Double Dragon Advance Two-Player Playthrough (Game Boy Player Capture)

This is a capture of me and a friend playing through Double Dragon Advance for the Game Boy Advance. This is not an emulator. This footage was recorded directly from my GameCube using my Game Boy Player with progressive scan mode enabled (you'll need the GameCube's component cables to do this and your model of GameCube must support component out as well). I'm player one (Billy) and Drew is player two (Jimmy). We’re playing on normal difficulty.

I'm a huge Double Dragon fan, so when Double Dragon Advance was announced after the series had been on hiatus for several years, I was nothing short of excited. Double Dragon Advance took on the dubious task of single-handedly reviving the classic beat ’em up series, and it did not disappoint. It took the basic design from the original arcade game and improved upon it while adding four new levels and retaining the cherished two-player mode.

I picked this game up on its release date in 2003 and shortly afterward, I talked my other friend, Luke, into picking up a copy as well since he had a Game Boy Advance. We then played the crap out of this game over the years, beating it countless times. It was one of our favorite two-player games, and probably my favorite Double Dragon game overall.

A little while after this game came out I received a Game Boy Player as a Christmas gift, and Luke and I discovered pretty quickly that we could play Double Dragon Advance’s two-player mode on the Game Boy Player since it has a link port on the front. You simply connect a Game Boy Advance to the Game Boy Player using a multiplayer link cable and presto, instant two-player mode on the TV. That's what Drew and I are doing here. However, if the game requires each person to have their own copy for multiplayer, you’ll still need to have a separate cartridge for each player.

Luke sold all of his games and systems a several years ago, and he pretty much no longer plays video games, so I purchased a second copy of Double Dragon Advance off eBay and asked Drew to help me record a new multiplayer playthrough. Drew had already helped me with all of the other Double Dragon recordings, so that was no problem for him.

Drew had only played this game once before, so he did fairly well here after warming up on the first stage. Enjoy the new footage.

Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the GameCube's component cables at 60 frames per second. I'm using an original model Game Boy Advance as a controller via a GameCube/Game Boy Advance Link Cable and Drew is using a Game Boy Advance SP connected to the Game Boy Player with a multiplayer link cable.