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    1 year ago

    For reasons no one can fathom

    The ROM hacking community takes this personally.

    ROM hacking and well, just retro development like this is awesome. I think there is something to be said about the creativity that comes with a limited canvas and so on

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      1 year ago

      Afaik the DS basically has GBA hardware built in, right? So I don’t see why there was a chance of it not working

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        Mostly that it was a GBC game being released in 2023 with the website being the assumed location it would be played. I honestly figured it was just a generic file type that was made in the style or with the constraints of the Game Boy Color, not that it was actually a Color game.

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    1 year ago

    I love this so much. I need to break out one of those gameboy studio tools and take a crack at a game of my own.

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    1 year ago

    Can someone reply to my comment? I’m trying to make sure I’m able to see comments from other instances. Thank you :)

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    If there isn’t a cartridge then it’s just a ROM not a game imo. I know it’s pedantic to specify but it matters when there are people who’ve released modern GB cartridges

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      It’s a game, just not a cartridge. Just because it’s in a file format doesn’t make it not a game. I’m planning to check it out on my GB Advance SP with an EZ Flash cartridge, so it’ll be playing on actual hardware.

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    1 year ago

    Retro handhelds have really revived people’s appetites for retro-styled games. There’s a lot of fluff on itch.io, but there’s good stuff there too.

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    1 year ago

    It would be so much cooler if they actually released a cartridge for it.

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        1 year ago

        no its just a download or a site to play it from. No cart. Kinda sad about it, would have been a sick collectable.

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    I think I knew in my heart it wasn’t going to be a purple Grimace cartridge, but I was still disappointed when I learned it wasn’t.

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    1 year ago

    🪺😂 honestly a hot idea. The article is fun to read too

    Key words for follow-up reading :)

    • GB Studio
    • atari2600
    • the Tetris chicken nugget in prc