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GBA VC on Wii U starting April 3rd
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lolez2matt
Member
Does the rumble works in mario y luigi?
I wanna use the GamePad too but AW looks too dark on it
edit: I have to tune up the brightness to 5 to compensate. Mah battery life! And I already have the high capacity battery, too!
Miivrse comunities are up on America and ... confirmed : Europe got the bad end on the manuals =/
Europe got the bad end back in 2001 when the GBA came out. Our manuals are exactly the same as the originals
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I'm excited for people playing these games for the first time. They're all amazing. I play several of them on my GBA on a regular basis still, especially Advance Wars, Yoshi's Island, and F-Zero.
Yes,It is one best games for the Gba.
Robin64
Member
The original is probably the best of the WarioWare games. Either that or Twisted.
These games aren't dim, at least to me. The colors seem fine on both my gamepad and my TV and don't look dim or dark at all. Bought all three games and the Mario and Luigi Title Screen seemed to have really good color. My brightness is turned up all the way on the gamepad though.
It might happen after they release the remakes.
robertlebrone
Member
Lots of games I've never played. I might grab Metroid and Golden Sun when it comes out. I'm a little apprehensive though as to me $8 is kinda steep for GBA games at this phase of the game. But I'll support good games as much as I can within reason. I'll just have to be more selective.
Why would they do that when Game Freak and Nintendo can get you to buy the remake at full price?
PhoenixSFT
Member
Yeah, Advance Wars is quite bright on my TV screen, and noticeably dimmer on my Gamepad, but nowhere near as bad as the official screenshots make it out to be. Time to go decimate Blue Moon.
Beelzebufo
Banned
Kinda. It doesn't have the whole you die you're dead for real thing, because units are disposable and don't have names.
not exactly, but stil...
can anyone confirm if metroid manual is colored in PAL?
Robin64
Member
terrisus
Member
And no experience points or any of that.
So, basically, Advance Wars is just like Fire Emblem, except that Advance Wars is a Turn-Based Strategy game, and Fire Emblem is a Turn-Based Strategy-Roleplaying Game
Robin64
Member
Makes sense. Cheers! Think I'll give it a go based on that. (To be honest, the roleplaying part of FE kinda dragged for me)
moltonasty
Member
Mother 3 with an official translation would be such a killer app for GBA VC.
too bad it won't happen
JennyTablina
Member
I'm almost surprised you haven't played advance wars before! It's a much nicer introduction to turn based battles, with a nice long tutorial course to help you learn the ropes regarding all the various units at hand. It also has a pretty awesome soundtrack (as GBA titles go) - story is a bit thin, but it's the happiest war simulator you'll ever play
Sin & Punishment 1 happened, can't rule it out quite yet.Mother 3 with an official translation would be such a killer app for GBA VC.
too bad it won't happen
terrisus
Member
It's funny, because when I got it when it came out here, I felt that, while Advance Wars was a fun game, that it really needed some RPG elements to it.
Then we got Fire Emblem, and that pretty much met what I was looking for.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Sin & Punishment only required the text to be changed, the voice acing was already in English.
Mother 3 is an RPG free of voice acting, so it'd take much more effort to localize it.
Still, it wouldn't take that much effort, if it sold like Earthbound has. It probably doesn't cost much for it to be translated. For all we know, they might even have a translation already in their archives or something. I believe Mother 1 has one.
Anyway, I can't decide which GBA game to get. Metroid Fusion isn't an option since I have it on the 3DS and just beat it last year. I used to love Advance Wars when it first released but I sucked at the Campaign mode. I can't remember, does it have difficulty settings?
On the other hand, I've never played a single Mario & Luigi game and they look very charming. The only problem is I'm already playing Tales of Xillia and Borderlands 2 and I don't want to throw in another longer game right now.
So did getting Earthbound release on the Virtual console and yet it happened. I wouldn't rule it out just yet.
Except Earthbound had an official release outside of Japan, no such luck with Mother 3
Err, Earthbound has been in English for nearly 20 years now. There was no extra work needing to be done for it.
I meant in terms of the copyright restriction that the Earthbound has which prevented it getting a Wii Virtual console release.
Somehow Nintendo managed to get around that without changing anything for the Wii U Virtual console release.
Robin64
Member
Nobody ever really got firm answers on what those restrictions were, mind. There was a lot of speculation and educated guess, but there was never anything concrete.
They are also some of these "pure" games that are so rare. Every system fits, everything has its strategic purpose. No fat whatsoever.
Simple and transparent mechanics, yet extremely challenging later on. Perfect in its simplicity, basically. This is something that Fire Emblem does not quite have in the same way, even though they are great games in their own right.
The GBA AWs are some of the best turn-based tactics games since Battle Isle and Panzer General. Required playing.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
So is there a final verdict on settings for playing on the tv? Getting Metroid Fusion after work.
Try them and see what works best for you. I'd recommend no smoothing and original resolution.
The Real Napsta
Member
You know there are ways of playing GBA games on the TV right now right?
Robin64
Member
My preferred method too, but it's easy to make the changes and see.
Guess I'm a bit of a purist.
terrisus
Member
Translations are a good amount of work (especially for text-heavy games like the Mother series), and cost a decent amount of money.
And, Mother 1 had a translation done because they did one as part of the process of planning to release it over here (which they were planning to do), but it was cancelled before release. There was no such process for Mother 3.
There's a big difference between a game already released in the US in English, and one which has only ever been released in Japan in Japanese.
I don't want the hassle of touching my hardware. I wanna play through Wii U VC, plain and simple.
D
Deleted member 125677
Unconfirmed Member
Mario&Luigi looks really great on the gamepad! Looking forward to playing this and Advance Wars on it
Beelzebufo
Banned
I picked up Advance Wars. I sucked at this game when I was younger (DS), time to show it who's boss.
terrisus
Member
If just for that, why not just get a GCN with a GBA Player?
Mother 3 was optimized for the GBA Player as it was.
Mainly because there's some other JP-only stuff for the Wii U that I want. GCN, not so much.
terrisus
Member
Fair enough, was just curious.