What’s your rarest or most valuable GBA game?

[Anonymous No.7408881]

[Anonymous No.7409312]

Apparently, my complete copy of Drill Dozer. I would say that's not bad for my tiny GBA collection, but then I remembered I bought a large collection of garbage GB/GBA games at a flea market once.

[Anonymous No.7409463]

DemiKids: Dark Version

I don't keep GBA boxes or manuals, in fact I threw out a couple last year.

I will probably buy ninja five oh for a stupid price. And Alien Hominid if I ever see it on sale.

[Anonymous No.7409481]

I had ALTTP boxed in mint condition but I lost it.

I also lost Twin Snakes boxed and mint.

I say lost... my sister threw them out because they were "old". Oh well.

[Anonymous No.7409763]

>>7408881
i dont collect boxed games for GBA, but ive gotten some pretty good deals on loose games

i got drill dozer in a box of like 10 other gameboy games for $20 at a yard sale, and i got pokemon emerald for $10 at a flea market

[Anonymous No.7409780]

Knight of Lodis I guess by default. It’s a cool box and manual but mainly I bought cause it was the first and only time I’ve seen a copy at a local store.

[Anonymous No.7409782]

>>7408881

[Anonymous No.7409851]

Genuine Pokemon Sapphire, Fire red, and Emerald cartridges.

[Anonymous No.7410346]

>>7408881
there are rare GBA games?

[Anonymous No.7410347]

Ninja Five-O

[Anonymous No.7410414]

>>7408881
I have a failed translation romhack that claim is a prototype

[Anonymous No.7410469]

>>7410414
>t.

[Anonymous No.7410584]

I have cib Aria of Sorrow in a storage box somewhere, hell if I know which one lol

[Anonymous No.7411491]

>>7409463
it's hard to warrant having boxes for gameboy games when they just come in cheap cardboard
i feel this way about super famicom games too (although the japanese usually try to keep theirs in good condition anyhow)

[Anonymous No.7411629]

Boktai pal version complete in excellent state.

[Anonymous No.7411903]

>>7411491
only company to get it right was sega mega drive boxes are so nice

[Anonymous No.7411906]

>>7411903
>>7411491
i mean cases

[Anonymous No.7411909]

>>7410347
>Ninja Five-O
me too

[Anonymous No.7411917]

Street Fighter Zero 3 for Saturn
Cannon Spike for DC

Used to own Panzer Dragoon Saga in 2003, but traded it in for a GameCube like a dumbass.

[Anonymous No.7411928]

Snatcher for the Mega CD
Castlevania Legends for the Game Boy
Tails Adventure for the Game Gear

[Anonymous No.7411938]

How come everyone butchers their GBA and makes it unnatural colors? Even the replacement lenses look like chinese shit.
It's so prevalent that I actually bought a like new gba to make sure that I never end up with any aftermarket garbage.

[Anonymous No.7411939]

>>7411917
>>7411928
Can you fucks not read?

[Anonymous No.7411960]

>>7411939
Apparently not.

[Anonymous No.7412272]

>>7411938
I have a like new ags 101 and it's so fucking sexy. IPS screens are a meme.

[Anonymous No.7412348]

>>7410347
with box? I have it with manual

[Anonymous No.7412351]

>>7411938
Uhh... hello, Nintendo Autist, it all looks like Chinese shit even if its not modded

[Anonymous No.7412353]

>>7411938
The screen that comes with it is trash plastic. Be a real man and get glass

[Anonymous No.7412371]

>>7408881
I'm not really sure what GBA games are worth. If I had to guess, maybe my CIB Dragon Ball Advance Adventure.

[Anonymous No.7412517]

>>7408881
Really nice collection

[Anonymous No.7412553]

>>7411938
I don't care for China but their fucking screen upgrades are a thousand fold improvement and now you can get ones which dim right down for night time bed use and get bright enough for outside play. The old screens were blurry garbage, I know, I own about thirty GBA's of various models.

The best looking one is actually the older SP unless you're trying to play in full sun. It's dim enough to be tolerable.

[Anonymous No.7412562]

>>7411938
You mean IPS screens? They really suck indeed, but for lenses the original one is garbage, a chink glass is 10x better and won't scratch.

[Anonymous No.7412571]

>>7412553
lmao, they make everything look like you are playing on a PC emulator. Everything is pixelated and saturated as fuck. The best looking screens to play GBA are AGB-101 and NDS/NDS Lite.

[Anonymous No.7412586]

>>7412571
but the SP looks saturated too, and after it came out that's how the developers intended it so it depends on the game you want to play

technically you should be playing every game boy game on a period authentic game boy, the oldest gb games need to be played on the blurry 4fps refresh cheap lcd, you're cheating if you play on the pocket unless the pocket was already out when the game you're playing was current

ditto super game boy, the gamecube game boy player, etc, worthless trash because it's not how the developer intended it to look

pleb

[Anonymous No.7412603]

The other issue with GBA's is that the SP and Micro both take specialized lithium ion packs which will eventually become unobtainable (already happened) and the only shit on the market is cheap ass ch*nese shrink wrapped garbage gel packs. Which already happened.

Original with a modded screen, ch*nese as it may be, is the superior choice because you have a backlight as well as the ability to run on AA's which will be around for centuries.

[Anonymous No.7412631]

>>7411939
Get fucked GBAutist nobody wants to talk about your shovelware garbage

[Anonymous No.7412651]

>>7408881
Probably pic related.
I don't have a very big collection.

>>7411938
>>7412272
>>7412562
Glad I'm not the only one who'd rather avoid 3rd party shells/lenses/screens unless absolutely necessary.
I love my glacier model but I swear the screen just gets worse as time goes on. Is it even possible to find a reliable AGS-101 screen without paying an arm and a leg? I remember seeing somewhere that many resellers who list AGS-101 screens actually sell the IPS.
I'd rather go for the AGS-101 though because I like the crisp pixel look over IPS and I'd rather not mutilate my original hardware. Any recommended sellers?

[Anonymous No.7412671]

>>7412651
kek i know it's rare now but i bought that game and pretty much disliked it, it was one of the ones i got the same day i bought my micro, which i still have and which looks and works great

[Anonymous No.7412676]

>>7412671
It actually just came in the mail the other day so haven't started playing it yet, but Knights in the Nightmare and Riviera: The Promised Land are two of my favorites so I'm looking forward to this one.

[Anonymous No.7412678]

An unopened copy of Final Fantasy I & II or V. Those are also the only GBA games I have other than an Everdrive.

[Anonymous No.7412689]

>>7412676
I'm going to try the Tactics Ogre, I played and beat the GBA FFT, which was of course very different than the Playstation one but also very fun in its own way.

We peaked in the genre with Disgaea 2.

[Anonymous No.7412705]

>>7412689
I genuinely liked FFTA more than the original. I can't say why but I just had a lot of fun with that game.
>We peaked in the genre with Disgaea 2
I don't know if it counts but my favorite is Advance Wars 2.

[Anonymous No.7412715]

>>7412705
I like that one too. I'm hoping Unsung Story eventually comes out, some of the platforms they were going to release on when they funded their Kickstarter are out of production now lol. I'm not sure if Mitsuda is even involved with the project any more.

Flew too close to the sun or something there, it's a tragedy.

[Anonymous No.7412868]

>>7412651
You still have to mutilate it to get the screen to fit. I have both and the IPS is vastly better, but if you really want to keep the gridlines then you'll have to pay out for a clone 101. The ghosting sucks on those though.

[Anonymous No.7412894]

>>7408881
Loose copy of Pokémon Emerald, CIB Pokémon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire

[Anonymous No.7412938]

>>7412868
>IPS is vastly better
>oversaturated colors that destroy any sense of depth in the more beautiful GBA games
You are wrong.

[Anonymous No.7412970]

>>7412938
Newer GBA games were made for the backlit SP screen, that was how the developers intended them to be played.

see >>7412586

[Anonymous No.7413091]

>>7408881
Probably loose Sapphire, Fire Red, and Emerald carts. Medabots Rokusho and Minish Cap are probably the next closest

[Anonymous No.7413164]

>>7408881
Not mine but my brother has two copies of d2 for dreamcast. One for playing and one for the collection.

[Anonymous No.7413174]

These are the five most valuable I own, but my favorite is still Fire Emblem or FFTA

[Anonymous No.7413240]

>>7412970
>Newer GBA games were made for the backlit SP screen
The IPS saturates the image more than the AGS 101s do, that's my point.

Do you know what color saturation is? It's not what you think it means.

[Anonymous No.7413289]

>>7413240
Sauce?

[Anonymous No.7413291]

>>7413174
>tfw sold boktai 2 years ago for $15 while I was clearing out my closet to pay for school

[Anonymous No.7413298]

>>7412517
Nice, anon. Bought this back in the day and promptly threw away the box and manual, lol

[Anonymous No.7413319]

>>7408881
Both of those games are turds anon

[Anonymous No.7413428]

>>7413289
I have both, and I have copies of the same games, like Circle of the Moon and Warioland 4 and Minish Cap.

[Anonymous No.7413456]

>>7413428
No, I mean a peer reviewed, published source from an academic journal. Nothing else counts.

[Anonymous No.7413539]

My rarest GBA game has to be Car Battler Joe. I don't recall ever seeing it in stores during the heyday of the GBA. The only reason I knew about this game was from playing a ROM of it back in the day on vGBA. I bought a CIB copy off of eBay in 2011 when complete GBA games were still reasonably priced.

After looking at the prices of CIB GBA games just now, all I can say is that thank fuck kid me decided to keep all the boxes and manuals for my GBA games. I don't have any heavy hitters like Pocky & Rocky or Ninja Five-O, the latter of which I saw plenty of times at retail, but I do have some very solid titles that I've taken good care of over the years.

[Anonymous No.7413580]

So who wins the thread? Probably me right >>7409463

[Anonymous No.7413618]

Can't believe metroid fusion is like a $50 game now. Same with zero mission apparently.
I also have advance wars 1 and 2 which are like $30 games.
I want to get rid of the GBA games I have that are just inferior snes ports, like LttP and SMW

[Anonymous No.7413715]

i always lusted after Ninja Five-O and Car Battler Joe and never actually realized till recently that I have a lot of pricey GBA games already. Stuff like Pocky & Rocky i picked up for 3$ at GameStop, same with Boktai and Metal Slug Advance. Picked up that one 3D Moto bike whatever the fuck racing game from a pawn shop for a dollar. The one I do have boxed is the Castlevania double-pack. Idk if my autism is strong enough to buy them individually some day.

[Anonymous No.7413889]

[Anonymous No.7414138]

>>7413889
nice

[Anonymous No.7414253]

[Anonymous No.7414254]

>>7414253

[Anonymous No.7414269]

>>7414253

[Anonymous No.7414991]

>>7413889
>riviera and yggdra
Based

[Anonymous No.7415079]

>>7414269 gba mario golf was amazing

[Anonymous No.7415497]

>>7414253
>>7414254
>>7414269
This is why I don't collect boxed games. What do you do, just have plastic tubs of them sitting around for years?

[Anonymous No.7415518]

I don't have many boxed GBA games but I do have some price loose games
>Pocky, Rocky and Becky
>Battle Car Joe
>Ninja Cop
Pocky and specially Ninja Cop are amazing, though I didn't like BCJ that much

[Anonymous No.7415630]

>>7413889
>european aladdin
I'm disappointed

[Anonymous No.7415973]

>>7412651
You can get 101s for $120 on eBay now, probably less if you're patient. Only problem is the shells are usually scratched to hell or aftermarket. I got lucky and got one that was basically fresh from the box.

Before covid, they cost 60-80 bucks. Those days are over

[Anonymous No.7415995]

>>7414269
>LA, OoS, and OoA boxes
right in the feels. wish I saved them but totally not willing to spend hundreds on 'em

[Anonymous No.7416023]

>>7415497
i would love to collect boxes for games if it was still reasonable to do so. i also hate just having boxed games on a shelf. to me, if you collect boxed games, it should be because you want to display the art outward. sitting on a shelf sideways does nothing, but thats just me

[Anonymous No.7416212]

>>7408881
Minish Cap

[Anonymous No.7416510]

>>7413889
I'm jealous

[Anonymous No.7416526]

>>7412631
then dont post in the designated GBA thread?

[Anonymous No.7417053]

I keeped all my boxes and inserts from when I was a kid

[Anonymous No.7417567]

>PAL cover
>EUR marked cartridge

These guys are just fucking scamming, right? My guess is they sold cart-only for good money, bought a bootleg, stuck it in the cover and want to sell it as real.

[Anonymous No.7417942]

>>7408881
boktai 1 and 2.

[Anonymous No.7418369]

>>7413174
Does your Boktai still work?

[Anonymous No.7418435]

Which one is it? These are the only GBA games I have.

[Anonymous No.7418618]

>>7418435
for me personally dkc 2 also 70 dollars holy shit

[Anonymous No.7418764]

I can't imagine Fire Emblem by itself being too valuable, but I do have it with the Mario Kart Double Dash Bonus disk items.

[Anonymous No.7419463]

Luigi’s Slave Mansion Vol 666

[Anonymous No.7419961]

My most valuable one is not just a game, but a bundle: the Mother 3 deluxe box set, which includes the game, and also a limited edition Game Boy Micro. Bought it for $100 back then, now it goes for almost 10x as much.
Also have Mother 1+2 CIB (the original release, not the "players' choice" or whatever re-edition).
But my favorite one is Astro Boy Omega Factor. I only have a loose cart, but I got it for $4.

[Anonymous No.7421903]

>>7419961
I bought a blue GB micro for 25 and the seller gave me that Astroboy game boxed for free. Kept the gameboy and sold the game for 50.

[Anonymous No.7421943]

>>7419961
i really wanted that shit so bad when it came out, but couldn't justify buying a 2nd GBA Micro at the time (had the Famicom version) plus not having a job didnt help. i remember those early days when Mother 3 was first announced and the mystery of it for everyone outside of Japan and the slow trickle of info on it and the first mentions of a fan translation project. I even imported 2 official t-shirts for the GBA Mother games at the time but was retarded enough to not do the same for the system bundle.

[Anonymous No.7422130]

>>7418435
Fellow Aussie chad

[Anonymous No.7423706]

>>7422130
>Aussie
>chad
wew lad