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25th anniversary of GameBoy Advance. What are your best memories?

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Coming from a GB Pocket the upgrade was amazing. The difference in quality between Super Mario Land 2 and Super Mario Advance was stunning at the time. I remember thinking it was really cool I could play multiplayer portion of the game with my friend by sharing the game over the link cable to his GBA!

Back then smartphones were not a thing, even MP3 players and digital cameras were in their infancy, so the GBA was by far the most powerful portable device you could get.

Trivia: Did you know the GBA was emulated before release? "GBAEmu" was capable of playing the Yoshi Tech Demo in the year 2000, before the GBA released in Japan in early 2001.
 
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I didn't have the GBA back in the day, I had the NDS Lite. But I used to swap my NDS for a translucent AGB-001 in family meetups with a family member, just because I was curious about older consoles (this was before retro gaming became a really big mainstream thing). However, after the swap I always got a bit annoyed because I COULDN'T SEE THE FREAKING SCREEN.

Luckily, nowadays I have one with a backlit screen, better late than never
 
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JORGETECH said:
I didn't have the GBA back in the day, I had the NDS Lite. But I used to swap my NDS for a translucent AGB-001 in family meetups with a family member, just because I was curious about older consoles (this was before retro gaming became a really big mainstream thing). However, after the swap I always got a bit annoyed because I COULDN'T SEE THE FREAKING SCREEN.

Luckily, nowadays I have one with a backlit screen, better late than never
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Did you know at the time that you could have played GBA games on your DS Lite?
 
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Unfortunately, I have always tought the coolest thing about the GBA was the backward compatibility with gameboy games. Back then, it was the best way to play those games and still would be a good way to play on original hardware. But I don't know of a GBA title I would want to go back and play again but I know plenty of GB titles,
 
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Did you know at the time that you could have played GBA games on your DS Lite?
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Yes, I did know, but as I said in my previous post, I was curious for older systems so I thought it was cool to try out an older console even if the one I already had was backwards compatible (except for GB/GBC games of course)
 
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"It's impressive how the GBA era pushed the boundaries of what we thought was possible for handhelds. That transition from the Pocket to the Advance really felt like a generational leap, especially with the link cable features. I had no idea about GBAEmu being active in 2000—that's a fascinating piece of emulation history. Thanks for sharing that trivia!"
 
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Was very late to the party - my first GBA game was on a hacked 3DS. I remember staying up way too late while my puppy was being crate trained
 
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I emulated GBA in a PSP 1000.
I liked the games and bought a GBA Micro for 20€ and an EZ flash IV.
Then I lost it after few years.

I miss my GBA Micro.
 
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I played mostly on my PSP (back then I did not know I would eventually work on gPSP emu, ironic :P), but my brother got a GBA when he was like... 8 or 9.
I remember that day very well cause he played for like 12h straight and ended up with massive neck pain, could barely tilt his head for a few days. It was his first day and my mum already grounded him for playing for too long. Ah.. the Sehnsucht...
 
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