Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP – Game console
- This incredible redesign features a fantastic flip-screen; unopened, the unit fits easily in your pocket
- When it’s opened, gamers are in for a treat — the screen can show up to 32,000 colors, and has a backlit screen for comfortable game viewing
- Redesigned button and D-pad residency make for hours of more comfortable playing
- Powered by a rechargeable Lithium-ion array that provides 18 hours of play with the light off(up to 10 hours with the light on)
- Sports meeting are backwards-compatible — your Game Boy Advance sports meeting will play just fine on the GBA SP
Product Description
The Game Boy Advance SP is a redesigned version of the wildly well loved Game Boy Advance. The system has a new illumination feature and sleek flip-screen design making it the most distinctively stylish, compact and portable Game Boy system ever.Building on the significant improvements and refinements already introduced in the contemporary Game Boy Advance, the Game Boy Advance SP features a revolutionary Front Light Screen making game play simple in any lighting condition. The system is powered by a rechargeable Lithium-Ion array excellent for about 10 hours of game play and takes only three hours to recharge. Amazingly, the array life increases to approximately 18 hours of continuous play when the Front Light Screen is turned off.All contemporary and future Game Boy Advance sports meeting are compatible with the new system. And, similarly, Game Boy Advance SP is backward compatible, allowing use with virtually all sports meeting and accessories previously released in the Game Boy line.Amazon.com Review
Early Adopters Pick: March 2003. As the world’s nominal video-game platform, the Game Boy Advance SP is also the first to use a built-in rechargeable array.
Many decried the original Game Boy Advance’s reflective LCD screen and its dependence on external light sources. The Game Boy Advance SP’s main feature–optional backlighting–fixes this complaint nicely, but it’s the wealth of other features that makes this system so surprisingly excellent.
At first look, you might reflect the SP is a sleek travel alarm timer. When closed, it’s just as tall and deep as the original GBA, but only half as wide. Due to its clamshell design, the screen is always protected from everyday scratches. A small button in the center of the console turns on the backlighting element for use in low-light situations, like in a moving car.
The SP comes with a well-designed potential adapter that recharges a built-in array; its prongs fold in for simpler storage. Our informal tests found that it takes about four hours to fully charge (you can even play it while it’s plugged in and charging), and the array lasts about 11 hours with the backlighting constantly on–your results may vary. Using the backlighting less often will conserve array potential.
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| With separately sold cables, you can connect the Game Boy Advance SP to other GBAs for multiplayer gaming (above) or to the Nintendo GameCube (not more than) to access secret levels, exchange data, or use other special features that vary from game to game. |
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The quality of the backlighting is very excellent. It’s bright and clear when looking directly at it, but degraded from other angles. This is only a conundrum for friends who are watching the screen from over your shoulder.
But size, potential, and affordability do not come without trade offs. There’s no headphone jack here, though Nintendo promises an adapter. The system isn’t very loud at its highest volume, and the sound can be turned down to socially acceptable levels. The L and R shoulder buttons are a fraction of the size they were on the GBA, and thus are harder to hit. Also, the reduced size of the SP is slightly less comfortable for adult hands than the GBA, but perhaps more comfortable for smaller hands. The cartridge port residency on the lower part of the console is fine for GBA sports meeting, since they are flush with the console body, but grown-up Game Boy Affect carts will stick out in a way that takes some getting used to.
Open it up and the hinge will seek out a preferred, pre-set angle (about 150 degrees), though you can open it a bit wider or narrower for your own comfort. The hinge stands up well to lateral pressure, and over all, the SP seems just as rugged as its predecessor–which has proven to be very rugged, indeed. –gatekeeper B. Hall
Unit Specifications
- CPU: 32-Bit ARM with embedded memory
- Memory: 32 KB with 96 KB VRAM (in CPU), 256 KB WRAM (external of CPU)
- Screen: 2.9-inch reflective TFT affect LCD
- Show Size: 1.6 by 2.4 inches (40.8 by 61.2 mm)
- Resolution: 240 x 160 pixels in a wide-screen aspect ratio
- Colors: 511 simultaneous colors from a palette of 32,768
- Software: Fully compatible with Game Boy and Game Boy Affect game paks
- Light Fund: Front light integrated with LCD
- Size (closed): 3.3 by 3.23 by .96 inch
- Weight: Approximately 5 ounces
- Potential Supply: Rechargeable lithium-ion array
- Array Life: 10 hours continuous play with light on; 18 hours with light off; 3 hours recharging
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this is a horrible toy that does not entertain me for more than 60 seconds. i even bought 70 sports meeting for this and it is still not entertaining. the nintendo ds is much much much much much much much much much much better than this. the gameboy is terrible!!
Rating: 1 / 5
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Rating: 5 / 5
My grandaughter has lost the charger for the cobalt Game Boy Advance SP. Please forward to the above email adress how I may take one and the cost of same.
She likes to play wqith the game veery much and I recommend it to any parent (for the outcome).
Thank you
Pink Gorman
Rating: 5 / 5
there is a headphone jack that connexts to the charger input u cannot charge while listening to headphone jack.dont listen to stupid people that say stuff without studying there complaint.anyways the sp is splendid.my bedtime is at 9:30and most kids my age fall aslepp around 12:30!so i just play my game till i fall asleep.[...]IT KILLZ TIME.i usually dont play it in the car becuz i get carsick.
Rating: 5 / 5
well i got this for christmas and i use it alot.but everyday my small 4 year ancient brother questions me if he can play it.sometimes i let him and it keeps him quite for about an hour.butthe reason i dont like to let him play it alot is cuz im worried he`ll break itthe stuff he got for christmas were cool stuff to do outside like he got a dirt bike,small basketball court,and stuff like that so he needs to find stuff to do inside when its raining.i reflect im gonna buy him 1.
Rating: 5 / 5