#158167 - no2pencil - Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:52 am
One thing I've noticed since I've started reading here, is the rapid decline of GBA posting compared to the DS. This is kind of common sense since the DS is current, & the GBA quickly disappears from the shelfs.
So, my question then, since the url is GBAdev, what'll happen when GBA development stops? I know it'll always have a trickle of interest, as the nes/snes systems still have some developers making games & apps. But the reality is, it'll come close to dead, eventually. Will the site & forums change urls, or will it co-exist with another site?
Just curious.
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#158171 - zzo38computer - Fri Jun 06, 2008 4:57 am
I don't think changing the domain name is good idea.
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#158172 - sgeos - Fri Jun 06, 2008 5:02 am
It will remain gbadev due to historical reasons?
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#158180 - silent_code - Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:20 am
dsdev.org already exists for years, only it isn't that popular and regularly updated... at all. ;^)
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#158187 - keldon - Sat Jun 07, 2008 12:24 am
It's [now] pointless to have a seperate dsdev website [as a seperate community]. Notice how no$gba is used for DS emulation!
edit: elaborated a little
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#158189 - tepples - Sat Jun 07, 2008 12:27 am
Gbadev will not die until the last SLOT-2 card disappears from the market.
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#158219 - gauauu - Sat Jun 07, 2008 5:52 pm
And some of us have still been doing gba dev, instead of ds.
#158226 - Alphanoob - Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:21 pm
I dunno about you guys, but I sometimes enjoy the gba games more than the DS ones. It isn't that I don't like the DS games, it is simply that some games just don't need a touch screen to be fun, and it slows down gameplay if you try to encorperate the touch screen too much. My guess is, as tepples said, as long as there is a gba slot on new nintendo products, people will keep making stuff for it.
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#158228 - sgeos - Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:30 pm
I liked a lot of GBC games more than the GBA games after the GBA first came out. It is easy to forget about old bad stuff, when the new bad stuff is in front of you.
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#158229 - Alphanoob - Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:35 pm
rofl, this may be true, but there are lots of good qualities to NDS and GBA. If I had to choose between my DSL and my GBA, I would first laugh because I have both and it doesn't even matter, and then I would choose the DSL. They got me with wifi play, but it is sad that I can't play my favorite old color and pocket games on it. Oh well, nobody does full backwards compat these days anyways (although the wii gets dang close with its downloadable classics).
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