Anybody else have rare CIB GBA games?

[Anonymous No.7722793]

[Anonymous No.7722861]

Yeah a bunch. Bought a bunch last year before covid, they still tripled in price but I could've bought ethereum instead.

[Anonymous No.7723282]

>>7722793
My only rare CIB GBA game is FF VI
btw really nice collection and GBA

[Anonymous No.7723313]

>>7723282
Wow, the GBA really was the SNES for 90s babies.

[Anonymous No.7723315]

>>7722793
>BoF GBA ports
Literally unplayable unless you patch them.
What the fucking point?

[Anonymous No.7723319]

>>7723315
git gud

[Anonymous No.7723334]

yeee

[Anonymous No.7723341]

>>7723319
nigger they're actual garbage

[Anonymous No.7723345]

>>7723341
ok zoomie

[Anonymous No.7723423]

Rare? I don’t know, but here ya go.

[Anonymous No.7723428]

>>7723313
looks like you have no idea what you're talking about

[Anonymous No.7723441]

Yeah I got a copy of Dawn of Souls that got signed by Uemastu in 2004.

[Anonymous No.7723469]

>>7722793
The only rare stuff i got is Rainbow Six Rogue Spear & GTA Advance,
They were pretty hard to find when they were released, so i wonder what their rarity is today.

[Anonymous No.7723485]

>>7723441
Nice also my favorite game for the GBA

[Anonymous No.7723854]

>>7723315
What? They play fine.

[Anonymous No.7723856]

>>7723428
It's a portable SNES.

[Anonymous No.7723865]

>>7723856
It’s much more powerful than the SNES.

[Anonymous No.7723895]

>>7723865
Half of the notable software is SNES ports.

[Anonymous No.7723906]

>>7723895
rest in peace super mario advance 4: super mario bros. 3

[Anonymous No.7723908]

>>7722793
I have CIB WarioWare Twisted and Drill Dozer, because I don't like emulating those two. I don't know if either is valuable, I just bought them when they were new and kept them since they were interesting.

GBA is too much of a shitshow for me to bother collecting or investing money into, I'd rather just buy one-off JP carts, or use a flashcart, or just emulate. The NA carts market is just retarded thanks to all the COVID money and all the counterfeit carts out there.

[Anonymous No.7723931]

>>7723908
Nice, my CiB warioware twisted and yoshi's Universal Gravitation are on their way, but japanese because they are indeed hella expensive

Cool thing about special carts like these is they weren't counterfeited

[Anonymous No.7723963]

>>7723931
yeah, that is nice

I happen to have a JP warioware cart too; It's a good game for learning random little Japanese words/phrases and as you said, people don't have high demand for JP warioware.

Honestly learning JP is one of the best things you can do as a serious gaming enthusiast.

>>7723895
This is another reason I don't bother with GBA much; It has a really underwhelming library to me. Even Game Boy, restricted to black-and-white only, has a better library.

[Anonymous No.7724006]

>>7723895
>half
>notable
Regardless, it's much more powerful than an SNES. You can look at the hardware specifications yourself.

[Anonymous No.7724014]

>>7723856
By that logic, a Playstation is a CD-based SNES.

[Anonymous No.7724027]

All my games are CIB, and I've got your typical stuff that everyone has, like BoF, Monish Cap, Boktai, etc., but in terms of more uncommon stuff, this is probably what I have that is actually on the rarer side (though obviously not the most).

I do also have an e-Reader and a ton of cards as well, but I doubt that's all that rare.

[Anonymous No.7724049]

I am actually shocked that they didn't totally cover up Mai on the box art. You still get some cleavage and all that ass.

[Anonymous No.7724064]

I guess they were only worried about the side boob.

[Anonymous No.7724081]

>>7723282
How does that count as rare? I have loose carts worth more than ff6 cib.

[Anonymous No.7724102]

>>7724006
Who cares, I never said it had the same specs. Besides, the screen is tiny and it sounds like shit. SNES games look and sound better.

>>7724014
Nope. The "Nintendo PlayStation" prototype was a PlayStation that was backwards compatible with SNES cartridges. The Philips CD-ROM attachment for SNES never came to fruition because they watched the Sega CD flop, along with the Nintendo-themed Philips CD-i games.
Nintendo fans claiming the PlayStation was the true successor to the SNES is revisionist history. Nintendo didn't use discs for N64 or give it a great library like the SNES because they're retarded. Sorry.

[Anonymous No.7724108]

>>7723963
>I don't bother with GBA much; It has a really underwhelming library to me

Respectfully, what do you mean? I don't even care for RPGs and GBA has an amazing library of beautiful platformers that play great. If you look at top sales charts that's one thing, but what about hidden gems like Alien Hominid and DragonBall Advanced Adventure. Or outright classics like Warioland 4, castlevania and Megaman zero? GB/C can't stand toe to toe with any of that stuff

[Anonymous No.7724134]

>>7724102
>Who cares, I never said it had the same specs.
It's not even close to a portable SNES though, doesn't even have the same CPU architecture. Is the Switch also a portable SNES? Many of its games are just SNES games.

>Nintendo fans claiming the PlayStation was the true successor to the SNES is revisionist history.
It's real, true history. Nintendo panicked and released the N64 because of the console gap. The Gamecube is Nintendo's true successor to the SNES, unlike the stopgap N64. But that puts them an entire console generation behind, a status they have maintained since. Heck it could be argued that the console gap between Nintendo and the competition is even wider now, the Switch being a mere glorified cell phone. Compare it to the PS5 or the Xbox 1480, which rival current high-spec gaming desktops.

Nintendo ultimately decided at one point that making fun games would sell more units than trying to compete to see who could put the biggest supercomputer into an edgy looking box. And ultimately this is paying off big time for them.

So Nintendo lost on all technical fronts ever since the SNES, but won the greater war of sales.

[Anonymous No.7724138]

>>7724108
I mean, it totally can. It has triple the Wario Land games, a lot of people will argue are better than 4.

If you like traditional Castlevania games, then the GB games are the way to go, and the music is actually dn good in those games.

If you also prefer traditional Mega Man games, the Game Boy actually has those as well, in spades. Nothing wrong with the Zero series or Battle Network, bit if you actually want to play Mega Man, the GB was the way to go.

The GB has tons of it's own hidden gems in it's gigantic library, stuff like Turtles 3 is an amazing Metroid game that people almost never talk about, and it's also home to absolute classics like all the Zelda games, original Pokemon games, and many more.

It's not like you can't like both, but believe me the Game Boy has established the legacy known today for a reason.

[Anonymous No.7724147]

>>7724102
BTW Nintendo was flaky so Philips switched to backing Sony, who they already had a long history of partnership with. Also during the time the Nintendo Playstation was in development memory chips, both RAM and ROM, became incredibly expensive due to some shit that went down in Asia and this caused Philips to say they didn't want to rely on cartridges at all because CDs can be pressed for $0.25. Nintendo wouldn't budge, that was that.

[Anonymous No.7724162]

>>7724081
Prove it?

[Anonymous No.7724169]

>>7724162
You have to go by realized prices, newbie.

I can list a normal old Game Boy for $100,000,000, doesn't mean that's the going price for one. In this case you're actually right, FFVI is an expensive GBA game, but it's a mere coincidence I suspect.

Always search the realized prices, under advanced search, to know what people are paying for a thing on Fleabay.

[Anonymous No.7724172]

>>7724169
bla bla bla i can bla bla bla no you can't stfu
bla bla bla search for fake repros that sold for 12€ bla bla that is the real price xDDD always go for realized prices because there are only real cib original games sold for 4€ :DDD

stfu and provide proofs to your trash talk faggot

[Anonymous No.7724175]

>>7724162
it's not a rare game, expensive but not rare. a rare game for GBA is Gegege no Kitaro for instance. or even worse, pic related

[Anonymous No.7724186]

>>7724172
Absolutely BTFO, did you know that it's possible to just not reply instead of making a huge ass of yourself? Go ahead, try it, you can list a fucking piece of pocket lint for a trillion dollars right now. If you have an eBay account you can search up the realized prices and find out what people *ACTUALLY* pay.

>>7724175
>hyper obscure japanese titles
Nobody on /vr/ can even read Japanese any more which is why there's such a clamour every time a new translation comes out.

[Anonymous No.7724191]

>>7724175
ff6 is still a pretty rare game even though you don't like it ofc it's not a rarity as your pic because it's not region exclusive and printed in ridiculous small amounts but for a milestone as ff6 it's rare on the gba and the price is matching that

[Anonymous No.7724192]

>>7724186
dilate you subhuman faggot and never reply to me again you poor as butthurt tranny from the third world

[Anonymous No.7724197]

>>7724186
>>hyper obscure japanese titles
this a thread about rare games so I talk about rare games, are you dense or what? also nice normie-level of videogame knowlegde you got there.

[Anonymous No.7724201]

>>7724138
Nice try nigger

[Anonymous No.7724205]

>>7724191
so you agree with me then.
>the price is matching that
bought it for 40 € at my local supermaket on release. i'm glad I enjoyed the GBA at its peak

[Anonymous No.7724218]

>>7724197
Have you played these rare games? Do you own them? Or are they just technical curiosities.

[Anonymous No.7724237]

>>7724192
Did you get banned from eBay for scamming and now you can't log in and even check realized prices? LOL

[Anonymous No.7724318]

>>7724108
The only games of that list that I really liked or care about is the Castlevania ones, and even then it's just Aria. WL4 was just okay, easily outdone by most other WL games.

There's nothing that it does which makes me scream that I have to have it, and for the things which it is good at, I have other systems that are, in my eyes, far superior, so I have little reason to play it.

[Anonymous No.7724326]

>>7724186
>彼が日本語を読めない
十年はやいんだよ!

[Anonymous No.7724370]

I spent the middle days of my collecting picking up CIB GBA games whenever I could. I emulated the system when I was 11 and already had a ton of video game systems that drank up my child-money/video game present budgets, so I found the emulator and tried a whole bunch of random games.

CIB GBA and GBC were a cool market for a long time - you'd get great stuff in good shape for 50 or under a lot of the time. People caught up with it and it's pretty pricey nowadays.

Rarest I probably own is Boktai 2 but most valuable is Aria of Sorrow.

[Anonymous No.7724385]

>>7724370
I also have Kirby Tilt n Tumble CIB which I added recently, was able to get it for 70 CAD, which is the best price I'll likely see again.

[Anonymous No.7724760]

>>7724162
Uh loose pokemon emerald carts go for more than $160, which is what FF6 actually sells for CIB. So do loose carts for Demi-Kids Dark version. I have both.

[Anonymous No.7724779]

Aria of Sorrow
it's in a storage box somewhere and subject to arizona outdoor heat

[Anonymous No.7724792]

The only rare games I have are the tin can collection from Hudson. I have six out of nine.

They're not too rare though. They're just a bit of a novelty. They sell like crazy in American markets but are cheap to import.

[Anonymous No.7724813]

>>7724006
Yes, it's more powerful than the SNES, but you cannot escape the fact that a significant chunk of the GBA's library consists of ports or remakes from the NES and SNES. The system has a very poor library compared to the Game Boy or even the Game Boy Color because of how inundated with ports and remakes it is. The system has no real identity other than "portable NES and SNES games."

[Anonymous No.7724850]

Apparently i own a rather rare game- ff6. Not sure why its rare but people are dick waving and slap fighting about it. Got at a pawn shop in a bundle since the guy wanted it gone.

[Anonymous No.7724860]

>>7724813
The Game Boy Color is mostly just Game Boy games rereleased with color and a shallow number of original titles that you’d expect a stopgap console to have. Regardless of how many SNES ports it has, the number of original, quality titles the GBA has far exceeds that of the original Game Boy and Color.
>NES games
What remakes? Zero mission? Apart from the NES Classic Series, which was small in number, it isn’t known for having NES ports or remakes at all. This sounds like something a zoomer who grew up with the DS would say.

[Anonymous No.7724879]

>>7724138
>GB Castlevania and MM
You’re an absolute buffoon if you believe these roided-out Game & Watch games are anything short of embarrassing. I’d rather play competently made spin-offs than “traditional” entries that play like a Speccy arcade port.

[Anonymous No.7724881]

>>7724860
>What remakes? Zero mission? Apart from the NES Classic Series, which was small in number, it isn’t known for having NES ports or remakes at all. This sounds like something a zoomer who grew up with the DS would say.

[Anonymous No.7724887]

I might have one or two

[Anonymous No.7724892]

>>7724881
>3 out of 20 games are NES-related
I kneel, anon.

[Anonymous No.7724921]

>>7724892
4

plus 4 SNES remakes
plus 2 gameboy remakes
plus 2 collections of 2nd gen arcade games

that's not really normal for a platform so yeah go ahead and kneel

[Anonymous No.7724926]

>>7724921
>Moving goalposts already
We were talking about its reputation relating to NES games, my little intellectually challenged anon.

[Anonymous No.7724948]

>>7724881
>>7724921
>Counting All-Stars ports, the second best selling game on the SNES, as NES representation
Disingenuous as fuck.

[Anonymous No.7724975]

>>7723856
You're a portable SNES.

[Anonymous No.7724983]

>>7723856
I heard you were a portable SNES. How much?

[Anonymous No.7724992]

>>7724760
>loose pokemon emerald carts go for more than $160
Realized price or asking?

[Anonymous No.7725016]

>>7724926
>>Moving goalposts already
oh?

>it isn’t known for having NES ports or remakes at all.
>at all

[Anonymous No.7725024]

>>7724102
With the MSU-1 mods on SD2SNES, we pretty much already have this

[Anonymous No.7725028]

>>7725016
>N-no u
>Being a hyper literal autist

[Anonymous No.7725090]

>>7723895
>>7724881
>the measure of the breadth of games on a system is directly related to the top sellers
Lots of games which are now widely loved and rare didn't sell well, and many games sold very well but weren't in the top 20 or even 50 or 100.

This isn't proof of anything.

[Anonymous No.7725218]

>>7724992
Look it up retard. Sold listings on ebay

[Anonymous No.7725242]

I have a gba glacier 9.5/10 in box, which is way cooler than any game because games don't get worn out and also flashcarts exist

[Anonymous No.7725268]

>>7724813
Remove all the ports and remakes and GBA is still better than GB or GBC.
>Pokemon RSE
>Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
>Pokemon Pinball
>Wario Land
>Mario and Luigi
>Minish Cap
>Golden Sun
>Final Fantasy Tactics
>Metroid Fusion
>Kingdom Hearts
>Sonic Advance
>Kirby and the Amazing Mirror
>Dragon Ball
>Mega Man Zero
>Mega Man Battle Network
>Wario Ware
>Ninja Five O
>Castlevania
>Boktai
>Drill Dozer
>Tactics Ogre
>Summon Night
>Metal Slug
>Fire Emblem
>Astro Boy
>Yggdra Union
>Klonoa
>Godzilla Domination
>Advance Wars
>Riviera
>Zone of Enders
>Rhythm Tengoku
The ports and remakes are just icing on the cake. How anyone can think the original gets even close is a joke.

[Anonymous No.7725273]

>>7725242
>flashcarts exist
Wait until you hear about emulators.

[Anonymous No.7725295]

>>7725273
wait until you hear about input lag

[Anonymous No.7725309]

>>7725295
Can't tell the difference.

[Anonymous No.7725329]

>>7722793
I've only managed to get 3 so far; it can be tough to find CIB GBA stuff in my area

[Anonymous No.7725393]

>>7725309
whatever you say

[Anonymous No.7725627]

>>7724887
I feel like I just looked into the Arc of the Covenant.

[Anonymous No.7725790]

>>7724108
>Respectfully
fuck off faggot

[Anonymous No.7726256]

>>7724992
>tfw bought a gba sp with legit leafgreen and emerald carts for 45 a few months ago

[Anonymous No.7726286]

>>7726256
Good job buddy. I have several Emerald carts, they all need a fresh battery.

[Anonymous No.7728026]

closest thread for it
>bought a used but scratchless copy of Kuon at GS for $10.
>sell it with other games years later.
>years more pass and think about it again.
>go to see if i can buy it.
>see pic related.

[Anonymous No.7728037]

>>7723865
That's why all the DKC ports look awful?

[Anonymous No.7728095]

>>7728037
Poor compensation for the GBA’s non-backlit screen.

[Anonymous No.7728156]

>>7725393
Damn right.

[Anonymous No.7728160]

>>7728026
you fucked up

[Anonymous No.7728304]

[Anonymous No.7728317]

>>7728304

[Anonymous No.7728325]

>>7728304
those pal rating labels are horrendous

[Anonymous No.7728338]

>>7728304

[Anonymous No.7728389]

>>7728037
Every version of donkey kong looks awful. Those 3d sprites aged like ass

[Anonymous No.7728473]

>>7722793
I wish i took care of the boxes, but as a kid I cared more about playing the game then actually worrying about the boxes. I regret it a bit, be cest la vie I suppose.

[Anonymous No.7728519]

>>7728473
ya, these days the boxes are way more interesting than the games

[Anonymous No.7728782]

>>7728338
Klonoa’s kind of valuable, such a shitty game though.

[Anonymous No.7728854]

>>7728782
Klonoa is a great game actually.

[Anonymous No.7728870]

>>7728854
I disagree but that’s of course just my opinion. Something repulsive about the art to my eye.

[Anonymous No.7728910]

>>7728870
Do you feel the same about other GBA games? I feel that way about some GBA games that instead of nice sprites use low resolution pictures. Klonoa has a little bit of that but not enough to deter me. What did you play it on? Maybe that had something to do with it.

[Anonymous No.7729173]

>>7728910
My Micro, it was my only GBA at the time. I later got rid of Klonoa as a trade for one of the Final Fantasy remakes.