GTA Advance is actually interesting

[psxdriverplayer]

THINGS AND ODDITIES

 

Local man here, with a ramble about a GeeTeeAy game, this time some Advance rants now! To things. You can also take some HINTS AND TIPS from my rambling that is IF YOU WANT TO PLAY OR ARE PLAYING. I'm an expert at this, I've played it TWICE to 100%. Well, with a sh*tmulator (<- yes, I really feel this way about these), so it really doesn't count (<- I only count real machine stuff to achievements for obvious reasons), but I know how to deal with it, had I a real GBA and GTA, would be cool, but everything Nintendo is expensive for some reason, doesn't it just suck? (I mean, all things Sony is piss cheap in comparison.)

 

*PAGER BEEP* READ THE RANT.

 

MR. PSX NOW ANGRY*

So is a Gee Bee Ay game. All right. And mongs, there's some interestings and oddities I'm going to list roit here:

- Racing missions start easy, but reach ridiculous levels later on. If anyone has achieved these in AN ACTUAL GBA, local man tips fedoras to yous.

- Demolition Football is some odd ass miniscule game.

- Weapon play is absolute ass, as enemies take damage at intervals (hey, kind of like in TWINE for Sony PlayStation), and literally every weapon but shotgun shoots too fast, so it's a waste of bullets and almost all weapons are thus useless (hey, also like TWINE for Sony PlayStation, where the same situation occurs, your P2K and one hit kill weapons are enough). Thus the only good weapons for well, anything but destroying vehicles are the very overpowered shotgun you can use to get QUADRUPLE KILLS and the flamethrower. That's also the greatest weapon ever. I normally hate anything humanity has achieved since 1995, but this is one of those exception thingies. Plus there's those quite easily reachable ammo limits... ...erh just flamethrow everything, that ammo lasts quite a while. Plus the projectiles have the same disadvantages to the AI as well as to you, the annoyance of aiming and actually hitting anything, that's the only great thing. The shotgun is semi-effective with AI as well, but only in close range, as with you.

- Rampages. These give you the weapons you use in them with a bit of ammo if you don't have them. Also some are piss easy, a few give you challenge.

- Ambulances w/ Paramedic. These give 20 health when entered if less than 100. Cool stuff. Also, whenever achieving a level, you get a checkpoint. You don't lose the money increment, plus you only have to make one single trek each level to pick those patients up, which is quite... ...advanced (PUN FRICKEN INTENDED). Get the infinite run, it's HANDY.

- Firetruck w/ Firefighter. These work like GTA III does. There's no checkpoints, you lose the streak, unknown if you just have to do overall 20 in each land. Plus it's too easy to get a wanted level by spraying a normal vehicle with water. Solution? Just tap A + B together, that's enough water to cool down a burning wreck known as Barracuda 20 times.

- Police cars w/ Vigilantes. These work like GTA III does. So OK, these are annoying, but here's a strategy - gain shotgun bullits to the max by entering cop cars (you get 4 each time, but sometimes none what) and then start this stuff, if the guy you're arresting (this thing at the top of the screen saying "ARRESTS" is a bit misleading) is on foot, just run over the basterd, if at vehicle, destroy it with two shotgun blasts or with your baseball bat (their cars are weak for some reason) and blast the guy or run over the guy with your cop car. There's no checkpoints, you lose the streak, unknown if you just have to do overall 20 in each land. Also the constant automagic siren when level changes drives you insane, luckily you can turn that crap off. At least you get some bribes to your hideout. Getting into a SWAT Van nets you 100 armor.

- Taxi! So you get the reward for 50 fares but you need 100 fares to complete this. Who thought that thing up? It's slightly confusing. At least you don't have to do those in one go, but I like doing just that to have it over with. Just getting to a Taxi doesn't give any money, sadly.

- Side missions are interesting since when done, you can't play any of them ever again.

- Driving. This absolutely sucks balls as you hit everything constantly since you can't see crap ahead of yous. At least holding up straightens your car, stops the engine noise and keeps your speed. At least you can abuse some bits to travel between upper and lower streets. While you can jump off from higher streets whenever, at certain points where it goes up there's your chance to get to higher level and continue faster to your destination without taking a longer detours. Plus is interesting, vehicles lose top speed when enough damaged.

- Cops. You can be arrested so damn easily in this game, one punch when standing still is enough. Also sometimes you clearly should speed away from them, but you don't.

- Muzak. Outside 2 tracks is decent jams, ehs.

- Missions. These have multiple choices sometimes and mon, seeing those outcomes was interesting to me. Also, only these story missions count to mission attempts (take note, ATTEMPTS vs COMPLETION peoples). Also mission fail messages are sometimes fun as hell.

-- The first mission must be completed before checking other crap out.

-- The third to last mission sucks absolute dicks, but it's doable, if you know what the hell you're doing.

-- Those last two missions happen back to back. This is interesting, this usually doesn't happen in these games. Or does it? Anyway, if you cheat your way to the second to last mission, you get a sports car when the final mission begins. If you cheat directly to the final mission, you get nothing. Normal playing gives you a slow ass tank. You can walk faster than that.

-- When the final mission is done you get a choice to QUIT GAME or to SAVE GAME. The other option quits to main menu, and so does the other if I recall now, but it saves the fact that you've completed the final mission, giving you that sweet ass STORY COMPLETE to yer file name.

- SAY HELLO TO MR PAGER**. So uhh this annoys you constantly, go do a thing, and this tells you to go do the next story mission. Jeez. Thank fuk it stops eventually.

- Money. You can buy weapons, or get them to your hideout. And get this, if you get the highest outcomes, do everything, don't ever spend it on anything, YOU END UP HAVING MORE MONEY (AROUND 2 TIMES THE CASH) THAN YOU HAVE IN LIBERTY CITY STORIES AT 100% WHEN DOING THE ABSOLUTE SAME THING THERE. I've taken notes about the money situation, LCS is the worst game what comes to getting money. III has high amounts, Advance has those as well. Vice City has exploits, as assets COST TOO MUCH AND PAY OUT TOO LITTLE IN 1 IN-GAME DAY. San Andreas has gamblings, and assets suck even more, and generate much cash only when you're nearby, leave the city where one is in and it doesn't have crap when you return. Vice City Stories thankfully gives you muneyz automagically each in-game day when outside missiones, which is great.

- Shoreside Vale sucks dick, always has sucked, and always will suck.

- Wasted/Busted takes $1000 from ye.

- The lack of a fully viewable map is quite disturbing here, as you sometimes don't know if you can go through places (related to higher and lower street levels) and don't always know where stuff is exactly. DO NOTE THAT I DO NOT MIND GTA III MISSING ONE, PROBABLY SINCE IS 3D AND I HAVE A GREAT SENSE OF DIRECTION.

- Camera. Fukken camera. You may want to switch this to a permanent HIGH instead of the default AUTOMAGIC one.

- OK so cheats, there's only one cheat method I'm using, A + B + START, which lets me show some coordinates to find crap with. I can't for the life of me memorize the map layout easily here, probably because it ain't 3D. Other cheats are all a bit ehh. And money cheating only gives you $15000, sucks.

-- Mission picker cheat. That's interesting as well, since using it denies you 100% (unless JUMP START), as your percentages start from 0% whenever starting any kind of game from any position. Plus the activation is a bit finnicky, since the confirmation noise happens earlier than you would expect it. Plus since you need to hold A + START, I found holding START first helps with the final step.

- STATS. This is useful when figuring out what you are still missing.

- Saving. I've heard you can save where and whenever by QUIT GAME -> SAVE AND QUIT but who does that? Hideout it is, the save point as it SHOULD BE.

- 100% gives you nothings. Too bad.

- So yes, this was supposed to be a fricken GTA III on yer goddamn GBA, THERE, I MENTIONED THAT, HAPPY NOW?! This fact doesn't matter sh*t to me, and is only a minor amusement. Plus I'd rather get something unique anyway instead of odd ass ports and/or (usually crappy) remakesters. Screw all those, give us something new and great instead, we have the earlier crap already anyway and can play it already anyway as well, so there's no point really. Yes, local man wouldn't want a remakester of GTA Advance (or any game, really, despite all the problems some games have). A re-release with absolutely no changes at most is usually enough perhaps in some way, but going any further than that with any already existing game is annoying and goddamn unnecessary.

MR. PSX NO LONGER ANGRY*

 

And that ends the rants of local man here for now. Thank you for reading. Probably.

 

MISSION PASSED!

$1

 

*PAGER BEEP* GET TO THE NEXT MISSION START POINT.

 

* = Yes, this is a reference joke to some unseen text. Look that crap up from TCRF, you'll see it quite easily.

** = Also unseen text.

[2L8]

a lot of people keep saying that Advance is "The Worst GTA Game" and I feel like they're being unfair with it, sure it might look, sound & play like a watered down version of GTA 1 (or GTA III depends of how you see it) but that's because they never actually got to play it (250k copies lmao), looking and playing this game it seems that Rockstar and Digital Eclipse (GTA Advance Developers) tried to mix the classic 2d gameplay with the modern 3d features and stables and I really do appreciate the effort of doing so (only for Chinatown Wars to perfect that formula 5 years later) 

the way I look at it, I see Advance as the oddest yet the novelist game in the series. (dare I say, unique?) 

I remember hearing about this game about 3 years ago in those 'GTA ranked from worst to best videos' and I thought to myself 'Huh, so it must be a bad game then' 

in this year for some reason I decided to give the game a chance and look at it's development & behind the scenes thinking it wouldn't be that interesting, only to found myself in a weird rabbit hole learning about the game history, development cycle, scrapped ideas and features and unknown presentation in the franchise. 

if a GTA game has ever integrated and fasanated me as much, Advance would be an easy winner. 

Edited March 4 by 2L8

[psxdriverplayer]

Certainly this game is not your "Welcome to San Andreas I'm CJ from Grove Street" or "Tommy Vercetti? Huh, sh*t. I thought they'd never let him out." or "CRIMINAL SHOT BY GIRLFRIEND ACCOMPLICE: COURT FINDS ARMED ROBBER GUILTY BY UNANIMOUS VERDICT" but seriously. It can be a surprisingly fun game to play once you know how it works.

Been enjoying most of those story missions, seriously. Plus once ye have the right weapons and certain things done, rampaging around the map is... ...easy.

 

I just realized there's no hidden weapon spots anywhere. Sucks a bit.

 

4 hours ago, 2L8 said:

Chinatown Wars

Now that this is mentioned I tried to see a small while ago how this works but the forced GPS annoyed me too much. It is seriously unnecessary and at most should be a toggle.

[Man With No Name]

What is it exactly you don't like about emulators?

 

OT: GTA Advance was crap. I don't get why nowadays people pick out a terrible title in a series from years ago and try and paint it as something else. The devs, Digital Eclipse, were bad, and have a stinky reputation. I'm talking about the old DIgital Eclipse fyi, the one that formed into Backbone, which were just as sh*tty. 

 

  

On 3/4/2023 at 6:44 AM, 2L8 said:

a lot of people keep saying that Advance is "The Worst GTA Game"

And they would be wrong. The worse games would be the GBC ports of GTA1 and 2.

Edited March 17 by Man With No Name

[psxdriverplayer]

2 hours ago, Man With No Name said:

What is it exactly you don't like about emulators?

See spoileroni

Spoiler

Reasons go here:

- Don't like using them unless I have to. Personally I use them for video purposes and some odd showcases. And possibly for trying out different versions of games to acquire legit later and then use those.

- Everyone raves about how great it is to play gaemz through it which of course are obtained THROUGH MEANS 99.99% of the time. I have legit copies of mine in around 99% of cases. Almost nobody buys legit copies of old games these days. Even less to play them. But still buy new games, damn hypocrites. Money is not an issue.

- Emulation does not represent them games how they actually are. Plus all the visual settings suck, along all the crappy filters everyone uses, like smoothing. That thing can go die.

- You never know if something happens - is it the game or the emulation? With real hardware you can be 99.999% sure it's the game if something happens (unless disc/cart sucks it is likely not an issue).

- It's always a hassle to deal with all the crap and settings are too many. Bonus points if something has to be game specific and/or some games do not even work (this is true to many PAL versions, their emulation sucks as people only care about those crappy NTSC versions).

- PPSSPP has a sh*t mobile application looking user interface where everything is too big and icons are confusing, plus there's two different settings things in different places, how is one supposed to know that they are different when is naturally assumed that they go to the same place because they're going to some settings so the other is not even used geez.

- Emulation allows cheating way too easily. If someone sets records through emulation always assume it is cheated. For anything serious this is a definite "no no". Also rewind and save states are too annoying and make you not beat them games legitimately. I'm with Mike on this one.

- Real hardware is just better. Still playing PS1 and PS2 games with hardware attached to a CRT as god intended. Also any great records megots are real hardware -only.

 

2 hours ago, Man With No Name said:

GTA Advance was crap.

WAS crap eh? So it's not crap anymore?

[Man With No Name]

My response to your thoughts on emulation:

 

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Emulators allow video games to be preserved. I'm a video game collector myself, gamer first, so I agree with you with real hardware being the best, but real hardware has a use-by date on them. They will fail eventually. Capacitors leaking being the main issue.  Emulation is not something to hate on, most game companies have embraced them to re-release their games. Most clone systems on the market nowadays use emulation themselves, the more expensive use FGPA, which is still a form of emulation, technically. 

 

I do agree with some of your criticisms though - namely them not being accurate. Well, the common ones aren't, anyways. You do know there are emulators out there that aim for 100% cycle accuracy right? Right down to the CPU clocks, emulating chipsets exactly, etc. And games running at the correct speed for PAL (50hz) is something that has been a feature in most competent emulators for at least two decades now. Not sure why you're on about cheating, we had GameSharks, Xploders, Action Replays and the like well up to the 360/PS3 era. 

 

I have a CRT hooked up myself. I use my Saturn, PS1, PS2, Mega Drives, and other systems on it. I agree emulation can never replicate that experience. 

 

  

7 hours ago, psxdriverplayer said:

 

WAS crap eh? So it's not crap anymore?

 

I was using past tense to signify as in at the time of it's release. But yes, it still is crap. At least, that's IMO.

 

 

 

Edited March 17 by Man With No Name

[2L8]

11 hours ago, Man With No Name said:

And they would be wrong. The worse games would be the GBC ports of GTA1 and 2.

don't forgot London 1969/1961, f*ck this game and f*ck the UK

probably the only good thing that came out of this is the interduction of the licensed soundtrack in the series, without it, we wouldn't have the VC or SA soundtrack we all know and love to this day. 

[Moncastler]

8 hours ago, psxdriverplayer said:

- Everyone raves about how great it is to play gaemz through it which of course are obtained THROUGH MEANS 99.99% of the time. I have legit copies of mine in around 99% of cases. Almost nobody buys legit copies of old games these days. Even less to play them. But still buy new games, damn hypocrites. Money is not an issue.

It is an issue, and quite a big one actually. Just did a quick search on eBay, for a GTA Advance copy (cartridge only) I'm looking at 45+€ listings and if I want to have the boxed game I'm getting a range that goes from 80€ to 300€ depending on the condition. Is this game worth that much? No, the retro-game market is beyond ridiculous and, while I truly admire you for collecting old games, you can't accuse people to be hypocrites if they want to relive their childhood without having to spend crazy amounts... And let's not forget that physical media will eventually wear and stop working properly.

Piracy is a serious problem for new games, but older titles can only benefit from it and it is essential for preserving them through time.

[Man With No Name]

18 minutes ago, Moncastler said:

It is an issue, and quite a big one actually. Just did a quick search on eBay, for a GTA Advance copy (cartridge only) I'm looking at 45+€ listings and if I want to have the boxed game I'm getting a range that goes from 80€ to 300€ depending on the condition. Is this game worth that much? No, the retro-game market is beyond ridiculous and, while I truly admire you for collecting old games, you can't accuse people to be hypocrites if they want to relive their childhood without having to spend crazy amounts... And let's not forget that physical media will eventually wear and stop working properly.

Piracy is a serious problem for new games, but older titles can only benefit from it and it is essential for preserving them through time.

I skimmed past that part. Yeah, def agree with on the prices. It wasn't always like that though - around 2020, prices jumped to silly numbers due to WATA. Hence why I dont really collect as much as used to.  I

[psxdriverplayer]

2 hours ago, Man With No Name said:

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Emulators allow video games to be preserved. I'm a video game collector myself, gamer first, so I agree with you with real hardware being the best, but real hardware has a use-by date on them. They will fail eventually. Capacitors leaking being the main issue.  Emulation is not something to hate on, most game companies have embraced them to re-release their games. Most clone systems on the market nowadays use emulation themselves, the more expensive use FGPA, which is still a form of emulation, technically. 

 

I do agree with some of your criticisms though - namely them not being accurate. Well, the common ones aren't, anyways. You do know there are emulators out there that aim for 100% cycle accuracy right? Right down to the CPU clocks, emulating chipsets exactly, etc. And games running at the correct speed for PAL (50hz) is something that has been a feature in most competent emulators for at least two decades now. Not sure why you're on about cheating, we had GameSharks, Xploders, Action Replays and the like well up to the 360/PS3 era. 

 

I have a CRT hooked up myself. I use my Saturn, PS1, PS2, Mega Drives, and other systems on it. I agree emulation can never replicate that experience. 

Spoiler

- Local man says that I have a different idea of preservation - just have a copy of something somehow. Preserved. Now, using it? Different story.

- Then real hardwareroni can be repaired as far as I am aware, modern ones less so for reasons.

- With PS1 games there's visual issues with PAL games, for example PAL 007 Racing (SLES-03355, SLES-03356 and SLES-03357) likes to HALL OF ENDLESS MIRRORS -effect like crazy in the main menu, but play SLUS-01300 and it's fine. Some don't work without further tinkering as copy protection and whatnots. The speed has been fine, but visuals...

- Cheating on real hardware requires actually also owning the cheat device, while emulators have it built-in. MAKES IT EASIER, NO?

 

5 minutes ago, Moncastler said:

It is an issue, and quite a big one actually. Just did a quick search on eBay, for a GTA Advance copy (cartridge only) I'm looking at 45+€ listings and if I want to have the boxed game I'm getting a range that goes from 80€ to 300€ depending on the condition. Is this game worth that much? No, the retro-game market is beyond ridiculous and, while I truly admire you for collecting old games, you can't accuse people to be hypocrites if they want to relive their childhood without having to spend crazy amounts... And let's not forget that physical media will eventually wear and stop working properly.

Piracy is a serious problem for new games, but older titles can only benefit from it and it is essential for preserving them through time.

Les add two things to that annoyance mentioned previously

- Peoples won't buy them old games even when the price is reasonable from what I've gathered, and go for MEANS instead because reasons. Tells me that new crap is stuff peoples like to buy, but not old crap, even if they like that old crap for some reason. And what happens when new gets old? It's an endless cycle.

- Indeed some of them prices are too damn insane, anything that's not a complete "everything inside" -copy should be cheap as all hell, no matter what the game is. Complet a bit higher, but when prices reach three figures it's one of the pure insanities in the world. Why is it that all things Nintendo is so damn expensive anyway? Luckily I deal with almost all things Sony.

- Relating to previous, this promo crap peoples sell goes to the same, why pricing it so high when unless is a unique disc, it's literally the retail game with a different disc label geez. Screw the high price.

- Plus I collect old games, and play them. Getting legit copies of games I previously had as a CD-R through other peoples and getting games that I never had and/or have played. Within a reasonable price range, naturally. Depending on the title. Some have been absolute steals. I know a guy who would rather get a ROM collection and emulate those on some PC, but still respects me for what I'm doing, and even acknowledges that medoings makes one respect those silly games a bit moar.

- Dunno of piracy is needed to preserve, I'd say only if companies don't do that. And I bet that it doesn't count that they have a copy that they won't release, but isn't it preserved still, no?

[Man With No Name]

My last response is below:

 

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[quote] Local man says that I have a different idea of preservation - just have a copy of something somehow. Preserved. Now, using it? Different story. [/quote]

Look up disc rot, pal. Your games are going to die. Also happens to cartridges as well. Emulation is going nowhere and is needed.

 

[quote] Then real hardwareroni can be repaired as far as I am aware, modern ones less so for reasons. [/quote]

 

Hardware can only be repaired to a limit. You can replace capacitors, but what do you do if they have leaked over the board already before then? That happens, you're effed. Also, CD-ROM based systems? Parts are running out and getting more expensive, as well as dying themselves, yes, even "new" old stock ones that are in their packaging and have never been opened/used. They go bad with age too.

 

[quote] With PS1 games there's visual issues with PAL games [/quote]

? What emulator are you using? That's got to be emulator specic. Try using Medafen. It's not perfect, but it's the most advanced and accuate PS1 emulator I know.

 

[quote] Cheating on real hardware requires actually also owning the cheat device, while emulators have it built-in. MAKES IT EASIER, NO? [/quote]

And your point is what exactly? If you have an original Xbox, or PS1/2, you don't need to own them. You can just soft mod your system. I dont even get why this is a complaint. You can cheat in a game, why the f is that a deal to you if someone wants to do that in their game?

 

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, 2L8 said:

don't forgot London 1969/1961, f*ck this game and f*ck the UK

probably the only good thing that came out of this is the interduction of the licensed soundtrack in the series, without it, we wouldn't have the VC or SA soundtrack we all know and love to this day. 

I've not played those that much. They really that bad lol?  

[psxdriverplayer]

19 minutes ago, Man With No Name said:

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[quote] Local man says that I have a different idea of preservation - just have a copy of something somehow. Preserved. Now, using it? Different story. [/quote]

Look up disc rot, pal. Your games are going to die. Also happens to cartridges as well. Emulation is going nowhere and is needed.

 

[quote] Then real hardwareroni can be repaired as far as I am aware, modern ones less so for reasons. [/quote]

 

Hardware can only be repaired to a limit. You can replace capacitors, but what do you do if they have leaked over the board already before then? That happens, you're effed. Also, CD-ROM based systems? Parts are running out and getting more expensive, as well as dying themselves, yes, even "new" old stock ones that are in their packaging and have never been opened/used. They go bad with age too.

 

[quote] With PS1 games there's visual issues with PAL games [/quote]

? What emulator are you using? That's got to be emulator specic. Try using Medafen. It's not perfect, but it's the most advanced and accuate PS1 emulator I know.

 

[quote] Cheating on real hardware requires actually also owning the cheat device, while emulators have it built-in. MAKES IT EASIER, NO? [/quote]

And your point is what exactly? If you have an original Xbox, or PS1/2, you don't need to own them. You can just soft mod your system. I dont even get why this is a complaint. You can cheat in a game, why the f is that a deal to you if someone wants to do that in their game?

 

Spoiler

Les see.

- Note how I mentioned "copy of something somehow" - never mentioned it has to be just the legit physical deal. Take a copy of thing to PC, there, a copy, preservation. Using it though? Different story. As long as legit stuff works emulation is not a thing I do, if even later. It's just not the same thing. Even pin point precision emulation is still... ...emulation.

- This second thing with hardwares can be solved by manufacturing new old systems and carts/discs, but nobody does that for some reason. Would also get prices down.

- For informations, ePSXe is the one I'm using in those rare times I want to do something with stuff, it annoys with some loading screens (e.x. Donald Duck: Quack Attack - SLES-03097) and some PAL games, even some NTSC/J games (for e.x. SLPS-00535) have issues. Haven't bothered with anything else since I again, don't play games seriously with emulation, only quickly checking things for research or vidyas. Dunno if Mednafen even works on Windows XP, as that's what I'm using to type this, whether people believe it or not.

- Finally, I'm sure most peoples soft mod to play imports or backups in general, not to use cheat device discs. And the thing is why even play a game if one doesn't want to play it the way is intended to be played anyway? If one cheats, one might as well make a "beat a game" -button. Don't some mobile games also play themselves so that the player doesn't have to? As I've said elsewhere, you're all lucky I can't code and make dickish games myself. I would be annoyed if I had made some and there would be people cheating in them and modifying those.

[Man With No Name]

You're still on WXP? Yikes, that's all I can say. New systems/games cost money, alot of moeny, and no company is going to front that for a niche market. ePSXe is not very accurate. Your cheating complaint still seems silly to me, sorry.

Edited March 17 by Man With No Name

[psxdriverplayer]

12 minutes ago, Man With No Name said:

You're still on WXP? Yikes, that's all I can say.

Yes. That thing still does what I want from it. Outside Minecraft, those basterds force updated it some time back so that it doesn't work no more, requires at the very least a thing called Win 7. [SAD FACE GOES HERE]

13 minutes ago, Man With No Name said:

New systems/games cost money

Yes, and they can't profit enough from them so they stay away. Manufacturing a bunch of crap doesn't cost that much, stuff is sold with a massive overpricing compared to manufacturing costs.

[cant remember]

I share 2L8's sentiment. It's the weakest game technically, but it was never meant to stand next to GTA3, it was meant to be a portable game on the GBA which given the primitive hardware they did a pretty decent job at.

 

Emulators can't reach the accuracy of real hardware but y'know, for casual playing and not having be bothered with a working old console.. it's good enough. After all we play games to have fun, and if we have more fun using savestates than we would have getting frustrated driving to the mission giver again (which is my case) why not do it.

For GBA I use VirtualBoyAdvance, works on XP and hasn't failed me yet but boy you should upgrade! Even if the functionality is all you need, it has many vulnerabilities that aren't being patched anymore and lacks alot of security features from modern Windows.

 

I'm doing a playthrough of all GTA's so I'll eventually get to this one so this info is definitely going to be handy.

[rocktee]

Got it at half price books for $23 had to get it never got to play this game only had crash and wario land 3 

[2L8]

On 3/17/2023 at 2:19 AM, Man With No Name said:

OT: GTA Advance was crap. I don't get why nowadays people pick out a terrible title in a series from years ago and try and paint it as something else.

it mainly depends on personal thoughts and opinions, not every Grand Theft Auto fan will like everything in the series, your favorite GTA might be somebody's least favorite, your most hated GTA character is someone's literal idol, your personal go-to car is somebody's avoider, your least favorite radio station is someone's favorite etc etc etc.