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My favorite ways to play GBA
by Amr (@siegarettes)
The GBA is one of my all time favorite consoles. With an iconic, pocketable form factor and an expansive library of games, I’m still finding ways to enjoy it, over twenty years after its release. And with so many different options to revisit that library, it can be easy to get wrapped up in finding the “perfect” way to play it. But the truth is, so much of the handheld experience is wrapped up in the hardware you play it on, that the best option is going to be different for each person.
So today I’m going to run through my favorite ways to play GBA, why I picked them, and what makes each great.
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Before you start whipping out your wallet, look around your room, check your drawers, or dig through your garage and see if you’ve got a DS Lite hanging around.
This was my GBA standby for years, and it still remains a great option. With a great clamshell design, rechargeable batteries, a built-in backlight, and perfect compatibility thanks to its built-in GBA hardware, it’s an accessible and fuss-free way to revisit old titles. As a bonus it plays, ya know, DS games.
Audio output is clean, if a little bit low volume at times, but that can be fixed by pairing it with the right earbuds. The only real downsides are the aging hardware can make it a little harder to find good condition units, and the older screen and slightly higher resolution mean there’s slight ghosting and the image won’t fill the screen without stretching.
The DS might not have the fidelity of modern options, but it’s an off the shelf solution with nearly every feature you’d want, with minor compromise and zero setup.
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If you want something closer to the original experience, a modded GBA can’t be beat. I prefer an original model GBA, since it’s less cramped than the SP. With a new lens and an IPS screen, and custom shells, you can get a unit looking nearly like new, with an image that easily outdoes the DS, and of course, has perfect compatibility and integer scaling.
The biggest drawback is by far the price. The components for modding are reasonable alone, but quickly add up, especially if you want options like rechargeable batteries, or a fix to the noisy GBA headphone jack. Power consumption rapidly becomes an issue as you add additional mods, or use a flashcart. At one point I thought I had bricked my console, but it turned out the combination of the increased power usage of my flashcart combined with the new screen was simply drawing more power than the depleted batteries could put out.
Even with those hassles and drawbacks, when I need that uncompromised, perfect compatibility, this is my personal favorite way to play GBA. Modern screens might give an experience closer to emulation than slightly blurred, washed out colors of unmodified hardware, but it looks so good it’s hard to make a fuss about it.
If you’re lucky to live in a place where you can access professional modding services, through Etsy, eBay or otherwise, you can buy a pre-modded GBA for not too much more than it’d cost to build it yourself, and save yourself the anxiety of trying not to break anything in the process.
I got mine from Gamechanger Mods in New York. They’ve got tons of fantastic custom colorways, and Greg was prompt and quick in making adjustments and sending the unit back and forth. Honestly, it was easily worth what I paid for it, but it’s difficult to recommend this option for anyone other than the most particular players.
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For people not going for original hardware, emulation is the easiest and best option. There’s a bit of a preconception that emulation is inherently and noticeably worse, but with over 20 years of emulator development, emulation has progressed to the point where, with the right hardware and software, it’s near indistinguishable from the real thing. The process itself introduces some inherent latency, but unless you’re playing a rhythm game or you’re a speedrunner attempting frame perfect tricks, you probably won’t notice. In return you get an incredible suite of features and flexibility.
For my money, mGBA is hands down the best out there, with incredible accuracy and robust features that I didn’t even know I wanted. Tuned correctly, performance was even consistent enough for me to play games with tight timing, like Rhythm Heaven. It can’t make me good at them though.
I do have to shout out VisualBoy Advance though, which hit early and paved the way for a lot of future efforts. I was legit emulating games as I kept current with physical releases, thanks to VBA.
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When I need a pocketable GBA emulator, to me the Anbernic 351P is the only option. The 351P has just enough power to run mGBA smoothly, with low latency, and just as importantly, has a screen that matches the GBA’s 3:2 aspect ratio, at a perfect 2X integer scale. Basically no other portable emulator can say that.
The shoulder buttons are similar to those on a GBA SP, but with microswitches and landscape form factor closer to the original GBA, as well as a good dpad, four responsive face buttons, dual analog sticks that click in, secondary shoulder buttons, and a rotary volume wheel.
The same factors that made it ideal for GBA compromise the other systems it can play, but it’s generally still adequate otherwise. On top of accurate emulation, you can even configure it for save states, rewind and fast forward, and remap the controls as you please, which is a godsend in difficult action games like Mega Man Zero.
The biggest problem is how much work you have to do to get it up and running. It’s not even worth using the stock firmware, and you might as well throw away the SD card it ships with, leaving you to flash a custom OS and load up your own SD card with ROMs, if you want it to meet what I’d consider the minimum standard for emulation. No matter what firmware you go with, you’ll be stuck with Retroarch, which is a miserable hassle to navigate, even after you get over the learning curve.
Quality control is hit and miss too. My first unit had its headphone jack come loose through regular use, and the replacement I was sent had the same issue, even after I took extreme care with it. I ended up opening it up and resoldering the joints myself to repair it, which should NOT be a required step.
Personally, the 351P is still by far the best portable emulator in terms of features, form factor and price, but it’s up to you if all that work is actually worth it.
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Now if price is no issue, and you somehow don’t care about portable play, the MiSTer project offers an incredible suite of alternatives to emulation. While software emulation still has it beat in flexibility, accessibility and diversity of options, a lot of the common conveniences are here, bolstered by an FPGA solution that emulates the system at a hardware level. It’s probably one of the most accurate ways to play GBA, barring original hardware, and still cheaper than trying to get a GBA Player running on modern screen, or modding a GBA into console form.
There’s a lot to love in the MiSTer’s GBA core--from the infinite controller choices, micro adjustments you can make to the display and sound options, and even support for the same rewind, fast forward and save states you’d get elsewhere.
By far my favorite feature is the 2 player GBA core. It’s a bit of a pain to import and edit save data, but it’s otherwise one of the fastest ways to get GBA multiplayer up and running, without the need for two systems, carts or link cables. There are so many ways to display the two screens, including outputting the second player to a separate screen. It opened up the possibility to easily play a lot of the multiplayer modes I’d never had the chance to check out.
I legit brought my MiSTer to my local fighting game meetup and played loads of multiplayer GBA games, some for the first time. We tried everything from Sonic Battle to competitive Mega Man Battle Network. All with our own controllers or arcade sticks.
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And those are all my favorite ways to play GBA!
Each of these are great options, but don’t get wrapped in thinking they’re the only choices.
Regardless of which way you choose to play the GBA, there’s an incredible library to dig into, with ways to personalize the experience to fit exactly the life you’re living.
The important part is to get out there, and play the damn games.
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my beloved
#+the game boy advance emulator which i have in my anbernic rg351p#what would i do without these boys
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This might be the most transfemme thing I've ever done...
Portmaster is so cool! Let me know if anyone wants help setting this up on one of these devices. Supposedly it's confirmed to run on the following devices running the following OSs:
Anbernic RG552 (AmberELEC, JELOS)
Anbernic RG503 (JELOS, ArkOS, TheRA) *when available
Anbernic RG351P (AmberELEC, JELOS, ArkOS wuMMLe fork)
Anbernic RG351M (AmberELEC, JELOS, ArkOS wuMMLe fork)
Anbernic RG351V (ArkOS, TheRA, AmberELEC, JELOS)
Anbernic RG351MP (ArkOS, TheRA, AmberELEC, JELOS)
PowKiddy RGB10 (ArkOS)
GameForce Chi (ArkOS)
RK2020 (ArkOS)
ODROID Go Advance (ArkOS)
ODROID Go Super (The RetroArena, RetroOZ)
PowKiddy RGB10 Max (The Retro Arena, RetroOZ)
I’m running UnofficialOS on an Anbernic RG353PS for what it’s worth, so this list isn’t entirely accurate.
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Novo console portátil retrô possui tela OLED giratória! Conheça
Por Vinicius Torres Oliveira
Um novo dispositivo portátil de emulação chamado "Small Universe X Sugar Cubes" acaba de ser anunciado e promete ser mais um gadget gamer interessante. Equipado com uma tela OLED giratória, um poderoso processador SOC e uma estrutura totalmente metálica.
A novidade apareceu nas redes sociais chinesas, conforme observado pelo Neon Rabbit, aumentou ainda mais o mistério em torno deste dispositivo único no panteão de crescentes portáteis de emulação, como o Anbernic RG351P, KT-R1, Anbernic RG505, Retroid Pocket 3+ e outros.
O misterioso portátil gerou dúvida entre os fãs por não deixar claro se "Small Universe" é sua marca e "Sugar Cubes" é o nome do dispositivo, ou vice-versa. Contudo, o intrigante e inovador videogame combina elementos já vistos em edições do Powkiddy RGB20S, com o design do conceito metálico do PocketMan P1, trazendo uma base sólida para uma experiência de jogos verticais.
O trunfo do produto está na introdução de uma tela OLED giratória de 3,9 polegadas (1240x1080). A característica é ideal para proporções de Game Boy e Neo Geo Pocket. Além disso, o "Sugar Cubes" utiliza um poderoso processador Qualcomm Snapdragon 888, similar a dispositivos renomados como o Retroid Pocket 4 ou o AYN Odin2.
A variedade de opções de cores e a estrutura de alumínio conferem ao pequeno aparelho um apelo visual, apesar das dúvidas iniciais da comunidade sobre a funcionalidade da tela giratória.
As expectativas para o "Sugar Cubes" são acompanhadas de cautela, considerando as semelhanças com dispositivos anteriores que não conseguiram cumprir suas promessas. Segundo o site RetroDodo, mais detalhes sobre preço e data de lançamento continuam pendentes.
Vale lembrar que ajustes no design e especificações podem ocorrer antes do lançamento oficial.
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I cannot chill. I cannot think. I'm so down bad I need a hug. But It'll pass with some time.
I used portmaster on my rg351p to run half life. Something to distract me from all the loneliness. I don't even know why it hit me so hard now. Eventually it'll go back to normal.
I will find a qt nerd who thinks that's neat. Eventually. For now I just need to focus on myself. Get my life in order. I have some weights, and you can bet I wasn't doing any training when I was working 9 hours a day.
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Raspberry pi lakka add roms
#Raspberry pi lakka add roms update
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06 Transcript of Stafford Masies Q&A at CITI Forum in South Africa Arkos (Arcadia Soft / Zigurat, 1987) Arkos es un videojuego de acción y arcade desarrollado por Arcadia Software en 1987, siendo producido y publicado por la compañía Zigurat para varios sistemas de 8-bits de la época, como Amstrad CPC, MSX o Spectrum ZX. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones. conf) add: Mega Bezel shaders by HyperspaceMadness. Recalbox is THE ultimate retrogaming platform that allows you to replay all the games, consoles and computers of your childhood RG-351V Emulation Performance Notes (Stock Firmware) March 28, 2021.01 - New Pandora Homebrew - Shogo Demo - 2. Gametronik - La Passion des Jeux Video : Actualité, Emulation et Roms, Abandonware, Manga, Animes 116 out of 50,331 games found.
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NOTE: Now using my massive update on 6/14/21 - includes over 100 game specific bezels for over 100 vertical arcade/mame games, PGM arcade game collection added, added 35 of the very best themes (all fixed), plus many other improvements! For Sale: One (1) (ArkOS based) loaded 512 GB micro SD card for your Anbernic RG351p or RG351m handheld retro game system.11 u/n: ark p/w: ark Micro SD card Storage. Yesterday I set up a large ScummVM installation (maybe important) with. Had to watch a lot of videos to get a solid grasping of navigating the thing. xml file for ScummVM, for example, from scraping metadata and then editing the gamelist. The RG351M comes with built-in WiFi, which is very handy, but the RG351P does not have built-in WiFi.*Note: this post is from my initial impressions not definitive analysis*. The Portmaster project also has a great library of game configs to help you run some games including Splunky and Shovel Knight. A-10 Tank Killer - Campaign Set 2 (1992) (Dynamix) 99 Ko. In this video, we will take a look at the new RG-351M with built-in WiFi and an aluminum shell.I settled on ArkOS, mainly because it has sleep, and it handles ScummVM better (which is a silly thing to care about on this device, admittedly). It relies on the ScreenScraper Online Database feed by the community. Game Over es un videojuego de acción, plataformas y disparos (shoot 'em up), desarrollado por la empresa española Dinamic Software y publicado en 1986 para algunos de los ordenadores más populares de la época, como ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Commodore 64 y PC. There is software behind RetroArch and Lakka that is protected by Non-Commercial licenses. SCUMMVM Bios: None Notes: You can use the Scan for new games feature in the system folder to create the. If all went well it should find your game. When you restart ES, the + Start ScummVM entry should've gone. 01 - New Pandora Homebrew - Chicken Invaders 2: The Next Wawe - Demo - 1. 04/01/13: Raspberry PI orientado a la educación en las escuelas. The old Doom and Quake games run great along with ScummVM adventure games.
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cleaned up a bit. will finish tomorrow. im gonna set up my rg351p tomirrow and add some games to my 3ds. excited to load up on some ps1 games for the rg. cant wait until the new rg vertical comes out... if the rumors are true. handheld gamecube???? sounds good to me, man.
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"Oh no"
"Is your new console not working?"
"No, RG351p is apparently in truth and deed the budget emu king
problem is I gotta take the microSD card out to put my totally legal games on it"
"Why is that a probl--"
*ejects card*
INTRUSIVE THOUGHT GHOUL: MMMMM LOOK AT THAT TINY LITTLE SNACK
"WE CANNOT LOSE THIS BIOS"
ITG: SO TINY AND CRUNCHY NUM NUM NUM
"I AM BACKING IT UP GET AWAY NO"
ITG: JUST TRY IT ON YOUR TONGUE. SO LITTLE. CROMCH.
"why are you like this"
"why are we ALL like this"
ITG: JUST SWALLOW IT WHOLE, JUST SWALLOW IT WHOLE, JUST SWALLOW IT WHOLE
#Tech#RG351p#intrusive thought ghoul#First time was when I went from gba to ds#So TINY#so...... TASTY#intrusive thoughts#psychology#This little dealie fucks tho
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I think sometime next year I will buy the Anbernic RG351P. I love handhelds and while ive modified my switch to be a retro handheld its not without flaws.
Outside of having to load different payloads all the time different systems run better on different OS.
Nintendo DS runs like garbage on Linux but runs smooth on Android
PSP is less stable on Android.
So id constantly have to switch plus its impossible to run pico-8 games
my dream was always psp and ds in one handheld and while switch can do that its annoying.
i had contemplated buying a RG350 back in the day but that system only ran up to ps1 well so i decided to wait for a more powerful handheld to run psp and ds
i also really love the placement of the analog sticks!
its about a 100$ but seems worth it to me.
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local dork wants to spend money stupidly (stop them)
#doing.. research#desire to play knux chaotix and the genesis games growing#rg351P...... temptation#it’s like a hundred bucks and i’ve got a bunch saved from grad+bday gifts........ do i#no....... but do it.......#i could play sa and sa2 portable on the same device as battle advance and chaotix. the temptation grows
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I'm getting an RG351p for Christmas!!!!!!!!! Woop!!!!!!!
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Anbernic RG351P Review 2021
Anbernic RG351P Review 2021
If you want to play classic games on the go (and don’t mind navigating the gray and churning emulation waters), an emulation-based gaming handheld is the way to go. The Retroid Pocket 2 impressed us last year with its excellent build quality and strong performance, but its Android platform is a huge pain to configure into a smooth, easy-to-use interface. The Anbernic RG351P, on the other hand, is…
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