#81171 - Dan2552 - Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:03 pm
Well I came to idea I might try a simple 2 player game, not sure what though.
1st player:
-D-PAD
-L shoulder
2nd player:
-A
-B
-Select
-Start
-R shoulder
I know the poor 2nd player might have difficulties :p especially on original GBA, but it would work quite well on a DS
#81176 - Ultima2876 - Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:38 pm
You could make a rhythm-action game using up to 5 buttons per player.
#81181 - tepples - Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:14 pm
Super Puzzle Fighter II does this, and so does WarioWare to a limited extent.
_________________
-- Where is he?
-- Who?
-- You know, the human.
-- I think he moved to Tilwick.
#81183 - waruwaru - Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:29 pm
| Dan2552 wrote: |
Well I came to idea I might try a simple 2 player game, not sure what though.
1st player:
-D-PAD
-L shoulder
2nd player:
-A
-B
-Select
-Start
-R shoulder
I know the poor 2nd player might have difficulties :p especially on original GBA, but it would work quite well on a DS |
Angor's SnowBattle does that on a DS. :) It is actually quite fun. The first player does get small advantage because of the pad. But I guess right/left handed person may do better on one instead of the other...
_________________
DSLua - a scripting language for your DS!
#81192 - Dan2552 - Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:53 pm
I think I'll make a multiplayer space game (one of those ones which you can turn 360 degrees around and if you go off the edge of the screen you goto the other side), not the best of fun, but still time consuming :)
#81287 - gauauu - Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:03 am
heheh.
I've been debating trying to make a 4-player game on 1 gba...either based on the old warlords game, or a tron clone. For those games, each player could get by with just 2 buttons
It'd be near impossible to actually play, but I was thinking
p1: control pad
p2: select/start
p3: a/b
p4: l/r
But the idea of having 4 people trying to have their hands on that tiny gba is just downright silly
#81302 - sgeos - Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:57 am
Where will people stand? If you want to get really close to your lover I don't see how putting a GBA between you will help.
-Brendan
#81313 - gauauu - Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:08 am
yeah, that's the whole problem. I envisioned one person on each side of the gba (top, bottom, left, right), holding it horizontal. The game would have to be viewable from any angle equally.....
#81353 - Palamon - Fri Apr 28, 2006 5:40 pm
Mario Party advance has a few gadgets that do this.
The 4 player ones are 1 button though
A couple of games that do well with this setup are:
pinball where you control the flipper.
Reaction time games like some of the pokemon stadium party games
You could always do popular board games like
Hungry, Hungry Hippos or Mr. Mouth!
#81362 - Fatnickc - Fri Apr 28, 2006 6:49 pm
I have done something very like this with a Pac Man-like game, in which the multiplayer aim is to get more mints (long story) than the other person. Quite often, the scores are 51-49.
#81676 - sgeos - Mon May 01, 2006 3:06 am
101 mints prevents ties.
-Brendan
#81714 - zzo38computer - Mon May 01, 2006 5:23 pm
The Mario Party advance uses P1=direction-buttons, P2=A/B, P3=L, P4=R
If you make it on Nintendo DS, you could do it P1=arrow-keys and L, P2=A,B,X,Y, and R. Then START button could be used to pause game and open menu.
_________________
Important: Please send messages about FWNITRO to the public forum, not privately to me.
#90854 - yuriks - Mon Jul 03, 2006 12:10 am
Kinda related: I had this ideia of making a (vertical) space shooter where you hold the GBA verticaly and use Start and Select for shooting and the D-PAD and L buttons for something else. Do you think it would work?
_________________
---yuriks---
#90855 - tepples - Mon Jul 03, 2006 12:11 am
That's called BulletGBA, but it wouldn't work on an SP, Game Boy Player, or DS.
_________________
-- Where is he?
-- Who?
-- You know, the human.
-- I think he moved to Tilwick.
#90951 - yuriks - Mon Jul 03, 2006 6:11 pm
Ah damn. Well, I thought it was original one year ago tho. =P
_________________
---yuriks---