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Game Boy Player (vs. SNES)
Maben:
--- Quote from: wiggy on June 16, 2012, 02:50:19 PM ---They're all that way. I think the combination of the GBA's resolution (Pauling with the fact that many games were designed to display the correct colors with an unlit screen), plus the limitations of the speaker on the system meant that the audio was likely highly compressed since the quality was going to be piss-poor almost no matter what, unless you were wearing headphones.
The non-ports have a sort of "tiny" sound as well. The Metroid games come to mind since I've played them almost as often on the player as the GBA itself.
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My feeling was that the games might have lesser video/audio quality through the GBP compared to the original SNES cartridge due to the GB and GBA games being designed for small unlit screens. Thanks for the advice guys :D
zakurowrath:
There are a few advantages to the Super Game Boy, and one is that games designed with it in mind have a few extra features. Like Pokemon Red, Blue, Green & Yellow all have their own custom borders and just like in Yellow each city has a different colour sceme (Pewter is Grey, Cerulean is Blue. Vermillion is Orange, etc) it adds abit to a game originally played in black and white. Games like Donkey Kong have enhanced music colour and other features not available by just playing it on a regular Gameboy. Here's a list of games that the Super Game Boy benefits from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Game_Boy_games
Now there are some drawbacks to the Super Game Boy. Since the hardware inside the cart is in fact an original Gameboy with a few modifications, it can't play Gameboy Colour exclusive games like Pokemon Crystal or Donkey Kong Country pretty much any clear Game Boy Colour cart. It can play the black Gameboy Colour combo carts thou with enhancements. Second, it doesn't have an EXT port which isn't too much of a gripe but some people wanted one. The Super Game Boy 2 in Japan had one but they are abit rare.
Even with it's few drawbacks it's actually something really fun to use, playing Gameboy games on the big screen with a SNES controller is much better and the enhancements give it just alittle bit of a new way to play your favorite Gameboy games.
Now I do have a GameBoy Player as well and it's really fun to use for all my GameBoy Advance games and any game in my Gameboy Library, I just wish they could have built in those enhancements with it as well.
larryinc64:
Donkey Kong Country is not a GBC exclusive, its a port of a game on the SNES, and its on the GB as Donkey Kong Land.
UncleBob:
The neat thing about the Super Game Boy is the ability to play select games with 2-4 players on the SNES with one cartridge. :D
--- Quote from: larryinc64 on June 17, 2012, 05:58:35 PM ---Donkey Kong Country is not a GBC exclusive, its a port of a game on the SNES, and its on the GB as Donkey Kong Land.
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Errr...
Donkey Kong Land isn't Donkey Kong Country at all.
Pretty sure zakurowrath is talking about the version of DKC that's exclusive to the Game Boy Color (doesn't work on the original Game Boy at all).
Also, of note, DKC had a GBA release as well. :D