Gameboy Advance

[fullerlee]

Does anyone know if a Gameboy Advance bought in the US will work with UK games?<br><br>Cheers

[NYIllustrator]

I believe so.

[Village_Ideot]

e-mail someone at nintendo...

[Paul]

why wouldnt it? the only difference is the power cables isnt it?

[Moose or Chuck]

No, I sincerely doubt it will work. Nintendo is very big on protecting their system. It's probably just a physical barrier, like a plastic peg that rejects the cartridge. You could probably unscrew the device and take it out, although it will be more complicated than that, due to "nintendo screws" which requires a special $20 screwdriver.

[Paul]

are you serious?!? thats crazy

[fullerlee]

Well I believe you can use any gameboy cartridge on any gameboy machine so I think the same is true for the Advance, I just wanted to find out for sure for a friend.

[Luciano U. Werner]

On N64 you can use any cartridge.

[Moose or Chuck]

Luciano, the method I described above is for US N64 units to allow them to play any cartridge. There's a white plastic mold, you can see it if you open the cartridge doors... it's actually part of the cartridge doors.

[John Lomax]

UK GBA carts work fine on a US machine. We have Jap and US GBA's at work and they both play UK carts.<br><br>- John.

[Luciano U. Werner]

Moose, my unit just has the doors but no "white plastic mold", only the grey plastic of the doors and the "floor" that holds the connector with the contacts for the cartridges.

[Moose or Chuck]

Well, I don't know what to tell you. Where are you from?

[Luciano U. Werner]

Brazil.

[Diego Cueva]

yip yip uhaa

[Moose or Chuck]

Well, I nkow my American machine has those little plastic barriers... maybe you've got a lock free system over there in brazil.