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Why wasn t the game boy advance backlit?

Why wasn t the game boy advance backlit?

Why wasn t the game boy advance backlit?

Why did the GBA have no backlight? Basically, the technology wasn't there, or at least not cheap enough and robust enough for a handheld, at the time.

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Was the original game boy backlit?
Released in April 1998, the Japan-exclusive handheld was the first and only Nintendo console to feature an electroluminescent backlit screen until the second version (AGS-101) of the Game Boy Advance SP was released in 2005.
2024-02-09 12:52:49


Are game boy and game boy advance cartridges the same?
All Game Boy cartridges
cartridges
A ROM cartridge, usually referred to in context simply as a cartridge, cart, or card, is a replaceable part designed to be connected to a consumer electronics device such as a home computer, video game console or, to a lesser extent, electronic musical instruments.
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ROM cartridge - Wikipedia
should work with any version of the Game Boy Advance, including the later SP model. The GBA was fully backwards-compatible with the Game Boy and Game Boy Color.
2023-12-26 23:03:16


Why didn t original game boy have color?
The reason the original Gameboy didn't have color as opposed to say the Game Gear was because Gunpei Yokoi found that the lack of color for one gave it a longer battery lifespan and that the dot matrix pixels showed up better with the black and green palette.
2023-03-14 00:16:33


Is the game boy advance sp more powerful than snes?
The GBA is actually a lot more powerful than a regular SNES, besides the PPU. GBA has a much faster CPU (32-bit) and RAM putting it closer to a PlayStation. Thats pretty much how it was able to handle so many SNES ports so flawlessly.
2023-03-04 06:31:43

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