What do you think is the best SNES port on the GBA?

@ChadWSmith

4 жыл бұрын

Which is my favorite to play? Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 eReader Edition Which is the most impressive to me, technology-wise? Doom.

@yoshi3706

4 жыл бұрын

super mario advance 4: - world selector and you can move between all the maps without reset cleared levels - e-reader levels, are awesome, but hard -a minigame extra in the main menu -minigames in the map have minor changes

@RafaelMartinez-nw2lo

4 жыл бұрын

super mario advance 4

@ekremsait

4 жыл бұрын

well, play them on snes if you can, i say.

@kagurazakamasahiro

3 жыл бұрын

Yoshi island

Most of the Capcom and Square Enix conversions on the GBA were actually pretty good.

@DaedalosC9

2 жыл бұрын

except for Megaman & Bass, that thing was awful due to the zoom in

@gabnrami

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaedalosC9 it was the only way due to smaller resolution…

@DaedalosC9

2 жыл бұрын

@@gabnrami I don't think so, considering all the other SNES games ported to GBA doing an outstanding work they could have modified the sprites accordingly

When people say that the Switch is a port machine, remember that handhelds have always been port machines.

@adayinforever

3 жыл бұрын

Like a port of the Wii U?

@rainbowspongebob

3 жыл бұрын

adayinforever yea but I think they update the Wii U ports little and then throw it on switch

@DeadGyro

3 жыл бұрын

@@lestgo7950 yes

@burntpyromaniak6413

3 жыл бұрын

@@aaron_aj_knight_95 there was also the Sega Nomad, which was literally a portable Genesis

@adayinforever

3 жыл бұрын

@@aaron_aj_knight_95 no. It was a portable Master System. The *Nomad* was a portable Genesis.

I never noticed how much the gba seams to blast up the contrast on so many ports

@25aces

3 жыл бұрын

This is likely because the GBA originally had no backlight.

@Kevin-tz1hf

3 жыл бұрын

@@25aces hm so how do the games fare on the original no backlight systems? do they look better with or without the backlight color saturation wise? gotta imagine dkc doesn't look as bad as it does backlit as it does on the original gba.

@MrRockyVega

3 жыл бұрын

They don't. The video looks like this because of how the gameplay was captured. GBA games don't look so "washed out" in reality.

@brunor.1127

3 жыл бұрын

because of the shitty screen of the first GBA (the wide one) on real hardware they should look much better, well on the original GBA model, I'd bet on the collapsible GBA they look like crap too

@yuvyx3288

3 жыл бұрын

@@25aces No shit sherlock

I love how the audio for the SNES is on the left ear and the GBA is on the right.

@gilbert6181

2 жыл бұрын

your face is on the right.

@hajilee4539

2 жыл бұрын

@@gilbert6181 I grew up with it so the one on the right actually looks better to me.

I love how you separated the sound by left and right. It's brilliant! 😂 Had me confused at first, but I love how you allowed both to play at the same time.

@luminous6969

2 жыл бұрын

But that makes it hard to hear each one very well, you just hear both half-assedly.

@Adventist1997

2 жыл бұрын

@@luminous6969 It's perfect with headphones. Just take one off your ear and you only hear one version.

@jojoera2648

Жыл бұрын

@@Adventist1997 btw how he made it? That's cool just curious

@Adventist1997

Жыл бұрын

@@jojoera2648 By changing the audio from mono to stereo. But making one side low and the other high or normal volume.

Only reason they “blasted” it up was the console still had no light so they of course blasted the color up significantly. But it’s still a wonderful hand held that I still cherish, it got me through some tough times.

@ReVita.

2 жыл бұрын

Sitting next to the window on car trips to light up that good ol GBA screen

@rayfincham1595

2 жыл бұрын

@@ReVita. on my trip out to Oregon that console was my savior, taking the train from NJ to Oregon I played it non stop with my over head light on and I was lucky enough to have the magnifier and light. Lord of the Rings The Two Towers and SMB 2 were mainstay on hat trip.

@ReVita.

2 жыл бұрын

@@rayfincham1595 Man the GBA really saved us. Just 4 buttons and a D-pad. I almost forgot about the magnifier and light that you could attach to the top of the console. Looked like an antenna. Sunk hours on Super Mario Kart and a Spider-Man/Venom game!

@Gameprojordan

2 жыл бұрын

GBA is amazing to this day and doesnt really age with time as the colorful 2D artstyle for its games have held up really well. I still have mine from when I got it in the year 2000. People of today can relive the good games of the past in a compact and portable package

@AwesomeGamer-om4hm

6 ай бұрын

SMB3 GBA had a workaround wherein slotting that thing in a Game Boy Player had the palettes be much closer to what All-Stars did.

I'm curious how they compare when played on the intended devices. As many have mentioned, the GBA had no backlight so the games were compensating for that, but the SNES was played on blurry CRT TVs, which made the pixelation mostly disappear and allowed for some gradients and transparency effects you can't see on a modern screen.

@Gameprojordan

2 жыл бұрын

Turn your computer or phone screens brightness down to about 5-10% and it gives you an idea of what it looks like off a gba screen. It also shows why GBA brightened and saturated the colors on their snes ports

@Synathidy

Жыл бұрын

@@Gameprojordan Yeah, no, that can't come close to emulating the utter darkness of an original GBA screen. Any modern device screen is still visible at lowest brightness in total darkness due to some level of backlight that is always on.. For original Game Boy and GBA, if you are in the dark you don't see ANYTHING. Not even comparable. The only way to know how shitty it was is to get an original GBA and try it. Warning: it REALLY sucks. Hope you have a lamp positioned directly above your Gameboy, or you ain't seein' shit. LOL.

Most of the GBA games looks like zoomed and simplified version of SNES games.

7:13 - SMB3's screens got inverted somehow. As in, GBA Advanced version on left, SNES on right as supposedly SNES left, GBA right.

@Hausbrauen

2 жыл бұрын

Good eye, I was going to point this out as well. All the info is still on the correct sides, just not the gameplay itself.

Great video, really cool and informative. Well done dude and thank you. Might use this to make a collection on my EZ Flash Omega!

@CaptRobau

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. That's exactly how I got into these types of videos and wanted to make my own. I have a hacked SNES Classic and part of the fun is just to constantly discover new games to add it to the Classic.

@rustymixer2886

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed guys great video I like gba cuz it does 8 bit nes 16 bit snes and 32bit games now like tomb raider

wow, the SNES games look so much better

@rgkong8783

2 жыл бұрын

Not all of them to be honest, the Mario games for an example I’d prefer on the OG hardware.

@yonisalhadiyonisalhadi1045

2 жыл бұрын

no

@draxxthemsclounts2478

2 жыл бұрын

I was about to say the opposite

@ventriloquistmagician4735

2 жыл бұрын

hi laowhy

@Hijynx87

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but back in the day I never noticed, aside from dkc1. They played just as well.

Now that is how you make a games list. This video is proper. Nice job.

7:15 these are switched, gba on the left lol

@dafaqisthis

3 жыл бұрын

Lool ikr

Ah yes the iconic over saturation of the GBA graphics

@NeoTechni

3 жыл бұрын

all cause of the terrible LCD

@jaco_21

2 жыл бұрын

i love it

@enjirube1

2 жыл бұрын

@@NeoTechni and lack of backlight on the original mode meaning they went for high contrasting color palettes.

@davetheimpaler204

2 жыл бұрын

It looked fine on an actual GBA SP screen, with the brightness turned down to an appropriate level.

@eduwonka8559

2 жыл бұрын

It was necessary for you can see graphics in a LCD without light

Left and right audio split is brilliant.... In my studio with my monitors on blast and greatly appreciated it!

Wow, I never knew there were this many SNES ports! I remember play A Link to the Past on GBA as a kid and thinking it was an original GBA game! I didn't find out until years later that it's a port. I'm actually playing through the original version now. It's all come full circle.

@godofthecripples1237

3 жыл бұрын

Outside of the contrast issues, from what I've seen, the GBA version is actually better, it updates the translation and script to reflect the Zelda series and language better

@aaron_aj_knight_95

3 жыл бұрын

I played the SNES version first, but I grew up on the GBA version.

@inputfunny

2 жыл бұрын

@@godofthecripples1237 Lower field of view and link's annoying grunt every time he swings his sword make the GBA version worse in my opinion.

@inputfunny

2 жыл бұрын

@Hamikon I can put up with it, but would rather not. The field of view increase is the biggest reason I prefer the SNES version. Also Ocarina of Time has aged pretty badly. Windwaker is pretty good besides being too short, and the triforce-finding quest, and yes; I know the Wii U version shortened that segment.

@maiastniki

2 жыл бұрын

@@inputfunny thats a lil nit picky, a lil arbitrary but go off

The gba ports of many of these look good tbh, the lighter color can be made darker by messing with the TV settings if playing on a Gameboy player, it's also nice having the option to switch between portable and home console

@Hausbrauen

2 жыл бұрын

Except for all the times *noticeably* less colors are used on the GBA, especially when colors are so bright and washed out that it loses many graphical details. Of course, some GBA games are far worse about these things than others. Then throw in the fact the resolution is almost always much smaller and limited/zoomed-in, there's *a lot* that can't be compensated for.

This is a reupload, as I made some editing mistakes in the version that I uploaded first (wrong footage with wrong games). That of course couldn't stay up, so I had to fix and render again. Anyway, let me know if you like this video and if you want to see more like it.

@CaptRobau

3 жыл бұрын

@@narutouzumaki5005 you're welcome!

@dafaqisthis

3 жыл бұрын

@@CaptRobau 7:16 gba version of Super Mario advance 4 and super famicom got switched

@classicpctinker5070

3 жыл бұрын

This is an amazing video! The side by side comparison helps so much for those of us trying to decide between the snes or gba release of the 16bit classics. All in just 8 minutes. Thank you.

I love how half the ports either have different music than their original or no music at all

Most games look better on their original release but I appreciate some of the features a lot of the GBA rereleases had. Rock N Roll Racing allows you to save your game. Donkey Kong Country 3 has a whole new soundtrack and more levels. Doom and Wolfenstein are closer to the MSDos originals. And then there's stuff like Mortal Kombat Advance which is just awful.

@Schwarzorn

2 жыл бұрын

But the replacement soundtrack for DKC 3 isn't a FEATURE; it was a necessity to accommodate the GBA's garbage speakers and lack of a sound chip. Changing the soundtrack to a game is a downgrade becuz its going to make people unhappy.

@X2011racer

2 жыл бұрын

@@Schwarzorn That, and the composer for DKC3 had left Rare, so David Wise returned for the GBA version.

@Schwarzorn

2 жыл бұрын

@@X2011racer Oh, she must've just barely missed DKC3 GBA, cuz it came out before Kameo. But also, it makes more sense to have someone else compose the new soundtrack. It would be way too disheartening to have to throw out all your hard work, or have to ruin it to make it not catch the GBA on fire (as the rumor? goes).

@yoymate6316

2 жыл бұрын

IIRC Doom on the GBA wasn’t ported over from the SNES version, but instead from the Atari Jaguar version of all things

@GamerMGO

2 жыл бұрын

@@yoymate6316 that jaguar code was the basis for most of the console ports too

Thank you for this video, the most complete comparation found, you should do it with other consoles, I difinetly will share it

@CaptRobau

4 жыл бұрын

It's a lot of work, but maybe I'll get around to doing it for more and more consoles.

@janX9

3 жыл бұрын

@@CaptRobau I hope you do, this was a really well done video. I would be interested in seeing this got other consoles. There is a KZread channel (I'm sure you know) that compares console to console ports. But one video per game. I like how you did 48 in one video. Just impressive. Thanks for the entertainment while waiting on my winter tires swap.

@gamershd4264

3 жыл бұрын

@@CaptRobau next Nds vs N64 Comparison

I can't believe I watched an 8 minute video of GBA ports.

Thank you for your hard work sir! Please keep uploading more comparisons

wow im really glad you made this

Nice video dude !! Thanks !!

Great comparison video. I feel like time and again, the main thing the GBA version seemed to struggle with when compares to SNES is the sound department. I think something that the GBA and the Sega Genesis have in common is that it's *possible* to get amazing sound and music out of both devices, but some inept or lazy programmers who either didn't know how or didn't feel like putting in the effort, and some really rough soundtracks and sound effects were often the result.

@GreenArt4

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of GBA original music is really good. Superstar saga is just amazing haha. The ports is where the SNES outshines it

I imagine it's been mentioned since there's a good 500 comments on the vid, but I am mildly amused by how the SMB3/SMAdv4 screens/audios were swapped around seemingly by accident. Caught my attention! Also good choice on the ToP clip being the *INDIGNATION!* line, that one's a BELTER

Cara! Ficou muito bom o vídeo👍👍

5:44 R-Type 3 is a great game of the SNES, then I see this port and I can't believe it. I imaginated something better.

Very good comparison. As an owner of a GBA, Snes mini, nes mini, and other game boys, this video is quite useful

Great video

Next time you do these kinds of videos, I think it would be better to switch audio between the videos instead of playing them both at the same time. It's more pleasant, and it's easier to compare them. An example would be to look at the comparisons from the channel, silenig. That channel does a perfect job.

@CaptRobau

3 жыл бұрын

Good idea

Wow, Blackthorne really got screwed by the whole "Blast up the contrast to account for the lack of backlight" thing, didn't it?

@stevesteve0521

2 жыл бұрын

Most gba games before 2005 should not be played on any sort of backlit screen. Playing them on an Ags001 sp looks a lot better

Uns dos melhores videos que vi até agora deste tipo, bom trabalho

When GBA was new it never occurred to me the screen ratio was different and the games were being cropped… So clear to see here, thanks for this great vid

7:14 the footage are swapped, I'm sure I noticed that part. but now I can see the difference between Mario all stars and Super Mario advance games. Those are my favorite childhood games I played since I was young playing it on a Old GBA SP or something.

Videazo broo, un suscriptor más, has uno de los de Game Boy con Nes.

During the mid 2010s in college, Ive been buying these classics to experience them in their entirety for the first time (all GBA version, it was a little cheaper btw). And now we’ve gotten the NES and SNES Minis in recent years, as well as the Switch NES/SNES apps, and I love it.

@teighan7829

2 жыл бұрын

If you have a rev 1/V1 NSwitch you could easily (in comparison) and safely (relatively in comparison to new Switches) mod it to play those classic games on even better emulators

This is very useful. I wish to see Sega Genesis vs. GBA.

This just confirms to me that if only the GBA had the same resolution as the SNES and a back light so they didn't convert all the graphics into washed-out and often garish versions of the originals, it really would have been the ultimate "SNES" console" basically. They could have put pretty much every SNES game onto it perfectly replicated and even improved in many ways, like that version of Doom for example, and fixed a lot of the issue in the originals like the slowdown that many SNES games suffered. I mean, technically it's leagues beyond the SNES in almost every aspect. But, what we really got was usually kinda ugly versions of seminal all the SNES and slightly zoomed in so you saw less of game view, which was almost always a negative. Don't get me wrong, I loved my GBA SP. But what could have been....

@DerpDerp3001

2 жыл бұрын

"if only the GBA had the same resolution as the SNES and a back light so they didn't convert all the graphics into washed-out and often garish versions of the originals" Do you want it to vacuum up batteries? There were no affordable rechargeable batteries back then.

The lack of contrast in the GBA games is what stands out to me the most. The GBA screen was so dark that developers often dialed the contrast up to 11 to compensate. Playing on an emulator without adjusting the gamma -- as we see here -- isn't a good look for these games. Also, GBA sprites often appear stretched because CRT pixels were shorter than they were wide and developers accounted for this back then, but many didn't correct for it in the GBA versions.

@godofthecripples1237

3 жыл бұрын

SNES games are stretched to fit 4:3 TVs, a lot of GBA games actually corrected this

@brunor.1127

3 жыл бұрын

wouldn't it be the opposite? SNES had wider pixels on a CRT

@HansVonMannschaft

3 жыл бұрын

@@brunor.1127 Do the math here. If the the pixels are wider on a CRT, then if you make the pixels square, it's stretched vertically.

real strong content on the choice for the breath of fire 2 scene to compare there, champ

Great comparison video! Love both consoles, with a bigger preference towards the GBA. Probably alone on that, hehe.

@CaptRobau

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I get it. A SNES on the go is a pretty nice thing to have, even if the quality itself can be lacking at times. Kind of like the Switch. Docked you can play it 1080p and with higher FPS. But there's just something special about playing Mario or Zelda on the go.

I'm surprised that while you included european based games such as The Smurfs, you forgot another by the same publisher, for Asterix: SNES: Asterix & Obelix ( 1995 ) GBA: Asterix: Bash them all! ( 2002 ) as part of a 2 in 1 cartridge.

Fascinating comparison. In general the rule of thumb seems to be that the GBA versions ramp up the color, brightness and contrast as well as changing up the color pallete here and there and zooming in the aspect ratio (presumably to be more easily visible on the handheld screen), but there are one or two interesting exemptions. Donkey Kong Country GBA, in fact, seems to have widened the aspect ratio from the SNES version, so there is more visible on the screen at any one time and all tge sprites are appropriately a little smaller.

@Plide

5 ай бұрын

Games appear more zoomed in on the Game Boy Advance since it has a lower screen resolution, especially vertically. SNES is 256*224, GBA is 240*160. In terms of color, the original Game Boy Advance had no backlight (VERY dark screen) and was somewhat desaturated, so games were made brighter and more saturated to accommodate for the screen. The Donkey Kong Country ports appear more zoomed out, since the sprites were re-rendered at a smaller size.

great video, in romhacking i found some patches for enhance colors in gba and match snes colors. in 7:14 is swaped, the games are in wrong place

@CaptRobau

4 жыл бұрын

There are indeed some great color correction patches on romhacking. I was already made aware of the 7:14 switch.

My mind prefer GBA My eyes prefer SNES

@leatherhidegaming

3 жыл бұрын

It's cause almost every game is oversaturated on the GBA to account for playing on unlit/front-lit screens. They look great on actual GBA systems but I don't like them on backlit screens.

@scottlukacovic4600

3 жыл бұрын

@@leatherhidegaming Ah, that explains why the original FF Tactics looks so obnoxiously colorful

@cerebralcortechreviews1426

3 жыл бұрын

No doubt

@sebastianaliandkulche

2 жыл бұрын

It seems that everyone plays in emulators this days. In real hardware you wouldnt notice any of this (or barely).

@baylordiamond8819

2 жыл бұрын

at least its portable tho

So, the GBA is basically a SNES that fits in your pocket.

@michael-johnbrown2881

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah just alittle more powerfull the gba had ssx tricky wich is a ps2 game sure the gba version is slow but i am shocked that any ps2 game could make it on the gba

@UncommonKnowledge587

3 жыл бұрын

@@michael-johnbrown2881 I used to game on an Amstrad CPC 464 (yeah, I'm old). When you see a port of an arcade game on that, it's a little like PS2 to GBA. Not that bad, though.

@tobiasmartin6003

3 жыл бұрын

@@michael-johnbrown2881 Don't forget the DEMO of RE 2 in the GBA,full 3D.

@juststatedtheobvious9633

3 жыл бұрын

@Neil Metcalfe No. The SNES doesn't even come close in raw speed or horsepower. And the SNES has weird weaknesses, like only being able to use two sprite tile sizes per screen and only accessing the VRAM during a VBlank. And that's just the start of the list. There's no way you're running Gunstar Superheroes on an SNES. The GBA can also run two mode 7 style layers at the same time. And display 4096 colors. But none of that matters, because the GBA shipped without a backlight, so the games mostly look washed out. And the resolution is lower, meaning most games couldn't afford to show off how large their sprites could be, without impacting gameplay. Then there's the sound issue... So, basically, the cpu destroys the SNES in every way, except the SNES still has better versions of SNES games.

@UncommonKnowledge587

3 жыл бұрын

@@juststatedtheobvious9633 You're right. The SNES CPU has a very low clock speed. It's amazing what it could do given the weak CPU.

thank you for your hard work

Some of these ports are surprising, in the sense that they don't really seem like games that would've been successful enough on the SNES to be worth porting in the first place.

@RetroPiero

Жыл бұрын

Yeah like....who the hell was asking for Mr.Nutz & Soccer Kid on the go? Lol

Muy buenas conversiones, me impresiona el Upgrade en algunos casos y en otros únicamente es una subida en la saturación del color o brillo pero en general está perfecto

@marcosoto7169

2 жыл бұрын

El aumento de saturación y brillo se debe a que el primer modelo de gba no tenía iluminación en la pantalla por eso los juegos tienen más brillo

when I was a kid I had metroid fusion, it was my first real experience with a metroid game and I loved it. years later I finally played super metroid thanks to emulation. if super metroid had been ported to the gba and I played that instead of fusion, I probably would have loved it even more.

You gotta give props for the studios who reworked all the sprites so that they could maintain the aspect ratio

The effect when wearing headphones is insane

I think Gba games look brighter and lesser contrast to compensate for no backlight/frontlight in the original gba. Such a shame cuz they look identical otherwise

@Hausbrauen

2 жыл бұрын

Correct, that's the reason. 3 primary aspects inferior on GBA ports: Lowered/limited resolution causing the 'zoomed in' look, the simplified/brighter/washed-out colors sometimes cause loss in the graphical details themselves, and most of the time the sound is *vastly* lower quality. Fortunately it's not always a total loss, since some games throw in some extra features on the GBA.

Kind of brings a little tear to your eyes :')

1:03 I didn't know that the SNES had games released in 2002 and the GBA had games released in 1992! I guess I've still got a lot to learn!

Can definitely appreciate the update on some of them.

Holy crap. I had no idea that the GBA had so many SNES ports.

6:30 Simcity 2000 came out in 2003 on the GBA, not 2000. Out of that and the other errors, this is a pretty good video.

@CaptRobau

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the correction.

I never fully realized how bad the crammed visuals were...that explains why "Mystical Quest" was SO much harder....

The dkc ports are a guilty pleasure of mine, somedays I'll get home from work and play 1 all the way through.

Playing Snes games on a Sony BVM CRT is a priceless experience for me. GBA color looks fade.

I will always remember the memories I have with my brothers playing The SNES ☺️

Good video but I feel like showing action scenes for RPGs would've been a better comparison than just non-battle screens.

Most GBA ports retained the original SNES assets resolution but as a result you could only see a subsection of what would've been an original full-screen image (notice how there's up-down scrolling in the RPGs on GBA advance that isn't there on the SNES.) Kinda like the old pan-and-scan VHS releases of movies were edited for TV screens. I do notice that Contra III appears to have been redrawn to retain the original screen ratio at a lower resolution. Also the Donkey Kong Country games have either been downscaled, or possibly re-rendered at a lower resolution from the original 3D art, for a similar effect. It doesn't look nearly as good on GBA, but it's interesting to see side-by-side.

Very good 😃

You forgot International Superstar Soccer (the 2002 game, without 'Advance' in the title). It is a port of International Superstar Soccer Deluxe for the SNES.

The PAL exclusive Lucky Luke SNES game had an also PAL exclusive a GBA port called Lucky Luke: Wanted!

Más allá de lo mejor o peor de las conversiones fue que el avance tuvo además un catálogos de juegos en 2D exelentes,originales y propios,en una época en qué la nostalgia por este tipo de títulos empezaba a desesperar,pues ya casi no se veían este tipo de juegos en consolas de sobremesa.Como disfrute esa maquinita...

6:33 I love the name of the GBA version

@Javier-ft5mx

3 жыл бұрын

Xd

I understand the lower resolution, but I am not a big fan of the high contrast. I suppose it's because the original GBA had no back light. NIce comparison video.

Everyone's talking about the higher contrast due to no back-light, but if you look closely the camera is slightly more zoomed in on the GBA versions too, likely due to it not quite being able to process the same draw distance as the SNES.

@DerpDerp3001

2 жыл бұрын

No, because the GBA screen is tiny, so they didn't want the characters to be ants.

@chamoo232

2 жыл бұрын

@@DerpDerp3001 That's not the reason at all. It's the resolution of the screen. Snes is 320x240. GBA is 240x160. The majority of games just crop the right, bottom and top a bit and went with that. The Donkey Kong Country games went the extra mile and rescaled everything down so you don't lose parts of the screen. You lose details on the sprites but it helps a lot with levels that require fast reflexes like the mine cart levels.

6:33 With the title like "The Revenge of the Smurfs" they made it sound like the Smurfs are the antagonists.

I played the gba ports because in most cases the gameplay had nice little tweaks, extra content and improved translations, but the sound left a lot to be desired

I would assume the reason a lot of these GBA ports are so much brighter is because the original advance didn't had a backlit screen and the devs wanted to adjust for that

some games definitely handled brightening the graphics better than others; the image looks outright blown out for the unbacklit GBA screen in some of these games. :S

I didn’t even know half of these snes games got ported to the gba. I skipped the gba era and I’m only starting to dive into it now after doing a couple gameboy macro builds plus recently adding an og gba and gba sp to my collection

GBA is great don’t get me wrong and I really enjoy it and the awesome part is it has extra features for previous games that were on the SNES and additional unlockables But? SNES for the win because it has the right lighting, pixels, shaders, perfect contrast and the older TVs takes advantage of this than modern HD TVs nowadays...the feeling of a cartridge in your hands is nostalgic in 2021 instruction manuals were thicc!!! That word also didn’t exist in the 90’s hehe...but I do remember dweeb and radical, but no one uses those words anymore God I feel old

@laughingseal2282

2 жыл бұрын

If you lower the tv contrast+lower the gamma these gba ports are better. The only drawback is the sound and some games cluttered the hud to fill the smaller screen

@ilovemybeard3394

2 жыл бұрын

@@laughingseal2282 Agreed...actually you’re right it does look better

@mentalkidgaming357

2 жыл бұрын

@@laughingseal2282 nah. the super nintendo did a much better job dithering gradients and appeared smoother

So hard to say which is better, they are what i grew up with.

Man I had no idea how many obscure SNES games came to the GBA, Mr Nutz?

Os jogos estão com uma paleta de cores mais clara, e alguns contém lags. No geral, excelentes ports.

@danielmoura8145

Жыл бұрын

No gba era necessário as cores ser mais lavadas para facilitar a visualização da tela ,pois a tela do gba era reflexiva não tinha backlight.

This is exactly why I'm one of the very few people who loves the front-lid GBA SP AGS-001 screen. Yes, the backlit screens are technically superior, but almost every single GBA games has been designed for an unlit screen and so they end up looking too oversaturated on backlit screens. The AGS-001 isn't without its flaws, but games on it look as it was intended.

@stevesteve0521

2 жыл бұрын

Well said, although a game like Donkey Kong country 3 on the gba looks much better with the backlit screen (dare I say I prefer the gba port over the snes?)Gba games did start looking a lot better from 2005 and forward since they didn’t need to deal with developing games to accommodate the dark screen anymore

Take care checking for errors next time, I noticed text and footage on the wrong sides.

48? Wow!

Colour on gba versions always looked lots brighter but not always a good factor. Still they done good versions of already class games 😊👍

Asterix & Obelix and Lucky Luke SNES games where also ported to GBA but maybe never came to USA

SNES: released in 1990 GBA: released in 2001

@Ibrahim-ug5zy

3 жыл бұрын

Gba bright is for non backlight

In my opinion SNES versions have better colours, better contrast, clean image and better audio than GBA versions (listened with an audio headset), but GBA may have better translation and a brighter image. But in fact, the games are better on SNES.

The ports of SNES games to GBA are not bad, but most are stretched or cut because of the screen and the colors are not good compared to the original, so it would be better to reprogram the sprites and configure the colors to be more similar to of the SNES and not make it so clear that it seems that the game is erased when moving some characters into a part of the scenario that is clear.

@DerpDerp3001

2 жыл бұрын

It would look terrible on the original screens, both the original GBA and GBA SP 001.

All over compensation of contrast is to compensate for no backlight on gba console. They end up looking farily similar if played on original gba

Great work! Not a fan of GBA resolution difference distorting the circular and square shapes.

I was playing the games on TV back then even more now..

7:14 Just noticed that in the SNES position, it screens the GBA version and in the GBA position, it screens the SNES version ... They're swapped each other

I love how some of them are straight ports with wonky coloration, but some of them are straight-up not even the same game visually.

this is a great video for comparison's sake but i couldn't help but notice that many of the SNES games are improperly scaled to match their GBA counterparts

Recuerdos de mi infancia yo tenía un Nintendo Game Boy Advance

O Snes tinha os gráficos um pouco melhores porque não tinham as cores estouradas como o GBA, mas isso se dá por causa do tipo de iluminação da tela do gba, que não tinha iluminação própria se não me engano, era algo relacionado aos leds.

The SNES is better almost every time. I was also surprised to see that the 3:2 ratio in these games is zoomed in and not a natural wide screen.