Japan Gets NES Conversions For GBA, Limited Xboxes

Thanks to Planet GameCube for its news that Nintendo has announced a series of 10 re-releases of classic NES games for the GameBoy Advance in Japan. The titles include Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, and Pacman, and will be released alongside a Famicom Edition GBA SP, previously only available in a slightly modified, limited edition. Elswhere, orthancstone writes "Gamespot is reporting that Microsoft is releasing two new limited-edition Xboxes in Japan, an Anniversary Edition in 'pure white', and another in 'Kasumi blue'. The blue Xbox will be limited to 5000 consoles, and will come bundled with Dead Or Alive Online, while the white Xbox will be limited to 1000 consoles, and will only be available online."

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why not...

[jkcity]

why not just make consoles skinable already like nokia phones, its not exactly as if it would be that hard todo, nokia was helped to where they where today by making there phones skinable, the same could be true for the first console maker that does, people like to personalize things, and which ever console they feel more personal with is the one they'll probably spend money on games for.

Re:Retro Gaming

[Kris_J]

They cost less than $10. Not likely with the cost of making cartridges. Some people in the article seem to think that they will end up costing $20! Absurd, for games like Ice Climber.

This is why the e-reader is so good. Because the games are simply printed on card, the manufactoring costs are almost zero per copy.

Sounds like a good idea, but...

[shoptroll]

The Famicom styled SP sounds pretty cool.

However, I have a small contention on the games.

1) At least two of those games, Ice Climbers and Excitebike, I believe are available through the e-Reader system.
2) I highly doubt these will be released in some budget format, however, there is no way that these would fill up all the space in a standard GBA cartridge, so maybe they will drop the price?
3) If my guess is anything, I'll bet that Super Mario Brothers would be a port of the SMB DX port they did for Game Boy Color. I think that one did have the Lost Levels in the original 8-bit style, however you needed to beat the original game or something to get to them.

Let's first see if these even make their way over here.

Re:Retro Gaming

[pecosdave]

How to play Zelda on GBA legally with only minor "cheating".

Animal Crossing on the Game Cube contains many old NES games. These games can be played on the Cube or transfered to the GBA using a link cable. Zelda is on the disk, only a legitimate way to unlock it has not been found, it's been unlocked using Action Replay.

There is one major flaw to doing it this way:
The game will be loaded into RAM. You can suspend the Gameboy, if you have a GBA SP (or a third party rechargeable pack for a normal GBA) you can theoreticaly play it forever since you can charge it while suspended, unfortunately if you turn off the GBA the game is lost. No saving, turning it off for three months, then resuming.

So: Game Cube $100
Animal Crossing $50
GBA SP: $100
GBA Link cable $10
Action Replay $40
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For only ~$300 you can have a nearly legitimate version of portable Zelda that can't survive a dead battery. (yes, I can get all that stuff cheaper to, I'm just going on general MSRP/OTC retailer prices)