/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7052595
Many of the games had limited or no utility with two of the face buttons.

>>7052595
It was worse with the DS missing analogue stick.

>>7052595
>>SNES port machine
your zoomer is showing

>>7052608
>Mario 64 on a dpad
Just an awful idea.

>>7052670
it was terrible. I wonder what drugs they were snorting in that particular developer's offices to even think how this game would turn out well. whole thing seemed like it was a rush job.

Imagine, gba with x+y buttons, resolution of a ds screen, and easier to develope sound

>>7052838
It would've been replaced in two years by the DS anyway

>>7052595
It had by far the best graphics of a portable machine you could get in 2001. Mobile phones at the time were pathetic.

>>7052880
They still are, a £200 phone struggles to run PSX games.

>>7052670
Yeah. That was pretty stupid.

>>7052595
>Porting Snes games most people already own to this thing is a massive pain in the ass and not cost effective for the amount of money we'll make for most titles
>Eh just port some of the classics over that people will buy again and again and then get on with making the new games

They didn't even port any of the good snes games like super metroid and chrono trigger and most games had raped music and horrible graphics compared to the originals.
GBA was more of "port all the dogshit we can find to the handheld and see if it sells" machine IMO.
Pay 30 dollars for a single nes rom on a GBA cart, stupid gajins!

>spin jump is now a should button which makes it infinitely easier to use while running
pretty based, I'd say.

>>7052670
Worked fine enough, no one seemed to care back in 2004

>>7052783
They didn't care how well it played, they only cared about showing off properly 3D platforming on a handheld. I remember as a kid that it was draw-dropping compared to my GBA.

The gba is a unique case because it's overflowing with soul, but also overflowing with shitty shovelware cashgrabs

>>7052595
Furthermore
>no backlight

I instantly regretting my purchase after turning it on for the first time. Worst Nintendo product I ever owned.

>>7053832
So much this. Fucking SMW original control layout is dog shit.

>>7053490
You must be kidding

>>7052783
>>7052670
it is actually way better than you might expect, but the dpad admittedly hurts your thumb if you play for longer than 2 hours in one sitting

>>7052670
It's not ideal but people are acting like babies about it. You get used to it.

>>7052595
Worked fine for any GBA exclusives. There was more than enough buttons for 99% of the gameplay formats presented on the GBA.

>>7054565
Getting use to something crappy doesnt make it better.

>>7053520

damn that looks dope. wish i had one of these instead of my regular purple gba

>>7054591
It's still over exaggerated how bad it is.

>>7054389
My phone can't handle Valkyrie Profile's world map.

>>7054591
As someone who's 100%d the ds version multiple times, I barely the controls after playing for a few minutes.
Id actually go as far as to say the game plays better with a run button, makes a lot of the movement feel more intentional, whereas I used to dive grab a lot on accident on the 64

>>7054616
Don't, the GBA SP has terrible form factor. Best is getting a custom GBA with an IPS screen.

>>7052670
This, Mario 64 ds is near unplayable

>>7053832
One thing I hate in mario games is that running and picking up/dropping things are the same button.

>>7052604
true

>>7052669
just accept the truth

>>7053520
i have this one except earlier this year i replaced the shell with a translucent green one so that it matched my N64. i have no regrets.

>>7055363
a common thing in old nintendo games is that you should be holding the run button at all times

>>7053490
Then why do 60-80$ Chinese handhelds run them fine?

>>7056025
Because, unlike phones, those are made to run games.

>>7056029
A lot of them run Android, I'm not sure I see your point. Is it the specific hardware they use?

>>7056046
Hardware is everything anon.

>>7056025
Do tell about these chink handhelds, maybe the plague-rats are good for something.

>>7053832
In Mario Advance 4, having the run button on R is pretty great too.

>>7055350
honestly this. unless youre like 10, the SP is really uncomftorable to hold if youre playing anygame that requires the shoulder buttons. I normally dont buy modded systems, but this was an exception

>>7054307
>no backlight
>have to brighten up DKC and DKC2
>changes the soundscape of DKC3 to better match the required mood

>>7052595
What do you get from forcing this meme?

>>7054307
>backlight
soulless

>>7052670
>he didn't use the thumb stylus for touch analog controls
Pleb

>>7055350
My screen is all white on the edges. I wish it was still like yours....

>>7057478
willing to bet that anyone who commited to using them would be singing a different tune, touch screen-joystick is unironically the best thing ever
metroid prime hunters reboot/sequel when

>>7053832
You can also run with X in SMW on snes

>>7055350
How are the shell and buttons on that? All the ones I've tried just don't feel right