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Game Boy Advance SP 101...worth it ?

  • 19-09-2014 08:51AM
    #1
    brianon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,406 ✭✭✭


    So I've been playing allot of Game Boy games (color, original and advance) and have been using my GBA, GBA SP and GameCube Super player thingy.

    Picked up an EverDrive GB and wondering if the GBA SP 101 model with the backlight is worth the money ?

    If I get a US model will my 001 model GBA SP charger work with it ?

    Is the bright screen as big an upgrade as people make out ?


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  • #2
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,144 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Definitely. I got one a month or two ago and can no longer look at the standard SP screen. The difference is like night and day.

    It looks like a modern handheld LCD screen. Comparing it to the old frontlit SP is like looking at ancient technology versus something you'd buy today.


  • #3
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    The AGS101 has a stunning screen, the downside being the ergonomics of the thing...I just can't use them for long periods with 'the claw' kicking in. The alternative, is to buy a modded 1st gen GBA, with the SP screen fitted.


  • #4
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,144 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Just watch out for those modded GBAs, lots of them seem to be Chinese knock off GBAs. At one point, there was a company manufacturing clone GBAs with backlit screens. I'm fairly sure that's why you see so many of them on ebay (I doubt there's one guy out there modding hundreds of GBAs!)


  • #5
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Just watch out for those modded GBAs, lots of them seem to be Chinese knock off GBAs. At one point, there was a company manufacturing clone GBAs with backlit screens.

    Oh really? So some of them aren't even legit GBA's?? Didn't know that!


  • #6
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,144 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    A lot of them said they had 'new shells' and then the sheer bulk of them (after I was reading about GBA clones) turned me off the idea.

    Maybe I was just being paranoid and they are legit. Best idea would probably be to buy one from a seller who's modded it with a backlit screen himself rather than one of those guys who seems to have millions of them.


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  • #7
    brianon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,406 ✭✭✭brianon


    Thanks guys. I might just go for this so.


  • #8
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,753 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    @brianon - Yes, if you're playing a lot of GBA then the screen upgrade is essential imo. Same as the Nomad screen mod - you can properly see what you're playing, night and day.

    I'd also echo Myrddin - get the original GBA modded, rather than the SP - as much as I love the form factor of the SP, mine never gets played. It's just too uncomfortable (same as the GB Micro in that regard).

    I got my modded GBA from this chap on ebay, zero issues with him.


  • #9
    The Last Bandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,727 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    If you're not opposed to emulation then I recommend the GCW Zero.


  • #10
    brianon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,406 ✭✭✭brianon


    The Last Bandit wrote: »
    If you're not opposed to emulation then I recommend the GCW Zero.

    Have been moving away from emulation recently.

    Just bought one (GBA with modded 101 screen) there from UK.


  • #11
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,753 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    brianon wrote: »
    Just bought one (GBA with modded 101 screen) there from UK.

    Excellent purchase, you won't regret it. The first time you pop a game in and turn it on you'll be wondering how you managed to get by without the mod. :cool:


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  • #12
    moonlighting
    Closed Accounts Posts: 470 ✭✭moonlighting


    another option is to use a gamecube with the game boy adapter


  • #13
    brianon
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    moonlighting wrote: »
    another option is to use a gamecube with the game boy adapter

    Yeah. Have that and it's great but love the portable option.


  • #14
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,122 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Why not just use a DS and a flash cart if you're using an ever drive?


  • #15
    brianon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,406 ✭✭✭brianon


    Thargor wrote: »
    Why not just use a DS and a flash cart if you're using an ever drive?

    DS can't run game boy or color games though.


  • #16
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,122 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    My EZ Flash had built in GB and GBC emulators, or now that I think of it maybe it was my Supercard, one of them anyway had a perfect emulator built into the cart firmware so that games just showed up in the list as usual and had a little GB, GBC, GBA or DS icon to show what system they were for, worked flawlessly and never saw a single glitch in Link to the Past or a couple of other ones I played through, I think most flash carts were being released like that towards the end.


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