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[Round Eye]

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Nintendo Gaming / Official Game Boy Player Discussion

« on: June 28, 2003, 03:17:20 PM »

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Originally posted by: Round Eye
Does any else think that the GBP will put more pressure on the developers to add more detail to their games?  Before, they could get away with low detail on the tiny screen.  Now reviewers will be reviewing the games on the big screen and making judgements based on that.

Well, keep in mind that developers are still creating their games FOR the GBA mostly.  Any truely honest reviewer would probably base 90% of their judgement upon how it looks/plays on a GBA or GBASP as that's where the majority of all GBA games are going to be played, and probably only touch on how well it looks on, or if there are any perks to playing it on the GBP.

[Bloodworth]

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Nintendo Gaming / Official Game Boy Player Discussion

« on: June 21, 2003, 08:33:08 PM »

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Originally posted by: Bloodworth
Well, what does the select button on the Hori controller map to anyways?

No idea, I haven't recieved it yet, I ordered it last Friday (June 13th) and did standard global, since it's going from Hong-Kong to Missouri, USA, I would assume that I'm not going to get it till Monday or Tuesday.

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Nintendo Gaming / Official Game Boy Player Discussion

« on: June 21, 2003, 07:43:54 PM »

Nice FAQ, I have been looking for something like this to verify/dismiss various rumors that I have been hearing.

I was disapointed to get a confirmation that it would require a boot disk, I was hoping that it would come with a disk that would - in effect - flash the gamecube's bios and give it the added feature for you to select to boot to the GBP or to a GC game, somewhat similar to how if you are using a PS2 and hit some buttons before the game actually boots, it presents you with a menu, if you want to boot off the cd or mess around with your memory card.  Alas, was not to be.

I was also hoping that it would do what Shorty McNostril was talking about, let you put a game like Metroid Fusion into the GBP, that running Metroid Prime and choosing the Link Bonuses that it would recognize that Fusion was in the GBP, and unlock all the features just as it would if you were linking a real GBA.  Again, not to be, but maybe in the future.

All in All I'm really looking forward to this.  I just had one question about what the FAQ talked about, the controls.  You can only choose from 2 given sets of control lay outs? You can't map your own?  I ask this because I have imported one of those Hori controllers, similar to a SNES controller, to play GBA games on with the GBP.  I figured that it had the perfect amount of buttons and would be the ideal controller for the situation.  But if I can only choose between two button layouts, I guess the 'select' button on the Hori controller will be going to waste, instead of being my Select button on the GBP.