Question
I want to go back to playing some old Gameboy Advance games and I'm wondering if Nintendo has made any official announcements regarding plans to make classic GBA titles available on the 3DS online store.
If so, is there a tentative list?
Answer
Nintendo hasn't announced any plans to support Game Boy Advance emulation outside of the currently available titles for ambassadors. However, the same was true for the ambassador NES games, until they started appearing in the eShop.
Following that logic, although Nintendo has not announced anything, if they do, you can expect the first games to be:
- Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
- F-Zero Maximum Velocity
- Kirby & The Amazing Mirror
- Mario Kart: Super Circuit
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong
- Metroid Fusion
- The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
- Wario Land 4
- WarioWare, Inc.: Minigame Mania
- Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3
The GBA emulator used for the ambassador games is currently poor. It doesn't support sleep or restore points, and it probably doesn't handle any per-title quirks beyond those needed for the ten ambassador titles released so far. The NES emulator used by the early ambassador releases also had issues, and those were fixed (and available as updates) before the NES titles appeared in the eShop. The earliest sign of Nintendo doing a general release of emulated GBA games is probably going to be the same - updates to the existing ambassador titles.
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