13th July 2011, 10:18 PM
It "works" but the contacts are really bad. I got it working without little lines all over the place only once. MAYBE if I had kept up at it for a while, I might have got it working, but as it is, the game already had a strike against it with the top heavily sun damaged. I just returned it.
Anyway, after seeing Earthworm Jim GBA in action recently, I have to say I'm rather disappointed with how many GBA ports look worse than their Genesis/SNES counterparts. There's the new HD version which looks amazing and has a new co-op mode (the final boss is Keyboard Cat), but the new voices they inexplicably replaced for Jim are pretty bad, and the Sega CD Bonus Level wasn't added. That's actually one issue I have with a lot of modern remakes. They remake the original version of the game, but bonus content from other special editions gets ignored in favor of different bonus content. That's one thing to say about Ocarina of Time on 3DS, they put in Master Quest.
Anyway, after seeing Earthworm Jim GBA in action recently, I have to say I'm rather disappointed with how many GBA ports look worse than their Genesis/SNES counterparts. There's the new HD version which looks amazing and has a new co-op mode (the final boss is Keyboard Cat), but the new voices they inexplicably replaced for Jim are pretty bad, and the Sega CD Bonus Level wasn't added. That's actually one issue I have with a lot of modern remakes. They remake the original version of the game, but bonus content from other special editions gets ignored in favor of different bonus content. That's one thing to say about Ocarina of Time on 3DS, they put in Master Quest.
"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)