GameBoy Player For Gamecube Reviewed

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to an IGN.com review of the GameBoy Player for Gamecube. As the article says, "The GameBoy Player is a GameCube peripheral that plugs into the bottom of the system, and enables gamers to play any one of the thousands of GameBoy, GameBoy Color, and GameBoy Advance games released over the past 14 years." As well as being bundled with the Gamecube hardware starting June 23rd, this peripheral will be available separately on the same date, and it's particularly cool that you can control games with "either the GameCube controllers, or a GameBoy Advance system plugged in using the GameCube GameBoy Advance link cable."

Comments

Save your Money

[willr7]

All slashdot readers I urge you to save your money and download visual boy advance.

Buy a gamepad for your pc (just like the snes controller) - and you can get it for $9.99 at Wal-Mart, instead of the websites advertised $19.99.

And download kazaa lite (I use overnet for everything, but you can't find GBA Roms on overnet.)

As long as you don't mind playing games on your pc screen (which i don't think any of you do) as opposed to hooking it up to your tv screen, then there's a good chunk of change you'll save.

Plus you'll be able to "preview" any gba title on your pc.

Oh, and if you like the game--BUY IT!!! Make sure you support those people who develop the kick ass games!!!

Re:Save your Money

[Anonymous Coward]

Cool idea, I'll try that right after I preview some albums and 0-day games I downloaded.

Re:Save your Money

[Anonymous Coward]

HOLY SHIT you are a moron...

Saying that emulation was legal was
NOT THE POINT.

I'll type it again since your obviously retarted

Saying that emualtion was legal was
NOT THE POINT.

If you've already been to college, I truly feel sorry for you and you should ask for a refund, BUT

If you haven't been to college yet, please, please, please, sign up for a freshman English class. I hope wherever you go they can fix your stupidity.

Good Luck!

Re:Save your Money newb

[willr7]

OK, Mr. Psychic, how did you know I like to sit in my pc chair w/ my pc gamepad and look at my tv to play games?

I don't b/c it's a fucking pain in the ass.

Gamecube Warez

[Anonymous Coward]

There are rumours currently doing the rounds that a way to circumvent the access controls on the Gamecube is to use a flashed Gameboy Advance cart via the GBPlayer.

This coincides with the first releases into the GC scene:

• FreeLoader_V1.06b_NGC -STARCUBE
  
• Action_Replay_V1.06_NGC-STARCUBE
  
• The_Legend_Of_Zelda_The_Wind_Waker_USA_NGC-STARC UBE
  

We'll see.

Re:Gamecube Warez

[Anonymous Coward]

You moderators are retards...how the fuck is this guys comment a troll??? If anything it should interesting or insightful.

Oh, I forgot, modding consoles, or talking about ROMS deserves a slap on the wrists...well, if it does, then shut your open-source, micro$oft bashing, hippocritical asses up.

You morons can't support one form of open source (which is the underlying concept here) but shun another.

Moderators are idiots.

Go ahead and mod me down, so no one can read this post.

Re:A few questions

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, shithead, if you own the gba, download a game to see if it's worth it and then buy it if it is.

There are so many games I've payed $50 for, and they were fucking terrible. The best way to see if the game is good enough to buy is to PLAY it first.

Your first paragraph makes no sense. Your assuming that no one owns a gba and has visualboyadvance on their pc. In which case they would be able to buy the game after they checked it out on a ROM on their pc.

The pc screen is just as good to play games as a tv screen so therefore, you don't need a game boy player, ----

which is the fucking point retard, you don't need to buy a game boy player.