14th January 2003, 8:52 PM
Well, I now officially have been swallowed up in e-Reader insanity. I found me a copy of Ice Climber, and a pack of Animal Crossing e-Cards while I was at it. That and I found a promotional card rack at Toys R Us giving away free Air Hockey cards.
One thing I have to say about the Animal Crossing/e-Reader emulater. They REALLY should have tried making a multiplayer mode on that thing. It sucks that they just went and cut the options out of the games themselves and then had them emulated. I mean, it's one thing that they removed the save track option from Excite Bike, because simply put, that option didn't work anyway, so the original effectively didn't really have a save/load track ability (thought they COULD have fixed that option if they wanted to). I really think that they could have set up the multiplayer mode simply by adding an extra option to the L+R menu (under continue and reset game). That option would be "connect", which would search for another GBA, establish a connection, send the needed code over, and then declare to the game itself (under the emulator) that controller 2 is plugged in, followed by returning you to the game. Then, all you need to do is select multiplayer (the second player would now be in the emulator's "wait mode"), and boom, multiplayer! Of course, lots of the games don't have simultaneous multiplayer, but Ice Climber DOES! I mean, I only get control of the blue one right now, but I want to see both on screen!
One thing I have to say about the Animal Crossing/e-Reader emulater. They REALLY should have tried making a multiplayer mode on that thing. It sucks that they just went and cut the options out of the games themselves and then had them emulated. I mean, it's one thing that they removed the save track option from Excite Bike, because simply put, that option didn't work anyway, so the original effectively didn't really have a save/load track ability (thought they COULD have fixed that option if they wanted to). I really think that they could have set up the multiplayer mode simply by adding an extra option to the L+R menu (under continue and reset game). That option would be "connect", which would search for another GBA, establish a connection, send the needed code over, and then declare to the game itself (under the emulator) that controller 2 is plugged in, followed by returning you to the game. Then, all you need to do is select multiplayer (the second player would now be in the emulator's "wait mode"), and boom, multiplayer! Of course, lots of the games don't have simultaneous multiplayer, but Ice Climber DOES! I mean, I only get control of the blue one right now, but I want to see both on screen!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)