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Portable console released in 2001

Following up the popular Game Boy, this console raised the graphics and sound capability to a whole new level. Later models added a back-light and made more stylistic changes to the overall design of the console.

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Game Boy Advance SP

The Game Boy Advance SP is largely considered to be an essential upgrade to the original Game Boy Advance, due to the large number of improvements that it boasts over the original model. The console is a foldable clamshell for screen protection and a smaller size for portability. The screen now also has a front-light so that the screen is much easier to see and can be played in the dark. There's a button below the screen that switches the front-light on and off. The console also has a rechargeable battery, making it the first Nintendo handheld to not require frequent battery changes. The only feature the GBA SP lacks compared to the original GBA is a headphone port, requiring the use of the Headphone Adapter pictured below.






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Game Boy Advance SP AC Adapter

The AC Adapter is necessary for charging the Game Boy Advance SP Battery Pack. This AC adapter is also used to charge the Nintendo DS and its battery pack, the NTR-002, and power the JoySpot hardware. The AC adapter was packaged with this console and the Nintendo DS, but could also be bought separately. 






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Game Boy Advance SP Battery Pack

A rechargeable lithium ion (Li-Ion) battery for the Game Boy Advance SP. The battery lasts for about 8 hours, and requires roughly 2.5 hours of charge time. The battery pack was included with the console, but could also be sold separately. It outputs DC3.8V 600mAh.






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Headphone Adapter

The Headphone Adapter allows a pair of headphones to be connected to the Game Boy Advance SP, which lacks the headphone port the original model had. The Headphone Adapter is connected via the GBA SP's charger port. This accessory is technically compatible with the Nintendo DS, though the DS has a headphone port built-in.



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Game Boy Advance SP Headphones

These are blue stereo earphones which were not sold separately and, bizarrely, were only packaged with the Nintendo DS game, "Electroplankton", hence their blue colour. These headphones may have also been packaged with the DS game "Daigasso! Band Brothers", but I've not been able to confirm this.






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Play-Yan


The Play-Yan and Play-Yan Micro are GBA cartridges that allow for playing music and video files on the Game Boy Advance SP and Game Boy Micro consoles via the use of an SD card. Only SD cards up to a limit of 1GB are compatible; SDHC cards cannot be used, though some miniSD and microSD cards can be used via adapters. Additionally, mp3 files must be encoded at 32kbps or higher. The Play-Yan Micro offers some small additional improvements such as playing mp4 files without needing additional files from Nintendo's website. Minigames can be downloaded from Nintendo's Play-Yan webpage and played using the Play-Yan and Play-Yan Micro.


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This model of the Play-Yan Micro is simply the version released in Europe, called the "Nintendo MP3 Player". While looking identical to the Play-Yan Micro and operating very similarly in terms of software, the hardware inside the cartridge is completely different and it can only play music, no ability to play videos.





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Game Boy Advance SP (backlit screen)

The later model of the Game Boy Advance SP, released in certain regions from late 2005 onwards, is extremely similar to the original model, but now has a backlit screen, rather than a frontlit screen. This new brighter back-light allows for a much clearer screen, whereas the front-light of the original model had a tendency to wash out colours. The button below the screen now switches the back-light between low and high brightness, rather than turning the light on or entirely off.






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