow link cable instead
>no GB link on the end just CGB

still pissed to this day

one more that i will never let down

>be 2005 high school
>minor pokemon revival for some reason
>let a guy borrow my pokemon gold for a weekend
>never got it back

i fucking loved Gold, because of the beautful color palette. and now I've yet to find it for a good price

hell it can be scratched to shit, or in a blank case, i dont care, i just want to play it..

>>3217060
>Worm Light
Ahh, memories.

>>3217980
Do you live in death valley?
You almost never could play any system with sunlight right on the screen.

>>3218138
I remember beating gold. It was a good pokemon game. I think that game and yellow were the pokemon games I remember beating. I forget these days desu. I just know as a kid I usually for some reason beat the gameboy games and had shit loads of snes and n64 games that i just played and never beat

Dragon Warrior Monsters -> playing it again on my windows phone (yeah I know).

I own the cart, but the SP I bought is trash and I don't have a super gameboy player

>>3218154
Did those things even work well at all?

>>3220103
They worked, although "well" is a relative term. Pretty much every other option at the time was garbage, and then along came the worm light with its adjustable stem and brilliantly bright white LED.

Playing a Gameboy Color indoors was always a shitty experience. The worm light at least made it less shitty though, so back then it was a must-have accessory. These days your best bet is a front-light mod with LOCA (or better yet, a front light salvaged from a GBA SP) because that's pretty much the best that the Gameboy Color's screen is ever going to look.

I'm going to install the LOCA screen mod this week. I bought the LOCA that's supposed to be reversible, so maybe I'll try the SP light mod someday since people say it looks better. Regular Gameboy Advance SP screens go for pretty cheap these days because people only want the AGS 101 model, though that could potentially change if lots of people start wanting to mod their GBC units. I'll have to see how I feel about the aftermarket light once it's installed, because I have an SP to compare it to.

>>3220710
Here's a comparison picture of the Osaka LOCA screen mod in comparison to a GBA SP front light. I think the people complaining that the LOCA screen mod doesn't look anywehre clear as the SP mod might have used that cheap LOCA that you find on eBay for $5, because they look pretty close here.

>>3182804
I am indeed playing pokemon yellow on my gb and gba using my everdrive gb.

It's a bit of a weird one as it seems to think pikachu is a good starter and won't let you evolve him. Had to grind a lot to fight brock :(

Also Lt. Surge only has raichu? My raticate one-shotted it with dig. Bit of an anticlimax. Still I'm mainly playing it so I can transfer my pokemon from red to sun and moon.

>>3220893
It's possible to evolve your starter Pikachu into Raichu but the only way to do it is by trading him to a "friend," (or just a spare gameboy running another copy of Pokemon), evolving him and then trading him back. As far as your "friend's" copy of the game is concerned, it's just another Pikachu.

Of course, since Yellow Version was a tie-in with the Pokemon TV show, they had a lot of special features built around the starter Pikachu that would no longer be accessible once he's evolved, but unless Pikachu is your favorite it's not really something most people would lose sleep over.

Got myself a backlight modded GBA and an Everdrive. Feels good.

>>3221262
Looks great. I have a backlight kit arriving in the mail in a few days. Those things are getting damn expensive these days but I wanted to get something nice as a graduation gift to myself. I'll probably get an EZflash for it once I get paid but for now I've just been rebuilding my cartridge collection.

It's frustrating because I had copies of Castlevania: Circle of the Moon and Metroid Zero Mission, and I can't remember if I forgetfully loaned them out or misplaced them in my own home. I'll have to ask my brother if he has them, because I'd rather get them back than buy new copies.

Even though a flash cart makes the most sense in this day and age I do have some sentiment about owning cartridges, however silly it might be.

>>3221286
I know that feeling. I lost my own copy of Zero Mission a few years back. I hear krikzz is working on a gba everdrive, so that's something to look forward to.

>>3221262
I've never actually seen an original GBA with a lit screen, that's pretty cool.

Does it have a rechargable battery like the SP, so you can just plug it into the wall?

I gotta say, it'd be sick to have a GBA like that with a flashcart loaded with all the cool Color and Advance games.
And of course some of the older classics too.

How's GBA flashcarts work, do they have an internal battery to run the clock in the pokémon games? Can multiple games share one battery without interfering with each other?

>>3221291
what features would there be in an everdrive that you can't have on the real cheap stuff like ezflash? real time saving, maybe?
>>3221331
iirc, you would need one flashcart for gba and another one for gbc.

>>3221331
>Does it have a rechargable battery
Nope, I use rechargeable AA's.
>it'd be sick to have a GBA like that with a flashcart loaded with all the cool Color and Advance games
You need separate flash carts to play GBC and GBA games. A GBA flashcart can't play GBC games for some hardware specific reasons.
>How's GBA flashcarts work, do they have an internal battery to run the clock in the pokémon games?
Not any flashcarts currently available. Krikzz, the guy who makes the Everdrives, is working a GBA flashcart that has RTC. Don't know when it's gonna be released.

>>3221351
I'm pretty sure EZ Flash doesn't have a real time clock, so with things like Pokemon ROMs you're basically forced to play it with a dead battery which means clock-related features don't work. Everdrive is supposed to have a built in clock.

>>3221353
>A GBA flashcart can't play GBC games for some hardware specific reasons.
Odd, I must be a wizard.

GBA carts can emulate GB/C games pretty good. All the games I've tried I've not had an issue.

>>3221746
>emulate
What is the point of that?

>>3221749
To play the games?

>>3221752
Look at this faggot playing his girly games. Man up and play football like the rest of us.

>>3221752
You might as well emulate on a computer or use a modded psp if you want it on the go at that point. The point of owning a gba is to play the software on the actual hardware.

>>3221805
>The point of owning a gba is to play the software on the actual hardware.
Says you.

Also the GBA Micro is more compact than the PSP, which might be his goal, the GBA Micro also not being inherently able to play Color or original games without some emulator.

How would you people say the GBA port of A Link To The Past compares to the original SNES game? I thought it was pretty awesome to have one of my favorite SNES games in my pocket and on vacations

>>3221286
>graduation gift to myself
Congratulations, anon.
I'd give you a gift if I weren't yet another selfish human being.

>>3223286
The addition of prepubescent screaming every time you swing your sword was an irritating and unnecessary addition, but overall it's a very good port. And even with the GBA's lack of an audio chip, they managed to capture the sound of the original game's music pretty well.

>>3207612
Nice pickup, man. Those are some A class games.

>>3223437
>prepubescent screaming
My favorite kind of screaming.

>>3223437
>>3223873
I hear people complain about it, but to be frank, it never really bothered me that much.

When I first played it, I thought "Neat." then I never really paid it much mind.
The thing is, when I go back to the original on the SNES, I now miss it, it's not the same without the yelling.

>>3182883
Nintendo! Great games and awful hardware since 1996

>>3183723
>>A:this thing is worse than that thing!
>>B:back that up with facts?
>>A:OPINIONS ABOUND

>>3223935
SP was gr8 m8.
Gamecube was good too.

Enjoying my 3DS fine so far (but I also never use the 3D feature).
My only real complaint is that the circle pad is too smooth, so if you get the slightest bit of sweat build up, you'll get a less positive grip on it, and this is something which would be just oh so easy to remedy with a tiny design change.

>>3221238
Yeah I'm not doing that.

Partially because it's a hassle, but also because I already have a level 100 Raichu on my red cartridge called Nobby, and Cup is not Nobby. He is a pale imitation.

Am I the only one that feels the Virtual Boy deserves more love than it ever got?

It may have a super small library, but almost all games rang from good to excellent.

Virtual Boy Wario Land
Teleroboxer
Vertical Force
Red Alarm
Bound High
Innsmouth No Yakata
Space Squash
3D Tetris

All of those are wonderful.
Do you think it would've fared better if Nintendo finished that Mario game?

>>3224021
I think it would maybe could have fared better as a peripheral to the SNES or N64 or something, make the N64 pull the processing weight and shit.

Though I think it actually has quite a few cool games, it was ultimately too ahead of it's time, it's only now that VR is really going places.

>>3224021
If it had a larger library than 14 games then yes it would get more love than it did.

>>3223935
ninty has always had awful hardware, familia

>NES
>sprite flicker

>SNES
>3mhz cpu

>>3224021
I think they should have shipped the link cable with teleroboxer.

I've been doing some Gameboy mods today. I finally got my AGS 101 kit in today and now the junker GBA I bought for $12 on eBay is all housed up in a pretty new shell that matches with my custom Viper GC modded Gamecube. The screen doesn't photograph that well in outdoor daylight but it looks absolutely beautiful in person. I'll be posting an indoor pic shortly.

>>3225575
Overall I must say this mod is about as close as I will ever get to a "perfect" GBA. It requires a bit of patience to actually do because nothing quite feels like it's going to fit together right until it's all screwed together, and I had to take it apart once or twice to align the screen correctly, but it was absolutely worth the effort. Having a Dremel was definitely key to getting the housing / shell modifications done.

>>3223998
>SP
>uncomfy as fuck
>mushy buttons
>frontlit washed out as fuck
>backlit has oversaturated colors and shitty 50 hz refresh rate

>>3225582
Lastly, I'm modding two Gameboy Colors with front light kits. I've never used LOCA before but I followed the tutorials on Youtube as best as I could, and I also turned the light on while the LOCA was still wet to check for bubbles. I am using Osaka 7 and I didn't get any bubbles at all, from what I could see. It's currently "baking" in the cheap UV "oven" I bought off of Amazon. I'm baking it for an hour just to be safe, and it's got bout 30 minutes to go. If it looks at all distorted in this pic that's because the protective film is still on the exterior side.

>>3225584
I never had a problem with the buttons feeling mushy-- mine had a distinct tactile click that felt a lot more definite than the original GBA. I really hated the ergonomics of the system though, and the light was a bit underwhelming. I remember we all thought the SP was the shit when it came out because it looked like a phone, and for a moment we all thought we looked like adults when we were playing Gameboy.

The SP was form over function. Whereas the GBA fat felt like a real game controller in the hand, the SP was an uncomfortable plastic square with some game buttons on it. It basically felt like playing games on a flip phone except a little better. The best GBA is hands down a modded AGB 001 with an AGS 101 screen. It's basically what we all thought the GBA was going to be before we actually got ours.

>>3225592
what's with all the hardware gore? This is a blue board

>>3225598
Micro is best.
Clicky buttons
Form factor that anyone will find comfy
60 hz refresh rate
Perfect pixel density
Perfect colors
Native headphone support

Obviously it's not so great if you need backward compatibility, but for GBA games it can't be beat.

GBA was the last bastion of belt scrollers before the genre died off for good.

>>3226546
>belt scroller

>>3226546
We still get them though thanks to digital distribution for small-budget games

Where would the best place to buy a AGS101 sp for a eurofag?

>>3226802
/v/

>>3225584
Never had issues with the SP's ergonomics, or it's screen, and the buttons were fine (the shoulder buttons felt very satisfying to press).

>>3225610
Too small for my hands, tiny battery life, smaller screen, no backwads compatibility without a flashcart and emulator.

Anyone want to list their top 3 games?

For me: Link's Awakening, Tetris, and X.

>>3227237
Final Fantasy Adventure
Final Fantasy Legend II
Link's Awakening

>>3227237
Wario Land 2, Wario Land 3, and Wario Blast.

>>3227237
Final Fantasy Adventure (Mystic Quest because I'm a eurofag)
Link's Awakening
Donkey Kong Land 2
>>3227263
My comrade of subsaharian origins.

>>3227237
Pokémon
Wario Land 2
Duke Nukem

Honorary mention for the GBA port of A Link To The Past, I love having that portable.

>>3227237
Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
Though I do prefer the plot of Link's Awakening, I feel like the oracle series dared to go a lot further with its gameplay. It offered a more ingenious set of puzzles, items and so on, not to mention the animal friends, the collectable rings and the management of seasons mechanics (which satisfied me more than the time travel on Ages). Overall I enjoyed Holodrum more than Labrynna, not just the setting itself but the way it was constructed, the characters, colors, etc.

Wario Land 2
The first game was fun, but it was the second game that molded the unique characteristics of the series. It differed in philosophy from Mario games where you're given a sense of danger from the treat of getting hit and losing your hero's lives. In Wario Land, you're essentially a villain; invincible, ruthless, going on its way to accumulate treasures and money. All your opponents can do is to temporarily hold you back on your inevitable conquest, so the challenge comes really from solving the puzzles separating you from your reward (while having to deal with traps on your way, set by the hopeless weaklings).
It also had a lot of exploration and varied gameplay, which are always a plus.

Pokemon Gold
This is the one I consider the best of the franchise. It was essentially an expanded Red with several enhancements that made it feel a lot more solid and satisfying. I didn't like how, from this generation on, the games decided to keep "playing safe". It gradually became extremely repetitive, only deviating from its basic formula by bloating the games with gimmicks and additions to the battle system which I think were mostly unnecessary. I understand the appeal the series still hold for many people, but to me the 2nd generation was where the franchise reached its peak.

>>3226802
eBay. You might end up paying a fair chunk of change but dat screen is worth it.

>>3227237
Pokemon Crystal
Mario Tennis: Power Tour
Metroid Fusion

>>3227495
Aight cool. Thanks, Anon

>>3227237
DMG:
Donkey Kong
Link's Awakening
Tetris

GBC:
Super Mario Bros Deluxe
Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
Metal Gear Solid

GBA:
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
Metroid Zero Mission
Advance Wars

Top three overall:
Donkey Kong
Oracle of Seasons
Metroid Zero Mission

I would have put Shantae on there but I've never played it on an actual Gameboy.

all this GBA shitposting is fucking disgusting

>>3227873
Shut up, nerd.

>>3225592
One frontlit gameboy color for me (left) and one for my brother (right).

I ended up re-doing the LOCA on the first Gameboy advance. The Osaka 7 formula does ineed cure like a gummy gel and is possible to peel off with a bit of determination and picking, kind of like that clear gluey stuff that's often used to temporarily attach products to their packaging in stores.

No matter how much I fuss I can't seem to completely clean dust off of the textured side of the light kit, unfortunately. I've tried compressed air, lens cleaners with microfiber, and cotton swabs with 91% rubbing alcohol, and something always seems to get left behind. Maybe I'll open them up again if I can find a better way to remove the dust but for now they're at least perfectly useable, even if they're not quite cosmetically perfect.

Overall I'd say this mod is a fair bit harder than the backlit AGB 001 mod, and you need to go into it with the correct expectations (namely, that you are probably going to have to put up with some dust contamination). Even if you can't get it 100% perfect though, I'd still highly recommend it. As long as your careful not to get any air bubbles (which thankfully I was able to) the end result is an infinitely more playable GBC. I ended up playing mine for several hours today and I never once felt like I was straining my eyes to see the action.

I wish I had this mod when I was a kid, because even with the dust it beats the hell out of fighting with a lamp or trying to see past the glare of a worm light. The only time I've ever been able to see a GBC screen this clearly before is when I was sitting directly under the sun.

Can we just kill this thread please, and start one that's actually about gameboys, and not GBAs, DSes or VBoys? Or even better, let's kill this thread for good and don't lump a bunch of different systems together because they happen to have similar names, but instead make threads on actual subjects

>>3228076
Looks pretty cool.
I was never fond of the green one to be honest though.

>>3228831
Fuck off.

>>3228897
>Fuck off.
post on-topic material within the rules and we won't have a problem. Don't do that, and suck on the business end of a gun. It's quite simple, really.

The second half, about dropping the general threads, was just to be more respectful to the systems. Instead of lumping them all together as hardware, make posts about the games, genres, series, many things. No other systems on /vr/ get this collective treatment. It's also this collective treatment that invites rule violating shitposters.

>>3228904

>>3228909
meme replies, I expect nothing less from the /v/idiot invasion

>>3227439
I never played the Oracle ones back in the day, how is it to emulate them? I understand there was a special hidden bossfight if you beat both of them and used them to do something, can that be brought out with an emulator?

>>3228937
the games are rip-offs from a technological level. Just a game split in two with a "password" to transfer data from one to the other (really just a bunch of bytes and a checksum encoded as a sequence of characters). No reason this should not work on even the most basic GB emulators

>>3228831
This thread is 75% retro, which is good enough for me. Besides, you're not gonna stop people from posting GBA stuff in a Gameboy thread anyway.

>>3228981
>This thread is 75% retro, which is good enough for me
I only robbed a quarter of the bank, it's all good

>you're not gonna stop people from posting GBA stuff in a Gameboy thread anyway
That's a matter of enforcement, which I admit, sucks balls. But it's also because gameboy threads are a broken concept, lumping all kinds of very different systems together. You don't do that with all sega home consoles, or even all nintendo home consoles. The only reason they exist nowadays is to sneak the GBA past the rules. So I'm perfectly fine with deleting GB general threads on sight

>>3228992
The GBA is allowed to be posted the same way PS2 and PSP are allowed to be posted about, because they have the capability to play retro games.

In other words, you could post PS3 as long as it pertains to its PS1 functionality.

>>3228992
God, fuck off, you were the nerd kid who would always get a swirley in school, because he couldn't stop correcting the jocks, and then kept doing it, I swear on it.

>>3229010
people are talking about GBA games, people break their GBCs so they look more like GBAs, and then brag about their mutilations. This is well beyond your already sketchy interpretation of the board rules

>>3229034
>God, fuck off
The moment you get rid of the GBA infestation, I may

>>3229041
>break their GBC
>mutilation
Who gives a fuck, there's several gross millions of them, why not make them more practical if it befits the owner?

I get enough of this kind of autism from slavshit poorfags on /k/ who start screeing when someone refinishes a beat to shit 91/30

>>3229060
>Who gives a fuck
people on this board should, if they're /vr/ instead of /v/idiots. If you can't handle a GBC, get a GBAd and then off this board. Next you're gonna complain about the terrible texture mapping capabilities of an NES

Thank you, janitor-kun!

>>3229072
What are you talking about? The GBA shitstains are still there. Not even OPs image is deleted. Hell, you are still alive

>>3228960
So I should be set with just having the two .roms, right?
As I get it, they're basically like a sequel or remake of Link's Awakening, are they as good?

>>3229070
People mod old consoles for better video and sound output all the time, with a lit screen, it's not about making the graphics better, it's so that the game can actually be seen in regular lighting conditions.

Go away Sperg Ferguson.

>>3229072
None of the GBA posts or images are removed, the janitor is doing a crap job. You haven't killed yourself yet either.

>>3229090
>So I should be set with just having the two .roms, right?
yes

>As I get it, they're basically like a sequel or remake of Link's Awakening, are they as good?
difficult question. For me, anyway. They are not a sequel, but an independent story. Most reviewers and players say they're among the best games you'll ever be able to play on that system. I loathe them because of their ad campaign back in the days. I certainly suggest you give them a try.

Hey jannie, submit a ban request on his IP, that way he can't post for the next 15 minutes!

Thank you!

>>3227237
Link's Awakening
Donkey Kong '94
Dragon Warrior Monsters

>>3229115
how dare people point out you're little rule breaking shits. This isn't a GB thread, it's a gore thread. You're shitting on the real /vr/ systems, praising the rule violating shitbox and feeling proud of it. Fucking disgraceful /v/idiots, do the world a favor and kill yourself

>>3229125
>how dare people point out you're little rule breaking shits.
Not everyone is posting GBA stuff, and honestly GBA isn't killing anybody, the games on it feel more retro than say, Dreamcast videogames.

>>3229125
You know what's against the rules? Backseat moderating, metaposting, and being a thundering sperg

>>3229131
I'm only complaining about the GBA posts. In fact, I've contributed to some other exchanges on this thread.

>honestly GBA isn't killing anybody
You have no idea. That machine is an insult to its predecessors.

>the games on it feel more retro than
The games have all the modern tutorial and socializing bullshit. The whole "retro" culture surrounding that machine is developers going cheap and and imitating the SNES for cheap nostalgi-bucks. And if they're not doing that, they're using software 3D engines instead of taking advantage of the 2D hardware. The GBA is a mockery and an insult to gaming, retro or otherwise. And I say that as someone who's been writing a demo or two for the GBA. From an architecture standpoint it's a bloody fine system. For /vr/ it can't be purged hard enough. It's the textbook example of modern shitgaming

>>3229138
as far as I'm concerned, this thread is shitposting. I feel no remorse disrupting it

GBA has a processor from 1994, it's retro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM7#Cores

>>3229195
The PS2s Emotion Engine is from 1999. Is bending the rules the only thing you can do?

Kind of sad you idiots can get away with "posting garbage" like the GBA

>>3229260
No it wasn't.

http://www.cpu-collection.de/?l0=co&l1=Sony&l2=Emotion%20Engine

>>3229278
>The Emotion Engine is the CPU for Sony's PlayStation 2, developed in a Sony - Toshiba cooperation and introduced in 1999
>introduced in 1999

The GBAbomination is not running a stock ARM7 either. Got any proof its particular variant is from before 2k?

Regardless, all you're doing is bending the rules to justify the inclusion of a shitbox in an otherwise entertaining board. So go fucking kill yourself. You're not even /v/ material at this point, you're unfit to live.

>>3229292
Started development in early 1999, but it wasn't released until 2000, hence the copyright says 2000.

The rules go by actual public release date, not when the development cycle began.

>>3229297
>The rules go by actual public release date
of the system

http://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/hardware.htm
>ARM7tdmi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM7#ARM7TDMI
>1998

GBA-not-retrofags blown the fuck out.

>>3229317
(c) 2000 Nintendo
>The processor inside the GBA is a custom CPU created by Nintendo. Many people call it an ARM7tdmi. That's mostly correct, but the ARM7 core is just that, a core. There are several other things that share the same chip

and that's still ignoring that you're desperately trying to bend the rules. Just eat some lead, will ya? Makes it easier for both of us.

>>3229338
>it's a custom chip so it doesn't count! >even though it's widely documented as being arm7tdmi

Now who's the one trying to bend logic?

>>3229363
Same with the Emotion Engine. A custom chip based on a pre-2k design. Didn't expect any better reading comprehension from shitheads like you though

>>3229367
>pre-2k design
Which CPU did the Emotion Engine run off of?

>>3229338
Oh please.

Why must this be such a divisive issue?
The aruguments over it cause more shitposting and agravation that just allowing the gba to be in the gameboy general would.

No one causes a shitfit over the wonderswan color, which came out a full year after the cut off date, with the gba just 3 months after that.

Also, I've never seen anything get under rulefag's skin quite like the GBA does on /vr/.

Most other boards I visit just politely tell op his thread doesn't belong and the let the thread sage, or roll with it if it isn't too far of topic, but on /vr/ you get yelled at and slippery slopes arguments abounds.

>>3229338
>>3229367
>all that mad hominem
Don't like being proven wrong, do ya bud?

>>3229369
>The Emotion Engine is the CPU for Sony's PlayStation 2, developed in a Sony - Toshiba cooperation and introduced in 1999
>Sony CXD9615GB 'Emotion Engine'
>Introduced: 02/1999

http://www.cpu-collection.de/?l0=co&l1=Sony&l2=Emotion%20Engine

>>3229386
Introduced, but not released to the public until 2000, which is what matters as far as /vr/'s rules are concerned.

Is Too Human retro because it started development on the N64, but wasn't released until the Xbox 360?

>>3229372
>Why must this be such a divisive issue?
I wrote it in a post, but some GBAssholes got it deleted.
Simply put, the GBA is a shitbox. It's appealing to nostalgia, while enabling all the shit that fucked up modern gaming. It's modern gaming in a retro disguise, and developers abused that mercilessly.
It's the only GBA with a framebuffer, it has gimped 3D support, which didn't stop developers from forcing gimped 3D engines on people. The whole nostalgia wave lead to a shitload of godawful SNES ports, going as far as giving the shitbox a reputation of being a "portable SNES", although it's far more capable. The GBA is the beginning of the end, simple as that.

>No one causes a shitfit over the wonderswan color
It's too unknown to get much attention, and it's not been used to such an extend against the players.

>Also, I've never seen anything get under rulefag's skin quite like the GBA does on /vr/.
because so much is at stake

>but on /vr/ you get yelled at
because deleting, permabanning the shitheads and forcing them into ritual suicide doesn't work

>>3229394
The GBA is running a custom CPU that has been released to the public in 2001

>>3229375
Clearly you don't, since you glossed over the actual proof he posted, and how it pertains to the rules of the board.

>>3229404
>It's the only GBA with a framebuffer
That should be "only GB with a framebuffer"

>>3229409
But it's not custom, though. Your comparison falls flat. Emotion Engine was a new design while GBA was using pre-existing technologies which were released to the public in the '90s.

>>3229439
>it's not custom, though
the parts outside of the ARM7 core, inside the CPU, are.

>Emotion Engine was a new design
based on the MIPS R5900, itself based on the MIPS 5000, both available long before the EE itself. The EE is an R5900 with customizations, just like the GBA core is an ARM7 with customizations.
Both, in their customized forms, are from 2000

Last but certainly not least, both SYSTEMS are from 2000 or later. Trying to pin it on the CPU (one of many components in the system) is already desperate enough

>>3229372
It's the butthurt Segafag vocal minority who despise GBA because it got Sega games released on it.

They're the same whiny group that demanded Dreamcast be allowed here on /vr/ that moot caved in to.

>>3229462
I don't own a single sega system. I have nothing to do with sega hardware or software. I love the GBA from a hardware design standpoint (before they went full retard with the backlighting), and I wish everybody on this board that wants to talk about it here go die a painful death. The GBA is not a /vr/ system, and I'll do everything I can to keep it that way.

>>3229459
Once again, the 5900 was a new design that started development in 1999 and released in 2000, which means it's NOT RETRO. GBA's arm7tdmi was from 1998, making it RETRO. Maybe now you see why your analogy is shit, familia.

>>3228897
The green one is hard to come by these days. I think it's because is fairly popular. The purple one is hands down the most common and you can find it pretty much everywhere for a few bucks.

>literally every post that says "GBA" has been deleted

>>3229524
Clear purple just seems like a more "natural" color for the GBC, they even had it for GBA.

Did they ever make a clear red for the color?
I think a GBA would look sweet in clear red or solid red.

>>3229546
Only the ones involving the autist having a tantrum.

>>3229546
I wish. All the GBA shitposting further up in the thread is untouched. That janitor had no clue what they're doing

>>3229551
"Atomic Purple" was very popular. "Grape" was the default color, and every other person seemed to have one even though no-one really seemed to like it.

>>3229558
My list of favorite Gameboy games got deleted for absolutely no justifiable reason. >>3227869

>>3229581
>no one seemed to like it
Really? I thought it was the bomb.

>>3229625
that pun couldn't have left a crater impact if you tried

Were there any good pinball games on any of the old handhelds? I know the Virtualboy had one (though it's less handheld and more "reasonably portable between static locations")

>>3229625
>grape bomb

>>3230756
It almost looks a little better in solid purple.

>>3230669
You could try Pokeman Pinball.

>>3233508
Those rumble pak carts were pretty cool. Shame they didn't fit well in my carry case.

MGS on the gbc is pretty solid

>>3233635
duh, it's in the name


You're right though. One of the mandatory GBC games

>>3182883
I own an early 1st gen DS,and I use that fucker for GBA games all the time.It feels right in your hands,and uses an SP charger.

>>3233635
>MGS on the gbc is pretty solid
It's one of my GOAT GBC games. It really feels like a direct sequel to Metal Gear 2 as much as it feels like a scaled down MGS-- which makes sense because it's basically an alternate Metal Gear 3 that takes place instead of MGS for the Playstation. If you can find a copy at a reasonable price I'd say it's a must-have for the system.

>>3233508
>>3233531
Those carts look fancy, how's emulation?

>>3233635
I hear it's like Snake's Revenge but even better.

>>3233642
They were great GBA players, yeah, played the shit out of ALttP on mine.
Shame they weren't compatible with GB or GBC carts, otherwise the DS would LITERALLY be perfect.

>>3233648
MGS:GB is the only MG I ever played. What I heard from the rest of the series I do think I want to keep it like that, the console games seem to be a convoluted clusterfuck. It's a pretty great standalone game though, I'm glad I picked it up back then.

>>3233652
Perfect little stealth game

>>3233652
The original MGS on Playstation (or the GC remake if you want some lulzy CUH-RAY-ZEE JAPANESE ACTION CINEMA cutscenes, nicer graphics and more modern controls) had a straightforward story that wasn't too convoluted or nutty. It has a good action movie-style ending and feels like a satisfying conclusion to the Metal Gear "trilogy," with the sequel hook being relegated to an end-credits easter egg. It didn't really need a sequel but it was so ridiculously popular that multiple sequels were inevitable, and they end up getting progressively sillier and more confusing.

MGS3 is kind of exceptional. It's the only 3D game in the series besides MGS1 and Twin Snakes that I went back and played through again. It's a prequel so again, the story is a bit more self-contained. It's one of the few games in the series that I'd actually consider essential gaming and not just bullshit you have to slog through if you're a fan.

finished warioland 4 a few weeks ago, keep putting off playing oracle of ages, just picked up a gamecube with the gba player + disk, so might fuck around a bit with that
still trying to finish my collection, top prioritys are metroid zero mission, metal gear ghost babel, and i guess i need pokemon ruby so i can finally own all gameboy pokemon games

post your collections

>>3233650
I kept good care of my DS,and I always wear headphones when playing any games on it.It's a great little device,it's from 2004 and I'm OCD on cleaning it as with my 1st gen 3DS.That 3DS is in mint fucking condition,in pink too so I know one day it'll be collectible.

>>3233697
Sweet collection. I'm still a long ways off from having even close to all the games I want. I'm also looking for a DMG because I sold my original one when the Gameboy Color came out.

Not pictured are my copies of Metroid Zero Mission and Castlevania COTM. I loaned those out and am currently trying to get them back. I also made the dumb mistake of buying Golden Sun 2 on impulse thinking it was Golden Sun.

>>3233715
I guess I didn't take the best of care of mine, but it held up, until it somehow got crushed in a packing somewhere.

Oh well, at least I still have a 3DS and SP.

>>3233730
My DS has scratches on the top lid,due to me wearing rings and constantly tapping on it when bored.Tempting to just replace it,and get it up to mint condition for later on when they're inevitably worth a lot like other older consoles.

>>3233729

The lime green gbc is sexy as hell. I need to pick one up soon. I'll post my small (but growing) game boy collection tomorrow if the threads still up.

nice collection, too!

>>3233697

this is an impressive collection, very nice anon.

>>3233729
never seen a gba that colour before, wheres it from?

get fucked you goddamn gba, ds and psp shitposters

>>3233740
I consider my old DS eligible just because I play old GBA games on it.It's like emulation in some sense.Get fucked you shitter-shattered faggot.

>>3233738
It's my modded AGS 101 screen GBA. As far as I know that color was only released in Japan but I got a reproduction shell with my AGS 101 kit. I chose that color because it matches my Viper GC case for my modded Gamecube perfectly. >>3225575

This is whats left of my collection. As i sold my pokemone and zelda games off to make some money for my bathroom. I have a ds lite with a i touch ds card and a ez flash v 3 in 1 so i can play all the games anyway

>>3209780
Made me shit brix the cut scene when the SA-X blasts through the wall and it does a close up on her helmet and her eyes were WHITE.

nopenopenopenope.jpeg

Anyone here have XP with ezflash4? Sometimes when I switch systems with it i lose my saves. Why does god hate me? Also, is there a way to have my nes and gba games on the same cart or do I need 2 of them for best results?

>>3233898
My modest collection. The cart without a label is an nes multicart I got off ebay. The gba on the far left I scavenged from a friend's girlfriend's son. A dog mauled it, but it has the nice screen so I'll swap it with one of my others. Also, (and I hate myself for it) the icy blue one in the middle got part of its hinge damaged last weekend when it fell out of my pocket. Like a foot and a half drop. I'm glad it wasn't worse. But i am still recovering from my disappointment and self-loathing. Also, I did pay that for that sonic game back in like 2008. I didn't know any better at the time and please no bully. I used to have more Gameboy classic carts, but they gradually disappeared/stolen over the years.

>>3233875
I kinda want a Pocket or Light but then I remember the screen blur.

you assholes posting GBA games and GBAs and DSes in your "collections", kill yourself. You're a fucking insult to this board and this fucking planet

>>3234032
Shame they didn't sell the Gameboy Light in the west, it's a cool little piece of kit, I kind of like the atomic green glow it would give.
Supposedly, they went through batteries faster, but with modern manufacture batteries, they should last a respectable enough time.

These days though, for general purpose Gameboying, I'd probably want a lightmodded Gameboy Advance, old model, I was gonna say I'd have the face plate painted in a glossy red, but I had a look and the Target model is almost what I want anyway.

What are the prettiest GBA games?

>>3234098
against the rules

>>3234032
Backlight + bivert chip works a treat from what I hear. Much sharper contrast and reduced ghosting on both the DMG and Pocket models. Gameboy Light is really only worth buying as a collector's piece these days, because the aftermarket kits are much better, not to mention that modding a Gameboy Pocket is a fraction of the cost.

I'm more interested in finding and modding a DMG first since I've got a lot of nostalgia for it, although eventually I'd like to find a Pocket too since I've never owned one.

Can I put a DMG screen in the Pocket?

I like the green, desu

So apparently my post wasn't worded correctly and the jani deleted it.

So, does anyone have any ezflash4 XP? When I switch it between systems I intermittently lose my save games and I can't figure out why.

Also, is it possible to have my SNES/NES gba ports as well as straight up NES roms on the same cart or am I better off with two carts?

I don't know why my post was deleted. Yes, they are sp consoles but every game playing on them is retro. I did get a little bloggy before, so I apologize for that.

>>3234860
>I don't know why my post was deleted
half your image is GBA games, half your post is GBA rambling. Fuck off

>>3221805
Please stop being such an insufferable faggot and start helping to discourage such behavior on this board.

>>3234872
There are retro games in the GBA library which what I am referring to, nigger. Maybe you should read it again.

Also, kirbys nightmare, wolf3D, castlevania, and OG metroid aren't retro enough for you? Do you feel stupid enough yet?

Furthermore, there is ezflash4 discussion above relating to the original gameboy and color games. Jesus fucking christ you're a faggot.

>>3234032
Blur? What are you talking about? the GB Pocket's screen was as crisp as a fresh carrot.

>>3235271
The slow pixel response the Gameboys prior to the Color had, where things get blurry when they move.

>>3235271
He's talking about ghosting.

>>3226645
Report, don't respond.

Stop the mudslide or drown.

>you will never live in a perfect society that accepts the fact that GBA isn't fucking retro

why live at all

Report and ignore. do NOT respond, EVER.

>>3186918
>in my city
what, is this 1973? prices haven't been that localized for ages, dear christ.

>>3187229
none of those things are visual novels though, visual novels are by definition choose your own adventure stories with graphics.
Oh, and how the fuck do rouge-likes even fit into this?

>>3187252
you are silly.

>>3226546
On the one hand, I regret having not bought DDA when it was still new, because the price has risen back up significantly since its original release. $30 for an old game cartridge isn't cheap, especially for a handheld. On the other hand, it was probably $40 when it was brand new, and our money is worth a fair bit less now than it was back then.

At least it's not River City Ransom Advance. I really regret not buying that one because now it goes for about $60. I missed out on the years when the NES cartridge could be obtained at a reasonable price, too. I think I was initially turned off of RCRA due to its hideous box art and in hindsight that was a really stupid reason to put off buying it.

>>3235421
shit posting doesn't solve anything, the thread is going along fine despite the mistake of the op and spurglords like yourself.

>>3187783
You know, I can't stand most JRPGs now because the dialog in them are so redundant and just drones on while saying the same thing a million different ways. I mean if this were a JRPG and some troll responded to your post it would probably read like this.

This post is overly long and boring what is this philosophy class because it so long and boring. Jeez, what a boring and long post, mr proffessor, you should feel bad because is long. Also it is boring and the boreness is because it is long the longness is purely conductive to it's boringness.

What are the best SNES/Genesis to GBA ports? I know most of them were bad but there have to be some that are decent.

>>3235614
I thought A Link To The Past and Shining Force were pretty fucking tight.

>>3235614
If you're a GnG fan, Super GnG is decent. The arrange mode has a bunch of levels from the first 3 games rearranged and is pretty fun in a novel kind of way

>>3235614
All of the Super Mario Advance games

Zelda: A Link to the Past

All three Donkey Kong Country games

The Final Fantasy ports (if you get the ones of IV-VI from Etsy that have the corrected music)

Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo Revival

>>3236321
>All three Donkey Kong Country games
This.
I thought DKC3 had a better soundtrack on the GBA version when I compared the two versions.

>>3236321
I've always loved FF5, how's it on the GBA? I heard they added some extra stuff to it.

>>3236556

The extra classes are kind of pointless because you only get to use them after you've finished everything else in the game, so there's not really anything to use them on.

>>3182804
not lately but playing FF Tactics Advanced while sick with the flu was one of the comfiest experiences of my life