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I am shortly going to America and am thinking about getting a GBA SP when I am there as it is only $99 (£64). My only worry is if the game catridges region coded? Can you play UK games on a US GBA SP? or vice versa. I have a few old Gameboy games I would resurect and play on the SP if it would play on the US version

Anu help would be grately appreciated

I was going to order an SP from Amazon.com, until I found out I couldn't. It would have worked out at £56 (at the time) for the SP, £12 for Golden Sun, £18 for Golden Sun 2, and about twenty quid for some other games like Link To The Past.

But they don't export video games.

$99 is only £61. And don't say three quid isn't important! :D

A voltage converter is only a couple of quid so it seems to be a ggod deal. The games are much cheaper there as a normal game is $30 (£19) which is much cheaper.

Thanks for the help guys and I will thinking of your kind help when I am lying by the pool in August in Arizona and Las Vegas for 3 weeks. :o)

Who knows, if I win big in Vegas I may buy a whole lot of goodies on my travels

Dr Duck wrote:
> I guess you'll need a converter for the plug on the charger though...

Yep, thats the only thing you need to take into consideration

I guess you'll need a converter for the plug on the charger though...

phuzzy's right. There is no region coding on the GBA

Gameboy's aren't region coded.

I'm 99.9% sure that the GBA SP is an all-region machine, meaning you can play games from any region on a machine from any region.

I don't think the carts are region coded, as I can play American SMB Jnr. on my British SP.

I am shortly going to America and am thinking about getting a GBA SP when I am there as it is only $99 (£64). My only worry is if the game catridges region coded? Can you play UK games on a US GBA SP? or vice versa. I have a few old Gameboy games I would resurect and play on the SP if it would play on the US version

Anu help would be grately appreciated