2a92cb No.16546888
Hello, soon I will be going on a 34 hour plane ride back home.
What are some good GBA games that will keep me entertained?
Thanks.
4c3de3 No.16546897
Swordcraft Story and its sequel. Fire Emblem.
Really, the full GBA collection is so small you can just DL the entire thing at once.
2a92cb No.16546917
>>16546897
>rompacks exist where you can download 100s of games instantly all in 1 folder
why the fuck didnt i know about this sooner
996017 No.16546924
This badboy right here. Great hack and slash action with RPG elements.
16214c No.16546929
>>16546897
>Swordcraft Story
>cute girl MC
>nice pixel graphics
>get to instantly sail around, like a real adventurer
>come to pretty cave
>first combat
>it's floaty 2d combat
Wtf /v/ does it get better? Or is that how fights generally go?
2cb477 No.16546947
>>16546917
I would recommend downloading the no-intro dumps if anything. The whole folder is 12GB big with a lot of shovelware but at least the dumps are good and not modified by certain dumpers.
>Advance Wars 1&2
>Chuchu Rocket
>Densetsu no Stafy 2&3
>F-Zero GBA
>Fire Emblem
>Guru Logic Champ
>Kurukuru Kururin
>Mario&Luigi RPG
>Mother 3 (has a english fanpatch if you seek it)
>Rhythm Tengoku
>Sonic Advance trilogy
>Wario Land 4
>Zelda Minish Cap
I'd be wary to recommend the Donkey Kong Country GBA games because I personally find them worse than their SNES original releases in both graphics and sound.
2a92cb No.16546957
>>16546947
i just downloaded the 165 pack from cdromance
https://cdromance.com/gba-roms/165-roms-pack/
has about 95% of the stuff you just listed
e5ca7d No.16546980
>>16546924
good lord it's hard to believe the GBA screen was that small
c5a3e7 No.16547077
Gadget Racers.
Retroarch literally fucking fails to run GBA games without sudden FPS drops. What a piece of garbage. Stick with standalone emus lads
d61942 No.16547094
>34 hour plane ride
Good lord.
a406be No.16547096
>>16546917
would you like me to dump it?
2a92cb No.16547105
454c08 No.16547114
>>16546917
You can download a lot of roms from internet archive, and in bundles according to platform.
1a9eaf No.16547117
>34 hour plane ride
Fucking sleep the entire time. That is the best advice I can give you. I just did the same shit as you and all I wanted to do was not be conscious the entire time. If you do not heed my advice then play Metroid 34 times in a row.
78a6e0 No.16547133
>>16546924
I played the shit out of the Two Towers GBA game as a kid and it was a lot of fun, always annoyed me that Gimli was multiplayer only though. If RotK is similar I'll give it a go.
>>16547094
>>16547117
This is the kind of shit that makes me glad I have no reason to travel anywhere. All those people who get trapped at airports for days because of cancelled flights, and I'm just sitting at home being comfy and playing vidya.
b59356 No.16547158
The Golden Sun RPGs are nice. Usual JRPG battles but some fun over world puzzles.
SimTower is okay on GBA.
DragonballZ Legend of Goku/Supersonic Warriors is good.
GTA Advance, Metal Slug Advance, Spyro Season of Ice.
If you haven't played Pokemon Mystery Dungeon this is a great chance to!
2a92cb No.16547169
>>16547158
I'm personally not a big fan of JRPG's but I'll try out the others you mentioned.
A couple months ago i played Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and it was good until i beat the game. Got boring fast.
a406be No.16547182
>>16547105
uploading to the Vola, should take about 20 minutes
173e6c No.16547190
Dragon Ball advanced adventure is pretty good, Super Robot Taisen OG 1 & 2 also
000687 No.16547191
f777c2 No.16547208
>>16547094
Zeppelin resurgence when?
327c1b No.16547215
For future convinence, get a flashcart and put color corrected roms on it. They look a lot better on the SP.
3b4906 No.16547219
>>16546888
Nice digits, anon.
"Final Fantasy I&II: Dawn of Souls" is great. It's basically just a GBA remake of the first two Final Fantasy games with a couple bonus dungeons. FFI is a timeless classic, simple but very fun.
2a92cb No.16547236
>>16547219
I'll keep that one in mind
a406be No.16547239
>>16547208
I mean how big could you make one and still have it be feasible? I think the Hindenburg could only hold like what, 50 guests?
173e6c No.16547250
>>16547219
Don't play final fantasy II though unless you really like the idea of leveling up each individual stat and stupid high encounter rates.
>>16547239
Further more, if a kebab gets on one you might as well kiss your life goodbye.
ec5236 No.16547253
>>16546947
definitely go for Minish Cap, anon. could also check out some good GBC games due to the backwards compatibility
2a92cb No.16547255
>>16547250
I've never played a FF game before but don't encounters = exp and item drops?
173e6c No.16547273
>>16547255
Normally, but FFII is the black sheep of the series. More like the precursor to SaGa than a normal final fantasy game.
82f4c9 No.16547284
>34 hour plane ride
Where the fuck are you going to and from that it's a 34 hour plane ride?
b25b2e No.16547291
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Here you go OP.
Watch the video and if you are at all into sidescrolling beat em ups or Double Dragon games in general, well I'd say this may be the very best Double Dragon game ever made.
At least next to Super Double Dragon for the SNES anyway.
173e6c No.16547292
>>16547284
I hear Hell is nice this time a year.
2a92cb No.16547294
>>16547284
From Indonesia to Canada. Will be taking off from Jakarta and landing in China, then from China to Montreal and Montreal to Nova Scotia. A total of 33h and 55 minutes.
b25b2e No.16547303
Also OP remember in addition to Double Dragon Advance there's also…
Final Fight One
Zelda: LTTP
Zelda: Minish Cap
Metroid: Zero Mission
Metroid: Fusion
Castlevania Circle of the Moon and two other Castlevania games as well. Well actually four if you count the Castlevania NES classic game which I think is also on GBA.
f777c2 No.16547326
>>16547239
With current day material science and general advances in aeronautics you can make them alot smaller than the big benises of the 1920s and 30s.
The full-scale version of pic 2 is projected to carry 66 tons of cargo while the Akron-class and similarily hueg rigid airships of the era could only carry some 15-20 tons.
>>16547250
>Further more, if a kebab gets on one you might as well kiss your life goodbye.
But Helium doesn't burn and the US doesn't seem to care much for conducting Helium trade embargoes these days.
Rigid airships could in fact have higher survivability in wild kebab attacks as they have multiple semi-redundant helium tanks, if the kebab blows a hole in one of them the ship might still go down after floating around for several minutes, allowing the passengers to don Parachutes and/or make use of any on-board lifeboats/escape pods in that time.
Even if the passengers don't make it out the slow speed of airships and their floaty nature make crashes less spooky than they'd normally be, especially in regards to ditching.
4050ac No.16547332
>>16547284
Multi-segment flights, where you end up geting on off multiple planes/times easily become nightmares in how long they can take.
996017 No.16547339
>>16547133
It is the same style as Two Towers, but with a few minor updates and tweaks, such as special arrows you find as loot now no longer being unlimited in number.
Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli have the exact same levels, while Aragorn, Frodo and Éowyn having unique journeys/levels. There are also several bonus levels you can visit at any time from the menu with your characters (great for leveling up). Two bonus characters can be played on these bonus levels when they have been unlocked.
There is also a handy function that allows you to store extra items in a 'Ranger Hollow' which allows you to easily pick up weapons and armour found by another character/playthru.
3b4906 No.16547353
>>16547250
>Don't play final fantasy II though unless you really like the idea of leveling up each individual stat and stupid high encounter rates.
Agreed, FFII is way worse than 1.
a406be No.16547544
>>16547326
Thats what I was thinking. Imagine AIRSHIP CRUISES. Then again half the fun of a cruise is being on the sea, its not like you could go out on deck. I wonder if it could do it faster or stop less though. That might be a draw.
1feea4 No.16547648
>>16546888
Golden Sun + Lost Ages
Kirby Amazing Mirror
golden sun is the only jrpg besides ff9 that i've been able to sit through. dont know if thats good or bad.
a4e795 No.16547672
>>16547648
I imagine you just mash through the dialog and just play through it since Golden Sun doesn't have a plot, I've never found the gameplay compelling though either as Pokemon-lite or the dungeon layouts.
4b2fe6 No.16547684
Suggesting pics related and Gunstar Super Heroes.
Treasure games are fucking amazing.
>>16546929
Swordcraft Saga combat gets pretty crazy later, with juggles and special abilities and shit.
>>16546980
>good lord it's hard to believe the GBA screen was that small
and yet it had shit that looked fucking amazing. It has some of the best pixel art ever thanks to those limitations of needing large expressive sprites on a small display while also being 32bits of pure 2D fun.
>>16547253
>definitely go for Minish Cap, anon. could also check out some good GBC games due to the backwards compatibility
Link's Awakening and the two Oracle games are must-haves. Tetris DX on GBC is also the best version of Tetris ever IMO.
5814de No.16547769
>>16546929
Put points in agi and you'll actually move faster
41b8c8 No.16547827
>>16547219
This version is much different from the originals and far easier. Play the original NES games or Origins on PS1 instead.
7e9d2f No.16547946
>>16547753
>yurifaggotry
>not playing as the boy and having a manly adventure
It's fags like you that make me pretend not to like this game.
d97f09 No.16547948
78a6e0 No.16548026
The GBA Castlevanias are all great. Well, Harmony of Dissonance is only okay, but the other two are both excellent.
Harvest Moon is always top comfy.
Riviera: The Promised Land is a pretty unique JRPG with a combat system based around the use of limited items and has some pretty cute girls
627df7 No.16548077
>Drill Dozer (Awesome platformer by Game Freak. Great music, visuals and some of the tightest gameplay on the system)
>Kururin Paradise (Best Kururin Game. Has better music and graphics than the original and has cool minigames)
>River City Ransom EX (Awesome update to a classic game. Nuff said.)
>Payback (Like GTA1 but on GBA. Yes, it's in 3D. Has an awesome OST)
>Mario Party Advance (Cuts out the middleman and is a game almost entirely devoted to the funny dialogue and cool minigames you'd see in a mario RPG. The gambling minigames are BS though.)
GBA was fucking good. A favorite console of mine.
301b82 No.16548174
>>16548026
Harmony of Dissonance is shit and Friends of Mineral Town is literally not a game. Try one of the several Game Boy Color Harvest Moons instead.
8c18da No.16548177
>>16548174
Nice shit opinions.
677e7b No.16548215
My GBA choices are going to be met with skepticism, but I enjoyed Nightmare in Dreamland and Resurrection of the Dark Dragon despite being somewhat inferior remakes of older games.
I'm going to assume you'd play other GB games as well, so here's some Pocket and Color games. MGS and Mario Golf are the best portable stealth and golf games ever made.
>>16548177
Dissonance is basically baby's first Metroidvania, and considering how easy SotN already is, that's pretty sad.
6edc8b No.16550637
>All of Super Mario Advance games
>Mario Tennis: Power Tour
>Kirby: Nightmare In Dreamland
3fa362 No.16553040
Tactics Ogre - Knights of Lodis is great fun
HIGHLY RECOMMEND
9448ee No.16557379
>>16548215
>nightmare in dream land
>inferior
what
677e7b No.16557399
>>16557379
I've seen other anons argue that Adventure is superior.
610661 No.16557433
>>16557379
Background elements that lent the platforming a feeling of verisimilitude were removed so they could show off the background art
0d85ff No.16557460
Anything I would reccomend is already posted, besides kirby amazing mirror
>>16557399
Adventure IS superior in some ways, namely butter building with the cool rotating levels that're replaced with some timed doors, but NiD introduces changes to the physics and graphics that iMO make up for it.
of course, NiD is my favourite game of all time so… when's flagship gonna make another kirby game god damn it
cb7104 No.16557557
>>16546888
If you want a good RPG like >>16547219 suggested, I'd also recommend Mother 3. It's still the best GBA game I've ever played and one of the best RPG's I've ever played.
7b3e55 No.16557831
Pics related are pretty fun
b82e8b No.16557880
>>16546924
Oh shit. I forgot this game even existed. it's pretty fucking awesome
b82e8b No.16557889
>>16548177
Have to agree with the other anon on Harmony of Dissonance. I love Aria and Circle, but every time I tried playing Harmony I drop the game pretty fucking fast. I couldn't even tell you why though, which creates a vicious cycle of me giving it another shot and then immediately putting it down.
78a6e0 No.16557910
>>16546924
>>16557880
I've done a playthrough as Gimli now and it is pretty fun. Huge 2-handed weapon + lifesteal on kill + damage reduction skill = never fucking die. That said, it can get pretty difficult at times, though that may be because I dumped most of my early skill points into increasing loot.
>>16557889
HoD looks much worse than the other two and has crappy music, which is a real shame for a Castlevania game. I wouldn't say it's shit, but it is quite janky compared to the others.
b82e8b No.16557916
>>16557910
>HoD looks much worse than the other two and has crappy music
That's probably what it was. The main appeal to all the handheld Castlevanias was the spritework and music. Even something like Circle, which gets hate for being dark and grim, still has beautiful art direction. I think Harmony also was really zoomed in (so you couldn't see shit) and had floaty controls, but my memory might be wrong.
3da20d No.16557923
>>16557916
>I think Harmony also was really zoomed in (so you couldn't see shit)
It was
>had floaty controls
This is wrong though.
Harmony was the second best on the gba because Circle was unfuckingplayable with its stiff controls and it being impossible to see anything. Harmony's zoomed in psychedelic rainbow grafx aside it was really fun.
b82e8b No.16557931
>>16557923
>Because Circle was unfuckingplayable with its stiff controls and it being impossible to see anything
How was it impossible to see anything in circle? You at least had a large viewing distance, unlike Harmony. Nothing blended together, because the enemies always contrasted with the background. I don't really remember the controls being bad either.
3da20d No.16557966
>>16557931
I haven't played it in more than a decade but without a backlight all the brown on brown made it a bitch to see. I remember the controls being stiff and sometimes delayed, but even if they weren't can we at least agree basing your game on having the absolute worst horizontal movement of any castlevania, old style or igavania style, even after you're a few bosses in and can do more than slide or take damage to move at anything above a snails pace?
a3c311 No.16558146
Pocky and Rocky with Becky, surely you've played the SNES games, right? This one is more or less the same, but now you can play as a blue haired miko. Not on GBA but check out Heavenly Guardian on PS2 if you like these games, it's a spiritual sequel.
Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure, a solid beat em up that encompasses the entire manga, fun even if you don't give a shit about dragon ball.
Crash Bandicot The Huge Adventure and N-Tranced, i don't know how they did it but 2D crash actually works, these are pretty much the only games worth a shit outside of all the PS1 releases and Twinsanity.
41b8c8 No.16558155
>>16557966
Run speed in CotM is a hell of a lot faster than plodding along which is what you have to do in most other games. The greater gravity and attacks changing direction in midair with you requires more deliberate, planned attacks since you can't just move away from a boss while still attacking it.
8c18da No.16558166
>>16558155
>Muh planned jumps
CotM faggots are pathetic.
2ea4f4 No.16558207
I found my GBA Micro this weekend while visiting my hometown, but I think it just needs a new battery since it won't charge or turn on but the LED's light up when plugged in.
3aa7eb No.16558539
>>16557557
Mother 3 is terrible though.
444568 No.16558632
>>16558539
>Mother 3 is terrible though.
Nonsense.
b82e8b No.16559134
>>16558166
>You have to think about your actions
>Something that's been in the series since the first Castlevania
>Bad
Didn't realize it was a skill reason. All makes sense now
e4d753 No.16559294
Does grabbing those super long ass flights lower the price significantly?
677e7b No.16559436
>>16558207
Throw it out and get an AGS-101 model of the SP.
173e6c No.16559456
>>16558207
That doesn't sound right. You shouldn't need a battery to turn it on as long as you have the AC adapter.
1f71a5 No.16559618
advance wars
advance wars 2
a3e33d No.16565251
>>16557910
> it can get pretty difficult at times, though that may be because I dumped most of my early skill points into increasing loot.
It can be hard unless you spend some EXP on the character’s special abilities. I tend to avoid those, since it makes the game feel cheap. The only exceptions are Gandalf – A playthru with Gandalf is impossible without upgrading his magical special abilities.
The bonus maps can be a (fun) challenge as well – Moria on ‘grueling’ difficulty is insane!
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b7b555 No.16583830
>>16557966
>the only Metroidvania besides Richter Mode that actually allows you actually RUN for 99% of the game
>the absolute worst horizontal movement of any castlevania
What's it like having a thumb so feeble you can't even double tap a D-pad? CotM additionally has a functional and useful slide mechanic, unlike the gimped piece of shit in nearly every Igarashi game.
b7b555 No.16583837
>>16557923
Really ironic you would bitch about stiff controls while mentioning Harmony of Dissonance. HoD has the stiffest platforming controls outside the classic games, Juste controls like he's wearing magnetic boots.
74266e No.16585323
>>16547077
>using retorarch to begin with
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520530 No.16587745
>>16546888
Where the fuck are you going, Triple Hitler? Going from Japan to Washington is only 18 hours. Unless you're counting layovers?
520530 No.16587757
>>16557966
The Dash Boots are literally the FIRST ability you get, and it's pretty much in the third room you're required to go through. And holy shit CotM is far from stiff. You just gotta git gud son.
I beat that shit in every mode, on an OG GBA, it wasn't that bad when the system was new. I suspect the screens in original models are somehow deteriorating because good god they're absolute dogshit now.
f210c1 No.16587960
>>16553040
I tried it and was a bit too slow for my tastes. Didn't get far into it.
Nobody said Golden Sun and the sequel? Those are good. I am currently playing Fire Emblem and the sacred stones. Good challenge on hard mode. But I prefer to get through with everyone alive.
There is also Metal Slug for GBA. Seems good, but I dropped it cause it wouldn't let me save for some reason. Good thread, I'm writing down tons to pirate.