What's the best way to play Game Boy Advance games today?

[Tanooki]

No doubt on that last line. Sure you get some black space on the sides and stuff, but if you let it stretch with no maintaining that original resolution wow does it get huge and squary. I'm not talking 2600 bad, but sub-NES quality on the square sizes in some games (in particular those that scale like DOOM and other FPS titles.) It's a weird mix. I tolerate it because I usually forget to set that.

[Sarge]

I hate playing with incorrect aspect ratios. Give me black bars any day.

[Tanooki]

If it scales moderately well enough I hate having wasted space, but if it looks bad, well then time to resize things.

I have to admit I'm surprised we do not have a DS thread going as these two were neck and neck for most adored with the umph under the hood to keep them still relevant.

[darsparx]

If it scales moderately well enough I hate having wasted space, but if it looks bad, well then time to resize things.

I have to admit I'm surprised we do not have a DS thread going as these two were neck and neck for most adored with the umph under the hood to keep them still relevant.

Well and if we get into ds then 3ds. Seriously been playing starfy on my new xl and it's a blast. Unless you're forced to use a gba slot 2 3ds is the way to go on that one. Even if I still want a ds that can play it all especially with cartridges >_>

[Tanooki]

Maybe it's just me but I'd never recommend any DS for gameboy as it doesn't play it all, just advance. Better off buying any GBA (minus the micro) if you want everything.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Maybe it's just me but I'd never recommend any DS for gameboy as it doesn't play it all, just advance. Better off buying any GBA (minus the micro) if you want everything.

Agreed. I actually use my DS to play GBA games, and I use my GBA SP to play GB and GBC games. Backwards compatibility sometimes leads to strange results like that...

[Ziggy]

As far as the SNES controllers go, has anyone used any type of GameCube to SNES adapters? If I had one, It would be double useful, as I could presumably use an SNES controller for GBA games on the GameCube Player, as well as to play Mother 3 on my hacked Wii.

http://www.raphnet-tech.com/products/sn ... /index.php

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Raphnet-tech-SN ... SwYHxWQsVR

I don't own that particular adapter, but I have his NES-to-GCN and NES-to-USB adapters and they've been great. Check the pics in the eBay link, there's 3 different button mappings you can use.

[Robonaut]

Thanks for all of the input, everyone!

I did end up getting the Gamecube Game Boy Player for the house and a DS Lite for on the go.

I haven't really played around with the DS Lite yet, but I'm *really* impressed at how good Final Fantasy Tactics Advance looks on my big screen TV with the Game Boy Player. Definitely worth the $60 I paid for it.

[Tanooki]

Yeah it's worth it, even if that price is back to the retail level or so (was it $50 or $60 I forget) back in the day -- IF you're not just collectarding and actually will put some serious hours on it as intended with lots of nice games. If it becomes a natural extension of the gamecube and you end up throwing dozens of games in it for 100s of hours of play it more than will pay for itself as it's a fantastic device. Long after the GC drive on it fails in some way, it still will work as a Game(boy)Cube.

[Ziggy]

Long after the GC drive on it fails in some way, it still will work as a Game(boy)Cube.

Not without another way to boot the GB Player, it requires a disc.