The Shrine

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 2:57 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Should I get the Gameboy SP? What are your complaints about it again? Some of you had some complaints.</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 3:16 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>No headphone jack.</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 3:30 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>The adaptor costs $1.99 CAD (like $1.50 USD), so it's no biggie. There just wasn't any space on it so it shares a port with the charger</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 3:34 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>I am also jealous by the fact that it took them THIS long to produce a backlight system. I do not consider my GBA to be very portable if I'm force to be near lamplight (or direct sunlight) every time I want to play it.</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 3:34 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Nothing really, I find I carry it around a lot more than my other GBA just because I can.</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 4:18 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah just the headphone jack, but the adaptor is cheap.</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 5:10 pm**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>From what I played, it absolutely destroys all handhelds before it. It's like they took all the good things from all the others and eliminated all the probs of them (including the GBA). Aside from the headphone jack adaptor (which caused them huge probs with the GBC), there really isn't a downside</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 5:58 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>What's to say that the headphone jack problem won't cause "huge problems" with the GBA SP? Why was it a huge problem with the GBC?</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 8:08 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Do you have a GameCube? I want to play a lot of GBA games, but portability isn't a big thing for me, so I'm going to buy the $40 GB Player for the GC when it comes out.</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 9:54 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>I got the GC. Love it. Too bad I have so little time to play since I spend a lot of time out of the house. So I'm considering the SP.</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 10:02 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>This is such a bullshit complaint. Why is a built-in headphone jack of such critical importance? The adapter costs nothing, and there's no room for another port on the back! Glargh!</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 10:36 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Hey, it's enough that got PA all stirred up.</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 11:47 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>It's a storm in a teacup. Seriously: the adapter is a couple of bucks US, if you need it. Nintendo should probably include it with the SP but it's such a trifling thing regardless.</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 11:49 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>It scratches easily and the screen is still a little reflective. Other than that: bliss. You can play the fucking thing in the dark!</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 11:51 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>The portability thing is very easy to get used to, especially now that the GBA is actually portable :).</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 11:52 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>Valid complaint. You owe it to yourself to suck it up and buy the SP though. It's a truly portable SNES 1.5! It is every gamer's dream!</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Apr 22, 2003 12:14 am**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>The ones on the GBC used to actually short out the system and cause it to turn off. Me and a lot of other stores in town had issues with that and from my understanding, it was a fairly big problem</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Apr 22, 2003 12:24 am**

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Sine bought his GBA like a month before this thing was announced. :P</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Apr 22, 2003 12:26 am**

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>If you ever hook it up to some speakers you'd understand, Metroid Fussion is a perfect game to hear the magic with.</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Apr 22, 2003 1:39 am**

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?d ... es=l">Lame Boy Advance</a>

For now on, to seperate the two products, I'm calling it the LBA, after the PA comic...</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Apr 22, 2003 1:48 am**

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Again, the sound chip for the GBA is shite. The best I've heard from it is C:HoD's ending theme, and I'm sure that took up a 1/4th of the cartridge.</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Apr 22, 2003 1:57 am**

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>But I will be able to hook it up to some speakers when my headphone adapter arrives! The lack of a built-in headphone port is not the make-or-break issue that the original GBA's horrible screen was.</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Apr 22, 2003 10:09 am**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Since I'd rather play these games on a television, I don't see the point in paying $60 more. :)</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Apr 22, 2003 9:55 pm**

<div style='font: 14pt ; text-align: left; '>I've got no complaints whatsoever. Pick it up ASAP.</div>