Topic: Gameboy Player \ SNES Picture.

[Stu]

Hey, just 2 quick questions.

1) Lets say I am playing a Gameboy Advance game on my Gameboy player, and the game is, say Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World, or Zelda: Adventures of Link, or any of the other games that have ports of the SNES original.  Anyway, as the picture has been scaled and squashed (for want of a better word) for the Gameboy Advance screen, and then scaled again, for a big TV screen, does it look any different to how it would look playing the same game on a SNES?

In short: Does playing the GBA version of Mario World on a big TV, look any different to playing Mario World on the SNES?  Can you tell the picture has been scaled and re-scaled, or not?

2) Can I unlock stuff, like the original copy of Metroid that you can unlock on Metroid Prime, by beating Metroid Fusion, with a Gameboy player, or will I still need an actual GBA and link cable?

Mods: Just so I know, do we talk about Gameboy player issues here or in the GBA section?

Many thanks.

[DRJ]

1) I would say that the picture is better than the SNES counterparts. Most of the games have been improved when they were ported over to GBA.

2) No, the Gameboy Player is the same as a GBA. You need to load a boot disk in the Gamecube to make it work anyways, so you couldnt even load Metroid Prime and Metroid Fusion at the same time.  

[Grey Ninja]

These questions have been answered in PGC's FAQ, and even if they weren't, there's a big sticky at the top of this forum for discussing the GBP.

[mouse_clicker]

I think it was either PGC or IGNCube that said they had someone that owned a TV that could display mutliple inputs in a split screen and used it to compare GBA ports and their SNES originals. They should have an article up about it.