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GBA Internal Light Ready?
Dark Paladin writes "Looks like Portable Monopoly , the internal Gameboy Advance light, is finally ready to move beyond Vaporware and launch. The price for the kit? $35. Finally - me, a dark night, and my GBA. " Perhaps with this, we can revoke GBA's current title holder as "Worst Screen Ever". Still, Golden Sun is a great game.
I checked the faq and unless i'm missing something, i did not see any mention of effects on battery life.
Any idea how long it a pack of batterys would last? I believe the GBA runs for around 15 hours without any backlight.
Bring back the old version of slashdot.
Let me put in my vote against the common conception that the GBA screen is horrible. In fact, it is nicer than all of the previous Game Boy screens. Some games (Castlevania) have made the mistake of having really dark graphics -- but this was true even on the GBC (Paperboy?).
I can see my GBA fine as long as there is a light on or I'm outside. I might get the backlight for playing in the dark, but I've had plenty of fun playing through several games with its screen as it is!
You have to understand why he chose this domain name in the first place. It was initially setup to be a place to sign a petition to ask Nintendo to create a version of GBA that didn't have a screen which sucked. And well, I personally think the description of this is fits Nintendo well? But over the past couple of months, after R&D'ing like a madman, the PM site owner realized that he could forgo the petition and just DO something about it, and it seems as though he has come through. But the site remained. He just kept updating it. Anyway, if you're talking about the name of the actual product. Not sure what it's called yet.