Nintendo Handheld Gaming Thread (Game Boy to DS)

[alienjesus]

I think it's also why you got Yoshi's Island over the other Mario games, the first more crude F-Zero over GP Legend, and so on.

Yeah, I don't get that idea - Yoshi's Island is more complex than Mario World or Mario Bros. 3. Sacred Stones is the more polished game in terms of performance when compared to Fire Emblem too. F-Zero is the only one that makes sense under that argument.

[Tanooki]

It's not the complexity of the game, it's the compatibility of the code not needing any tampering with it to work on 3DS. That's why the games are so scatter shot in the list of 10 that exist. At least that's how I had it explained to me some years ago back when it happened.

[ExedExes]

I just completed 30 days with the Flash Focus training. Got my eye age down to 25 (out of a best score of 20). I liked this a lot more than both Brain Age games. The mini games were better laid out and they tailored the daily training to how well you do on the eye age checks. I always seemed to get the baseball training, but that was probably one of my favorites. Heck, most of the sports games were.

[ExedExes]

Also beat one of the scores I can't erase on Touchmaster (DS), on Target 21, a game where you have to get 5 stacks of cards to equal 21. Many, many more un-eraseable scores to go.

[Tanooki]

I had a couple of cool GBA finds since last wednesday. Was up in Indiana and went into the Buy Backs (6th time in maybe?) They're a true ripoff farm and worse than ever now when I saw the average price for a GB/GBC game was like 2-4x what people pay on ebay on the sticker. I was surprised why they had so much stuff in the glass case until I looked under to see the stickers. NO one is going to pay $20 for Space Invaders on Super Gameboy or $40 for Pokemon FireRed(they had 2 copies.)

I had the fun of my first purchase there, Duke Nukem Advance, a $15-30 on ebay game, so it should have been set at probably $40-50 on the sticker. But no, someone ran it as Duke Nukem Forever for xbox, so I got it for $3.

Yesterday found Shining Force for the GBA for $4. I recognized the name so I grabbed it, had no idea it was a $20 game. I tend to hate the style of game it is, but for the price I figured I can't lose if I try it.

Any of you fans of either?

[prfsnl_gmr]

Many, many more un-eraseable scores to go.

You could try intentionally corrupting the save file by pulling the game out of the system while it is saving. (I have been thinking of doing this with my used copy of Angry Birds Trilogy for the 3DS.)

[ExedExes]

True, but I see it as a bit of a challenge. If I can get this score, then I get a whole mess more. At least Touchmaster 2 has individual user files.

I also found out there is a Touchmaster 4 that came out in 2010, it's also known as Touchmaster Connect, and it uses games from the arcade Megatouch series. That's awesome.

[ExedExes]

Another difficult high score beaten! 21 rounds of tri-peaks later! I'll never have a game like this again.

[ExedExes]

Another difficult high score beaten on Touchmaster! 21 rounds of tri-peaks solitaire later! I'll never have a game like this again.

I had the fun of my first purchase there, Duke Nukem Advance, a $15-30 on ebay game, so it should have been set at probably $40-50 on the sticker. But no, someone ran it as Duke Nukem Forever for xbox, so I got it for $3.

Yesterday found Shining Force for the GBA for $4. I recognized the name so I grabbed it, had no idea it was a $20 game. I tend to hate the style of game it is, but for the price I figured I can't lose if I try it.

Any of you fans of either?

$3 for Duke Nukem Advance? Nice. That beats my $10 find. It was $20 assisted with a $10 trade credit. It's a surprisingly good portable FPS. The graphics aren't nearly as bad as you think, the levels have a good amount of length to them, there's secrets and in-game dialogue too. L and R also strafe so that comes in handy. It was developed by Torus Games of Australia who also did the Doom II GBA port and an original FPS called Ice Nine.

[Tanooki]

Yeah I know it was Torus, they did awesome work with non-3D yet 3D style shooters on the system, best of breed. I considered them the top developer for that style of gaming just as the blue roses and v3d teams were for 3D polygonal GBA games. Once you see stuff like DOOM2/DNA or Wing Commander Prophecy/V-Rally & Asterix on the GBA you just have to really wonder how the hell they pulled it off so well.

I consider the 2 DOOM games and Duke the best FPS titles by far on the system. Even if they didn't have that pedigree on them the overall engine and stage designs are fantastic.