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8614987 No.8614987 [Reply] [Original]

What is it with GBC RPGs that makes them so comfy?

>> No.8615069

>>8614987
Wat gaem?
Plz no bully

>> No.8615073

>>8614987
Extremely comfy color aesthetic
I wish there were more GBC RPGs desu, and more that weren't mon games
Might just compile a GBC RPG list
>>8614987
Pokemon Jade

>> No.8615076

>>8615069
I think it's Telefang.

>> No.8615094 [DELETED] 

>>8614987

For me it would be the assurance that everything is going to be compact and efficient, without lots of worthless slow animations or voice acting or excessively fancy-looking midriff-baring shirtlets bogging down the story and mechanics - or, even, very much text or coloration at all. It'll just be game game and more game. Can't make anything but a game on such a primitive device!

>> No.8615104

>>8615094
Well, the thing I like is the aesthetic, there's just something about it. I remember playing the Zelda Oracle games and I loved them, this was in the 00s, my first console was the GBA and these were the only GBC games I had. Not too long ago I played through the first Medarot game since it had received a fan translation, and while this is a game for the original Gameboy with Super Gameboy support it has the same general comfy aesthetic. I'm really looking forward to fan translation of Medarot 3, it's an actual GBC game.

>> No.8615107

>>8615094
Uh, it should also be mentioned that the GBC was basically a faster original Gameboy with added colour support, so there were a bunch of really experienced programmers around, hence why a lot of games on the GBC are technically quite impressive.

>> No.8615121

>>8615076
Thnx ill check my rom collection and see if i have it.

>> No.8615129

>>8615104
Grandia Parallel Trippers
Lunar 3
Infinity
Arle no Bouken
Daikatana
God Medicine
Zelda trilogy
For Whom the Frog Tolls color hack incoming
Kite's Adventure
Survival Kids 1&2

>> No.8615135

>>8614987
If you like the look of the GBC look at the Neo Geo Pocket Color which is similar

>> No.8615142
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8615142

The GBC color palettes are really comfy, everything feels so nice on the console.

Not exactly niche but Lufia TLR is really good for the specific GBC aesthetic

>> No.8615161

>>8614987
theyre 8-bit handheld games from the 90s, so they arent needlessly verbose like all their jarpig cousins on PS and SNES that werent as restricted memory-wise
sometimes that shit is just a chore
GBC games are never like that because its downright impossible to fit it all

>> No.8615223

>>8615073
Please share if you do, anon.

>> No.8615234

Nice colors and a great sound chip, when used well. The difference between high and low quality gbc games is massive

>> No.8615540

>>8615121
it will be called Pokemon Diamond if you accidentally acquired the shit

>> No.8615567

>>8615121
>>8615540
Don't play that shitty translation. There's a fan-translation.
https://wiki.telefang.net/Wikifang:Telefang_1_Translation_Patch

>> No.8615584

>>8615567
Oh, by the way, Telefang was developed by Natsume just like the Medarot games. I think they used the same engine. Check out the translation of Medarot 1 as well.
https://github.com/Medabots/medarot1

>> No.8616240

>>8614987
The more limited bright and contrasting color pallet might play into it. Does anyone else feel that GBC games need less light to get good visibility on a non backlit screen vs many GBA games?

>> No.8616253

>>8615121
Faggot

>> No.8616259
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8616259

>>8614987
OP if you're not going to write the name of the game on your post, or if the thread is not about one game/series at least write it on the filename
This is nice board

>> No.8616327

>>8616259
>he doesn't know about THE ELECTRIC MONSTER'S WORLD
Still a good idea though.

>> No.8616351 [DELETED] 

>>8615094
I read this in basedjak's voice

>> No.8616408

>>8614987
>>8615567
Main story still not completely translated :(

>> No.8616413

>anything involving actual cellphones
Soulless
>cellphones in GBC games
peak soul

>> No.8616431

>>8616408
Too lazy to look for it myself, but I'm pretty sure there is a 100% translation patch that was done a while back.

>> No.8616449

>>8616413
cellphones were pretty soulful, it's smartphones that aren't

>> No.8616694

>>8616431
Patch v147:
>Translated story through Cactos and part of Bryon (only the final encounter left now!).
Patch v148, v149, v150 don't mention any translation, only bugfixes.

>> No.8616703

>>8616694
How the fuck can it possibly take this long to TL the script of a short GB title?

>> No.8616765

>>8616703
As someone who follows scene and homebrew projects
>tl got busy doing other stuff that actually pays real money
>Got bored /tired / harassed by the community
>Killed himself

>> No.8617014

>>8616408
It's literally been translated for decades and thousands of kids have played it that way on their actual hardware

>> No.8617047

>>8617014
I grew up playing the bootleg too but I still think the game would be worth playing through with an actual non-Engrish translation.

>> No.8617151

>>8614987
Simply the aesthetic

>> No.8617369

>>8615135
NGPC sounds kinda like Game Gear, however.

>> No.8617514

>>8615584
I think Telefang was published by Natsume and developed by Smilesoft. Natsume probably has thr rights these days and won't touch it with a ten foot pole, though, cuz Smilesoft was shut down when the CEO was arrested for running a child sex ring.

>> No.8617585

>>8617369
There's also very few RPGs on the NGPC. Great for 8-bit fighters however.

>> No.8617616

>>8616413
Yeah, I think there's something about the cell phones. A lot of GBC RPGs had them, Telefang was even focused around them.

>> No.8617636

>>8617585
There were a few, but most of them were localized. I'm kinda surprised SNK let Nintendo make a Crystalis remake on the Game Boy Color at a time when they were pushing the Neo-Geo Pocket.

>> No.8617695

>>8615076
>>8615069
Pokemon Jade

>> No.8617726

>>8615129
Azure Dreams
Dragon Quest Monster games
SaGa series
Last Bible series (Revelations the demon slayer)
Devil Children

>> No.8617754

>>8617014
it's been poorly translated

>> No.8617863 [DELETED] 

finding low information stimulation appealing is a big part of autism

>> No.8618004 [DELETED] 

>>8617863
explain what you mean

>> No.8618046 [DELETED] 

>>8617863
Comes to /vr/
>Modern DLC ridden FPS's are better. 'low information' games are autistic.
You do know your on /vr/ right?

>> No.8618213

>>8617636
*unlocalized

>> No.8618608
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>>8614987
limited gamma on GBC screens, lack of backlight, and being stuck to 3 colors per sprite/4 per tile resulted in developers choosing warmer yet desturated color palettes that would be legible under direct sunlight. you don't see many cold dark GBC games because all you get from that is your own reflection staring back at you. so there's a lot of warm fuzzy good feel adventures on the system.
the devkits actually had built-in screens pulled from the same lots as the retail units, so devs could know exactly how their games would look on real hardware.

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8618624

>>8618608
another kit. the oldest ones were just boards with screens slapped on.

>> No.8618649

>>8618608
How much would these go for now?

>> No.8618795

>>8618608
Yeah, there's definitively something with the colors. It evokes some kind of feeling of rural Japan in the summer, or at least what I think it's like.

>> No.8619258

>>8616765
>>Killed himself
please be ironic

>> No.8619260
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8619260

>sparked a legendary spiriting community within Dragon Ball for decades
>nobody hasn't done a damn romhack of this
I just want my Pokemon Prism-tier hack of LSW

>> No.8619803

>>8618649
no idea about current prices, a few years ago you could get GBC and GBA devkits for $150~200 or less. There are a lot of variations out there, some have all the hardware on board, some end as carts you can plug into a retail unit.
Old handheld kits as a whole tend to be more common than other console kits because they were practically the same price as a retail unit. Blizzard even bought some GBA kits just to fuck around with a Diablo spinoff that never happened.

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8620135

>>8615142
robopon would like a word with u

>> No.8620728

>>8619260
this game had so much SOVL
have to replay it soon

>> No.8620929

>>8615069
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keitai_Denj%C5%AB_Telefang

>> No.8620965

>>8615142
Lufia TLR is my favourite GBC game. Even though the dungeons are all exactly the same, I always enjoy playing through it. The battle system is cool, it makes boss fights and the more difficult normal battles a lot of fun.

>> No.8621785

>>8615142
>>8620965
It looks really nice, definitely going to give this a shot.

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8621842

>>8616259
>peepee frog image
>This is nice board

>> No.8621851
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8621851

>>8616259
>peepee frog image
>doesn't know how to google, begs to be spoonfed
>"This is nice board"

>> No.8621931

>>8617514
>Smilesoft was shut down when the CEO was arrested for running a child sex ring
It wasn't a child sex ring, what actually happened was that the CEO was engaged in compensated dating with an underage 15 year old junior high school girl and then got caught having sex with her in a hotel room. There's no information that I could find on whether or not Smilesoft going defunct the same year was directly linked to that or not, but either way a successor company called Rocket Company was established with the exact same guy as the CEO. I think the Telefang IP went to them, but they disappeared as well so who the fuck knows who owns it now.

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8621980

It's roleplaying as a digger in Oracle games, for me
>NOOOO VERAN IS RUINING TIME AND BUILDING A TOWER
Wheeee more digging for me!
*digs*
*digs*
*TINK*

>> No.8622017
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8622017

>>8614987
Lufia Is damn pretty, and GBC looks very good in a small oled .

>> No.8622048

>>8622017
*touches*

>> No.8622053

>>8621980
Soulless filter, kill yourself, etc.

>> No.8622085

>>8622053
Later, still digging

>> No.8622129
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8622129

>>8622053
I was just trying out stuff because og GB batman looked really off without the dots, forgot to turn it off, colors look better without and the sprites hold up fine, I do play some games with filters , the ones on Android are kinda ehh.

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8622135

>>8622129
Combat is amazing in this game.

>> No.8622140
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8622140

>>8622135
Story and characters rule as well, dungeon layout are auto-generated like the bonus dungeon was in Lufia 2, to save space on the cart.

>> No.8622385 [DELETED] 

>>8622017
>>8622129
>>8622135
>>8622140
Lufia?

>> No.8622401

>>8614987
The graphics are far more abstract being 8bit. This lets your mind wonder and your imagination fills things in whether you realize it or not. Also and this isn’t exclusive to 8bit/GBC games but older RPGs where you actually read all the dialog yourself and that have to use in game graphics at all times creates a certain state of immersion in that world

>> No.8622557
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8622557

>>8619260
>I just want my Pokemon Prism-tier hack of LSW
the other DBZ GBC RPG deserves it much more

>> No.8622568

>>8622557
It's not GBC unfortunately

>> No.8622571

>>8622568
You're not GBC

>> No.8622574

>>8616253
no u

>> No.8622589

>>8622557
Just tried Goku Hishouden and the combat is absolutely dreadful. Sequel seems more fun though I might give it a spin.

>> No.8622598

>>8622557
This color pallete looks really nice, is it Super GB 3E?

>> No.8622605

>>8622598
Nevermind 3E looks slightly different

>> No.8622623
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8622623

This thread is severely lacking Star Ocean: Blue Sphere

>> No.8623039

I'm afraid to even look up how much Lufia TLR is going for now.

>> No.8623051

>>8623039
So? Use a flash cart. Even emulation is good at this point, emulation is nearly perfect and the games didn't run on CRTs to begin with.

>> No.8623061

>>8623051
Whoa, I never could have considered that option if you hadn't told me about it. Here I was wondering how people connected their Game Boys to their PCs to take these screenshots, little did I know they were actually doing that "emulation" thing, amazing! Thank you so much.
You fucking cretin.

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8623510

>>8621851

>> No.8623631

>>8623061
Quite an outburst over a pretty nothing opinion. I wonder what this anon is really mad at.

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8623902

>>8622568
and?

>> No.8623947

>>8622623
>Star Ocean: Blue Sphere
any translation avalible?

>> No.8623962

>>8623947
There's only a proper translation in French.

>> No.8623983

>>8623631
He's probably just annoyed that the first response to a post about the price is someone trying to sell emulation which has nothing to do with the post as if emulationfags cannot go a day without preaching the good news

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8623991

>>8623947
imagine browsing vr unironically and not having mastered nihongo yet

>> No.8624005

>>8623983
>hurr emulationfags
That anon's first recommendation was a flash cartridge for playing on actual hardware.

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8624006

>>8623991
Hmm, I recognize that.

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8624151

>>8622623

fan hacks made by mediocre nazis that can't run on stock hardware don't count

>> No.8624156

>>8624151
You are mentally ill, schizo.

>> No.8624165

>>8624151
wrong reply retard

>> No.8624186

>>8624006
wtf

>> No.8624191

>>8624005
Who ELSE would respond with
>and the games didn't run on CRT
When absolutely fucking no one is talking about that BUT some emulation cultist with some weird chip on their shoulder?

>> No.8624205

>>8624191
What I meant is that the benefits of using real hardware are much less pronounced with the Gameboy line than essentially all other consoles. The emulation itself is very good as well, the GBA had nearly perfect emulation (besides link cable and stuff like that) from day 1 because of some leaked information.

>> No.8624739

>>8615129
thanks man but Stranded Kids 2 sucks so hard. WTF was this even all about?

>> No.8624802

>>8624739
Being a kid
And stranded
The sequel

I'm being snarky but you know what, not enough survival games are made without zombies

>> No.8624813

>>8624205
Everyone on this board fucking knows that. Someone talking about the cost of physical is obviously interested in owning physical, despite what you're saying, because they value owning the physical product. This isn't a difficult concept. Nobody here needs to be told that emulation and flashcarts are an option. Anyone who does can simply lurk moar. Preaching to the choir not once but twice makes you come off as a very sanctimonious faggot.

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8624827

>>8624813
>Someone talking about the cost of physical is obviously interested in owning physical, despite what you're saying, because they value owning the physical product.

>> No.8624849

>>8624827
I accept your concession.

>> No.8624871

>>8621851
>old Buscemi pretending to be a high school student in thirty rock dot jaypeg
Ironic, considering that this board is largely children pretending to be old.

>> No.8624905

>>8624871
What do you base this on?

>> No.8624906

>>8624905
Avoiding facing reality.