#83042 - Xtreme - Fri May 12, 2006 9:27 am
Nintendo is going to kill Game Boy brand. No more Game Boy game consoles because of Nintendo DS.
Read more here: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31656
And here: http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/708/708063p1.html
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#83058 - sgeos - Fri May 12, 2006 1:17 pm
I always thought that the DS was the new "Game Boy" even if not in name. I don't see how Nintendo could float 2 handhelds at once. The market is not big enough.
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#83062 - Palamon - Fri May 12, 2006 3:40 pm
I agree with Sgeos, the DS was the unannounced next generation of gameboys, dispite what nintendo said when DS first came out.
Just as the gameboy advance was Gamecube's attachable buddy to unlock certain features of games
The DS is probably going to be Wii's attachable buddy and paired with the ability for the DS to turn into a writing tablet for the Wii to use, I would expect some really nice art programs.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Bob Ross game proposed for the Wii takes advantage of the DS as an alternate controller then using the remote for more fine art movements.
#83064 - SevenString - Fri May 12, 2006 5:36 pm
So depending on the source, Nintendo may or may not develop a NEW version of the GameBoy. Also, Nintendo will not stop selling the current GameBoy models.
Everything else seems to be editorial and conjecture.
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#83076 - tepples - Fri May 12, 2006 7:06 pm
No Game Boy Advance games at E3. Once the NoPass-based adapters that fit entirely into DS SLOT-1 come out, how long will it be until nobody makes GBA flash cards anymore? GBC flash cards were already gone by the time I started GBA development.
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#83130 - sgeos - Sat May 13, 2006 4:48 am
| Quote: |
| So depending on the source, Nintendo may or may not develop a NEW version of the GameBoy. |
At this point releasing handheld software in a non-DS card format would be silly, so I doubt a new "GameBoy" will be developed. My guess is that slot-2 will probably be used for add on hardware. Add on hardware generally sells poorly, so unless they stumble on something really crazy I think that GBA carts and slot-2 will phased out toward the end of the DS's life.
| tepples wrote: |
| GBC flash cards were already gone by the time I started GBA development. |
I want a GBC flash linker. I want to erase the save data on my GBC carts. I want to rip my save files to the PC. I want to restore saved data from my PC. =(
-Brendan
#83143 - keldon - Sat May 13, 2006 8:42 am
Hmmmm. Maybe the sales for the GBA games have dropped dramatically since the DS's release. Everyone owning their old systems can still play the old games, so backwards compatibility might not be as important as it seems.
It's just nice to be able to pick up an old game from a shoebox you've kept since '89 and still be able to play it.
#83146 - sgeos - Sat May 13, 2006 9:50 am
| keldon wrote: |
| Everyone owning their old systems can still play the old games, so backwards compatibility might not be as important as it seems. |
Some people sell their old systems. (Selling quick before the price drops would be the way to go.) Other people want to play games on the new system even if they own the old one. Keeping track of one system is easier than keeping track of 2. I use my GBA for playing GB and GBC games. I play GBA games on my DS.
-Brendan
#83149 - Quirky - Sat May 13, 2006 11:47 am
| sgeos wrote: |
| I play GBA games on my DS. |
I tried this and it really hurt my eyes! GBA games tend to have the palette adjusted for the GBA screen, which as we know is quite a bit darker than the DS. Pok?mon Leaf Green, for example, looks all washed out on the DS, with no option to change the colours. Couple this with the weight of the DS (my skinny geek arms can hardly support it) and it means that I still use my SP for GBA games.
#83159 - zzo38computer - Sat May 13, 2006 2:36 pm
| sgeos wrote: |
Some people sell their old systems. (Selling quick before the price drops would be the way to go.) Other people want to play games on the new system even if they own the old one. Keeping track of one system is easier than keeping track of 2. I use my GBA for playing GB and GBC games. I play GBA games on my DS.
-Brendan |
You can play GB and GBC game on Nintendo DS as well if you can yarr.
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#83212 - HtheB - Sun May 14, 2006 3:09 am
| zzo38computer wrote: |
You can play GB and GBC game on Nintendo DS as well if you can [/yarr] |
with an emulator ;) :D
#83229 - thegamefreak0134 - Sun May 14, 2006 7:57 am
The Gameboy isn't dead yet. These forums still exist, and people are obviously still developing for it. (I'm one of them, of course.) Thus, in my eyes, the system is not dead. I will not hail it truly dead untill it's games are no longer playable on newer systems. Thus, though the GB and GBC are indeed dead, the GBA lives on, and that G part means that Gameboy still lives on.
With the added plus of the Wii probably allowing the download of the old games, it's possible that the gameboy games never die out. However, I do not doubt that the cart-playing versions will.
</rambling>
Just my take on the situation.
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PS: for the record: I will still probably always call the nintendo handheld a Gameboy.
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#83230 - tepples - Sun May 14, 2006 8:11 am
| thegamefreak0134 wrote: |
| The Gameboy isn't dead yet. These forums still exist, and people are obviously still developing for it. (I'm one of them, of course.) Thus, in my eyes, the system is not dead. I will not hail it truly dead untill it's games are no longer playable on newer systems. |
GBC is still playable on GBA SP (with new screen) and on GameCube (through an adapter), but it's still dead as to new commercial development (doesn't show up on warioworld anymore) and as to availability of homebrew dev equipment. NES (except for first-party games) is dead if you don't count emulators.
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| PS: for the record: I will still probably always call the nintendo handheld a Gameboy. |
Like people who call any Palm Powered device a "PalmPilot" even though Palm agreed with Pilot Pen not to use the name Pilot anymore?
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#83289 - sgeos - Mon May 15, 2006 1:08 am
| zzo38computer wrote: |
| You can play GB and GBC game on Nintendo DS as well if you can yarr. |
For that I'd need a GB/GBC flash linker.
-Brendan
#83301 - tepples - Mon May 15, 2006 4:54 am
| sgeos wrote: |
| zzo38computer wrote: | | You can play GB and GBC game on Nintendo DS as well if you can yarr. |
For that I'd need a GB/GBC flash linker. |
GB/GBC flash linkers don't help on Nintendo DS or Game Boy micro, which lack support for the GBC cart bus. Besides, they're not available for sale anymore even to people who own a GBC, GBA classic, GBA SP, or Game Boy Player.
Zzo was referring to Goomba Color, a GBA based emulator that interprets Z80 bytecode and translates writes to GBC hardware registers into the corresponding GBA writes.
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#83317 - sgeos - Mon May 15, 2006 11:59 am
| tepples wrote: |
| Zzo was referring to Goomba Color, a GBA based emulator that interprets Z80 bytecode and translates writes to GBC hardware registers into the corresponding GBA writes. |
I'd need a linker to pull games off my GB/GBC carts. I'd love to be able to play them using a backlit screen (I own neither an GBASP or GB Light). I'm not going to go ROM surfing.
-Brendan
#84573 - MrD - Tue May 23, 2006 2:20 pm
I think that Nintendo will bounce around some unrelated names before settling on a new series. (This'll be about the year 2045 though)
Game Pal -> Hipster -> Hipster Lite (Armoured, don't sit on it, you fools!) -> Game Pal 2
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#84612 - DekuTree64 - Tue May 23, 2006 6:45 pm
Sounds like it was just the reporter jumping to conclusions before, and they only meant they don't want to interrupt the DS's current popularity:
http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=12748&rp=1
"BIZ: We recently read a quote from you in Reuters, suggesting that the Game Boy may be phased out. What does the future hold for the Game Boy line?
SI: No, it's not true after all. What we are repeatedly saying is that for whichever platform, we are always conducting research and development for the new system, be it the Game Boy, or new console or whatever. And what we just told the reporter was that in thinking about the current situation where we are enjoying great sales with the DS and that we are now trying to launch the Wii, it's unthinkable for us to launch any new platform for the handheld system, including the new version of the GBA... Perhaps they misunderstood a part of this story, but as far as the handheld market is concerned [right now] we really want to focus on more sales of the DS; that's all.
And of course, as you know, the backlit version of the GBA in the United States is still selling very well, so that we are continuing the production. "
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