GBA player boot disk, yes or no?

[lordcookie]

When the player was announced they said that the boot disk that comes with it would mean that you had to buy the same region player as your GC, but I have heard reports that there wont be a disk at all anymore.

Anyone got any news on if there is a disk or not, and if you have to have the same region player and GC?

Thanks in advance.

[Earl]

Yes there is a boot disk. You'll need a modded cube or possibly freeloader, don't know if freeloader works with it at this stage though. Head here for confirmation and some impressions.

http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25926

There are rumours going around that the US GBA player won't have a boot disk, however thake that with a pinch of salt.

[Papercut]

I've seen one in action... it uses a boot disk.

[lordcookie]

Thanks for the info.

I have a Japanese GC anyway, but I wanted to know if I could wait for the US or even PAL release of the player to save a bit of cash.

Bit of a pain that I'll have to load the boot disk before playing on it each time though.

[Earl]

Yeah I know, bit of a pain to do but so be it. Anyone know exactly how the MP side of it works. For example, if I wanted to play a 2p game of Bubble Bobble, would I need a second cartridge in the GBA connected to the 2p slot?

I was just going to order one so I could finally play some MP Mario Kart but having to get another cartridge would be a huge turn off.

[charlesr]

Lik sang have tested it with a PAL GC and freeloader and it works fine.

[Ed-Epistaxis]

Yeah I know, bit of a pain to do but so be it. Anyone know exactly how the MP side of it works. For example, if I wanted to play a 2p game of Bubble Bobble, would I need a second cartridge in the GBA connected to the 2p slot?

I was just going to order one so I could finally play some MP Mario Kart but having to get another cartridge would be a huge turn off.

I think it depends on whether or not the game requires 2 carts for multiplayer.

And, IIRC, to do multiplayer you have to have 2 Gamecubes, 2 GameBoy Players and 2 TVs. I might be wrong, though.

--Ed

[Super Joe Crack]

Lik sang have tested it with a PAL GC and freeloader and it works fine.

Bugger that. One boot disc may be a bit of a pain, but having to boot two discs is taking the pish! Guess I'll just have to import then.

[Dock]

I pre-ordered the GBA player from Lik-Sang, although my order still states 'Preparing order' - anyone else got this? My machine is a switched Japanese machine, so I won't have the problem with freeloader boot disc. I agree that it sucks a little that the boot disc is necessary, but I guess I'll cope. The main reason I am importing the Japanese one is so that it matches my Spice cube.

The rumours of the US version not using a boot disc sound very unlikely, especially given the similarities between US and JPN cubes and the relatively close release dates.

I suppose it's possible that they could improve the GBA player boot disc at a later date to allow for things like single cart split screen gaming, or something, but I don't see it happening

Oh, with regards to the Bubble Bobble 2 player thing... yes you will need a GBA plugged into player 2 port, and (ideally) another copy of the game. Bubble Bobble's single cart link up sucks (10 levels on a loop). However, because the game uses the same screen for both players (if you zoom out to display full screen), you can share the main screen.

That said, it's a pretty fux0red version of Bubble Bobble that way. I'd prefer to play the PSX/Saturn version.

[Jason]

I am really looking forward to this bit of kit. I can't justify getting a GBA as I have no need or time to game on the move. I like to sit in comfort with a big screen for viewing.

But there are some GBA games I would love to play such as Advance Wars (only played briefly on emulation) both Castlevania & Sonic games as well as Metroid fusion. The missues won't even notice as it will sit on the bottom of the machine and I shall explain the cartridge is a memory card