Gameboy Advance question.

[causeican]

First I hope I have this in the right forum. I currently have a Gameboy advance and I am looking to get another one because I thought I remember hearing at one point that you can link the 2 together with a cable. Is this true ? Can this be done with a gameboy advance to a gameboy advance sp ? If looking on ebay what would be a good price to pay for either system?

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First I hope I have this in the right forum. I currently have a Gameboy advance and I am looking to get another one because I thought I remember hearing at one point that you can link the 2 together with a cable. Is this true ? Can this be done with a gameboy advance to a gameboy advance sp ? If looking on ebay what would be a good price to pay for either system?

 

Gameboy Advance talk currently straddles classic gaming and modern gaming, because it has been around a long time, but is still for sale.

 

Yes, you can link the 2 together with a cable. You can even link up to 4 systems together if you have 3 cables. Some games need only one game cartridge for multiplayer; others require that each player has his/her own cartridge for multiplayer. There are threads here on single cartridge multiplayer - what games are you thinking of doing this with? Mario Kart is a great single game multiplayer cart.

 

Yes, a gameboy advance can link with an SP. They use the same cable. You cannot link to a Game Boy Micro unless you get a special adapter, as the Micro uses a smaller cable slot. Nintendo DS machines cannot play Game Boy games in multiplayer mode at all.

 

Look around on ebay yourself - Game Boy Advances are very cheap. Try to avoid units with scratched screens. SP's are relatively cheap - the "version 2" ones with the backlit screens cost more - and are still available new today.

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Nintendo DS doesn't work with GBA link games/ I coulda swore it did.

 

Yeah, 128 pretty much covered it all though. If I was to make a suggestion for a fun multiplayered game, I'd say Advance Wars (one and two...and three if you gto a DS) You can play this multiplayered on one system, multiboot on several systems, or have multi carts on multiple systems to get extra cutscenes and such. Awesome game.

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SP's with the backlight generally go for about $60 here. Standard Advances go for half that.

[causeican]

Ty everyone for the advice. I'm not sure about what games to play, but it is funny that you mention Mario Kart because I do like that on G.C.

 

I was just in EB the other night when this thought occured to me becuase my brothers and I are always fighting over who get to play the system. Solution is now given.

 

thanks again.