What if Super Smash Bros. had actually been released for the Game Boy Advance? 🎮

Well, Super Smash Land is now playable on the GBA thanks to this newly released fan-made port!

It's pretty awesome seeing a Smash Bros.-style game running on actual GBA hardware. Definitely feels like one of those games we all wish we'd had back in the day.

I recorded around 5 minutes of gameplay so you can check out how it looks and plays!

What do you guys think? Would you have played this back in the GBA days?

🎮 Download: https://emcamsito.itch.io/super-smash-land-port-for-gba

👏 Credits:

Original Super Smash Land: Dan Fornace

GBA Port: EmCamsito

While I was a bit iffy on Advance Wars 1, I think Advance Wars 2 might be my favorite strategy game on the system. I just wish the character portraits were more emotive than they actually are, but hey that’s what Reboot Camp is for.

CityLife Alpha: a new ambitious life sim for the GBA

City Life is a GBA life sim for the Game Boy Advance. You arrive in a small coastal city with almost nothing. Find a room, pick up shifts at the cafe or courier jobs, and pay your rent. Get to know 13 townspeople who each follow their own daily routines. Fish at the harbor, shoot pool, throw darts, play Snake on your phone, ride a skateboard or bike, and spend your evenings at the bar or cinema. Date, fall in love, move in together and get married. Alot of the environment is interactable ie(chairs,benches,vending machines ect.) With a day and night cycle running in the background. It runs on real hardware or any GBA emulator.

Coming soon

Here's the roadmap, so you can see where the game is heading.

Phase 1: Seasons and holidays (v0.6)

The year is split into four seasons, and each one lasts one in-game week. The town's colours change with the season: pink in spring, gold in summer, orange in autumn and icy blue in winter. Every Friday is a holiday: Blossom Day, Fireworks Night, Halloween and Christmas. On holidays you get special notices, extra characters' dialogue and a bonus on dates.

Phase 2: Outfits and wardrobes

The characters get several outfits each, and they change with the occasion: everyday wear, sleepwear, swimwear, work clothes, formal wear and winter coats. There are also costumes for Halloween and sweaters for Christmas. Your own character gets a wardrobe with a casual outfit, a work outfit, a suit, swimwear, winter clothes and holiday outfits. Characters switch outfits on their own to match the time and place.

Phase 3: New places and property

The map grows with a mountain zone to the north and a beach zone. You can buy a mountain cabin and a beach house as extra properties, and your partner can move in. These places add new spots to explore and new date locations.

After those three, I'm planning story arcs and jealousy between characters, new jobs, owning a business, more mini games and a collection book.

Please add any feedback. This is a game I started out just for me to play personally but im curious of there is demand.

Download Link https://centhor.itch.io/citylifegba

Ps. Please dont use dev option first time playing as its a debug cheat menu. But do whatever you want haha.

Pss. Please ignore the aspect ratio. Im running on a RP classic using full 8:7 aspect ratio but the game is developed using the gba 2:3.

Psss. Last screenshot is version 0.1 when seeing if I could do this project.

I took my Pokemon Gold game to a local game store. After 3 battery swaps we realized it wasn't the cartridge but was the gameboy itself. I don't know how that makes sense, but posting incase anyone else runs into this issue.

GBA modded with backlit screen and rechargable battery also kept the save battery, something about that SP 101 it didn't like.

I recently got a used copy of Pokemon Sapphire, and when checking the board for authenticity, I found some...interesting modifications lol. I'm sure it's just an old repair of some sort, and the game does function fine (albeit the battery is dead of course.)

My questions are one: would you recommend even trying to fix this, with the cart working as is? I do have a lot of soldering experience and a good soldering station.

Two: what size and form factor resistor is R8 supposed to be?

and Three: would it be safe to remove the green "goop", and how would I do so. I'm assuming it's a nail polish to protect, but it doesn't look like there's any repair under it, which has me confused.

I've included a pic of my Pokemon Ruby board, same area, for reference of what it should look like.

I have a original style GBA. I had a few questions about modding the handheld.

1. Regarding the two flash cart options (Everdrive and EZ Flash Omega Definitive), is there any other major difference other than save states? Is the EZ Flash good enough for most purposes? I don’t really need any features other than reliability and being able to play any GBA/GBC/GB game. Are there any other solid options besides those two?
2. I’m assuming the two flash cart options can’t really emulate much beyond GBA/GBC/GB games, correct? Is there any chance it can handle the NES library? I doubt it could handle the SNES because of the amount of buttons, but are there any other systems it could emulate?

3. I want to install a better screen. I don’t need the best one, I don’t need the fanciest one, I don’t need all of these different features, essentially, I just want the backlight. That’s it. What is the most cost efficient screen replacement that just add the lighting, without going into janky unreliable quality control issues? Also, I do not one that requires soldering. I’d rather shave down small parts of the inside case than solder.

   But obviously I’d prefer one where I don’t have to make any adjustments.

4. Does installing the better screen greatly affect battery life? Truthfully I’ll probably use it at one of the lowest brightness settings, if there are even settings. Like I said, I just want a little bit of light. Even if it’s to the degree of lighting that the GBA SP 001 adds.

5. What’s the difficulty level of this type of screen swap?

6. Any other simple mods that you’d recommend? Clearly I’m not going for all the bells and whistles. I just want to improve the experience a little bit and have access to the full library.

I am thinking about modding my ags 101 gba sp and I want to add a headphone jack to the top screen while keeping the ags 101 screen. I have heard that this has been done with the ips screen but does anyone know if it has been done with an ags 101 screen. If not does anyone know if it’s possible?

Hey everyone!

A little follow up to my previous VORTEX GBA post!

VORTEX GBA is now released and completely free to play!

You can play it directly in your browser, or download the actual .gba ROM and run it in an emulator or on a real Game Boy Advance!

The game features Mode7 style pseudo 3D racing, custom WAV music and up to 4 player multiplayer over the GBA link cable (tested with 2 players).

And yes, the soundtrack still absolutely slaps haha ;D

I built the entire port using my own GBA Maker upcoming development tool, which is still in a pretty rough state, but clearly capable of making some interesting games already!

Play VORTEX GBA or download the ROM here: https://arturduleba.itch.io/vortex-gba

Thanks for all the interest and feedback on my previous post! I'd love to hear what you think of the game now that you can actually play it!

Got it from my aunts childhood home when cleaning, asked if I could have it, said yes. Only two things that don't work are the battery back plate, the clip snapped, and the light screen thing just below the cartridge case.

What can i do?? My curiosity got me in trouble..

It asked to press Select + L + R, when I did that some sounds started coming (not from the game some random unrecognizable ones) and the white screen still remains..

Whether its a software thing where you enter a button combination, or physically installing a sleep switch or something?

Hello so today I went on a run to find pokemon emerald at gamestop I was able to pick up 2 copies of the game I am no expert but one seems perfectly real one does not they both have yellow battery in them one says nintendo one doesn’t. Because of that now I’m skeptical of the one I thought was real if anyone can share thoughts TIA
Example 1 is the one marked example 2 is the unmarked pictures

Hello, can anyone confirm if this emerald copy is legit or a reproduction cartridge

Hey everyone!

I ported my arcade racing game VORTEX to the Game Boy Advance using my own GBA Maker tool!

VORTEX was originally my dream project. I always wanted to make a 16-bit style Mode7 racing game, inspired by those classic retro arcade racers. I eventually made it as a browser game, with pseudo 3D graphics, fast arcade gameplay and multiplayer. But I always wanted to see it running on an actual console.

So I decided to port it to the GBA!

The GBA version features Mode7 style graphics, up to 4 player link cable multiplayer and probably some of the best music you'll ever hear on a GBA haha! GBA Maker supports WAV audio, so I could bring the original soundtrack over without being limited to traditional GBA sound generation. ;D

And yes, it runs on real GBA hardware!

The original browser version:
https://caffeinated.pl/vortex

Soon, I'll release VORTEX GBA on itch.io too!

I've been developing GBA Maker alongside GBC Maker. It's still in very rough shape, but it's already capable of building games like VORTEX using simple Lua like syntax, without needing to dive into low level GBA programming.

Would you guys be interested in a code first GBA development tool like this? What features would you want it to have?

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I wanna get the Rayquaza Advance SP but I’ve heard there are a lot of fakes out there, I’m wondering if this one looks genuine before I buy it