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FlyingSquid, do gaming w I only ever used it for Pokemon, but I'm sure there were other uses.
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I’m sure there were other uses.

Choking your little brother when he beats you at Pokemon?

(I have no idea if that’s how it worked, I didn’t have Pokemon for my Gameboy.)

Yearly1845, do gaming w I only ever used it for Pokemon, but I'm sure there were other uses.

Only if you had friends.

Dozzi92,
@Dozzi92@lemmy.world avatar

It’s true. I had a brother; he refused to trade with me. I still have a brother, and I’m sure he’d trade with me now, but we’re in our (late) 30s, and so Pokemon time has certainly declined.

kandoh, do gaming w I only ever used it for Pokemon, but I'm sure there were other uses.
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In 99 we had a sleepover and we’d all trade our best pokemon to one another and pulled the plug out before completion to clone the pokemon.

I have a real job now and do real business deals. Nothing I’ve done professionally has ever felt as official and business like as that one sleepover.

hark,
@hark@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe the real business deals would feel more official and business like if you could employ the pull out method with them too?

FantasmaNaCasca,

If only money transfers worked this way…

I send you money, cancel mid way, and now both of us have the money!

kandoh,
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I’ve actually heard that’s why overdraft fees are a thing. The money transfer system gets confused if you’re around zero and ends up creating money that doesn’t exist.

rozodru,

back in the late 00’s there was (maybe still is, who knows) an online service called “gamefly” where you could rent games. At the time the DS pokemon games would allow you to plug in a pokemon GBA cart and copy the pokemon from the GBA to your DS. So I would constantly rent GBA Pokemon games in hopes of finding something good on them to copy to my DS Pokemon game. I had it all scheduled out and everything. You could also wondertrade hacked pokemon or like really good pokemon online. I don’t remember exactly HOW you did it but I do remembering doing it.

bjoern_tantau, do gaming w I only ever used it for Pokemon, but I'm sure there were other uses.
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You could play multiplayer Tetris that way. I think I saw it once in my life.

gibmiser,

Me and my brother did it on road trips in the family van. It was awesome.

hopesdead,
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What is multiplayer Tetris?

KillerTofu,

Well, it’s complicated. See it’s Tetris but with multiple players.

AceSLS,

No way, my mind can’t even begin to comprehend

brianary,

I played multiplayer Tetris frequently.

When you get lines, your opponent’s stack pushes a line with a gap up from below, except when you get a Tetris, which pushes four lines (with the gap aligned, so you could Tetris back and forth).

You had an indicator for the max height of your opponent’s stack next to yours.

Great game.

iegod,

If you haven’t experienced multiplayer tetris from the modern remakes you may be in for a treat. It’s a lot of fun when you’re up against someone of similar skill. At least one switch version includes ranked matchmaking (Puyopuyo Tetris).

Pechente,

There‘s also an excellent Gameboy Color romhack of Dr Mario that supports multiplayer. Recently tried that out with my girlfriend and it was a lot of fun.

Edit: this is it for anyone interested. Looks like even the original version for the Gameboy supports multiplayer.

Zoomboingding,
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I played multiplayer bomberman :D

iegod, do gaming w I only ever used it for Pokemon, but I'm sure there were other uses.

TETRIS.

WolfLink, do gaming w I only ever used it for Pokemon, but I'm sure there were other uses.

The GBA had a multiplayer Zelda game, and every GBA Mario game came with a multiplayer version of the og Mario Bros. Arcade game.

An even less common connector could be used to connect a GBA to a GameCube. The uses of that one (as far as I’m aware):

  • using Pokemon XD to battle two GBA Pokemon games using the GameCube 3D graphics
  • a multiplayer Zelda game entirely based around the gimmick of using the GBA as a controller
  • using a GBA Metroid to unlock bonus power ups in the GameCube Metroid
Spezi,

I think local multiplayer absolutely peaked with the Nintendo DS. The download games where you could play with one cartridge, multiplayer without wifi, pictochat. Today you have to subscribe to shitty online services or at least play through wifi, which completely annihilates the possibility to play in a car, bus or train without a router.

WolfLink,

The sweet spot of not needing an adapter for multiplayer, but also only needing one cartridge, and no internet or subscription.

Soggy,

Nintendo fully panicked over the prospect of child predators and put a ton of barriers up for player interaction.

Spezi,

I think it was more about making money with subscriptions by incentivizing getting Nintendo Online to play against your friends. I bet they profited massively during corona from this business model.

Soggy,

Killing Pictochat, Street Pass, and in-game voice chat has nothing to do with subscriptions.

Spezi,

I thought you meant local multiplayer without wifi

lightnsfw,

That’s something to be concerned about so good on them. Kids shouldn’t be communicating with randos online unless their parents can oversee it.

Username,
  • Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, a multiplayer RPG where each player has can control their inventory etc. using the GBA.
ouRKaoS,
  • Traveling to an island in Animal Crossing, where you could bury random items and get sacks of Bells in return, up to 10k for a single item.

That’s how I paid off my house.

Zoomboingding,
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Phantasy Star Online and Sonic Adventure 2: Battle used the link cable to GBA for mini games and a portable Chao garden

Honytawk, do gaming w I only ever used it for Pokemon, but I'm sure there were other uses.

Some newer games only needed one game to play with 4 players.

I believe Mario Kart was one of them, then some other game with a motorcycle looked from the side.

I played those on the Gameboy Advance with the nieces and nephews during family parties.

dch82,

Ah yes the cable with a hub in the middle for additional branches to be connected on to

nevemsenki, do games w Day 9 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

bionicjoey,

Ave, true to Caesar

Schmuppes, do games w Day 9 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots

Godspeed, Courier.

graymess, do gaming w I only ever used it for Pokemon, but I'm sure there were other uses.

It was the only two-player game everyone definitely had.

MarcomachtKuchen, do games w Day 8 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots

I get why the poor perfomance got the game some negative reviews, but I don’t get the batmobile hate at all. I love my little tank and thought the game had some great passages for it.

All that aside I enjoyed a lot of the story missions as well and liked the plot and how much of an impact your story progression had on the open world.

The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo,
@The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world avatar

I loved Batmobile riddles.

RealFunAtParties,

Yeah idk, the Riddler making you do time trial batmobile races kind of feels like the Joker forcing you to do taxes. I didn’t mind them from a gameplay perspective, it just seemed kind of silly.

MyNameIsAtticus,
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I do think the Combat got a bit old with the Batmobile. But that’s just my personal opinion. I do like all the other things the Batmobile introduced, like the riddler riddles and the races (not to mention how fun it is to just destroy the environment)

The plot though is amazing. If I had to pick between it or Arkham city (my other favorite) I don’t know which one I would pick. It would be a difficult decision

KeefChief13, do games w Day 8 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots

Must be nice to play everyday.

SidewaysHighways,

Ain’t nothing to it but to do it

Glitch,

Facts

MyNameIsAtticus,
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I’m cheating a little bit by posting screenshots I took a few days ago, but I’m a college student and I’m not scheduled to start classes again until next month. So playing is like the only thing I really have on my plate right now besides a few pet projects. I try to get at least an hour in though on games to help clear my mind and relax (though, there’s probably better ways to do that)

13esq, do games w Day 8 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots

These types of “Day X of Y until I forget” posts used to piss me off on Reddit, but here I’m just glad someone is providing content.

ivanafterall,
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Day 1 of posting comment replies to the comments I’ve been reading until I forget to post a reply.

SidewaysHighways,

Day 0 of

MyNameIsAtticus, (edited )
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50% of it is just me wanting to share the screenshots. I considered just dumping the screenshots without much context, but this way I feel like I’m building a habit around it and i feel like it’s easier for people to find, if they really want too for some reason, a screenshot they missed. I totally get why it would be irritating though. A lot of them on Reddit I feel like we’re really low effort posts

Transporter_Room_3, do games w Day 7 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots
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I’ve seen almost that exact sight so many times…

For a second I thought it was 2012 again and I was curled up under my blanket with some hot chocolate to play skyrim and watch some cartoons.

And I was in my 20s.

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

Skyrim really is a magical experience like that. I wish I was old enough to experience it on launch in the early 2010s just so I could experience that with the rest of the community for the first time

Transporter_Room_3,
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I didn’t get it right away, since I try not to buy anything in the first month it’s out so I get a good feel of the game. Also, you know… poor. But mostly the first thing.

But holy shit the videos of dragon fights… I had to fight an impulse buy.

Since then I’ve spent over $100 on various copies for various consoles and my computer, all on sale. It may not seem like much, but when 95% of my library was purchased during sales and events… That’s a lot.

It’s not perfect, but there are so many mods for it, you can tailor it to whatever you want. Personally, I like a bit of survival mechanics like food/water and temperatures/wetness. I also like the older oblivion style of magic combat.

Bethesda may not have made the greatest video game of all time, but at this point it might as well be the best fantasy RPG-lite sandbox I’ve played. The only thing that could make it better is a settlement system like fallout. I like to build.

MyNameIsAtticus,
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Survival is what I went for on this Modpack too. I have survival Mode enabled, along with a whole bunch of clothes and stuff for warmth. I’ve been trying to to get the Campfire and Frostfall mods to work but they won’t load in game for some reason so I may just have to give up

I would kill for a settlement system like Fallout 4’s or a C.A.M.P System like Fallout 76. Even just a revamp of Heart fire using the new system might be enough to get me to buy a 4th rerelease of Skyrim

MasterBuilder,

Well, i haven’t neen much of a gamer for years (got too adicted to WoW), but just started again this year. I am amazed by Skyrim, and am now modding it up.

I also just got Cyberpunk 2077, and will get into it soon.

NOT_RICK, do gaming w I only ever used it for Pokemon, but I'm sure there were other uses.
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

Wasn’t there a way to link with the IR blasters on the GBCs too? I never tried it but I’ve heard it was possible

hopesdead,
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I’ve only seen that done for the TCG to do trades. Odd how a video game series turned into a franchise with a trading card game got a video game adaption of the trading card game.

The_Picard_Maneuver,
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I remember trying that over and over, then reverting back to the more reliable link cables.

f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4,

Only on games that were designed to use the IR. It was limited to Mystery-Gift-type quick transfers due to the low data speed and the need to keep the systems pointed directly at each other.

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