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"GBA: A missed opportunity?"

Do you think consoles will ever have WAP? The Gameboy is just a bit bigger than a normal WAP mobile phone, it would be really handy to be able to exchange Pokemon without the need of a link cable because then you could exchange with anyone anywhere.

Now we have the GBA, bigger than the Gameboy, room there surely to add in a mobile phone somewhere, or a small onscreen dialler that you could punch the numbers in with a lightpen. Then you could ring up your mates and transfer across a spare item that you picked up in one of the Mario games that your mate needs to get through a level, and when he's finished with it, he could send it back, even though he's currently on holiday on the other side of the world.

How about the X-Box. WAP access would be a great feature, as long as they upgrade the WAP that is currently used to access the full internet and not just the text based items that it currently only has access to. Bill? You reading this?

I can see consoles proving a bit tricky, because internet access is already planned through a fixed line, so WAP may be redundant here. But with the GBA? Surely with Sega already developing games for the next generation of Motorola phones, Nintendo have missed out to develop not just a good handheld, but a handheld the like of which has never been seen before, one that just doesn't play games but can be used as a communication tool as well.

Maybe we'll see it when the GBRA comes out.

The Gameboy Really Advanced...

Oh no - Grix feels a fantasy coming on!

Lower case, lower case, don't sue me.

Which was one of the main reasons why I enjoy writing in the stories so much.

Speaking of which...

Oh, I did, and I replied to it.

However, with so many topics in existence now, I feel that instead of just writing my ideas from scratch, from now on I'm just going to dig up some of my old work and reword it so that it's relevant to the current situation, as with this one.

The same with my post replies in future. If someone starts a new topic on gaming that has been done before, all I need to do is go to the same topic that exists back in November and December, copy my reply, paste it and update it in the new topic, and say what I said last time.

If someone starts a topic in the FOG that has never been done before, I will be amazed, but will then go back to writing original prose again.

FantasyMeister wrote:
> SNIPER wrote:
> Why do we always reply, this is a winner! Cos it
> is really not the
> way to go.

Because this original topic
> was a Gameaday winner back in early December, but I thought it was
> relevant to the GBA so I dug it up again and reworked it a
> little.

FM, I suggest you read "The Gameaday Depression"'s original message

Look, low flying joke!

Phew... it missed all of you. Ah well.

I agree with you there Sniper!

Isn't that influencing the judges decision?

SNIPER wrote:
> Why do we always reply, this is a winner! Cos it is really not the
> way to go.

Because this original topic was a Gameaday winner back in early December, but I thought it was relevant to the GBA so I dug it up again and reworked it a little.

Why do we always reply, this is a winner! Cos it is really not the way to go.

But you wouldn't be able to visit SR's wonderful WAP site with it, would you?

Isn't something similar already in place in Japan with the Gameboy Mobile adaptor?

I've also heard new GBA games will use this adaptor to allow you to get extras in games!