I really want to get into the GB / GBC / GBA library and I was curious if anyone has had experience with these backlight modded GBA originals that you see on eBay. Are they a scam? Or are they actually worth it?
>>340764553
At that price you're better off getting a DS and just pirate any GB/GBC/GBA roms on it.
>>340764553
How much are SPs? And DS Lites? You can't play GB/C games on the DS but GBA works at least
>>340764553
Get an SP, it already has a backlight, will be cheaper, and can play all the same games. Those prices are bullshit.
>>340764553
>Paying $160 for a fucking Gameboy Advance
How could you even begin to think that's a good idea, OP?
>>340764785
This, buy a GBA SP if you want a backlight that bad
>>340764553
A gameboy SP is the best option if you don't intend to play the games on the computer, but you're getting something you have to sink money into and frankly, isn't worth it if you buy a console. There's good games on the GBA, but not enough worthy of buying an $160 console. I'm saying this as someone who use their GBA for almost 8 years
>buying a modded console when you can mod it yourself
i will never understand why people do this
>Console is modded
>Console in MINT condition!!!
I don't think they know what that word means.
Just get a fucking SP instead of that price gouging bullshit. I'm willing to bet you can get one for like 1/3 of that price easily, maybe less, and it has a backlight already.
>>340764553
>download VBA emulator
>download a shitload of roms
>play all the gb/gbc/gba games you want
>????????
>profit!
Why would you go out of your way to play games on such a tiny screen anyway?
>>340767110
>>340765059
>>340764917
>>340764825
The SP is a little small
and the buttons are pretty shit
>>340767342
Emulators are laggy and I just prefer original hardware
>>340767556
You mean you are a hipster.
>>340767556
Nah son. The VBA runs flawlessly.
I made one myself, but it has weird scanlines on it while playing. I'm not sure I put it together right.
>>340767870
You're an idiot. VBA is chock full of emulation bugs. mgba is better, but there is still delay in inputs, delay in audio output, and screen delay from your monitor and shit.
I bought mine from here
http://www.rosecoloredgaming.com/product-category/diy-portable-modding/gameboy-advance-diy-portable-modding/
It was a little tough buying it since they have such low stock, but it works great.
>>340768102
Strange.. is it very bothersome? I'm considering making one too cause I've already got an original advance and a backlit sp.
>>340767364
The buttons on the original GBA aren't that much better, the D-Pad is literally the same D-Pad on the Gamecube controller that everyone always complains about being too small.
>>340768117
>VBA is choke full of emulation bugs
Works for me :^)seriously
>>340764553
I bought a kit from that guy and built my own. He seems to be on the level. I really love the end product and I've been playing it a lot.
>>340764695
Backlit GBA phat > DS
>>340769061
Wow that looks really nice, Do you remember his eBay?
>>340769153
At $160? Fuck no.
You can snatch an old DS for $20...
>>340769262
Yeah, TheGodOfGaming.
this is a fucking shill thread isn't it
>>340768803
The buttons on the original GBA suck balls. The SP's were an improvement because they had clickiness to them.
>>340769268
It's expensive, sure, but if you really love the GBA it's worth it. I'm going to be paying $100 for a new screen for my Game Gear this summer which is in the same ballpark.
buy a worm light son
Nigga a 10 year old laptop can emulate GBA games flawlessly
>>340769730
Nah, just considering buying one. they are pretty overpriced so ill probably go for a ds lite
>>340769816
The buttons on the GBA are fine. You probably just has dirty contacts.
>>340769851
is there a mod that prevents it from devouring batteries?
>>340769907
kek
>>340764553
why would you get a gameboy advance when you could get either a gameboy micro or a ds lite? both of them have superior screens compared to the ghosty as fuck screens on the gba and sp.
>>340769061
>lime green GBC
I didn't ask for these feels. Mine is probably long gone.
>>340769816
Clicky buttons suck ass mushy buttons are the shit
>>340764553
160.
PSP can play gb/gbc/gba with a better screen, backlight and battery lifetime
>>340764553
Just buy a PSP and emulate
>>340770167
Micro huh? Can it play GB GBC? and are the buttons nice and mushy or shitty n clicky?
>>340769951
yeah, I always carry my laptop in my pocket for a quick session of Tetris
>>340769153
>DS Lite >>> Any GBA
>>340770256
> Better battery life
The GBA has like a 15 hour battery life when the PSP has like a 5 hour battery life
>>340770256
How easy is setting up emulation on PSP?
There is a good handfull of GBA games I wanna play, but I cant stand playing them on a keyboard or my phone.
>>340770189
>Mushy buttons
>Good
What the fuck?
>>340770445
The Dpad on the DS Lite is shit. It's as bad as the Wii's.
>>340770479
Very easy for gba
>>340767364
SP has best A,B,L,R, Select, Start and D-Pad ever put to a controller, only ever equaled by the Dino DS which used the same ones
>>340764553
No. Fuck that. The original GBA sucked. Having a backlight is nice but the buttons suck. Even if that weren't the case, it's not worth that price. For $160 you could buy a DS and a few games or a 3DS/2DS.
I'm just doing a blind 2 second search but check out the pic. For $39 you can get a GBA SP and a charger. A much cheaper option. If you really searched, you could find cheaper prices. The only thing you want to be careful about is you want to make sure the SP you are buying is BACK-lit. The early SPs were front-lit which is not nearly as good.
>>340770912
Why do all you fags like shitty clicky buttons? ever play fucking NES or Playstation?
>>340770356
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Micro
as far as i can tell it can't play gb and gbc. if this is something you're looking to do, a dslite would still be a better option for you, since emulators are perfect for those two on flashcarts now. if it's the real deal hardware you're looking to play with, then a gba sp would be the way to go, but keep in mind there are two versions. there's one that's top lit, and a backlit model (AGS-101) that's surperior in every way but also harder to find and more expensive.
however the sp has them clicky buttons. i prefer them personally since controls are more precise on the dpad, but some people don't like it.
>>340770450
>5hours.
maybe your battery is bad, man
1 charge this thing one full night a week.
and I listen a lot of music and at least I do like 2 trip of 4 hours a week.
battery is like 15% at the end of the week.
just remember use. this plugins
>hold
>psPpowersaver
and disable the umd reader.
there are some stuff that drains battery more than otther like
miku project diva 1 or 2.
or stuff that doesnt even use it. like PS1 emulation or music with hold plugin
>>340770479
very easy, practically put emu folder on tue right place and thats it. also am using:
gameboyadvance unnoficial gpSP kai
otther emus are more complicated like mame and neogeo stuff. nothig imposible for a non retarded human.
even an n-gage qd battery last longer than 5 hours dude. (10 hours of gb emu)
since this is some sort of shilling/suggestion thread im gonna ask this here
how is the jojo's bizarre adventure ps1 fighting game? im pretty interested in picking it up but it's pretty pricey so i wonder if it'll be worth it
>>340771043
too soft, it's like trying to play a video game on a giant marshmallow
>>340771480
>ps1
bad.
>>340770479
Piss easy, download the CFW, emulator, and roms and run them in that order. They run stupid well too. Pic related. SNES works well but not at a constant 60, but GBA works perfectly.
>>340771480
It's fucking great
>>340771480
Not worth playing. Its licensed game and has the expect quality of one.
>>340771013
The old frontlit SP screens look like ass. The buttons are subjective, and I happen to like the GBA phat's better.
>>340771995
>The old frontlit SP screens look like ass.
Exactly. OP should not buy frontlit if he can help it.
>>340764553
These things are all just prebuilt bootleg chinese shit. You can buy a beat up GBA, your own parts including the screen and put it together for maybe a fourth of that price.
>>340770417
Most phones can emulate GBA perfectly. Stop being a hipster fuck
>>340770185
mine works but has a blown out speaker, are these easily replaceable?
Get an SP and flashcard or just get a PSP and run an emulator on it
>>340770479
I am a big fan of the GBA and PSP, used both extensively years ago. The best GBA emulator for PSP is still rather flawed, so I use a GBA SP with the flash cart. Some people complain about the screen and buttons on the SP, but they are actually the best it gets for handheld devices. You can't improve them with non-integer scaling on different screens, and the buttons on 3DS, DS or Gamecube are shittier. All the emulators have problems.
If you really need something better than SP, get a gamecube with the GBA player and a CRT TV. The buttons do suck but you can use a PS2 controller adapter as well, then use whatever you want. You could even play Gradius III with an arcade stick.
>>340773480
What flash cart do you use and where do you find them for a decent price? everywhere I look they are fucking expensive and sketchy
>>340771167
You can play GBC/GB games on a micro with EZ Flash4, use Goomba Color
>80 bucks
>Nice screen
>Comfy buttons
>Feels good in the hand
>Comes with a flashcart
For once the chinks made something nice.
>>340774165
ez flash iv is the best I know of. Takes 2GB mini SD (not micro) which is enough for everything you might want. Also has built in flash you can copy games to so you don't need to wait for your favorite games to load. Supports all save formats, has a replaceable save battery, and build quality is fairly high. Not that you will even be removing it once you have all your favorite games on it.
it has worked well for me even with rom hacks like fan translations. I played the JP-only Fire Emblem in English that way. I bought mine from a retro games forum for $40 about five years ago. I already had some GBA games, so I just sold a few of those and essentially got it free.
>>340774443
Do you use a GBA SP backlit? if you do, do you notice any ghosting ? I heard its kinda bad on the sp
OP if you're ready to spend that kind of money for a gba you might as well get a retron 5 and play gba/gb/gbc games on your HDTV
>>340774806
I use a front lit as I always have since the SP first came out. There is really nothing wrong with the color quality, and if you want the 'original' experience, you can just turn the light off. That's how all the earlier GBA games were designed to be played. Rather less ghosting than the backlit model. My friend has the backlit and it is perfectly playable, but I thought the colors were too garish since I am used to the GBA and SP 1.
Why not just get VBA? Shit works fine.
Playing Yoshi's Island on my pspgo, its in widescreen thats why the pixels look like shit. but good shit either way.
>>340775161
Seriously psp does all your emulator needs don't know any other handheld that does it better.
>>340775798
Dunno I just want original hardware. plus them memory cards are fucking expensive
>>340775924
buy a psp go, comes with memory built in.
>>340775798
N3DS blows it out of the water desu
>>340775798
Cheapo chinkdroid tablets with buttons do literally everything better except psp games.
>>340764553
Get a 3DS and hack it. Every 3DS has GBA hardware inside of it so it's not emulation.
>>340764553
>160 for a gba
lol
>>340775924
There's adapters for the regular PSP that let you use micro SD cards, and can get you up to 64GB storage.
>>340769435
Same guy I bought a kit from on amazon. Kind of pricey, but 101 screens aren't as plentiful as they used to be. Works just fine.
>>340776121
hows that going? I downloaded ironfall and the files to install homebrew and it worked, had snes emulator running on it and it ran for the most part, but some games ran like shit,
Has it improved? I accidentally updated my 3ds and now I cant use it,.
>>340770450
GBA with a backlight will last you about 3-4 hours.
>>340776249
Already gotta 3DS
but meh rather just buy some sorta GBA console
>>340775924
You can buy an adapter they´re like 5 bucks and buy a 32Gb micro SD
you can also put 2 Micro SD at the same time
>>340775138
I want people seeing me playing retro games. They will think I'm cool
>>340770256
>Screen stretched to shit
Whatever pleb. I'll stick with my 2DS for GB emulation.
>>340774329
i have this exact one and i fucking love it
>>340776121
You can't play PSP or PSX games on the N3DS lol
you can put even more. but you need to format that memory on your pc with an specific soft that i dont remember.
PSP cant format more tha that due its ram shit stuff.. im not wiseman
128gb here
I got a used SP ags-101 for $100 less
Just get an sp or a micro
>>340776513
>Screen stretched to shit
are you fucking blind
dont you se those black bars?!
illl thing you mean this.
>>340775161
but still youre retarded. because aspect ratio option is there on any psp emulator
>>340767364
Sp has clicky buttons, it's un-arguably superior to to originals spongy buttons
>>340776447
Don't waste your money.
I went though that phase, bought a modded GBA and an EZ Flash IV when they were expensive.
Eventually I realized it's just not worth it to waste your money like that.
3DS GBA injection works great and looks good on the home menu.
I have a PSP 3100 what is the best gba roms i can download
>>340776564
You can play PSX games on the n3DS, actually.
PSP have no games, so it's not a big problem. PSP can't play any 3DS game tho.
>>340768803
>the D-Pad is literally the same D-Pad on the Gamecube controller
It's actually not. The plastic piece is much taller, and the rubber parts are different.
I know because I tried swaping thinking they were the same.
>>340774443
You know they made a batch in 2013?that takes microsd up to 32 gigs, right?
Not that you need it, but 32GB cards are still cheap as fuck so why not?
>>340776990
If this is the speed you "play" Psx then i feel sorry for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqQVq3YLqrg
>PSP have no games
lmao, PSP has one of the biggest range on handhelds, incluiding a non shit version of MH
I have one, bought it when they were about $90. I don't use it much, but it sits with my collection of handhelds.
If you plan on using it daily, get a glass screen so that it will be more scratch resistant, otherwise get an AGS-101.
>>340767364
Aside from L and R buttons, the SP has the most delicious buttons I've ever used.
>>340776990
>You can play PSX games on the n3DS, actually.
They play like shit though. Can't reach 60fps.
>>340768117
>and screen delay from your monitor and shit
You think the old lcd screens in the gba have less delay than a modern monitor?!
superior
>>340776990
PSP has literally the best handheld library. Not even counting emulation and PS1 games.
>>340776413
I have no idea about 3DS emu, but I will say that people fucking liieeeee about PSP SNES emu being worth a shit. Anything that had a GFX chip runs like ass. DKC, SMRPG, etc all have to be played with lots of frameskip and/or slowdown. PSP is great for lesser stuff, but I would put money that >>340775161 cannot be played without slowdown.
>>340777262
I didn't know. Haven't been looking for flash carts since then since I am satisfied with the ones I have. It's nice that they support microSD, which are easier to find and should load faster, but loading times are no problem with the built in flash anyway.
The size is no big deal. I have not even filled up my 2GB yet. We are talking about games measured a few megabytes in size.
>>340778347
>Please give me rheumatoid arthritis and destroy my vision
>>340771480
>ps1
shit
just download fightcade or if you have a cfw ps3 get it from there, otherwise its a very solid fighting game made by the 3rd strike team
>>340764553
GBA for all color and older gameboy games
DS Lite for DS and Advance games
3DS for current gen
For under $400 you can play the entire Game Boy library.
>>340764553
>original GBA model
you'd have to pay me to even take an original gba even modded
SP or fucking nothing. Game Boy Player is fine too.
>>340776915
I dont even know how to hack my 3DS
>>340779391
The original gba buttons and just feel of the console are so fucking superior to the shat sp
Bought an orange modded GBA just like the one in your pic, it was in shit condition and has ghosting issues up the ass. I managed to get a refund tho so it's all good. Just get an SP 101 instead
>>340767364
Correct. DS Lite is infinitely a better option than SP. I'd even go as far as saying the Advance model was better than SP.
Pros:
Backlight
Folding it protects the screen?
Cons:
Dust behind the screen every time
Backlight washed out the colors and killed the battery life
Battery life shorter than actual batteries
Couldn't play while charging, took over 3 hours to fully charge.
Battery would completely die sooner than expected, good luck finding a replacement
No headphone jack
Still no stereo speakers unless jacked in, and needed 2.5mm jack adaptor not incluede with system
Older gameboy cartridges jutted out the base and into your palms
Not to mention the flaws created by pointlessly making it "pocket sized" for no reason.
Buttons mashed too close together
D-pad was tiny and inaccurate
Buttons were set into the mold because it had to have a flip screen when it just didn't have to be that way
RL buttons were terrible to access if they were needed constantly, Street Fighter, ect.
Just too small. I have L/XL sized hands. Got constant hand cramps.
tl;dr if you really absolutely have to have a backlight then go SP, but DS Lite is better in every way.
Literally anyone suggesting he gets the SP simply grew up with it and got used to it's flaws. There are better options, kiddies.
Advance SP will be cheaper and is generally a better console overall
>rechargeable
>Smaller but not that bad
>nice buttons
>>340778347
>Is small for no reason
>has a smaller screen for no reason
>isn't backwards compatible for no reason
>>340780151
OP here, I agree. Ill most likely go for a DS Lite and get a couplea flash carts.
But a few people recommended the Gameboy Micro and it looks kinda promising, what do you think?
Buy a snes pad and emulate on PC for the superior experience.
buy a gb boy off aliexpress
>>340780798
> Superior experience
lag
>>340780957
>having shit hardware
Modded 3ds can play GBA roms.
And a regular 3ds probably costs just as much.
+ it can play DS and 3ds Games.
>>340781040
> Shit hardware
i7 4790k
GTX 970
16GB RAM
>>340778507
I'm not disagreeing with you. SNES emulator does run like shit on psp.
>>340781391
>image.jpg
I bet you don't even have a PC.
>>340781391
get a 120 hz monitor
>>340772671
>playing games on a phone
Talk about being a faggot hipster
I actually wish the DS phat had a brighter screen because playing on it feels much better than DS lite. The buttons feel so mushy on the lite and those fucking shoulder buttons get unresponsive quick with action games. The ds lite just feels so cheap
>>340764917
They're not backlit.
>>340783817
Some are
>>340783817
ags-001 Is backlit and ags-101 and gsmeboy micro Is frontlit,athleast to my knowledge.
who in their right mind would pay almost $200 fucking dollars a gameboy advance?
>>340784423
You got it backwards 101 is backlit 001 is frontlit
>>340783817
The exact same screen mod done on both models.
>>340764553
It would be cheaper for you to mod it yourself.
![$_35[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/tS9wKe4.jpg "$_35[1].jpg")
Best way to play GBA is on a DS with the top screen ripped off.
Pic related. They're pretty cheap too. Ebay it.
>>340784546
Fug,I stand corrected.
Thanks for the info check nerd.
>>340770445
>after a while the ds lite turn into a gba
>>340771674
Doesnt the sound crash when you land a hit in GS1 ?
Mine has this issue.
>>340785062
made me kek
>>340764553
no.
buy a cheap NDS and a flashcart or a cheap GBA and do the MOD yourself.
those prices are ridiculous.
if you mod a GBA mind the battery consumption, it will drain batteries like a motherfucker.
>>340770025
I assume it should be relatively easy with electronic knowledge to fit a lithium ion rechargeable in it right? just switch out the connectors to the internals and make sure the voltage is right.
>>340771043
clicky buttons will become soft buttons with time, soft buttons will become shit with time.
learned it with the DS lite.
Best way for playing GBA games is literally a Gamecube with the Gameboy player and a GBA as the controller.
>>340764553
>buy a gba and do this yourself for 40 dollars
