u/ArielMJD

I personally come here for discussion of the GBA platform, not for people asking if games are real or not. It feels like most posts I see are posts asking about authenticity, but these posts are low quality and should probably go in their own subreddit. Mods, can these kinds of posts please be banned from this subreddit?

As a kid in the 2000's, I had Transformers G1 Season 1 on DVD and watched the hell out of it. I remember getting Transformers toys and feeling kind of let down that they looked nothing like the G1 designs since it was around when the original Michael Bay movie came out. A couple years ago I stumbled upon the G1 episode YouTube uploads by Hasbro and ended up watching the full series and loving it. I've been considering getting some of my favorite G1 characters as toys for a while since then, but it's kind of difficult for me to comprehend where to even start. There are a lot of different series and reissues and knockoffs and I'm not too sure what to consider buying, as a lot of the toys are pretty expensive. I do like the original G1 toys the most, but obviously they're largely out of my budget, so I'd happily settle for one of the reproductions Hasbro has made over the years, although it's kind of tricky to find them on eBay. There are a lot of sellers selling what appear to be knock offs of the G1 toys which look very accurate to the originals, but I am concerned about how high quality they might be. Additionally, with the '86 movie being rereleased, I'm interested in the toy releases Hasbro is coming out with now.

The characters I'm most interested in are Soundwave (my favorite), Optimus Prime (but only really one based on the original G1 toy with the transforming trailer), Grimlock, and Astrotrain. I'm considering starting with the studio series Soundwave for the '86 movie considering it's an official figure I can get new, but I might also consider one of the knock off reproductions of the original G1 figures on eBay if there's a higg quality one out there. What do you think?

There's been a port of Super Mario 64 for the Game Boy Advance going around, and I've been trying to find a ROM of it online to no avail. Does anyone have a download link for it? I already checked the megathread. Thanks!

While playing a game called "Model Hell" which spawns in random models, a model with ID 13566512 that appears to be the lost Sword Fight on the Heights 2 map spawned. I saved the model and gave it a closer look in Roblox Studio. Comparing it with the only image I've been able to find of SFOTH 2 I could find (which was archived from the game page), it seems like a match. It's more complex than SFOTH Original, and it's lacking a lot of the stuff from SFOTH 3. Unfortunately, it seems like whoever uploaded the model destroyed part of it, so it's still somewhat lost. The tools aren't there and it looks like a virus script got in, and some of the parts got deleted and possibly moved around. A bunch of spawns are in places they shouldn't be as well. Still, I haven't found any other archives of SFOTH 2, so this could be the first one discovered. The model has no reviews or votes, so I don't think anyone's ever found it yet.

Here's a comparison between the screenshot on the archived game page and the model:

https://preview.redd.it/8me66v8rbw4h1.png?width=420&format=png&auto=webp&s=9ea7fb267aa65daa7274d58dd9bb27f1be5a78d3

https://preview.redd.it/jpbzfz4wbw4h1.png?width=2224&format=png&auto=webp&s=4b957dc1e0cc374548a26435078d0960e7123fae

As you can see, a lot of stuff is unfortunately gone, including some of the pillars and the entire checkerboard section. Perhaps another model will surface someday with a more complete map of the game?