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Tasty

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« Reply #120 on: August 04, 2014, 08:56:59 PM »
It's cool, Himu. This is an OG GameBoy love-in thread anyways.



What a quaint system.  :heart

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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #121 on: August 04, 2014, 08:58:23 PM »
I beat Wario Land so many times you wouldn't belieeeeeve.

Also, Donkey kong Land 2. :aah Fuck Donkey, I wanna play as Dixie. :aah
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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #122 on: August 04, 2014, 09:01:13 PM »
I beat Wario Land so many times you wouldn't belieeeeeve.

I didn't actually play the first until last year in 3DS VC, still holds up pretty well. Got 100% too. :jawalrus

I started with WL3 and 4, those games were fucking rad. :rock

Playing WL2 for the first time via 3DS VC right now.

Fuck Donkey

:leon

I remember in the early 2000's I felt like I was insane because I just KNEW I had played DKC2 (well, something like it) on my GameBoy but I could never find out any info about it (lost the cart and forgot the name.) :lol

Donkey Kong Land 1 served me through some boring times.  :american

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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #123 on: August 04, 2014, 09:06:30 PM »
That was Dkl2. They did Dkl3 and it had that stupid fucking baby sink never got it because no one can beat diddy and Dixie power team :aah

I never played the other wario lands. Just the first. :larry amazing given it was pretty much my favorite game boy game.
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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #124 on: August 04, 2014, 09:08:32 PM »
Well I thought it was DKC1 because it had DK and Diddy, I knew it wasn't "exactly" DKC2 but I figured stuff gets lost in ports, or maybe it was DKC1. Didn't know.

I remember WL4 being awesome. Reeeaaaally fucking awesome and addictive.

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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #125 on: August 04, 2014, 09:11:58 PM »
Project Atlantis deets: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=183358

Never knew about this, sounds pretty wild.

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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #126 on: August 04, 2014, 09:19:53 PM »
Enjoy this ASMR vid of some pawg playing with game boy games



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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #127 on: August 04, 2014, 09:32:21 PM »
http://www.wired.com/2009/03/gdc-nintendos-u/



This thing was apparently the Atlantis. That's a DSi next to it on the right.

Wow. And I thought the GBrick was big.

Oddly, it has the four XY/AB face buttons. :lol Would take nine years for those to actually hit a retail system (DS.)

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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #128 on: August 04, 2014, 09:41:28 PM »
Considering getting a white GBASP because I'm sick and tired of having to emulate FFV or VI when I've got them right here in their cases. Worried about gba piracy though but thankfully I've still got my faves: Mega man zero 2, ffv/vi, Metroid zero mission.

I'd have to rebuy stuff like aria of sorrow (let kid borrow it and he never gave it back) and stuff like Klonoa's, ninja five-o, astroboy ( sold when I needed cash back in college days).
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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #129 on: August 04, 2014, 10:05:46 PM »
What are the best import only gba games that aren't Rhythm tengoku and mother 3?

Good guide here.

http://hg101.proboards.com/thread/10936/looking-good-gba-imports

Hope there's good RPGs. DQ monsters in Japanese sounds good.
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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #130 on: August 04, 2014, 10:15:03 PM »
What about gb/GBC?
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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #131 on: August 04, 2014, 10:56:18 PM »
What are the best import only gba games that aren't Rhythm tengoku and mother 3?

Good guide here.

http://hg101.proboards.com/thread/10936/looking-good-gba-imports

Hope there's good RPGs. DQ monsters in Japanese sounds good.

Slime Morimori DQ and Summon Night 3 would be my picks, and the Starfy games if you like reaaaaalyyyy easy platformer type games.
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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #132 on: August 04, 2014, 11:03:16 PM »
ninja 5-O

I bought this game a while back and was shocked to see that this shit is worth a LOT of money complete... pretty good obscure game for the platform, like Bionic Commando mixed with Shinobi. I should play it more...
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« Reply #133 on: August 04, 2014, 11:37:14 PM »
It's cool, Himu. This is an OG GameBoy love-in thread anyways.

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What a quaint system.  :heart
My GB was and probably still is a lot closer in color to a select few of those than the majority...

Just like my SNES.  :-\

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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #134 on: August 04, 2014, 11:46:05 PM »
Any OG GameBoy recs? Since I got one on the way and all.

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« Reply #135 on: August 05, 2014, 12:43:16 AM »
mole mania

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« Reply #136 on: August 05, 2014, 01:15:37 AM »
Balloon Kid looks great. Mole Mania looks zany.

Both are available on VC, and I'll get them there. TBH I'm only going to get carts if they're not on VC.

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« Reply #137 on: August 05, 2014, 05:13:28 AM »
avenging spirit
bubble ghost
final fantasy adventure
gargoyles quest
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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #138 on: August 05, 2014, 07:00:27 AM »
What are the best import only gba games that aren't Rhythm tengoku and mother 3?

Good guide here.

http://hg101.proboards.com/thread/10936/looking-good-gba-imports

Hope there's good RPGs. DQ monsters in Japanese sounds good.

guru logi champ it's a pretty novel puzzle game



bit generation sound voyager is another good one



you catch invisible dots, this sounds like a really stupid premise but the catch is that the dots emits sounds, so you have to understand their location by carefull listening from the direction of which the sounds come which make this game pretty much impossible to play without headsets, there are other mode too like one where you have to dodge invisible cars and another where you have to catch an invisible chicken

bit generation digi drive



this took me a while to understand but after you do it's a really nice game, basicaly cars come into this + intersection and you can redirect them to different section, when you park a certain amount of the same type of cars in a direction, they make a triangle, putting more cars evolve the triangle into a square, the square into a pentagon and so on into polygon with more corners (the best one is a circle obviously) now once in a while a flashing car will come and when you redirect the flashing car into a parked section it scores you point depending on what pentagon you had

but wait! there are different way to multiply the amount of car you park, the first is that if you make a polygon on every corner you enter a bonus mode where every car is worth a whole set, the second is that if you break a set (by sending a card of a different color) that set gets added to another different set, buuuuuuuuuut if you have 3 set instead, the set you broke get added to BOTH set effectively multplying that set by 2
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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #139 on: August 05, 2014, 08:13:32 AM »
Guru Logic Champ gets really, really difficult. Never finished it.

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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #140 on: August 05, 2014, 09:15:35 AM »
ninja 5-O

I bought this game a while back and was shocked to see that this shit is worth a LOT of money complete... pretty good obscure game for the platform, like Bionic Commando mixed with Shinobi. I should play it more...

I need to get rid of mine already.  Bought it when it first came out.  It's OK I guess but I'll take $150-$200 from some sucker for it.
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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #141 on: August 05, 2014, 09:51:46 AM »
Guess I'm getting Final Fantasy Adventure. Prices seem good too.

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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #142 on: August 05, 2014, 10:03:07 AM »
OG GB Recs:

Sword of Hope
Sword of Hope 2 (3DS VC) (Shadowgate + RPG)
Quest: Brian's Journey (GB version of Quest 64)
FFAdventure (Sword of Mana GBA is a remake/revision)
DK94 (3DS VC)
Shadowgate Classic
Jurassic Park
Bionic Commando (there is a GBC version thats completely different)
Motocross Maniacs
Kirby's Dream Land 2 (3DS VC?)
Pokemon Card Game (3DS VC in EU only so far)
Mega Man V (3DS VC) (All Mega Mans are good, but this one is truly different, the others are kinda watered down ports)
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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #143 on: August 05, 2014, 10:19:44 AM »
Good recs, thanks demi. :)

Isn't Quest 64 considered... terrible?

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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #144 on: August 05, 2014, 11:12:43 AM »
I never knew that the Gameboy Mega Man games were actually outsourced.  Explains a lot about Mega Man II in particular.  Capcom only used that developer once.
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Re: The Game Boy is 25
« Reply #145 on: August 05, 2014, 12:40:17 PM »
OG GB Recs:

Sword of Hope
Sword of Hope 2 (3DS VC) (Shadowgate + RPG)

Yeah, the SOH games were awesome. My cousin came to visit for two weeks one summer, and he had the first one, and I spent most of the time he was down playing it. Whenever he wanted to do anything, I was just kinda like "Mmm...nah, I'm just gonna play this."
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Re: Game Boy Appreciation Thread ♥ Retro Recommendations and Portable Love
« Reply #146 on: August 05, 2014, 10:42:53 PM »
Thread renamed. :)

Will be posting impressions when my GB gets here and buying those recs to try out.

Also gonna try out LSDJ. I'll fall on my face but I'm eager to learn, already have it loaded in an emu and have been messing around with it and reading guides.


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« Reply #148 on: August 05, 2014, 11:49:21 PM »
List of everything on 3DS VC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Console_games_for_Nintendo_3DS_(North_America)#Nintendo_Game_Boy

:mouf

On the last world of Wario Land II. Can't say for sure yet whether I like it better than WL1.

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« Reply #149 on: August 06, 2014, 01:39:59 AM »
Demi's list is pretty solid. Sword of Hope was DOPE, I remember having a huge hard-on for Kemco's Macventure ports back when I was a kid and those two games basically taking that engine and tacking on RPG elements onto it.

I don't hear this game being talked about much, but Great Greed was another RPG at the time that held my interest. Played it again a few years ago, weird as fuck game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Greed
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Re: Game Boy Appreciation Thread ♥ Retro Recommendations and Portable Love
« Reply #150 on: August 07, 2014, 02:15:37 AM »


2.3x faster and 4x the RAM of a NES. I think people overlook this which is unfortunate. The GB has the rep of being a totally weak system but I think that's mainly due to the screen. It's most apparent in the music, GB chipmusic is much more pleasant to listen to than stock NES chipmusic (Shovel Knight wanted to be NES authentic but had to include the three additional channels of the  VRC6 Famicom add-on to sound close to good.)

Also, some nice watchin':




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« Reply #151 on: August 07, 2014, 02:43:16 AM »
2.3x faster and 4x the RAM of a NES. I think people overlook this which is unfortunate. The GB has the rep of being a totally weak system but I think that's mainly due to the screen.
I think that's because of their relative competition.

The NES had 1983 technology in it, so it was "set in stone" basically six years before the GameBoy. The Master System and Atari 7800 both came too late and weren't too much better. By 1988 tech in the Genesis, it got roughed up.

The Game Gear came out like a year after the Game Boy, the Lynx came out the same year as the GameBoy. The TurboExpress wasn't too far behind.

The black and white thing did totally hurt it though. Game Gear seemed to blur almost as much in my memory. (And no, it wasn't because Sonic was faster than Mario.)

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« Reply #152 on: August 07, 2014, 02:08:00 PM »
Tentative rec list in order of planned purchase:

  • Final Fantasy Adventure
  • The Sword of Hope
  • Quest: Brian's Journey
  • Bubble Ghost
  • Shadowgate Classic
  • Jurassic Park
  • Motocross Maniacs
  • Mega Man 5 (VC)
  • The Sword of Hope II (VC)
  • Bionic Commando (VC)
  • Balloon Kid (VC)
  • Mole Mania (VC)
  • Gargoyle's Quest (VC)
  • Avenging Spirit (VC)

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« Reply #153 on: August 07, 2014, 02:29:47 PM »
Kwirk  :lawd

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« Reply #154 on: August 07, 2014, 02:37:27 PM »
That'll keep you busy for a while, yup. Why no DK 94? U own it already? Game is swag as fuark.
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« Reply #155 on: August 07, 2014, 02:50:41 PM »
Yeah, own it on the VC. :jawalrus

But haven't played it yet. :fbm

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« Reply #156 on: August 07, 2014, 03:07:08 PM »
Kwirk  :lawd



:kobeyuck

urgh i hated this shit, if you like it atlus owns it and they made like a bajillion version including one that is shoe-horned in SMT3 that you have to clear if you want a special prize



pretty sure they made a GBA version too
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« Reply #157 on: August 07, 2014, 04:16:53 PM »
Andrex, did you buy an OG brick Gameboy, and if so...why?  That screen is  :yuck :yuck :yuck

Would have gone with a Pocket or Color.
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« Reply #158 on: August 07, 2014, 04:50:34 PM »
Was very close to buying a Pocket. Might still get one.

Got the brick because I'm designing a GB-type game and want to be faithful to all the limitations.

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« Reply #159 on: August 08, 2014, 11:24:02 AM »
Quote
"Pic of the day. "♪Ba-ding!♪""

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"If you turn on the 3D effect, it really looks like there's a Game Boy inside the screen."

Even Sakurai getting in on the GB love. :heart

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« Reply #160 on: August 11, 2014, 03:10:02 PM »
My GB and Tetris finally came in the mail. :rejoice

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« Reply #161 on: August 11, 2014, 04:32:53 PM »
This version of Tetris is serviceable, but two things holding it back right off the bat are lack of shadows and lack of "up" to drop immediately.

I know holding blocks and generous post-drop movement freedom are contentious topics (I prefer them myself), but the above two things are necessary for an efficient game of Tetris IMO.

Anyone who says this is the best version of Tetris is koo koo bananas.

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« Reply #162 on: August 11, 2014, 04:35:56 PM »
You press down to drop the block. Shadows are redundant because the pixels are gi-fucking-gantic and the screen tiny.

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« Reply #163 on: August 11, 2014, 04:36:33 PM »
Down moves it down faster, but doesn't drop it immediately. Unless I'm missing something.

All the blocks are using the dark gray color, a light gray outline of the block could easily work. But it was before that mechanic was added to the series I think.

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« Reply #164 on: August 11, 2014, 04:37:50 PM »
Well that's gonna have to be good enough, whippersnapper.

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« Reply #165 on: August 11, 2014, 04:46:00 PM »
:P

It's still addicting and fun of course. I can easily see how this was a killer app, especially with link cable versus play. Would love to try that out, but I'm the only GB-having hipster I know. :'(

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« Reply #166 on: August 11, 2014, 05:23:04 PM »
OG tetris or Tetris the Grandmaster are the only ways to play tetris if we are talking 1player tetris games.

In other news: Metroid 2 is a good game. Samus takes up, like, a 1/3 of the screen which is kinda ass, but the game is built around running thru and killing lots of Metroids which is a good concept and most of the metroids are real fun to fight against. Also the morph ball in 2 is the most funnest morph ball metroid ever had. I would recommend it to anyone (tasty meat) born too late and now looking at GB things.

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« Reply #167 on: August 11, 2014, 05:24:17 PM »
The post-drop freedom stuff isn't really a bother to me. I go either way on it. Holding blocks are ace, though.

Lack of instant drop and drop shadows is just a bummer though.

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« Reply #168 on: August 11, 2014, 05:54:52 PM »
To this day I don't understand why they didn't remake Metroid II in the face of how well received Zero Mission was...
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« Reply #169 on: August 11, 2014, 06:20:58 PM »
Look at this nintenyearold talking like he knows about Tetris.  :sabu
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« Reply #170 on: August 11, 2014, 07:13:01 PM »
There is an on-going fan remake project for Metroid 2. demo here: http://metroid2remake.blogspot.com.ar/p/am2r-demo-131.html

Not too hyped about it personally, these fan things tend to feel kinda slap-dash and bad to me, and this one isn't an exception.

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« Reply #171 on: August 11, 2014, 08:11:19 PM »
Look at this nintenyearold talking like he knows about Tetris.  :sabu

If Wi-Fi Connection was still up you can bet your ass I'd toast it in Tetris DS. :hitler

That game was my bitch. :mouf

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« Reply #172 on: August 12, 2014, 11:19:06 AM »
I didn't realize how accustomed I had gotten to sleep mode on my SP/DS/3DS. Having to turn this sucker on and off so often is a bummer. It's basically a home console in the sense you have to dedicate a block of time to it and can't do much in quick bursts.

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« Reply #173 on: August 12, 2014, 11:24:03 AM »
God you are so underage it infuriates me
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« Reply #174 on: August 12, 2014, 11:24:20 AM »
It takes like two seconds to turn it on and watch the Nintendo logo, and turning off is instantaneous.  :what
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« Reply #175 on: August 12, 2014, 11:24:44 AM »
Doesn't save my Tetris game tho

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« Reply #176 on: August 12, 2014, 11:29:34 AM »
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« Reply #177 on: August 12, 2014, 11:31:59 AM »
Andrex's GB Review: No sleep mode, no shadows, can't plug it into USB to recharge, why is it all green? 7.5/10
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« Reply #178 on: August 12, 2014, 11:32:05 AM »
Listen, if I want to play Tetris on the go I don't want to start from square 1 every single time, especially since this version doesn't even have up-to-drop so the early game is slow as molasses.

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« Reply #179 on: August 12, 2014, 02:03:55 PM »
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