I've never owned a GBA but I just put an emulator on my psp
What are some essential games?pls no Pokemonso far I have
Metroid Fusion / Zero Mission
Zelda Link to the Past / Minish Cap
Castlevania Aria of Sorrowand THPS2
>>322171960
Doom
Mega Man Zero Series
Battle Network 2, 3, and 6
Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Astro Boy: Omega Factor
Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 1 & 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45FfRUyVUiA
Not essential to the console but definitely my favorite one.
Shrek 2: Beg For Mercy!
It's a decent platformer.
>I still haven't made my GBA image list
I'm on it.
>>322171960
Mother 3, Boktai series (with patches for the solar functionality), mario and luigi superstar saga, wario land 4, the fire emblem games, fzero, kirby and the amazing mirror.
The GBA Fire Emblem games are good even if you don't really like Fire Emblem.
Fire Emblem (there are 3 on GBA)
Advance Wars 1 & 2
Kirby and the Amazing Mirror
Gunstar Super Heroes
Golden Sun
Super Mario Advance 1-4 (remakes of SMB2, SMW, Yoshi's Island, and SMB3)
Aria of sorrow is the fucking worst one. Get harmony or circle.
>>322171960
The first 2 golden sun games
If you haven't played either of the GBA Warioware games then why are you alive?
>>322171960
Aside from Pokemon Fire Red, Castlevania Aria Of Sorrow is the only other good game on GBA I played, so you're probably shit out of luck.
>>322173047
I read on another forum (can't remember which one) that it was the best one. Everybody seemed to agree
>>322173045
>>322173109
>Golden Sun
No. Stay away from that piece of shit. The only decent thing about it was the battle animations since there was no decent 3D work on handhelds at the time. Today it's completely worthless.
>>322173047
The 3 of them are good, Just Aria and Circle are better than Harmony
>>322171960
What about Pokemon?
>>322171960
final fantasy dawn of souls
Wario Land 4
done
>>322175082
jesus christ I just noticed I made it way too fucking big
some other time I'll fix it
All of the Megaman games. That includes Zero, Battle Network, and even Megaman & Bass.
Along with that, I'd also recommend Mario vs. Donkey Kong, Mother 3, and Zelda Minish Cap.
>>322175082
noice, saved
>>322175082
All dat published by Nintendo. Have another: Drill Dozer
>>322176782
not my fault they're so fucking good at making games
I haven't touched DD yet, but I sure will at some point
I just downloaded a bunch for my tablet.
Got MMZ1-4, MMBN1-6, Minish Cap, FF5, Super Mario Advanced, Pokemon Rescue Team, Fire Red, Emerald, Sonic Advance 1-3, Sonic Battle, Metroid Fusion, Metroid Zero Mission, 3 Castlevanias, 2 Fire Emblems, Golden Sun, Minish Cap, Pokemon Pinball, and the Dragon Ball games.
If you're a mecha fan/SRPG fan, SRW OG1/2 and J.
>>322175082
list 2.0, forgot to add 2 games
now I'm going to make a GB and GBC list because why not
Here's what I've got on my GBA flashcart:
Advance Wars
Alien Hominid
Another World (homebrew port)
Breath of Fire
Breath of Fire 2
Castlevania Aria of Sorrow/Circle of the Moon/Harmony of Dissonance
Final Fantasy 1+2/4/5/6
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Golden Sun
Golden Sun 2 TLA
Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland
Kirby and the Amazing Mirror
Klonoa - Empire of Dreams
Klonoa 2 - Dream Champ Tournament
Mario and Luigi Super Star Saga
Metroid Fusion
Metroid Zero Mission
Mother 1+2 (the mother 2 port/translation sucks)
Mother 3
Pokemon Emerald/FireRed/CrystalDust (rom hack)/Orange (rom hack)
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red
Riviera The Promised Land
Sabre Wulf (not great)
Scurge Hive
Sonic Advance/2/3
Summon Night
Super Mario Advance/2/3/4
Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis
Zelda: Link to the Past
Zelda: Minish Cap
I really liked Shining Soul II.
Wario Land 4
Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Pretty much every game listed before me
Some of the more "Out there" choices, go for weird shit like Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone/Chamber of Secrets, which were both quite good for movie licensed games, Crash NTranced, the Magical Quest games. All pretty damn good even though no one talks about them.
as far as I know you can play GB/GBC games on it too, so here
the OG GBA is a pretty good piece of hardware. getting it with a backlit mod would be nice
>>322171960
If you haven't played some of the SNES classics, you can play the GBA versions because they are solid:
Super Mario World 1&2
Lunar
Fire Emblem
Riviera.
>>322171960
pokemon mystery dungeon red rescue team
I know you said no Pokemon but it's legit good. Also didn't bother to read the thread but you might want to try out urbz: sims in the city as well.
does a rom of Mech Platoon exist? i remember that game not being half bad
>>322178887
>cntrl+f 'shining soul ii'
my nigga
>>322178259
>No Doze Driller
>No Rhythm Tengoku
>No Mother 3
>No Super Mario Advance
>No Final Fantasy
Needs some work, but pretty good so far.
The Starfy/Stafy series, they're all in Japanese but easy enough to figure out, and there's guides.
>>322182482
>>No Doze Driller
>>No Rhythm Tengoku
>>No Mother 3
haven't touched these 3, and Rythm Heaven is in JP so it's annoying to play unless you know JPunless you know of a fantranslation patch
>>No Super Mario Advance
is that really th best version of the game?
>>No Final Fantasy
I also think FF1 GBA is the best FF1, but I'm not sure so I decided on not putting it there before researching
also is it just here or is 4chan's images not loading since a few minutes ago?
>>322182482
may be a dumb question but is there an english version of Mother 3?
every version I've played has been in Japanese
>>322183020
my images load anon...
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>>322173045
These
>>322173047
>Aria of Sorrow isn't the tightest shit I've ever played
Kill yourself
Worms:World Party was decent.
>>322173047
>talks shit about Aria
>while praising Harmony
>>322183020
A fan translation patch exists, yes. Google it.
Anyway, I thought Super Mario World GBA was pretty good. SMB3 was okay too.
>>322183046
THere's fan translation
>>322183375
again, isn't there a better version to play Doki Doki Panic?
>SMB3 GBA
only reason to recommend that is the E-Reader exclusive levels
>>322183046
There's a fan patch. Google it.
>>322171960
Here are what I put on my PSP
Almost forgot DVD,:Supersonic Warriors for a simple beat em up or Buu's fury for more storytelling and RPG elements.
>>322184175
Dbz*
Spyro The Eternal Night
>>322173045
Advance Wars 1 is skippable
>>322173047
Aria of Sorrow is universally recognized as great
Circle of the Moon is pretty good
>Harmony
lol
>>322183020
Seconding Rhythm Tengoku.
>>322171960
Also give the two Kururin games a go. The second one is a Japanese exclusive, but there really isn't much to read.
>>322183937
I know this means nothing, but that list is approved by me.
Solid picks.
t.- Anon
I'm also very new to emulating.
What I wonder is what all these files are for?
They are all the same game file apparently, but I just want to know which I should be using.
Secret Of Mana
>>322184570
Looks like different versions of the same game
(E) is the PAL release, (J) and (U) are Japanese and North American releases respectively, I'm guessing
All other variations may be different production versions of the game or romhacks, fuck if I know
>>322184570
just pick the latest version or something
.sav is a save file (I think it's for Visual Boy Advance but I'm not so sure)
What are some Jap only games worth emulating? I didn't pay attention back then because of obvious reason but now that I'm (kinda) capable of moonreading I want to try them.
I pick the following from this thread:
-Starfy series
-Rythm Tengoku
-Kururin
>>322185182
A pretty fun RPG from the M&L guys before they did the M&L games.
>>322184570
always play games in ntsc, so (U). IIRC, pal games have lower framerates or fucked up aspect ratios.. i forget which.
>>322185458
I thought the framerate was only an issue with their TVs, not sure how that would translate over to GBA games.
>>322185458
>>322184824
>>322184936
I tried a couple of PAL versions and they had fucked up sound so I tried one labeled U and it seems fine.
I'll just experiment to see which is best I guess.
>>322185723
iirc, emulators run pal games in their native framerate, which is 50.
Sometimes this fucks with the speed of the game or it runs fine.. but regardless its still not 60
>>322173554
fuck you
they're great games
>>322185323
That looks pretty fun, thanks
