Recommend me some good games for that system. They can be foreign games too, I hope that there is translation patches for those by now. There have to be some hidden gems or good remakes I must have missed. Hell, if there is any homebrew, feel free to throw that at me too.
In the "hidden gems" pile.
TMNT. It was a licenced game for the turtles movie at the time. The console versions were typical mediocre movie games, but the GBA port was a surprisingly good and occationally difficult beat em up.
Advance Guardian Heroes. A tough as nails beat em up. High quality despite some occationally rough graphics.
Lady Sia. An animation heavy platformer similar to the old Aladdin games.
Sonic Battle. The Sonic Advance games are well known, but this 3D smash bros clone is actually really good. I remember the endgame grind being brutal though, so if there's a hack to fix that, do so.
Scourge Hive*. I played the DS port, so can't say how the GBA version is, but is an isomentric Metroid with smooth animation I remember being fun.
F-Zero GP Legends series. Story based F-Zero. Not all got an English release iirc.
GT Advance series*. Smaller scale Gran Turismo rip offs. I've not played them much, but whichever I have played was good.
Finally, some less than great recommendations.
Doom. Not the best way to play Doom, but I had fun with it at the time.
Ecks vs Server 1 and 2. More GBA FPS games. Hyped at the time, but I never got the appeal beyond being technically impressive. People seem to like them, but they aren't talked about when it comes to GBA classics.
Duke Nukem*. Again, a supposedly technically impressive FPS game for the time. Never played it myself.
Dark Arena*. Another one I've not played. A doom engine game more or less.
Rebelstar tactical command
I'd pass on this one, or move it lower on the list. It's pretty rough going. Especially compared to others mentioned.
