Am I the only one who loathes the GBA?

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It used to be my favourite system a while back , but many of the heavy hitters have dissapointments. Especially the Sega games. It has some great games(golden sun,advance wars,fusion)but I dont think it's library is as good as the cubes.

[Tracer]

Doesn't change the fact that it's hard as hell to see and is less enjoyable because of it.  More for some than others.
 
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[DHG Otaku]

Originally posted by Millartime
I have never understood why the GBA is so popular. Here's a system that has virtually nothing but hacked up ports of 10+ year old SNES games (gotta love that music in Contra!). With a blurry screen to boot. And people are buying this crap in droves.

The latest example: Darius R. It's 32-bit hardware and Taito can't make the ship sprite tilt when you move vertically?

And after so many years Nintendo cannot come up with a freakin' internal light!

Granted, original games like the two Castlevanias and Shining Soul get props from me but it's not enough.

If there was ever an argument that people buy what they already know, the GBA proves it.

Let the flames proclaiming my arrogance begin.

sorry to the rest, but I'm in absolute complete agreement...not to mention only TWO god damn face buttons.

[bandit]

ahhh..i LOVE my GBA

i got the ULTRA RARE "backlit" GBA



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[sggg]

Originally posted by DHG Otaku
sorry to the rest, but I'm in absolute complete agreement..

You should not be sorry to the rest, we should be sorry to you.. we're enjoying the hell out of GBA.

I wish you and the others could as well.

[Cheebs]

Originally posted by remotec
My real complaint is ergonomics. It's an incredibly uncomfortable thing to hold for any length of time, my thumb joints end up hurting after just playing for a little while. Games that use the shoulder buttons a lot? Forget it.

Get a Mad Catz Battery Grip. You will not belive the wonders it does for the ergonomics. I can't play without it. I also recomend stealing a C button from an N64 pad, drilling a hole above the A and B buttons on your GBA, and running a wire to the L button. L button on the face = less hand mangling.

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The ergonomics are bad, the screen is bad as well in both brightness and size. The shoulder buttons should be triggers instead.

Otherwise it is a great system for geezers like me(23) who want people to remember where games come from and not to forget it when they're out there pushing 3D games with bad camera angles and 7 button control. I also like the newly sparked interest to have mobile gaming in general, like Nokia's proposed handheld. The good thing is that you can't put an nVidia chip in those systems.

I think that in order to propell the genre Nintendo needs to release a dev kit to the public, like a flash cart but one which would only respond to their signature or whatever so that the commercial games couldn't be pirated. Not that the demo/amateur games scene for the GBA is not fantastic enough. I'm serious, release it for kids with several templates for building games like shooters, puzzle, platformer, RPG, isometric. God knows it would only help the industry.

[remotec]

Originally posted by Chibi Nappa
I also recomend stealing a C button from an N64 pad, drilling a hole above the A and B buttons on your GBA, and running a wire to the L button. L button on the face = less hand mangling.

Have you actually done that? That's an interesting idea. And yeah, I should get a hand grip thing for it.

[Cheebs]

Originally posted by remotec
Have you actually done that?

Yup. Wouldn't dream of playing Street Fighter without it.

[Frogacuda]

This is just stupid. I don't know how anyone could argue the GBA has a blurry screen. And Shining Soul? WTF?! I don't think this guy has even played these games. Whatever. I love my GBA, and I love my GBA library.