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>>11835464 (OP)
Shitty meme console that is only popular for being zoomers first exposure to SNES games. Throw away the ports and no one would remember it. Picrel is the king.

>>11835469
GBC has like 10 games that are still worth playing

>>11835485
name 5

were any of these good?

>>11835515
Ecks vs Sever Ballistic is probably one of the bests despite having a couple of really shitty missions. It has Goldeneye/Medal of Honor style manual aiming and a headshot system, really fun

>>11835512
Shantae. . . uh. . . Survival Kids
POCKET SAND

>>11835464 (OP)
you forgot quake

>>11835519
I love the movie even tho it’s pure cheese. I had no idea it was an fps until someone posted about it hear a year or so ago. I should’ve picked it up, we used to have a ton of them used at GameStop. Now it’s priced ridiculously. I’ll have to try and emulate it sometime. How did some rando action movie that probably should’ve gone straight to dvd get such a great fps on a console not known for fps. Wild

>>11835515
Duke Nukem and the Doom ports were pretty impressive

The Serious Sam game was terrible

>>11835515
>>11835623
duke nukem advance is excellent. doom is ok but missing the first music track is criminal.

>>11835469
what zoomers had a GBA? what year do you think it is?

>>11835701
early zoomers had a gba before getting a ds

>>11835695
>duke nukem advance is excellent.

It is... except that there isn't a single weapon that feels good to use. Kinda amazing how much they fucked that up.

The Ecks vs Sever games are fucking masterpieces. Dark Arena is great too.

>>11835464 (OP)
2D FPS shouldnt exist.

>>11836167
Good thing they're 3D then

>>11835512

Twilight. And im literally obsessed with game of thrones

>>11836215
Sprites are 2D. Games with sprites cannot be 3D.

>>11835464 (OP)
Funny how only the original games had decent framerates while the ports were pure trash.

And here I thought Ecks vs Sever was hard, but Nightfire is even harder

>>11835464 (OP)
there's a single game that cracked the code of gba fps performance. it runs as good as any doom clone on the ps1 if not slightly better. I wonder if the devs had a particular trick or if it was just a matter of sacrificing complexity.

>>11835464 (OP)
They are what they are. Doom 2 was a passable way to have Doom 2 in your pocket.
Some people really like Duke Nukem Advance, but I thought it was just kinda ok, it's not even remotely as good as Duke Nukem 3D.

>>11835469
Kill yourself.

>>11835515
They're ok. I've heard that Ecks Vs. Sever is supposed to be the best one, which is funny considering it's a tie-in for a movie widely regarded as exceptionally awful.

>>11835485
>>11835512
>Wario Land 2
>Wario Land 3
>Kirby Tilt N' Tumble (good luck emulating this one)
>Pokémon Gold / Silver /Crystal
>Zelda, Oracle Of Seasons/Ages (which are actually far more different from one another than the Pokémon versions are)
>Duke Nukem
>Survival Kids
>R-Type DX
>Shantae
>Metal Gear Solid: Ghost Babel
>Megaman Xtreme 2
>Shadowgate

Also, the Game Boy Color will actually colorize Metroid 2 for you, and not just in the quick and dirty 4 shades way which the Super Game Boy typically does, but differing palettes for differing objects. Does a decent job of it, IMO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5YO9GdJgBk

>>11836378
Did you play through the entire game... There is a level near the end, I think the penultimate one, where it becomes a slideshow due to how many enemies there are, and generally the framerate can easily get lower when there are a lot of enemies around

>>11835464 (OP)
Playing Doom on a gba back in the day was not my first experience with the game, but it is how I started playing on ultra violence (which is called nightmare on the port for some reason). People can bitch about muh potato controls but I would have never gotten good at fps games down the line if I hadnt poured time into such a dumb little handheld port when I was younger.
Didn’t play duke advance until much later. Its cool it has its own levels but overall not interesting. If you need more duke 3d the beach party expansion is where its at.

>>11836443
That's all of the fps games though, duke, doom, bond all get fairly choppy in later levels.
Duke advanced for example just completely stops rendering projectiles when there is too much going on (which I suspect the devs realized and is why you mostly only fight hitscan enforcers in the last episode despite them introducing those stationary plant things with projectiles). Dark arena was easily the best performing of the bunch, although, I can't speak for those ecks dee games having not played them yet.

>>11837459
>ecks dee games
They both performed great and had excellent level design. Dark Arena had better performance but Ecks vs Sever games came really close.

>>11835464 (OP)
None of them are worthwhile today.

>>11837602
The ports are all trash but the original properties are surprisingly excellent (Ice Nine, Ecks vs Sever, Dark Arena).

>>11835695
>doom is ok but missing the first music track is criminal
The music is shifted ahead for some reason, At Doom's Gate is still present, but it plays in the secret level.

>>11837602
>worthwhile today

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>>11837623
No one was playing Doom GBA because it was the best Doom game. It was just the only portable Doom game. Other mobile devices didn't exist. There are GBA games i still enjoy on my big screens at home. Doom GBA is not one of them.

>>11836443
fair enough but the base state of the other fps excluding maybe eks is chugging, even with just a couple enemies, you never cruise like you do in level 1 of dark arena.

>>11837650
>>11837596
Okay yeah. IIRC the Ecks games had consistent framerate though

I've been playing Nightfire and frames skip when there are more than 3 enemies at once, which is precisely when you need precise aiming too

>>11837612
>At Doom's Gate is still present, but it plays in the secret level.
good to know, but there is something still off-putting about hearing the wrong music on e1m1

not gba but warlock of firetop mountain is a suprisingly good first-person dungeon crawler on the ds

Jesus christ Nightfire is way too fucking hard, it's so insane I feel like I'm missing something. A single enemy gone wrong can easily win game over and of course the game spawns them in packs at this point and likes to spawn them in your back constantly. The only one I can win is by learning the enemy placement by heart and exploiting as much as possible and of course each mission is divided into 3 sub missions but if you fail in sub mission 3 you start over from 1.

And I'm playing on ormal there is a HARDER difficulty on top of that, what the hell

Jesus christ Nightfire is way too fucking hard, it's so insane I feel like I'm missing something. A single enemy gone wrong can easily mean game over and of course the game spawns them in packs at this point and likes to spawn them in your back constantly. The only way I can win is by learning the enemy placement by heart and exploiting as much as possible and of course each mission is divided into 3 sub missions but if you fail in sub mission 3 you start over from 1.

And I'm playing on Normal there is a HARDER difficulty on top of that, what the hell

>>11837602
Yeah that’s why you’re on /vr/, to shill for the handful of retro games (OOT, super metroid) that are still liked by casuals.
Janky games that have interesting ideas is like half the reason to play retro in the first place.

>>11835515
Doom on GBA is the only version of Doom I've played I think. It was pretty good

GBA and PSP shared the same philosophy: Let's just make shittier mobile versions of games you already played on a larger screen.
Thankfully Nintendo wised up with the DS, Sony still didn't get it and the Vita was quite gay.

>>11835515
Doom port is good. Doom II port is excellent. Duke Nukem was actually a new game and not a port, and for what it is, it's surprisingly solid.

>>11838409
i could see doom working ok
strong independent game that dont need no y-axis, you got strafe buttons, and the game WAS intentionally designed to be playable for PC nerds who had no mouse too

its kinda ridiculous you never played the actual doom. you should. its still fucking awesome

>>11837163
>but it is how I started playing on ultra violence (which is called nightmare on the port for some reason).

I just gave it a try and it feels to me that GBA Doom's "nightmare" does not correspond to the og's "Ultra Violence". There are more enemies, you take a shit ton of damage too, and item placement seems to differ slightly (not sure). Maybe some Doom nerd around here can confirm.

also playing it on my ez flash cart I'm getting visual glitches in level 2, I wonder what's up with that I doubt it's from the port itself maybe something's wrong with my SD card, ROM, or compatibility with the game

>>11839630
iirc nightmares defining feature is constantly respawning enemies. thats what makes it kind of a meme, and why everyone usually just plays UV. its harder, definitely, but not necessarily in a fun way

>>11839649
Enemies don't respawn on GBA Nightmare, it replaces UV; but I'm saying it appears to be different from the OG's UV (harder)

>>11835469
>"for being zoomers first exposure"
>using forced zoomer memes

>>11835464 (OP)
Dooms were great.
Duke, not so much. Lacked kickass music in levels and the boot.
Worst one was Medal of honor and I still feel mad about it.