'For several years, the video game industry has been pushing forward to new technical frontiers while at the same time celebrating classic hit games of the past,' said Peter MacDougall, executive vice president, sales and marketing, Nintendo of America, in a follow-up statement today. 'This product allows for a new play style where players raise characters at home on their television screen and outside the home use the portable machine to communicate and battle with friends.' 'Beginning at the end of this year and continuing on through Spring of next year, Game Boy Advance will see many quality RPG releases such as Pokemon Ruby & Saphire and The Legend of Zelda,' comments the company. Nintendo has also revealed what seems to be their vision for the product, apart from just allowing you to avoid wasting batteries. The cable can likewise be utilized for multiplayer games and data trading so that, for instance, if one player doesn't have a GBA but another does, they can still trade data back and forth between the handheld and the Game Boy Player.

However, using a Game Boy Advance cable, gamers can additionally connect a GBA and use it as a controller to play the software.

The device enables these titles to be played through a GameCube controller on the big screen without the need of a GBA unit. I believe it was just slightly below 60 Hz and was just enough to result in these skips.The peripheral opens up a library of some 1,400 handheld titles (in Japan as of March 03, 2002) to GameCube owners, according to Nintendo. The GameBoy screen refreshed at a slightly different interval than a 60 Hz display. If only someone hacked together a SNES GBA player with GBA hardware built into the cart.Īs it stands the GBA SP+ remains the best way to experience GBA games (though the PSP actually does a wonderful job emulating most GBA games as well and its bright screen is helpful). It's actually the best way to enjoy original GB carts. Running the system using RGB with the black border you get perfect 1:1 Gameboy games on your CRT looking absolutely perfect. So you end up with unnatural smoothing in addition to tiny hitches every few seconds as a result of the screen timing.īy comparison, the Super GameBoy for SNES/SFC is an absolute dream. The GB Player simply runs at 640x480 and upscales the GBA games to fit within that resolution. I'm doing all of my retro gaming on a Sony CRT and like my pixels razor sharp. Unfortunately, I soon discovered that the GB Player kind of sucks. Had to grab another disc in order to get it working. Yeah, I actually bought one of those used and it shipped with a scratched disc.

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