For reasons no one can fanthom
You’re talking about it, that’s the main reason
For the one other person who might be wondering, the game works on CFW as well!
Afaik the DS basically has GBA hardware built in, right? So I don’t see why there was a chance of it not working
Mostly that it was a GBC game being released in 2023 with the website being the assumed location it would be played. I honestly figured it was just a generic file type that was made in the style or with the constraints of the Game Boy Color, not that it was actually a Color game.
It’s obvious right, everyone is talking about this and McDonalds is loving it.
For reasons no one can fathom
The ROM hacking community takes this personally.
ROM hacking and well, just retro development like this is awesome. I think there is something to be said about the creativity that comes with a limited canvas and so on
Can someone reply to my comment? I’m trying to make sure I’m able to see comments from other instances. Thank you :)
I can’t see it, try again.
I sees ya!
Thank you ! Also on topic of the post I think it’s pretty cool that people are still making games for older consoles. I’ve been experimenting with making a gbc game with gb studio in my spare time.
How are you liking it so far?
I love this so much. I need to break out one of those gameboy studio tools and take a crack at a game of my own.
It’s nice to see stuff like this for the GameBoy :). I have to try this on my Analogue Pocket :).
That’s awesome, might have to check it out myself.
I think I knew in my heart it wasn’t going to be a purple Grimace cartridge, but I was still disappointed when I learned it wasn’t.
It would be so much cooler if they actually released a cartridge for it.
Wait there aren’t any actual carts for this? Did they just drop a rom file somewhere? Who at McDonald’s came up with this idea and how can we get them a raise!
no its just a download or a site to play it from. No cart. Kinda sad about it, would have been a sick collectable.
I played Grimace’s Birthday on my Analogue Pocket. It’s surprisingly decent. I wish there was a mode that focused on getting a big combo similar to the OlliOlli daily challenges.
Agreed! I played it on my FunKey S while waiting for a pickup yesterday and it was pretty fun and looked great. I think I’ll put it on my Anbernic 351V because the grinding was a little tricky to nail with the tiny buttons on the FunKey S. But it is cool that they essentially put accessibility options in there to let it auto-grind if you’re on a mobile device.
Here is some gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK4k5kUj9WA
I watched a few minutes of that. Appreciate the link to the game play.
If there isn’t a cartridge then it’s just a ROM not a game imo. I know it’s pedantic to specify but it matters when there are people who’ve released modern GB cartridges
It’s a game, just not a cartridge. Just because it’s in a file format doesn’t make it not a game. I’m planning to check it out on my GB Advance SP with an EZ Flash cartridge, so it’ll be playing on actual hardware.
Retro handhelds have really revived people’s appetites for retro-styled games. There’s a lot of fluff on itch.io, but there’s good stuff there too.
🪺😂 honestly a hot idea. The article is fun to read too
Key words for follow-up reading :)
- GB Studio
- atari2600
- the Tetris chicken nugget in prc
