What did I do to get the sidebars on Windows Explorer deleted (the sidebar where it shows filesize, date, image preview, etc)... and the 'Open With' option on Windows Explorer rightclick menus is gone too... bah... :(
Kirby's Adventure and Ice Climber too... a lot better than most of the NES stuff they've released, that's for sure... (well, Mario, Zelda, and a few others are good, but Tennis? Ice Hockey? Etc? Ah...)
Hey... I've had a GBA for years and years now. I'm not quite ready to move onto the newer generation of Game Boys yet. Anyway, my GBA has basically only been used with one game: Yoshi's Island... for years and years, it got me through trips to Florida, Georgia, and more recently, Europe.
However, I am interested in getting a SECOND game to share the burden, that Yoshi may get some R & R.
What is a really good game on GBA that I could get? I'm accepting all recommendations, but I am looking for something thats probably a port of an older game; maybe a great, classic RPG, or a platformer game... maybe a Mario or a Zelda or a FF or something...
And with this game, I get the impression the GBA has been pushed a bit too far. This probably should have been released on the DS instead.
Yes, I actually got it. Well, it is still my favorite in the series. Unfortunatly, the port job wasn't exactly the best. First of all, graphically it is nearly identical to the original. No additional graphics in the least, as I predicted as the updated graphics in IV and V were about the same quality as FF6 originally was (even with the tiling taken into mind, as it's done VERY well). Unfortunatly, they couldn't even keep up the old graphical quality, so improving it was out of the question. The sound is sometimes different, not better, and in some cases worse in fact (various sound effects are reduced from sounding pretty much exactly as they should (train sounds) to some unintelligable "BZZT" sound effect. The special effects are a little off too. Aside from slowdown, the worst yet in these GBA ports (FFIV had some, but I barely noticed it, and FFV, as far as I can tell, doesn't really have any), there's also poorly executed ones. The "Banisher" effect no longer takes pieces of the enemy away in it's beams of light, the enemy just vanishes and the beams of light just go up empty handed. Oh, riding chocobos and the airships is pathetically slow.
Further, the extras lack some of the extras included in the PS version of the game, like the colloseum, but the beastiary does work better, basically slowly unlocked as they are encountered like in the others.
I haven't beaten it yet, so I can't say anything of the other extras. I expect the dungeon to be interesting at least.
What I can say is the translation has been redone. Now, the original SNES version got it almost spot on, so there's not much to change, but they did alter enough to give it a somewhat different feel. For the better, I think. They did, oddly enough, keep a lot of it like the original translation. Character names, I understand, but they also sort of kept other things I'd rather they translated correctly as well. All in all I think it would have been best if they had either put this on the DS or PSP.
Quote:Archon to rule again
Myriad Interactive licenses action-chess hybrid franchise from Free Fall, game to be published on unspecified formats.
By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
Posted Feb 9, 2007 4:41 pm ET
In 1983, the ancient board game of chess received an overhaul with the release of Free Fall Games' Archon. Originally released on Atari's 8-bit series of computers, Archon combined the strategy of chess with the action of games. When one piece attempted to capture another, the game pit the two units in a one-on-one battle to see who would emerge from the battle victorious.
Sequels and ports of the game made their way across a number of formats, from the Commodore 64 to the ZX Spectrum and the Nintendo Entertainment System, but the franchise has been largely dormant since the 1994 release of Archon Ultra on the PC.
Now the series is set to make a comeback, as Myriad Interactive this week announced that it has secured the Archon license from Free Fall Games with the intent to make a new version off the game that "combines the fun and spirit of the original with today's exciting technology."
Myriad Interactive publishes the Crazy Frog Racer games through its Mercury Games and Turtle Games brands. Specific platforms for the game have not been revealed, but Myriad said it would release details on them soon.
Book One of the Martian Empire Trilogy is COMPLETE. That doesn't mean that I won't come back and fix some stuff later on, but no more chapters will be added and the story presented is not likely to change any. In other words, it's finished. This is the story as I want it to be. It is full and complete. So, go read it. RIGHT NOW.
