what is your favorite vba game ?

[rio]

:help:
i need a recommendation
and if you mind post the screenshots too :)

[Bgnome]

my personal favorite would be Advance Wars, the best gameboy advance game out right now in my opinion..
there are a few threads with shots in the screenshots section, like this one: http://www.ngemu.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5508

[rio]

hmm
look good

[Sylvan Sorrow]

my fav is Castlevania: COTM Im not at home now, when I get there Ill post a screenie for you

[CKemu]

My Favs so far are:

Mario Kart
Earth Worm Jim
Lady Sia
Tony Hawk's PRo Skater 2

[CKemu]

Earth Worm Jim

[CKemu]

Lady Sia

[CKemu]

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

[The Vagrant]

Megaman Battle Network would be the best gba game so far...............just take my word for it..i'm not going to all the trouble of taking screenshots when there are thousands of sites that already have them *cough* pocket.ign.com *cough*

[Shadow Lady]

I´m staying whit
Final Fight One
Mario Kart Super Circuit

BTW is there any way to get speed in VBA?

[Ryos]

SepHirotH: Have you tried higher levels of frame skip?

[CKemu]

oh and I forgot to mention Castlevania - Circle of The Moon DAMN fine game, and Advance Wars, to b honest the GBA is fantastic all round

[CKemu]

..here's Advance Wars....but I am not gonna bother posting more as there is the GBA screenshots section, that is pretty 'complete'

[Enigma1982]

Love Hina Advance ;)
http://www.ngemu.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6035

[rio]

Originally posted by Enigma1982
Love Hina Advance ;)
http://www.ngemu.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6035

tried to like this game too
but, its japanese :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Shiori]

LH advance and Gradius advance. :)

...I also play GBC games there too....current faves are Sakura Wars and Tokimeki Memorial: Culture/Sport editions.

[gerbilcannon]

I'm venturing out of the epsxe forum finally!! *cheers* For me so far I'm enjoying Castlevania and Tactics Ogre Gaiden. Not that I get much time to play them, blasted homework.

[Ryos]

> I'm venturing out of the epsxe forum finally!!

About time. You've already been mentioned on some of the other forums. :p

I didn't like Castlevania much at first, but the more I played it, the more interesting it got, especially when I got the mars card and turned the hero into an Alucard clone.

[gerbilcannon]

Oh my, I'm famous!! I haven't really investet much time into the game yet, but it feels like SotN to me and I consider that a good thing!

[Shadow Lady]

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Originally posted by Ryos
SepHirotH: Have you tried higher levels of frame skip?
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yeah I tried it but is so ugly

[DSF]

THPS2 is my fav GBA game

[EXE]

i didn't knew which my favorite vba game.. Megaman Exe Battle Network and Golden sun is my great RPG games

[Omegainf]

GOLDEN SUN!!!
It's awesome!!! The GBA is really a great system!

I can't wait for the Final Fantasies to hit the system :P

[Shiori]

Will they? I think they only came out for the Wonderswan.

[Bgnome]

its a hopeful rumor among the less informed. but with the recent purchase of part of square by sony and the current relations with nintendo, i wouldnt expect anything any time soon..

[Ryos]

Square won't publish anything for Nintendo while the current NoJ president is in power. I'm not sure if they will afterwards, but definitely not now. He's been adamantly opposed to Square.

"In an article with Bloomberg Japan, Hiroshi Yamauchi, the president of Nintendo Company Limited, stated that the company does not and will not have a contract with Square to produce software for the Game Boy Advance or the GameCube. "

[Shiori]

gee, Sony's gobbling up everything in sight....

[gerbilcannon]

I don't remember where but I thought I saw an article about nintendo and square making up ... but I could be wrong.

[The Vagrant]

simply becuz wonderswan color is coming to the US and so are the ff remakes for it, so i don't see why square would make more remakes for the gba, besides, second to sqaure pres, SONY owns the largest stock in sqauresoft, that and the fact that nin pres is a (insert 'colorful' adjective here).

[Kellicros]

Golden Sun is my favourite RPG on GBA!

[Samor]

from what I've seen so far...I think Wario Land 4. It's an original and great platformer.

Gradius Advance is cool, but I expected more than that...after playing Gradius Gaiden on the psx this is kind of a dissapointment.

oh, and....Advance Wars is really good too!

But I don't like the fact that half of the games are snes ports....that really stinks.

[Ryos]

If they're going to port SNES games, they should at least port the great ones...unfortunately, that isn't going to happen.

[Samor]

what? you dont think pitfall the mayan advanture is the greatest game ever? :p

[Ryos]

Originally posted by Samor
what? you dont think pitfall the mayan advanture is the greatest game ever? :p Ahem, no. :p The only good port it looks like we'll probably be getting is BoF 2. Hopefully Capcom takes a little more effort checking the English script this time.

[gerbilcannon]

Originality is expensive. Just far easier to rehash. Tch. The only pitfall I ever liked was the original. Ah, sigh, now that was some good clean fun there! Hmm ... just realized I never got around to finishing bof2 either.

[Kellicros]

why not Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean??!!:emb:

[Ryos]

Originally posted by Evil Squall
why not Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean??!!:emb: I doubt Namco would bother with another remake of Tales of Phantasia, and Star Ocean I question because Enix has more lucrative remake possibilities (DQ 5 and 6, for example).

[Samor]

well, actually there's another thing with the gba I dont like...

porting 3D games (like Tekken) to 2D and then let reviewers go like ooooh...that's quite good with the sprites, almost 3d! ...
duh.

Just use the GBA for what it's good at: 2D.

[kingking 3rd]

Gyakuten Saiban by capcom. there are 220 gba games and i only played this one and final fight one.

[The Vagrant]

Originally posted by Evil Squall
why not Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean??!!:emb:

That's easy, ToP has already had a remake and Star Ocean was never released in the states, so it wouldn't be a remake for us, and Enix will not goto all the trouble of translating SO to english. I want to see some Megaman X remakes for the gba, if not that, after X6 i want X7 to be on gba instead of a next-gen system.

[lizardj]

yup yup, gba is more than powerful enough to handle 2d based side scrollin' megaman, heehee. kindda dissapointed that the first megaman title for gba isnt in that category... :( i am not against mmbn, but i dun quite like its cough cough unique battle system. if yer lookin' for a side scrollin' game for gba, check out lady sia for some complex combos shez got; and klonoa for its cute little puzzle solving adventure.

and then therez the must have~~~ golden sun! itz the best game for gba! golen sun, i love you!!!(huggin' n' kissin' the cartridge). it has some unbelievable, eye-poppin', sprite effects for the magics n stuff! graphics and bg music and over all gameplay is juz gorgeous! easily THE BEST RPG for a hand held. i dun kno wutz the deal here but compared to dis, bof remake looks like @#%$^!!! :mad:

oh ya and i think i did see an article about nintendo makin' up to square and how square might grand its classic ff seris' mercy on gba back in the days of gbas late development stages. ahhh, if sony hadnt been so nice to nintendo... (crying) i want ff for my gba!!!

[gerbilcannon]

I want new ff games then, not just remakes, I'm sick of remakes!! There are just way too many remakes out there. I need some coffee grr. Lunar and Lunar 2 garnered a slew of remakes, and so far those are the only ones of any impressive quality at all in a remake. But still, I'd be more interested in a new game than a prettier old game.

[Ryos]

lizardj: well, BoF was made for the SNES way back in the day, and Golden Sun was originally meant for N64. More than just a bit of a difference. Besides, Climax games tend to look pretty good.

[The Vagrant]

Originally posted by lizardj
yup yup, gba is more than powerful enough to handle 2d based side scrollin' megaman, heehee. kindda dissapointed that the first megaman title for gba isnt in that category... :( i am not against mmbn, but i dun quite like its cough cough unique battle system. if yer lookin' for a side scrollin' game for gba, check out lady sia for some complex combos shez got; and klonoa for its cute little puzzle solving adventure.

looks like were both in luck, the fisrt side scrolling 2d megaman game is coming out march 15, 2002. It's entitled Rockman Zero. I'll leave it to you to figure out who the main character is...[hint] It's not X or megaman.:p

[Soylvak]

Golden sun! and Castlevania...best games for gba,yep.

[FiReY]

Well I like FF but I don't think they are releasing that on GBA any time soon. I like golden sun out of all the GBA games so far that has been released. However I would like to see CCS (Card Captor Sakura released on GBA, Digimon Tammers...however these games are on the wonderswan...and it is almost impossible to find a emu and games for this system. ^-^

Originally posted by Soylvak
Golden sun! and Castlevania...best games for gba,yep.

[Soylvak]

digimon sucks

[FiReY]

Hey hey I never said anything about Digimon. I said Digimon Tammers, there is a difference. And its better than Pokemon.

Originally posted by Soylvak
digimon sucks

[Soylvak]

digimon sucks

[FiReY]

You keep telling yourself that, but I like it cause I think its cute.
^-^

Originally posted by Soylvak
digimon sucks

[Soylvak]

digimon sucks

[FiReY]

Okay whatever! Just drop it!

Originally posted by Soylvak
digimon sucks

[Soylvak]

yur the one who said to keep saying it...geez, girls...:eyes:

[FiReY]

What do u mean girls..?? U idiotic baboon! Lol

Originally posted by Soylvak
yur the one who said to keep saying it...geez, girls...:eyes:

[Soylvak]

Whoa whoa don't start the name calling there...:dead:

[FiReY]

Yeah I guess your right, becaus it would b an insult to all th other baboons out there. ^-^

Originally posted by Soylvak
Whoa whoa don't start the name calling there...:dead:

[Soylvak]

Ummm that post wasn't any better...

[FiReY]

Okay I'll leave it at this, since your a very immature person, one that dosn't respect other peoples views, if you want to know why your are immature. I'm going to ignore you until you grow up. ^-^ That's going to take awhile. See ya!
Originally posted by Soylvak
Ummm that post wasn't any better...digimon sucks

[Soylvak]

Oh yeah immature me,you calling people baboons...just how old are you anyways..I bet yur like 12 years old.

[FiReY]

And what if I am? At least I know how to spell unlike some under academic achieves.

Originally posted by Soylvak
Oh yeah immature me,you calling people baboons...just how old are you anyways..I bet yur like 12 years old.

[Soylvak]

name calling again!!! din't yur moma teach you to be polite...and just to tell you, i am french so that could explain my errors.

[FiReY]

Okay? Well I'm Japanese...so there we are even....

Originally posted by Soylvak
name calling again!!! din't yur moma teach you to be polite...and just to tell you, i am french so that could explain my errors.

[Soylvak]

ok thats fine ...can we talk about emulation now? i'm bored

[FiReY]

Fine...what games are you looking forward to for GBA?

Originally posted by Soylvak
ok thats fine ...can we talk about emulation now? i'm bored

[Ryos]

I'm pretty sure there will be at least one CCS GBA game, considering how popular the series is. It probably won't be officially translated, but that's typical for anime games...

[FiReY]

Yeah!!! CCS, I love the show, and the movie is even better. ^-^

Originally posted by Ryos
I'm pretty sure there will be at least one CCS GBA game, considering how popular the series is. It probably won't be officially translated, but that's typical for anime games...

[Soylvak]

CCS? tells me somthing...no,what is that again?

[FiReY]

Card Captor Sakura. Or CardCaptors in the US. I'm not sure what they call it in france. But I know that a lot of peeople in frace like that anime.

Originally posted by Soylvak
CCS? tells me somthing...no,what is that again?

[Soylvak]

Ya ok but I don't like the tv show, you like it cuz it's cute i guess , the game better be full of action.

[Death Metal]

For me, the Love Hina Advance has a very good aspect although I cannot read the text. However, I think that Super Street Fighter II X Revival was the best hit until now, especially due to the fact that it is not a simple clone from any other console.

[Soylvak]

is love hina adavnce a good game? what kind?

[Soylvak]

Originally posted by FiReY
Card Captor Sakura. Or CardCaptors in the US. I'm not sure what they call it in france. But I know that a lot of peeople in frace like that anime.



And in France I think they call it: ''Sakura chasseuse de carte''

Yep

[sxamiga]

VBA games, Super Mario Advance, Breath of Fire, Castlevania COTM,
and Golden Sun. All great games. I'm still waiting for BOF in English though, all I have right now is the Japanese version.
sincerely,
sx/amiga

[Rargh]

Actually, CCS always makes me sleep (really =) ).
The lack of musics tends to have a side effect it seems :D, my girlfriend likes a lot the manga and find the anime serie somehow stupid (the manga seems to have some more mature contents, only text heh ;) )

[Xeven]

well I vote for advanced wars and golden sun.. :)

[JuniorCRB]

tony hawk 2, mario world, and Street Fighter Alpha 3 (best street fighter ever), i wish it had some megaman X games at GBC gets 2 , there not bad but the graphics could be cleaned up.

[IceLord]

one of my favorites would be sonic

[Soylvak]

Isn't sonic with sega?

[gerbilcannon]

Sega makes games for other systems now y'know.

[Esturk]

My fave GBA games are Mario Kart Super Circuit and Mario Advance. Also I like BOF1 as it is now portable.:)

[FiReY]

Yes Sonic is with Sega, however that is Sonic ADVANCE and I think that is the Japanese game. The US version isn't out yet. ^-^

Originally posted by Soylvak
Isn't sonic with sega?

[IceLord]

well the version that i got was a combined japanese and english version

[gerbilcannon]

Like you'd need much in the way of translation for a sonic game anyhow. Even SNK's translators couldn't have fouled it up too badly!

[MajinChubbZ]

iv played it and beat it it is a supurb game w/nice grafics to boot ..... Golden Sun yeah baby yeah #1

[average_guy]

Golden Sun main menu don't work, because Visual boy advance and boycutt advance don't support in-game save (save game inside the game), I every time I have to click on save stat from the menu bar. Sucked hell.

[The Vagrant]

huh? which version of vba are you using...i never had that problem...side note: a mod or admin really needs to change to name of this thread cuz everytime i read it i piss my pants laughing...best VBA game indeed...

[Shiori]

Tokimeki Pocket (Culture and Sport editions). Sure, it's a GBC game, but i play it in VBA, so its the "best VBA game" for me. :D

[Samor]

So, how long before a REAL tokimeki gba game appears? Can't be too long, dont you think?

[Shiori]

Actually, there is....somewhat. It's called "Meine Leibe" or something (I think it's German for "My Love"), made by Konami and Mobile21 last year. However, in this case, you're a GIRL chasing BOYS. :p :D Here's a screenie. :)

[Samor]

I guess that one's for the girl gamers then.

[Samor]

and yes, that's german for 'my love'...I guess they think that's cool or something to throw in...

[Shiori]

The setting is 19th century Deutschland, not a Japanese high school, so i guess they have to think up of a cool-sounding german phrase. :p

[Samor]

oh yeah...of course ;p

That reminds me, Capcom VS SNK 2 has a Dutch stage....Kinderdijk, oh well, at least the location was done pretty well, but it's sooo stereotypical, with those mills and stuff ;P

oh well, at least it's not as bad as the dutch stage in aqua gt (crap game btw)

Oh yeah, and I'm Dutch yeah...Germany are our neigbours ;)

And Bobbi is german, but you might already know that.

[Shiori]

Are those windmills still being used? I think they add character to a countryside setting. :)

For me, Holland = Cheese. :p Really, I like them red balls of cheese A LOT.

[Samor]

cheese? yes...we produce some of that. ;P

and the mills? oh, they're still very productive: They deliver lots of money thanks to tourists who want to see stereotypical things, hehehe ;)

[Shiori]

Maybe i'd go check them out too in a few years, add some euros to the dutch economy. :p


btw, no one can change the topic from GBA games to cheese like the BATARDS can. :D

[Samor]

I'm happy to be a part of the select few ;)

I'm feeling bastered...
;)

[Shiori]

Nothing like a slice of BATARD and creamy yellow bastered for breakfast. :D

[Samor]

Maybe we should all join forces in the Shiori BATARD club.
You and Xeven make up the rules, I'll gladly operate as vice-president (as long as I get my beer).
;)

Oh uhm...
anyways, to get back on topic; I liked Sonic Advance best so far.

[JuniorCRB]

Mega man extreame 2 even if it is gbc

[Esturk]

Originally posted by Shiori
Nothing like a slice of BATARD and creamy yellow bastered for breakfast. :D

Ok I know what Batard bread is but what's creamy yellow bastered? Is that another way to spell bastard?

[average_guy]

Originally posted by The Vagrant
huh? which version of vba are you using...i never had that problem...side note: a mod or admin really needs to change to name of this thread cuz everytime i read it i piss my pants laughing...best VBA game indeed...

Sorry for not making my self clear, you see, I use VBA v0.19 and boycutt v0.22, i Run gold sun from a zip file, I payed for like 5 hours. After I when back to the game next day, the saved file is not there, I know I saved all 3 slots before I exit that game, only thing is I can load from VBA save states, I can't load the game in the game menu. Hope thats clear, emulator don't work very good.

[gerbilcannon]

You are rather behind on your version numbers for both of those emulators you know.

[The Vagrant]

ahahahhahahaha.............and mwhahahahahaa....plus some bwhahahahhaha.....dude....beam yourself off the enterpsrise and back onto earth....where we have such spiffy things as.....VBA 7.1......and Boycott .23b2 [not sure if thats the latest....don't use it].

[average_guy]

haha, i see

[BoF2]

I konw there is a japanese Tactics ogre for gba, is there or is there gonna be one in english.

[Esturk]

Tactics Ogre Gaiden right? I think it will be released here.

[The Vagrant]

tactics ogre will be released in may in the US...yay baby...

[Method_Man]

Golden Sun all the way!

[Snake785]

Originally posted by The Vagrant
ahahahhahahaha.............and mwhahahahahaa....plus some bwhahahahhaha.....dude....beam yourself off the enterpsrise and back onto earth....where we have such spiffy things as.....VBA 7.1......and Boycott .23b2 [not sure if thats the latest....don't use it].

Actually VBA is at 8.0 now.

[JuniorCRB]

how the new one working, is it more speed or comtability?

[Kellicros]

Originally posted by Snake785


Actually VBA is at 8.0 now.
hmm... it 's not 8.0, but it's 0.8! :p

[average_guy]

i thought so

[Mr Urt]

no, it really is 8.0, Snake broght it back from the latest time traveling he did with ePSXe :D

[CKemu]

4 oriinal topic, Lady Sia, Love Hina Advance, Mario Kart, Advance Wars are some of my favs.

@ Mr Urt, well it that case someone grab me ePSXe 2.0.0, ePS2e 1.0.0, and Nemu 1.0, and perhaps a GameCube emulator, ahh to the future.

[average_guy]

Originally posted by CKemu
4 oriinal topic, Lady Sia, Love Hina Advance, Mario Kart, Advance Wars are some of my favs.

@ Mr Urt, well it that case someone grab me ePSXe 2.0.0, ePS2e 1.0.0, and Nemu 1.0, and perhaps a GameCube emulator, ahh to the future.

I wonder where did you get love hina avdance

[Kane]

Love Hina Game? :love: must have!!!!! Is it in engrish?

[flatbush27]

these are my favorites

1. golden sun
2. advance wars
3. mario kart - super circuit
4. ready 2 rumble boxing: round 2

[Phuzzi]

My favourite would have to be American Bass Challenge.

Originally posted by average_guy
I wonder where did you get love hina avdance

It's an older game now, have a look around.

[average_guy]

mind to send me some "tips" to get love hina game though pm?

[Soylvak]

how many games were there when they released the gba? i just checked how many games there are now and theres like over 500.

[Phuzzi]

However the number of quality gba games is nowhere near as high :(

[average_guy]

thats because the graphic of ps2, xbox, g-cube and computer games out numbered gba.

[flatbush27]

but you cant carry any of those in your pocket...

gba is awesome. what would be really cool is to see a new one w/ n64 graphics.

[JuniorCRB]

all in good time, i'd actually like some n64 ports to pc like zelda

[Phuzzi]

Originally posted by average_guy
thats because the graphic of ps2, xbox, g-cube and computer games out numbered gba.

Nice graphics don't make a ****ty game good :p

[JuniorCRB]

true, true

[Esturk]

Originally posted by Phuzzi


Nice graphics don't make a ****ty game good :p
Damn straight.

[flatbush27]

Originally posted by Phuzzi


Nice graphics don't make a ****ty game good :p

definitely. i choose games for quality first. price next. and if i'm looking for something to tease my eyes, graphics last. in my opinion, graphics sell to younger gamers.

[Soylvak]

well usually i won't judge a game by it's graphics but man...i just played a game yesterday that i'm sure would of been a best seller if it werent for the graphics...i mean they really suck and that';s why i stoped playing......can't seem to remember the name of the game...

[BoF2]

Hehe, if there was a game called BoF2 for gba.
It would be the best.

[JuniorCRB]

DOA on GBA hmmmmm.... the possibility

[The Vagrant]

April 15 bof2 hits the states...and golden sun fades from our memories forever...

[Soylvak]

Forever? WTF?

[Kane]

BOF2... I thought I saw that in a shop here a week ago! I'm in the UK!

[Soylvak]

well they are making pretty good games for gba but wouldn't it be cool i there was a handheld system with at least the graphics of n64?

[gerbilcannon]

And you would chop off you arm or leg for that system? It would be a lot clunkier to port around than a gba that is for sure which would eliminate alot of the appeal of a handheld gaming device. And personally, I like the fact that true 3d graphics are still beyond the realm of the portable, as I really enjoy the look and feel of 2d games.

[The Vagrant]

*Agrees with gerbilcannon completely*

And yes FOREVER. It's about bloody time, the only reason that game got such a nice welcome was becuase it was the first of it's kind [read traditional rpg] on the gba. Shining Soul, Magical Vacation, Tactics Ogre Gaiden, and BoF2 are going to wipe it out.

[gerbilcannon]

Don't know about BoF2 since I've played through the snes version but I agree about Tactics Ogre Gaiden and Shining Soul. Haven't heard of Magical Vacation, but it isn't like I pay much attention to the games coming out lately anyhow.

[Soylvak]

don't mean do Dis you but some gba games ARE in 3d...

[Kane]

Mode 7 at least... and there is that 3d engine for it.

[JuniorCRB]

yep, take thps 2 for example it looks and feels 3d but it isn't.

[Soylvak]

oh well it's good enough for me...

[Recca]

Golden sun battles look a bit 3D

[The Vagrant]

Mode 7 again, it's Psuedo 3D. Still haven't seen a GBA that can even come close to rivaling Star Ocean in graphics yet [ah what the heck its not like any of these GBA games can rival Star Ocean in anything].

[Soylvak]

if you inlarge the screen on your emulator it doens't look 3d no more.

[jeff_dogg1]

i recommend golden sun and megaman battle network. The only good gba games are rpgs.

[JuniorCRB]

if only some ff ports

[Soylvak]

the remakes of breath of fire arent too bad

[liquid]

castlevania COM and Sonic Advanced are my 2 favorite GBA games.

[The Vagrant]

Whao, has anyone here played Magical Vacation....this game blows GS away in everything [gfx most noticebly, hell its almost as good if not as good as Legend of Mana in gfx].

[raptor2423]

Spyhunter is looking really good for the GBA!!

[Kentaro]

Love Hina Advance...
My Japanese skills are near 0, but hey, at least I can point out some kanji. :p

The graphics are definitely a step up from Pocket Love Hina for the GBC, but there's less content since it's skipping around the anime (the first 21 or so episodes).

[Kane]

Those 3d demos for the GBA look like it can handle some quite good stuff really fast :D

[JuniorCRB]

ss alpha 3