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Thu 20/09/01 at 23:44
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About a day or so after buying the GBA on the release date i e-mailed nintendo in America (although i am living in the uk) saying why don't they add some kind of music system (e.g mini disc, cd-player, etc..) as a plug-in cart for the GBA.

A couple of days later they e-mailed me back saying that if i had any comments i should e-mail the nintendo place in Britain. As i am some-what scepticale of e-mailing companys because you would probably get some auto reply saying some-thing like "you comment has been acknolaged and taken in to account", which lets face it is a big bunch of lies, but anyway, i came on line the other day and looked around at computer game stuff and lowe-and-behold i find nintendo have just brought out a radio adapter, now if thats not stealing my idea i don't know what is.
Fri 21/09/01 at 01:03
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Ayane wrote:
> since when was there a radio tuner for the GB
many years ago I think I may have seen one advertised in an old argos catalogue
Fri 21/09/01 at 00:33
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since when was there a radio tuner for the GB
Fri 21/09/01 at 00:27
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Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Yeah but that used to waste the batteries, you got 1 hours TV for every 10 AA
> batteries you used.
but technology has improved
Fri 21/09/01 at 00:21
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Yeah but that used to waste the batteries, you got 1 hours TV for every 10 AA batteries you used.
Fri 21/09/01 at 00:15
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there used to be a radio tuner for the old style game boy.
I'm suprised that they havent made a decent tv tuner for the gba ( like the game gear used to have.
Fri 21/09/01 at 00:10
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Yes but were talking about thousands upon thousands of these Radio thingys being delivered all over the world. Its not a 5 minute process
Fri 21/09/01 at 00:09
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Ayane wrote:
> that wouldn't take long remember a child of 3 could put together an fm stereo in
> less than an hour

Yeah, IF he knew what he was doing and IF he hcould read instructions.

Put it this way it's doubtful that Nintendo 'stole' your idea it was probably always in the runnings for Nintendo to produce it's not a very original idea is it.
Fri 21/09/01 at 00:06
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that wouldn't take long remember a child of 3 could put together an fm stereo in less than an hour
Fri 21/09/01 at 00:00
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Yeah but they would need to mass produce it and that would take ages.
Thu 20/09/01 at 23:58
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RawisAndy wrote:
> They probably had it in the making for some time, they couldn't just produce it
> in a few days.

It can't be that hard to make a small fm radio

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