/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3703187
Whoa there famalam this thread is too dark

I have Pokemon Crystal, Wario Land 3, and Super Mario Deluxe. Are there any more GBC games worth getting?

>>3703343
You can add color to any game boy game by holding certain combinations of buttons when you turn it on. Plus the games that are compatible with the super game boy automatically get a little color.

No need to limit yourself to the gbc library. There are plenty more games worth getting.

The question is, is it actually a new console, or is it an upgrade like the DSi or New 3DS?

Internally, it's basically the same as the original Gameboy just with more RAM, CPU capable of running at twice the speed, and color. Even the cartridges are the same, and will work in an OG Gameboy (but Nintendo specifically required all GBC exclusive games to display an error message if played on an OG model).

mario golf and tennis were god tier
the question is, were the gba version even better?

>>3703383
I would say it should be like the DSi and New 3DS, but the sheer amount of exclusive games not playable on the older models good or not and the color screen being a pretty noticeable upgrade kind of put it into a tier of its own.

>>3703383
GBC exclusives show an error strictly because the GBC's hardware is expanded.
It'd be like putting a N3DS game in an O3DS, or a 32X game directly into a Genesis, hardware is literally missing.
and Nintendo allowed devs to make games that worked with the B/W Game Boy that also used the GBC's features -- they'd detect what machine they were running in and then act accordingly, loading color palettes, running the CPU faster, etc

it's in the same category as the DSi or N3DS, it just had the advantage of color being enough of a selling point that Nintendo could get people and devs to move to it, the DSi and N3DS don't have that advantage.

man, if there's one thing I wish the GBC allowed, it was use of SGB palettes
like, I can see why they didn't (there are a lot of SGB extras that wouldn't work, and the game needs to know it's running on an SGB to load the SGB colors), but it'd still have been nice

>>3703187
>"underrated"
It's a Nintendo product that sold millions.

>>3704836
English speakers aren't all that eloquent. OP probably means something like overlooked or underappreciated.

>>3703187
Yes.

>>3703383
>The question is, is it actually a new console, or is it an upgrade like the DSi or New 3DS?
It's an upgrade, but it actually got games. Although being an upgrade and being a new console are essentially the same thing if new games are actually being offered.

>>3705519

Overlooked would be even less accurate than underrated

Something can sell a gorillion copies and be rated low, but you can't really claim it went unnoticed.

Answer to OP is Sega CD, by the way. Most people who would speak of it speak with disdain, but once you claw through all the FMV trash there's a good library in there.

>>3707543
>Most people who would speak of it speak with disdain, but once you claw through all the FMV trash there's a good library in there.

It's as if everyone else on /vr/ knows that having grown up at the time of its release and didn't need someone who grew up watching vidya e-celebs to say so.

>>3703187
I mean we play the games, but I'm not too fond of the hardware. I use an AGS-101 GBASP to play my GB/GBC games.

>>3703383
It was a successful N3DS with way more than exlusive game.

>>3703187
Not really? I think /vr/ has lots of love for Wario Land 3, Shantae, Metal Gear Ghost Babel, Daikatana, and Link's Awakening DX just to name a few.

>>3709542

I don't mean on /vr/ you shitlicker, I meant overall. And no, people did not have a very high opinion of the CD at the time past the initial wow factor. It was pretty widely mocked on the playground.

>>3710549
Sonic CD, the other Power Rangers game, Lunar, Earthworm Jim, the superior version of Eternal Champions (but it's still Eternal Champions), Snatcher, Mega Race.

Honestly I had to look up a few just to remember and the Power Rangers game I never saw at that time was actually a QTE Dragon's Lair game (which was also on that).

I don't think it was mocked from where I'm from. But it was too expensive and you could just play Mortal Kombat and Madden on the other current gens at that time.

>>3703187
Not really a Harry Potterhead fan, but damn that GBC HP game was really good.

>>3703187
It only has about 10 games worth playing.

>>3703187

Quite possibly the worst library of any handheld system ever in terms of quality ratio. There are a small handful of games (as in about 4 or 5) that are any good, the rest is licensed garbage and shitty ports.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_Boy_Color_games

>>3710754
There were two GBC Harry Potter games, and holy shit they were good. The second's easily the better of the two, but these are both some of the best licensed RPGs I've ever played.

Plus the artstyle is just so goddamn comfy.

>>3713335
>Quite possibly the worst library of any handheld system ever in terms of quality ratio.
That would be the GBA, basically the PS2/Wii of handhelds

>>3713354

GBA has like 30 decent to great games though, GBC has Wario and Shantae and then it's Rugrats all the way down.

>>3713375
What is
>Project S-11
>Bionic Commando: Elite Forces
>MGS: Ghost Babel
>Crystalis
>Warlocked
>LoZ: Oracle of Ages/Seasons

>>3703187
Why isn't there a mass produced lion battery solution for Gameboys? I forgot if the Gameboy can even be plugged in for wall power.

>>3703383
>The question is, is it actually a new console, or is it an upgrade like the DSi or New 3DS?
Nintendo counts GBC hardware and software sales within the original GB's sales numbers, whereas GBA are counted as their own thing. Hell, the official Japanese for the GBC is the same one as the original GB.

>>3703187

No it really didn't have any good games. Everything made you wish for a SNES or even a fuckin NES.

I mean a few RPGs, the Zelda games and Mario , well basically all the Nintendo games were decent. Outside that and puzzle games the Gameboy and GBC was pretty meh.

Even as a kid I just couldn't play that thing for that long, I just got bored. Only game that really got a TON of play was qix and that was a GB game.

GBC vs GB wasn't all that exciting either.

>>3714004
It had a wall adapter. There was also a rechargeable battery/AC adapter that I would charge up for long car trips obstacles of using batteries it even clipped on your belt. I still have mine.

Wario is the only reason Game Boy and GBC were good.

>>3714032
>Legend of Zelda games
>Kirby games

The Wario games are some of my favorites but you're entirely wrong.

>>3714045
Kirby is literally babby's first platform game, and Zelda games were better on consoles.

>>3714051
>Kirby is literally babby's first platform game
Except it's legitimately fun to play.
>and Zelda games were better on consoles
We could argue over which Zelda games are better all day, but the GBC Zeldas are absolutely solid experiences that are worth checking out.

>>3714004
It wouldn't be especially better than NiMH

>>3714032
The best games on Gameboy are from Square

>>3714064
Weebcuck pls.

>>3714051
>Kirby isn't xXBrutal_HardcoreXx enough for me

Careful with those sharp edges buddy don't want to hurt yourself. The Wario games were never particularly difficult either.

>>3714072
>>Kirby isn't xXBrutal_HardcoreXx enough for me
It doesn't have to be the hardest game of all time, however I expect to at least have to think to play a game. Kirby games might as well play themselves.

>The Wario games were never particularly difficult either.
They were still more inventive and brilliantly designed than Kirby games.

>>3714069

Memers get out

>>3714118
If you don't like memes, you don't belong on 4chins.

>>3714004

>>3714018
This. Thing was silly. I have mine somewhere.

Lipo wasn't big at the time. Rechargeable AA batteries existed but they sucked. Just weren't worth using outside the home. (Play in the backyard for a bit, recharge them after, so you don't waste those mint AA)

Decent rechargeable batteries are a pretty new thing. Back in the day batteries were a hot commodity and even disposal ones weren't nearly as good as what we have now.

> Memories of car trips not playing Gameboy for as long as possible and savouring every moment because they weren't going to cut it.

> That feel when parents wouldn't buy you more for the return trip and you couldn't play Gameboy for that grueling ride and had to play stupid 'car games'