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hey guys so today I'm here with a review of the Gameboy Advance SP every Gameboy Advance SP was a marginal upgrade from the original Game Boy Advance of course they do play the same games they support all the same sorts of things the main difference however was that the Gameboy fans SP had a lot of key improvements namely the fact that it did have a flip-out screen with protected controls it also did have well it was fairly the files not parallel it was quite a bit smaller as you can see here but also did have two other major things namely the fact that it did have a backlit screen which was a huge huge help in addition to the fact that does take rechargeable batteries so all is really conspired to make the Gameboy Advance SP a really really great console so I'm going to break down exactly why as you can see here the Gameboy Advance SP with a definite departure from previous Gameboy design you know with the folding clamshell design the backlit screen with all the different and provements that they made in fact very similar to what they did with the Nintendo DS I'm indeed the 3ds as well you know it's they had very similar designs although of course the DS wasn't identical but you can definitely see the similarities so I'd like to give you guys a little walkthrough of the SP here um pop not a whole lot um made have that same sort of Gameboy plastic G your mind scratched up just a little bit but certainly played this thing like everyday for like three or four years I kind of expect that um over here you do have two indicator lights for when it's on with it for once for the battery so it will either be green or orange depending on how the battery is and then the other one will just go ahead and show you if the battery is charging or not over here we do have the on/off switch now over here we go ahead and pull out the Game Boy game now this is where you go ahead and insert the game cards that support Game Boy Advance games as well as Game Boy and Game Boy Color games although the older games do protrude out a little bit but not a big deal I'm coming around here you'll see there's a volume slider again there's a first for a Game Boy however one thing you'll definitely notice is missing is a 3.5 millimeter audio jack so no way to plug in headphones to the Game Boy Advance SP which was one of the only real downsides to the in Seoul I'm coming round on the back you'll see you should go ahead just flip it over this way you'll see that very small election Ellen our triggers uh they weren't the greatest but most gameboy games weren't really relying on it so it wasn't the biggest deal you have a couple of places for accessories to mount and when put a peg over here you'll see that this is the where you plug in the charger and this is where you go ahead and plug in the link cable not a whole lot on the back you know you should go ahead this is where the rechargeable battery is that's pretty simple you just need to go ahead and undo one screw to get it let's go ahead and open it up you'll see here it's got a nice size screen definitely a very nice sized screen this is very very good and in fact I'll go ahead and lie that for you you can see here the backlight go ahead and turn it on and off it does work fairly well um go ahead and down here we do have a light that does enable and disable the backlight and in newer versions of the SP now there's really no easy way to tell immediately I'm I do have one of the older versions but this would actually go ahead and go through different mode selectors as far as on the screen unless we do have the directional d-pad the a and B buttons these start and select and finally the speaker as you can call the Game Boy Advance SP was more of an evolution than a revolution now of course it did bring a lot of really important enhancements namely that screen the really nice folding design as you can see here it's a bit chunky by today's standards but does fit nicely in your hand easily you know fits in a pocket no problem however the rechargeable battery the folding design and the banquet screen really were the hallmarks of why you want to buy a Game Boy Advance SP over the original Game Boy Advance everything else like I've said still applies although you do lose out on that three-and-a-half millimeter audio jack but at for Game Boy games there's very rarely you know the music not really going to be good enough that you're gonna want to listen to on headphones however you know it was kind of a bit annoying that they removed it so there you go guys that's about it there's not a whole lot to say about the Game Boy Advance SP that hasn't already been said personally it remains to be one of my favourite consoles ever I play this thing to death it's just such a great console the game will advance in general has so many great great games you know it just was really really great to be able to play in the dark you don't have to worry about buying you know two three four sets of rechargeable batteries a week you know if you really want to start playing through a game you know there's so many great things about the Gameboy Advance SP that I have no problems whatsoever in recommending this to you as probably the best way to play any game boy game ever made now there's not a whole lot to look out for on these uh you can go ahead obviously for the standard you know wear and tear this one's not perfect but now I've used it a lot one thing you do want to pay pay attention to is the rechargeable battery see how long it lasts now I will say that the rechargeable batteries were pretty robust on these I've used this one like I said I got this one back in 2003 and I'm still on the original battery of course it doesn't last all that long maybe about 45 minutes per charge still that's very impressive considering the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours I've logged on this so you can't go ahead and pick up a replacement batteries they aren't too hard to find and they're not all that expensive but definitely do keep that in mind if you're going to go ahead and pick one of these up otherwise there's not a whole lot to worry about the Gameboy Advance SP is a very very solid console