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[jsoper]

I'm torn between getting a GBPlayer now, or waiting to see if they come out with a purple one (to match my GC). Guess I could always spray paint it purple and then spray paint it back to black if it looked bad.
Funny, just as I wrote that, the song "Back in Black" started going through my head

[Rhindle The Red]

The Game Boy Player is available in all colors in Japan. You could get one from an importer. Now that the US version is out, the price should drop on the Japanese model. All you'll need then is a US boot disc.

[Mendon]

I just picked up my GameBoy Player, installed it in about 8sec's and am VERY impressed with it already. I highly recomend it.. you can even see the bat's in Castlevania!!

Mendon

[MegaManFan]

Mendon said:

I just picked up my GameBoy Player, installed it in about 8sec's and am VERY impressed with it already. I highly recomend it.. you can even see the bat's in Castlevania!!    

Dude, you rock. I've been playing "Circle of the Moon" on my Player all day. My wife was so impressed she even had a go at it. The Gameboy fan in me is marking out, and so is the Castlevania fan, and the two of them are very happy today.

[Lost Monkey]

I am going to pick it up tomorrow for Castlevania.. after a year on the GBA I just beat the first "boss" the other day...

I started playing through the Saturn version recently too.. very nice! I've had it for about 4 years and never got too far.

[MegaManFan]

I spent about 10 minutes in futility trying to kill Ceberus tonight, and then my wife looks on GameFaqs and yells, "Honey did you try holy water?" Picture me smacking myself in the forehead feeling totally stupid. Once I got the holy water, he went down like the bitch (pun intended) he is.

[Lost Monkey]

There is an area just to the right and above where Cerberus is.. 2 screens directly to the right of the nearest save point, where you can stand with your whip circling you and level up by killing the respawning mud men there. If you are interested.. you can put something on the "B" button to keep it pressed and leave Nathan there for a few hours at a time... but that would be cheating!

[MegaManFan]

That's too cheap. It reminds me of the old MUD days where you could be kicked and banned for running a zMUD type program to just watch for re-pops and instakill them. Some people would think they got away with it, only days later to have all their stats removed and their account TWIT-ed. Of course Castlevania isn't going to do this to me, but I'd rather beat the game the hard way.

[Ze_ro]

Killing easy monsters like that doesn't give you enough experience to make it worthwhile anyways... eventually, you'll need so much experience that it'll take hours for this method to give you anything. Once you get far enough, you're better off repeatedly killing some of the more powerful mosters like Lilith and the Devil... Or repeatedly going through the Battle Arena (you'll probably want to do this anyways in order to get some of the more rare DSS cards).

I think I beat the game within a month of buying it... I started playing in Magician mode, but I've only gotten to the 3rd boss I think (maybe it's the 4th, I can't remember).

--Zero

[ubersaurus]

I tried it today, pretty good. Although I had some sound issues with some game boy carts (such as the sound in Yars Revenge being crap, and the sound of coins in the underground of mario land being nonexistant). Still, overall, its worth the cash.

edit-the sound is fine now. Weird.

[Raijin Z]

jsoper said:

I'm torn between getting a GBPlayer now, or waiting to see if they come out with a purple one (to match my GC).  Guess I could always spray paint it purple and then spray paint it back to black if it looked bad.
Funny, just as I wrote that, the song "Back in Black" started going through my head :)

Krylon Fusion reportedly sticks to plastic MUCH better than regular spray paint, BTW.

[Jasoco]

Zloch said:

Hey Gabriel,

Thanks for the great review! I found it very informative.

I wonder if they could make similar players for the NES and Super NES.Iw ould buy them in an instant!

Sean

Yes, it was an awesome interview. It makes me want one even more now.

As for SNES and NES compatability, I'd rather just find a Super 8 for my SNES and retire my NES to the shelf instead. Unless the GBP has another expansion slot on the bottom which would suggest the ability to stack them on top of each other. (I mean, all you need is the right disc to load the right player. That would be cool.) I mean, if there's no slot already on the player, I wouldn't want to swap the GBP and NES/SNES Players all the time. So, I'll just take a Super 8... IF ONLY I COULD FIND ONE!!!

[Raijin Z]

I want to sculpt Famicom-game sized replacement cases for all my NES games with smaller boards (excluding Kirby and Gyromite)... I have access to the materials and tools required, just none of the money yet. Then maybe come up with a VGA mod for the NES 2, and NOT make it look like shit. It saddens me how many electronic gods have no sense of aesthetics.

[Jasoco]

I just noticed I said "interview".

And I can't find any.. ANY of our many MANY assorted Game Boy games.

Damn.

And I so want one. I mean, the SMB Advanced 1 (SMB2) game was so cool in what extra stuff it has. And SMB3 will rock. So I want to play them. Where did all of them go? Everybody help me look.

Someone check under the couch. I'll look in the kitchen.

[Jasoco]

DAMN DAMN DAMN... I broke down and bought one. And I still haven't found ANY GAMES!

We have like a hundred all over the place and now I can't find ANY! No GameBoy Games. No GBC. No GBA. NOTHING!

I found the GameBoy Advance case, though. But it's EMPTY!

What the hell??? Where did they all go? Why did we have to move? They're probably in one of the thousand boxes in the attic.

[sebastius]

Same problem here. I have about 10 gba games, and the only one i could find is Metroid Fusion. Not such a bad title (excellent one, rather), but still. Where are the others?

And then there's the interesting bit about the one Zelda game that got missing (one of them oracle games ) somewhere here.

[Jasoco]

Well.. I broke down again. Twice in one day.

I couldn't take it anymore. I had to try it. So I ripped the package open, hooked it up, turned it on and looked at the cool Gameboy screen and turned it off. Ran to my car and drove to GameStop.

Spent an hour in the store looking at the GBA games. Couldn't make up my mind. They had no used Mario Advances of any number (Which I wanted more than anything) but had used Zelda Four Swords... I thought and thought. Looked at all the games. Every game. Looked at all the used games.

In the end I walked out with a used Zelda, and since I couldn't pass up the Buy 2 used games, get one free deal I bought a copy of Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Kahn.. I mean Cortex and a boxed copy of Super Mario Bros 3. (I'll explain later.. it's got me most happy.)

Well, is it me, or does everyone elses control stick or control pad seem to either stop working or go off on its own randomly?

I'm playing Four Swords (Not my first choice, I see now I would have rather had Mario World or Yoshi's Island) and it just does this at random times. I don't know if it's the game (Used) the Player or the Controller (Both of ours have been flakey lately..)

Other than that, I find the picture on my TV better when it's stretchjed. Since Four Swords uses the checkerboard trick to do half darkness instead of transparency like the SNES version had done it has no flicker when stretched. But when the game is normal size it flickers.

Either way, it's a nice device and I hope it's the game or the controller because I'm really looking forward to playing SMB3 on it when it comes out in October.. or November.. or whenever the Nintendo Rep said.

As for that boxed copy of SMB3, maybe I'll start a thread here or in VintageGamer.

[Gabriel]

Jasoco said:

Well, is it me, or does everyone elses control stick or control pad seem to either stop working or go off on its own randomly?

It isn't just you. The GameCube controllers are just utter POCs.

Either they stop working at inopportune times, or the control is just really REALLY loose. I find the Pac games almost totally unplayable with the GC pad because they lack any kind of precision whatsoever.

And this from a guy that loves Atari 5200 controllers and has no problems playing games with them whatsoever.

[Jasoco]

Any word on if they'll be importing those SNES like GameCube controllers?

[Jasoco]

On the subject of why they needed to use a boot disc instead of a switch on the player itself..

Well, I wanted to hit the power button on my GameCube but I hit the open button and the disc is not spinning.

That shows me that basically, the disc just tells the Cube to load through the Serial port instead. Originally they hadn't planned on having the Player be the devide that gets to use the port, they just put it there in hopes that something would be made to use it. So basically, the port wasn't originally designed to just let there be a switch on the player. For that to happen, the Cube would have had to be designed from the start to first check the Serial port for a device then go to the game if none is found. It also would have had to have a current constantly being sent through it. It's simply not designed that way. Thus the reason for the boot disc.

Did this even make sense? I don't know. Either way, I have one peeve about the disc. It comes in a tiny case as opposed to a normal sized case. This makes it hard for me to put it on the shelf with the other game discs. This is a dilemma. I wish they had thought that out better. I hate having a non-standard case size to sit with the rest of the games. It looks stupid.

I dunno.

[deadtech]

The small case the GBA Player disc comes in is the type of case (smaller than usual DVD case, with paperboard slip cover), that GameCube games come in standard in Japan. But yeah my GBA Player case and the couple imports I have are kinda hard to store with the US 'Cube game cases.

-deadtech

[Jasoco]

If it wasn't so convenient to have them all be in DVD style cases, I'd say NOA should put the US versions in those cases. They're so small and they save so much more room. But in this case, I wish they had just gone the extra 500 feet and put the US disc in a normal case. Even if it's clear - which is cool, I have a few spare clear DVD cases.. okay.. one spare clear case - I'll probably just switch to it for use with the Player disc. Or not. I am currently just storing the disc case next to the Cube on its side between the Cube and the SNES so it's out of the way and always in reach, but still. They could have thought better.