Get your Wii-Mote off the table

[A Black Falcon]

Erm, I have a GB Player, got it in July... :) ($30, used) About the same time my Cube started DRE'ing constantly, but fortunately it still boots up often enough to run the GB Player since it just needs to read the disc once...

It's nice, but I just don't think the original GBA is THAT bad. I used one for three years (mid '03 when I first bought it until it died this summer) and while it certainly is dim, and dimmer than the GB or GBC were (poor GBC Worm Light can't light up a GBA like it could a GBC...), it's not that bad... sure, it's best used near direct light, but oh well... I usually would be playing it near one anyway.

I just needed a new GBA because my old one's d-pad broke this summer. It also has a very annoying badly scratched screen, but that alone isn't "replace me" material... an unusable d-pad is. The GB Player is nice, but it's not a total replacement for a real GBA, I think. While it's better for some games than others. While some look great on it, some clearly look better on the smaller, sharper screen of a real GBA...