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Pro-tip for playing monochrome GB games on a GBC/A: immediately after you power on the GBC/A, hold both left on the dpad and the B button until the game starts, and you'll get an actual b&w palette. Well, maybe not a pro-tip, your preference will vary. But I didn't know about this until pretty recently and wish I had known when I was a kid.
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Plugging away at 007. Just got out of a desert and I'm still enjoying it. If that maze to the black market was the low point of the game I'll most likely finish this.
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Jan 6, 2022 14:32
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Manky posted:Pro-tip for playing monochrome GB games on a GBC/A: immediately after you power on the GBC/A, hold both left on the dpad and the B button until the game starts, and you'll get an actual b&w palette. Well, maybe not a pro-tip, your preference will vary. But I didn't know about this until pretty recently and wish I had known when I was a kid. Neat. Just holding right gives you the classic puke green colour.
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Jan 6, 2022 15:18
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I got my IPS-modded GBC yesterday and it looks loving amazing. It's the new Q5 version which has an emulated pixel grid mode that actually looks really authentic
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Jan 6, 2022 15:54
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Manky posted:Pro-tip for playing monochrome GB games on a GBC/A: immediately after you power on the GBC/A, hold both left on the dpad and the B button until the game starts, and you'll get an actual b&w palette. Well, maybe not a pro-tip, your preference will vary. But I didn't know about this until pretty recently and wish I had known when I was a kid. Hey cool thanks, I think I knew this once but forgot.
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Jan 6, 2022 22:04
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Here's the full cheat sheet for GBC/A palettes, credit in the image:
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Jan 6, 2022 23:25
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I got my IPS-modded GBC yesterday and it looks loving amazing. It's the new Q5 version which has an emulated pixel grid mode that actually looks really authentic Imho it looks better than the pockets attempt at color games
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Jan 7, 2022 00:38
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Manky posted:Here's the full cheat sheet for GBC/A palettes, credit in the image: I’m going to exclusively play with the disgusting inverted color palette from now on aperfectcirclefan posted:Imho it looks better than the pockets attempt at color games I haven’t experienced the pocket in person but from the videos I’ve seen I honestly do think the GBC IPS screen’s pixel mode looks a little more authentic
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Jan 7, 2022 01:41
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I’m going to exclusively play with the disgusting inverted color palette from now on Can you link videos with that screen mod? I’m curious how it looks.
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Jan 7, 2022 01:53
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Games Clubs aren't really my scene, but I figured I had to with this one. Coupla years ago me and my buddy were walking down the road when we spotted a shoebox with a FREE tag on it. Pick it up and among the other stupid poo poo is a working GB Pocket and a single game 007 James Bond, It's been years since I've had my GB from childhood, or any of the games, seeing this club start with the only game I own felt like a sign. Unfortunately It's like -15 out and I don't got batteries so we're going with emulator. The game owns hard though, I was thinking it was a bit simple and janky for a Zeldalike, but getting back to the Lab and seeing they put in dialogue for M,Q and Moneypenny, and stuck in a gag with the chair, loving sick man. Kurdistan is also a massive step up, a little less linear, more tools, and I found a secret  Shooting out the light was such an eloquent puzzle, loving this game Gaius Marius fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Jan 7, 2022 |
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Jan 7, 2022 01:59
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I put some time into Quarth and something unlocked in my brain. I had a few friends with this on Game Boy, it’s really responsive and somewhat addictive for a shooter/block clearing game. I still don’t understand some of it, the game is risk reward to see what is intended to be cleared individually and what can be combo’d as a larger block. Sometimes I go for what should be a full clear but the game only registers the smaller block and not the whole combo. Hammerin’ Harry looks cool. It reminds me of Super Mario Land with the different game modes, like the shooters and water levels. I’m gonna cheese it and skip a stage I’m stuck on - the interior of the blimp is rough. Gonna give James Bond 007 a go soon, glad to hear it’s a Zelda clone. woofbro fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Jan 7, 2022 |
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Jan 7, 2022 03:01
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SeANMcBAY posted:Can you link videos with that screen mod? I’m curious how it looks. This is one that really convinced me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaGNyhtwmZk
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Jan 7, 2022 03:45
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I have a Kiwi one I am looking to offload if anyone is looking for one. Send me a PM. Asking for $120 shipped.
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Jan 7, 2022 04:18
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Pablo Nergigante posted:This is one that really convinced me drat I wish I still had mine now. Stupid idiot child me making the seemingly reasonable conclusion that I wouldn’t need my GBC anymore since GBA also played all its games.
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Jan 7, 2022 04:30
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Lol the James Bond game is pretty goofy but also a lot of fun. It has a sense of humor too
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Jan 7, 2022 23:33
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I've got an Analogue Pocket pre-ordered for the next round, already own a backlit-modded GBC (one of BennVenn's original FreckleShack LCD kits that wasn't the cleanest install job so there's things about it that bug me), and god drat if that Q5 screen doesn't make me want to hunt down another GBC, grab some aftermarket parts and get modding again. I love these systems. I think I've said this somewhere else on the forums at some point, but one of the reasons I really enjoy retro handheld gaming is the design focus that went along with the games - a lot of games (well, the good ones at least) are designed to be played in short, manageable chunks. If not, then they are short enough that once you've mastered the game (not always an easy feat) they become single session gaming experiences. Particularly as I get older and busier, that sort of tightly focused design and short length becomes very appealing. The Switch (the Switch Lite especially) fills the modern handheld niche, but as the power and capability of consoles has grown we see more focus on the idea of taking console games and making them handheld rather than a focus on handheld game design, and to me that makes it feel like something got lost along the way. Don't get me wrong, being able to play bigger experiences like Super Mario Odyssey or Breath of the Wild on the go has been great - I just feel a tiny twinge of sadness that the 3DS felt like the last hurrah of dedicated handhelds with unique libraries.
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Jan 8, 2022 00:45
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It's going to be a bummer if 2D Zelda titles are a thing of the past. I find it hard to believe they'd go away entirely, but I hope it's not only remakes. Metroid Dread is so good and hopefully evidence there's room for both designs on the Switch.
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Jan 8, 2022 01:26
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The Postman posted:It's going to be a bummer if 2D Zelda titles are a thing of the past. I find it hard to believe they'd go away entirely, but I hope it's not only remakes. Metroid Dread is so good and hopefully evidence there's room for both designs on the Switch. I feel like some sort of Zelda Maker is inevitable eventually but regardless I’m sure we’ll get more. The portable game design ethos definitely isn’t dead on Switch. Just look at Pokémon.
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Jan 8, 2022 01:51
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SeANMcBAY posted:I feel like some sort of Zelda Maker is inevitable eventually but regardless I’m sure we’ll get more. I sure did play a LOT of Zelda Classic campaigns back when..
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kirbysuperstar posted:I sure did play a LOT of Zelda Classic campaigns back when.. The Link’s Awakening remake even has something that feels like an early draft. It’ll happen.
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Mode 7 posted:I've got an Analogue Pocket pre-ordered for the next round, already own a backlit-modded GBC (one of BennVenn's original FreckleShack LCD kits that wasn't the cleanest install job so there's things about it that bug me), and god drat if that Q5 screen doesn't make me want to hunt down another GBC, grab some aftermarket parts and get modding again. yeah this is why i think the super mario land games are so great, theyre composed of cute little levels and sml1 can be finished in like half an hour what were your childhood GB libraries like? i had the big titles like links awakening and sml but i also liked to play bubble bobble, burai fighter and gargoyles quest. i had a bunch of mediocre licensed games too like the smurfs and asterix (both by infogrames, they both used the same horrible sound effects), but i dont recall owning any outright bad games
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Jan 8, 2022 02:24
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I was fortunate enough to have mostly owned kick rear end Game Boy games, which might go a long way to explaining why I like it so much. I'd played (and borrowed) friends Game Boy's here and there but I'm fairly certain my first Game Boy was the clear Play It Loud! model. It owned. I never convinced my parents to get me a Pocket given it was only a year or so after I'd gotten my original GB, but then got an atomic purple GBC when they came out. For GB I had: Tetris Game & Watch Gallery Donkey Kong Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters Megaman: Dr Wily's Revenge Mole Mania Monster Max Link's Awakening Wario Land Pokemon Blue Pokemon Yellow I think I borrowed Kirby's Dream Land off somebody and they never asked for it back, and I'm pretty sure I bought James Bond 007 when it was on deep discount in a local Big W some time circa 2000. For GBC my memory gets much shakier as I was gaming across a bunch of different systems and I didn't hang on to a lot of these, but I remember owning: Mario Tennis Dragon Warrior Monsters Perfect Dark Pokemon Pinball Pokemon Gold Bionic Commando: Elite Forces for sure.
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Jan 8, 2022 02:57
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I was lucky enough to have all the big classics. Link’s Awakening was probably my most played game before Pokémon. I’d just roam the world constantly even with a finished file. GBC I especially loved Pokémon Silver, Pokémon TCG, Mario DX and Mario Golf.
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Jan 8, 2022 03:56
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oh drat i forgot about the megaman games, i had megaman 3 (with spark man, snake man etc), it was a great game although you had to carry around something to draw the passwords on
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Jan 8, 2022 04:18
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Mode 7 posted:Mario Tennis Very good choices. PD is..weird but kinda neat.
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Jan 8, 2022 04:44
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I always forget about PD GBC. I remember seeing it in Nintendo Power a lot but haven’t tried it. Think I will soon.
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Jan 8, 2022 04:52
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https://twitter.com/good_faces_bot/status/1479679276899180544?t=eVFnsejjyhr_TCbR8JSXcw&s=19
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Jan 8, 2022 06:02
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his shoelaces are also untied
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The only GB/C games I absolutely 100% remember owning were: Super Mario Land Wario Land Kirby’s Dream Land Pokémon Blue Super Mario Bros. Deluxe Like I know I must have had others but I can’t actually remember. I definitely borrowed games from friends, I specifically remember playing a lot of Donkey Kong 94 but I never owned a copy
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DK94 with the Super Game Boy blew my mind. You mean I could actually see a Game Boy game and in color?
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As far back I remember I always wanted to be a gamer... Before I got one myself, I was playing with the ones friends and schoolmates brought over. The game that sticks out the most for me for some reason was Wario Land. Eventually my dad bought me a GameBoy Pocket. I picked out Kirby's Dreamland 2 first and then my second game was Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2. The Crazy Castle music still pops into my head randomly to this day. I'm sure I had other games after this, maybe borrowed games from friends, but I'm drawing a blank. Then Pokemon came out. Nintendo sent me a tape prior to the release and I dismissed it entirely at first. But then the game came out and I talked my parents into getting me a copy of Blue Version. I got really carried away with Pokemon there for a very long time. Some kid stole my copy of Blue from my backpack and my parents got me Red. Then I got Yellow version at Toys R Us. I have a very strong memory of going to Circuit City immediately after getting Yellow and seeing Return of the Jedi on a tv there, the scene where Luke takes off Vader's mask. I got a pink Gameboy Color in what must have been 1998 or 1999 for Christmas. It must have been the last one in the store, but I didn't mind, I wasn't scared of the color pink, and I was happy just to have it. (I think Berry was the official color name?) I got a copy of Star Wars Episode 1 Racer with it. Surprisingly fun. Around this time I remember there was hype surrounding Pokemon Gold/Silver. It had come out in Japan but not the US and there must have been a cottage industry of early internet and magazines sending nuggets of information to the West, as well as getting merch here before the official Nintendo localization. Pikablu was enormous. I remember having some magazine with screenshots of G/S and one had a mouse cursor on it and it perplexed me for years. Some kid I lent my GBC to had stolen it and I have no idea how I got a replacement. I traded in a bunch of N64 games and got a copy of Gold shortly after. The last GBC games I got were the Oracles. I'm not sure what prompted this, but I decided to keep the boxes for those, rather than throwing them out like I did for all the new GB games I had got up until that point. And I resumed this with the GBA games I bought new. Even after I had sold those games off, I kept the boxes. Which paid off. I've reunited most of them.  The only ones I need are River City Ransom, Sonic Advance 2, and Oracle of Ages.
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I had Tetris Mortal Kombat Godzilla Pokemon blue NFL Motorcycle madness Mario land 2 And that's all I can remember
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Sold many of the GB games I owned when it was new, and then rebought them over the years. Owned Castlevania 1, FF Adventure, Fortress of Fear. I ignored the GB after I got a SNES, which really sucks because GB castlevania 2 is the better game, Donkey Kong and Zelda are great in their own right. FF Legend III is a good RPG romp and I would have enjoyed it better than SNES Mystic Quest. Also had this guide which covered many of the 1990-1991 releases. 
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Coffee Jones posted:Sold many of the GB games I owned when it was new, and then rebought them over the years. I just had a funny thought that in another dimension, Sega would pull off some dastardly plan of publishing guide books for Nintendo products, but be misleading in a way that gamers would be completely frustrated by some tiny thing/situation the player is forced into doing.
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i played some 007, to the end of the china section, the combat is pretty simple but i like it so far as just a relaxed story based game. in hammerin' harry i played to the bomb boss but got a bit stuck there, i'll try again later
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Also got up to the bomb boss in Hammerin' Harry, huge spike in difficulty. Enjoying the game, will check out other entries in the series.
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Coffee Jones posted:Always liked the goofy Victorian / Steampunk / Journey to the Moon aesthetic of arcade Quarth. my wife and sister immediately recognized gen the carpenter when they saw me play the game, he was apparently pretty popular in japan kind of reminds me of when i played the obscure super famicom game nankoku shonen papuwa-kun, another relatively unknown anime character who got a surprisingly good game that's otherwise forgotten
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Game Boy Game Club is such a fun idea! And the games this month seem pretty fun from what I've read. I ordered a Pocket which I fortunately got in the Q1 group, but I don't have any of my old game boys anymore. Luckily, I have the next best thing which is a FX Pak Pro in a Super NT running the GB roms through the Super Game Boy 2 
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Coffee Jones posted:Sold many of the GB games I owned when it was new, and then rebought them over the years. FF Legends III was way too good when it came out. I binged it over and over. Also hell yeah is that Dragon Warrior Monsters??
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The black GB cartridge in the bottom row is definitely DWM. I would recognize that art anywhere.
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