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Anonymous Mon May 17 08:50:28 2021 No.7764559 [Reply] [Original]

>The GBA has no backlit screen
>The SP has the worst D-Pad known to man
>The Micro is too small to hold comfortably

What were they thinking?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 08:54:41 2021 No.7764572 File: 167 KB, 512x384, 1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >The Micro is too small to hold comfortably thats stuff only people say who never played on a micro

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 08:56:07 2021 No.7764574 >>7764572 Yes, the rest have gone blind from squinting to be able to post here.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 08:57:14 2021 No.7764578 File: 28 KB, 400x400, 1247221383526.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7764574

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 08:58:29 2021 No.7764581 >>7764574 yor flawed genetics are not nintendos fault

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:00:25 2021 No.7764582 >>7764559 probably the same as you opening yet another gba-hardware-thread: nothing.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:03:24 2021 No.7764585 File: 38 KB, 553x554, 568.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7764582

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:04:48 2021 No.7764592 The SP dpad is awesome though, what the hell is your problem?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:09:42 2021 No.7764598 >>7764559 Still confused how they thought they should just repackage a SNES and sell it as a handheld

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:10:23 2021 No.7764601 >>7764598 You say that like there's something wrong with the SNES.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:10:59 2021 No.7764602 >>7764601 It's fine for its age but the GBA should have been so much more

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:11:25 2021 No.7764604 I just use my ds phat. >perfect size for man hands >responsive and comfortable controls >excellent screen >also plays DS games

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:11:32 2021 No.7764605 >>7764592 Too fidgety. It's a nightmare to play anything like Zelda where you can move in 8 directions.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:14:17 2021 No.7764609 File: 464 KB, 1200x1200, DQ32pbSXcAIcT0W[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7764602 The GBA was definitely powerful for handhelds of the time. Remember what the competition looked like. The only problem I have is the weak audio.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:15:58 2021 No.7764615 >>7764605 It's clicky, not fidgety. It gives plenty of tactile response to a change in input.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:16:35 2021 No.7764618 >>7764609 if that has Klona its way more advanced than a GBA. What kind of storage would that have to be? Must be MVS.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:18:12 2021 No.7764621 >>7764618 The klonoa game on wonderswan plays almost identically to the klonoa games on gba. Well, apart from the rotation gimick.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:21:55 2021 No.7764626 >>7764621 Less texture warping than the psx though

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:25:37 2021 No.7764632 >>7764604 But doesn't play GB games, and I'm not sure what's better, GB+GBA games or GBA+DS games.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:27:18 2021 No.7764635 >>7764632 I just emulate those with GameYob.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:28:53 2021 No.7764640 >>7764559 The SP had awesome buttons, it's the form factor that sucked.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:31:18 2021 No.7764647 File: 66 KB, 1024x768, vedX6[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7764640 When I play my SP I use one of these grips, it's much comfier that way.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:34:23 2021 No.7764654 >>7764605 It's a nightmare to pay baby zelda games that are super easy in the first place? This sub makes up new complaints on a regular basis. If you don't like how handhelds handle then just pay on your TV I guess.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:36:00 2021 No.7764662 >>7764654 >It's a nightmare to pay baby zelda games that are super easy in the first place? Am I not allowed to enjoy easy games? >This sub Go back.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:37:07 2021 No.7764667 they all have their ups and downs my preference is advance w/ ips otherwise it'd be the micro >>7764654 go back

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:38:49 2021 No.7764673 >>7764647 I'd rather just use a regular GBA. Even with that kind of a grip, everything is way too close together. SP's clicky buttons on an original GBA would be perfection.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:39:08 2021 No.7764676 >>7764654 Based redditchad putting the 4chonions in a seething bind

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:40:31 2021 No.7764681 File: 7 KB, 268x188, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7764647 Its probably scraping paint off your gba. I liked pic related for similar reasons, until I realized the damage it was doing to my shell

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 09:59:42 2021 No.7764736 File: 72 KB, 635x800, DSC_3049.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7764647 we need to trade grip colors

Anonymous Mon May 17 11:12:54 2021 No.7764882

>>7764559
The SP has an ok DPad though, the 3DS has a worse one, and isn't even the worst by far.

>>7764598
>porting fun 16 bit console games to a 32bit handheld
>mostly intact in most cases
>second version of the handheld is very compact and has a lit screen
I don't see the part of this equation which is bad, anon.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 11:15:29 2021 No.7764890 >>7764882 >>mostly intact in most cases The audio was almost always downgraded, and they often ruined the graphics because muh dim screen.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 11:16:40 2021 No.7764897 >>7764605 Bitch, I've done ALTTP more times than I can remember on the SP, it's easy, you just have bitch fingers. >>7764654 >sub Hello, police? There's a faggot on the loose!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 12:16:27 2021 No.7765007 >>7764559 >worst Dpad Are you shitting me, anon? The Switch Pro controller has a worse dpad. Hell even the mushiness of the GBC wasn't that good either.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 12:19:24 2021 No.7765016 >>7764890 Dim screen is the lesser issue. Far worse is the difference in resolution. SNES games should've been ported to the DS, not the GBA.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 12:22:08 2021 No.7765021 >>7764559 >What were they thinking? it was 90s and early 2000s tech, they were thinking of profit, not about your autism and your weird fetishes

Anonymous Mon May 17 12:40:51 2021 No.7765054

>>7765016
That's true. The DS screen is wide enough for SNES games, but still a little too short. A lot of games would probably fare okay by moving some of the UI to the lower screen though.
A shame the DS is so weak, it would have made a nice little SNES emulator back in the day.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 12:49:34 2021 No.7765070 >>7764559 Sp dpad is fine T. Played my sp to death as a kid

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 12:54:48 2021 No.7765083 Whatt are you talking about, the SP's d-pad is fine.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 14:33:46 2021 No.7765332 I always kind of wanted a Micro, but at the time I had both the original GBA and a DS, so it seemed pointless. Maybe the Micro is just novelty, but I've always liked how it looked even if it strained practicality.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 18:04:49 2021 No.7765874 >>7764598 They should have, that would have ruled and produced even more SNES games. The GBA isn't an SNES in any way though.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 18:06:35 2021 No.7765878 >>7764609 Its newest hardware component was literally 8 years old at launch, so that just speaks to how bad handheld buyers had been getting shafted at that point in time. It's not really a point in favor of it but a condemnation of the Gameboy.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 20:02:35 2021 No.7766210 >>7764574 The micro actually improved my eyesight. I used to use glasses now I don't need them. I can see bacteria with the naked eye.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 20:19:18 2021 No.7766265 >>7764572 Micro was released close to the DS as well. Made zero sense to buy one.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 20:27:31 2021 No.7766294 File: 218 KB, 515x484, 1620603944480.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7764598 zoom zoom

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 20:29:49 2021 No.7766306 >>7764598 Bro do you have any idea how fuckin legit it was to have Super Mario World on the go?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 20:30:38 2021 No.7766310 File: 239 KB, 518x590, 1525192749500.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7764559 >The SP has the worst D-Pad known to man how is it even possible for someone to be this wrong

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 20:34:17 2021 No.7766330 >>7766265 The Micro released after the DS. It came out around the time of the DS lite and Wii, because it has the same d-pad aesthetic.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 20:35:38 2021 No.7766341 >>7766306 This. Nobody cared that it sounded like shit compared to the SNES version because just the fact that you were playing a console game on a handheld was amazing enough.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 17 20:57:55 2021 No.7766436 >>7766310 Maybe OP just has a really tiny frame of reference, like he's only ever used two D-Pads in his life?

Anonymous Mon May 17 22:49:46 2021 No.7766812

>>7765878
Portable processors that didn't eat batteries like crack weren't powerful in the 90s. Getting manufacturing scales down below the micrometer level has become a major help. Now we have phones and the Switch running on sub-28nm tech, which is frankly astounding. Plus lithium ion batteries.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 18 00:41:36 2021 No.7767226 >>7765878 Who cares? The games were good.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 18 01:59:21 2021 No.7767446 >>7764559 >The GBA has no backlit screen factual information >The SP has the worst D-Pad known to man works on my machine >The Micro is too small to hold comfortably Just try it. >What were they thinking? perfect trilogy

>>	Anonymous Tue May 18 02:08:12 2021 No.7767472 File: 312 KB, 480x360, file.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >why yes i do prefer the micro how could you tell

>>	Anonymous Tue May 18 04:02:19 2021 No.7767708 >>7765878 Like I said, it's not just the Game Boy, but also other handhelds that were much weaker than the GBA.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 18 04:12:53 2021 No.7767724 >>7764736 rofl, long lost twins! I liked the SP! Spent so many hours with Golden Sun, Fire Emblem and more. The rechargeable battery was pretty neat for the time. The only real problem was no headphone jack.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 18 04:44:50 2021 No.7767770 >>7766265 >Made zero sense to buy one. its tiny and made of metal a ds is neither

>>	Anonymous Tue May 18 05:12:05 2021 No.7767823 The unlight screen on the GBA fat sucks but people overblow how dark it is. Just quit trying to play you games in bed and go to sleep.

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