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Game Boy Advance games & collectibles

Three quite different machines under one name, and the difference matters more than the box implies. Which revision a system actually is gets stated up front here.

1 piece on Game Boy Advance

Buying Game Boy Advance secondhand

  • The original AGB-001 has no lit screen at all; the SP is frontlit (AGS-001) or backlit (AGS-101), and the difference is dramatic.
  • Pokémon and other save-heavy carts use a soldered battery for the clock and some save data — dead cells are the norm now, not the exception.
  • Reproduction carts are common in this library; weight, label print quality, and the back screw are the usual tells.