the game boy advance came out on march 21, 2001.
the game boy advance came out on march 21, 2001.
when did the game boy advance come out?
march 21 , 2001
in japan, on march 21, 2001, nintendo released a significant upgrade to the game boy line. the game boy advance (also referred to as gba) featured a 32 bit 16.8 mhz arm. it included a z80 processor and a switch activated by inserting a game boy or game boy color game into the slot for backward compatibility, and had a larger, higher resolution screen. controls were slightly modified with the addition of "l" and "r" shoulder buttons. like the game boy light and game boy color, the game boy advance takes on two aa batteries. the system was technically likened to the snes and showed its power with successful ports of snes titles such as "super mario world", "", "" and "donkey kong country". there were also new titles that could be found only on the gba, such as "", "", "wario land 4", "" and more. a widely criticized drawback of the game boy advance is that the screen is not backlit, making viewing difficult in some conditions. the game paks for the gba are roughly half the length of original game boy cartridges and game boy color cartridges, and so older game paks would stick out of the top of the unit. when playing older games, the gba provides the option to play the game at the standard equal square resolution of the original screen or the option to stretch it over the wider gba screen. the selectable color palettes for the original game boy games are identical to what it was on the game boy color. the only game boy color games known to be incompatible are "pocket music" and "chee-chai alien". it was the final handheld to require regular batteries.
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the nintendo gamecube game boy advance cable is a link cable used to connect the nintendo gamecube and the game boy advance. this provides an opportunity for added gameplay in certain gamecube and game boy advance games. minigames can be downloaded to the game boy advance, the game boy advance may be used as an extra screen to supplement gameplay, or the game boy advance can be used as an enhanced gamecube controller. one end of the link cable plugs into a gamecube controller port, and the other end plugs into the game boy advance's link cable port. the cable is only compatible with the nintendo gamecube, nintendo wii, game boy advance, game boy advance sp, game boy player, and e-reader. the cable does not work with the game boy micro, as the micro has a non-standard link cable port. however, the game boy micro game link cable and nintendo gamecube game boy advance cable can be modified and spliced together in order to support compatibility with the game boy micro.
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