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Any love for Neo Geo Pocket?
opt2not:
--- Quote from: marioxb on June 09, 2020, 07:08:22 am ---Why does no one like the Game Boy Player either? I made one of those old S-video/ RCA cable consolizers, the very first one ever, back when GBA was still new, and I got rid of it when the GB Player came out.
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It’s well documented that the Game Boy Player suffers from major input lag, and inaccurate timing reproduction of the GBA with the occasional frame stuttering . It also does some strange non-integer video scaling causing the pixels to not be crisp and clear.
There are also very few options.
The Game boy Interface homebrew software fixes this, but it’s unofficial and is a pain to get set-up. Plus this wasn’t available back in the day.
https://www.retrorgb.com/gameboyinterface.html
The GBA Consolizer is awesome, accurate, and minimalistic for setup. Plus you can use an SNES controller on it without any additional adapters.
marioxb:
--- Quote from: opt2not on June 09, 2020, 12:27:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: marioxb on June 09, 2020, 07:08:22 am ---Why does no one like the Game Boy Player either? I made one of those old S-video/ RCA cable consolizers, the very first one ever, back when GBA was still new, and I got rid of it when the GB Player came out.
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It’s well documented that the Game Boy Player suffers from major input lag, and inaccurate timing reproduction of the GBA with the occasional frame stuttering . It also does some strange non-integer video scaling causing the pixels to not be crisp and clear.
There are also very few options.
The Game boy Interface homebrew software fixes this, but it’s unofficial and is a pain to get set-up. Plus this wasn’t available back in the day.
https://www.retrorgb.com/gameboyinterface.html
The GBA Consolizer is awesome, accurate, and minimalistic for setup. Plus you can use an SNES controller on it without any additional adapters.
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Hmm, the Super Game Boy and later Game Boy Player (official) both seemed perfect to me, but it's been a while since I played either (around release). So thanks for the info!
opt2not:
--- Quote from: marioxb on June 09, 2020, 01:31:50 pm ---Hmm, the Super Game Boy and later Game Boy Player (official) both seemed perfect to me, but it's been a while since I played either (around release). So thanks for the info!
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Hehe, well you'll be shocked to find out that Nintendo was 0-2 on both the Super Game Boy and Game Boy Player.
The Super Game Boy also suffers from timing inaccuracies, and runs games at a slightly faster rate than the original hardware. This is why speed runners can't submit their records using a stock Super Game Boy.
There is a really easy mod that you can perform on your SGB to get the timings accurate to the original hardware, which is kind of a simple underclock to bring the speed back down to what it's supposed to be: https://www.tindie.com/products/qwertymodo/super-gameboy-clock-mod/
Howard_Casto:
Honestly at this point the gameboy player is just as good an option if you use the homebrew software and have a hdmi adapter for your gamecube. Of course the gamecube controller isn't well suited for the gba...you'll probably want to either get a hori pad or hook a real gba up via a link cable and use that for the gamepad.
So you'll need:
Gamecube = ~$50
Hdmi Adapter = ~$75
Gameboy Player = ~30
Memory card 2 Sd adapter (for installing hombrew player) = ~$10
and
GBA + Link Cable = ~$50
or
Hori pad = ~$30
So it's around $200 if you don't have any of the stuff mentioned and are willing to wait around until you get a good price for each item plus it takes some doing to gather all of that stuff period.
So yeah it's a bit of a hassle. Imho it's currently the better option if you are willing to jump through all the hoops simply because you can use a real gba for the controls and have a more authentic experience and if you are going to do a good gamecube setup anyway it isn't that much of an added expense. Honestly I'm not sure why we haven't seen a gba controller for the consoleizer show up yet. Use the gba rebuild kits on ebay, make a custom pcb and put a snes gamepad chip on it....
opt2not:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on June 09, 2020, 02:29:55 pm --- Honestly I'm not sure why we haven't seen a gba controller for the consoleizer show up yet. Use the gba rebuild kits on ebay, make a custom pcb and put a snes gamepad chip on it....
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Right? That would be pretty sweet. I wonder if the GBA Consolizer supports the Super Game Boy Commander Controller. Problem is, they're too rare and expensive to take the risk of trying it out. And also, not a great option for GBA games, but would be sweet for GB and GBC games
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