Gameboy Advance SP - headphone/charger splitter?

[BetaWolf47]

Yes!! Totally stupid. Perhaps the SP came out a year too early or something - how many little devices nowadays have headphone + etc. jacks (mobiles, personal audio players, etc.).

Timing has nothing to do with it. The original Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Neo-Geo Pocket Color, and Game Gear all have a headphone jack. It was a design choice.

[Eternal Champion]

Timing has nothing to do with it. The original Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Neo-Geo Pocket Color, and Game Gear all have a headphone jack. It was a design choice.

I seem to remember the statement at the time was that they were "forced" by the size to forgo a headphone jack, and my response was about timing (meaning, designing and releasing before technology has developed enough to allow certain features at a certain price point) was a reaction to this. If this wasn't the case, well, wtf?

[Jorpho]

The GB Micro came out later, and it didn't have a dedicated jack either. (In that case, it was shared with the link cable.)

Any more thoughts on getting this doohickey? Maybe someone knows what charger brands other than Arsenal might have included it?

[theclaw]

At least GB Micro restored the headphone part. Of course for us with gigantic hands, it's hard to have much praise of that model. Then again even Saturn is rather void of ideal controller choices in our case. Let alone a GB Micro.

[BetaWolf47]

That's what I don't like about the GBA line. There really is no ideal hardware for it. The original has no backlight or rechargeable battery. The SP isn't built as well (power switches lose conductivity over time) and has no headphone jack. The micro is too small. The DS and DS Lite don't support the link cable and don't have ideal button placement. At least the micro is good for non-action games like SRPGs and JRPGs.

[Jorpho]

The SP isn't built as well (power switches lose conductivity over time)

Whoa whoa what? No one mentioned that in my other thread.

If that's the reason my SP kept dying unexpectedly, and not some kind of wacky battery issue, then I can do without using headphones while charging after all.

I can't seem to find much information about this problem, though; I mean, if it was that common, I'd expect Youtube vids and suchlike popping up.

[BetaWolf47]

It's not something people really notice. Either that, or I'm unlucky. But while the system has been on for a while, if you wiggle the power switch around a bit, you'll see the LED turn from green to red to green again. It just seems that the switch mechanism is cheaper than the original's or micro's.