Gameboy Micro $49.95 @ David Jones

van · Post by **van** » 04 Jul 2006 11:36 am

I dunno if David Jones is in every state, or if it's a nation-wide sale, but I saw in a brochure this morning that the Gameboy Micro is $49.95 at David Jones at the moment. That's fucking rad.

What does it play? GBC, GBA, and GBSP games?

General Chaos · Post by **General Chaos** » 04 Jul 2006 11:42 am

wiikid. If I hadn't already got one for $50 recently then I'd be all over this.

True portability it its finest!

Sonic Jam · Post by **Sonic Jam** » 04 Jul 2006 11:43 am

Can it be used to play FF: Crystal Chronicles, and Zelda: Four Swords?

Shaneus · Post by **Shaneus** » 04 Jul 2006 11:46 am

Will only play GBA/SP games... no backwards compat. with GB/GBC unfortunately.

Sonic Jam · Post by **Sonic Jam** » 04 Jul 2006 11:47 am

I mean like, the Gamecube games that use GBA's as control pads.

does it have the port for connecting it up to a Gamecube via that special GBA cable.

General Chaos · Post by **General Chaos** » 04 Jul 2006 11:48 am

?? are they GBA games?

Sonic Jam · Post by **Sonic Jam** » 04 Jul 2006 11:50 am

There is a four player Final Fantasy (in name only really) game that's really quite awesome, but you have to use a GBA as your controller with a cable plugged in between your Cube and your GBA (or SP).

There's also a four player Zelda game that's the same.

I'm wondering if the Micro has the port on top for plugging in the cube > gba cable basically

General Chaos · Post by **General Chaos** » 04 Jul 2006 11:56 am

I think it does but you have to re purchase the appropriate cables.

Or hack them depending how awesome you are!

This is what the manual told me anyhow.

selfish · Post by **selfish** » 04 Jul 2006 12:00 pm

it plays GBA games only (if you didn't know, gba sp is the same system and will play the same games) - unless you use a flashcard and emulate them

no, it won't connect directly to the cube, but you can get an adaptor for the cables
so it'd be cube->cable->adapter->micro
i'm not sure i'd really want to play those two games that much, they're not that great
fun and all but nothing mind blowing, you know

Sonic Jam · Post by **Sonic Jam** » 04 Jul 2006 12:00 pm

haha MORE CABLES OH MY GOD

The GBA series will end up taking up more space in my house than the XBox's I've had, so many versions/cables/adaptors/etc.

Does the micro have headphones out without an adapter?

selfish · Post by **selfish** » 04 Jul 2006 12:01 pm

sure does!

and yes the gba is bigger than ps2, be warned

Beer Belly · Post by **Beer Belly** » 04 Jul 2006 01:52 pm

Wow that's an awesome deal! Thanks for the heads up!

luro · Post by **luro** » 04 Jul 2006 07:15 pm

thanks for the tip van .. i'll be calling DJs tomorrow to see if this is on in WA

luro · Post by **luro** » 05 Jul 2006 11:07 am

here's a link to the catalogue

http://www.davidjones.com.au/supplement/home.jsp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

they also have 15% off all "electronic and PC games"

BOOMY · Post by **BOOMY** » 05 Jul 2006 02:31 pm

Doesnt the SP play GB/GBC games selfish?

AFAIK(and correct me where I'm wrong) it went

GBA : gb,gbc,gba
GBA SP: gb,gbc,gba
GBMicro: gba
DS: gba
GBplayer:gb,gbc,gba

selfish · Post by **selfish** » 05 Jul 2006 07:11 pm

yeah that's right

Sonic Jam · Post by **Sonic Jam** » 05 Jul 2006 07:13 pm

Meh the DS Lite is small enough for me to be portable anyway, and the idea of tracking down new cables to play Four Swords and Crystal Chronicles makes me a bit angry.

I'll see it in the flesh before deciding but leaning against picking one up for now.

luro · Post by **luro** » 05 Jul 2006 07:51 pm

ok this doesn't seem to be happening in WA, the person i spoke said this sale wasn't on, they just have slops from their mid-year sale left

BOOMY · Post by **BOOMY** » 06 Jul 2006 04:09 pm

Look out for the DS version of FF:CC, sonic. Bout the Micro I can confirm this is happening in Adelaide, was bloody tempted but instead I picked a different bargain.

Metroid Prime 2: Echos for $30 at Kmart. Sale started today. Starfox assult and Paper mario are also available for $50.

Sonic Jam · Post by **Sonic Jam** » 06 Jul 2006 04:14 pm

If you don't allready own paper mario and you didn't buy it you are a retard total.

I am looking out for the DS version of FF:CC, I'm also looking out for the Rev version of FF:CC.

If I go to DJ's tonight and they have a cheap micro and Micro -> Cube connector cable I will probably buy it to replace my SP + connector cable, but if both of those things arn't in stock + cheap I'll just live with my crappy SP and DS lite.

BOOMY · Post by **BOOMY** » 06 Jul 2006 04:17 pm

Well I didn't have any of those 3 games, but I figured an NTSC copy of mario for $40 from DVDcrave is fine later on. Anyway I like to shoot

Sonic Jam · Post by **Sonic Jam** » 06 Jul 2006 04:24 pm

Poor form Boomy, Paper Mario is one of the best games of this generation, so obviously top2cube material.

Seraph · Post by **Seraph** » 06 Jul 2006 11:19 pm

First up, I don't think the Micro cables are purchasable locally - at least, I've never seen them, and I have been looking.

The thing you'll probably want is a convertor cable like this one:
http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?catego" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... s_id=7479&

That only turns a GB Micro's socket into a GBA/SP socket, you'll still need your GBA<->GBA link cable to link to a GBA/SP, or a GBA-GC link cable to link to a GC.

Secondly, if I recall correctly, NTSC Paper Mario is one of a handful of games that doesn't work properly through Freeloader. But it might be just the JP version. I know there was some crashing issue related to text display.

Edit: Yeah, sorry to scare you. It's only the JP version of Paper Mario that doesn't work properly with the Freeloader. The US version is fine.[/url]

BOOMY · Post by **BOOMY** » 06 Jul 2006 11:53 pm

Cheers for the heads up. Ill look out for an action replay code before I buy it....oh yea I have an action replay - does that work with it with out a code?

Seraph · Post by **Seraph** » 07 Jul 2006 12:11 am

Gah editing took longer than I intended - so to repeat my previous post - US Paper Mario is fine on freeloader, only the JP version is screwy. And I haven't tried using any AR codes on my only imported GC game, but my friend has used AR codes on JP games on his PAL Cube so yeah I'm pretty sure it works.