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I have an extrememly boring class for 3 hours 3 days a week and if I just go I fall asleep 99%... neh 100% of the time. But I found a solution. I borrowed a friends GBA and now I have time to get my video gaming in AND pay more attention. Don't believe me? The gaming keeps me awake and I promise that I absorb more of the lecture if I am awake, even if I am only paying partial attention. But it doesn't really matter because the prof is a horrible lecturer and it is really pointless to take notes anyway. But if I need to take notes, I just pause the game.

Anyway, not only did he let me borrow his GBA but also his EZ-Cart 512mbit! So I have been teh roXoring teh NES games mainly. I got further than ever before in Rush'N'Attack (before accidentally deleting the save state) and then yesterday I beat the elusive Bionic Commando for the first time. I also beat the first level of Spelunker, which is no small task. I have been thinking of giving Rygar a go next. It is great because I have all the classics (about 60 games) on the sucka and it only takes up 12MBs (AKA 96Mbit). So why are GBA flash roms so small and expensive? I can but a 1GB Compact flash card for less than $70 but I can't even buy a 64MB (512Mbit) flash for less than $100. I think $100 is a fair price for a Rom Cart... but I want 1GB for that price. Until then I am borrowing.

Soooo... All this GBAing has made me want to check out some of the better GBA games. But with limited room I have to keep it sparse. Which brings me to my question:

What are your favorite GBA games?

Here is what is on my cart now:
PocketNESS
Zelda: Minish Cap
Metroid Zero Mission
Castlevania Circle of the Moon
Pokemon Pinball
Ninja 5-0
Astroboy Omega Factor
Super Monkey Ball Jr.

I have beat in the past:
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Metroid Fusion

And I have already checked out:
Mario Vs. Donkey Kong (cool puzzle platformer)
SM Adv 2
SM Adv 3 - Yoshi's Island
Wario Ware
Megaman Zero 3
Advance Wars 2

I have heard these were good and might check them out:
Mario Kart Super Circuit
F-Zero GP Legend
Final Fantasy 1 & 2 (no brainer)
Doom I & II
Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance
Phantasy Star Collection
Zelda Link to the Past (Is it any different?)
Sonic Pinball Party
DK Country (2? - I didn't like the 2nd on SNES)
Jet Grind Radio
MK Tournament Edition
FF Tactic Adv (SNES exactly?)
Boktai
Fire Emblem
Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga
Wade Hixton's Counter Punch
Sonic Adv 3
Ultimate Card Games
Ultimate Brain Games

Anyone have more to add, reason to remove, or general GBA discussion?

Castlevania: Harmony of dissonance is great, i like it better than what little ive played of circle of the moon.

Still havnt beat Castlevania:AoS, very close, just want to get 100% exploration before i beat the boss, which i've found alreay.

Zelda LttP, is no different. It is if you play it linked with other people though.

I beat AoS 100%. Well worth it too. If Choki would hurry up and finish his HoD game, I'd start playing. I suppose I could just back up the saves to a different slot, but I don't like doing that.

Currently I have these on my cart:
HoD
Super Mario World
Minish Cap
Final Fight One (Japanese version, don't like that hacked up US one.)
Pinball of the Dead
ChessMaster
Tetris Worlds
Mario Golf

I like Yoshi's Island a lot! It's an excellent game that I never really gave the time of day to before. Now it's one of my top Mario games.

Mario Golf is an excellent time eating tool.

I just plugged the GBA into my GC for the first time in a while to do some Tingle-Tuning in WindWaker.

GBA is quite the fun thing.

And then there is "Project Xerxes" which nothing further will be said about.

It definately seem to be what er'one is BIG INTO nowadays...I'm not sure what I'm BIG INTO...

Your dad still big into those trains for instance?

I saw a dude playing teh DS in class. He was full on playing Mario 64 on a handheld. He also had a pretty impressive 3D racer. That thing is powerful. But it seems kinda large (tho flat) and I question Mario 64 played thru with a D-pad.

J3RK - added your recommendations to my library (GBA staging area) but I have a feeling I will be a bit busy between Minish Cap and Zero Mission. Have you tried the PCE emu yet? I threw it on with our two favortie test pinball roms but they didn't seem to work too well (at all).

It's not all that fast. I played Bravoman and Aero Blasters on it ok.

I pimp my DS to the full, now I needs the haxoring for it.

I'm waiting for the HaX0rinG before I pick up my DS. As soon as the HaX0rZ have it, then I will have it. Teh DS is the CoolZ0r because it's backwardZ compatible.

Oh, and I can't wait for a C64 emulator for it.

Right now most EZ flash type products work in b-compat state with teh DS. But no DS games of course.

Nintendo DS compatibilty with GBA Flash Backup Cards

My XG2Turbo does too.

Anyone mess with goomba?

It's frustrating me, it cant find the save data. I put goomba.gba in the root like it said, but it asks for some gb00~1.dat for the save, any ideas? Also, goomba can't play GBC roms in color mode. Lame.

Hmm... I used it, but I didn't need to access the save data for anything. You also don't need to put it in the root. I have an Emu folder on my card, and it works fine. Didn't know about the GBC thing either, as I only played standard GB games with it.

Ok.. goomba saves seem to be working now. What front end util do you use for pocketnes, to append the roms to the GBA file?

EDIT: Nevermind, i got one.

It's called PocketNES Something Something... It's the one that looks the most like it should come with PocketNES. You're talking about the injector tools right?

Yep, injector tools. The one i got did them all, goomba, pocketnes, drsms, etc...