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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)

R00bot, do games w Day 8 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots
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Big fan of this series.

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

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,
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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

Stalinwolf, do gaming w I only ever used it for Pokemon, but I'm sure there were other uses.
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I had the green Gameboy, but this makes me wish I had chosen yellow. Yellow looks sharp.

Zozano,
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Shout out to all my transparent purple homies.

ShunkW,

I was a transparent purple homie. Ended up having to write my name on it because all my friends were too and we didn’t wanna accidentally switch them up. One of the group was notorious for not taking care of his shit and I didn’t wanna end up swapping with him on accident and getting a janky boi

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

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,
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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,

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.

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

I used that cable for my Gameboy printer more than anything.

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

I got mine at launch back in '98. Never played Pokemon. I’ll never forgive it for ending the middle school yoyo trend that I was really good at.

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

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

Multiplayer tetris was fun! Whenever you completed a row, you’d send it to your opponent!

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

We had even one to connect 4 Gameboys and played “super rc pro am”, oh the nostalgia

prettybunnys,

Oooooh rc pro am AND micro machines ought to be remade

ValenThyme,

RC pro am in the big bathroom with 4 stalls, passing the link cable under the dividers. Best way to skip class ever. Only ever managed 4 players a couple times but it was amazing.

IIRC you only needed like one copy of the game, too??

f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4,

Each player needed a copy of the game. Game Boy Advance had a bootloader that could receive data to run a multiplayer game with no cartridge.

Found this list: https://www.mygamer.com/gba-single-pak-linking-games/

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

Got one for my birthday once and managed to leave on the steps in the breezeway. It was gone inside of ten minutes :(

rem26_art, do gaming w I only ever used it for Pokemon, but I'm sure there were other uses.
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I think there was a Bomberman game on the GBA that used the link cable for multiplayer too that I remember playing

paultimate14, do gaming w I only ever used it for Pokemon, but I'm sure there were other uses.

Were there other uses? Yes.

Were they common? Well, just look at the GameBoy pocket. At the time it was designed (it released 7 years after the original GameBoy) there were a lot of people at Nintendo who wanted to get rid of the port entirely because it was barely ever used. They ended up compromising by using a different, smaller, cheaper port that needed an adapter to work with the regular ones.

Which was kind of a pain for some people because the GB Pocket and Pokemon both came out in Japan in 1996 lol.

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

I remember it for Pokemon, but also for those Zelda games that were a pair - Oracle of Ages/Seasons? But I don’t think it let you do much, just continue a game save when you finished one of the two games.

dinckelman,

Four Swords came with Link to the Past too. Never played it, but it’s exclusively multiplayer, as far as I know

ouRKaoS,

Four Swords is the most competitive co-op game I have ever played. It’s brutally fun, but you’re going to want to punch your friends in the throat after about 30 minutes.

www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/06/11/the-gang#

This comic is an accurate description of the experience.

ryven,

The Oracle games didn’t actually use the link cable, they had a password system.

TheSchatz,

It had both! You could use either a link cable or a password to continue your game in the opposite title, and to bring over the rings you had from the original save. At the jeweler’s shop, the red snake was for password transfers and the blue snake was for link cable transfers!

ryven,

Oh thank you! I knew the password existed because I was able to do it with only one system, I did not remember having the other option!

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