Questions tagged [game-boy-advance]

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Is it possible to alter the Game Boy Advance system ROM?

The GBA has the "AGB CPU". Inside there Is an ARM7TDMI and to the memory interface there is a flash storage connected. All on one chip. The flash storage contains software similar to a PC's BIOS. It's called ROM but I think it must be updatable like…
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Why were Game Boy Advance games designed with such a "bleak" colour palette compared to stationary consoles and even other handhelds?

Of course, the GBA was a handheld console, and never officially shipped with actual screen lighting of any kind, unless you count the much later GBA SP and Micro models. But it was also possible to play GBA games on your normal TV using the GameCube…
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Is the volume wheel value wrong on the GBA schematics?

This GBA schematics says the GBA volume wheel (VR2 at the center bottom) is 30k ohms. Another schematics can be found here and it also says 30k. However when you do a ebay.com search for GBA potentiometer you will only get B103 potentiometers which…
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