9th February 2004, 7:41 PM
Well, not for me :D. As of now, each and every one of my friends has a GBA. I really can't see how they could get the screen out of the way without making it impossible for the person in the cave or whatever to see what they are doing. The GBA really is the only real way to do it. Keep in mind this isn't some artificial requirement like Metroid Prime's need for Metroid Fusion (I HATE artificial hardware requirements, which is a nice way of saying a needless requirement of some tool that only serves as a data key to unlock something and has nothing to do with the device's exclusive abilities). This is genuine. It's just like how to play a multiplayer GBA game, your friends still need to have their own GBAs, and in many cases their own copy of the game on top of that, as well as link cables and so on. If it could be done without the device in any (reasonable) way, I'd fully agree, but if it can't be done, then it's just like any other GENUINE hardware requirement.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)