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A Great and Most Pointless GBA Accessory

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 protoype, which is after the jump.

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Want To Play Your GBA With A DDR Pad? Of Course You Do

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 favorite 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]


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Pokemon Dressed Up in Moe

A while back, we posted "moe" style Pokémons. They were anime incarnations of Pocket Monsters. Someone has created a Japanese patch of these types of characters for Pokémon FIre Red and Leaf Green. The name of this game patch? Moemon. Go figure.

Thanks muu!


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Get Your Chip On With Blip Festival

Blip Festival, a four-day celebration of music made with vintage game systems, returns to New York City on Thursday with 40 artists and musicians from the US, Japan, Europe and South America.

"After last year's jaw-dropping lineup and unprecedented turnout, it became clear that there is a large and growing interest in this movement that shouldn't be ignored," said Mike Rosenthal, festival co-curator and The Tank's Managing Director. "By hosting this event, we not only nurture the scene, but also give New Yorkers a unique chance to experience a thriving international subculture."

Among the artists features will be the Ataris, the Commodore 64s, Bit Shifter and Nullsleep. I had a chance to chance to chat with a bunch of chip musicians, including Bit Shifter and Nullsleep, years ago when I wrote a feature about the music for the Rocky and MTV. It's a fascinating sub-culture of music and gaming.

If you're in the area I highly recommend stopping by to check it out. Tickets run $10 a day or $35 for the full festival pass. Full release after the jump.

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Japan Finally Bans WiFi Game Portables on Planes

Portable owners, Japan isn't exactly flying the friendly skies. The country's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has been discussing banning gaming devices with wireless (like the DS and PSP) since last March as it believes the emitted electromagnetic waves interfere with the aircraft's navigational devices. Starting this week, a revised Japanese law went into effect that bans handheld gaming consoles with WiFi on Japanese planes. The ban also encompasses wireless computer mouses and headphones not provided by the airlines. Using portables without integrated wireless (such as the GBA) is fine. Paranoid or cautious? YOU DECIDE.
Game Ban [Hollywood Reporter via Joystiq]

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MOTHER 3 Character In SSBB

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!]


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Harrison Puts Another Nail In GBA's Shakey Future

First we strong-arm Shigeru Miyamoto into telling us that the GameBoy isn't really sticking around much longer and now NOA's veep of marketing George Harrison is saying they may not ever use the name again.

"This year in our marketing you really won't see much push against Game Boy itself, so it will kind of seek its own level. It's hard to say in the future if we will ever bring back the Game Boy trademark," he told GameDaily BIZ in an E3 interview (full transcription coming soon).

"It was a big risk for us to actually pass on it and call the new product the Nintendo DS, but it was part of Mr. Iwata's philosophy that if we're going to make a radical difference and try to reach a new audience, then we have to change the name... We had to make a break even though we had one of the greatest trademarks in the history of the industry."

Wow, Nintendo killed that brand dead.

Harrison: Nintendo May 'Retire' Game Boy [GameDaily Biz]


The Miyamoto Interview Collection, Part 7
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Elf Bowling Trailer Reveals Santa's Checkered Past


On the one hand, this is a trailer for the CG movie based off of a computer game about hitting elves with bowling balls. On the other hand this Elf Bowling the Movie does raise an interesting theory about the origins of Santa Clause that I cannot help but find intriguing. Santa as a disenfranchised pirate who hones his skills until he can strike joy into the hearts of children around the world leaving nary a scrap of evidence he was ever there at all? Is Santa a joy ninja? A Pirinja? When is Bejeweled the Movie coming out?

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Spyro Returns Yet Again

Last year's Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning was received with all the excitement of a street corner religious pamphlet, but still Sierra Entertainment soldiers on, dedicated to making sure their new Spyro trilogy continues to march towards completion. This fall will see the release of the second game, The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night for the PS2, Wii, DS, GBA, and mobile phones. Continuing the story where the last game left off, the Ape King attempts to usher in a new age of darkness, and only a small purple dragon can save him. The title promises new melee moves, breath attacks, fury attack, and boss fights the like of which Spyro has never seen. More »

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Target Discontinues GBA

A Target tipster sends word that the chain sent out word today that all GameBoy Advance stock is being listed as discontinued and that all backstock in storage rooms is to be sent to the floor and sold. More »

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Rhythm Tengoku Arcade In the Wild

A location test for the arcade version of Rhythm Tengoku recently wrapped up at Ikebukuro arcade GIGO in Tokyo. Both Nintendo and Sega created the arcade port, which features two player modes and doesn't differ that greatly from the original GBA version. One play contains two credits, and extra credits can be received when scoring "Perfect" on mini-games. As noisy as arcades can get, I can't help but thinking this music rhythm game will be an exercise in frustration. Love that yellow cabinet, though! More »

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Miyamoto Autographed GBA Sells For Two Grand

If you thought the eBay markup on next-gen consoles was high, wait till you see this. This limited edition gold Zelda Triforce GBA, autographed by Miyamoto himself was recently sold on eBay for a whopping $2,157.86. There were only 30 of these puppies made and signed back in 2005 when the Nintendo World Store opened it's doors for the very first time (one of them still resides in a case at the NWS). The system had never been played and came with a copy of Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap. More »

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Clip: Harry Potter Game Trailer

The kids are all grown up and but they're always up to same old shit, aren't they? This year's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix looks even darker than the last one (which is why I want to see it) both in the film as well as in the video game version. Of course, I couldn't post the game trailer up there and then miss out on the opportunity to also post a 'compare and contrast' with the actual movie trailer since it too was just released: More »

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New Crash Bandicoot Hitting DS, Wii, GBA

Go Nintendo got their hands on this scan from an unnamed gaming magazine written in Spanish. It shows what appears to be a new Crash Bandicoot, perhaps Crash of the Titans, which will be heading to the Wii, DS and GBA this October. GBA? I thought that was dead. More »

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Mother 3 Comes To... iTunes

While the rest of the Gawker internet family rejoices over the upcoming release of DRM-free, lossless, EMI-published music through iTunes, we Earthbound nerds are in a tizzy over much more enticing iTunes news, the release of two Mother 3 soundtracks outside of Japan. More »

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Clip: Final Fantasy VI Advance

Wow, I can't believe there are still decent GBA games coming out. Well... playable GBA games coming out. Any prediction on when the GBA and its spawn rolls over and dies for good? I just don't see it co-existing much longer with the DS. Could this be the last big title for the platform?

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Nintendo: 3.2 Million Wiis Sold

It should come as little surprise that Nintendo reported record profits today for the end of their third quarter, selling millions upon millions of things worldwide. What kind of things? How about 3.19 million Wiis? Would you believe 1.5 million Virtual Console games? Can I possibly impress you with nineteen Nintendo published titles that sold more than a million copies in nine months? More »