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Why Robin Makes Batman Better Not really. But that doesn’t stop Nintendo from releasing Game Boy Advance hardware and software sales data.
Who do you have to thank for that fan-translated Mother 3 patch that made the Game Boy Advance release all English-y? Clyde ‘Tomato’ Mandelin for one, part of the DIY Mother 3 localisation team.
Nintendo of America hasn’t localised Mother 3 (Earthbound 3). A shame, because the game is fantastic. Good thing that a fan-made Mother 3 translation patch is hitting this week. As game site Phantom Leap points out, it’ll be on computers via GBA emulators or on handhelds via flash carts. If you’re interested in reading a big, meaty review, check out this Insert Credit review from a few years back. Nintendo of America really should’ve localised this game.
One might think that HAL Laboratory’s puffy pink protagonist Kirby has not a care in the world, that his disposition, due to his pinkness, would be beatific. Not so, according to virtually every video game box art appearance Kirby has made for the better part of the past decade. After Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, the spherical mascot went from tickled pink to pissed.
The transformations from pleased as punch to enraged were most noticeable in Kirby’s journeys to America, going from happy go lucky to in a lather in games like Kirby Squeak Squad. Kirby Super Star Ultra changes all that, as Kirby’s gay old times are back, with nary a furrowed brow to be seen.
If you’d like to fondly remember Kirby’s more bitter box art outings, hit the jump.
Reader Brian, inspired by the pointlessness of these cardboard PSP arcade cabinet stands, wanted to share a similar project he’d worked on many years ago. His stab at completely unnecessary miniature arcade cabinets is definitely of questionable value—and usability, since the shoulder buttons are inaccessible—but of much higher quality and far, far cooler.
Built of foam core, plastic and decals, the mini-cab prototype featured back door access for Game Boy Advance SP placement, making for a hunched over arcade authentic experience. It even had a working light up marquee! He also shared with us a cocktail table prototype, which is after the jump.
Good news and bad news from the retail front. The recently released and uncharacteristically edgy Advance Wars: Days of Ruin is sold out at at least one Target store, which is a good thing for sales. The bad news? Target is suggesting to unsuspecting gamers—or God forbid, their parents, friends and loved ones—that an acceptable substitution for the game is the Game Boy Advance version of High School Musical. Proof that Target is run by sadists.
Reader William was there to capture the tragedy, for this we thank him.
Fulfilling your life long dream of playing Pac-Man on the Game Boy Advance using nothing but your feet is within your grasp. Thanks to the folks at Instructables, who provide a step-by-step tutorial on how to hack together such a contraption, fat kids everywhere will be able to combine their two favourite things: eating (dots) and shedding pounds by frantic shuffling. They call this a “win-win”.
How to modify your DDR pad to play with your Gameboy Advance [Instructables via Wonderland]
Another character drivels out on Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Yes, that’s Lucas from Japan-only GBA game MOTHER 3. From the official SSBB site Smash Bros. Dojo:
The youth with the psychic powers has appeared–it’s Lucas! He makes his anticipated debut from the Japan-only release MOTHER 3.
While he is timid in nature, he fights splendidly. Is it possible he can surpass even Ness?!
Does this mean that MOTHER 3 (aka Earthbound 3 in English) will get that long overdue English language release? Hope so. New SSBB Character [Smash Bros. Dojo, Thanks REDFIELD!]
