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since i'll be wasting a lot of time waiting outside/in the university/in the train soon again because of university and since i have money and my birthday soon, i'm hesitating whether i should take one or not... i was against it because it's really expensive for a portable console, and i barely ever used that old gameboy color anyway (wasn't really that fun compared to a home console), but i'm hesitating again... what do you think? or maybe a x-box instead, i don't like microsoft nor the controllers and i already have a ps2 and a gamecube but there are some games that are really tempting on it... |
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wario land |
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I don't think getting an SP is worth it now. I'd save for a PSP or a DS, although you'll have to wait a while for those. I was thinking about getting an xbox the other day but there are so many rubbish games for every great one so I'm not going to bother. |
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got my sp this week! been playin sword of mana, gonna go loot the local game shops for cheapo second hand games tomorrow |
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I'd go forr a new watch. |
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lot's of good games for the gba (playing fire emblem lately) yet you can play all of them on an emulator for free... so it's your call |
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i would follow horsefactory's advice and wait for the next gen handhelds you'll be kicking yourself in the arse if you don't wait, because they both boast wireless functionality |
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I think GBA games are WAY too expensive. Here, at least... they're almost as much as the console games, not worth it at all. Most of them are crap, though there's some gems. If you have a place around you that sells used GBA games, you'd get much better value (I just use the emulators... I don't go anywhere). Obviously part of the reason for wanting a portable is to entertain yourself when you're waiting around university and the train... but I'd still go for the Xbox before spending money on a GBA. Ninja Gaiden's easily the best game of the year. And the system is picking up steam. Its library is farrrr better than the Gamecube's now, and it'll pull ahead even more in the next 3 months. |
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I'm extremely wary of the next gen handhelds. The PSP will probably be absurdly expensive, although Sony is going to make sure its library is enormous... Metal Gear Acid looks PS2 quality. The DS is REALLY odd... ugly ugly grainy graphics, but an interesting gimmick. Who knows whether Nintendo will be able to round up the 3rd party support for it. But I guess one of them will have to thrive... we can't be playing 16 bit handhelds forever. |
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"I think GBA games are WAY too expensive." > me too. 40€ for a GBA game (except the NES ones which are at 19€), 60€ for a console game. (both are too much anyway) |
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GBA's are 32bit..... There are loads of classic games out on the GBA so I say get one second hand with a few games off ebay & sell it if you don't like it.... that way you cant go wrong. |
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hmm, this could be a good idea. |
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some of the games you can get on the gba almost seem worth the money to me, mostly if you'er into platformers, every single castlevania game is a pure classic, and metroid, final fantasy tactics, advance wars, guardian heroes advance, sonic advance, monkey ball, zelda, zone of enders, harvet moon, download some emulation first I woudl say, I can happily play gba games on my computer, fulscreen and barely notice that I'm playing a game designed to a small screen let alone a handheld, the games are solid as fuck |
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i have one and actually play it! if you have a certain amount of nostalgia regarding video games it's great. playing zelda and mario 3 again was really cool, secret of mana, the megaman series (rockman), castlevania, metroid etc.... aces! |
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no |
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Yes Castlevania 1&3 are fantastic. I'd go so far as to say 3 is one of the best platformers ever. Warioware is a good laugh too. I mainly use mine for NES emulation nowadays though and even that isn't used much (I avoid public transport and any queuing like the plague). |
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Yeah I want to get one but I wanna make sure I can get one of those things I can download games onto and add emulation. Is there any other way to emulate nes on it without buying one of those 300$ flash things ? |
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The GBA is to 32 bit gaming what the Jaguar was to 64. Not to mention to weak, sub-SNES soundchip. The Castlevania games for GBA are all awesome, Circle of the Moon is still my favorite GBA game, to this day... there's also some good RPGs. The Golden Sun games are solid, and Shining Force is out now (not as good as the Genesis games, though). Tons of great games, but I personally wouldn't shell out the cash these things sell for. It's not like they're pouring funds into developing these short games... but they still sell them for hefty prices. But half priced used, that's a good deal. |
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IMHO the games are just too frickin expensive. It's the reason the GBA's are so low, Nintendo gets their profit over the licensing of their games. I mean is a 20 year old Excitebike or Pac-Man really worth TWENTY BUCKS??? What about every other cardtridge, which are always limited in gameplay (except those RPG that last you 20 hours of gametime), that are like 30$ each. It's really the # of games you want to buy that will determinate your budget. |
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If you don't mind spending $149 and waiting till November 21st get the Nintendo DS. It will be backwards compatible so you can still play Advance games. |
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its the only game system worth buying at the moment. |
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Good plan, I totally forgot about that backwards compatibility. God bless that. Yeah, you may as well wait for the DS. In fact, I think I'll buy it on the day it comes out... I don't even have a GBA. That feature will make the hefty price tag a bit more bearable. ymenard- yeah, those retro-games are very overpriced, as is everything else. Nintendo is making a fortune on the GBA. They've probably got a well stocked war chest somewhere. Not that the gamers are benefit from it too much. |
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