Topic: Tilt Sensors...

[LousySpy]

While listening to part 2 of the the D.I.C.E. 2003 Roundtable, someone mentioned Kirby's Tilt & Tumble and it got me thinking about games with tilt sensors...  Does anyone else think these are a bad idea?  I find it hard enough to get decent lighting on my GBA when I'm holding it still, and now we need to tilt it back and forth and mess up the way the light's reflecting off it to play the game.  And the GBA SP's built-in light doesn't help the matter either since the game cartridges enter the bottom of the system instead of the top, so it would have to be tilted the opposite way to control it correctly.  Maybe I'm missing something, but it just doesn't seem like a very good idea to me.

[RickPowers]

You're assuming that the tilt sensor tells the game which way it was tilted.  It doesn't, it just tells the game that it was tilted and the game can decide how.  So there can be a setting in the game to choose which Game Boy Advance you have, and the game will adjust the responses accordingly.

[jasstoltz]

My understanding was that (and of course I can't remember where I read this) Tilt & Tumble was the only game that would not be compatible with GBASP. Didn't Nintendo announce this?

[FFantasyFX]

jasstoltz:  You are correct.  The old Kirby's Tilt and Tumble will not work with the GBA SP.  However, what I think Rick was responding to was how Nintendo would overcome this difficulty with a future Tilt and Tumble game (which Nintendo has shown off in the past, it was supposed to link up with Roll 'O Rama).