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Nintendo Ressurecting Classic NES Games to the GBA 214

Posted by CmdrTaco from the thats-what-I'm-talking-about dept.
The Pi-Guy writes "It seems contradictory to Big N's massive anti-emulation stance to introduce the GBA as an emulator itself! An official N press release states that there will be "full classic NES games for download to the GBA"." Probably not so much Duck Hunt, but it sure would be sweet to get SMB3 on my GBA. Then I could go blind!
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  • They (like any company concerned with profits) are not anti-emulator, they are against people distributing their games without paying them for it.
    • To Nintendo, emulation outside Nintendo is the same thing. Of course, the emulator guys have beat them to it--there've been NES game packs for the GBA (if you're fortunate enough to have a flash cart) on various P2P networks for some time.

      Nintendo can bite my shiny metal ass.

    • Well, but even if they locked down an emulator to non-commercial games, I'll bet thet Big N would go after them anyway. Plus, remember UltraHLE? No R**s were distributed there, but they still got sued....

      --pi
      • True, but they would view an emulator as enabling them to be distributed... Just like other companies did not want Tape Recorders... Not saying I agree with the policy, but if you are trying to make money than it makes sense in a way.
      • i played alot of roms on ultraHLE, so if you are saying that roms were never released you were wrong. my wife and i played a ton of mario64 on my PC. i don't understand your meaning. If you mean that the UltraHLE guys never distributed roms, you would be right, but i never saw the nesticle guys passing out roms either, or genecyst (maybe the same guy), or any other emulator for that matter.
  • GBA = Game Boy Advance
    SMB3 = Super Mario Bros 3

    They aren't against emulation. They are against people other than Nintendo providing the emulation.
  • Original NES games are at 256*224 (or 240) resolution, which will not fit on a GBA screen. Since, according to Nintendo, emulation is illegal, I would assume that these must be rewrites?

  • Bad news for existing emulators? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by ActMatrix ( 246577 ) on Saturday June 15, 2002 @01:12PM (#3708047) Homepage
    There are many excellent NES emulators already available for the GBA - most noteably PocketNES [pocketheaven.com]. I wonder if Nintendo will take an aggressive stance against these kinds of developers, and NES ROM trading in general?
    • Wow, that sounds like Nintendo using their power as a market leader of Nintendo game sales and distribution in an anti-competitive manner against their competition. Perhaps we should take them to court over it, because it certainly seems like it's stifling competition in the Nintendo game arena. Thoughts?
      • The difference between Nintendo and Microsoft though is that Nintendo does not have a (virtual) monopoly on the entire console industry like Microsoft does in the OS industry.
      • Hehe, I had to read that comment at least 3 times to understand what you were trying to say. If you were in fact trying to confuse me and my fellow slashbots, you have succeeded, kind sir!
  • ....to run SNES games also (atleast that was my understanding..) I don't see why they don't come out with the Mario All Stars pack for GBA, that way you get a lot more for the buck.. ;)

    I've been happy with my GBA, kinda reminds me of my old NeoGeo Pocket Color.. It is interesting seeing sega games on it, thats for sure, I remember the rival thoes two had back in the SNES/Genesis days.. ;)

    It'd be nice to see a lot of SNES games ported over tho, like Bust a Move (Bubble bobble), Super Mario World, etc..

    ~slak

  • 2002-06-15 04:12:58 Nintendo to use GameCube to transfer NES games to GBA (articles,games) (accepted)

    Thanks Taco!! I forgot to add the spelling error into my article.
  • Bring back RC Pro Am, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and I'll buy a GBA.
  • Nintendo has confirmed that SMB3 is coming to GBA and since Super Mario Advance 3 is going to be Yoshi's Island perhaps it will be Super Mario Advance 4? I've also read that in Animal Crossing they are going to include Excitebike and some other game which escapes me right now.

  • Contra!? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by dlur ( 518696 )

    Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right A B A B Select Start

    I can't think of any other game that wasted more of my youth other than perhaps Pac Man. I'd definately buy a GBA if I could play good old regular Contra on it.

  • There is already a NES emulator available for the Gameboy Advance called PocketNES [pocketheaven.com]. This emulator is great - it runs at full speed and has great sound support. You can even link up another GBA and play 2 players with just one cartridge. You have to have a Flash Advance linker [lik-sang.com] in order to play on your GBA hardware though.

  • They're not "anti-emulation" (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Burgundy Advocate ( 313960 ) on Saturday June 15, 2002 @01:20PM (#3708090) Homepage
    They're anti-theft.

    Those classic NES games are their IP. Granted, they're years old and not that many people have the systems to play them on anymore, but actions like this show that they're still commercially viable.

    The problem with emulators is that of the ROM. ROMs can be distributed anywhere and everywhere, over file-sharing devices, eMail, and ftp warez sites. Due to the widespread theft of games in this manner, it's understandable that Nintendo doesn't support emulators.

    From Nintendo's standpoint (which is quite legal), emulators encourage theft. They are accessories to the piracy of their IP, and I for one support their stance.

    It's their games. They should be able to decide how to licence and distribute them.
    • They were anti-emulation.

      Up until a month or two ago they claimed ALL EMULATION WAS ILLEGAL since emulators only had one illegal use.

      After a back-and-forth between their legal department and myself, detailing legal uses of emulation (like playing Elite, a freely available NES game, or new game development) the offensive comment disappeared from their website.

      Check the internet archive [archive.org] for different versions of their legal FAQ.

      P.S. A hero is me!

  • the irony was lost on me i guess. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by GutBomb ( 541585 ) on Saturday June 15, 2002 @01:22PM (#3708102) Homepage
    it makes sense. the justification of most people using roms/abandonware is that software companies are no longer making money from those titles, and it is hard or impossible to buy them, so they pirate the rom instead. nintendo on the other hand IS still making money off of those games (just not those particularly old builds) by re-releasing them for GBA.
    • I agree. And even if you do find a place to buy NES games, they are so old that they hardly work.
    • Well, the other justification would be "I own the game". Games used to be a lot cheaper than they are now, and it's not uncommon for a Nintendo fan to have bought thirty or forty games before the cartridges died. Emulation allows me to get back the intellectual property that I already paid for.

      It could also be argued, although with less of a slightly less solid basis, that emulation lets us share our games again. My friends used to let me borrow their Nintendo games, but now that there are no longer physical copies of the games for them to give me, how are they supposed to share the intellectual property that they've paid for and are legally allowed to share with others? Emulation seems to be the closest way for them to do that.
      • actually i seem to remember somewhere in the licence agreement for officially licensed nintendo carts that lending was against the license. however, i ignored it as i am sure everyone else did.
        • actually i seem to remember somewhere in the licence agreement for officially licensed nintendo carts that lending was against the license. however, i ignored it as i am sure everyone else did.

          Nintendo has also claimed in various different venues that emulation (regardless of ROMs) and importing games (or anything, really) are against the laws of the United States of America. No one gives a shit, most importantly the courts of said country.
  • They already released Animal Crossing in Japan(as Animal Forest Plus), the game that lets you download NES games to your GBA. As I understand it, they've modified the games for GBA. They aren't straight ROMS, but reformated games that are placed on the game disc and then unlockable in the game for download. I think you can even play them in Animal Crossing on you character's NES.
    But the whole idea behind this is pretty neat. Including bonus games, whether they are new games or ports of NES or SNES in GameCube games and letting you copy them to your GBA ahould be fun.
  • In a perfect world there would be a GBA game that had about every NES game there ever was. It could use a microdrive to store all of them. I have a rom collection with allmost all of the nintendo games and its about 500megs.
    But I know this is impossible due to licensing reasons :(

  • Good Games? Or good memories? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by peterdaly ( 123554 ) <petedaly.ix@netcom@com> on Saturday June 15, 2002 @01:25PM (#3708116)
    When it comes to old game ROMs, and related things like this I have to wonder...

    Were the games back then really good or not? By todays standards, will they still be entertaining for any length of time?

    I know everyone has great memories of older games, but is that because we played them when we were kids (in my case at least), or were they really decent? I remember wasting many hours playing Mike Tyson punchout on NES. By todays standards, that game was a joke. Punch left, punch right, uppercut, dodge.

    I guess it all comes down to how much will they charge per game, and is it worth it for the time you will spend in front of them now.

    -Pete
    • A lot of old games were entertaining. They had to be. They couldn't just rest on having the best graphics. It actually needed to be a good game. The only decent games I've played in a while are Max Payne and Alice.

    • Re:Good Games? Or good memories? (Score:5, Insightful)

      by handsomepete ( 561396 ) on Saturday June 15, 2002 @01:47PM (#3708201) Journal
      Well, I just managed to spend 6 straight hours playing The Legend of Zelda yesterday (and an hour trying to beat Mike Tyson the day before). I think gameplay mechanics, creativity and replay value were all *much* better/higher in the days of the Nintendo. Same holds true for the arcade games of the "old days". Going to an arcade you could find really fun games that you *wanted* to play instead of a bunch of expensive eye candy that has to lure you into playing.

      And for the record, even by today's standards the gameplay of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out is not a joke. Maybe the graphics, but video games are still all about reflexes and skill (see any good FPS), not how many buttons/moves are involved in playing the game.
    • ... Mike Tyson punchout on NES. By todays standards, that game was a joke...

      By today's standards, Mike Tyson is a joke!
    • Yeah, these games were not that good. So what. Baby Boomers indulge in pointless nostalgia all the time. Witness the success of various sixties-themed diners and fast-food restaurants. If playing these games for thair nostalgia value provides enjoyment -fun!- then who cares if the games are good or not? Besides, you gotta admit Marble Madness on a handheld system would be cool.
    • I spent about three hours playing Yoshi's Island on the SNES this morning, and I had just popped it in to make sure my SNES was still working and to see what my save games were like.

      I can honestly say the game still plays wonderfully, and dispite the fact that Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island was largely ignored because of it's poorly timed release (just around the end of the SNES lifespan) I can honestly say this game in every way is classic Mario fun.

      As for even older games, I have recently had quite a bit of fun with the original Legend of Zelda, and a few really obscure titles such as Snake Rattle and Roll, Life-Force, and Blaster Master.

      So yes, some of the older games are STILL great fun today. This doesn't go for all of the games, but there are some gems that even though they don't live up to what we expect from games today, they're still classics.

      On another topic -- have you noticed that if something is done artistically, it continues to look good even when it's medium becomes obsolete?

      A great example of this is the original Super Mario Brothers game. The music is just barely polyphonic and there aren't any more than 8 colors on the whole screen at any given time but hte game is still presentable and playable. It just LOOKS good, even given the limitations of the platform.

      It just goes back to the simple rules of art. Video games are, after all, just art. Interactive Art.
    • Why not try out a game that you've never played before and test it for yourself? Personally, I was only recently introduced to some NES, SNES, and Neo Geo games that I missed via emulation, and I think a lot of them have been really ingenius and a lot of fun.
    • uhh, Ms. Pacman, nuff said.

    • Were the games back then really good or not? By todays standards, will they still be entertaining for any length of time?

      Well I don't know about you, but me and a bunch of friends pulled out the original NES and the 50+ games we have for the system a few months back... And the games are still as fun. Remember back then the graphics were rather shitty (I can say that cause they said it on Cop Drama ;) ) so the companies had to come up with actual stuff that had good replay value. One example I can say for sure hasn't lost it's appeal is the old-school 2D platformer. Mega Man and the Super Mario games have kept us entertained for weeks, even when the new, glitsy games get boring in a few days.

      Remember: Good graphics != good games. Stuff from the old days is just as fun as it was when we were kids, and maybe a bit more so since we don't usually lose our temper as quickly as we did back then.

  • Thankyou Nintendo. (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Sk3lt ( 464645 ) <peteNO@SPAMadoomedmarine.com> on Saturday June 15, 2002 @01:27PM (#3708127)
    At least one gaming company supports classic gaming.

    While Sony and Microsoft are trying to battle against each other with their powerful graphics, Nintendo are making games that are targeted for their fans.

    Super Smash Brothers catered for all Nintendo fans and so are upcoming Metroid Prime and Mario Sunshine (which seems to be more gameplay focused then graphic focused).

    And now this... I applaud Nintendo for making such a good choice of not letting the past die.

  • God, you people (Score:5, Informative)

    by Wind_Walker ( 83965 ) on Saturday June 15, 2002 @01:28PM (#3708134) Homepage Journal
    I swear, this is why I don't come to Slashdot for gaming news. I go to real [planetgamecube.com] gaming [gamespot.com] sites [gamespy.com] for gaming news.

    The games are downloadable to the GBA, yes. But that's only after you unlock them playing another game, Animal Crossing (known as Animal Forest + in Japan) for the Gamecube. Now, there's something you have to understand about Animal Crossing: 95% of people will not like this game. Imagine The Sims crossing with the talking animals found in Disney movies. That's a hint of what Animal Crossing is all about. You play the game for literally months before you can save up enough money to buy yourself a decent house, and winning NES games is purely luck-of-the-draw.

    I've talked to people in Japan who have been playing the game literally for months, and they just won their first Famicom (Japan's version of the NES) game. And it's not like they play it for a day, then pick it up next week. No, no, the game continues even when you're not playing it, using the Gamecube's internal clock. The game knows when certain things happen (raffles, sales, etc) and will not let you jump in to play them later.

    Also, the NES games are stored in local RAM on the GBA. Once you power it down, you're done. You gotta reload the game from your Gamecube.

    • Re:God, you people (Score:4, Funny)

      by pinkpineapple ( 173261 ) on Saturday June 15, 2002 @02:05PM (#3708257) Homepage
      uh oh... planetgamecube.com just /.'ed:

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      The most likely cause of this problem is that the service is not currently running. You can use the 'Services' Control Panel to verify that the service is running and to restart it if necessary.

      Windows NT error number 2 occurred.

      I don't have a Services CP. I run Linux. Running NT on a server at its own risks...

      PPA, the girl next door.

    • Damn it, I was just about ready to go buy a GBA. Oh well.
  • Nintend has been building and selling emulators ever-since the super mario collection came out for the SNES.. and don't forget the gameboy cartdridge for same, which allowed people who didn't want to buy a gameboy to use their SNES instead.

    What they don't like is the whole concept of so-called 'abandonware', the providers of which often tend to assume that software not currently for sale.. is abandoned (when in reality, the publisher has some several years before copyrights and publishing rights expire).

    Then there's the whole deal with ROM trading openly illegal files. ::shrug::

    Emulation == good.
    Theft == bad.That is of course, IMHO.

    -GiH
  • If I can seriously play a lot of older NES games on a GBA, then I'm definitely going to get one! I've been waiting for some legit way to play most of those games again without having to scavenge through local garage sales for old cartridges. Some of my favorite games of all time were good old 8 bit NES games (original Dragon Warrior anyone?).

    But here's what I'm really interested in seeing: Nintendo offers a legitimate way to play your favorite old games. How many people will now take Nintendo up on the offer, or will you still keep using your emulated to play downloaded ROMS? We get all upset with companies for not providing a way to get to the material we want (ROMS, MP3s) thus 'justifying' our use of questionable methods for access (think pirating). So the question at hand is when one of those companies changes, do you take them up on the offer?

    I've known quite a few people who have said, "Well, if the record companies would just offer good MP3's at a decent price, I'd support them rather than getting them off of Kazaa." or "No one makes these old games now anyways. If Nintendo offered their own emulator for a reasonable price, I'd do it. But they don't, so playing these ROMS I just downloaded is okay." I'm sure you've heard similar (somewhat faulty) logic. If that was you, well, now you don't have any excuse. So are people going to support Nintendo, or can big companies just never get it right?
  • This new game extends game fun from NINTENDO GAMECUBE to Game Boy Advance, opening new worlds, and also links it to trading cards with the introduction of the e-Reader.

    what about all of us out there in the world who don't own a GAMECUBE? Will they come up with away to transfer games another way? All in all it is a good marketing ploy for nintendo if you have to have the gamecube to do this. Yet all i can think about is all the little kids who will miss out on great games because they don't own a GAMECUBE.

    I would love to see the original zelda on the GBA. Nothing would be having the best Zelda game ever on a portable device!

  • Take a deep breath and relax...

    When they say ``download full classic NES games to the Game Boy Advance'' they mean ``Download a port of an NES or SNES game from the GameCube Animal Crossing game to the GBA''. This has been covered in most of the console gaming publications, print and web.


    Nintendo is not shipping a general NES emulator for the GBA. They are producing GC games that can use the GBA as an intelligent peripheral capable of disconnected use. Animal Crossing isn't the first game with this type of GC/GBA connectivity [nintendo.com]

    So unless taco is planning on playing through the GC version of Animal Crossing, he will
    have to go blind the old fashioned way....

  • I don't think that's mario, Taco (Score:3, Funny)

    by kypper ( 446750 ) on Saturday June 15, 2002 @01:37PM (#3708167)
    Probably not so much Duck Hunt, but it sure would be sweet to get SMB3 on my GBA. Then I could go blind!

    I think it's too much time spent in your room alone that's causing that one.
  • Now I finally have a reason to go buy a GBA.
  • I am so glad to see this story. For years I have been telling people that the old games were better. They may not have been as graphically beautiful as today's games or have the audio fidelity, but they were more fun. Think of how many countless hours you spent playing the original Legend of Zelda. Back then most of us didn't have the Internet (or even knew what it was) so solving parts of the game was even more challenging. No web sites to go to for a hint, no people on AIM/IRC to ask. It was a big deal when you learned you could blow a whistle to open the lake to expose stairs to the seventh dungeon.

    I actually lucked out and found a guy on eBay selling newly-built 72-pin connectors for the original NES and it worked like magic. Spent days playing Kung Fu, Contra, Gauntlet, Double Dragon, Bionic Commanod, MegaMan, Ikari Warriors, etc.

    I think another thing people overlook is that due to the constraints of these older console systems, game developers had to be as optimal as possible and they did everything in assembly. Zelda and Metroid, as complex as they were for games, they took up like 700k worth of code each. Far cry from that 1.6 gigs of drive space Diablo 2 takes up :)

    --Jon
    • Zelda and Metroid, as complex as they were for games, they took up like 700k worth of code each.

      You think thats good, the original Super Mario Brothers game took up only 32K IIRC. They accomplished this by using certain portions of the code twice for different things. What I mean by this is that they would jump to a data byte for a different instruction. For example if they had $C000 8A 9A A8 A9, 8A would be an instruction and 9A would be its data (depending on the instruction, I don't actually remember the 6502 opcodes) but, if you jump to $C001, 9A would then be considered an instruction and A8 would be its data. By doing this, they have essentially made the same piece of code do two completely different things. It is this kind of programming that just doesn't happen anymore.

  • Probably not so much Duck Hunt, but it sure would be sweet to get SMB3 on my GBA. Then I could go blind!

    That would come from too much masturbation, something that is free of charge. You won't need Nintendos help with that.

  • This was my favorite game when I was a kid. Even my mother and her father became adicted to Paper Boy. If this gets ported, then I'll buy a GBA.
  • They don't want free, third-party emulators exactly because they want to sell their own. Makes perfect sense to me.

    Of course, they shouldn't be able to prohibit emulators, which don't violate copyright, from being written. What they should be able to crack down on is the on-line distribution of copyrighted material.

  • Will they port 'Lesbian Tennis'? (Score:5, Funny)

    by wackybrit ( 321117 ) on Saturday June 15, 2002 @01:56PM (#3708233) Homepage Journal
    This isn't entirely a joke.

    The review of Naked Lesbian Tennis [i-mockery.com] for the NES.
  • what? go blind? please elaborate before my brain explodes from caring too much about your sillyness.
  • The GBA has become nothing more than a rehash system where Nintendo can re-release old games and make a quick buck on them again. If you take a look at the current GBA games available, a vast ammount of them are ports of Super Nintendo games, or updates of old Gameboy games. The ones that aren't are usually ports of Playstation games. So now what? Apparently they ran out of good SNES and GB games to port and are going to start digging up NES games for their "new" system? I've played these games before, Nintendo. How about some original games now?

  • Probably not so much Duck Hunt, but it sure would be sweet to get SMB3 on my GBA. Then I could go blind!

    Taco, you should check out the Afterburner internal lighting kit from Triton Labs. I just got mine a couple of weeks ago - it was not that fun to install, but well worth the effort. It really makes the GBA worth every penny, and proves my biggest gripe - there is no excuse not to include a backlit screen in the whole Game Boy line. I haven't even noticed a drop in battery life!


  • The game mentioned in the article:

    http://www.nintendo.com/games/gamepage/gamepage_ma in.jsp?gameId=646&showMe=1 [nintendo.com]

    ...looks very interesting and innovative, in both a gameplay and a graphics sense. No idea how downloadable NES games integrate into the "Animal Crossing" world though -- maybe the Animals all play old-school NES?

    ~jeff
  • They should sell a cartridge that you can hook up to your pc and download regular nes roms to, and charge like $100 bucks for it. I would EASILY hand over my hundred bucks for something like that.

  • Relatively old news (Score:4, Informative)

    by vitaflo ( 20507 ) on Saturday June 15, 2002 @02:41PM (#3708366) Homepage
    This is a feature in Animal Forest + in Japan. You can play various old NES games that you find throughout the game. For the port to America (called Animal Crossing) they are instead allowing you to link up to the GBA and play the NES games on there (I believe there will be more NES games available to play in the American version). In the Japanese version you just played the NES games on the TV, not the GBA.

    Animal Forest + has been out in Japan for a while and this has been known about for a while. I doubt it will be very popular over here since it's a very different type of game, but in Japan the game is pretty popular. Still, it's one of the games I'm looking forward to most (call me sucker for cutie-cutie Japanese games that are unique to all the "me too" games out there).
  • Before they start busting the classics out of cryogenic stasis again, I'd just like to see a few more good games to accompany the handful present. Not just kicking the dead horse, but harvesting it's corpse for organs and saying, "Giddyup!"
  • .... I don't think we should be slamming Nintendo. I'd gladly pay a one time cost of a few dollars to play SMB3 or the original Metroid on my GBA.
  • Don't you just love that funny dog laughing at you every time you failed?
    And what about the huge number of options to choose from? (ducks or plates)
  • One "S". Two "R"s. Good editing, folks.
    • You're assuming they actually review the submissions in the first place. I'm thinking it's a script, personally... Nah, a script can spell.

  • I found this little chart (Score:3, Interesting)

    by FunkSoulBrother ( 140893 ) on Saturday June 15, 2002 @03:25PM (#3708523)
    On GameFAQs, that someone compiled of the actual games you will be able to earn in Animal Crossing. Keep in mind the game is only out in Japan, and Nintendo is messing with which games to offer Americans

    In:
    Donkey Kong
    Excitebike
    Punchout!
    Ice Climber
    Pinball
    Baseball

    Unsure:
    Balloon Fight
    Super Mario Brothers
    Tennis
    The Legend of Zelda
    Mario Bros.
    Donkey Kong 3
    Donkey Kong Jr.
    Golf
    Clu Clu Land
    Clu Clu Land Disk Version

    Low Chance of Making it:
    Donkey Kong Jr Math
    Wario's Woods

    Out:
    Gomokunarabe
    Mahjong

    So, while there are some good games on there, they are the REALLY 1st gen NES games, with not a lot of depth. I loved pinball and excitebike as much as the next kid, but they are "play an hour and get sick of it games" to me at least. (i think the NES got a little better with time Especially when it game to sports games).

    I have my doubts about whether they would actually release Super Mario Bros. or Zelda, seems like it would be smarter to hold onto those for a future GBA release.

    Too bad they couldn't get the cooperation of the 3rd parties on this. I would have loved to earn Mega Man 1-6 and maybe some RPG's. (i know, thats unreasonable.)

    Mario Bros. (NON-super) should make a great (albeit simple) GBA game.
    • Mario Bros. (NON-super) should make a great (albeit simple) GBA game.

      Mario Bros. is already available for GBA. You can find it on both Super Mario Advance, Super Mario Advance 2, and in the upcoming Super Mario Advance 3. It's accessible from the title screen and needs no secret code to unlock or anything. Just press Start and go. Plus, it's even multiplayer and you only need one cartridge to make it happen (2+ GBAs, though, of course).

  • It seems contradictory to Big N's massive anti-emulation stance to introduce the GBA as an emulator itself!


    That's like saying it is contradictory to tell your wife not to go around having sex with random men, and then wanting to have sex with her yourself.


    Anyone else miss the days when to be a technonerd or geek, you had to be smart enough to make simple inferences, such as that Nintendo's anti-emulation stance is not actually against emulation as a technology, but rather against certain uses of emulation? What the hell has happened to the nerd/geek population?

  • I'd kill to play Populous on the GBA. Now if someone could get me the name of the person I have to kill to make this happen, that'd be fantastic.
  • Anyone remember the M&Ms game that they came out with for the Gameboy back in late 1999/early 2000? Even though it was an officially licensed Nintendo game, it was released from Mars/M&M's website for convenient downloading, along with a CD you could order from mail order... Even included a Windows emulator for the Gameboy (which one, though, I don't know)...
  • Sorry for doubleposting, but remembered another thing directly related: Sega's Game Gear was designed to run repackaged Master System games, along with new titles... They even had a nifty little adapter card for the Genesis/Megadrive that allowed us beta testers to test the games... I think that's about as old as a videogame emulator can get, really...
  • Probably not so much Duck Hunt, but it sure would be sweet to get SMB3 on my GBA. Then I could go blind!

    Johnny? Are you okay, you've been in there for a while. You aren't playing with your GBA are you?

    NO MOM!
  • When I flew to the states a few months back, there were a selction of Gameboy colour games that passenegrs could play to relieve the boredom. The machines that these run on are actually PCs, and the words 'Copyright Nintendo' were clearly visible on a text mode screen for a fraction of a second as the emulator loaded.
  • There are tonnes of classic Amiga games that would be ideally suited to the GBA. Not too complicated (due to the Amiga's control system) and yet damn good fun.

    If you're a big fan of Sensible Soccer, why not sign the petition [kickme.to] to get it ported to the GBA?

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