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[GWHiZiTSPHiL]

I'm planning on selling my Game Boy Player in order to get enough money to buy an xbox and I was wondering the differences of quality and graphics between the Game Boy Player and XboyAdvance. If anyone owns a Game Boy Player and tried out XboyAdvance, please reply

[Chaz Ashley]

Real GB Player all the way, even though it has some small issues like the occasionally not 100%-perfect scrolling and looking a bit unsharp in the fullscreen-mode. The XBox's CPU is just not fast enough to handle the hungry VBA-emu, so you have speed-issues with about any game aside from stuff like "Scrabble", even with simple graphic-filters. Oh yeah, and of course there's no slot to put your GBA-Cartridges in.

Chaz

[Chaz Ashley]

Double Post.

This post has been edited by Chaz Ashley: Mar 13 2004, 08:19 PM

[chilin_dude]

Well i haven't tried The gameboy player but i must say that Xboyadvance is magnificent and for me is PERFECT for all of my needs... don't use my gba because of it!

[devlkore]

I haven't used a GBPlayer, but a modded Xbox with every GBA ROM would be better than a GBPlayer, just because of having all the games and the other things a modded Xbox can do.

[tailspower2001]

I have both the GBA and GameBoy Player, and hare's the long and short of it.

GameBoy Player: Home Paly
GBA: On the Road Paly  

[Gus Man]

You could get a blank GBA cartridge and fill it with 20 or so games at a time for $50. I sold my GBA. With my Xbox I can play GBA, NES, SNES, Genesis, PSX, N64, etc, and of course, Xbox games! Xbox all the way.

[floyd]

GBA emulation is choppy on xbox.  don't expect miracles.

[snipernick2000]

this is a hard one, i have both

the xbox emu works fine just as good as the player for gc,

only thing is you cant take the game with you which sucks!

i have a 256mb flash card do i can flash the games on my blank cartridge.

it can hold about 4 games, or a bunch of nes games sms games and snes games, or u can mix them up.

i like the flash card and the gc player a lot more than the xbox emu

[GWHiZiTSPHiL]

thanks guys for all your help. I have a flash cartridge for my GBA and I just play my games on the GB Player and hardly use the GBA anymore.  I was planning on selling my GBA, flash cart, and GB Player so I can get enough money to buy an xbox that can do basically a flash cart + GB Player does but with more games and I needed feedback from people who know the difference between the two.  Also, the thing about flash cart is that you would basically have to play about 2-4 games at a time and is kind of a hassle to switch between games. I'm sure saving is easier on XboyAdvance too right?

So what should I do, GB Player + flash cart or Xbox + XboyAdvance?

This post has been edited by GWHiZiTSPHiL: Mar 14 2004, 04:18 AM

[floyd]

I would go for the xbox, but only because it does many other things well - mame emulation, movies, snes, genesis, and of course xbox games themselves.  but I'm telling you, gba emulation is not good on xbox.  its unacceptably choppy unless you are very forgiving/uncritical or maybe blind.  For a good example of the performance you'd get, download visual gameboy advance for PC and turn frameskip to 2 or higher.  It hurts my eyes with scrolling games (almost everything on gba).

[ScHlAuChi]

Defenitly the GBA-Player !

Xbox is just too slow for good GBA emulation.
For example Metroid Zero mission needs at least a frameskip of 2 to run fluent - not to mention the music-lagg that happens in alot of games.
Playing games with frameskip just isnt the same as playing them "fluent" as floyd already mentioned.

So imo keep the GBA-Player and wait a bit till you have the money for an Xbox

This post has been edited by ScHlAuChi: Mar 14 2004, 05:38 AM

[GWHiZiTSPHiL]

ok guys thanks for you help. I've decided to just keep my GBA stuff and get the xbox as well.