List of Multiplayer Game Boy Games (Link-Cable only)

[QUIMDUNG]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiplayer_Game_Boy_games

Playing link-cable Game Boy mono games is a challenge these days. Due to the extremely low-latency inherent in link-cable communication, it's difficult to emulate over TCP/IP or UDP connection, and very few emulators support this function.

I recently purchased 2 Super Famicom units along with 2 Super Gameboy 2 units. The SGB2 is different from the SGB1 in one very important respect: it supports link-cable functionality. Some of these games are quite fun to play in 2-player.

[fredJ]

Do you need two TVs for that?

[QUIMDUNG]

You can connect a SGB2 with a GB mono, GB pocket, and maybe GB color, so you could get away with only one TV. And you don't need a Super Famicom, you could insert a SGB2 into a regular SNES with a modifier cart or modified system.

I personally have two 30" CRTs next to each other. I can post pictures of my setup if you'd like to see.

Some games, like Scrabble and Battleship and Pokemon the Card Game, aren't properly playable 2P VS if both players can see each other's screen (in these types of games, the player's "hand" should be hidden from the other player). The solution is to use actual Game Boy units or to turn the TVs away from each other.

[fredJ]

That seems awesome.

I saw you played Tetris DX, have you been successful in Vs Com?

[QUIMDUNG]

That seems awesome.

yes, it is!

I saw you played Tetris DX, have you been successful in Vs Com?

I only play level 9 endless, so no information to provide there.

[fredJ]

Before I go way OT, I can inform you I was inspired to pick up another Super Game Boy 2 today.
But does it have any other advantage than the link ability?

Back to Tetris DX, I have been playing it now for two days.. I managed to get 209766 on level 7, and am trying to break that record on level 9...  It gets too fast and boring after level 20 so I'm trying to rack up "Tetrises".   But I have been unlucky with the blocks !!
Also beat Ultra, Level 9 with 0 starting blocks at 2:48. And beat Level 9 with 4 starting blocks (at 3:29) - that's quite difficult IMO.
My Ultra record for Level 9 is 75952. 
The randomize function seems to be consistent for each session but different every time the game is started, so sometimes it is easier and sometimes harder to get a good score!

Tetris DX is one of few black carts I think are worth picking up.
It seems they started to put an RPG mode into every other game (even Tennis, action games, etc) which I think detracts from basic game playing. And there's something about the color graphics that bothers me too... Maybe just a nostalgic reason...

[QUIMDUNG]

Before I go way OT, I can inform you I was inspired to pick up another Super Game Boy 2 today.
But does it have any other advantage than the link ability?

godlike! i don't see any different function besides link. i think it has a bit more development with SGB functionality, i think i read somewhere that Tetris DX shows diff border on SGB2.

Tetris DX is one of few black carts I think are worth picking up.
It seems they started to put an RPG mode into every other game (even Tennis, action games, etc) which I think detracts from basic game playing. And there's something about the color graphics that bothers me too... Maybe just a nostalgic reason...

I think Tetris DX is the best video game ever made (for my tastes). While playing on GBA SP, level 9 my highest score is in the 3 million. but playing on SGB2 on tv, my max scores are now always under 1 mio. very interesting.

I also agree about the color games, I just don't care about 99% of them. But I can't stop buying GB mono games! I bought at least 20 between yesterday and today I think. 

[L___E___T]

I am also in that phase...  Don't care about GBC, but GB games are so much fun right now.

Please, please post pics of your setup!

[QUIMDUNG]

[L___E___T]

COOL!  Want to see it in action though

Also love that you need a suitcase for Gameboy games and shoeboxes for carts - it's not just me then, I feel a bit better about that!

[fredJ]

here's part of my carts and how i store them 

[QUIMDUNG]

here's part of my carts and how i store them 

you are truly either at godlike status already or very close to it!

i used to have a gametz listing of all my games (just so i had one place where they were stored), but that damn site makes you log in every 60 days or it deletes you, and i got lazy one month and i assume it's now gone =\

got any dupes you're looking to get rid of? I've got:

Cyraid
Deadalian Opus
DuckTales
InfoGenius Systems Berlitz French Translator
Bart Simpson's Escape From Camp Deadly
Bomberman (SGB) (bought 3 copies like a fool... how could this *NOT* have multiplayer?)

would take any game i don't already have.

[security16]

Holy shit i thought i was bad with the gameboys because i have like 3 GB pockets and a few of the old housebrick GB's and a gameboy advance which you can use the cable on but i don't know about the GBA SP though since i've not seen one for a long time.

Are they sailor moon games i see there???   

[QUIMDUNG]

Are they sailor moon games i see there???   

lol nope, i don't play that kuso. games visible: mole mania, skate or die bad n rad, kirby star stacker JP, super hunback, nemesis, bubble ghost, 2x balloon fight, 2x super scrabble, 2x zoop.

in the back is shiren the wanderer 2.

[fredJ]

godlike status

lol 

I am happy to trade, but I only collect Japanese games at the moment...

I have all my games in an online database. Databases are superior because you can extract from the data easily, sort them, search, etc...