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• (date not recorded) – I gave this away. I regret doing so.
• (date not recorded) – I got this after I gave away my Dreamcast.

• (date not recorded) – bought

Technical Specs ∞

• CPU 32-Bit ARM with embedded memory
• MEMORY 32 Kbyte + 96 Kbyte VRAM (in CPU), 256 Kbyte WRAM (external of CPU)

• SCREEN 2.9″ TFT reflective screen

  • 240×160 resolution 40.8mm x 61.2mm screen size 32,768 possible colors 511 simultaneous colors in character mode; 32,768 simultaneous colors in bitmap mode
• SIZE(mm) Width 144.5mm, Depth 24.5mm, Height 24.5mm
• WEIGHT 140g
• POWER 2 AA batteries
• BATTERY LIFE 15 hours (10 while backlit)

• SOFTWARE Cartridge format

  • Gameboy Advance, Game Boy and Game Boy Color compatible

Games ∞

• /tag/game-boy-advance-sp-games
• Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis

• I played a few games, but never got into things really.. aside from the few RPGs I liked a whole lot.

Games I wanted to buy ∞

Please note that I’ve not reviewed these games, so it’s quite likely that some titles here would be complete duds which I wouldn’t like. I’m horrifically hard with my liking most things.

• Earthworm Jim 2
• Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
• Gauntlet: Dark Legacy
• Golden Sun: The Lost Age
• Gradius:Galaxies
• Metroid Fusion
• Phantasy Star Collection
• Onimusha Tactics
• Phalanx
• Sim City 2000
• The Revenge of Shinobi
• Wing Commander Prophecy
• Wizardry: The Summoning
• Wolfenstein 3D – (2002)

• Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars

Type unknown ∞

• multi-packs: including tennis
• Wonder Boy In Monsterland
• Bomber Man

• Tetris

Unsorted ∞

• Advance Wars
• Advance Wars 2
• Bomber Man Max 2: Blue Advance
• Bomber Man Max 2: Red Advance
• Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
• Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
• Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
• Crazy Taxi: Catch A Ride
• Doom [1]
• Duke Nukem Advance
• Dungeons & Dragons: Eye of the Beholder
• Earthworm Jim

• Grand Theft Auto 3

The Gameboy as a media player ∞

an aborted project

See also Music > /tag/portable-computing+audio-hardware

My initial research seems to show that the gameboy is pretty poor as a media player.

• www.cdworld.co.uk/mmcd/gbcd/gbamp3.html – MP3

• ps2modchip.com/search.php?page=messiah – Movies and MP3s

Gameboy accessories ∞

• www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=6&products_id=3483& Gameboy Skin
• www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=210&products_id=3099& Gameshark
• www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=210&products_id=2827& Sun Filter – Anti-glare

• www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=210&products_id=3355& Cyber Power Pack – external battery

GBA Resources ∞

I’m not checking all of these links since I don’t own one of these

• GBA Development
• www.nintendo-e-reader.com/ Nintendo E-Reader
• www.gameboy.com/master_gamelist.jsp Master Game Boy Game List
• www.ziegler.desaign.de/GBA/gba.htm
• www.songpro.com/text.htm SongPro – Multimedia on the GBA (Flash)
• www.work.de/nocash/gba-xboo.htm nocash multiboot – bustboot for GBA

• www.charmedlabs.com/xport.htm Xport 2.0

Unsorted Links ∞

• www.consolesource.com/gameboy/gb-int-gs.htm
• www.consolesource.com/gameboy/gb-arr-flm.htm
• www.consolesource.com/gameboy/gb-int-car.htm
• www.cheatheaven.co.uk/gameboy.htm
• www.mod-chip.net/accessories/nintendo_prod5.html
• www.devrs.com/gb/files/doxs.html
• users.raketnet.nl/darkfader/http://darkfader.net/gba/main.html
• www.darkside.no/gba/
• www.jam-id.com/
• www.devrs.com/gba/
• www.matt-tighe.co.uk/gba/demos.asp
• www.sillett.com/gba/
• www.loirak.com/gameboy/gbatutor.html
• www.fivemouse.com/gba/index.html
• gameboy.times.lv/games/shop/gba_multi_game_cartridges.htm
• pocket.ign.com/articles/358/358050p1.html
• www.gbax.com/manual.html
• www.gamewallet.tk/
• www.flash2advance.com/
• home.t-online.de/home/marhal/gbxreview.htm
• www.goldenshop.com.hk/AI-trad/gba/
• www.bits.bris.ac.uk/dooby/gba/index.html
• unittactics.sourceforge.net/

• www.devrs.com/gb/