GBA SP and Player won't tilt News
GameBoy Advance News by Tom Bramwell
Source: The Magic Box
Nintendo of Japan has pointed out that neither the forthcoming Game Boy Advance SP nor the Game Boy Player peripheral will work with games that use the built-in tilt sensor. This means that writers' favourite Koro Koro Kirby (Kirby's Tilt 'n' Tumble to you and I) will be off limits.
Unless you plan to play games hanging upside down, the GBA SP will not be suitable for Kirby's Tilt 'n' Tumble
Why? Well, the GBA SP's cartridge slot is the wrong way up (you insert the games into the front of the bottom half of the unit, facing down), which is bound to confuse the sensor inside the cartridge. And as for the Game Boy Player... well, tilting requires movement, doesn't it?
Nintendo also hastens to point out that the GB Player will not work with the Panasonic Q GameCube/DVD hybrid. Physically.
In slightly more exciting news, Ninty has announced plans to ship 300,000 units of the new GBA SP to Japan for its February 14th release.
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Lol! Spong just reported this as well and said this:
This means that such games as Kirby’s Tilt ‘n’ Tumble will not work with the machine, hinting at what many have whispered since the SP was unveiled: it contains a substantially different set of innards than its predecessor. Right... a substantially different set of innards.... OR it might just be that the cartridge goes in the other way around! :-D |
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"The 'frontlight' feature is tempting, we shall see how funds are... "
This is precisely why I don't want one. A frickin' front light! For god's sake, that's going to be about as effective as no light at all! A backlight, behind the LCD panel, just like mobile phones have - how frickin' difficult would that have been to implement for god's sake!!! Peej |
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'This is precisely why I don't want one. A frickin' front light! For god's sake, that's going to be about as effective as no light at all! '
Well, the afterburner is pretty damn effective, so I guess one that is specifically designed and built in could be even better/more effective. As far as I remember the afterburner is based on the tech used in some PDAs.
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"I'll wait for nintendo to release the GameBoy Advance SPX, which is the SP, but with headphone socket and a backlight, and shoulder buttons which are actually reachable by human hands without the need to have some joints removed"
Heh, and I'll be waiting for the Gameboy Advance SPSSX - the one where the frickin 20 year old frickin games don't frickin' well cost frickin' 35 frickin quid!!! Peej |
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AnotherMartin
28/01/03 @ 18:15
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Quick straw poll, who's going to get one of these puppies?
I'm getting one, but only because I don't have a 'standard' GBA. ditto erm, or maybe i'm tempted, but i'll probably wait until i've had the chance to use one before forking out for it. |
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I'll probably get one, although it does depend on how much I'm using my existing GBA by the time it gets released. Having just picked up Metroid for it, it's getting quite a lot of use though it does go through dead periods. I never really did go back to those games which I found unplayable before I got an afterburner, such as Mario Kart.
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AnotherMartin
29/01/03 @ 15:53
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Lol! Spong just reported this as well and said this:
it seems they have realised their mistake now and owned up to it, which I suppose we should give them some credit for, they also almost make up for it with a nice little comment about Kirby being incompatible with all GBA's, linkage |
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