this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
28 points (75.9% liked)

RetroGaming

18890 readers
216 users here now

Vintage gaming community.

Rules:

  1. Be kind.
  2. No spam or soliciting for money.
  3. No racism or other bigotry allowed.
  4. Obviously nothing illegal.

If you see these please report them.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
28
Nintendo handhelds ranked by their game libraries (screenrant.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
28 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

GBA has the benefit of handling all games from the OG to the GBA games without being too bulky like the DS line. Plus GbA has some great re-editions of SNES games as well as Pokémon FireRed which is a nice revisit of the OG Pokemon (in my eyes). The backlight was awesome! The lack of headphones, not so much but it prepared me for the future (looking at you, Apple). The original GBA shape was much nicer though. I wish they had made a landscape console with backlight.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Luckily the GB(A) consoles are the easiest to mod nowadays, to add backlight, rechargeable battery, better audio... IMHO this is still the best way to enjoy GB/GBA games, instead of emulators which can be buggy/force me to stay on the computer (or worse, on my phone)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is the way. Still have my AGS-101 SP stock besides new shell and buttons because, frankly, it doesn't need to be modded. But my GBA has an IPS screen, rechargeable usb-c battery, and hi-fi amp. Slap in a flash cart and it is easily one of the best ways to play any Gameboy game anywhere you want

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I have everything except the amp mod. What does it do? I’ve heard it quiets noise (which the screen and battery mod apparently contribute to) but I haven’t seen a good comparison of original audio vs the upgraded amp.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The lack of headphones? I had to look it up. The GBA SP didn’t have a port, but the original and the micro GBAs did have it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There’s some awesome mods to restore headphone jacks in the SP, but I myself prefer the original GBA form factor anyway.

Actually, my preferred ways to play GBA are in the following order of preference:

  • Analogue Pocket

  • GameCube GameBoy Player (with a SNES controller using an adapter I intended to link but the Etsy shop appears to be gone now)

  • MiSTer GBA core

  • OG GBA with a screen mod