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Backward compatibility for Game Boy and Game Boy Color games is provided by an 4/8 MHz Z80 coprocessor (which Game Boy Advance software can use the audio tone generators to supplement the primary sound system), while a link port at the top of the unit allows it to be connected to other devices via use of a Nintendo Game Link cable or GameCube cable. When playing Game Boy or Game Boy Color games on the Game Boy Advance, the L and R buttons can be used to toggle between a stretched widescreen format (240×144) and the original screen ratio of the Game Boy (160×144). Game Boy games can be played using the same selectable color palettes as on the Game Boy Color. The Game Boy Advance is also capable of hot swapping by pressing START and SELECT simultaneously on the start up screen. The Nintendo logo will vanish, and you can then safely remove a Game Pak and put another one in the slot. Press A and the Nintendo logo will reappear, and the Game Pak in the slot will load.
You will recieve one refurbished Gameboy Unit (With a new screen lens) and the battery to power it. Gameboys Advance are multiregional and need no modification to play any Gameboy games from anywhere in the world.
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The Game Boy platform (which includes the original unit, the Game Boy Pocket, and the Game Boy Color) came to market when most video game consoles had a life expectancy of just a few years. More than a decade later, the system is still going strong. How did the Game Boy successfully compete--and in some cases bury--an onslaught of faster, more powerful handheld and home console systems? Let us count the ways: affordability, a huge library of games that consistently made the most of the hardware's limitations, smart power management that extended battery life, and uncluttered controls. But perhaps it was the system's ultraportable design that allowed devotees to play video games around their schedule, making it the must-have system for kids and adults alike.
Now the Game Boy Advance (or GBA as people are already calling it) comes to us with power that would have been unthinkable back in the day. The portable's 32-bit RISC CPU runs circles around the former's 8-bit workhorse, allowing it to process program instructions much faster. What that means to everyday gamers is more intricate visuals, more simultaneous movement on the screen, and better sound. In fact, the often-annoying beeps and boops of old-school Game Boy titles are being replaced with digitized stereo sound. The extra processing muscle also means you can even network up to four Game Boy Advance units together, via the communication cable, for multiplayer fun off of one shared cartridge. Only two Game Boy Color units could link together, and each unit had to have its own copy of the game.
What's not being replaced, however, is the wide selection of Game Boy games. Because the Game Boy Advance system is backward-compatible, it will play its own line of colorful games--including such launch titles as Super Mario Advance, F-Zero: Maximum Velocity, Army Men Advance, High Heat Major League Baseball 2002, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2--as well as all of the monochrome and color games that have already been released for the previous Game Boy systems (nearly 500 in total). Players can view the older games in their smaller, originally square dimensions, or, with the touch of the shoulder button, expand the game to fit the GBA's larger screen. We tried enlarging the screen on a Game Boy Color edition of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and found that Mr. Hawk was much easier to see.
When you first pick up the system, you'll be amazed at how lightweight it is. At fewer than 5 ounces and a little larger than a deck of playing cards, the system easily fits into a shirt pocket without any sag. The GBA's wider shape fits better into a wider range of hands. The former design too often pushed the left and right thumb knuckles together during gameplay. The new layout should be comfortable for all ages, and the center screen orientation makes it easy to see.
Game Boy Color owners will find the GBA's larger screen somewhat darker than they're used to, but that's because the screen is outfitted with antiglare technology. Like the old Game Boy Color, the color LCD is not backlit, so you need pretty good light to play by. Unlike that system, though, you won't be craning your neck and tilting the unit to see around the hot-spot reflection of the light bulb in your screen.
But you'll also notice the graphics. Sporting what's basically a redesigned SNES technology, you'll see things on the GBA that the big consoles do, such as scaling (making objects larger or smaller) and rotation effects--technological advances that will affect the look of everything from crossing a finish line to throwing a touchdown pass to crawling through a dungeon.
Some might argue that Nintendo could have tried to put even more power into this Game Boy Advance. After all, the 32-bit video game had its heyday more than five years ago. Perhaps, but after handling this new handheld, we're inclined to think that Nintendo wisely struck a balance between size, price, and power consumption. And considering how well the old 8-bit system weathered the decade's technological storms, we think the Game Boy Advance is here to stay, and we're glad. --Porter B. Hall
Unit Specifications
- CPU: 32-bit RISC CPU with embedded memory
- Screen: 2.9-inch reflective TFT color LCD
- Display Size: 1.6 by 2.4 inches (40.8 by 61.2 mm)
- Resolution: 38,000 pixels in a wide-screen aspect ratio (10,000 per square inch)
- Colors: 512 simultaneous colors from a palette of 32,768
- Size: 3.2 by 5.6 by 1 inch (82 by 144.5 by 24.5 mm)
- Weight: Approximately 5 ounces (140 grams)
- Power Supply: 2 AA alkaline batteries
- Battery Life: Approximately 15 hours continuous play
- Batteries Included
- Backward compatibility for GameBoy and GameBoy Color
- Games Feature Amazingly Crisp Color Graphics
- 240 x 160 Pixel Resolution
- White Case
Nintendo Game Boy Advance - White Reviews
Nintendo Game Boy Advance - White Reviews
| 11 of 11 people found the following review helpful  Portable SNES, By Jeff Johnson "Jeff Johnson" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews This review is from: Nintendo Game Boy Advance - White (Video Game) This is the very first 32 bit portable system, to give it a comparison, the SNES is a 16 bit system and the N64 is of course a 64 bit system. For starters, the screen is about the same size as a sticker on a N64 game cartridge, and the size is the same as a Gameboy turned sideways. However, the width is super slim less than the width of a N64 game. The button configuration has something to be desired though, as there are the traditional A and B buttons, then the start and select buttons are so tiny and placed far away from the A and B. An added touch is that there are L and R buttons, however from the N64 and SNES controllers, the L and R buttons wear out quickly and no one wants to pay $$ for a new GBA. The sound is very advanced and you can make out voices and speech in games like Super Mario 2. As for the screen, we all know that its in brilliant color, however the screen is not the greatest thing to make out, especially with dark or high speed games. Another huge plus is you can... Read more 13 of 14 people found the following review helpful Handheld Mania...in 32-bit, By Jason Anderson (USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Nintendo Game Boy Advance - White (Video Game) This handheld system is the latest in handheld technology. It is 32-bit, with a 50% wider screen, stereo sound, 15 more hours of battery life, TWO Left and Right 'shoulder' buttons, four player linked games, NINTENDO GAMECUBE hookup, and more. And this system features an extensive list of game that you can play. You can play games from the original Game Boy, Game Boy Color games and is the only system compatable with Game Boy Advance Games, hence the name.The Games that are out, and shall be coming out for this system are amazing. Take Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 for instence: this game is th first 3-D handheld game, and its from the top selling Tony Hawk series. You skate around the 3-dimensional skate parks trying to improve your rider, complete goal, unlock new skate parks and skaters, and also, if your good enough, unlocking cheats! Another game is Mario Kart: Super Curcuit. You can reace at over 20 brand new tracks in three differant engine speeds. If you race well, you unlock... Read more 16 of 18 people found the following review helpful The system that shows off the true power of a game boy!, A Kid's Review This review is from: Nintendo Game Boy Advance - White (Video Game) Game boy: no color and lame graphics. Game boy Color: Improved graphics and color. Game boy Advanced... The coolest portable system in the whole universe!!!!!! Let me tell you about this GBA. Some magizine told a lie about " It couldn't play game boy or GBC games". But that's [a lie], it can play them. Also SOME game boy color games can have more secrets if you play them on GBA. For example if you play Legend of Zelda oracle of ages [or seasons] there is an Advance shop that you can't get on GBC, and in Wendy every Witch's way there are 3 secret levels you can't get on GBC. The graphics of GBA games are breathtaking. The gaphics are equal to the SNES, also there are some SNES games they put on GBA like Super Mario World, Prehistoric Man, Breath of fire 1 and 2 and more games, three popular games of PS1 are Rayman Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the dragon. Games like Golden sun, Peter pan Wario land 4, Frogger, Mario cart, Advanced wars, the 3 syooges[!],and more are on the GBA. You can... Read more |
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