I was thinking of starting a GBA collection recently. What games are essential for the system? The only games I own at the moment are Iridion 2, Sands of Time, and Wario Land 4.
>>333588382
Give source first. I wanted that animation collection from another thread.
Collections of anything are a waste of time and money, you will never be satisfied.
>>333588382
Also is this for mobile emulation (touchscreen) or PC emulation?
>>333588519
how can you be on this website and have never seen that video
>>333588382
Summon Night 1 and 2
>>333588519
Me me me. I dunno what other thread you're talking about.
>>333588519
It's me!me!me! You dullard
>>333588382
why would you do it when you can emulate it basically on everything?
also get castlevania aria of sorrow.
Advance Wars series
This happened to me today:
>24 years old. Been out of college 2 years, still like at home but only because looking for someone to get an appt with. I have my own career, I'm athletically fit, and I'm social enough, but I fucking love Vidya.
Anyway
>Get home from work
>Mom is home
>"Hi anon, how was work"
>Talk about work
>She says she got something for me, a late birthday present (we were on vacation for my birthday)
>Go into dining room to see
>it's a very large, highly detailed poster which reads "The Evolution of Essential NES games"
>It looks pretty sweet, it has every notable NES game on it and connects them all via genre and other factors.
>"What's wrong anon? I was going to frame it for you"
>Explain to her that I don't want it.
>Say that I don't want to have video game posters hanging in my room
>"But you love video games, this honestly seemed like something you would like when I thought of you honey"
>Say I don't want to be known as someone that plays video games. I just enjoy it as a hobby on the side.
>She seems puzzled
>"I don't want the poster, Mom"
>Walk away and start walking upstairs
>Half way up, stop to listen
>Hear nothing for 5 minutes, then eventually hear her quietly roll the poster up and walk out into the garage with it
Spirits and Spells/Castleween is a pretty decent platformer.
WarioWare Inc. is the absolute best game for playing while taking a shit.
>>333588656
nice blog
I for one like the Ez Flash IV, really great
>>333588656
What are you autistic?
>>333588382
pokemon
>>333588382
Kuru Kuru Kururin
Kururin Paradise
First one is JP/EU only, second one is JP only.
>>333588656
Such a badass pasta lol
>>333588804
>>333588841
It's a pasta
Wario Land!
>>333588382
sauce?
RPGs motherfucker
Just play all the FFs again then move on better stuff like Tactics Ogre and Dragon Quest and Golden Sun and Shining Force
>>333588919
Kuru is not a good game though, its annoying and dumb and kawaii as shit
>>333589080
>Kuru is not a good game though
Fucking kill yourself mate.
>>333588579
>>333588614
>>333588616
skimmed through. hoped it was porn, ended up being shit.
>>333588382
Shining Soul 2
Tactics Ogre
Final Fantasy Tactics
Phantasy Star Collection
Mother 3 (fan translation)
Mario Kart Super Circuit
Metroid Fusion
Metroid Zero Mission
Mega Man Battle Network series
Mega Man Zero Series
Sonic Battle
Fire Emblem, then Fire Emblem Sealed Sword
Fire Emblem Sacred Stones
Wario Land 4
Final Fantasy 4, 5 and 6 with the sound fix patch from romhacks
I don't remember games I had on my phone.
>reply to OP
>he didn't even stay 30 minutes after posting
>>333588982
ME!ME!ME!
>>333588382
Breath of Fire
The Castlevania games
dokapon
Shining Soul 2
Summon Night 2
Summon Night
Boktai 2
Boktai
Sword of Mana
Tactics Ogre
Riviera the Promised Land
Lufia GBA
Yggdra Union
Klonoa/Klonoa 2?
Lunar Legend
Gradius Galaxies
Hamtaro
Mech Platoon
Mario golf
Telefang 2
A Repro of Fire Emblem 6 in english
Fire Emblem
Fire Emblem Sacred Stones
Golden Sun
Golden Sun The Lost Age
Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland
Metroid Fusion
Metroid Zero Mission
Advance Wars
Advance Wars II
Pokemon Ruby/Saph/Emerald
Pokemon Leafgreen/Firered
Drill Dozer
Tales of Phantasia
Minish cap
Yoshi's Island
Mario world
Mario 3
Link to the Past
Friends of Mineral Town
Sword of Seals
Kirby Amazing Mirror
Yu-Gi-Oh: Eternal Duelist Soul
>>333590765
Oh and mario power tennis
>>333588382
it's not worth it OP
gameboy games have fucking skyrocketed in price in the last 8 years
and good luck if you want it in their box, because 90% of them are cardridge only
you're better off just emulating and hoping this 'retro' phase eventually dies out
>>333593441
Just get custom cases retard, they look better than boxes and cost 3.50 each with the insert.
>>333594283
>retard
is this really necessary?
>>333588382
Who is that trouser arouser?
>>333594678
Saying retard on 4chan doesn't mean anything. He may as well have just said "man"
>>333589163
Kill yourself back to GameSpot you fucking cunt
>>333588579
I'm here and still have not seen it myself.
OP, I'm still working on my GBA collection, but I'd say:
>Metroid Fusion
>Metroid: Zero Mission
>Advance Wars 1
>Advance Wars 2
>Fire Emblem 7
>Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
>Mario & Luigi: Super Star Saga
>Mega Man Zero series (eh, I wasn't a fan but it might be your thing)
>Mega Man Battle Network series
>Basically all of the Super Mario Advance series
There are a ton of GBA games I still need to play myself.
>>333594794
maybe if you want to act like an angry 14 year old for no good reason.
>>333594821
>>333589163
is this really necessary?
>>333595175
I wasn't even the guy who called you a retard. I've just been on here long enough to be used to being treated like shit.
A flashcart is almost required if you're playing Mother 3. Emulators fuck up the timing on combos.
>>333594863
I forgot about:
>Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
>Mario vs. Donkey Kong series (presumably, I only ever played the first one and it was surprisingly good)
>>333588382
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Fire Emblem games
Gradius Advance
Klonoa games
Mega Man Zero series
Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis
Wario Land 4
Yoshi's Island (if you don't have the SNES version)
It's been awhile since I even touched my GBA titles, outside a select few, so I might be missing something or some might not be all that good. Those were the ones which really stood out to me.
>>333595175
>maybe if you want to act like an angry 14 year old for no good reason.
Wheredoyouthinkweare.tga
Anyone ITT every play the Shining Force remake? How was it? Supposedly the first two SF games are supposed to be underrated as fuck strategy games.
>>333595934
Shining Force is a fairly good series, if overly easy.
It's intended to be Fire Emblem, but with JRPG towns and characters and allowing you to replay battles, due to the Egress spell. (The main character can cast it to retreat from battle and fight it again.) That's the main source of the easiness: you can run through a battle multiple times and overlevel everyone, especially your healers if you do it too much.
The games and characters were quite likable, although the games didn't offer much replay value as a result. Once you know what fights are coming and what happens, there isn't much point in replaying outside stupidly overpowering characters.
I felt disappointed with Shining Force GBA, although part of that might've been just playing through the Genesis version somewhat beforehand and so replaying it was just not interesting. The two new characters and stages for them felt tacked on. I'd probably recommend just the Genesis/Steam version, although there's no harm in playing through the GBA version if you have it available. The sound might not be as good, although I might be misremembering that point.
>>333596505
Thanks, maybe I'll pick up the steam versions when they're on sale, and maybe the GBA version sometime.
>>333596614
You might as well try emulating the first game for the first chapter or so, to see how you like it. No sense wasting money on something you don't care about.
I'm still annoyed that Steam just has the first two games only. There's four in total (SF1-3 + Shining Force CD) and it shouldn't be hard to put them on PC at this point.
>>333596831
>You might as well try emulating the first game for the first chapter or so, to see how you like it. No sense wasting money on something you don't care about.
I like FE well enough, I'd probably like SF as well. Though I see your point.
>There's four in total (SF1-3 + Shining Force CD) and it shouldn't be hard to put them on PC at this point.
Didn't we only get the first part of SF3 and the last two parts were Japan-only?
>>333588579
I don't watch anime.
>>333589692
>bill with his waifu.jpg
These games were really good.
>>333597752
Fuck, I always wanted to play these but never did.
>>333595921
make /v/ great again
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>>333597752
>Kojima will never make another Boktai
Probably one of his better series. The guy can still be creative when he wants to. The play outside mechanic was genius, I have so many memories of this game in summer, it's hard to hold back the nostalgia tears.
Excellent game.
I don't have my GB+GBC list in this HD atm, but here's my GBA one
>>333600443
Where's megaman battle network?
>>333600626
I only played Double Team DS, I liked it, but I haven't touched the previous ones, they're on my listI just got me a softmodded N3DS, I'm replaying the DKCs YET AGAIN, FUCK
>>333600756
You can skip 1. But play the others. All of them.
>>333600818
I'm not going to skip any of them, though I don't know if I should play both version of every game. Do they change only the robot masters (and consequently, the transformations you have access to), or do they change the stages too?
>>333588786
Are you me?
>>333601019
The differences in versions are the navi's you face (robot masters) and a few chips. The stories are mostly the same with some small mostly unimportant changes here and there to fit with the different navi's.
>>333601127
so it's perfect for replayability, I guess I'll go through one half of them, then when I replay them, the second half
I played 5DS with Team Colonel, next I'll surely replay it with ProtomanLET'S GO LAN HIKARI
>>333601264
It's a solid series dude, enjoy.
>>333588382
gba was an amazing console, but starting a physical collection of it now makes no sense.
It's one of the few consoles that is 100% emulatable even on a fucking phone, and emulators even natively support motion sensor (in games such wario ware twisted) and light sensor (in games such as boktai). Also, you can upscale it to amazing resolutions, have an awesome brightness, take screenshots, deeply explore games with custom roms and gameshark codes, and get rid of the annoyance of having to replace the batteries inside the cartdridges.
Just buy a nice Bluetooth controller (the ones with a clip to attach your phone to it), find a nice emulator, and have a blast with it.
