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Should I get the Gameboy SP? What are your complaints about it again? Some of you had some complaints.

Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
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Should I get the Gameboy SP? What are your complaints about it again? Some of you had some complaints.

 #34498  by G-man Joe
 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>

 #34500  by SineSwiper
 Mon Apr 21, 2003 3:16 pm
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>No headphone jack.</div>

 #34501  by Julius Seeker
 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>

 #34503  by SineSwiper
 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>

 #34504  by Julius Seeker
 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>

 #34508  by Eric
 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>

 #34513  by Zeus
 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>

 #34515  by SineSwiper
 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>

 #34519  by Kupek
 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>

 #34520  by G-man Joe
 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>

 #34521  by Andrew, Killer Bee
 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>

 #34522  by SineSwiper
 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>

 #34523  by Andrew, Killer Bee
 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>

 #34524  by Andrew, Killer Bee
 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>

 #34525  by Andrew, Killer Bee
 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>

 #34526  by Andrew, Killer Bee
 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>

 #34530  by Zeus
 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>

 #34532  by Eric
 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>

 #34533  by Eric
 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>

 #34535  by SineSwiper
 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>

 #34537  by SineSwiper
 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>

 #34539  by Andrew, Killer Bee
 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>

 #34543  by Kupek
 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>

 #34551  by Judgment 1999
 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>
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