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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: an0n on May 28, 2002, 03:36:58 pm

Title: 3D On The GBA
Post by: an0n on May 28, 2002, 03:36:58 pm: I was perusing some WC:Prophecy stuff (yey, WC on the Gameboy Advance!), followed some links and found: This (http://pocket.ign.com/articles/355/355216p1.html) and this (http://www.raylight.it/blueroses.htm).

If they bring out Wipeout on the GBA I'm gonna......I'll errr......Well I dunno what I'm gonna do but you can be damn sure it'll involve vast amounts of batteries and a serious lack of sunlight.
Title: 3D On The GBA
Post by: Zeronet on May 28, 2002, 04:25:12 pm: GBA is the best thing i,ve bought in recent years :). Doom is cool and these new games looks even better.
Title: 3D On The GBA
Post by: an0n on May 28, 2002, 04:29:01 pm: Doom 0wnz evry1! p|-|34r 17's 1337n355!

If you like Doom, just wait till ID get their hands on BlueRoses. Quake 3!!! MultiPlayer!!!!!

L and R could be up and down. B could change weapons and A could fire. L+R jump. [klingon] It would be glorious!!! [/klingon]
Title: 3D On The GBA
Post by: CP5670 on May 28, 2002, 11:22:35 pm: I have not gotten a GBA yet, but that's because I never go anywhere and don't care about portability. :p :D How much is the thing?

I spent quite some time with Doom and Wipeout in the old days as well, though. ;)
Title: 3D On The GBA
Post by: Styxx on May 29, 2002, 08:26:11 am: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670
...but that's because I never go anywhere and don't care about portability...

Poor you... :p

And I'd get one of those things, if they weren't so damn expensive around here...
Title: 3D On The GBA
Post by: an0n on May 29, 2002, 08:28:14 am: They're down to like £50 here. The games are still £35 though. Apparently you can get a cartridge programmer thingy for roms but the damn thing costs about £200.
Title: 3D On The GBA
Post by: Martinus on May 29, 2002, 02:17:34 pm: It's not all that expensive, £140 IIRC for the flash linker and a 128mb flash cart obviously bigger flash carts are more expensive.

I don't need to say that it's only for games you have written yourself and not for uploading romz onto because as we all know romz fall into the same category as warez.
You can back up the games you already own though and there are a lot of amature games being written for the GBAv that might be cool to try out.

Visit www.lik-sang.com for more info.
Title: 3D On The GBA
Post by: Thorn on May 29, 2002, 02:20:02 pm: I have a new fancy Toshiba laptop...
To Hell with Doom, Unreal Tournament it is...
Actually its probably Need For Speed, but eh...
Title: 3D On The GBA
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on May 29, 2002, 02:29:36 pm: How dare you profane this place with talk of consoles!?! Thorn has got it right, get a laptop, play decent games. Stop providing money for Nintendo, the root of all evil!!

I'll shut up now.
Title: 3D On The GBA
Post by: Corsair on May 29, 2002, 03:58:38 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of th VBB
How dare you profane this place with talk of consoles!?! Thorn has got it right, get a laptop, play decent games. Stop providing money for Nintendo, the root of all evil!!

I'll shut up now.
Yeah. Decent games on a laptop? What are you smoking?

Or maybe it's just my laptop that doesn't play decent games. It does, however, run Photoshop 6. :D
Title: 3D On The GBA
Post by: Thorn on May 29, 2002, 04:30:39 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Corsair
Yeah. Decent games on a laptop? What are you smoking?

Or maybe it's just my laptop that doesn't play decent games. It does, however, run Photoshop 6. :D

http://www.toshiba.ca/web/product.grp?lg=en§ion=1&group=1&product=297
This thing is better than the thing I'm using now...
****, why the hell dont I just plug they monitor and keyboard/mouse into it? Grah...
Title: 3D On The GBA
Post by: Fineus on May 29, 2002, 04:54:05 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Corsair
Yeah. Decent games on a laptop? What are you smoking?

Or maybe it's just my laptop that doesn't play decent games. It does, however, run Photoshop 6. :D

When I was in hospital about 4 years ago I spent many a happy gaming hour on my dads laptop of the time. It ran Descent 2 and Wing Commander Prophecy without problems... the fun!
Title: 3D On The GBA
Post by: Corsair on May 29, 2002, 08:26:25 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Thorn
http://www.toshiba.ca/web/product.grp?lg=en§ion=1&group=1&product=297
This thing is better than the thing I'm using now...
****, why the hell dont I just plug they monitor and keyboard/mouse into it? Grah...
Satellite 5000 eh? Lucky. I've got something like a Satellite 800. Friggin sucks. Damn To****a :mad:
Title: 3D On The GBA
Post by: CP5670 on May 29, 2002, 11:29:50 pm: I don't really have any laptop, since as I said earlier, I never go anywhere. :p :D Closest thing I have is a TI-92+, but I have its memory loaded with math programs. (actually, I have a chess game as well; very cool and AI is great) Still, I am sort of thinking of buying one of those sometime this year, because I need something that can run Mathematica when the main computer is occupied (which it frequently is) and my dad says that there's not enough space in my room for a desktop with all the Legos everywhere. :p Problem is that the good ones cost quite a bit, sometimes as much as $4500, compared to around $3500 for a similarly top-level desktop.

FS2 works pretty well on my dad's laptop (some newer Dell model), but I cannot set the graphics to maximum and play with FSAA as I can on the main machine. ;)
Title: 3D On The GBA
Post by: Redfang on May 30, 2002, 05:10:19 am: New, expensive and good laptops can run todays games. I guess that at 1024x768 and probably max details, but some games might require more... don't know. :p

But laptops that are enough powerful can cost twice as much as desktop computers.