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Re: Someone Is Making New Games For The GBA's Unpopular E-Reader Add-On

jtotal

@RupeeClock the EXT port on the e-Reader is just a passthrough for the older model. It allows there to be a connection to the GameCube with the GBA-GCN Cable while having the e-Reader plugged in.

The e-Reader had 100% compatibility with the SP, as it didn't need to be plugged in. The original model had the port obscured which is what the EXT connector was for in the first place.

Re: The Making Of: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2's Surprisingly Stellar GBA Port

jtotal

Song 5 was pretty much my go-to pretty much every time I booted this game up. None of the other songs really stuck for me like this one did as a kid. The crunchy guitar going chug chug on a power riff just amped me up.

Also, yeah. I 100% bought Aggressive Inline for the GBA just for the fact it had (albeit, compressed and cut) the soundtrack from the console games.

Back to this... I honestly didn't know this game pretty much used the code itself from the Playstation game. That's insane, but makes sense as I couldn't figure out how it felt so much like the game I poured hours into but didn't look quite the part.

Literally was super excited for this game when it came out, and still remains the only game I busted open while still in the store.

Re: Review: The Art Of N64 Wrestling Games Grapples With Some Of The Genre's Best Titles

jtotal

@slider1983 Oh man. WWF WarZone. A game I would see being advertised on the back of my GamePro magazine. I had pretty much zero interest in wrestling as a whole but was waaay into fighting games at the time. I would see this being advertised, and pretty much avoided it until I saw one of the "selling points" on the ad.

"Create your own wrestler!"

For months, I'd been trying to rent a game from Hollywood Video called "Deadly Arts", which immediately sold me on the premise of creating your own fighter, but the game was never available to rent. Just the box sitting there, taunting me. But right there, I knew I wanted to create my own fighter in these games, and the itch was getting worse.

So, after seeing that ad, I knew I wanted to play this. It was more well known over "Deadly Arts", which wasn't even at Blockbuster or the grocery store, so I thought I had a better chance of renting this. And I did. For weeks before renting, I started watching the content to understand what I was about to play, hiding it just in case my parents would get mad. They were more confused I was watching it all of a sudden after years of not caring about it.

Well, the day came, and that's literally all I did. Filled up every slot I could making anyone and everyone. Including multiple versions of myself. I was in heaven. Every "fighter" I had on screen was of my terrible creation. It was glorious.

Yeah, I became a fan in the process, cooling off around 2008 (but still lightly following, oddly enough) until getting back into it strong a couple years before covid. I've always kept a soft spot for the games though, at least waiting until there's a great sale.

Still haven't touched Deadly Arts to this day. I heard it was bad. Haha.

Tldr: WWF WarZone is the reason I became a fan. And it's solely because of Create-A-Wrestler. If a worse video game was available, I doubt I become a fan.