I am playing with a Joey Jr. for work and it is SHOCKINGLY easy to use. I just gotta get myself a decent source of GBA carts (with save ability) and especially a way to make labels. Anyways I turned a crummy old Master System emulator cart into an Apotris cart.
@robinhoodie I want to get one! I just wish the NZD to USD exchange rate wasnāt so horrible. Iāve got a few terrible old bootleg carts that could use a 2nd chance, and it seems like the best way to backup GameBoy Camera photos.
Edit: I bit the bullet and got one!
@hellomrkearns I even reflashed an old bootleg of the Star Ocean GBC translation with the updated bug fix version. I definitely am going to buy one for myself now.
Thank you insert credit for being nice to me in light of this unpopular opinion
Iām facing adversity in all other gaming circles 
I feel that this only reflects poorly on them though
Always interesting how controversial it is just to say āI prefer the screen the device shipped withā
you are valid and loved froggy
@treefroggy I get so frustrated by people like that and can only hope they grow out of it.
@treefroggy use case trumps all. You are the sunshine gamer. Original screen was meant for you.
Moto Racer Advance probably has the best scrolling road in a videogame, and you can race dirt bikes against street bikes.
@hellomrkearns nice. my original PokƩmon save is still good.
@hellomrkearns thatās so epicā¦
Mind if I DL and take it for a spin and see what your pokemans are named? Show me your pokeymans?
@treefroggy go for it! If I remember correctly, I didnāt often rename them.
I backed up my GBA saves a while back. Much easier to do if you have a DS and a flash cart.
@hellomrkearns I really have to get my lite working sometime!! I didnāt know this was possible.
@KennyL is there a chance you would do a series like this for neogeo pocket or wonderswan?
@treefroggy Iād love to but unfortunately noā¦. Also I wish some one with pro camera and lighting could shoot GBA reflective screen videos. Iām just shooting with cellphone and cheap lights so not optimalā¦
@KennyL youāre doing the hardest part!!ā taking nice enough videos and uploading them.
How about a sponsorship? we can start a non profit and get you some donors. First things on the list will be one of those Ring Lights, and a wonderswan color.
@treefroggy oh man thanks for your support but I really canāt take on that right now ā¦ Also I already got 1 cp strike for stupid PS1 kamen rider vid so my yt channel could just disappear any moment. I canāt take more money for something so ephemeral. I could split out gba/handhelds to different channel to avoid strikes but this whole thing just takes a lot of work and timeā¦ā¦ 
@Karasu Iām pretty sure Yggdra Union was localized by someone who wrote some posts for the original Insert Credit, but Iām blanking on who it was. I think it was a guy who also wrote at 1UP sometimes? God this is killing me.
@Chopemon
Something that I donāt see mentioned about Astroboy is its difficulty settings. I played it at the same time as a friend. He played in Normal difficulty, and I played in Hard; and I remember the experience being shockingly different when it came to the bosses. Like, I think in Hard mode there are literally additional phases and patterns to the boss battles. To this day, when people complain about balancing around difficulty modes I say, āThey should just do what Treasure did with Astro Boy and make three completely different scenarios for each boss.ā
Anyway, Astroboy is definitely in my my top 10 GBA games, and is one of my fave Treasure Games. It gets passed up a lot, because Treasure fans are old heads, but it does everything that Treasure is supposed to be good at. Itās a beat-em-up, run-n-gun, shmup, with giant multi-phase bosses. Itās probably not the best in any one area, but itās damn good in all of them; and it looks fantastic. Also, Iām not a big Tezuka head, but there are a LOT of cute cameos. Really feels like a love letter.
@milo Mega Man Battle Network 1 & 2 are quintessential GBA memories for me. Those were the type of games Iād play with Saturday morning cartoon reruns playing in the background. I was really surprised by how simple and addicting the battle system was. As a kid, I played almost exclusively JRPGās, but in retrospect there was a lot I didnāt enjoy about them; and today I have kind of a vendetta against the format. I donāt remember the full ins-and-outs of the system right now, but in my memory it was almost board-gamey in itās simple elegance.
Thereās a digital rerelease of 1+2 for about $60 on Switch right now. I got it on an impulse, but not sure when Iāll actually play it. Maybe on the plane home for Christmas. Iām almost afraid of the nostalgia waves it might give me.
I spent a not insignificant amount of time just ogling the beautiful art of Magical Vacation on three separate screens (the original unmodified GBA, a Game Boy Micro and up on the big OLED through my MiSTer) and god darn that is a good looking videogame.
Look at this! This is ridiculous! Shinichi Kameoka sure knows how to draw!
(Below is the fan translation patch)
