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==Game Boy Player== |
==Game Boy Player== |
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| + | ''Golden Sun: The Lost Age'' was one of the titles the Player's marketing campaign specifically advertised as recommended to play on a full screen with the Player, alongside ''Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire'' and ''Fire Emblem''. |
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==Nintendo DS== |
==Nintendo DS== |
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Revision as of 02:02, 24 May 2008
This is a list of the various consoles that can be used to play Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age.
Game Boy Advance
The Game Boy Advance (often shortened to GBA) is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo and released in 2001. It is the original system Golden Sun was specifically designed for. The original design of GBA, however, did not feature backlighting and required batteries.
Two models of the GBA were released in the following years. In 2003 a laptop-like model named the Game Boy Advance SP was released, featuring frontlighting and a rechargeable lithium ion battery.
In 2005, in addition to a near-identical model named the Game Boy Advance SP+ which this time featured backlighting, a more slim backlit GBA model named the Game Boy Micro was released. This version did not have a large impact on the market because, unlike the other GBA models, it could not play older Game Boy games, and in a mere half-year Nintendo's current handheld, the Nintendo DS, was released.
Game Boy Player
The Game Boy Player is an add-on style device that fits onto the bottom of a Nintendo GameCube. This device, which is essentially comprised of the hardware inside the Game Boy Advance and has a cartridge slot at its front end, enables Game Boy Advance cartridges, as well as Game Boy and Game Boy Color, to be played on a television with a GameCube controller. (A GBA system connected into the first controller port via a link cable is also usable as a controller.) It requires the use of an included boot disc to access the hardware and turn on the software.
Golden Sun: The Lost Age was one of the titles the Player's marketing campaign specifically advertised as recommended to play on a full screen with the Player, alongside Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire and Fire Emblem.
Nintendo DS
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