Following Leaks, it would seem that the Switch soon hosts an emulator to allow subscribers of the Nintendo Switch Online to play Game Boy Advance games. On this occasion, the editorial staff of JV offers you a selection of GBA titles that we would absolutely like to see the last Nintendo console, at least, if the rumor is proven.
- Dragon Ball: Supersonic Warriors
- Drill Dozer
- Fire Emblem
- Golden Sun
- Kuru Kuru Kururin
- Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
- Metroid Fusion
- Mother 3
- Sonic Advance
- The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cape
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Some precisions
In this list, we have voluntarily put aside titles released on Game Boy Advance which are also available in one way or another way on Switch. We are thinking in particular of remakes (like Advance Wars and Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising which will be redone in Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp), with compilations (like Castlevania Advance Collection which includes Circle of the Moon, Harmony of Dissonance And Aria of Sorrow) or even the Portes of Games Super Nes (like Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario Advance 3 which is a portage of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island).
Dragon Ball: Supersonic Warriors
If the titles inspired by anime or manga are often of variable quality, the Game Boy Advance has had the chance to host several successful dragon ball games. While the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi were cult titles from the PS2, the Nintendo portable console was not outdone in terms of combat games with Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors. With its sprites recalling the spirit of the anime, the title developed by Banpresto offers a truly impressive rendering for its support, in particular thanks to attacks full of effects. Despite his reduced cast, Supersonic Warriors proposed both to relive the original story as with alternative scenarios like what if? . And as long as we are to talk about the work of Akira Toriyama, we must also mention Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure which traces the adventures of Son Goku when he was a child in an effective action-platform game with Neat graphics.
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Drill Dozer
Developed by Game Freak that we know mainly for Pokémon, Drill Dozer is a colorful action-pale-platform game that places the player in Jill’s skin, a young girl whose precious red diamond was stolen by a gang of thieves. Aboard his Drill Dozer, a drill capable of piercing and digging all kinds of material, the player is therefore led to continue this band through different levels. To progress, it is possible to improve the pieces and forests of the machine to more easily destroy certain surfaces in order to solve puzzles, discover treasures and defeat bosses. With Wario Ware Twisted!, This is the only other GBA game to use a Rumble cartridge to offer more sensations to players. Friendly little experience, the title had never been released outside Japan and the United States until it was published in 2016 on the Wii U.
Fire Emblem
Unpopular in the West until the release of Awakening on 3DS, the Fire Emblem series has nevertheless produced some episodes on GBA. Of the three games available on this portable console, only two were entitled to global marketing, Fire Emblem: Fûin No Tsurugi having remained confined to Japan. Among the two titles, leaving, have been entitled to a marketing with us in Europe Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken/The Blazing Blade and Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, it is the first of the two launched in 2004 that will interest us. Soberly entitled Fire Emblem in the West, it is the first episode of the license to be released outside Japan. In this story, we follow the adventures of Lyn, Eliwood and Hector through a conflict that goes beyond them. A great representative of the tactical role -playing game, the title offers battles that take place on turn on cuttings cut in boxes. The fights are based on a system of stone-papier-carrier with several categories of weapons which are both effective and vulnerable to others. An ideal episode to serve as an introduction to Western players who do not know the series.
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Golden Sun
Among the series whose players claim the plus the return, Golden Sun occupies a place of choice. Released in 2002, this Japanese turn-based role play is developed by Camelot Software Planning that we know for their work on the series of shining strength, but also for different Mario sports games like Mario Golf and Mario Tennis. In the first episode, we follow the history of Isaac and its companions, followers of magic that are responsible for protecting the world against the forces of evil looking to pierce the forgotten secret of alchemy. During their epic adventure, our team will be able to use the power of elementary jinn during the fighting in turn to face the hordes of enemies waiting for them. A year later, the title was entitled to a direct sequence, Golden Sun: the lost age, which stages the same hero group, but three years later. But from Golden Sun: Obscure Aurore released on DS in 2010, the license no longer made it talk about it.
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Kuru Kuru Kururin
A true curiosity of the GBA, Kuru Kuru Kururin is a small title with a unique concept that has built a solid reputation over the years. If you can store it in the category of reflection games, the principle is very simple since a permanent rotation stick on itself that one must pass through different pitfalls. The problem is that every time you touch an edge, you lose a heart as well as three seconds. Of course, it will be necessary to do about address, concentration and a lot of reflexes to pass the different levels without a hitch. Finally, all the title bathes in a colorful, even barioiled atmosphere, with for the main characters of small light blue birds that evolve in a very naive childish universe. Beyond the fifty courses offered, a mode versus up to four players is also the game for those who catch this type of experience. A fairly simple concept so that quickly becomes addictive but who has enough to discourage the most impatient.
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Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
Since Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars released in 1996 on Super Nes, we used to see the famous Italian plumber Moustachu try the role play. After the launch of Paper Mario in 2001 on Nintendo 64, it is the turn of the Game Boy Advance to welcome a game Mario Sauce RPG with Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. This time, Mario is no longer all alone because he is accompanied by his brother Luigi for a completely offbeat adventure. Since we check two characters at the same time, the timing plays a central role in this experiment, especially during the fighting where additional damage is inflicted when you press the right time on certain buttons. Beyond its ever-effective humor, the title also has been particularly old thanks to its very detailed graphics that gives a rendering designed to the whole. Subsequently, the game was entitled to a remake in 2017 on 3DS with Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser’s henchmen, but also to new games, making Mario & Luigi an important subband from the Mario license.
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Metroid Fusion
If the Metroid series made its back last year with Metroid Dread on Switch, you have to go back in 2002 to find the 2D episode that precedes chronologically, since it is Metroid Fusion, the fourth opus. Main saga. In this opus, Samus Aran comes into contact with a strange parasite that threatens its vital capacities. Finally, it is saved in extremis thanks to a serum consisting of metro cells. Following this, our heroin is sent to the station B.S.L. To carry out a supervised mission by a super computer that seems endowed with a clean will. In this new adventure, the terror always plays a central role since a mysterious enemy of the name of SA-X capable of copying the appearance and skills of Samus continues the player repeatedly. Beyond this aspect, Metroid remains faithful to its basic formula with the regular acquisition of new tools that allow to unblock paths until then inaccessible. After this original episode, the GBA welcomes the remake of the first game of the series with Metroid: Zero Mission, released in 2001.
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Mother 3
As a major player in the industry, Nintendo is now used to getting out its games around the world simultaneously. Yet it was not always the case and certain titles of the manufacturer have never left Japanese borders despite the demands of fans. Among these games, Mother 3 is surely the most claimed. Suite of Earthbound, an amazing role-playing game with the strange and humorous atmosphere, the title is best known from the Western public because its hero, Lucas, is one of the playable characters of Super Smash Bros from Super Smash Bros. Brawl. With an ubiquitous and offbeat comic aspect, this third episode is often considered the best of the Mother Saga especially thanks to several moments of great emotion that runs through the adventure. As a role-playing game, the title also offers fights that take place in a very classical way, a bit of the Dragon Quest for the point of view. A unique experience that will have marked many creators, including Toby Fox for example, the developer at the origin of Undertale. That is to say.
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Sonic Advance
Since Sega has stopped the production of consoles in the early 2000s, the Japanese publisher has begun to develop different titles on Nintendo machines, yet his rival still. Among these productions, we find a certain Sonic Advance which returns with the platform in 2D as the blue hedgehog proposed in its infancy. This time, in addition to Sonic, this new experience allows you to control other characters like Tails, Knuckles, Amy and even Dr. Eggman. To remain faithful to the spirit of the series, the title manages to offer an impressive play speed for a portable console, while conversing the fluidity of the animation. In addition, if the adventure is not particularly long, it is possible to redo the levels with other characters who all have their own gameplay, which allows to try new things.
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The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cape
After the Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, Nintendo renews his confidence in Capcom to develop a new Zelda game on portable consoles. Title The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, this episode once again puts us with Link’s controls that must save the princess Zelda bewitched by VATI. In his quest, he will be helped by a magician who speaks of the name of Exelo who allows him to change the size to shrink and meet the minish, a people of tiny beings. With its warmer atmosphere and more rounded and colorful design, the title remains in the great tradition of Zelda with six dungeons, different objects to recover to progress as well as different scheduled quests to punctuate the adventure. A very friendly opus next to which some players were able to miss by his game appearance for portable console.
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Without forgetting :
- Astro Boy: Omega Factor
- F-ZERO: Maximum Velocity
- Mario Power Tennis
- Pokémon Red Fire version
- Pokémon Version Green Sheet
- Pokémon Version Saphir
- Pokémon Ruby version
- Pokémon Version Emeraude
- Sword of Mana
- Wario Ware Twisted!
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Pgmarco
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I’m going to be bizarre. But I have unpublished games that I want to see on Switch: / no GBC game portages: x
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