Thanks for the help! I was just surprised that it was in such good condition.
Nice pickup by the way! I just grabbed a Japanese copy of Dragon Quest 3 on GBC myself, after reading the new version of the game has very strange balancing - I won’t go into details here but the changes they’ve made for the sake of convenience seem to take away from the authenticity of the game.
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One thing I never noticed back when I played Donkey Kong Country on Game Boy Advance (and likely, the GBC version which I first played before it) was the effort Rare put in to make sure the game fit properly on the screen:
It looks like they re-rendered all the sprites from the original 3D model assets that went back to the mid-90s, one advantage to prerendered graphics that I had not thought of.
Other games using traditional pixel art, like Rayman, Rockman and Bass, Contra 3, often lifted the original sprites verbatim from the original game.
But because Game Boy Advance only had a 160 pixel tall screen (as opposed to SNES’s 224 pixels), it made for a zoomed in view that would effectively break the games in some places. I’m impressed they managed to avoid this!
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It actually came bundled woth the Gameboy! I can’t speak Japanese though, so it’s pretty much unplayable.