What’s a Retro Game enthusiast do when not modding, fixing, playing GB games, why reading fine literature like this gem from @Gamechangermods of course
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Review for Pokémon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire on Game Boy Advance from GamesMaster 139 - November 2003 (UK)

The Pokémon Pinball games were so much fun, I wish we'd get a new one...

This magazine can be downloaded in full here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/GamesMaster.html

#RetroGaming
#nintendo
#GBA
#Pokemon
#Pinball

So, what if I told you there was a pretty decent FPS game on the #GBA and that it wasn't Doom! Obviously, subject to your thoughts on GBA Doom.

But were you aware that the king himself, #DukeNukem, had a pretty competent and enjoyable GBA adventure?! I knew it came out, I didn't give it much thought until i played it recently... And honestly, hardware limitations aside, it's good! It's fun. It feels quite DN3D, but unlike Doom, it isn't a port but its own game with its own story and levels.

Enforcer enemies can be a little frustrating with how tanky they are, and some of my keybinds didn't work as intended. So weapon selecting was a pain... But the latter could have been fixed with some tweaking my end, I am just lazy.

Considering this came from Torus Games, who delivered a poor Doom 2 GBA port, I was pleasantly surprised!

Worth the play in my opinion, even if the in-game brightness might blind you, possibly because it is compensating pre-GBA SP lack of back light.

So, I seem to never learn.

On my list at the moment to play is a #Dreamcast classic that got, in my opinion, a great little #GBA port.

That game is Chu Chu Rocket.

It's a fantastic little puzzle game, and like all the best puzzles games, it is mechanically simple, and some puzzles require really thinking outside the box.

The thing that blows my mind, however, is that there are about 2,600 puzzles built into the game.
Admittedly, 2,500 of those are user puzzles from the old European, Japan, and US servers. But that is a ridiculous amount of puzzles to try to solve, and i recall when I had this on my old GBA, I beat... I think maybe, 60% of those?

Doesn't matter now anyway, I'm going to plug away for 100% of this game, which should keep me busy for the next month or so!

This will be a slow burn, much like Valkyria Chronicles 2, which I need to get back to at some point

Republished an old(ish) #retroDev project over on itch. A windows command line based checksum calculator for #GameBoy, #GBA, #MasterSystem, #Genesis, #32X, and #SNES

https://kakalakola.itch.io/checksuminator

Congrats Matt Greer for solving software distribution! E-Reader card with Solitaire delivered in an envelope by mail earlier today. Love it! (https://retrodotcards.com)

In the Game Boy Advance port of Doom, they removed the Ultra-Violence difficulty, turned all blood green, and removed bloody corpses as well as dismembered bodies and gory wall decor. No doubt this is because the GBA was marketed towards children.

Doomguy's portrait still gets red and bloody when his health is low, though.

We played some Super Metroid today and got the achievement for completing the game within three hours. Then we got a handful of achievements in the Game Boy Advance version of Doom. It has a better framerate than the SNES port and the shotgun has proper pellets instead of behaving like a sniper rifle. Sadly, episodes two and three had major overhauls to many levels, so the game feels completely foreign. With the awful graphics resolution, learning new levels is difficult.

At least we got a bunch of achievements today.

Making a new #gba e-reader card, and all the development woes associated with that. Tons of resources covered in case this interests you.
https://mattgreer.dev/blog/cramming-solitaire-onto-a-nintendo-ereader-card/ #videogames #gameboyadvance #gamedev #solitaire

The Standard Chartered #GBA #Business #Confidence #Index (#GBAI) for the third quarter of 2024, jointly released by Standard Chartered and the #HongKong #Trade #Development Council (#HKTDC), indicates a modest improvement in business #sentiment across the Greater Bay Area (GBA). The “expectations” #index rose to 55.2 from 54.8 in Q2, signaling a continued optimistic outlook among #firms. https://cnbusinessforum.com/hong-kong-leads-gba-in-business-confidence-says-q3-2024-report/

So, last week, I missed out on #VGMWednesday because of a medical emergency and being just generally forgetful.

But today, I want to get in early and today's music of choice is, probably, my favourite track from #FireEmblem , 『Together, We Ride』the music that plays when you recruit characters on the map.

https://youtu.be/yERQqvP0598?si=ZoImvyORphVxmPRP

This is the GBA version from Fire Emblem 7, the first time i encountered this track.
Strictly speaking, the first time I encountered this music was in Smash Melee. But this is the first time in context.

I can't help but feel pumped by this, if some Prince approached me and asked me to join his army and this track was playing, how could I say no? Let me grab my sword and hurl myself into battle. This is clearly a track of champions!

Published a WIP demo of Sub Mare Imperium - Tragrady of the Uncanny (sequel to Derelict) as a HTML5 playable game on itch.io. This is a temporary version, since it is being developed with the #gba and #msdos in mind.

#retrodev #emscripten
#screenshotsaturday
#rpg
#dungeoncrawler
#indiegame
#homebrew
#PlayOnBSD
#feedbackquest

Please provide feedback!

https://montyontherun.itch.io/sub-mare-imperium-equivalence

as part of the https://itch.io/jam/feedback-quest-7-indiegames-x-indie-streamers Jam