Topic: Quality Retro Gaming With a Cube and a Player.

[Stu]

Hi,

I was just wondering how much of a bonus the large amount of quality retro titles you have access to, with a Gamecube and a Gameboy player, is to Nintendo?

Sonic Mega Collection brought us all (well, most) of the 16bit classics, from Sega’s best series of games, with Sonic 1, 2, 3, and Sonic & Knuckles, as well as a few hidden gems, such as Ristar, and Dr. Robotniks Mean Bean Machine.  NES classic Metroid can be unlocked from the Metroid Prime disc; and a Gameboy player will give you access to Super Mario Bros 2, Super Mario World, Yoshi’s Island, Mario Bros, and very soon, the wonderful Super Mario Bros. 3.  

That’s the cream of Sega and Nintendo’s flagship series, from the 8 and 16bit era.

Bringing things more up to date, we also have the mind-meltingly beautiful remake of Resident Evil, as well as a quality port of a real hardcore, quality shooter, in the shape of Dreamcast classic Ikaruga, and soon a remake of Metal Gear Solid.  Personally, I brought my Gamecube for the big, flagship 1st party releases.  It’d be nice to play Halo, or GTA: Vice City, but if push comes to shove, I can miss out on them; however, I have to play the latest Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Mario Kart, etc.  

The quality retro games are turning out to be a very nice bonus, however.  A few well picked remakes of recent quality games, combined with a sizeable library of 8 and 16bit classics, is another feather in Nintendo’s cap.  My Gameboy player arrives in a day or so, and the first title I’ll be buying is Advance Wars, but a copy of Mario World, Mario Bros. 2 and Mario Bros 3 wont be far behind; and of course, a copy of the Legend of Zelda; a Link to the Past.

Anyone else pleasantly surprised by the amount of quality retro games available to those of us with Cubes and Gameboy players?  
 

[KnowsNothing]

Every time you said retro, i thought "Retro Studios" the makers of Metroid Prime.  

[Stu]

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Originally posted by: KnowsNothing
Every time you said retro, i thought "Retro Studios" the makers of Metroid Prime.

Erm, Ok.  Thanks for that.

 

[Hostile Creation]

Sonic Mega Collection rocks.  My friend has it; awesome compilation.

As for the Gameboy Player. . . it plays GBA games, right?  How much it cost?  There are a few GBA games I want (Metroid Fusion, and maybe Zero Mission, as well as some others), but I don't have a GBA and have no intention of buying one since I probably won't use it.  I might try the GB player, though.  Perhaps.

[Koopa Troopa]

I'm definitely getting one, there are quite a few games I am interested in.

Earthbound 1, and 2 (This alone is worth buying a Player, or SP.)
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Super Mario Bros. 3 (Not sure what it's "Advance" number is.) I've played this game many times on the NES, but it never gets old.
Tactics Ogre
Onimusha Tactics
Metroid Fusion
Wario Ware (Not 100% sure on this yet)

I might get one of those cool SNESesque controllers to complete the oldschool feel

[Infernal Monkey]

Yes, indeed. Nintendo are bringing their classics to the newer generation, and it goes to show when it's a TRUE classic, it can more than hold its own today.

[DRJ]

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As for the Gameboy Player. . . it plays GBA games, right? How much it cost?

It plays games that a GBA could play (Gameboy, and Gameboy color games work too). It has a msrp of $50, but you can also get it free if you buy a Gamecube.


Right now I am playing A Link To The Past and loving it. Metroid Fusion is next.

[Hostile Creation]

I'll definitely have to look into this.  There are many games I'm aiming to buy, but this may come somewhere down the line.

Thanks for the info.

[Rhoq]

I bought my GameBoy Player the other for the exact same reason - I wanted to play some Old School games. The GBP was the best $50 I have spent in a long time. Unfortuantely since I don't own a GBA or GBA-SP, I had to start building a GameBoy library. I have spent $135 on GameBoy games to fill the void and feed my GBP!!!

If it's "Retro" games you are craving, there are plenty of titles available to satisfy your needs.

When I bought my GBP, I also bought a copy of Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, which is the original Super Mario from the NES for the GameBoy Color.

I probably should have stopped there, but I couldn't...I had to run out and buy more games...

Super Dodge Ball (One of my favorite old NES titles - updated for the GBA)
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts
Doom
Advance Wars (I read the reviews, I heard all of the raves. I am now addicted)

I know it has been said many, many times before on the PGC Forums but...Thank You, Nintendo!

[Ian Sane]

"Anyone else pleasantly surprised by the amount of quality retro games available to those of us with Cubes and Gameboy players?"

Nope.  I have a SNES so when I want to play some retro gaming I'll do it for real and play it on the system it was designed for.  I didn't buy a GBA and a GB Player to play a bunch of games that I already have.  Generally Nintendo has pissed me off big time with their ports.  I want a NEW 2D Mario games and I'll never get one as long as people keep buying the Super Mario Advance titles.  Plus Nintendo changes their re-releases so that they're easier and have a bunch of stupid voice samples.  If you're going to re-release a classic then keep it as is or at least give people the option of playing both the original and remixed versions.

The only 16-bit ports I'm liking are Sega's because they leave them unchanged and they release most of them in collections (Sonic Mega Collection, Phantasy Star Collection).

I have been quite pleased with Nintendo original GBA games though.  I just wished they released more of them.

[Mario]

I say bring on the ports!

*never owned a snes*

[aoi tsuki]

i'm glad Nintendo's having success with the GBP. It really shows the strengths they have in such a large library of quality titles spanning multiple systems (even Sega's). i'm waiting on getting the GBP for the moment though, either for my GBA library to grow, or until they release a disc to add more filtering options. Games tend to look a bit nasty over a non-composite connection on even a decently sized tv. Is it too much to ask for a scanline option?

[Gup]

I feel the GameBoy Player is a letdown since it doesn't allow you to play multiplayer which is really odd. If it did, I'd get one, but it doesn't really improve on anything that the GBA SP can do alone other than play 16 bit games on the TV. I'll stick with my GBA.

To aoi tsuki:"nice avatar, Naruto rocks!!!"  

[ThePerm]

unfortunately my brother went sega in the 16 bit era and i missed out on snes...however Gameboy Player is awesome. If your looking for new games there is always the metroid series. Fusion is awesome and Zero mission looks that way too. I like the Super Mario ports...well I have Super Mario World and its awesome, and im gonna get zelda: a link to the past, im gonna have a big gameboy library real quick.
Also Super Nintendo is fucking expensive now..you cant find it for 15 dollars anymore..the price jacked all the way up again and now you can only find them atr prices more expensive then n64. Carts are rare too, so theyre also expensive.

[ThePerm]

double post
 

[aoi tsuki]

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I feel the GameBoy Player is a letdown since it doesn't allow you to play multiplayer which is really odd. If it did, I'd get one, but it doesn't really improve on anything that the GBA SP can do alone other than play 16 bit games on the TV. I'll stick with my GBA.

Yeah, that does suck, although about the only way around it would be to emulate the GB. Emulation isn't 100% perfect, and so Nintendo chose to release a product that played 100% of GB/GBC/GBA games (minus maybe Pokemon Pinball and a couple others), as opposed to a product that played 90% (just a guess) of all games perfectly. The other method would be to include four sets of GBA hardware in the GBP.

Outside of the lack of true filtering options i posted, i'm most disappointed with the lack of connectivity between the two devices. i'll let current GC-GBA connections (like Metroid Prime and Metroid Fusion) slide since they were out the door before the GBP was released, but having no titles to take advantage of the two is weak.

At least the US boot disks work with Japanese hardware. i do hope Nintendo releases updated bootdisks; i know they can do more with the GBP and i'm hoping they'll release something a year or so down the road to renew interest in it.

Oh and thanks - i'm loving Naruto; just wish Prince of Tennis hadn't come on else we'd have a new episode.

[Bartman3010]

I didnt like the fact that SMC was literally unchanged ports. I really would love to play Sonic 2's Chemical Plant with Sonic VS. Knuckles or something fancy like that. Or let it save my score in Sonic Spinball, but no. We cant get any of that... Sega's not assed to do that sort of thing so all we got was perfect emulation with some sound errors. It wasnt terrible, it was just too much left to be desired.

It is disappointing that Nintendo's not giving out a new GBA Mario platformer, and all we can get so far is with the GCN. BUt SMB3 has some new levels, with of course, a little help from Marketing gimmickery. But hopefully we can use passwords like in Animal Crossing.