Keep in mind that you'll need a Japanese or US-modded GameCube system since the Game Boy Player requires a boot disc.Add a New Dimension & New Games to Your Game Library! The US version's scheduled for release sometime in June for 49.99, but folks who want their Game Boy Player now can get the Japanese versions at several import houses, including Upstate Games. Overall, it's a nifty little device, and the image quality, while not as crisp as the AGB Capture development unit, looks pretty darn nice on television. It can be viewed in its standard resolution as well as a anti-aliased "zoom-in" mode that spans the vertical edges of your screen, and it features twenty different borders for personal customization. The Game Boy Player does offer a few more options than the AGB Capture unit. The only way to link a Game Boy Player to a GameCube game is to have a second GameCube, and linking the Game Boy Player's link port to the second GameCube's controller port. This causes a bit of mixed messages, since Nintendo really wants people to take advantage of the connectivity features between the two systems, and the just-released Game Boy Advance peripheral can't do what Nintendo wants players to do. The Game Boy Player will not allow players to "link up" GBA games to GameCube directly, since the Game Boy Player takes over the GameCube and will not allow GameCube games to be booted up while playing. And just to put your minds at ease, the system works just fine with the e-Reader device: It's much more convenient (and less power-draining) to use a standard GameCube controller, or WaveBird.
The GBA boot sequence for GBA systems plugged into a GameCube controller port The only reason why someone would want to control the action using a GBA system is to get the authentic GBA feel while playing the game on the big screen. The transfer takes only three seconds, and players will know when they can take control when the Game Boy Player logo shows up on the GBA's screen. A GBA can be plugged in at any time, but the Game Boy Player needs to send a little file to the system so that the unit can transmit the D-pad and button presses to the GameCube. The Game Boy Player also offers control through either the GameCube controllers, or a Game Boy Advance system plugged in using the GameCube Game Boy Advance link cable. It also slightly muddies the rest of the graphics in the process, but it's not too bad.especially in Progressive Mode. The filtering removes this flicker effect and softens the strobing sprites into making them look like they're transparent on the television screen. But this trick comes out looking like crap on television, and the strobing effect can be headache inducing. Basically, in this trick, the programmer turns the sprite off and on every 1/60th of a second.on the lower-refresh LCD screen, this makes the sprite look transparent, which is good for stuff like shadows on fighters ( Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance and Tekken Advance), or headlights on cars ( GT Advance 3). The system also offers a filtering option, which definitely comes in handy with games that do that "flicker trick" to make sprites look transparent. This is how I can grab video footage of Game Boy Advance titles for IGNpocket. Official Game Boy Advance developers can order what's called an AGB Capture unit, a piece of hardware produced by Intelligent Systems (yes, the Metroid Fusion/Advance Wars folk) that outputs the GBA's signal to the standard Nintendo video/audio outputs.
I think I have a better grasp of what to expect, as I've had the ability to play Game Boy Advance games on television since a couple of months after the GBA system launched in the US.
Our Japanese correspondent Anoop Gantayat (yep, that's his real name all right) was able to score a unit off the streets of Tokyo for a little one-on-one with the device, which you can find by clicking here.īut that's just one man's opinion, and my own Game Boy Player showed up this morning where I could toy around with the unit beyond what Anoop could in his own hands on. Last Friday, Nintendo finally released the Game Boy Player, a device for the GameCube that enables gamers to play their Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games on the big screen.
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