>>Not being impressed by a SNES in your pocket >That said, Super Circuit's controls always felt weird to me.
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 on the GBA proved early on that the system was more than a portable SNES. I don't think this game could have been done with the SuperFX2 chip.
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Nintendo really held onto the GameBoy for a long period of time though. The original unit released in 1989, and the GBC was released in 1998 beside the Neo-Geo Pocket. The GBC was like a spec upgrade with colour. The GBA in 2001 was an improvement. The system's 2D capabilities fall somewhere between the SNES and the PS1. The system can do a lot of sprite scaling and rotational effects. The system outputs at a lower resolution than the SNES. I liked the system because it delivered a lot of 16-32bit ish styled 2D games.
moron.
Back then it was like if the PS5 just came out and we were able to play PS4 games. The GBA was as powerful as an SNES even though that console was only a few years out of date at this point.
I still remember getting a bunch of my favourite SNES games on GBA (Super Mario World, ALttP, DKC 1-3) and feeling like a king with all those classics in my pocket.
I've been playing the fan translation of SRW J recently and I gotta say I'm impressed by what the GBA could do. Some of the music and sprite work are fantastic
On one hand, the GBA port can put more sprites on the screen with less slowdown. It looks like a juiced up SNES. SNES is a little higher 256x224 vs 240x160. But on the other hand, the SNES game sounds nicer. The GBA has less audio cache? The GBA is sampled based too, but seems to be CPU driven.
OP I'm sorry you're too young to have never had a massive leap in tech from a generation change. Hope you've enjoyed playing the same GTA5 and Mario Kart 8 games for the last decade though.
>tfw spending the last day of high school hanging out with my friends, playing Advance Wars 2 single cart multiplayer one last time
We're all so goddamn old now. Most of us have kids and careers and stuff like that. I think only 2 of us even stayed around here.
Zoomies will never know the struggle of having to constantly angle the screen towards the passing street lights outside the car window at night to see shit while fighting Phantom for the 20th time cause his stupid fricking naruto shadow clones are getting the random irl darkness buff
The lack of light was atrocious, it somehow felt even worse than OG Game Boy/Game Boy Color, but the design and feel in your hands was so slick after a decade+ of the same bricks. You had to be there.
damn bro your switch looks fricked up fr
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wait I thought GBA had a backlight?
the last clamshell model does
Only the newer models.
Zoom zoom
nope, but when the gba sp came out I did indeed do that
SOVL
we've now reached the point where people who claim to like videogames mock tech specs regardless of time context and give no fricks about gameplay
perfect goy cattle
>Not being impressed by a SNES in your pocket
That said, Super Circuit's controls always felt weird to me.
>>Not being impressed by a SNES in your pocket
>That said, Super Circuit's controls always felt weird to me.
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 on the GBA proved early on that the system was more than a portable SNES. I don't think this game could have been done with the SuperFX2 chip.
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Nintendo really held onto the GameBoy for a long period of time though. The original unit released in 1989, and the GBC was released in 1998 beside the Neo-Geo Pocket. The GBC was like a spec upgrade with colour. The GBA in 2001 was an improvement. The system's 2D capabilities fall somewhere between the SNES and the PS1. The system can do a lot of sprite scaling and rotational effects. The system outputs at a lower resolution than the SNES. I liked the system because it delivered a lot of 16-32bit ish styled 2D games.
moron.
Back then it was like if the PS5 just came out and we were able to play PS4 games. The GBA was as powerful as an SNES even though that console was only a few years out of date at this point.
I still remember getting a bunch of my favourite SNES games on GBA (Super Mario World, ALttP, DKC 1-3) and feeling like a king with all those classics in my pocket.
Well yeah we went from this to that
I didn't, never moved on from the GBC
>10 fps
It's over
and it still is
I've been playing the fan translation of SRW J recently and I gotta say I'm impressed by what the GBA could do. Some of the music and sprite work are fantastic
Final Fight Guy (SNES)
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Final Fight One (GBA)
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On one hand, the GBA port can put more sprites on the screen with less slowdown. It looks like a juiced up SNES. SNES is a little higher 256x224 vs 240x160. But on the other hand, the SNES game sounds nicer. The GBA has less audio cache? The GBA is sampled based too, but seems to be CPU driven.
OP I'm sorry you're too young to have never had a massive leap in tech from a generation change. Hope you've enjoyed playing the same GTA5 and Mario Kart 8 games for the last decade though.
I fricking loved my GBA even more than my Gameboy color
>tfw spending the last day of high school hanging out with my friends, playing Advance Wars 2 single cart multiplayer one last time
We're all so goddamn old now. Most of us have kids and careers and stuff like that. I think only 2 of us even stayed around here.
The gameboys1 were Nintendo best works and that's a hill I'll die on.
Zoomies will never know the struggle of having to constantly angle the screen towards the passing street lights outside the car window at night to see shit while fighting Phantom for the 20th time cause his stupid fricking naruto shadow clones are getting the random irl darkness buff
>woah this is sick
Sick means diseased. So they were right.
I had an SP, frick off
The lack of light was atrocious, it somehow felt even worse than OG Game Boy/Game Boy Color, but the design and feel in your hands was so slick after a decade+ of the same bricks. You had to be there.
>don't buy a 001 model and modify it with cheap parts from Aliexpress.
zoomie on its way to suicide in 3 years when even the children he grooms on his discord calls him a boomer at the ripe age of 31