#57568 - SmileyDude - Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:00 am
So, I went and upgraded my 1st gen SP with a new 2nd gen SP over the weekend -- highly recommended if you like the new screen of the micro, but the micro is just too micro for your hands (or if you care about GB/GBC compatibility).
I can't say enough about how nice the screen is -- I've seen shades of blue that I didn't realize that I had been missing on the original GBA and SP. It's also really nice to have white be white and black be black.
Another thing of note -- I was impressed with the screen alot, and then I hit the brightness button. Wow. This is a very good upgrade for the SP.
For those in the states, if you want to upgrade, you should check out EB Games. They had a deal where you trade in a GBA (original -- not SP) and 5 games, and you only need to pay $29.99 for the SP. I went through my collection and found a pile of games that I never really cared for and dug out my original GBA as well. Not a bad deal at all. Especially considering that normally they would've only given about $20 for all of that stuff.
You may have to call around and find an EB that knows about this deal -- I went to the Burlington, MA location (on Rt.3 -- not the mall), and they had no idea. The Burlington Mall location (about a mile away), on the other hand, did. So, YMMV.
I haven't had a chance to dump the BIOS yet on this one -- I'm not expecting large changes, but it would be nice if Nintendo changed the BIOS by at least one byte so that we could detect the new display type. They did it for the DS, so it's not a stretch that they would do it here as well.
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dennis
I can't say enough about how nice the screen is -- I've seen shades of blue that I didn't realize that I had been missing on the original GBA and SP. It's also really nice to have white be white and black be black.
Another thing of note -- I was impressed with the screen alot, and then I hit the brightness button. Wow. This is a very good upgrade for the SP.
For those in the states, if you want to upgrade, you should check out EB Games. They had a deal where you trade in a GBA (original -- not SP) and 5 games, and you only need to pay $29.99 for the SP. I went through my collection and found a pile of games that I never really cared for and dug out my original GBA as well. Not a bad deal at all. Especially considering that normally they would've only given about $20 for all of that stuff.
You may have to call around and find an EB that knows about this deal -- I went to the Burlington, MA location (on Rt.3 -- not the mall), and they had no idea. The Burlington Mall location (about a mile away), on the other hand, did. So, YMMV.
I haven't had a chance to dump the BIOS yet on this one -- I'm not expecting large changes, but it would be nice if Nintendo changed the BIOS by at least one byte so that we could detect the new display type. They did it for the DS, so it's not a stretch that they would do it here as well.
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dennis