Game Boy Advance on a 42 LCD flatscreen

I buy a game Complete in box so I can have the backstory and manual but I keep it in the box and play it emulated.

This is the result

Sega made game Shining Soul 2 , If you guys are impressed with how great the games look I can upload Castlevania 1 gba, Sword of Mana, or Dragon Ball Advance. The games look better than SNES games except for the resolution

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...s/IMG_3040.jpg

Im using an Hqx4 filter, and since my HDTV is old (2007) the max PC resolution it can display is 1024 x whatever the other number is

Lol, that looks better than I thought. What do you use to emulate them with?

I've always liked the sprite art more. A lot of gba games go away from this. You should play Sonic Advance 1 and 2. They're fucking awesome.

Sword Of Mana
Magic Vacation
Castlevania all 3 of those
Golden Sun 1 and 2
Metriod Zero Mission / fusion
Final Fantasy 1 2 4 5 6
Megaman Zero 1 2 3 4


That should keep you busy for awhile.

Btw if you're just looking to collect buy Japanese versions of GBA games. They've got awesome boxes.

I use visualboy, it even supports old gameboy games and lets you mess with the color palletes to make them a bit colorful, i have never been able to make a game playable using this (not an RPG at least).

Clessy i need my manuals in english, i actually enjoy reading them prior to playing the game or during play throughs.

YOu can upgrade the sound to make it even sound better. Some games like Kirbys Adventure remake, while looking great really suffer in the resolution department. That is the only bad part about some of the GBA games, really low resolution on some games.

Do you run them on a console or a PC hooked up to your TV?

GBA has a god awful sound processor. Its one of the systems biggest weaknesses. Even with the upped output quality its shit. Its crackle and pops and its just ugh awful. However the Sonic Advance games have great music.




Top floor from AOS is the best song on the system.



I use to have a cd where it was in high quality on gba but I cant find it anywhere.

Impressive. The GBA is definitely my go-to system for previous gen 2D gold. That's pretty much the only reason why I own my GC, to have my GB Player attached to it. Soon I shall finish my Castlevanias on it.

pc via HDMI to a tv

Yeah upload some more. I have the GBA/Gamecube player and on a 26 in tv the games looked terrible.

I literally thought this thread was going to be a photo of a GBA sitting on top of a huge HDTV. Because that's how we roll around here I guess.

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Originally Posted by DarkDragon

Yeah upload some more. I have the GBA/Gamecube player and on a 26 in tv the games looked terrible.

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GBA resolution is just god awful. Without emulation its best to keep it on a small screen. Something say sub 15".

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Originally Posted by Clessy

GBA resolution is just god awful. Without emulation its best to keep it on a small screen. Something say sub 15".

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I like chunky graphics. just like my women

Funny, I've never had a problem playing GB/C/A games through the Game Boy Player. Any game I've used looks fine running on it. Perhaps a touch blurry, but I don't think the GBA's resolution is anything to cry about.

Oh yeah, Shavalidancer, that filter ain't half bad. Looks way better than the pastel-looking crap from your other thread. It reminds me of the filter that comes built into this one GBA emulator on PSP. That is actually the ONLY machine I use filters on. The problem I have, is having the picture fill the top and bottom of the PSP screen (most games I play are 4:3) results in the picture being enlarged by an odd multiplier. In other words, disproportioned pixels, making for a spectacularly ugly emulation experience. This is especially bad on the GBA, since a lot of games like to scale and rotate objects and sprites. Having a soft filter reduces the ugliness, but increases the blur. I don't mind though.

those pics u see i took off my tv are 16;9


gba has a naturally wide screen remember

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Originally Posted by Clessy

GBA has a god awful sound processor. Its one of the systems biggest weaknesses. Even with the upped output quality its shit. Its crackle and pops and its just ugh awful.

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That's because it doesn't have one. GBA audio is software mixed. Been that way with all Nintendo hardware since the N64 as far as I know.

I did a side by side comparison of TMNT with an emulator and the GBA Player via Component to my old 40" RPTV last year. For some reason emulation screwed up the scrolling and animation frames too often for me to want to keep using it even with the other enhancements. The GBA player has some nice filter options as well.

Heres some more Gameboy Advance off my tv

Sword of Mana
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...s/IMG_3041.jpg

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...s/IMG_3042.jpg

Castlevania Circle of the Moon
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...s/IMG_3044.jpg

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...s/IMG_3047.jpg


EDIT

wow i had my HDTVs colors out of whack!!! the games look waaay better now that I have the proper color scheme!! void all my pics posted about the colors are totally off and dark, had the TV on wrong gaming settings


BTW Shining Soul 2 IS INCREDIBLE!!! its waaaay better than Sword of Mana! I finally have that feeling of when I was a little kid playing Secret of Mana for the first time!!! loving it


http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...s/IMG_3050.jpg

Castlevania Circle of the Moon has taken over my life


I cannot stop playing it. And the games only get better from here so I cant wait to beat it!