/vr/ - Retro Games

GBA is not retro
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>>7338148
castlevania aos and hod
metroid zero mission and fusion
advance wars
link to the past

The Knight of Lodis

My personal favs in no particular order:
>Final Fantasy V
>Mega Man Zero series
>Castlevania CotM,HoD, AoS
>Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones
>Shining Force (remake)
>Mario Tennis Power Tour
>Sword of Mana
>Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
>Shining Soul II
>Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland
>Kirby & The Amazing Mirror
>Golden Sun
>Zelda: The Minish Cap
Pretty sure that's it, I was more busy with PC gaming at the time.

>>7338148
>>7314302

>>7338338
Thank you for that list anon. I will try and check out those games

>>7338162
read the sticky.

>>7338148
Give it a go, you won't be disappointed

>>7338148
Double Dragon Advance is my most favorite release of Double Dragon. You cannot lose going with the Metroid and Castlevania games on the system.

>>7339691
>cultivating the motivation to spam up our board with $10 kids toys
Why don't you swallow some of those and get "advanced" intestinal failure you narcissistic prawn

>>7339691
cool picture. better to post it here than on faceberg or leddit.
The GBA is the best handheld ever made.

>>7338148
Drill Dozer
FF1 Remake

>>7338148
Megaman Battle Network 2 and 3
Advance Wars 1 and 2

warioland 4
astroboy
puzzle league (tetris attack)
nightmare before christmas game that was clearance junk when it was new but now is worth something for some reason
mario vs donkey kong is excellent

>>7338148
my absolute favorites were: Castlevania AoS, WarioWare, Rhythm Tengoku, Metroid Fusion, Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island and Pokemon Ruby. I also played the fuck out of GBA fighting games but admittedly they were very limited ports and aged badly.

>>7341429
Still a hell of a lot better than fighting games on game boy or game gear. NGPC is debatable, but the fact that the GBA has perfectly serviceable versions of Street Fighter 2, Street Fighter Alpha 3 and King of Fighters is pretty rad. I learned a lot of characters for those games by playing their portable versions.

GBA is so good. I can dig through the library for hours just playing whatever I can find.

>>7338148
you spent 100 bongs on a GBA?

>>7342265
Would it not end up costing about that much just getting a console and screen?

>>7339652
I played this and was disappointed.

>>7342265
That’s cheap, a nice condition one can go for lots more these days.

Did any of you digibuggers slap Number 20 on the ex deck to any success?

Ez flash omega

The Return of the King plays like a GBA Diablo. Highly recommend.

>>7338148
Advanced Wars

>>7338148
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Dragonball Advance Adventure
Astroboy Omega Factor
Megaman Battle Networks
Megaman Zeroes
Advance Wars
Gunstar Super Heroes
Sonic Advances
Scurge: Hive
Bubble Bobble Old & New
Elevator Action Old & New
Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga
River City Ransom Advance

>>7342249
>Still a hell of a lot better than fighting games on game boy or game gear
for the time yeah, there was not much competition, and no one had NGPC anyway. i just remember how it all paled in comparison to PSP when it came out. it got SFA3 on launch, and then kept getting good and even great FG ports, and of course you could just emulate. this is the reason why i say GBA fighters aged like shit.
anyway, speaking of it…
KoF EX2 was pretty good, one of the best ports on the console i'd say. reduced resolution, but not severe, and plays very close to kof 2000 with some system changes.
playing SF was pretty questionable though, because you played a 6 button game on a 2 button + 2 shoulders controller which sucked (despite that i must have dumped 1000 hours into SFA3 Upper, no joke). SSF2T Revival also had that pale color palette like early GBA games to make up for lack of backlight.
tried Guilty Gear, but the resolution was just unplayable.
didnt bother with MK but it actually looked OK and had 3d backgrounds, that said i forgot it existed.
tekken advance felt funny, didnt even bother

My top five would be:
Advance Wars 2
Mega Man Zero 2
Wario Land 4
Rhythm Heaven
Metroid Fusion

Mega Man Zero 1 is pretty rough and has some bullshit moments, I personally recommend starting with 2, you won't be missing any plot. Advance Wars 1 is great, but 2 is even better, you also won't miss any plot, so I recommend starting with 2.

Also, try:
Astro Boy: Omega Factor
FFTA
Metal Slug
>>7341383
Mario vs Donkey Kong is good but I prefer DK94. Shame the later games went all in on the mini Mario schtick.

>>7345517
What do you mean by "won't be missing any plot" in both instances

I'll toss a few lesser mentioned because I like to give people a variety:
Spyro: Attack of the Rhynocs
Medabots RPG Metabee/Rokusho Version
Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night
Rayman 3/Rayman Hoodlums' Revenge/Rayman Raving Rabbids
>>7340208
Wish Drill Dozer didn't cost an arm and a leg now. All of the cool GBA games are insane nowadays.
>>7339691
Now this is a collection, I'm jealous anon. I'll have to use this for reference, though I'm having difficulty reading some of the labels.
Are the Starfy games worth finding if I'm able?

>>7345737
The plot in game #2 does not rely on being familiar with the plot in game #1.

People say that the ff1 and ff2 remakes are too easy is that true?

>>7345517
>Mario vs Donkey Kong is good but I prefer DK94. Shame the later games went all in on the mini Mario schtick.
After just getting all the stars in mario vs dk, i think they are about on par for different reasons. I was fucking bummed that mario vs dk 2 was a lemmings clone. What a fucking waste. I was hoping they branched out a bit and brought other nintendo characters into the mix like a smash bros twist. How dk 94 had moves that later went onto sm64 and smash bros, they could have had link going through similar puzzle platforms trying to get zelda from ganon, or samus racing to destroy all the metroids, etc. They could inherit a similar move set as there smash counterpart but tailored for puzzle platforming. But, no they went with a lemmings clone. Fucking bullshit faggot nigger nips.

>>7348154
Haven't played 2 but instead I'll say that 1 is too hard. And it has pretty bad bugs where certain major elements are completely useless. They just modernized the combat by giving it the standard MP system so as long as you were stocked up in ethers you were pretty safe.

>>7338162
Will you shut the fuck up? Your incessant whining is why mods are keeping the Wii thread up out of spite.

>>7338286
isometric grids are so full of soul

>>7338753
Gonna advise against Nightmare in Dream Land if Kirby's Adventure is available to you (NES, Virtual Console, Mini Classic Edition). NiDL is one of those games that looked cool at the time but in retrospect the original plays so much better. They add so many frames of animation meaning there's tons of input lag they hadn't ironed out in later Kirby games of this style, which makes most abilities an unsatisfactory chore to use, the opposite of how it should be (one or two abilities like Ball are more user-friendly by having it bounce off the top of the screen but no one used that). Also, the music sounds off-tempo and the game is much easier, with bosses becoming slow and cumbersome, especially Meta Knight who used to be a test of reflexes but can now be defeated by button-mashing even at half health. Even HAL seems to want to forget this remake since they represent Butter Building with its hardware-impressive rotating towers as the NES version in later games (it was replaced with boring static rooms on GBA, possibly because the backgrounds noonger have animated details or because it was rushed). The 3D Classics remake on 3DS eShop is better, it retains GBA performance improvements like slowdown reduction and gap-dash consistency.

>>7338338
>Sword of Mana
Final Fantasy Adventure was better in several ways from a gamedesign perspective, shame Mana remakes have no good middle-ground and are either too literal (Adventures) or too loose (Sword).
>>7341383
>puzzle league (tetris attack)
Panel de Pon is not the same without the fairies.
>>7344603
>Bubble Bobble: Old & New
>River City Ransom Advance
For what purpose? These are very straight remakes that were done better elsewhere. Didn't they get rid of the co-op mode?
>>7348154
Remakes in general during this time period were kiddified (be especially cautious with any Nintendo-produced remake) but Dawn of Souls is an "enhanced" port of Origins which is an enhanced port of the Wonderswan remakes. Difference is, Origins offered a difficulty selection - DoS removes this option and forces you to play in Easy Mode. Also, magic was switched from a spell-charge per level system into a traditional MP system and additional restorative items are available, making mages OP. It's up to you if you think the "rebalancing" is better on FFII but for FFI it was a definite downgrade, that version only survives on the bonus nostalgia bosses. FFII's bonus dungeon is pants btw, it's mainly a recolored version of the endgame with a nonsensical story.

>>7338148
Mother 3

>>7349823
>River City Ransom Advance
>For what purpose?
River City Ransom's GBA edition had fun additions to it, like the ability to recruit friendly helpers and had a much more involved story. The downside is there's a completely nonsensical "honor" system that determines who is willing to join you, and you get penalized or "become considered evil" for doing asinine things like using one weapon too much, and become considered good by even dumber things like running into walls (yeah, you can farm good karma by running into the edge of the screen over and over for some reason). But it's a good take on the game otherwise.

As for Bubble Bobble O&N, I dunno, I just like Bubble Bobble. I don't remember anything wrong with it.

>>7348184
>That image
Holy shit nostalgia bomb

>>7338148
Banjo-Kazzooie: Grunty's Revenge
Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hands
Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django
Bomberman Tournament
CIMA: The Enemy
Densetsu no Stafy trilogy
DK: King of Swing
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
Game & Watch Gallery Advance
It's Mr. Pants
Klonoa: Empire of Dreams
Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament
Konami Krazy Racers
Kuru Kuru Kururin
Kururin Paradise
Lady Sia
Mario Kart: Super Circuit
Ninja Cop
Riviera: The Promised Land
Sigma Star Saga
Yggdra Union: We'll Never Fight Alone

So many good games for the Advance. Im too lazy to read other lists so i'll give you mine

Advanced Wars
Drilldozer
Sword of Mana
Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced
Golden Sun 1+2 (phenomenal RPGs)
Megaman Battle Network games
Megaman and Bass
Metroid Fuzion and Zero Mission
Final Fight
Megaman Zero series
Shining Soul (not that great, but a fun stripped down diablo clone)
Zelda Minish Cap
Pokemon Fire red and Leaf green

Theres many more half ass ports that arent too bad either. Crash Bandicoot games, Mario Karts, Mario World, etc.

>>7344603
>Gunstar Super Heroes
I prefer Advance Guardian Heroes myself, Gunstar Heroes is a fine game but the sequel was too derivative and felt more like a remake.

>>7350586
Can't speak for Guardian Heroes, still haven't played either. And I also prefer the Genesis original to Super Heroes. But I still think Super is a good game worth playing. It's a love letter to other Genesis games too, working things like a Flicky stage and so forth.

It's also simultaneously both a reboot and a sequel, where it retells essentially the same events of the original but claims to be in the future of it. Where they're doomed to repeat the same mistakes of the past. It's kind of an odd plot but Treasure were always kind of oddballs in that department.

>>7339719
>>7340065
>>7346294
every time he posts that thing I lol at getting Ninja Five-0 for $20

>ctrl F godzilla
>zero results
>ctrl F hixton
>zero results
/vr/ shills all the castlevania/megaman copy-paste games and sleeps on the cool ones

>>7350625
I've tried getting Godzilla twice this week but these ebay shitters snipe it from me for stupid prices at the last second

>>7350625
Goddamn I love Godzilla Domination. I remember knowing nothing about it and buying it back when it was new, talk about a fantastic impulse buy. I was hoping it would be like King of the Monsters and I wasn't disappointed.

>>7350693
>stupid prices
>two most recent listings ended at under 20 bucks for a loose cart
wew lad

>>7351015
Aight I'd hoped to score it way cheaper than the average, I'm just being a salty loser.
There's another for $25 + shipping that I'm thinking of jumping on. Not the worst loss in the end.

How do I play Boktai doesnt it need solar thing

>>7351119
The cartridge has a solar sensor built in. If you're trying to emulate I'm sure someone has built in some sort of solution? Maybe not tho

>>7351236
Haven't played but I'm fairly certain there are modded version that let you adjust the solar power for the game.

>>7351236
Yes I am emulating.
>>7351256
I will look for these thanks.

>>7338162
The GBA is retro as of January 1st. it's 20yrs old.

Most of my recommendations were already said in the thread, but I would recommend most of the Bomberman games on it. Tournament is basically Bomberman and Zelda blended together with a dash of Pokémon. If you liked Tournament, then Jetters: Densetsu no Bomberman is practically the same thing, but without the charabom battles. Max 2 is pretty solid as regular Bomberman games go. Lastly, Jetters Game Collection is a bit of a mixed bag. Some of the minigames were addictive, while some were not so fun. Also has a solid pinball game and battle mode with different playable characters. I really don't recommend Classic NES Series: Bomberman though, because it's the NES game, but worse.

>>7339691
>>7338148
Drill Dozer is kino af and has a cool force feedback feature
Metroid, Castlevania, Megaman Zero, Warioland 4
Hidden Gems: Polarium Advance, GhostRider, CT Special Forces, Starfy, Gekido
WarioWare is the best game on the system

I bought all my GBA games last year after I got depressed from being laid off. I love the carts and will never emulate this system.

>>7352976
>Tournament is basically Bomberman and Zelda blended together with a dash of Pokémon.
Not GBA, but gonna add that if you like this idea, then you might like the game's Game Boy Color predecessor, Bomberman Quest, and the sequel, Bomberman Story DS.

>>7338148
It's not a GBA game, but >>7354037

>>7339691
>those boxed Kunio-kun games
oh yeah that's the stuff

There are no essential titles on any handheld

>>7353429
You could stop at 99 or 100 carts. Or just 1

>>7338338
very based list

>>7344540
yeah this is somewhat of a hidden gem
twin towers as well

>>7354438
The multiplayer was fun too.

>>7354008
So quick question, why the hell is Quest so hard to find a copy of?

>>7354573
Is it hard to find? My sister managed to get me a copy of the European version around a year and a half ago. To be fair, it just was the cartridge, not the box or or instruction manual. Is it a particular version is hard to find, like the American version? I remember wanting to get a copy of Mega Man V 7 years ago, but the American version was like $75, so I got the Japanese version for $25 instead.
But overall, Bomberman Quest is a great game, and my favorite of the GB/GBC Bomberman games.

>>7338338
Missing Wario Land 4, Metroid Fusion and Metroid Zero Mission.

so I guess we don't consider Punch-Out with an actual pimp "essential", SAD

>>7348184
>But, no they went with a lemmings clone. Fucking bullshit faggot nigger nips

You can blame tanabe for that

>>7355246
This game's art style blows. Heard good things but I played it for a bit, didn't find it all that fantastic, and yeah... it looking Newgrounds tier didn't help.

*crunching noises from chewing on chips*
yeh....so uhhh....*gulp and crunch, followed by rustling noises*
that ehhhh...that game.....*crunch crunch* with the uhhhhh.....other games in it.....*crunch crunch rustle pause then crunch*
you know .....*crunch crunch* wario games something....with wario and all those games .....*crunch crunch gulp*
.....that was a good game.......*rustle rustle pause crunch crunch*

>>7354328
I have about 200 and there are 30 more I want. But I am regularly hearing about new ones to snag.

>>7356304
>Newgrounds tier

Speaking of which, should i give up on ever getting an alien hominid cart that isnt a bootleg? as far as i know it only came out in europe

>can’t choose between buying CIB at a slow rate or loose carts at a higher rate

>>7338148
warioland 4
and warioland 1-3 too

>>7357797
why not choose a flashcart

>>7338148
Get an everdrive, friend. GBA collecting is retarded-expensive when it shouldn't be.
Maybe do an IPS screen mod.

>>7357847
I also enjoy the collecting aspect. I am considering a flashcart to load it up with fan translations, though.

>>7357915
Also, recently played Astroboy on mGBA via the Wii, and HOLY SHIT.
Can't go wrong.

>>7338162
Anything 10 years or more is now Retro. Just look at Demon's Souls.

>>7357797
>can't buy games because retarded poorfag
FTFY

castlevania COTM, HOD, and AOS
pokeman 3rd gen
golden sun
fire emblem

that's like all the originals. the rest are just ports of SNES-era games.

>>7354308
I'd say Aria of Sorrow is pretty essential

>>7339691
is Boktai any good?

>>7358325
Boktai 1 and 2 are amazing. 3 is fine but I don't like the stage select format, it's obvious Konami got stingy with the budget.

>>7344540
yeah both of those are good
>>7358329
cool, I'll give them a try at some point

>>7358335
sweet. Stay away from the fandom though, it's mostly garbage.
Especially a "celebrity fan" faggot types, big fish in the small pond

>>7358325
You mean the best Kojima's game series?
Yeah, it's alright.

>>7358368
isn't the best Kojima game Zone of the Enders

>>7357927
you get what you deserve then

>>7357932
I feel like Omega Factor was the last truly great Treasure game, and it was Astro Boy of all things. Everything since then has been too derivative of earlier works like their desperately trying to recapture their greatness. Treasure's like the boomer who still hangs around college trying to pick up freshman chicks now, it's friggin weird.

>>7356973
I own a loose copy in almost mint condition. I can sell it to you for $1000.

>>7358545
>Treasure's like the boomer who still hangs around college trying to pick up freshman chicks now, it's friggin weird.
Maybe so, but they're also the same boomer who discretely deflowered the girl you like despite the age difference.

>>7338148
i got the ezflash

is there any difference of being cart hoarder or just put them on sdcard? i kinda love the carts, but i can get only chink fake carts anyway.

But it runs the same, right anons? Just maybe the ezflash omega drains more battery than cart,but performance and everything is the same?

>>7358693
Don't remind me.

To all those who liked Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga but disenfranchised with most of the follow-ups, you might like Tomato Adventure, the game it was based on. Problem is there's no fully finished fantranslation out there last checked so you'll have to play along with a story summary.

>>7339435
just because sticky say something retarded does not mean it's right.

>>7358957
>console has retro hardware on startup
>doesnt even have hardware 3D acceleration
>basically portable SNES
>get like 2-3 threads about it on the whole board
>some seething retard comes in screaming "NOT RETRO"
do you have nothing better to do?

>>7358707
There are quite a few GB/C/A games that won't work well or at all on a flash cart. Anything with special hardware in it is potentially a problem. But you can get original carts for those games if you really want to play them. This is one of the reasons I never bothered with an SD2SNES or whatever it's called. I bought originals of all the games I wanted that wouldn't run on an ED long before either of those flash carts came out.

>>7358707
i had M3, not ezflash, and used it on DS, but all the games i had worked perfectly. added savestates/save management was also good.
>>7359063
>There are quite a few GB/C/A games that won't work well or at all on a flash cart.
like? i only recall having issues with SMA4 and NES ports but i could remember wrong.
>Anything with special hardware in it is potentially a problem.
its true but its obvious. the only game i had that had this was warioware twisted, because of the gyroscope.

>>7358674
Okay.

>>7354740
At least in my experience the American version seems to be. Haven't seen it on ebay much, ,and I never see it anywhere else.

>>7361118
Addendum: Pic related
Huh.

>>7338148

>>7338148
Even with that 8-bit DAC, you're missing a lot if you don't play in stereo. GBA games make heavy use of stereo effects. Please get an appropriate adapter and play with earphones or any kind of external speakers.

>>7358674
post a pic and contact info.

>>7359080
I'm sure there's lists and youtubes that cover the games in depth. There are a few that have an accelerometer /gyroscope/light sensor/etc. Some with IR. My EZ flash doesn't have a dot code reader. Maybe the emulators could be ripped and put on a flash cart along with the games? I'd actually like to see that.

>>7362405
i know theres a hack for warioware twisted that maps rotation to L/R. but ofc this still wont recapture the fun.
>There are a few that have an accelerometer /gyroscope/light sensor/etc
but the question is, do they even make much difference. out of all the games recced in this thread, i only remember boktai had light sensor, and drill dozer had vibro. thats it. pokemon had real time clock, not sure if ezflash emulates it, better google it. the rest of special hardware games are some jp only titles and yoshi topsy turvy which was mediocre game. theres only a handful few and honestly they dont make much difference. i'd say only WW Twisted is really worth it.

>>7339719
I remember hearing Nintendo coated their games with a bittering agent to avoid the young from ingesting the games.

>>7340065
I think those sites require login, and I don't want to deal with that. I only relatively recently (a decade ago) got into portables, and still don't have a GBA yet, but its library of amazing games has kept me entertained.

>>7346294
They are very colorful and enjoyable platforming games. I was hoping for more Kirby and they ended out being interestingly unique. Definitely get them.

>>7353429
Yeah, I mostly got those from rummaging through the random bins for cheap. Be aware to look for the pressed numbers on the label, accurate logos for "advance" and "Nintendo" on the shell, and the correct font for "Nintendo" on the PCB.

>>7354306
Amazing series. Loved them since playing Super Dodgeball and River City Ransom on the NES. Reviewers of the day did not like the games as much as I did which was an indication that my tastes can differ from most.

>>7358325
It is very difficult because it gets no sunlight in my setup.

>>7362760
Whether you consider the games with playing or even know about them is a whole different thing. If there were great popular games that required certain hardware the flash cart developers would add that to their cards. Unless they're a faggot who refuses to include an RTC because their mommy didn't buy them pokeman when they a baby or whatever.

No mention of Summon Night Swordcraft Story 1 & 2? They're short rpgs like "Tales of" but with a single character when in battle. Surprisingly fun games!

>>7363083
Why do people want to play GBA on their TV? It's so much better in the hand.

>>7364839
>why do people have friends
They don't. It's an urban legend.

>>7349649
what the fuck does that even mean

>>7338148
Minish

>>7338148
>Final Fantasy IV, V, VI
>Fire Emblem + FE: Sacred Stones
>Advance Wars 1 and 2
>Mother 3 (on a flash cart or repro)
>Mario and Luigi