cool gba

[tantone56]

check it out

 

http://www.funcoland.com/product.asp?produ...uct%5Fid=020237

 

to bad I already have a silver one though

[Ze_ro]

Again, for the too-lazy-to-click-links people out there, it's a site taking pre-orders for the NES-style GBA. $99.

 

--Zero

[tantone56]

sorry ive been away for awhile and didnt know this was old news

[Duke 4ever]

Theres also a Japanese famicom version that looks way cooler.

[Raijin Z]

If you like red and white. =_= Too flamboyant for my tastes.

[Ze_ro]

Ah, and I noticed that halfway down the page, they are selling the GBA ports of NES classics like Ice Climbers and such for $20. I had hoped they would have brought down the prices a bit more for the North American releases, but I guess not. $20 is a complete ripoff in my opinion.

 

I like the way the NES style GBA SP looks... but frankly, I'd rather my systems look like themselves rather than looking like something else. I'll keep my GBA style GBA thanks.

 

--Zero

[Raijin Z]

I rather like the idea of altering the appearance of something without changing its functionality. If I can find a GBA-sticker site that isn't full of shit (GBA mod has ripped people off frequently), I'll get working on more GBA skins... I wanted to make a Genesis skin, but it'll have to follow the design of the system, considering the controller is rather featureless.

[JB]

If you like red and white. =_= Too flamboyant for my tastes.

What about the limited-edition Famicom GBASP? The one with the inlaid metal plate.

[Max-T]

I, for one, think that new GBA SP looks cool. However, I still am not going to replace my original GBA (blue) unless they Nintendo gives it a backlit screen. I agree that the SP is far more playable than the original in terms of screen viewability, but still... frontlit? I didn't know there was such a thing until Nintendo tried to pass that off. I remember having one of those neato backlit-LCD pocket TVs about twenty years ago. And the screen looked way better.

 

Nintendo can do better. I'd even pay more $$$ for a good backlit screen. Lucky for them they're the only real player left in the US handheld market.

[JB]

I, for one, think that new GBA SP looks cool.  However, I still am not going to replace my original GBA (blue) unless they Nintendo gives it a backlit screen.  I agree that the SP is far more playable than the original in terms of screen viewability, but still... frontlit?  I didn't know there was such a thing until Nintendo tried to pass that off.  I remember having one of those neato backlit-LCD pocket TVs about twenty years ago.  And the screen looked way better.

 

Nintendo can do better.  I'd even pay more $$$ for a good backlit screen.  Lucky for them they're the only real player left in the US handheld market.

Frontlit isn't that bad. Not for small screens anyways(you obvioulsy get more light distriibution problems with larger ones).

 

And given the LCDs they use, it was a logical choice. The same mirroring that lets people use them without a light would prevent a backlight from working properly.

 

 

And my original GBA is still plenty viewable.

I'm tempted to get the NES SP, though.

[cryptik76]

I, for one, think that new GBA SP looks cool.  However, I still am not going to replace my original GBA (blue) unless they Nintendo gives it a backlit screen.  I agree that the SP is far more playable than the original in terms of screen viewability, but still... frontlit?  I didn't know there was such a thing until Nintendo tried to pass that off.  I remember having one of those neato backlit-LCD pocket TVs about twenty years ago.  And the screen looked way better.

 

Nintendo can do better.  I'd even pay more $$$ for a good backlit screen.  Lucky for them they're the only real player left in the US handheld market.

 

Are you sure the screen "looked way better" on that old backlit-LCD pocket TV? The old backlit screens I've seen (the Sega Game Gear and Atari Lynx) were subject to image blurring, something you don't see on the GBA SP. You get perfect image clarity, the ability to play without the light on (you can't do that with one of those dark green backlit LCD screens), and better battery life.

 

Nintendo chose to compromise between price and technology. Like it or not, their GBA system is designed to appeal to a wide audience, and popping in a top-of-the-line backlit LCD screen would probably have boosted the price of the system while lowering the battery life, and that would have cost them a lot of sales. IMO, the GBA SP is as close to perfect as a handheld has ever gotten, and I think Nintendo (for once) made the right choice in designing it the way they did.

[JB]

I, for one, think that new GBA SP looks cool.  However, I still am not going to replace my original GBA (blue) unless they Nintendo gives it a backlit screen.  I agree that the SP is far more playable than the original in terms of screen viewability, but still... frontlit?  I didn't know there was such a thing until Nintendo tried to pass that off.  I remember having one of those neato backlit-LCD pocket TVs about twenty years ago.  And the screen looked way better.

 

Nintendo can do better.  I'd even pay more $$$ for a good backlit screen.  Lucky for them they're the only real player left in the US handheld market.

 

Are you sure the screen "looked way better" on that old backlit-LCD pocket TV? The old backlit screens I've seen (the Sega Game Gear and Atari Lynx) were subject to image blurring, something you don't see on the GBA SP.

That's because the GBA LCD is a decade newer.

The GBO blurred badly too. LCD persistance was just horrible back then.

[raindog]

In fact, TFT's (like what the GBA uses) were available when the Game Gear came out; they were just prohibitively expensive. Like the cheap laptops at the time, it used a passive-matrix LCD, which is why the colors were kind of washed out compared to the GBA SP (or a GBA under equivalently bright lighting.)

 

There were some pocket TV's out at the time by Casio and others that did use TFT's, but the screens were half the size of the GG and they were more expensive than a GG and TV module put together.

[Avid Fan]

Backlit screens burn the eyes, I applaud Nintendo for the frontlit GBA SP

[Bratwurst]

Front-lit devices will also last a much longer time and are far more energy efficient than standard backlighting, which is done through miniature fluorescent tubes.