is this the best way to play gba

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Anonymous Sun Oct 31 14:18:37 2021 No.8288496 [Reply] [Original]

is this the best way to play gba

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 31 15:19:42 2021 No.8288641 >>8288496 fuck no, that tiny ass shit gives me hand cramps.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 31 15:20:51 2021 No.8288646 >>8288641 thread. https://www.retrorgb.com/gameboy.html

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 31 15:33:20 2021 No.8288665 >>8288496 >nice light >crazy battery life sure idk what else youd want

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 31 16:42:24 2021 No.8288797 >>8288496 If you can handle the form factor it is. For faster action games, the SP cramps my hand. But if I'm playing something like advance wars, or an RPG, the Micro looks so much better.

Anonymous Sun Oct 31 17:59:34 2021 No.8289046

>>8288496
If you're gonna play GBA only, why not just use a DS Lite? The GBA SP is great, but the DS Lite screen is much better and the buttons are laid out better. It also has a headphone jack, which is absent on the GBA SP. Besides, a DS Lite is cheaper than a GBA SP last time I checked.

The only reason to get a GBA SP is if you're going to play Gameboy or Gameboy Color games.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 31 18:31:36 2021 No.8289147 >>8288496 It has the worst ergonomics of any device ever created, other than that its pretty good

Anonymous Sun Oct 31 18:54:07 2021 No.8289204

As someone who owned both versions of the GBA (Both the original and the SP) I prefer the original, only because the SP gives the cramps and is ergonomically fucked as other people mentioned.

Now, I do believe that the reason why they went for it was for the 'pocket' factor, but also because the screen could be scratched (And no one wanted to pay for a screen protector at the time, so for children, it would be better if it was possible to close it) That of course, ignores the fact that there were many children that broke the upper part of the SP.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 31 19:19:20 2021 No.8289274 Nah, get a DS Lite.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 31 19:26:08 2021 No.8289301 >>8289274 ahs 101 best tho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjtD1mOZlPc

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 31 20:57:14 2021 No.8289581 File: 3.71 MB, 4032x3024, DSC_0236.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8289274 >shitty buttons >wrong A and B placement >smaller screen nah, mod a regular gba with this. https://funnyplaying.com/products/itas-new-agb-tft-backlight-kit

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 31 21:01:02 2021 No.8289596 >>8289581 Is it easy to fuck up installing that?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 31 21:02:40 2021 No.8289603 >>8288665 Comfort, good dpad + buttons. OG gba or bust.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 31 21:03:01 2021 No.8289604 >>8289596 not him, but there should be videos showing the process step by step so that retards like myself don't fuck it up.

Anonymous Sun Oct 31 21:10:58 2021 No.8289624
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>>8289596
easy to fuck up?
not really if you are careful.
they sell ITA "ready" shells (you still need to do some cuts, but very easy cuts).
if you buy an IPS ready shell (like I did) then you'll need to cut a lot and while it isn't exactly hard, it isn't easy without the right tools and takes a lot of time.
and as >>8289604 said, there are installation videos already so guide you, but I suggest you to follow funnyplaying instructions since I've seen some installs that cut other parts of the shell instead of what funnyplaying tells you to cut.
but it's worth the hassle.
colors are very accurate to ags-101, the screen size is the same as stock and so it's the ghosting. no ags-101 blur.

Anonymous Sun Oct 31 21:16:10 2021 No.8289635

Not OP but I'd like to ask my own questions here:

I can get a backlit original GBA. would that be better than the flip one? I don't really know if the lithium batteries are to be trusted. At least rechargeable ones are easy to come by.
Should I get a DS instead, to take advantage of the DS library too?
How likely am I to get fucked by buying GBA carts in 2021? Do they still save? Are bootleg carts bad or something?
Are the "retro handhelds" worth it? (I assume they aren't, but I want more opinions).

I'm sorry if these are stupid questions but I'm a retard and my last console was a SNES.

Anonymous Sun Oct 31 21:23:20 2021 No.8289651

>>8289635
>I can get a backlit original GBA. would that be better than the flip one? I don't really know if the lithium batteries are to be trusted. At least rechargeable ones are easy to come by.
Stick to the original AGB. Provided the world still exists and humanity has the current tech level it has now in 10-20 years you should probably be able to get AA batteries with relative ease.
>How likely am I to get fucked by buying GBA carts in 2021? Do they still save? Are bootleg carts bad or something?
There are bootlegs, but for the most part you can get legit, used carts for a reasonable price. The majority of GBA games switched to FRAM I believe, which does not need a save battery as well. Unless you purchased it in person from a store, don't expect to get legit copies of the Pokemon or Metroid games.
>Are the "retro handhelds" worth it? (I assume they aren't, but I want more opinions).
Depends on what you are looking for in a handheld. >>8269210 is a good source of info on what is good and what is trash. I myself use a mix of the real deal and a Retroflag GPi for handheld gaming and multiple home console stuff in the case of the GPi.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 31 21:30:05 2021 No.8289673 File: 378 KB, 1280x958, DD2CF01A-3BB2-4850-B881-1C82B9B988BB.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8289581 XL looks really good, just wish the hypervisor was better

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 31 21:35:05 2021 No.8289686 >>8289673 he was talking about a ds lite that is the shittiest way to play gba. dsi suffers from wrong button placement and inaccuracies (be it gbarunner2 or dstwo emu). otherwise, pretty comfy. t. used to play gba on my dsi via dstwo

Anonymous Sun Oct 31 21:40:17 2021 No.8289706

>>8288496
I bought one of these used and immediately returned it because the speakers were absolute garbage quality and there was no headphone jack. You had to buy a dongle to use headphones and in 2012 it wasn't easy to get ahold of one.

DS lite is the ideal way to play GBA, in my opinion. Especially since you can use a flash cart to boot GBA games.

Anonymous Sun Oct 31 21:41:29 2021 No.8289707

>>8289686
>dsi suffers from wrong button placement
I don't think so and the XL buttons feel 100 times better than the regular DSi
>inaccuracies
yeah, mostly audio issues but since the full Arm7 has been dumped, I'm hopeful it'll improve in the near future

Anonymous Sun Oct 31 22:04:25 2021 No.8289754
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>>8289707
>I don't think so and the XL buttons feel 100 times better than the regular DSi
you are just talking nonsense. the buttons are the same.
and is not the "feel" of the buttons what I'm talking about, it's the position (hence placement, you smoothbrain).
pic related should tell you everything unless you are actually a real retard.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 31 22:09:35 2021 No.8289761 >>8289754 I swear the autism about placement is the lowest form of nitpicking with controllers

Anonymous Sun Oct 31 23:17:20 2021 No.8289882

>>8289761
and yet, the debate about symmetrical vs asymmetrical sticks never ends.
i'm not saying that the dsi has shit controls (only the ds lite with it's very muchy dpad and buttons), they are actually the best.
but its positioning is not suited to play gba games.
a modded gba is better at the job, specially with the new ITA kit that uses a dsi bottom screen, so you get the best of both worlds.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 31 23:25:17 2021 No.8289903 >>8289882 bump

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 31 23:26:23 2021 No.8289907 >>8288641 I figured you'd be used to handling tiny instruments

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 31 23:27:39 2021 No.8289910 >>8289882 >the debate about symmetrical vs asymmetrical there is no argument for either because you use both positions in controllers as for the "GBA placement" you have opposable thumbs, you're not a dog

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 31 23:28:44 2021 No.8289914 >>8289882 >the debate about symmetrical vs asymmetrical there is no argument for either because you use both positions in controllers as for the "GBA placement" you have opposable thumbs, you're not a dog

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 03:16:23 2021 No.8290320 >>8289914 is the 101 screen better then the 001 screen should i get a gba sp 101 i got carts

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 03:36:37 2021 No.8290348 >>8290320 not sure why you're replying to me but yes it's way better and not unless you wanna pay out the ass or go hunting for one better off replacing the screen on an original or SP or just use a DS lite

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 03:45:03 2021 No.8290353 File: 1.64 MB, 245x219, giphy.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >not playing GBC, GBA, NDS on your N3DS not gonna make it

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 03:47:33 2021 No.8290358 I play GBA games on my DS Lite and do so just about every day. IIRC the only issue with the Lite is it has some slight ghosting

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 04:30:45 2021 No.8290407 File: 170 KB, 326x281, zoomer-tidepod.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8290353 >ngmi

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 05:42:13 2021 No.8290518 >>8290353 If only there was a 3DS XXL that had a GBA cart slot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 05:44:20 2021 No.8290521 >>8289046 No link cable/wireless adapter/gamecube compatibility

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 05:46:28 2021 No.8290525 >>8290353 That is one of the worst ways to play each of those consoles

Anonymous Mon Nov 1 05:58:14 2021 No.8290536

How many GBA games support soft reset? Or rather, how many don't support it?

>>8290525
The screen makes them ugly, but otherwise all the games play fine. I do that just because it's more convenient to have everything in one place. I've learned to stop caring about the upscaling.

>>8290358
The ghosting differs a lot between different DS Lite units. The fat doesn't ghost very much.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 06:05:30 2021 No.8290541 >>8288797 Reading the text in RPGs on the Micro's tiny screen was too tough.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 06:07:54 2021 No.8290543 >>8290536 >The screen makes them ugly Maybe your settings aren't good, they look fine to me and play fine.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 06:07:58 2021 No.8290545 >>8289754 I'm one of those people who got filtered by the DS's button placement for GBA games. I just found it too uncomfortable.

Anonymous Mon Nov 1 06:43:42 2021 No.8290614

>>8290536
>The ghosting differs a lot between different DS Lite units. The fat doesn't ghost very much.
Anon are you seriously telling me you think "DS Lite" is the name of the brand with the "fat" as a variant? This is actually the most zoomer thing I've ever read in my life.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 06:47:14 2021 No.8290620 >>8290614 That's not what I said.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 06:49:31 2021 No.8290627 >>8289046 A/B is fucked on DS. Makes playing Megaman Zero impossible.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 06:55:14 2021 No.8290639 >>8290627 >megaman X is impossible on a SNES controller is this what /vr/ has become?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 06:55:41 2021 No.8290640 >>8290639 Megaman X has remappable controls but then so does the Zero collection

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 07:00:00 2021 No.8290649 >>8290640 I want you to pick up a DS and rotate your hand at about 45 degrees it's really not any type of issue but I guess everyone here has a hissy fit over the 64 controller so whatever, you do you

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 07:00:29 2021 No.8290651 >>8288496 No, it's better if you hold it so you can press the buttons

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 07:13:27 2021 No.8290664 File: 28 KB, 338x359, dunce.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8290614 >anon i'm seriously telling you i can't into reading comprehension

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 07:21:02 2021 No.8290675 >>8290620 I misread it but I maintain it's totally possible to misread it that way, so you should have taken better care to word your posts better. >>8290664 >gaslighting

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 07:51:18 2021 No.8290704 >>8290675 There is no way to read it how you did. You're just a retard

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 07:52:38 2021 No.8290707 >>8290543 Get your eyes checked, anon

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 11:50:01 2021 No.8291160 >>8290675 Anything's possible with the power of stupid, fucko. But please. Keep on coping an embarrassing yourself. The power of autism compels you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 11:52:33 2021 No.8291165 >>8290704 >gaslighting >>8291160 >gaslighting I thought y'all were better than this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 12:02:50 2021 No.8291193 >>8289603 The clicky dpad is way comfier. Spongy one on the og gba feels like dookie. What are you playing on it? Just rpgs?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 12:45:34 2021 No.8291290 >>8291193 not him, but I played aria of sorrow no problem on an ips gba and to bring the point even further, a couple of times I used a gba sp, it didn't made a difference to me, both are good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 19:33:00 2021 No.8292412 >>8291290

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 1 22:10:50 2021 No.8292806 >>8291165 >gaslighting No. Hard fact. Take your autistic esl ass back to discord or whatever shithole you crawled in from.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 2 01:00:31 2021 No.8293221 >>8292806 >>Hard fact. >still gaslighting It isn't going to work.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 2 14:22:31 2021 No.8294852 >>8293221 bump

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 2 14:31:18 2021 No.8294874 >>8288496 my gba sp 101 battery is dying :( what do I do? I have to charge it every time I wanna have a play session, and the charge dies after only a day of inactivity.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 2 14:32:04 2021 No.8294878 >>8294874 get a new one

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 2 15:06:36 2021 No.8294961 >>8294874 Get a ds battery.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 2 17:23:08 2021 No.8295291 >>8289907 kek

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 3 01:22:47 2021 No.8296483 >>8295291 bump

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 3 02:18:38 2021 No.8296592 >>8289754 They're both shit, who the fuck cares. I play this on my PC with my DualSense and rebind whatever the fuck I want because I'm not retarded

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 3 02:34:20 2021 No.8296626 File: 72 KB, 625x455, Y04petergriffin.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8289754

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 3 03:59:55 2021 No.8296759 >>8296626 Literally every underage faggot who's trying to fit in by being an autist aping even more autistic autists. So like 90% of the board/

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 3 08:37:56 2021 No.8297231 File: 30 KB, 389x519, IMG_20200315_154958043.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8290518 3DS's can run GBA games natively due to their DS components. You just got to hack it bro.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 3 11:40:04 2021 No.8297547 >>8297231 >Scaling to full screen Fucking hell

Anonymous Wed Nov 3 12:00:30 2021 No.8297613
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3DS XL injection with integer scaling. The actual screen size ends up being comparable to real GBA screens while still being sharp and bright, and the form factor isn't fucksmall like the SP or Micro. You get the benefit of having the games digitally so that you can backup/import your saves whenever you want without another device and you can load whatever roms you want. The only things you're missing are the link cable (as if anyone has local friends with GBAs these days) and special cartridges. WarioWare Twisted is the only one most people care about using the features of anyway, but there's a special mGBA build with gyro support that you have to run a patch on your 3DS' firmware to use that you can play it on anyway. Get yourself a monster hunter grip for maximum comfy

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