The GB Player is my primary method of playing GBA games (and GBC games, but I hardly play any). I think a lot of gameboy games are just as fun as any other game and completely worth playing on a TV. That meant it let me play games like Legend of Zelda DX, Metal Gear Solid, and Megaman Xtreme 1 and 2 on my TV. That said, I was a huge fan of Super Gameboy and usually play my GB games on that particular machine, but gameboy color games always went into my GB Player, because it could act like a gameboy color. It doesn't play quite right in emulation, as the combo timing is off.

It really enhances the experience.Īlso, you should look into obtaining a flash cart and playing Mother 3 on real hardware. You might also want to track down one of those Hori SNES-style GCN controllers. I recommend both Metroid titles, the Sonic titles, metal slug advance, mario kart, the advance war games, the mario & luigi games, and minish cap to start yourself off with. I have a ton of GBA games, and the vast majority of them have never been in a real gameboy. Once the GBP arrived, my gamecube became a permanent GBA machine. The games on it were great, but I couldn't see shit. I had a launch GBA and hated it because I couldn't play the damned thing. It seems that I won't be able to use the GC/GBP to load up the bonuses, though and I really wasn't planning on getting an SP.I followed the Gameboy player and bought it the weekend it came out specifically to play GBA games on my TV. I realized that I can play every Metroid game released in the US on this system (NES Metroid being a connectivity bonus in Prime) and I theoretically have the games to do it (though I'm not opening my Metroid 2 to play it). Savestates woulda been nice o_Oīorders? I use border 20, though I think a few of them are neat. I personally would much rather have had some sort of turbo option assigned to one of the GC buttons.agh.

I doubt it's an aid to help you estimate how much play time you have left before your GameBoy Advance / SP batteries go out(goodness knows why you wouldn't be using the GC controller instead of that awful little d-pad on your likely quite dirty and grubby handheld). and the (god knows why it's in there) timer.I was just wondering that myself (having picked up a GameCube and the GBP today for $150). There are a bunch of other little reasons, like.

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