Happy birthday, GBA; the Game Boy Advance turns 20 today

Glyptofane · Jun 12, 2021

godreborn said:
I love my majora's mask sp 3ds with backlight and everdrive. I tried playing my original gba without a backlight, and I couldn't see shit.

Circle of the Moon has to be played literally sitting under a lamp with the original GBA.

godreborn · Jun 13, 2021

Glyptofane said:
Circle of the Moon has to be played literally sitting under a lamp with the original GBA.

I tested that game on my gba sp. I originally bought a gba sp with a faulty I think polarizer, so the screen was really messed up. that was after the original gba. this majora's mask gba sp is perfect. I have the entire gba no intro set, I think. I started playing dkc 3 on it, and I'm a ways. I got the everdrive, because of the save problems with the omega. I never have issues.

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btw, @Glyptofane , do you remember when I brought my gba to a movie theater? I forgot which movie we were going to see, but I definitely don't remember it being that hard to see. haha...must've been used to it.

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@Glyptofane I just took these photos from my sp,

MetoMeto · Jun 13, 2021

Metroid Fusion was in top 10 and yet, they abandoned it...

AsPika2219 · Jun 13, 2021

Happy birthday GBA!

raxadian · Jun 13, 2021

The game I played the most on GBA besides Pokemon games was Wario Ware, and it had a fantastic manual too.

SDA · Jun 13, 2021

godreborn said:
I love my majora's mask sp 3ds with backlight and everdrive. I tried playing my original gba without a backlight, and I couldn't see shit.

This is the reason several games have their palettes washed out in order to see better on unlit screens. But on emulators the colors are literally terrible due to the presence of backlight, and this is also the reason those "palette restoration" hacks exist.

Same fact goes for the SP model.

SaulFabre · Jun 13, 2021

How I love GBA [2001]. This was my favorite handheld console in that time.
Some of the cool games for GBA:

Super Mario Advance 1 (SMB2+Mario Bros.)
Super Mario Advance 2 (SMW-SMB4+Mario Bros.)
Super Mario Advance 3 (SMW2 Yoshi's Island+Mario Bros.)
Super Mario Advance 4 (SMB3+Mario Bros.)
Mario Kart: Super Circuit (Mario Kart Advance)
Golden Sun
The Legend Of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES port)
The Legend Of Zelda: The Minish Cap
Donkey Kong Country (SNES port)
Pokémon FireRed
Pokémon Emerald
Pokémon Ruby
Pokémon Sapphire
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
Kirby & the Amazing Mirror
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
Classic NES Series (SMB1, PAC-MAN, Dr. Mario, ExciteBike, etc...)
Dr. Mario & Puzzle League
Mario Tennis: Power Tour (Mario Tennis Advance)
Mother 1+2 (Earthbound 1+2)
Mother 3 (Earthbound 3)
Wario Land 4
Wario Ware, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!

Good thing that also supports classic Game Boy (GB) [1989] and Game Boy Color (GBC) [1998] games...

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Lucaserf · Jun 14, 2021

Holy shit, as old as me lol. I never owned a proper GBA, since, I mostly sailed in the high seas, but it's thanks to this fucker that I discovered amazing titles on it's library. GBA The Sims games, Pokémon, Castlevania, god what a great childhood

Soldengun · Jun 25, 2021

Crazy. I remember my first GBA - indigo coloured. First game I played was Golden Sun... what an RPG!

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