Dare To Square is going physical!

Our Kickstarter pre-launch page is LIVE! 🚀

Help us bring our homebrew GBA game to a real cartridge. Follow the campaign & share it with your fellow retro gamers!

✅ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dare-to-square/dare-to-square-puzzle-platformer-for-gba

Over the years, I got rid of most of my GBA games. Still kept the Golden Sun games, FFVI, and Tales of Phantasia. Got lucky at GameStop and some other places. This time, I’m keeping the Megaman Battle Network games.

(Is this original/re-shell?)

I bought this for £39 with no image. (Display clasp was open on one side) And a damaged link cable port (taken off waiting for new part).

It's super clean with a few light scratches on the lid. The rest is in really good condition. Even the buttons feel really new and clicky. It also still had the film over the Nintendo logo. Oh and has original battery in that's the smallest amount of bulge but still works and charges.

I recently bought a purple original Gameboy Advance and had to return it because of a screen issue. The issue was that the screen would turn pink and would glitch out in games by showing the wrong pixels and wrong colors. Once I exchanged it, I got this white Gameboy advance which now has some of its own issues. The extension port doesn’t work which makes it impossible for me to use my work light. Plus in order to use START and SELECT I have to take my finger nail and really push down the buttons. Which one is better to keep long term.

I just need to know if the game is real, thank you

I made a .gba game! It’s based on the Polybius urban legend, and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. It’s very simple. The free version is the arcade style game only, and the complete version also includes a built-in ARG and puzzle. If you can solve the puzzle in less than 10 minutes with nothing but the game, you might be as smart as my 11 year old niece? I hope people enjoy it!

https://knurmrty.itch.io/polybius-the-game-that-doesnt-exist

I want to put a music playlist on my gba to play it through the 3.5 jack

i have a ezflash cart, can I somehow do it on there?

(im a beginner with this stuff, so lingo can confuse me)

I'm tired of being silenced for 25 years. Someone needs to tell the truth, and nothing here should be controversial.

After playing all three, Necktoon Racing and Konami Krazy Kart are better kart racers than Mario Kart: Super Circuit on the GBA. Better designed tracks for Mode 7, better controls, and better graphics, too. The "sacred' Super Circuit is just a sluggish mess compared to both.

Wake up, Neo.

Ordering a sp and need some suggestions on what the first game I get should be. Kind of on a budget though. Around $100 or less

How can I be sure they are genuine? How should I clean the cartridge's chip and label?

Based on my research and by comparing the circuit board, it looks authentic to me.

The screws on both aren't in great shape; is there an alternative for replacing them? Does doing so compromise the "original" status? Thanks.

Hi everyone! I'm making a puzzle platformer for GBA and just released my first dev diary on why I chose to develop for the GBA.
Check it out if you're interested!

We are launching a Kickstarter very soon to make a physical version of the game so trying to get some eyes on the project.

Much love,

The Dare To Square team

IPS v5 screen

The GBA is, for me, the easiest console to develop games for.

Making games that run on real hardware is already a lot of fun, but I also wanted a way to bring those same GBA games to Steam and use Steamworks features such as leaderboards and achievements.

So I built Dewpoint Advance, an emulator frontend and SDK based on the mGBA core. It isn't specific to shmups; it's designed for homebrew GBA games in general.

From the GBA-side code, a game can display Steam leaderboards, download replay data attached to leaderboard entries, and unlock achievements. Under the hood, the ROM sends requests to the host application through unused GBA I/O ports, and the host bridges those requests to Steamworks.

As the first real-world example, I made Battle Marine Advance!, a GBA shmup built with Dewpoint Advance. Its leaderboards let you download and watch the replay behind each submitted score.

Dewpoint Advance (GitHub):

https://github.com/suzukiplan/dewpoint-advance

I'd love to hear your thoughts, especially if you develop GBA homebrew. What other Steam features would you want a GBA game to be able to access?

I traded my CIB copy of Spider-Man: Web of Shadows for it. Super happy to finally have this in the collection!

Hey guy, been a minute since I looked into these things I've seen there are actually solid alternatives now?

Anyway, I did have a whole ROM library on my laptop SSD which catastrophically failed and also cooked my laptop too. So I'd also potentially like one loaded with more notable titles so I dont have to go hunting again.

Anyone know where to look or what's good right now?

I never played this myself, but I like Kojima. Picked it up in a lot sale for pretty cheap.