How much do you play with your hand-held console?

[Chronocento]

I own a GBA SP with several games.
Sometimes I play for over 6 hours (every sunday I do 300 km to see my girlfriend :? ), so the PSP battery life for me it's ok.
Maybe I can also buy the battery pack, so I can enjoy some movies.

What about you? :)

[Tom]

Up until recently i haven't been using my GBA, but i've sort of got back into it at the moment. As i've finished exams now i'll be on for a few hours a day, playing the lovely Spyro! haha!

[Illmatic]

Don't have one.I was going to buy a GBA for the DBZ games but,I think PSP will be my first :wink:

[__Black_Mage__]

depends on what game i get. id play golden sun for the gba for hours. so a game with a bigger screen and ps2 graphics would keep me playing until spiders start to make webs on me :mrgreen:

[Jack Skellington]

I generally play on my GBA every day and now that they've worked out how to put movies on it who knows what's going to happen

[CrumCon]

one more thing that psp would make us happy is that we could enjoy the marvelous SNES roms on our MemoryStick :)

We all know porting ps2 games to PSP could be done within 2 weeks... now just imagine the homebrewd SnesStation (SNES PS2 emu) could be ported to psp in no time.
And don't forget the genesis emu for ps2 which currently runs at 99% speed :)
GBA PS2 emu is currently at 33% done,, it should be done when PSP hits the market.
Let alone many other emus :) and all could be ported to psp

I just can't wait for PSP indeed.. It could be the ultimate handheld gaming device for the next 10 years

[Loc]

one more thing that psp would make us happy is that we could enjoy the marvelous SNES roms on our MemoryStick :)

We all know porting ps2 games to PSP could be done within 2 weeks... now just imagine the homebrewd SnesStation (SNES PS2 emu) could be ported to psp in no time.
And don't forget the genesis emu for ps2 which currently runs at 99% speed :)
GBA PS2 emu is currently at 33% done,, it should be done when PSP hits the market.
Let alone many other emus :) and all could be ported to psp

I just can't wait for PSP indeed.. It could be the ultimate handheld gaming device for the next 10 years

Hah and all those Nintendo Fanboys are praising backwards capibilities. When we can just emulate all of the GBA + GBC. Nice... :twisted:

[ultimategamer2004]

Well i dont play on my GBA anymore but i would imagine i would play for upto 4 hours non stop on the psp but regular probably 2H.

[sworder]

I generally play on my GBA every day and now that they've worked out how to put movies on it who knows what's going to happen

Movies???
Those are cartoons, there is no way a movie can fit in those cartridges. Even if they do find a way, it's gonna suck with that crappy and small screen.

[ultimategamer2004]

It might not be that bad on a GBA SP thats not too bad size screen..

[games_ fan]

I play on my GBA whenever I feal like it. I've only got 2 games for it.

I don't think GBA can handle a 3d movie. If it did then why dosn't it have 3d games.

[ultimategamer2004]

Yes but do you mean the SP or not??

[games_ fan]

The SP is a GBA with a backlight and better desighn.

[ultimategamer2004]

Well does it have anything different inside???

i'm sure it does doesent it?

[games_ fan]

With the millions of people that own a GBA currently, some are bound to get confused or worried - Is the GBA outdated? Should I should have spent that $70 dollars on something else and waited for the SP?

The answer to both of these questions- No. This new Game Boy Advance SP is not a new gaming console. Inside the 3x3 casing is the same guts found inside your Game Boy Advance. What this means is that GBA-SP owners will not be able to play any games that you can't. Just like the original GBA model, the SP plays all Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy software. Think of this new system as a premium version of the GBA. Don't worry about getting one unless you need to have the most cutting edge and coolest looking tech gadget on the block, or if the lack of a backlighting system is a big problem to you.

source www.nintelligent.net

[ultimategamer2004]

Oh right i must have been mistaken... good post.

[Chronocento]

Movies???
Those are cartoons, there is no way a movie can fit in those cartridges. Even if they do find a way, it's gonna suck with that crappy and small screen.

http://image.lik-sang.com/images//170/gba-movieplayer.jpg

Check this page (http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=246&products_id=3983&) :wink:

I don't own it, and I'm not interested in it for several reasons, but i read that the quality of movies is quite good.

[solidus]

I play on my GBA whenever I feal like it. I've only got 2 games for it.

I don't think GBA can handle a 3d movie. If it did then why dosn't it have 3d games.
Euh... maybe because a 3D movie as you call it is pre-rendered and saved as a movie file so you would just need a movie recognision. 3D games are rendered and the Gba can handle it but don't expect too much from it.

If you meanth somethng else with 3D movies please explain...

[GUNDAMSEED]

i don't have a GBA i play all the games on roms . i will be getting a psp 1 of reason why i never bought a gba was beciause i was sick off all thoses ports hopes that does not happen to psp. by the way i did have a gb played it for 3-5 hrs a day .

[ultimategamer2004]

Movies???
Those are cartoons, there is no way a movie can fit in those cartridges. Even if they do find a way, it's gonna suck with that crappy and small screen.

http://image.lik-sang.com/images//170/gba-movieplayer.jpg

Check this page (http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=246&products_id=3983&) :wink:

I don't own it, and I'm not interested in it for several reasons, but i read that the quality of movies is quite good.

Well thats quite good but i wouldent get it i might aswell wait for the PSP with better picture quality. :wink:

[Sharingan_Ex]

With the millions of people that own a GBA currently, some are bound to get confused or worried - Is the GBA outdated? Should I should have spent that $70 dollars on something else and waited for the SP?

The answer to both of these questions- No. This new Game Boy Advance SP is not a new gaming console. Inside the 3x3 casing is the same guts found inside your Game Boy Advance. What this means is that GBA-SP owners will not be able to play any games that you can't. Just like the original GBA model, the SP plays all Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy software. Think of this new system as a premium version of the GBA. Don't worry about getting one unless you need to have the most cutting edge and coolest looking tech gadget on the block, or if the lack of a backlighting system is a big problem to you.

source www.nintelligent.net

exactly :!:

Just an opinion. SP was made just to shut off those people who keeps on complaining how gameboy needs back light so much and how the glare from lamp shades are killing their eys. :lol:

Pls. excuse my thought. :oops:

[ultimategamer2004]

your thought is a good one though and at least i think those ppl ave shut up now.

[Sharingan_Ex]

your thought is a good one though and at least i think those ppl ave shut up now.

yup, they already stopped bugging nintendo for a while, but now, they're bugging them again about how the DS should be better and greater than the PSP. :lol:

[ultimategamer2004]

They are in the minority and how can you bug nintendo?

[kevindenoyette]

I said it before and I'll say it again. Movies on the gba are just not very feasible. The main difference between that and the psp lies in the fact that the gba only has 65000 colours, whereas the psp has 16 million. The ds has 215000 I think, which might be alright for a movie.
I'm not saying the difference will be that extreme, but i remember messing around with my monitor settings once to see how much 16 million colours varied from a setting with less, and there was a profound difference.

[games_ fan]

I play on my GBA whenever I feal like it. I've only got 2 games for it.

I don't think GBA can handle a 3d movie. If it did then why dosn't it have 3d games.
Euh... maybe because a 3D movie as you call it is pre-rendered and saved as a movie file so you would just need a movie recognision. 3D games are rendered and the Gba can handle it but don't expect too much from it.

If you meanth somethng else with 3D movies please explain...

I knew it had some 3d games but I was talking about it not being able to handle a 3d film with loads of special effects.

[ultimategamer2004]

i knew it was wrong because it does have 3D games.

[games_ fan]

Their are but the ones i've seen are crap.

[CrumCon]

I have GBA SP.. there are no true 3D games for the handheld.

There are 3D manipulated games which uses Mode7 like SNES, Genesis.

few list of GBA games which are so called 3D :(

V Rally 3 (the best to date)
Tony Hawk pro
Mario Golf
NFS: Underground
Tomd Raider The Prophecy
and many other race / adventure games

[ultimategamer2004]

What do you mean no true 3D games it is 3D or not you cant say it is when it aint.

[solidus]

I play on my GBA whenever I feal like it. I've only got 2 games for it.

I don't think GBA can handle a 3d movie. If it did then why dosn't it have 3d games.
Euh... maybe because a 3D movie as you call it is pre-rendered and saved as a movie file so you would just need a movie recognision. 3D games are rendered and the Gba can handle it but don't expect too much from it.

If you meanth somethng else with 3D movies please explain...

I knew it had some 3d games but I was talking about it not being able to handle a 3d film with loads of special effects.
Why not? They are movies! It has nothing to do with how much effects it has because it's a movie. You don't need to render it, just play it. So it can play a real-life movie but no 3D movie?



I have GBA SP.. there are no true 3D games for the handheld.

There are 3D manipulated games which uses Mode7 like SNES, Genesis.
No, there are full 3D polygon using games for the Gba. The thing is that the Gba doesn't have the hardware for it but as we know you can always do without. Monkey Ball for example is fully 3D using polygons.

[games_ fan]

I meen the problem of fitting it onto whatever the movie player uses.

[ultimategamer2004]

So technically they aint 3D but tyhey actually are?

[solidus]

I meen the problem of fitting it onto whatever the movie player uses.
There's no diference between a normal movie and a 3D movie.

So technically they aint 3D but tyhey actually are?
They are 3D, just as your Ps2 games. Just not of the same quality.

[ultimategamer2004]

Right i get it now..

Thanks solidus.

[solidus]

No problem, but there are games that look 3D but aren't. Like early FPS's. But there doesn't seem to be much of them. Just remember if a game uses polygons, it's 3D.

[ultimategamer2004]

Ok i dident know that but now i do! Thanks so if it usesd polys it is 3D.. :lol:

[solidus]

Ok i dident know that but now i do! Thanks so if it usesd polys it is 3D.. :lol:
Yep, THPS on Gba uses polygons for their characters but the rest doesn't. So basicly it isn't a 3D game but the characters are.

[ultimategamer2004]

Charecters are £d then but everything else aint.

[solidus]

Exactly...

[CrumCon]

like isaid before.. they are not true 3D

they are 2D manipulated using Mode7 like many SNES and Genesis .. and do not forget arcades in the early 90's

[solidus]

like isaid before.. they are not true 3D

they are 2D manipulated using Mode7 like many SNES and Genesis .. and do not forget arcades in the early 90's
IT IS "TRUE" 3D, whatever you mean with that...

[CrumCon]

No.. 2D manipulated Mode7 is just a smart trick to shows 3D gfx.. they're basically 2D.. end of story

[solidus]

You're so ignorant. There are Gba 3D games that render full polygon enviroments and characters in a 3D view.
Mode 7 is used with games like THPS which rotates/scales a certain playfield. Games like Monkey Ball are real 3D games.

[KlawHammer]

No.. 2D manipulated Mode7 is just a smart trick to shows 3D gfx.. they're basically 2D.. end of story

Somewhat like NoX...

[solidus]

What's NoX?

[NickSCFC]

Mode 7 is used in some games like Outrun, Hang On and After Burner, the majority of them being Sega arcade titles from the early 90s. There's a few games on GBA which use polygons too, Crazy Taxi and Sega Rally being two of them.

http://img6.exs.cx/img6/3595/gba.jpg

[ultimategamer2004]

aaaarrrrrhhh they hurt my eyes i am glad we have moved on now! :lol:

[NickSCFC]

Remember Star Wing/Star Fox on SNES? That used polygons, thankfully to great effect.

http://www.planetnintendo.com/nindb/sns/fo/shot-1.jpg

[ultimategamer2004]

:lol:

WE REALLY have moved on graphically :lol:

I dont know about gameplay though some of them games were good to play :P

[NickSCFC]

The images of Crazy Taxi and Sega Rally are from the GBA games, they weren't great. Star Fox on SNES was brilliant though, it's a game you need to play.

[ultimategamer2004]

Bloody hell i dont own a GBA but i would of thought they could do better than that but they are early games on the GBA arnt they?

Say Yes.

[solidus]

The Gba mostly has 2D hardware so 3D games won't look very good on it. There are more games using polygons, Top Gear Rally being one of them which uses around 200 polygons on each car.
Star Fox on the Snes had me going for some months, very good game.

[superboxo]

i play my GBA SP like an hour or two a week, but alot more on raod trips, or when i have to go somewhere :)

[NickSCFC]

Bloody hell i dont own a GBA but i would of thought they could do better than that but they are early games on the GBA arnt they?

Say Yes.
They were both release in 2003, like I've said before, GBA is basically a SNES emulator.

[Brad]

never played

[KlawHammer]

Well the graphics for that Starwing game are not bad even for its time.

[ultimategamer2004]

Yes but now they are not to good are they? :oops:

[NickSCFC]

I still think it looks great. It's stylish and plays really well too.

[ultimategamer2004]

It may play really well but from what i can see it doesent look exactly stylish. :P

[games_ fan]

It actually lokks a bit better than most ps1 games i've played on and remember this was made ages ago.

[ultimategamer2004]

Which one?

Thought you dident own a PS1.. :lol:

[games_ fan]

Starfox. I don't own a ps1 but I have played loads of games on it neerly all my mates have got one.

[ultimategamer2004]

Oh right i see... Have you played GT on PS1?

:lol:

I think its a good thing we have moved on graphically.

[games_ fan]

Nope i've played GT2. It is good that graphics have moved on before games were made of blobs of picxels on the screen wich were meant to be a car :lol:

[NickSCFC]

Ridge Racer Type 4 is probably the best looking driving game for PlayStation.

[KlawHammer]

Ah i rmemeber that one. I still have it lying around soemwhere. I think i'll play it today.

I quote-:"R4: Ridge Racer Type 4."
Thats what the voice said after the intro played through.

[PsP_will_rock]

i cant wait now that u guys hav said about roms and stuff it gona be sweet but wait if ps2 roms were tried to be played ther wouldnt be enough buttons without keyboard

[Kiwi]

There are already plenty of emulators for the PS2. Because the later consoles have used the disk format, they haven't made used ROMs, they've just made the emulators so that you can run the games on your PC.

ROMs for consoles like the SNES and Mega Drive have always been a maximum of 5 or 6MB, so imagine having to download a PS2 ROM eh?