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Nintendo Gaming / Flickering GBA SP screen?

« on: June 07, 2003, 02:05:24 AM »

Problem:
Under direct sunlight the screen of my GBA SP seems to flicker. Its like looking on a monitor with poor refresh rate. Most noticeable is this effect on grayish colors, overlay elements (borders of menus etc), and some high contrast areas (like black meets white).
(Most noticeable in Castlevania Aria of Sorrow)
On a place with poor lightening condition, I mean when the backlight is stronger than other lightsources the screen/colors etc. are just perfect.


I just wonder, isn't the GBA screen supposed to look the best under direct sunlight? Is this a 'normal behaviour'?  

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Nintendo Gaming / Gameboy Advance SP - Some questions

« on: May 27, 2003, 05:34:06 AM »

Got my Gameboy Advance SP yesterday. Honestly it is my first handheld and it is a beautiful machine.

But some questions still remain...

Today, I picked up Golden Sun (1) US at a local 2nd hand shop for 10EUR (~ 10$). Unfortunally it apeared to be defective. I was able to save ingame but when I switched the GB advance off and tried to continue, all my savegames were 'erased' the game started with the 'enter your name screen'. It seems the battery(?) or the part of the catride which stores the save data is faulty. Or is this some kind of incompatibility beetween european GB advance and the US game? I am kinda worried 'cause I thought about importing some other games like Golden Sun 2 etc. Fortunally I was allowed to return the game.

I apologize to turn this into another 'What game should I get threat' but I am really into 2D console RPG and sure I'll try to get most of the advance titles:
Golden Sun 1 & 2, maybe the two BoF, Lufia etc. What other RPGs you would recomment? I thought about shinging soul (the shing force spinoff) but I found only a few mixed reviews about this game so I am not sure about this one.

Is there some kind of 'gear' I should check out? The only two things I thought about are the 'headphone output' and the GameCube - GB link cable.

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Nintendo Gaming / Nintendo VIP - I'll give up

« on: May 04, 2003, 02:47:56 PM »

To be honest I have serious problems with the user interface of nintendovip.com. Everytime I try to create a vip account I am bumped back to the main page or the values I've entered are deleted if I press the send button. No error message so far. I really feel stupid, beeing the administrator of my own private Linux and Window network and not beeing able to figure out the reason of this strange behaviour (yes it occured on every machine, and of course on different browser). Yes I do know I should post this whole issue to the the 'responsible' person or the tech support, but it isn't worth the trouble IMHO
I rather post my pins on this board so that at least some of you are happy and get that Gameboy advance or a craptacular screensaver instead...

Black Gamecube + Metroid prime bundle (PAL) pin 6183PV2QTC  - Doesn't know if this pin still works. I've created a VIP account with it 1 months ago (after I purchased the system) but never got an response (e-mail) in order to activate the account . Without a doubt I've entered a valid e-mail adress in the field. But it is worth a try.
Star Fox Adventures (PAL) pin F9S7843FJG6RU
The Legend Of Zelda: The wind waker limited edition (PAL) pin EDFZ7V864XT89