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"GBA question....urgent"

okay i'm in hong kong at the mo8 doing work experience....(so what you may be asking) and i've seen gameboy advances around the place for like 55 quid (this is official stuff- it's just that britain rips us poor people off). well i really want one but i want to know whether the games you get matter what region you are in....like with playstations and stuff...i'm guessing not because but i just wanna make sure

Baked.

btw thanks for all the help

i'm in hong kong not japan but mind you i passed a shop that sold japanese games...
ain't see chu chu rocket though...
mind you is mario kart advance out in uk cos i saw it here for 240 dollars which is less than 20 quid

The Gameboy series is the first series (I think) which enhances universal gaming, but this is probably due to the fact that Nintendo couldn't be bothered to create all these regional restrictions - it would have been too time consuming and costly for them.

you can use any gba , gbc , gb game from from anywhere in the world on this little baby. Also have you seen chu chu rocket around japan , coz my dads mate is there at the mo , and i wondered how much the games are to buy (how much is chu chu rocket ??) if you havent seen it yet , could you look for it , note down the price , tell me on here and then go and buy it your self , coz ...... it's great !!

Definetely get one! I imported from Japan and all the games work fine no matter where you are int he world!!

The price is great for game and console so its easily worth the money, basically you are buying the same console in a different box! and its £56.00 by the way!

:-) happy shopping!

Also I would tell you to get GTAdvance because it saves to the disk and has a lot more options than the UK one! Also its 98% English! The only bit that isn't is the title screen!

As the dude b4 me sed unless its a fake ALL hand held consoles can play carts from any country,except it may be in japenese or the language ets.The same rule doesnt apply to consoles thought as they have NTSC and PAL coding in the carts e.g N64,this is why you need a converter or chipped console to play agmes from abroard

There's definitely no regional lockout on the GBA unless its counterfeit

i'll be here for another 5 weeks but if it does work okay i'm gonna get one straight away!!!

I am not CERTAIN, but I think so. I would still wait until someone else replies. How long you going to be in Hong Kong for? If you want, I'll go check now.