The unit is comfortable to hold, and theīuttons have very good tactile feedback, and are easy to press. Above theseīuttons is the screen light toggle and below them are the Select and Start buttons. Is on the left and the A / B buttons are directly across from it. The button layout is pretty much classic Game Boy. For noisyĮnvironments though, you’re going to want earphones… Sound-wise, the front speaker is loud enough in most situations. When opened, the screen folds backĪpproximately 140 degrees which is a great viewing angle for playing games.
You shake the unit when it is upside down. Screen isn’t held closed with a latch, it will not fall open on its own, even if Opening the cover reveals the screen, buttons and speaker grill. Left to right: normal mode, wide screen mode It stretches the image to fill the screen. Game Boy games is that pressing these buttons changes the display from regular One cool feature that I discovered when using the SP with old original These buttons do different things depending on the game cartridge loaded in the On the ‘shoulders’ of the SP are 2 spring loaded Left and Right buttons. It glows amber while the batteries are charging, and turns off The LED below it is the batteryĬharging LED. When the battery life drops to 30% – 20%. Top LED glows green while the unit is powered on and changes from green to red On the right side is an On/Off power switch and 2 status LEDs. On the left side is a small slider switch that controls the volume level of Of your hands as you hold and play with the unit. Although this looks awkward, the carts don’t get in the way Older original carts stick outĪbout 1.25 inches. Game Boy AdvanceĬarts fit flush with the front of the casing. The game cartridge slot is at the bottom front of the unit. Patented (ok, I haven’t patented it – yet) squeeze/creak test. The case is very solid and stood up to my Available in Platinum or CobaltĬase colors, I chose Platinum. Physically, the SP reminds me of an original Game Boy that has been folded in Both can play the entire library of Game Boy games. Than these three changes, this new unit has the same functionality as the Original Game Boy Advance, the new Game Boy Advance SP has a compact foldingĭesign, rechargeable batteries and finally a back light for the display! Other
Though the performance is exactly the same as that of the Power: Rechargeable lithium-ion battery, 10 hours continuous play with light on,ġ8 hours with light off, 3 hours recharging timeĪre you wondering what the "SP" in the name stands for? It stands for Screen: 2.9in diagonal, reflective TFT color front lit LCD, 240 x 160 pixelsĬapable of displaying 32,768 simultaneous colors in bitmap mode Memory: 32 Kbyte + 96 Kbyte VRAM (in CPU), 256 Kbyte WRAM (external of CPU) Now, it’s 2003 and Nintendo has added another new model to It sported a larger screen, 240×160 pixel, horizontal layout and aįaster processor. Two years later inĢ001, the first radical change to the Game Boy design was released with the Gameīoy Advance. Screen, 4 channel sound and ran 13 hours on 2 AA batteries. It had an 8Mhz Z80 based processor, 160×144 pixel, 56 (out of 32000) color Then in 1999 the Game Boy Color was released. This model was smaller in size, had a better contrast screen and It had an 8bit Z80 based processor, 160×144 pixel, 4 gray scale screen, 4Ĭhannel sound and ran 15-30 hrs on 4 AA batteries. The original Game Boy unit was first introduced in Japan in 1988 (1989 in the Included the features I’d been waiting years for. Interested when I first read the news about the Game Boy Advance SP. The original Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket and Game Boy Color, I was extremely
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