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Post by N3B on Dec 2, 2004 18:37:25 GMT -5
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Post by niff on Dec 2, 2004 22:10:09 GMT -5
I'd be tempted, but I need to find a cheap N64 on trademe.
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Post by Draxas on Dec 3, 2004 10:01:56 GMT -5
Wow. That's some impressive work right there.
A "portable" GCN would be pretty easy; you'd just need to make a power converter. They already sell the LCD screen that attaches to the top...
SNES? A long and messy project I'm sure. I'd be too afraid of ruining mine to even consider it, but it WOULD kick ass.
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Post by DARKMorpha71 on Oct 16, 2005 19:23:46 GMT -5
Older than jesusaur
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Post by Ranger on Oct 16, 2005 22:32:10 GMT -5
... GBA is the portable SNES on top of that it has better video quality.. Portable others I don't think it would be to hard... Why would you want to make the big consoles portable though. Just make portable systems with the games from the consoles unchanged... Perhaps thats a new way they could go with gaming is to create a portable and a at home version of the systems... It could have link up abilities and it would be much better than having to wish you had your gamecube or PS2 or XBOX packed with you when you were bored somewhere.
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Post by Draxas on Oct 16, 2005 22:54:18 GMT -5
The GBA is not a portable SNES for one reason: The missing X and Y buttons. Doesn't seem like much, but it means the difference between excellent controls in SNES Rockman & Forte and Super Metroid, and slightly awkward controls in GBA Megaman & Bass and Metroid Fusion.
And the home + portable concept was attempted with the NeoGeo years ago, and was a monumental failure. This is probably more likely due to the fact that the systems were both topping the $300 price point in an age of $100 consoles (not to mention that the games were very limited in quantity and also exorbitantly expensive), but it seems to have scared away most, if not all, companies from attempting that idea again.
Then again, why release a portable that's limited to only playing the games from its paretn machine, when you could instead make more money selling exclusive content for each system? Remember, above all else, the dollar (or perhaps Yen?) is king in the gaming industry.
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Post by Ranger on Oct 18, 2005 18:39:26 GMT -5
then start a donation fund for the system and have benefits for those who donate certain amounts >_> First make sure there is a petition because no big change can take place without a petition. and who's stupid fault was it for not installing the X and Y on the GBA... They ported the games...
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Post by Draxas on Oct 18, 2005 18:51:46 GMT -5
*shrug*
Petitions are stupid, and accomplish nothing 99.999999999% of the time. In regards to online petitions, simply add 0.000000001 to the above figure.
And I get the feeling that the original plan at N wasn't to make the GBA a portable SNES, but its early days coincided with "retro fever" sweeping across the gaming industry... But the lack of an X and Y button pair is still a serious oversight. Then again, I'd rather have 2 buttons that always work, than 4 buttons that work sometimes, when they feel like it, if they're not too close to the screen, and only if the goats were properly prepared and sacrificed precisely according to the rites beforehand (obvious PSP dig).
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Post by N3B on Oct 18, 2005 19:39:11 GMT -5
I'd like to see SNES ports to the DS cartridges. Don't change gameplay at all, just put it into the DS cart since the DS has all the buttons of the SNES. Many'a good games. Mm Hmm. Illusion of Gaia ftw
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Post by Draxas on Oct 18, 2005 20:26:23 GMT -5
Illusion of Gaia we'll never see. That branch of Enix vanished ages ago, and they're not likely to rerelease a title that was only marginally successful to begin with (despite the fact that I enjoyed the game as well).
On the other hand, if they announce a port of Super Metroid, I will buy a DS. No questions asked, and despite the fact that I have a working SNES and SM cart. Even after all these years, I'd have to say that's my favorite game ever.
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Post by Ranger on Oct 18, 2005 20:48:59 GMT -5
I would succumb to Draxas for alas the ROM doesn't do justice to the game
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Post by Draxas on Oct 19, 2005 0:27:59 GMT -5
They rarely do, if you've played the cart version. The only rom I like better than the official American release that I've played is FF5; the version on Anthologies was so piss-poor it was unplayable.
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Post by Ranger on Oct 19, 2005 5:31:37 GMT -5
*only plays PS ports to watch the vids*
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Post by Draxas on Oct 19, 2005 9:28:44 GMT -5
Feh. Then download them from a site, they're all over the place. It's not like they add anything to the game at all, or often even make sense.
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Post by Ranger on Oct 19, 2005 15:32:38 GMT -5
CT has some cool scenes...
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