Starting Retro collection with Game Boy Micro

romperstomper

Hi all,

Long time lurker here and just took the plunge on a gameboy micro in adverts. Can anyone tell me where I can get proper (not adhesive) cover/face plates for the game boy micro? my new gaming beast is badly scratched and needs some pimping.

also, would people agree that the classics collection (mario/zelda) are faithful to the original snes creations?

thanks

CiDeRmAn

Now, faceplates are going to be tricky proposition, in Europe at least they never gained traction here.
I'd try the various regions of ebay and see what comes up.
But it's a fine machine.
I might suggest a GBA:SP as well, as that will play the entire GB catalogue, while the Micro is unfortunately limited to Gba games only.

You really should pick up Warioware as well, stunning game and packs a challenge that's almost indefinite.

Retr0gamer

The SNES ports to GBA aren't great. If the games aren't from nintendo they aren't that good. Stuff like the FF ports have horrible music compared to the SNES and some censoring as well. Link to the Past is a goodport but it doesn't look as good as the SNES version, just much prefer it on the SNES. Yoshi's Island has some stuff cut as well.

I think for the SNES ports you are better getting the snes games down the line unless you get a good deal on them. Plenty of other great GBA games to get in the mean time. Be sure to pick up the 3 Castlevania games.

romperstomper

thats a bit of a pity. Took Ciderman's advice and picked up a GBA:SP while I was at it. Now I know that gives me a bigger back catalogue, but what are the highlights that I can enjoy from the snes/nes era? my fav games from that era were mario 1, mario 3 & zelda LTTP

CiDeRmAn

Look, they are not perfect copies by any stretch but they are still a lot of fun.
It's well worth collecting the Super Mario Advance series, they are not in chronological order but they are all there, and are a lot of fun.
If it helps I picked up a flash cart for the GBA and, through it, was able to play Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Nes games on the Micro, which is all kinds of cool.
The SP is superb, but there are those here who prefer the original GBA's form, at least in comfort terms.

romperstomper

right, i got me the hardware (micro & SP) and now I need some solid game recommendations. I have the mario advance 1 & 4. i love 4, but have 1 (similarly i regard zelda 2 as a similar divergence from series as mario 2 and i also dislike that).

are the 2 snes mario ports in any way worth picking up? i'm having a hard time imagining that they would be faithful ports considering the snes was a fairly advanced system.

after mario what are the other great 'retro' hits that people recommend?

elfy4eva

romperstomper wrote: »

right, i got me the hardware (micro & SP) and now I need some solid game recommendations. I have the mario advance 1 & 4. i love 4, but have 1 (similarly i regard zelda 2 as a similar divergence from series as mario 2 and i also dislike that).

are the 2 snes mario ports in any way worth picking up? i'm having a hard time imagining that they would be faithful ports considering the snes was a fairly advanced system.

after mario what are the other great 'retro' hits that people recommend?

The Super mario world port on on the GBA is excellent. As much as the original soundtrack and all

CiDeRmAn

There's a nice Sega Arcade Hits cart with a neat little cut down version of Outrun included.
The Sonic games are well worth picking up.
Castlevania , several releases, as well as the two Metroid games are must haves.
There are several excellent Zelda titles too.
And make the next game bought be the most awesome Mario Kart, it is fantastic.
There is also a Bubble Bobble port that's definitely worth getting, though they built it from scratch as they lost the source code.

Retr0gamer

Anyone that doesn't have ninja cop/ninja 5-O in their Gameboy Advance collection isn't a real collector.

CiDeRmAn

Astroboy is a cracker too.
Also Warioware Twisted.

Retr0gamer

I was joking about Ninja 5-O. That game goes for Steve SI gold plated prices

o1s1n

There's a cart only version on ebay at the moment for about €60.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NINJA-FIVE-O-GBA-Game-Boy-Advance-Game-5-o-oh-5-0-Nintendo-2003-/271274532678?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item3f2938df46

G'wan Retr0, you know you want it!

CiDeRmAn

It's only a little cart too, Sauron need never know!!