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Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Announcement Trailer – Nintendo Switch (www.youtube.com)

submitted 6 months ago by picandocodigo to c/nintendo

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FINALLY! Looking forward to this one!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That would be really cool.
Fun tidbit: there's a tiny physical switch in the plug in port that tells those systems which mode the game is for. So if the cartridge presses that switch in, the Gameboy will use the Color/Advanced software, for example.

I don't remember which way is for what specific system, but I always thought that was clever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

IIRC, GBC cartridges could physically fit inside the OG GB, but would throw an error when it required the extra power of the GBC. The GBA had the notch that determined Advance/not-Advance mode and made GBA games physically exclusive to the GBA

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That's what I was thinking of. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It took a little googling but I found an article on it: https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/03/22/game-boy-advance-territory-lock-out-investigated

I wish I had my GBA to look at, since I've never noticed that switch in person, but I lost it some years ago. It's probably still at my dad's house somewhere, but I haven't been able to find it. :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Nice find! I saw it in a video, maaaaybe a MVG video? I don't feel like digging through channels for it. This article is great