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Posted on 10-28-18 09:07:16 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Narumi
I liked the original GBA the best because of how easy it was to hold and how well it fits in pockets. Another thing the GBA had was a soundfont that, when used right, it made some awesome tunes.

The GBA didn't really have a sound font (or any complex sound hardware at all); you might be thinking of certain developers that had their own music drivers and soundfonts, but as far as I'm aware there's nothing built into the system itself, beyond the original Game Boy sound hardware.

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I have no idea why they made those things take up so much room as opposed to being a standard link port. It makes even less sense since if you end up jolting or jerking the GBA away, you probably want the cable to pop off easily, lest you end up with it getting yanked out of your hands, or worse, yanking the console off of wherever it's sitting.

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Posted on 10-28-18 01:17:40 PM Link | Quote
GBA has Golden Sun. Enough said.

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Posted on 10-28-18 05:07:12 PM (last edited by Kawaii-e at 01-30-22 05:37:57 AM) Link | Quote


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The GBA SP, I always thought of that thing as a Service Pack. ^^


I had my original GBA, which I bought on April 2nd, 2001 as an Japanese import, modded with an Afterburner Frontlight Kit. I had an SP in 2003, and mostly adored it's super portableness and rechargable battery, but then went back to my original GBA, if I wasn't using a DS or DS lite.

But last year, I replaced it with a clear orange / black GBA with backlight mod. Didn't look back since.
Paired with an Everdrive X5 for it, it's a great portable little systems with lot's of great games. But I still tend to use my original cartridges whenever possible.

Anyone remember Pogoshell? And it's integratet NSF and MOD player?
As I didn't have a Discman or one of those expensive mp3 players, I listened to a lot of music on my GBA. As I had one of those old GBA flashcarts which had to be flashed trough the GBA with a GBA - USB cable.
I don't remember the flashcarts name, and I don't have it anymore after it broke, but I should still have that cable. I wonder if there are any drivers for modern OSes to read and write saves directly to GBA...

That may be a workaround for my inability to print e-reader dotcodes.

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Posted on 10-28-18 05:48:01 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Xkeeper
GC link cable inanity

Originally posted by Xkeeper
I forgot the absolute worst part of the SP which was the bizarre, fucked up adapter you had to use for headphones, that basically nobody had. So nobody ever did.


This is a picture of my third party headphone and Gamecube adapters.

Headphones, charging, and Gamecube linking all at once!
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Posted on 11-06-18 08:19:53 PM Link | Quote
Now that I dig into it...I don't think I've actually streamed too many things GBA outside of this:



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Posted on 11-07-18 02:21:51 AM Link | Quote
I decided to bite the bullet and buy a handheld at our local indie video game store Sunday, and I ended up buying an original Game Boy Advance. Wasn't able to find Ruby/Sapphire though, but on the upshot all I need is a Gamecube link cable.

After literally 15 years come later this month, I would finally own the tech needed to visit the island in Animal Crossing. Also opens up to other fun stuff, I suppose. Now, to move my shit from Illinois to California...

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Posted on 11-11-18 08:57:44 PM (last edited by Kawaii-e at 01-30-22 05:37:35 AM) Link | Quote


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Woa....

Just was at a LAn-Party with lot's of consoles and almost no computers.
And I once again played a lot of Advance. Once again finished Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World, now to find all the other exists and dragon coins.
I started anew as I found some colour correctin patches for the SMA series.

We wanted to finally play Kirby and the Amazing Mirror with four players, but one cartridge went the way of the dodo and played a round of Mario Bros. Battle instead. Was still lot's of fun, but until we get 4 players together again... next year.


After going trough some GSF archives, I stumbled over some cool music. Also going trough the random rom-files on my flash cart revealed some strange stuff, like Ottifanten Pinball. The title screen music is just a live recording of one of the creators songs.


But I still couldn't scan some power up cards for SMA4, as all people care are the e-levels

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Posted on 02-18-19 11:09:40 AM Link | Quote

I love the GBA. Didn't have many games for it at the time but the more weird examples I come across the more I love the system. The library seems to be full of silly and odd things unlike most other systems. There's a weird sense of wonder in it for me.

We also had some GB games for it, but otherwise we had...3-4 GBA games? I can't remember them aside from a star wars one.

I wish we didn't get rid of ours after the down on the d-pad gave out years ago. :< At least we got to use it for the island in AC.

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Posted on 02-20-19 11:22:26 PM Link | Quote


Will this do? Took an aging Intel Atom brick and made it play stuff and attached it to a 50". F0MV was great.

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Posted on 02-22-19 11:41:56 PM Link | Quote

The Game Boy Advance had an excellent library. I’d say my top three are Wario Land 4, Advance Wars 2, and Rhythm Heaven. But I’m pretty sure I played the Mega Man Zero games more than anything else.

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Posted on 02-23-19 02:50:43 AM Link | Quote
i was toying with a friend's micro a while back and it struck me immediately how perfect it was? it just felt ridiculously right. haven't owned a GBA of any stripe since i was a kid but totally need to get one... bit Generations, rhythm tengoku, warioware, etc. on the original hardware just sounds like a dream
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Posted on 02-23-19 03:03:13 PM Link | Quote
tbqf i never liked the SP, but i always appreciated the original and the Micro. the original, especially if you replace the screen with a glass one, is ergonomic perfection. the Micro is well-designed in a lot of ways, although i wish there was a glass screen too...

but now i’m also starting to appreciate the art of these games. you know, if you ever play it on one of those 3:2 displays, you can get it to fill your display without any letterboxing whatsoever. cool right?

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Posted on 04-01-19 08:14:55 AM Link | Quote
I kinda want an SP myself, admittedly I'm not sure how comfy I would find it to be. My old original GBA don't feel very great to use though, the d-pad feels super stiff and stuff. I don't know if that's due to it's age/use/etc, but I'm not a big fan. The micro I have is great tho, but lacks support for a few GBA features that went into the link cable port (rip gamecube connection). I'm also concerned that the micro's screen might be a bit to small once I get older... :v

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Posted on 04-01-19 03:35:57 PM Link | Quote
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i definitely like the SP's clicky buttons over everything the Advance has, makes the dpad feel more precise to me. also rechargeable batteries are great!!

on the games side of things, i think i'm finally starting to appreciate the hoenn pokemon games. the overworld art is like they gave gen 2 some more colour depth, the story's not so bad after all (though "oops who would have guessed an ancient pokemon buried in the earth would be super powerful??? guess i ended up a bad guy??? sorry!" isn't that great a resolution for the teams) and for all the teasing the soundtrack gets for its instrument selection, it's well composed for sure. coming fresh off the GBC's chiptunes and playing Ruby in 2003 certainly impressed me, anyhow.

besides, if there's a game i'm gonna complain about bad instrumentation and odd art style it'll be Metroid: Zero Mission. great game, my fav in the series, but just.... oof.

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The GBA is one of my favorite systems! The MegaMan Battle Network series is one of my all-time favorites, and lately I've been playing a pretty good amount of Pokémon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire ❤

I have an original GBA (the clear icy one) and a blue SP (the earlier frontlit model), and while I prefer how the original feels, I use the SP a lot more since the screen is waaay more visible xux Though, lately I haven't been using my actual hardware too much, since I've been using an emulator in RetroArch on my Switch since it's a lot more convenient... still though, I still love my GBAs a lot, especially since there's stuff I can only do on the hardware

My favorite accessory for the GBA would probably be my Battle Chip Gate to go with MegaMan Battle Network 4 (though it's not that useful until the English translation of 4.5 comes out...), it's pretty unique and while it's recently gotten emulator support in two emulators, nothing beats the feel of putting a real battle chip in the thing and having it work in the game hehe ❤

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Posted on 04-02-19 05:47:20 PM Link | Quote
I still have my pearl blue SP (the later AGS-101) though I gave the charger away years ago. Maybe I should start a collection of all the models I can find.

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Posted on 04-29-19 09:00:22 PM (last edited by Kawaii-e at 01-30-22 05:31:07 AM) Link | Quote


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Originally posted by Shining Wing
The GBA is one of my favorite systems! The MegaMan Battle Network series is one of my all-time favorites, and lately I've been playing a pretty good amount of Pokémon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire ❤


What was / is your highscore on Pinball?

I never liked it back at release, but finally got into it last year and started to get some usable high scores too!

My attempts last year:
Sapphire Table
Ruby Table

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Posted on 05-01-19 06:13:08 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Kawaii-e
What was / is your highscore on Pinball?

I never liked it back at release, but finally got into it last year and started to get some usable high scores too!

My attempts last year:
Sapphire Table
Ruby Table

Ah, my high scores are somewhere in the 20-million range, far less than your scores hehe... I'm pretty impressed by your scores though

I haven't really been playing the game too much since I posted that actually hehe

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