Advanced Game Port

by Datel

Product Features

• Small, portable, lightweight and easy-to-use -- just plug and play
• Fits directly into your GameCube memory card slot - works in minutes
• Control your favorite Game Boy Advance games with your GameCube control pad
• Draws power from the GameCube console, saving your GBA precious battery power

Product Details

• ASIN: B0001EPWSA
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,531 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Advance Game Port - for comfortable Game Bo Advance gaming, with no more squinting or finger ache, this is the tool you need!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars GP Advance Game Port. Yay! or Nay!?!, March 22, 2004

By 

Kevin Kissinger (Sartell MN, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Advanced Game Port (Video Game)

I have always been a fan of putting portable games on a TV screen. I have a product similar to this but it is a pain (...)to set up all the time. Then I came across this.

Graphics/Pixalation-The pixalation on this is supurb. The image is enlarged and yet the game looks just as good as it did on the Game Boy Advance.
9/10

Game Play/Smoothness-The Games that I have tried on it have all worked without any gliching or errors. Although that may sound great, the frame rate seems to be off. The games played on this product tend to be slightly choppy compared to the Game Boy Advance or the Game Boy Player. Luckly it isnt to the point where it completely destroys the fun of the games.
5/10

Music and Sounds-The music and sound are emulated very well. The quality is not as great as if you were playing the games on the Game Boy Advance but is not unbareable. Over all it isnt all that bad
7/10

User Friendlyness-This product is very easy to set up. It is just like plugging in your memory card and favorite game. The only fault behind this is that there is no multiplayer capablility using this product.
8/10

This device definatly has its ups and downs. Whether you choose to buy this product for 29.99 or the Game Boy Player for 49.99, You are getting what you pay for. This product lacks some of the items that the Game Boy Player Provides, but at least this product is 20 dollars cheeper.

Over all Score
7.25/10

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The only way to play GBA games on the Wii, October 30, 2006

By 

StarDust4Ever (Louisiana, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Advanced Game Port (Video Game)

I have had both the Game Boy Player and the Advance Game Port for a long time.

The biggest fundamental difference between the Game Port and the official GB Player, is that the Game Port uses software emulation and the GB Player uses true hardware emulation.

The Game Port uploads the both the GBA ROM and the game's save data into the GameCube's memory and uses a ARM9 software emulator play the games. The frame rate appears a little bit choppy, and the audio pitch is slightly off; making it seem almost like the effect of playing an NTSC game on a PAL system - all GB games operate at 60Hz, and although playback seems a little bit sluggish (maybe 50 Hz?), this has the advantage of slowing down the game by about 16.7%, making overly fast-paced or challenging games slightly easier.

Somebody mentioned that their's had a biult-in cheating device as well, but I recall nothing of that nature in my version. A biult in feature to back up game savs (NOT ROMS!) to a GC memory card would also have been nice.

Nintendo's official Game Boy Player, on the other hand, uses official Nintendo hardware to run GBA games. The GB Player has built in to it, both an ARM7 and an ARM9 processor, making it able to play both GB classic, GB color, and GBA games.

Here are my Pros and Cons:

Pros:

Cheaper than a GB Player, esp that both are out of circulation, and the GB Player now is a collector's item!!!

This product will be the only full-screen GB option compatible with the Nintendo Wii (provided the Wii is fully 100% compatible with GameCube, not 98% or 95%), since it only uses the CD tray and the controller/memory card ports.

The slightly slower frame rate may make fast-paced games somewhat less challenging.

Cons:

Choppy framerate at times.

Audio Pitch is a little flat.

Due to the incompatible ROM structure/ processor archetecture, it will not work with Game Boy Classic or Game Boy Color games.

Overall, it is a nice accessory, but I have used it two or three times and my official GB Player dozens and dozens of times.

It will be interseting to find out how the Wii will respond to it.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars As good as official Game Boy Player?, October 16, 2005

By 

C. Jacinto - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Advanced Game Port (Video Game)

I have yet to try Nintendo's Game Boy Player system, so I don't know how game-play compares, but here are some immediately obvious advantages;

Price;

I saw at Amazon these ran for $24.99 (used and new $19.99 or less)but I bought mine new for $12.49 at a Gamespot B&M.

Official GB player system starts at $49.99.

Extra goodies;

AGP came with a cheat kit with a large library of codes and helpful hints for the more popular GB titles.

Disadvantages;

Gameplay seems to have a little bit of controller lag.