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Majesco Gives GBA Text Messaging, Wireless, Video
mindless4210 writes "Majesco Games has announced a new application for the Game Boy Advance, the Wireless Messenger. Using the Wireless Messenger players will be able to send instant text messages through their Game Boy. The product is set to be released later this year and will make its first public appearance at the E3 Convention next week." Majesco has also announced a Wireless Link, which will "use the standard Game Boy Advance link cable and enable users to play any multiplayer GBA title without the restrictions of the cables", and has just launched the Game Boy Advance Video range, with the "initial roll-out... [including] the first two volumes of SpongeBob SquarePants and The Fairly OddParents, as well as Dora the Explorer Vol 1."
Hell, the GBC had an infrared port. It practically never got used, though (it just wasn't as fast or reliable as the link cable - which is sad, because the link cable is only 512kbps). If Nintendo's really smart, they'll use the same RF technology they used with the Wavebird...
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GBA has too limited controls to make this useful. I got plenty enough annoyed having to use a controller to write messages in Animal Crossing, I don't think I'd have much desire to do the same with my GBA. Not to mention, in order to send the message, wouldn't you have to be in range of the other GBA? You might as well talk to each other then! The only application for this would be cheating on tests, talking shit to your buddy at a wedding/funeral/church service, or trying to find your friend in a crowded dance club.
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I've got a GBA (not SP), and the only peripheral I have is a rechargeable Batterypack. Like another poster, I don't really have any desire to get more peripherals for it.
What's funny though, is that when I was a kid, and had an original GameBoy, I had (and wanted) EVERY peripheral i could find.. I love to add shit together like a transformer Devastator, and click all these piece together in a giant monstrosity of TOY.
I had the Gameboy, plus a light that fit over the screen, plus a magnifier, plus a set of stero speakers that had it's own battery plugged into the bottom, plus a special carrying case. I used to love clicking it all together and strutting around the schoolyard.
Come to think of it, I also had a Genesis with a SegaCD, and a 32X... that was a beast!
Now, I like stuff to work properly out of the box.
Maybe it's was just a phase.
The catch: this wireless adapter will ONLY work with games that support it (such as Leaf Green and Fire Red). It will not be backwards compatible with older multiplayer games, which I'm filing under the "lame" category.
This Majesco peripheral seems to do just that, however. Why Nintendo couldn't have just worked up an all around wireless device such as this is beyond me.