/v/ - Video Games

>>14819454

>Favorite Games

Zelda trilogy (Link's Awakening and the Oracle games)

>Favorite System

Game Boy Advance SP (specifically pic related version)

>Favorite Memory

Getting Marin as an item late in Link's Awakening and holding her above Link's head like an item, and imagining Link looking up her skirt to see her panties in the process.

>Do You Still Have a Use for Handhelds?

Yep, I travel a bit, it's nice to take the Switch with me.

>>14819734

> What was that action rpg game with lots of weapon forging and lesbians on gba called again

Swordcraft Saga? It was pretty good.

>Favorite Games

Metroid 2, Link's Awakening, Operation C, Castlevania Adventure

>Favorite System

I suppose the AGB-001, as it was a leaner, meaner DMG-01

>Favorite Memory

Powering through Metroid 2 in under two hours, multiple times, when I still enjoyed life.

>Do You Still Have a Use for Handhelds?

No, I don't do much of anything when I'm not at home, least of all play video games.

>>14819734

>I hate most of handheld games

Because they're on a handheld system or what reasoning? Emulation can fix a lot of problems, small screen, proper controller, etc. Other than that, a lot of handheld games play like normal games and there's not a whole lot of difference if they happened to be a NES/SNES game or a GB/GBA game.

>>14819823

I probably should've specified my favorite GameBoy Advance is also the SP. I tend to forget about the older model because I rarely used to see them as everyone else I knew had an SP. I couldn't live without the backlight either. The SP fits the right balance between small enough to be portable, but big enough to be playable unlike the Micro. Not to mention, Micro can't play original GameBoy games.

>>14819867

Never seen a knockoff like that before. Can it only play original GameBoy games?

>when I still enjoyed life

I know that feel, just don't get too caught up in everything and learn to take small things at a time.

>>14819886

I personally haven't played Final Fantasy Adventure, is it any good? How highly can you recommend it to someone who has little interest in Final Fantasy?

>Favorite Games

Mario & Luigi Series

>Favorite System

Game Boy Micro

>Favorite Memory

Getting my GBA SP on christmas night with Metroid Fusion <3

>Do You Still Have a Use for Handhelds?

I still use my GB Micro. Recently even got a flash cart. Wanted to get a Revo k101 too but they seem to cost a lot these days. Fuck.

>>14819975

Can a Micro with a Flash Cart of any sort be worked around into playing original GameBoy and GameBoy Color games? And can original GameBoy and GameBoy Color games even work on a GBA flashcart? I appreciate the Micro for what it is and I like it overall, but the screen size is too small for me. It's great if you're being physical and worried about your GameBoy getting broken or whatnot. If only there was some way to Google Glass that shit. Some sort of portable system where the screen can be worked into your glasses with a small ass controller that can run any sort of game would be amazing.

Also I'm not usually into 3D, but that Asian girl is cute.

>>14820043

There's a GB and GBC emulator for GBA:

http://www.webpersona.com/goomba/

Doesn't look that great on the GB Micro, sadly, but it still works.

>>14820111 (checked trips)

Has it really not been updated since 2004? That's odd considering I thought both GameBoy Advance and SP were backwards compatible and only the Micro wasn't. But maybe it's specifically for flashcarts? That seems mostly likely the case. And are there any pictures of it on Micro? I'm curious as to how "not great" it actually looks.

That girl is legit ugly to me

>Favorite games

Pokémon SS, Pokémon Black, Super Mario World, not a game, but Flipnote Hatena

>Favorite System

DSi

>Favorite Memory

Playing Mariokart with 6 of my other cousins

>Do you still have a use for handhelds?

Nahh. After I graduated from school, all I do is work, and play games at home.

>>14820154

It's specifically for flashcarts.

Can't really find any picture, but imagine an even smaller resolution than the GB Micro's already small one.

I can see why they decided to drop retrocompatibility for the GB Micro.

That said, what's really great about the Micro is portability: it's so small it can fit anywhere, the games look surprisingly great, even better than the OG GBA imho, and it's backlit.

The GBA in general has a great library too, it's basically a portable SNES even if it has it's dose of shovelware

>>14820165

You sound like a 20-something year old late 90s babby. Graduated from college or high school? I had a DS too, but I always preferred my SP which I sold in order to get a DS because I heard it was backwards compatible and I didn't know the DS existed until around the time of the Wii. I didn't bring my DS everywhere as nearly as much as I did my SP and even then my DS suffered sunlight damage which then caused me to not bring it anywhere at all unless it was inside. I'm disappointed Nintendo only creates less and less durable systems as time goes on. I wonder what that has to do with.

>>14820190

SP is backlit too, so that's what I've always preferred. Although I agree I would prefer a Micro if I had a flashcart or if I could even get my hands on one. Those things still sell for their original retail value. Speaking of portable SNES, I wish an end-all portable emulation machine could be made. Something as small as your average smartphone but with tactile buttons and could play virtually anything or at least up until GameCube / PS2 / Xbox era. And I know SNES might be out of the question, but is there anyway to emulate NES games through a flashcart on GBA?

>>14820218

It seems like computing power progresses further and further but the battery capabilities don't. At this rate, we might as well prepare ourselves for only 1 solid hour of battery life. I'm dying to get some durable consoles too, I don't even move mine around or get mine damaged all that much, but some weight or feeling of independence to them would be nice.

>>14820277

>Those things still sell for their original retail value

Got mine for around 25 eurobucks a couple of years ago. I got lucky tho.

>I wish an end-all portable emulation machine could be made.

The GPD XD is the closest thing we've got to an affordable one. But i want one with a dedicated OS. Fuck android.

>is there anyway to emulate NES games through a flashcart on GBA?

http://www.dwedit.org/gba/pocketnes.php

Last update is from 2013. Never tried it tho.

>>14819951

>original GBA screen

Was it really as bad as everyone memed it to be?

>>14819951

> I personally haven't played Final Fantasy Adventure, is it any good?

Really good. It's more like a Zelda game than a Final Fantasy game, and it's actually the first game in the Mana series (just was rebranded in the west for recognition) and it's the prequel to Secret of Mana.

>>14821071

The original GBA screen was decent under perfect conditions. It became unusable is many lighting situations though. It was fucking dark, and if you wanted to play Circle of the Moon in a dimly lit room you might as well just headbutt a brick wall.

>>14821133

Shake it is actually pretty fucking good. Master of disguise is mediocre but i like it's sense of humour and there are some very clever ideas. You should play them imho.

>>14820316

DS has a lot of good games, it just didn't have the same wide variety of good games that both the GameBoy and GameBoy Advance had. Or maybe it does, but there's so much shovelware in comparison that it's hard to look. Some DS games also have the added bonus of feeling like an actual game rather than feeling like shortened down segments of another game. Don't get me wrong, I love the Advance, but some of those games aren't worth full price or are so much inferior compared to related titles.

And if anything, I had more time to game after I graduated high school, but I agree the portability loses it's value once you can drive yourself and don't need to play games in the car.

>>14820485

>Fuck android

Amen, brother. I don't mind it for everything else, but it's emulation is trash at times. And I'm aware tactile button add-ons exist, but I don't feel like spending money on that and there's deeper problems than just interface.

>>14820567

Yeah, those games just don't feel the same and I largely prefer the original SNES versions. I wonder, is there anything the GBA versions do better or adds that warrants playing it over the SNES versions?

>>14821071

No, others just do so much better. It was passable and did it's job fine, but if you're a fat handed ogre like me anything handheld can tend to be a bit on the small side either for screen or buttons. It just wasn't backlit either, but some accessories could solve that problem.

>>14821111

I've always wondered why the GameBoy Advance didn't have an extra row of XY buttons, it seemed like the natural upgrade considering the original GameBoy was akin to the NES and the Advance to the SNES. Even so, I agree they should've held off on ports or at least try to make it it's own thing. Imagine if the Mario Advance games weren't remakes but added levels for their respective titles.

>>14821133

I miss Wario Land too, it's part of the reason I made this thread as I thought it could get some people to talk about it. Also, do any good VB emulators exist? I've been wanting to play VB Wario Land for the longest time. Nintendo should just remake the good VB games at this point or at least do something with them. I've never played Shake It either, but Master of Disguise is alright if you forget about the Wario Land games while playing it. I think it had some potential to it and it had a lot of neat ideas, but for some reason it got gimped.

>>14821172

Huh, I must've been confusing it for Final Fantasy Legend. Do you know if those are any good either?

Been rolling with a DSLite with 2 flashcards for the last few years, would recommend the 3in1 as I like having the GBA/DS stuff on the same SDCard. I do have some patches that supposedly let you do the pokemon related GBA>DS transfers, but I haven't felt like replaying any of them yet to test.

>>14823455

I feel a bit sorry for HACCAN over his art being associated with the rather iffy nuMana remakes. I mean, I like his style, both there and with other games he's worked on, but it still feels like a shame.

>>14822688

>Or maybe it does, but there's so much shovelware in comparison that it's hard to look.

Any system that gets popular is apt to get an assload of shovelware. Maybe the reason the GBA doesn't seem as inundated is because it was only current for three and a half years, until the DS came out in late 2004, with the so called "third pillar" idea being quickly enough dropped (out here anyhow) in favor of the DS replacing the GBA. Follow that with the DS continuing to see releases up through 2014 (admittedly the ratio of game to shovelware increased a lot in favor of the latter by the end; Pokemon B2W2 and Conquest were some of the last actual games as 2012 releases), and the DS line being the best selling handheld, and that's a lot of shovelware. But the point is that it does have a pretty solid library once you get past that. On the other end of the spectrum though you had people that just disregard the entire thing as "another Pokemon system" as if it (and the prior Game Boy lines) had literally nothing else of value to offer.

>I've always wondered why the GameBoy Advance didn't have an extra row of XY buttons, it seemed like the natural upgrade considering the original GameBoy was akin to the NES and the Advance to the SNES.

They probably didn't want to rock the boat too much, especially since that was going to be the job of taking the risk with the DS.