Game Boy Advance is the best handheld ever made, prove me wrong.

The DS plays GBA games and also has DS games.

>>384794413
GBA games on DS have shitty colors.

The PSP can emulate 99% of all GBA games.

>>384794351
The psp or vita are way better if you just hack them

>>384794351
The DS was

GBA's first party line up is pretty lack luster compared to the DS. Thinking back I spent most of my time just playing the enhanced NES and "enhanced" SNES ports.

>>384794509
Emulation on the PSP is ass.

>>384794568
PS1 emulation is perfect though.

>>384794553
Yeah dude Vita rocks! Monster monpiece is 10/10

>>384794689
Depends on the game but it's not bad.
PS1 is about all it does really well.

>>384794351
New 3DS XL.

Complete library of DS and 3DS games plus lots of good NES, SNES, and GB games.

>>384794351
I unironically believe the Vita is
>some of the good remastered PS2 ports are in it
>you can play PS1 games on it as well
>some good Vita games available (Katamari, LBP, Gravity Rush)
>emulation it feels great and can run even GBA games and N64 games to some extent
>regardless of resolution, every game look great because of the OLED screen
>for other multiplayer games on Vita, there's a huge active community that still plays each games
The ONLY problem with the Vita is Sony's stupid fucking decision in making 1st party memory card's

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>>384794351
Why do you think in absolutes, /v/

>>384794867
GBA

>>384794413
>>384794509
>>384794553
>>384794991
>>384795152
Playing games from other systems is not an argument.

>>384795308
For a handheld, I'd say it absolutely is.

I can really only take one handheld with me on a flight or something. In a pre-Switch world, 3DS won out almost every time.

>>384795308
If you remove the GBA games from the DS there are still DS games.

As much as I love the GBA, it's library is too padded with Super Nintendo ports.

>>384794351
Stock GBA is shit. Backlight modded GBA is 9/10.

>>384794413
>playing a dual screened system when you don't have to
Fuck that, GBA is way more comfy to hold.

>>384795152
This, I love my vita and the d-pad and oled screen are 10/10

>>384794351
The DS does everything the GBA does and has a backlight.

>>384795272
>screen tearing
>bad sound quality
no

>>384795576
but my GBA has a backlight too?

>>384795472
>implying there's anything wrong with that
SNES/NES games are always good

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>>384795636
I've been playing the MMZero series just fine without the problems you stated.

>>384795725
>ports are okay when it's Nintendo.
Meanwhile, if anyone mentions liking the Vita, it's instantly dismissed as a port machine.

>>384794351
Game Boy Advance SP is objectively better.

>>384795735
The problems are there, you just don't notice them. Just like most people who still think the PSP is a good emulation machine.

>>384795836
>Meanwhile, if anyone mentions liking the Vita, it's instantly dismissed as a port machine.

This never happens.

>>384794351
The Neo Geo Pocket Color exists.

But the Game Boy Advance is really good too.

>>384795308
If that were the case, then the GBA is out, too. Because the (modded) GBA is mainly good for playing GB/GBC games with a backlight.

>>384795152
The vita is also fucking top-notch.

>>384795706
Unless it's a later GBA SP I doubt it. Does your GBA play DS games too?

>>384794351
shouldve have a backlit screen like the SP

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>>384795836
Most of what I play on my 3DS is older games. Not always ports but still.
Who cares about that, it's not like you can carry around literally every handheld ever.

>>384796014
It absolutely does.

>>384795950
>no headphone jack
>worse A/B buttons

The GBA slightly wins out for me. My favorite model is the micro. Shame it can't play GB/GBC games.

>>384796051
I was under the impression the GBA is quite possibly the worst way possible to play GB and GBC games because of how oversaturared the games get.

>>384795308
Cuck

>>384796215
The normal GBA doesn't have a light which is a pretty huge downside

>>384795953
not seeing or hearing it rn.

>>384796256
>oversaturated
What are you talking about?

There's no ghosting, the colors are great, and again, there's a backlight. It looks beautiful.

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>>384796106
?????

>>384796051
What does the NGPC even have besides those chibi SNK fighters, that Sonic game, and Ogre Battle Gaiden?

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>>384796106
>>384796656
??????????????????????????????????

>>384794351
In terms of Nintendo handhelds
DS > GBA > GB > 3DS

3DS lacks both in terms of quantity of good games and innovation - 80% of the games worth playing on the system are ports or rehashes.

>>384794991
I think the ds is better than 3ds for gba + ds games vs ds + 3ds games but that's just me.

Maybe I should get a 3ds, haven't owned a nintendo console in a long time.

>>384794351
The DS is superior by default because it can play GBA games.

>>384796656
Is this the "100% faggot" rig?

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>>384796767
>tfw had the original purple gba
YOU ALL WILL NEVER UNDER STAND MY SUFFERING and fun

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It's true OP, it literally is even with its flaws

If Nintendo would re-release it with a backlit screen and rechargable akku it would be by far not only the best handheld but also the best console of all time.
I modded mine with a backlit screen and an EZ Flash IV cart so I have all games with me.

GBA > 3DS > DS > GBC

Looking back the GBC library was pretty shit

>>384794991
Is it true that the New 3DS actually has a pretty great screen? Homebrewing that thing sounds killer if that's true, I heard the 3D is actually worth using too.

>>384794351
I don't even like new shit but the 3DS will go down in history as the best handheld of all time. ainec.

Vita is the greatest of all.

>>384797146
The screen is good enough.

And I was always a fan of the 3D, but the super-stable really helps.

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>>384797002
sorry for you're jealousy

>>384794351
DS was better, PSP too.

GBA had too much bad and average 16-bit ports.

>>384796656
>>384796767
>Aftermarket hardware
OK Anon.

>>384797041
>Looking back the GBC library was pretty shit
Zelda Link's Awakening + Oracle of Seasons/Ages
Metal Gear Solid Ghost Babel
Pokemon RBY + GXC
Donkey Kong
Mario Land + Wario Land games
Dragon Quest 3
Shantae
Kirby's Dream Land 1 + 2
Metroid 2

I think it's safe to say you have no idea what you're talking about.

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>>384796693
Actually a lot of really good shit.
>Metal Slug 1st/2nd Mission
>Dark Arms: Beast Buster
>Faselei
>Cotton
>Cool Cool Jam
>Evolution
>Densha De Go 2
>Ganbare Neo Poke Kun
>Nigeronpa
>Puzzle Bobble
>Delta Warp
>Super Real Mahjong (Probably the only official eroge on a handheld ever and it's great)
>Big Bang Pro Wrestling
>Biomotor Unitron
>Neo Turf Masters

No joke when I say it has one of the best libraries of all time. And if SNK hadn't gotten gotten bought out and abused to fuck by Azure at exactly the wrong time, it would have had all of these games too.

I feel like a hacked Vita is the GOAT handheld.
>free access to Vita games
>free access to PSP games
>free access to PS1 games
>best emulation capabilities available on a handheld
>now since the microSD adapter is out, you don't need to pay for an overpriced proprietary memory card anymore
In terms of it's own library, it's admittedly lacking. But it has a good variety of Monster Hunter clones, dungeon crawls, Ys:Celceta, and shit like Gravity Rush & Tearaway (which got ported to PS4, but still).

Hacked 3DS is pretty good, too. Worse emulation capability overall, but you can emulate most things, and play DS games from a flashcart. The 3DS's library is loaded with ports too (something people tend to ignore when pointing out the Vita's reliance on ports), but it has quite a few more original titles than the Vita.

>>384796767
>tfw bought a soldering iron and learning how to use it just for this
Still haven't gotten around to buying the kit or gba itself tho

>>384797740
>portable Sakura Wars
Oh shit, this could've been great. Fuck, now I'm upset this never happened.

>>384797769
Doesn't the vita actually have way more original games than the 3ds? People just pretend they don't exist because they have Japanese names, and it's cool on /v/ to shit on games you haven't heard of.

>>384794351
Game Boy Color and DS have a much better library
Also DS games and GBC have a significant look to them. GBA games just look like SNES games.

I'm thinking of getting either a GBA SP, PSP or standard DS primarily to play old castlevania games I miss. Which one should I get /v/?

>>384797925
Not just portable sakura wars, portably sakura wars with the best-feeling thumbstick on any controller to date.

>>384797920
If you like the original form factor, it's definitely worth it. Otherwise, realistically, finding an AGS101 SP or getting a DS Lite will be a better option for most people. Get some Eneloops or w/e too for rechargeable batteries.

>>384795308
>the DS can do literally everything a GBA can do and is also a fucking DS
>d-doesn't count

>>384797740
>Windjammers
>Chu Chu Rocket
>Arc the Lad
>IQ
>Magician Lord
>Match of the Millennium 2
>Metal Slug 3rd Mission
>Popolocrois
>World Heroes
>Ikari Warriors
Kill me

>>384797926
Yeah. The amount of ignorance surrounding the Vita and its game here and other gaming related sites is insane. There's nothing really wrong with wanting your underpowered bing bing wahoo machine,but the lengths nintenfags go to shit on the vita is ridiculous.

t. own and play both consoles

>>384794351
>prove me wrong

No backlight, so many games are just ports or "enhanced" ports of older games, many games have bright washed out colors to make them more visible due to no backlight, the e-Reader was aborted too quickly resulting in games like SMB3 having incomplete content, every hardware revision lacked compatible interfaces for accessories that were already on the market, the GBA's 3D capabilities were largely never taken advantage of outside of shitty racing games, and Nintendo carried on with its retarded censorship policies despite M-rated titles appearing on both N64 and GC.

What's the best GBA emulator currently?

>>384798492
mGBA probably.

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*teleports behind you*
Not so fast

>>384797926
I just hate how hypocritical people are about the Vita vs 3DS. Like, it's perfectly fine if you call out the Vita for being a port machine. Because, honestly, it kinda is. But if you're gonna call it out for being a port machine, you gotta do the same for the 3DS. The 3DS is FULL of ports/remakes.

>Ocarina of Time
>Majora's Mask
>Star Fox 64
>Tales of the Abyss
>Metal Gear Solid 3
>Dragon Quest 7
>Dragon Quest 8
>Dragon Quest Monsters
>Xenoblade
>Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
>Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
>Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
>Etrian Odyssey
>Etrian Odyssey 2
>Radiant Historia
>Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
>Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
>Rayman 2
>Ace Combat 2
>Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
>Donkey Kong Country Returns
And I'm sure there's more that I'm forgetting.

>>384795950
This. The gba SP to this day is the best handheld ever made. I'd kill to have a new 2ds with as similar a form factor as possible to the SP

>>384798492
mGBA

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>>384797925
There's two Sakura Wars games on the GBC.

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>>384798734
>frontlit screen

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GBA-tan is love

>>384794351
shit screen

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>>384798810
>no lit screen.
i'd rather fucking SOMETHING

>>384798379
Name 5 good games exclusive to the Vita

>>384798810
Counterpoint: AGS101

>>384796656
Thanks doc

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It really fucking is, OP.

>>384798753
I've never heard the Vita criticized this way, but while the 3DS has a ton of ports, it has a ton of original games too.

>Fire Emblem Awakening
>Fire Emblem Fates
>Pokemon Sun and Moon
>Pokemon X and Y
>Monster Hunter 4
>Animal Crossing: New Leaf
>Mario Kart 7
>Mario 3D Land
>A Link Between Worlds
>Resident Evil Revelations
>Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
>Smash 4
>Bravely Default
>Bravely Second
>SMT 4
>Kirby Planet Robobot
>Tomodachi Life
>Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
>Fantasy Life

The 3DS has bang out, quality AAA games in a way that Vita just can't match.

Like, what major support did it get beyond Uncharted: Golden Abyss and Killzone?

>>384794351
GBA SP.

3DS XL.

>>384798945
Soul Sacrifice Delta
Ys: Celceta
Demon Gaze
Freedom Wars
Dungeon Travelers 2

If Dungeon Travelers 2 doesn't count as exclusive (since it got a PSP release in Japan), then Shinobido 2.

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>>384799963
All of those games are weeb trash, nice try

>>384800062
Really made me think.

>>384798945
Dungeon Travelers 2
Shiren the Wanderer 5
Soul Sacrifice Delta
TxK
A good amount of rhythm games (miku, taiko, djmax)
Persona 4 Golden and lots of other RPGs, not too big on traditional ones myself
Lots of anime trash titty games like Senran Kagura

And some extras that aren't necessarily exclusives but don't make sense to play anywhere else.
Muramasa Rebirth (better translation than the Wii version, exclusive DLC)
Disgaea 3 and 4 (loads of content that was DLC on ps3 build in for free, grinding is comfier on handhelds)
Puyo Puyo Tetris and Umihara Kawase (for Vita's superior d-pad over any other current gen console)
Lots of indie shit (also best played on vita for the d-pad)

>>384800062
DT2 looks like weeb trash, but isn't if you can look past the titties.
SSD is western as fuck, the dub is even pretty good.

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>>384799010
Remember your daily dose, anon.

>>384800062
Ah yes, the other blanket dismissal people use when "port machine" doesn't apply. "Weeb trash". As if 90% of the 3DS's library isn't Japanese. And as if the few western games it does get aren't just licensed tie-ins to children's movies.

>>384795308
It always is. Get fucked.

>>384800315
The point is that out of these games
>>384799817
>>384798753
Maybe a quarter of them are weeb trash, the rest are actual games

>>384800747
Please, for clarity, define "weeb trash" and "actual game". Because it seems to be "weeb trash" is "Japanese game I don't like" and "actual game" is "Japanese game I'll give a pass to, because I'm a hypocrite"

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>>384800747
Most of those games are made by Japanese companies. I think that you might be retarded.

>>384801153
>all Japanese games are weeb trash
are you intentionally being dumb

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>>384801342
Putting aside the fact that weeb doesn't even mean anything in this context, let's create a new definition for it.
Is there another way to consistently define the term other than "games made by Japanese companies?"

>>384801482
"games made by Japanese companies for a console I don't like"

DS Phat

>plays DS games
>plays GBA games
>PLAYS GBC GAMES

GOAT

>>384801482
Games that are intentionally pandering or cheaply made knock-offs. Shitty dungeon crawlers with overly anime aesthetics pandering to faggots who like titties more than good design and Monster Hunter clones are good examples.

The fact that you can't differentiate weeb trash from standard jappo games already tells me your taste is far gone.

My phone can play NES, SNES, N64, PS1, PCE, MD, MS, SAT, GB, GBC, GBA, DS, PSP, VB and probably a lot more systems, does that mean my phone is the best handheld ever?

>>384795308
Yes it is. Why the fuck wouldn't it be?

>>384801704
The DS doesn't natively play GB/GBC. Only through emulation (which is pretty shit compared to other emulation platforms, honestly)

>>384801923
What kind of phone do you have?

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>>384801909
What an awful post.

>>384801990

you can put GBC cartridges in a phat and itll play them

>>384801923
No buttons

>>384801990
I never tested but I was under the impression the original DS could run GBC through GBA mode, is that not the case?

>>384802118
>ou can put GBC cartridges in a phat
no you can't

>>384802091
Galaxy S7

>>384802156
>plug in DualShock 3 through bluetooth

woah, so hard

>>384801923
No because it plays them like ass.

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>>384802247
>carrying around a separate peripheral bigger than any handheld since the Game Boy to hook up to your shitty, ad-ridden, input-lag-laden phone emulator
Whatever floats your boat I guess

>>384801909
>intentionally pandering
Fire Emblem since Awakening applies. Bravely Default applies (except it got censored in the west. But to be fair, so did Dungeon Traveler 2)

>Monster Hunter clones
Soul Sacrifice is legitimately better than actual Monster Hunter.

>>384802118
>>384802158
No you can't. The only way to play GB/GBC is through emulation on either a DS flashcart, or through a GBA flashcart
t. owned a DS phat like 12 years ago.

>>384802398
>ad-ridden, input-lag-laden phone emulator
why not just use retroarch

>>384802398
>retroarch
>PPSSPP
>shitty, ad-ridden, input-lag-laden
Agreed on the controller being a huge inconvenience, I can only manage to play turn based games

>>384798850
When did pidge get so built?

>>384802454
Shits itself when confronted with external storage and still has the lag problems inherent to Android. Still, better than most other phone emulators in that it's not shilling mobile trash every time you pause the game.

GBA is great:
- Zelda: Minish Cap
- Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga (the best of the series)
- Wario Land 4
- Klonoa 1 & 2
- Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
- Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
- Kuru Kuru Kururuin
- The two Wario Wares
- Super Ghouls'n Ghosts R
- Mother 3
- Astro Boy Omega Factor
- Double Dragon Advance
- Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure
- Kirby - Nightmare in Dreamland
- Konami Krazy Racers
- Drill Dozer
- Ninja Five-0
- Steel Empire
- Fire Emblem
- Super Mario Bros 3 + EReader levels.
- The two fantastic Metroids
- Mario Vs. Donkey Kong
- Sonic Advance
- Rhythm Tengoku

Much better library to me than 3DS. And many more creative and strange games. Awesome pixel art too.

>>384802398
>shitty, ad-ridden, input-lag-laden phone emulator

you either don't know many emulators or is completely out of the loop, the PSP emulator for android is even better than the one on PC

>>384802431
>Fire Emblem Awakening
>Bravely Default
Yep, those apply to weeb trash.

>>384802678
>- Ninja Five-0

my fucking nigga, I loved this game

Specific question: What are some good story-based games for GBA that feature real time combat?

>>384802887
You mean like action RPGs? There's Secret of Mana.

>>384802987
>Secret of Mana
>GBA
anon, you mean sword of mana

>>384802802
That's what I was saying. Are you legitimately agreeing with me, or were you trying to be sarcastic/passive aggressive?

Another weeb pandering game for 3DS: Lord of Magna.

>>384803059
Yeah that's the one, sorry.

>>384803064
I'm saying on the 3DS, you have more variety. Most of the Vita games being released fall into niche weebshit territory or indie ports. Which is fine if you fill those niches, but otherwise there isn't much variety in what you can get in the system, remakes and PS4 ports included.

>>384802887
Chain of memories I guess

>>384802887
Sigma Star Saga