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Odd Gameboy Advanced problem
My son's gameboy advance player is acting wierd. It has stopped
working with GBA games but still works for regular gameboy games. I've looked for some way to reset the unit, but there is nothing obvious. I checked in the rom slot and all connection points look ok. Any ideas? |
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Unfortunately, game boys don't have any sort of reset, or tech support...so
if its out of warranty, your pretty much out of luck. You can discuss it with Nintendo, on their 1-800 line, or email them, but I doubt that will be of any help. Consider yourself lucky that with the new Gameboy coming out the end of this month, the older models of Gameboys are less than $50.00 now. Kim "Paulaner" wrote in message news My son's gameboy advance player is acting wierd. It has stopped working with GBA games but still works for regular gameboy games. I've looked for some way to reset the unit, but there is nothing obvious. I checked in the rom slot and all connection points look ok. Any ideas? |
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"Kim" wrote in message . .. Unfortunately, game boys don't have any sort of reset, or tech support...so if its out of warranty, your pretty much out of luck. You can discuss it with Nintendo, on their 1-800 line, or email them, but I doubt that will be of any help. Consider yourself lucky that with the new Gameboy coming out the end of this month, the older models of Gameboys are less than $50.00 now. Kim Nintendo actually has quite reasonably priced repairs for out of warranty stuff, they'll even still repair the old 8 bit NES machines. Give them a call or email, it might be cost effective. |
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Hey - thanks for the info. Maybe Santa will be looking at the new
model. I found this web site for repair info: http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/repair/index.jsp Good news, I found out that the newer game cartridges have a notch on the edge, that the old ones don't have. I used a small tool and moved the plastic lever (left hand side) out a bit inside the gameboy advanced game slot. It works now! On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 20:47:53 -0500, "Kim" wrote: Unfortunately, game boys don't have any sort of reset, or tech support...so if its out of warranty, your pretty much out of luck. You can discuss it with Nintendo, on their 1-800 line, or email them, but I doubt that will be of any help. Consider yourself lucky that with the new Gameboy coming out the end of this month, the older models of Gameboys are less than $50.00 now. Kim "Paulaner" wrote in message news My son's gameboy advance player is acting wierd. It has stopped working with GBA games but still works for regular gameboy games. I've looked for some way to reset the unit, but there is nothing obvious. I checked in the rom slot and all connection points look ok. Any ideas? |
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Nintendo actually has quite reasonably priced repairs for out of warranty
stuff, they'll even still repair the old 8 bit NES machines. Give them a call or email, it might be cost effective. Actually, they have the "Power Swap" program. You pay a certain fee and you give your broken Nintendo product back to Nintendo and they ship you a refurbished product of the same type and configuration as your old one. - Reinhart |
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