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GBA SP Updated with Brighter Backlit Screen
PSXer writes "Nintendo has quietly included a much brighter backlit screen into the new Game Boy Advance SP Graphite and Pearl Blue colors.
From the article: "Though all that's changed between the classic GBA SP system and the updated ones is the screen technology, the difference is night and day. The new system kicks on with incredible brightness and clarity in its display right from the start, and the improvement becomes even more obvious with each game you stick in the system.""
You can do that already with a GBA SP..
Just don't expect it to continue working afterwards..
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The website does have one interesting property. If you've got cookies disabled, you can't read the article - it just displays ad after ad, in some sort of loop. Damn annoying. Of course, that's not to say the article itself isn't an ad of sorts - but it's more relevant (and interesting).
Anyway, I wonder if retailers are going to have to discount the older, dimmer version in order to sell off old stock - and by how much?
Damn, I had just bought one the these a year ago (classic NES version). They upgrade these things yearly it seems.
Putting some retro-decals on a standard GameBoy SP doesn't really count as an upgrade. This is the first "real" upgrade since the SP came out, and is hardly of the same magnitude as the upgrades the SP had over the plain Advance; let alone the original Advance against previous GameBoys.
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Actually you should.
Nintendo devices are known to be virtually indestructable.
My friend's DS fell from a sitting height onto a hard tiled floor, while running. Result? Not even a stratch and the game kept on running.
A recent slashdot post was about someone who threw his GC Wavebird controller in anger. It flew two rooms until it landed in a kitchen shelf. Result? a few scratchs, and the controller kept working, controlling the game two rooms away!
Moreover, I don't remember if it was for the GBA or one of the older GBs, but there was a game which had a tilt sensor inside the game catridge and allowed you to control some of the features by tilting. iirc it had a maze with a ball that you could tilt the device to make it roll to one side or the other.
^_^